95 lines
4.6 KiB
Plaintext
95 lines
4.6 KiB
Plaintext
SUBJECT: DETERMINATION OF ABDUCTION CASES FILE: UFO2648
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mutual UFO Network - MUFONET-BBS Network
|
|
------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
John Komar DETERMINATION OF ABDUCTION CASES Copyright
|
|
State Director ---------------------------------- MUFON
|
|
1990
|
|
|
|
In a paper delivered during a MUFON UFO International Symposium,
|
|
researcher Budd Hopkins classified Abduction cases into five types:
|
|
|
|
|
|
Type 1: The abductee consciously recalls parts of the full abduction
|
|
scenario: The on-board experience, the UFO, it's occupants,
|
|
it's interior, and so on. (In a clearly related sub-group, the
|
|
abductee's conscious recall of this material is delayed.)
|
|
|
|
Type 2: The abductee recalls the UFO, the circumstances of the
|
|
encounter, and often the appearance of the occupants, but does
|
|
not remember any of the actual on-board experience. That part
|
|
of the experience registers only as a perceived gap in time.
|
|
|
|
Type 3: The abductee recalls only a UFO and/or humanoids, but nothing
|
|
else. He or she does not recall a time-lapse or dislocation.
|
|
(This type may include a good many so-called bedroom
|
|
visitations.)
|
|
|
|
Type 4: The abductee recalls only a peculiar time-lapse and/or
|
|
dislocation. No UFO is consciously recalled, nor is any other
|
|
part of the UFO scenario.
|
|
|
|
Type 5: The abductee recalls nothing of the usual abduction scenario.
|
|
Instead, there remain vague indications, ranging from the
|
|
"feeling that something happened to me", to intense, unnatural
|
|
fears of specific locations or sections of highway, to
|
|
physical wounds or marks of unknown origin, and includes
|
|
sometimes recurring dreams of a temporally un-anchored
|
|
abduction experience.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Type number five, which Budd Hopkins concentrates upon in his book,
|
|
"MISSING TIME", is believed to be the most common. This type also
|
|
presents the greatest challenge to an investigator. The descriptions
|
|
above can also cover many situations that turn out to not be actual
|
|
abductions.
|
|
|
|
How can a researcher determine which reports to pursue and which to
|
|
ignore, taking into account the limited knowledge of the topic by a
|
|
typical researcher, and the time constraints involved. Hypnosis in
|
|
itself is an expensive and time involving endeavor, not to be included
|
|
with the investigation of each case, as a determining factor of the
|
|
validity of the abductee, but only to be used as the extreme avenue
|
|
after much time and work has been expended during the initial
|
|
investigation of the case.
|
|
|
|
As a suggestion, we should consider each case in the "quantitative"
|
|
sense, weighing the details as the facts present themselves. The more
|
|
specific and detailed the facts, the higher the priority to be placed
|
|
on the case as a whole.
|
|
|
|
Asking the witness about any previous experiences or unusual
|
|
encounters, any physical marks or wounds not associated with any known
|
|
incident the witness can recall, possibly a recurring bad dream, could
|
|
add weight to the credibility of the case.
|
|
|
|
Each fact or detail, by itself, possibly would not provide enough
|
|
substantive justification to actively pursue the case, but coupled
|
|
together could provide enough detail and connecting information to
|
|
warrant the time expenditure required. Other considerations of the case
|
|
would be:
|
|
|
|
1. The volume and content of the information as it pertains to the
|
|
case.
|
|
|
|
2. The quality of that information.
|
|
|
|
3. Is the person who is citing the experience the only witness to it's
|
|
happening, or are there others.
|
|
|
|
4. The strangeness of the case, whether it be the facts as presented,
|
|
or the witness itself, or the location where the experience is
|
|
perceived to have happened.
|
|
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
**********************************************
|
|
* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
|
|
********************************************** |