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Alien Abduction. ... When Strieber was having an anxiety attack he consulted his analyst,
Robert Klein, and Budd Hopkins, an alien abduction researcher. ...
... The prevalence of alien abduction stories has been increasing in recent history
(Bartholomew& Howard, 1998; Newman & Baumeister, 1997). ...
... This disproved many UFO sightings. While UFO sightings have the most effect on Alien
believers, Alien Abduction has even some experts highly confused. ...
... This disproved many UFO sightings. While UFO sightings have the most effect on Alien
believers, Alien Abduction has even some experts highly confused. ...
... There is little evidence to support whether or not the alien abduction stories are
real. ... You could just be the next victim of an alien abduction!
Submitted by darkefreet on March 12, 2008
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"...despite the fact that we humans are great collectors of souvenirs, not one of these persons [claiming to have been aboard a flying saucer] has brought back so much as an extraterrestrial tool or artifact, which could, once and for all, resolve the UFO mystery." Philip Klass
"Aliens, if an when we find them, could be so alien, so different from humanity as to undermine the meaning of any exchange we might have, or even make such exchange impossible." --Henry Gee
There is a widespread belief that alien beings have traveled to Earth from some other planet and are doing reproductive experiments on a chosen few. Despite the incredible nature of this belief and a lack of credible supportive evidence, a cult has grown up around it. According to a Gallup poll done at the end of the twentieth century, about one-third of Americans believe aliens have visited us, an increase of 5% over the previous decade.
According to the tenets of this cult, aliens crashed at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. The U.S. Government recovered the alien craft and its occupants, and has been secretly meeting with aliens ever since in a place known as area 51. The rise in UFO sightings is due to the increase in alien activity on Earth. The aliens are abducting people in larger numbers, are leaving other signs of their presence in the form of so-called crop circles, are involved in cattle mutilation, and occasionally provide revelations such as the Urantia Book to selected prophets. The support for these beliefs about aliens and UFOs consists mostly of speculation, fantasy, fraud, and unjustified inferences from questionable evidence and testimony. UFO devotees are also convinced that there is a government and mass media conspiracy to cover up the alien activities, making it difficult for them to prove that the aliens have landed.
It is probable that there is life elsewhere in the universe and that some of that life is intelligent....
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