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