SUBJECT: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE CHILLING KIND FILE: UFO2376 PART 2 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� The date below notwithstanding, I post the following, FYI. ------------- The Globe and Mail - Canada's National Newspaper. Toronto. Friday, August 13th, 1993. Page A22 Social Studies - A Daily Miscellany of Information by Michael Kesterton. Yesterday, the U.S. space shuttle did not go up and few Persieds were seen to come down. Nonetheless, many people believe there is something travelling regularly between heaven and Earth. Recently, when the magazine USA Weekend asked "Do you believe space aliens have visited Earth, now or in the Past?" 91 percent of Americans said "yes". Some would go even further: In 1991, after a UFOolgist-sponsored Roper Poll of 6,000 Americans, some researchers concluded that one out of 50 Americans has had "an abduction experience with an unidentified flying object". Most abductees report being taken first as children, when small implants were placed deep in their ears or noses. Aliens are generally described as small and grey, with a special interest in the human sexual organs - which leads some authorities to think these stories may be repressed memories of childhood abuse. (Abductees, reports one authority, can always identify the sex of an alien, despite a lack of external evidence). The first clue to the condition is a phenomenon called "missing time", says David Gotlib, a Toronto physician and hypnotherapist. The patient loses several hours and cannot remember what happened, but is very disturbed. Other symptoms: nightmares, post-traumatic stress disorder and, sometimes, long straight cuts on the body. (Doctor Gotlib, who launched the Bulletin of Anomalous Experience to discuss the disorder, says a doctor must rule out other conditions such as schizophrenia, multiple-personality disorders and partial epilepsy.) John Mack, a Harvard psychiatrist, is convinced abductees are not lying and says he has non idea what their experience means. He notes abductees tell remarkably consistent stories and many have children who become abductees as well. He has established a support group for the condition. David Jacobs, a historian at Temple University in Philadelphia, teaches a credit course on UFOs in American Society. He thinks millions of Americans may have been abducted by aliens, but says "I want to be wrong". Abduction tales are not new, says astrononmer Carl Sagan, citing ancient stories about fairies and people having sex with demons. In 1894, he adds, 'The International Census of Waking Hallucinations' reported that 10 to 25 percent of ordinary people had had at least one vivid hallucination. Waking dreams - delusions while falling asleep or waking up - are mentioned by some authorities as an explanation, because most abduction stories begin with the victim in bed, being roused by aliens. There is also "sleep paralysis" in which people are awake but their muscles are still immobilized for sleep. "Almost 90 percent of the time, sleep paralysis is accompanied by a certainty that there is something threatening in the room with you," writes David Hufford, in 'The Terror That Comes in the Night'. Other sources: 'The Medical Post', 'The Wall Street Journal', news services. Ends. Any typos are the result of inept copy-keying by Errol Bruce-Knapp. ********************************************** * THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo * **********************************************