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SUBJECT: Abduction Research FILE: UFO2271
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PART 1
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"Alien Abductions in the Gingerbread House"; by Dr. Karla Turner.
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(UFO Universe, Vol. 3 No. 1 Spring 1993. Copyright 1993 by Charlotte
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Magazine Corp., Inc. 1700 Broadway, New York, NY 10019. Published
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quarterly with a subscription rate of $14/yr. 815-734-1103.)
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World renowned UFO researcher Jacques Vallee has repeatedly
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referred to the similarities between UFO and abduction reports and the
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stories of folklore and fairy tales. I disagree with Dr. Vallee on
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many, many points of UFOlogy, but here I will grant that there is one
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fairy tale which does have something important to tell us about the
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alien abduction phenomenon. It is not, however, what Dr. Vallee might
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think.
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The story of Hansel and Gretel presents a lesson that every
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abductee should heed. These innocent children, wandering lost and
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frightened in the forest, came upon a gingerbread house that seemed to
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offer them shelter and sustenance. The owner of the house, a wizened
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old woman, was frightening to them at first, but their hunger pushed the
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children to accept her offer to come inside and be fed.
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And so they entered the gingerbread house and promptly became the
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old woman's captives. Kept in cages, the two children were abundantly
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fed. It was not for their benefit, though. In fact, they were being
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fattened up for the oven! The deceptive nature of the gingerbread house
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and of the old woman's offer of food worked quite well.
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It is the deceptive quality of this story that holds a warning for
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humans who are abducted by aliens. Like Hansel and Gretel, we are
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initially terrified by our encounter with aliens, but in too many cases,
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our fear is overcome by the words of our abductors and by the thoughts
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and experiences they present to us.
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I, too, am an abductee, and my quest to discover the nature of my
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own experiences led me into abduction research over the past four years.
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Working with many other abduction cases, I have learned just how basic
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the deception of alien actions can be.
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My family and I also delved into our own experiences, both past and
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present. Barbara Bartholic, a dedicated UFO investigator from Tulsa,
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Oklahoma, worked closely with us and helped us fill in the gaps in our
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recollections of strange encounters through hypnotic regression. Ms.
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Bartholic, by the way, began her own research as an assistant to Jacques
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Vallee in cattle mutilation investigations, so her expertise in ufology
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is wide-ranging. I have recently written a book, Into the Fringe, about
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the startling and often disturbing results of our personal
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investigations, and it will be published by the Berkley Publishing Group
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in November 1992.
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But my interest soon expanded past the merely personal, and for the
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past several years I have worked as Ms. Bartholic's research associate,
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exploring literally hundreds of sighting and encounter cases with her.
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And what I've learned through this work has raised far more questions
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than answers. In fact, it has taught me to be wary of those researchers
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who do claim to have answers. I have yet to hear of a single theory or
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explanation that accounts for all of the data.
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Some researchers have pointed out patterns of events in the
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abduction experience, such as the physical examination, the taking of
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sperm and ova, and the later presentation of a hybrid baby to the
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abductee. Other patterns include the training of the abductee in some
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way and the delivery of a warning of some upcoming global disaster.
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Yes, these events are frequently reported, as one researcher has said in
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boringly repetitious accounts, and it is tempting to think that the
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explanation for alien abductions may lie in these patterns.
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So the researchers announce that the problem is solved. The aliens
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are doing cross-breeding experiments, UFOlogists tell us. Never mind the
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overwhelming evidence against the viable commingling of different
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species. Or, we are told, the aliens are here to save us from
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destroying ourselves and our planet through violence, drug use, epidemic
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disease, pollution, and resource depletion. Never mind that these
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problems have grown worse, not better, since the ETs began visiting us.
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Or, most infuriating of all, we are assured that there are no
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actual aliens, that our experiences spring from our own subconscious
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turmoil or from our need for fantasy fulfillment. Never mind that many
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abductees are young children, too young to be suffering from such
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psychological disturbances. Well, then, the resourceful researcher
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counters, the imagined aliens must spring from some collective human
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super-psyche that is mirroring our failures and dangers back to us.
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This particular theory adores the archetypal gray ET, because it
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resembles some sickly fetal form of humanity and must therefore be an
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objectified warning of what our species is in danger of becoming if we
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don't mend our ways. Never mind that many, many abductees have no
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dealing with grays, but instead are victimized by robust reptoids and
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insectoids. Not to mention the totally human-looking blond beauties and
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black-headed, black-robed clan with the widow's peak hairline.
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No, too many researchers seem to find a theory and cling to it in
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spite of data that contradict it. And it is the ideas of these
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researchers that dominate ufology. But if the public had access to the
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raw data, to the first-hand reports of abductees, especially those
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unfamiliar with UFO-oriented books, magazines, and lecturers, they would
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find a much less neatly organized set of patterns. These "virgin"
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cases--people uncontaminated by ufological literature--supply a
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staggering picture of human-alien contact events.
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What follows here is an overview of these "virgin" reports, a list
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of recurrent experiences that taken together gives us a close-up view of
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what the aliens are doing here on earth. This data doesn't tell us for
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certain just what sort of creatures the aliens are, or what their
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purpose here may be. But it does tell us what humans are experiencing
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and what they are observing in the actions and capabilities of the
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aliens. Every detail in the following list has been reported by more
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than one abductee, and in many cases the details have turned up quite
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frequently.
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ABDUCTION "CHECKLIST".
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If these reports can be believed--and there is no reason to doubt
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the honesty of the reporters--the abduction phenomenon includes the
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following details.
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-- Aliens can alter our perception of our surroundings.
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-- Aliens can control what we think we see. They can appear to
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us in any number of guises, and shapes.
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-- Aliens can take us--our consciousness--out of our physical
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bodies, disable our control of our bodies, install one of their own
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entities, and use our bodies as vehicles for their own activities before
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returning our consciousness to our bodies.
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End of part 1
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