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SUBJECT: ARTICLE ON WYOMING UFO CONFERENCE FILE: UFO2696
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Filename: Fallon.Art
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Type : Article
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Author : D'Arcy Fallon - Gazette Telegraph Newspaper
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Date : 08/02/92
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Desc : Article on Wyoming UFO Conference
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Note : Transcribed by Sandy Barbre
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Date: August 2, 1992
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Paper: Gazette Telegraph
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By: D'Arcy Fallon
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There is a half a page picture of Maxine standing out in an open field
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with storm clouds in the sky. The picture is unique in its own way
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because Maxine is in her 60's and the way the picture is taken it
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almost makes her look extraterrestrial. Story as follows:
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Title: TOUCHED FROM BEYOND
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Caption under picture: On this Earth but not of it, Maxine Parker of
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Colorado Springs says she's been abducted by aliens, who placed a small
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implant behind her right ear.
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LARAMIE, Wy -- If there's a flight scheduled to another planet, Ann
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Eller wants to be on it. Psychologically, her bags are packed, her
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ticket is punched.
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"I'll just go, " says Eller, a 55 year old grandmother and former nurse
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from Phoenix who attended a recent national conference on unidentified
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flying objects at the University of Wyoming at Laramie. "I won't worry
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about my deodorant."
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On a stormy day, she walks through the sagebrush on a ranch 20 miles
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north of Laramie. She closes her eyes for a moment, then gazes at the
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gray clouds boiling up behind the hills, trying to discern if "they"
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are near.
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Eller shares a solidarity with the many people who say they've been
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contacted or abducted by aliens. One of every 50 American adults -
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about 3.7 million people - say they might have had an abduction
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experience with an unidentified flying object.
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The experiences many of these people reported have attracted the
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attention of mental health professionals, who say the reports are
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widespread enough, and different enough from those associated with
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mental illnesses, to deserve serious analysis.
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The experiences, which are strikingly similar, are not mental
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aberrations, according to a recent Boston Globe interview with Dr. John
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Mack, a psychiatrist from Harvard Medical School who has talked in
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detail with 60 people who reported abduction experiences.
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Some people reporting abduction seem traumatized by the experience,
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haunted by periods of "missing time" or angry that they become
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accidental tourists, taken against their will.
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Others seem galvanized. For them, life after abduction has more
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meaning. "I think I was programmed to do something in this life," says
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Eller, a trim woman with salt and pepper hair and a crisp,
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indefatigable manner. "There is some kind of ... mission."
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She's not sure what the mission is, but she says it started on this
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ranch, which she visited while attending a UFO conference at the
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university seven years ago.
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She says she was walking through a pasture when she was filled with a
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brilliant energy that tap danced through her brain, ran down her body
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like "a steel rod" and shot into the ground.
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Later that day, a group of aliens, "channeled" through a friend,
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appeared to her. They were a rich assortment of ever changing cosmic
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characters, including a mischievous female with a feathered ornament in
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her hair and "the Ancient ones" big eyed, wrinkled creatures who filled
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her with awe.
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"It was very powerful energy, very intensely loving," Eller says.
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"You're just wrapped in it."
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In the distance, lightning embroiders the sky. Eller looks up. No sign
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of spacecraft.
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More than anything else, she says, her experience with aliens has left
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her with a palpable longing to be with them and understand their ways.
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To those who don't share her belief in aliens and UFOS, Ann Eller's
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story sounds like tabloid material or worse, the ravings of a space
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cadet.
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But Eller and dozens of others at the conference appear to be down to
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earth people. They have nothing to gain from talking about their
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experiences, no fame, no money, no power. In fact, many seek anonymity
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because they're afraid of ridicule.
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But during the conferences' several closed sessions, many apparently
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feel secure enough to tell their stories. Talking seems cathartic for
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them.
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"To relive is to relieve," says Dr. Leo Sprinkle, who founded the Rocky
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Mountain Conference on UFO Investigation in 1980, when he was a
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professor in the University of Wyoming's counseling psychology
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department and director of its counseling service. (Sprinkle is now a
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psychologist in private practice in Laramie.)
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The talk is that of a subculture with its own code words: "alien
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hybrids," the alien/human offsprings; "implants," tiny BB-shaped
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monitoring devices inserted during alien abductions and physical
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examination of humans; "greys," short, pallid aliens with oversized
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heads and scrawny limbs who are seen by some as "bad guys"; "Nordics,"
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benevolent, Aryan looking aliens who dispense pearls of wisdom; and
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"men in black," earthly or alien government agents.
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Taking turns at the podium, they tell of being whisked from their beds
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in the middle of the night and taken to a UFO, where they were disrobed
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and examined. One woman tells about being used as a "breeder" for alien
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"hybrids" (the fetuses were taken from her uterus and raised in a
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spacecraft incubators), and a teen age boy says he frequently sees UFOs
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outside his home in Evergreen.
