Examining the Research and Evidence for

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THE ABDUCTION EXPERIENCE

• Examining the Research and Evidence for
• Alien Abduction

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The Presenter

• Angela Thompson Smith, Ph.D.
• Research psychologist
• Author Remote Perceptions and Diary of an
  Abduction
• Experiencer
• alienabductioncentral.com

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The Presentation

• Phenomenon called Alien Abduction
• Real Experiences
• Real Experiencers
• Scientific Studies
• Historical Precedents
• Leadership Confirmation

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CONTACT

• Contact is the recognition of, and the coping
  with, the other, the different, the new, the
  strange. It is not a state we are in or out
  of...but an activity. I make contact on the
  boundary between me and the other. The boundary
  is where we touch and at the same time experience
  separateness.
• Laura Perls 1978

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Characteristics of Abduction

• Awakening paralyzed
• Wide awake
• May hear beeps or buzzes in either ear
• Strong light inside or outside of house
• Lights of various colors moving around

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Characteristics of Abduction

• May occur on road
• Machinery and electronics affected
• Strong static perceived
• Colored lights and/or UFO perceived
• Missing time
• Sequelae

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Characteristics of Abduction

• Non-human entities perceived ranging from small
  to large Grays, Nordics, tall-thin Goldens or
  reptilian types
• Typically large head, large eyes, thin body of
  Gray-type entity

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Characteristics of Abduction

• Entities may carry wands, prods, boxes or other
  equipment
• Communicate mind-to-mind by telepathy
• Other paranormal phenomena occur
• Individual removed from surroundings

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Characteristics of Abduction

• Examination conducted in plain, bare, environment
• Items perceived are incongruous
• Physical examination
• Mind-to-Mind
• Virtual Reality

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Characteristics of Abduction

• Technology futuristic and non-terrestrial
• Entities emotionless and businesslike
• Chosen
• Stewardship
• Individual returned to point of abduction

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Aftermath of Abduction

• Bruises, scratches, punctures, burns, scoop
  marks, rashes
• geometric shapes squares and triangles
• Eye and skin problems
• Compromised immune system and PTSD

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Abduction Theories

• Extraterrestrial
• Other-Dimensional
• Delusion
• Sleep Paralysis
• Fraud
• Imagination
• Screen Memories
• Dreams
• Birth Memories

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Prevalence of Experiences

• FUFOR/OMNI Study
• 1989 Questionnaire
• Observing UFO 75
• Missing Time 42
• Strange Figures 48
• Baby Dreams 48
• UFOs/ET Real 65
• Abductions Real 67

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Prevalence of Experiences

• Roper Survey 1991
• Unusual Personal Experiences
• Mack-Westrum-Jacobs-Carpenter-Hopkins-Bigelow
• 3 National Surveys
• Nearly 6,000 Adults

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Prevalence of Experiences

• Relationship between Unusual Personal Experiences
  and the UFO Abduction Syndrome
• 2 of Adult American Population
• 1 in 50 Americans
• Influential Americans

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Prevalence of Experiences

• Waking Up Paralyzed-Strange Presence 18
• Bedroom Figure 11
• Leaving Body 14
• Missing Time 13
• Seeing a Ghost 11
• Unusual Lights 8
• Puzzling Scars 8

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Scientific Studies

• FUFOR 1985
• Bloecher-Clamar-Hopkins
• Final Report of the Psychological Testing of UFO
  Abductees
• Foreword-Maccabee
• Introduction-Westrum

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Scientific Studies

• Richard Hall. FUFOR. 1993. Pilot Study
• Testing Reality A Research Guide for the UFO
  Abduction Experience.
• 1988-1992. Greater Washington DC area.
• To develop guidelines for investigators and to
  learn more about the nature and content of
  abductions

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Scientific Studies

• Hall/FUFOR study - 50 subjects.
• Typical abductee recalls fragmentary memories of
  dream-like occurrences
• Abductees often have memory blocks that are
  distressing
• Hypnosis does not necessarily provide
  verification of the abduction experience
• Not all abductees are equally traumatized

