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SUBJECT: EARTH MOVES IN AN EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL WAY FILE: UFO3296
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Earth moves in an extra-terrestrial way;USA
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Byline: From Charles Bremner in New York
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05/19/92
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THE TIMES OF LONDON
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When it comes to studying space, American universities have notched
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up a fine record, but eyebrows are being raised over the latest
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enthusiasm of a handful of academics: the abduction of earthlings
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by extra-terrestrial aliens.
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At issue is the question whether a Harvard psychiatrist and
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professors from Philadelphia and the Massachusetts Institute of
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Technology have taken leave of their ivory towers in giving
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credence to the belief, shared by thousands of Americans, that
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flying saucers have visited their suburbs and beamed them on board,
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often for some intergalactic hanky-panky.
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John Mack, of Harvard Medical School, David Jacobs, a historian
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from Temple University, and David Pritchard, a physicist at MIT,
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are the most prominent among a group which thinks there must be
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more than fantasy behind the extraordinarily similar accounts of
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alien kidnapping given by citizens from all backgrounds, races and
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professions. The most celebrated report came from Michael Shea, a
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government lawyer in Washington. According to reputable surveys,
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about one in every 50 Americans thinks they have received the
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attentions of visiting aliens.
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By curious coincidence, the aliens are usually described as
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diminutive, big-headed, dish-eyed, smooth-skinned creatures who
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arrive in beams of intense light. But going beyond this stereotype,
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the accounts usually feature some form of physical examination in a
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cosmic operating theatre. This often involves sexual manipulation,
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with women saying they had been impregnated and men saying their
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semen had been extracted.
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Dr Mack, who featured last weekend in fictional form in a CBS
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television drama, is organising an abduction conference in
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Massachusetts next month. Mr Jacobs, who teaches a university
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course called "UFOs in US Society", has been promoting on TV his
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book Secret Life: Firsthand Accounts of UFO Abductions. He believes
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the aliens are engaged in "a programme of systematic exploitation
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of one species over another, in which people are mined or farmed,
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if you will over and over and over again, over the course of their
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lives, from infancy to adulthood."
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Dr Mack, who has helped 40 patients overcome abduction trauma,
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says he retains an open mind and cannot dismiss the phenomenon. "I
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don't have an explanation. But I know they've undergone a powerful
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sense of being intruded upon and traumatised," he said recently. Mr
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Pritchard said in The Wall Street Journal last week that the CBS
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mini-series could prompt a MASS RECALL of alien experience. "I
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think it's a DISASTER IN THE MAKING," he said.
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Critics, who come from the "orthodox" wing of the UFO fraternity
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as well as the medical profession, say there are simple
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explanations. All the "abducted" recall the details of their
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experiences under hypnosis. They are probably mingling personal
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trauma, usually abuse during childhood, with Hollywood-born
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fantasies suggested by their questioner.
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