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TALKING TO JESUS IN AN AIRPLANE
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Cynthia Baldwin of Reno, Nv a slight, blonde woman with a hesitant
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smile, gets up and walks slowly to the podium.
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She says that one night in 1985, after hearing that a Japan Air Lines
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jumbo jet had plowed into the side of Mount Ogura, she went to bed,
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deeply disturbed by the news. Later that night, she says, she
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experienced and "out of body trip".
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"When I woke up I was with people at the crash site," Baldwin says.
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"There were many other spiritual helpers. Some people had not died yet,
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but were in pain. It's like we were ... cradling their spirits as they
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left their bodies. They were held and cared for as they came away."
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The audience is spellbound as Baldwin pauses. Several people bow their
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heads, weeping.
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"The point I want to make is that our compassion gives us power to help
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others. We shouldn't be surprised that we can do other things with it,
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like be in another place at another time. Sometimes people who have had
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UFO experiences puzzle over the novelty of their experiences, not
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really thinking how they can be useful."
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During the same closed session, a woman from Tennessee tells how her
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mother, a deeply religious, psychic woman used to go out in her yard
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every day and "talk to Jesus in an airplane."
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Relatives thought her mother was crazy, nd had her hospitalized and
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given shock therapy. The treatment broke her mother's spirit, putting
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an end to her public communing with God. Years late, when she began to
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have her own UFO and psychic experiences she grieved because her mother
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had been misunderstood and stigmatized.
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"Mom, a lot of people are talking to Jesus in an airplane now," she
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says.
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While most who talk from the podium seem grounded a few don't. One man
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strides to the podium on the balls of his feed and says he needs to
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sing a song.
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If he doesn't he says, aliens will blow up his car. The group
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respectfully listens to him sing Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sounds of
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Silence."
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Later, at a meeting for relatives and close friends of those reporting
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experiences with aliens and UFOs, patience is strained when artist
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Deloris Bedrosky of Pierce City, Mo., interrupts, for the third time,
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the discussion and begins talking about her UFO experiences.
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"I'm an astral traveler. I went to Mars," she says, her arm stabbing
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the air. "They've tried to show me formulas. What do I know? I'm an
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artist. Anybody getting chills on this stuff? Well, I am."
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A woman sitting a few seats away from her shakes her head and murmurs,
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"She needs to turn her receiver down."
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BELIEVERS, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS DISAGREE
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Many of the 150 people at the conference fall into the "government
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conspiracy" camp, believing that the government is covering up
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information about aliens and UFOs. Some say that secret military
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technology is being tested in the skies, and others say the government
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is in collusion with the aliens.
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The Air Force tells another story.
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"There was never any conclusive evidence about UFOs, that any of these
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(reported sightings) were alien spacecraft or any threat to national
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security," says Capt. George Sillia, a spokesman for the Air Force
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Press Desk.
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In 1969, the Air Force discontinued Project Blue Book, it's 22 year old
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UFO investigation, after concluding, among other things, that none of
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the sightings categorized as "unidentified" represented technological
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developments or principles beyond the range of then current scientific
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knowledge.
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The Air Force said most of the 12,618 reported sightings it
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investigated turned out to be natural events or hoaxes. Ufologists
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point out, however, that 701 of the reported sightings remain
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unexplained.
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The most famous reported sighting was of nine discs on June 24, 1947,
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near Yakima, Wash., by civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho.
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As a result of Arnold's report, the term "flying saucer" was born, a
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rash of public hysteria broke out, and the Air Force began it's Project
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Blue Book.
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The most famous reported abduction was of a New England couple, Barney
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and Betty Hill in 1961. The Hills say they were abducted on a drive
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through New Hampshire's White Mountains.
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During hypnotic regression sessions several months later, BArney said
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he'd been paralyzed, taken aboard the spacecraft, and given a physical
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examination during which a circular instrument was placed over his
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groin. Betty said samples of her skin, hair and fingernails were taken,
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and that a long probe was inserted into her navel.
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The Hills' story was made into a 1975 television film, "The UFO
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Incident," starring James EArl Jones and Estelle Parsons.
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A BOARDING PARTY IN THE DESERT
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Eager for their own close encounters, some at the conference make
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expeditions into the countryside surrounding Laramie.
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They hope to "vector" in any friendly spacecraft.
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Not everybody is ready to get on board. Tom Needham is doing his
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laundry in a dorm basement. A pilot from Salt Lake City, Utah, Needham
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has come to the conference because he's curious about UFOs. But while
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he thinks it's possible that UFOs exist, he also thinks it's possible
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that much of what's going on at the conference is group hypnosis.
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"There are some people I think are loony," Needham says. "They're
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desperate to have a UFO experience and they want the attention. The
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people I've talked to might benefit from some counseling."