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Scientific Studies

• 9 Subjects
• Abductees
• Blinded Tested
• High Intelligence
• Rich Inner Life
• Interpersonally Vulnerable
• Hyper-vigilant

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Scientific Studies

• Susan M. Powers
• Dissociation, Vol. IV, No. 1, March 1991
• Saybrook Institute
• Fantasy Proneness, Amnesia, and the UFO Abduction
  Phenomenon
• Mask Memories

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Scientific Studies

• Rima E. Laibow M.D. 1990
• Clinical Discrepancies between Expected and
  Observed Data in Patients Reporting UFO
  Abductions
• Absence of Major Psychopathology
• Concordance of Reported Data
• Abduction Scenarios and Hypnosis
• PTSD in Absence of External Trauma

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Scientific Studies

• Jo Kopeland Stone M.F.C.C. 1989
• Preliminary Data on Eighteen of Thirty Subjects
  Reporting UFO Abduction
• Subjects Completed MMPI
• Subjects from LA UFO Research and Support Group
• Conscious Recall, Missing Time, Entities.

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Scientific Studies

• Kopeland Stone study found abductees
• Identified themselves as intelligent, worthwhile,
  and having a sense of humor
• Practiced meditation
• 50 reported insomnia
• Reported feeling optimistic and energetic yet
  also anxious, restless, and conflicted

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Scientific Studies

• June O. Parnell Ph.D.
• University of Wyoming - 1986
• Personality Characteristics of the MMPI, 16PF and
  ACL of Persons who Claim UFO Experiences

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Scientific Studies

• Parnell Study found abductees
• Self-sufficient, honest, and resourceful
• Above average intelligence, assertive,
  experimenting thinkers, defensive
• No psychopathology

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Scientific Studies

• There is some evidence from my own work that when
  abductees can overcome their terror and accept
  fully the reality of what they are undergoing the
  phenomenon shifts to one that is less
  traumatic....useful information about fundamental
  ecological and other global dangers is passed on
  to the abductees who may experience profound
  emotional and spiritual growth. More studies of
  these dimensions of the phenomenon, undertaken
  with an open mind, are very much needed.
• John E. Mack, M.D.
• Why the Abduction Phenomenon Cannot be explained
  Psychiatrically
• Proceedings. Abduction Study Conference. MIT,
  June 13-17, 1992.

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Cultural and Historic Reports

• Can dreams be nothing more than a confusion of
  the mind?
• A No-Mans Land of nonsense....
• When we leave the world behind
• Pursued by terrors we explore an unfamiliar place
• And live the drama of a life all in a moments
  space.
• Are dreams the crazy images of a blurred and
  senseless thought?
• I sometimes think that when we dream, some part
  of us is caught
• between two worlds, the earthly and the realm of
  the unseen.
• Anonymous

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Cultural and Historical Reports

• Records of non-human entities that have
  interacted with humans throughout history
• All cultures throughout recorded history
• Appearance, behavior, and functions of entities
  similar to modern accounts of contact and
  interaction with Grays
• Relegated to the realms of myth and legend

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Cultural and Historic Records

• 600 BC. Prophet Ezekial watched a wheel descend
  from the sky. The craft landed by the Chebar
  River. Ezekial was taken onboard and flown to Tel
  Aviv Mountains.
• 0022 AD. Egypt. Circle of Fire landed.
  Described as one rod long and one rod wide.
  Over 100 witnesses
• Many other cultural and historical examples

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Cultural and Historic Reports

• Ezekial, the great prophet of the Babylonian
  captivity, encountered God by the river Chebar
• "And above the firmament over their heads was the
  likeness of a throne,in appearance like a
  sapphire stone on the likeness of a throne was a
  likeness with the appearance of a man high above
  it. Also from the appearance of his waist and
  upward I saw, as it were, the color of amber
  with the appearance of fire all around within
  itand from the appearance of his waist and
  downward I saw,as it were, the appearance of
  fire with brightness all around.Like the
  appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy
  day,so was the appearance of the brightness all
  around it. This was the appearance of the
  likeness of the glory of God."(Ezekial 126-28)

