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SUBJECT: LA TIMES ABDUCTION NEWSCLIP FILE: UFO2650
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*@SUBJECT:LA Times Abduction Newsclip N
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California support group lets abductees share
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their feelings, concerns about aliens
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by Miles Corwin
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The Los Angeles Times (date unknown- 1993)
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LOS ANGELES - What do you do if you are abducted in your sleep by a group
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of scrawny gray aliens with enormous heads, beamed up to a spacecraft,
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placed upon an examination table, probed with enormous needles and lasers,
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and then returned to your bed?
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If you live in Southern California, you form a support group and share the
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experience. But the thorny questions posed at these sessions are far more
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complex than those discussed at your run-of-the-mill self-help groups.
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How do you determine, one man asked at a recent meeting near Los Angeles,
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whether you have been abducted by aliens, abducted by the CIA or were merely
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dreaming? When the aliens implant a tracking device in your body, how do
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you get it out? After you've been abducted, what do you tell your employer
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when you show up late for work?
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If you are concerned about something such as abduction security, you cannot
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simply approach your neighborhood watch captain for advice. And your family
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doctor might be reluctant to explore the "scoop marks" left by aliens
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seeking tissue samples. So abductees from throughout Southern California
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meet on the last Sunday of every month and discuss these common problems,
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buck each other up and relate abduction adventures.
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During a break in the meeting, Kim Carlson rushes over to the coffeepot for
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a caffeine jolt before she will answer any questions. She is exhausted, she
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confides, because she has been staying up late every night to outwit the
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aliens who have been abducting her in her sleep. Carlson now will not go
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to bed until 4:30 a.m.
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During the session, abductees discuss a variety of esoteric subjects.
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Snatches of testimony and randlom comments create a bizarre conversational
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mosaic.
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"Did your alien have a sense of humor?"
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"At first I thought I was in an elevator, but then I realized I was in a
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small craft detaching to a larger craft."
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"I know it wasn't a dream because when I returned, my dog was very hyper
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and panting and he usually is very calm."
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"There is some sort of work going on between the CIA and an alien faction
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to develop a propulsion technology."
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Although some of these random comments might seem as if they come from the
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lunatic fringe, those who attended the meeting did not seem all that pecu-
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liar. Many of them had the mien of typical suburbanites who struggle with
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their mortgages, attend PTA meetings and complain about freeway traffic.
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But ask them about UFOs, aliens or extraterrestrial abductions, and they
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launch into lengthy monologues that some might consider more appropriately
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delivered from a psychiatrist's couch.
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The support group meets at the home of Yvonne Smith, a hypnotherapist who
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sees many of the abducttees as clients. Through hypnosis, she directs their
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"regression therapy," where they can re-experience and ultimately come to
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terms with the abduction.
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She frequently is asked if the abduction experience is "just a California
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thing," because residents seem more open to the unorthodox. But abductions
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and UFO experiences she says, are occurring all over the United States and
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the world. The difference is that Californians are the only ones who
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eagerly, entusiastically [discuss their experience].
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-END-
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