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CREDIBLE PEOPLE TELLING INCREDIBLE STORIES
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Any abduction can be terrifying and disorienting, says Dr. June
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Parnell, a hypnotherapist and president of the Rocky Mountain Institute
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on UFO Investigations. It also can transform and revitalize the
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abductee's life, she says.
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"Once a person has struggled through the panic of the situation...
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there seems to be a push or a shove to get on with what's important in
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life to do," Parnell says. "It's almost like a mission or a task.
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Everybody mission is different."
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Leo Sprinkle's mission is to provide a forum for "credible people
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telling incredible stories."
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"If they think they've had a weird experience, then the guy or gal next
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to them may even have a weirder experience.", says Sprinkle, a tall,
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bespectacled man with a kindly manner.
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Sprinkle says he saw his first UFO in 1949, when he was a sophomore at
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the University of Colorado at Boulder. He says he and a friend were
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crossing campus one day, and saw a silent elliptical object that
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flashed in the sky, then disappeared behind some trees.
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"In 1949 only kooks saw flying saucers," Sprinkle says. "It became a
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source of embarrassment to me, even fear. I didn't want to think about
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it, much less talk about it."
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Seven years later, as Sprinkle and his wife drove to Boulder, they saw
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a reddish-glow about the Flatiron Mountains, and a silent object moving
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back and forth in a dipping motion below the mountains.
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This time, Sprinkle wasn't willing to pretend he hadn't seen a UFO.
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He began reading books on UFOs, and when he came to the University of
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Wyoming in the early 60s as an assistant professor, he became a
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scientific consultant to the National Investigators Committee on Aerial
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Phenomena (NICAP) and the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization
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(APRO).
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From 1964 to 1985, Sprinkle administered standardized psychological
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tests to hundreds of people who said they had seen, been contacted by,
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or abducted by UFOs. Most tested normal, Sprinkle says.
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REPEATED REPORTS OF ALIEN-INSERTED IMPLANTS
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Maxine Parkers says she has been "tagged" by the aliens, who first
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abducted her when she was 5 and have never lost track of her.
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They abducted her repeatedly while she was living in Escondido, Calif.,
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and later, in Florence, Oregon. "Apparently, I'm an experiment," says
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Parker, 50ish. She says she moved to Colorado Springs at the aliens
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instructions. "The7y mark you with the tag. It's a little computer
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chip. Usually its in the head."
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Parker says her chip is behind her right ear.
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Talking about her first abduction, Parker says she woke up one morning
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and noticed that her navel was bleeding. She told her mother, who said
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she must have scratched it in her sleep. Parker says she knows she
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didn't scratch herself.
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Pressed to describe the abductions in detail, Parker gets upset. She
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closes her eyes and tries to find the words to explain the feeling of
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violation as a 3 foot tall gray alien with dark slanted eyes implanted
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a chip behind her right ear.
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"I was screaming," says Parker, the lighted cigarette in her hand
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trembling. "It hurt."
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Later, she says, a taller alien arrived to reassure her and relieve her
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pain, and she knew she was going to be alright. She also knew she
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didn't belong on Earth, but with the aliens, who she says have
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"abandoned" her.
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"They've left me," she says, and there's real sorrow in her voice.
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"I don't belong here. I want to go home."
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ADDED extra from same paper, same date:
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"Extraordinary" evidence not yet found
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By David L. Chandler - Boston Globe
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What would it take to prove, or at least to produce good evidence, that
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such an extraordinary occurrence as being abducted by alien beings
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really did take place?
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As astronomer Carl Sagan has often pointed out, "extraordinary claims
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require extraordinary evidence." So far, despite widespread interest in
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UFOs and in alien abductions, no such hard evidence has yet been
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forthcoming.
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"I regard the best physical evidence" yet produced in support of the
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claims of alien abduction "as being totally inconclusive," Said David
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Pritchard, the MIT physicist who organized aa recent conference on the
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subject.
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Pritchard has studied one of the few pieces or purported physical
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evidence for the phenomenon; a tiny implant that UFO abductee Richard
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Price of Latham, N.Y> says was placed in his abdomen by aliens and
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later worked its way out. He says the object provides "absolutely no
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proof of anything, but I wasn't able to explain it in some obvious
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way."
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Tiny implants are a common feature of alien abduction stories so they
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ought to provide a good way of testing the claims. Some investigators
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have obtained Magnetic Resonance Imaging scans of people who say they
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were given implants and some of the scans do show unexplained spots
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that could be implants. But such spots also show up on a significant
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number of their MRI images in general.
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Some investigators suggest that while individual MRI scans don't mean
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much a large number of similar images might be more convincing,
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especially if spots seen in them correspond to where the abductees say
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their implants were placed.
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