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Cultural and Historic Reports

• In Arabic world a category of beings known as
  Al-Jinn recognized
• Derived from root-verb, Janna, to hide
• Jinns originated from a distant location
• In Orient, Jinns considered physical entities
• Jinns were considered good and evil
• Jinns recognized by Islamic law

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Cultural and Historic Records

• Gordon Creighton. 1983. Angels, Men, and Jinns
  The True Nature of the UFO Entities. FRS
  Publications, Kent, England.
• Characteristics of Jinns
• Not usually visible to human sight
• Capable of materializing in the physical world

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Cultural and Historic Records

• Can change shape and appear in any form
• Can appear in guise of animals
• Known to lie and deceive
• Known to abduct and kidnap humans and
• Known to attempt sexual liaison with humans.

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Cultural and Historic Records

• Jinns known to snatch up humans, transport them,
  and set them down miles away
• Adbuctions by Jinns take place outside of our
  understanding of space and time
• Humans are known to work in alliance
• Jinns known to utilize psychic abilities
• Those who interact with the Jinn may develop
  psychic abilities

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Confirmation from High Places

• Substantial documentation that many military and
  government leaders aware that we have been
  interacting with intelligent entities who visit
  our air space
• At least 5 Presidents have publicly commented on
  the UFO phenomenon
• Many social and political figures have voiced
  their interest in the topic

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Confirmation From High Places

• President Harry S. Truman - 1950
• Assured the American public that If flying
  saucers exist they are not constructed by any
  power on Earth.

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Confirmation from High Places

• President John F. Kennedy - 1963
• During height of the Cold War proposed Joining
  the United States and the Soviet Union in a
  cooperative program of space exploration.

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Confirmation from High Places

• President Gerald Ford
• 1966 - recommended that there be An
  investigation of the UFO phenomenon by the Armed
  Services Committee.

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Confirmation from High Places

• Ford also said that government Owed it to the
  people to establish credibility regarding UFOs
  and to produce the Greatest possible
  enlightenment on the subject.

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Confirmation from High Places

• President Ronald Reagan - 1987
• United Nations General Assembly
• How quickly our differences would vanish if we
  were facing an alien threat from outside this
  world.

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Confirmation from High Places

• President Jimmy Carter - 1999
• ABC News
• I dont laugh at people any more when they say
  theyve seen UFOs. Ive seen one myself.

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Confirmation from High Places

• General Nathan Twining - 1955-1958
• Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Phenomenon is something real and not visionary
  or fictitious

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Confirmation from High Places

• Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding - 1954
• Commander-in-Chief British Air Force
• Convinced these objects do exist and they are
  not manufactured by any nation on Earth.

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Confirmation from High Places

• General Douglas McArthur - 1955
• New York Times
• Countries of Earth will have to unite to survive
  and to make a common front against attack from
  other planets.

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Confirmation from High Places

• Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter - 1960
• First Director of CIA
• Imperative that we learn where UFOs come from
  and what their purpose is.

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Confirmation from High Places

• Senator Barry Goldwater - 1975
• Wrote about his efforts to find evidence of the
  UFO phenomenon.
• Found information still classified as Above Top
  Secret.

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The BIG Picture

• On July 1, 2001 the United States was home to
  284,796,887 persons. It has been estimated that 1
  in 50 of this population has had abduction-type
  experiences
• Presidents, military officers, senators, and
  other highly-placed people have voiced their
  concerns
• Scientists have added their objective data

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The BIG Picture

• The Abduction Phenomenon is real
• It has been ongoing for centuries, in every
  culture, down through recorded history
• This is not a new phenomenon
• To understand the phenomenon, new studies need to
  be conducted
• Interdisciplinary research teams needed

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The BIG Picture

• What can we learn from this?
• The world, and in particular the United States,
  considers itself at war with the entities causing
  the abductions and have put in place all the
  conditions that accompany war secrecy,
  penalties, regulations, and subterfuge
• Covering it up does not make it go away