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SUBJECT: ABDUCTIONS BY ALIENS NOT GREEN MEN FILE: UFO3351
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04-09-90 DETROIT, MI
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Abductions by aliens usually not little green men with antennae, but gray or
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white men about 3 feet tall have traumatized dozens of people in Michigan.
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But they aren't suffering alone, according to a Flushing woman, who had an
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experience with little gray extraterrestrials herself & found they cured her
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of lupus & Addison's disease, a serious adrenal gland dysfunction. Shirley
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Coyne says her abduction occurred on a hot summer night in 1983, when she saw
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the bright light of a domed UFO moving over a corn field near her home. She
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said she awoke her husband, George, & they ran outside barefoot to look at
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it. The last thing they remembered was the feel of grass on their feet. Then
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they were back in bed, said Mrs. Coyne, adding that her memories were revived
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through hypnosis sessions. "It was very traumatic but you get over it," said
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Coyne, reached Sunday at a three-day Ozark UFO conference in Eureka Springs,
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Ark. Coyne & her husband helped organize a support group for alien abductees,
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which she said has had a 100-percent success rate in helping people over
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their trauma. "In Michigan we have 60 people we're working with who have
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already gone through different stages of hypnosis & probably 20 to 30
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waiting to be regressed (hypnotized)," Coyne said. "We've a certified
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hypnotist & a clinical psychologist." Coyne said the support group is like
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any other, helping helps people learn to deal with & accept the experience.
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She said at least one person who had an abduction experience with aliens was
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in an institution before meeting with the group but now is living a normal
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life. "There are many who have gone through who aren't able to hold down
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jobs. They barely function," she said. "There are others who are able to
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cope with it very well." She estimated there were similar support groups in
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at least 23 other states. Ed Mazur, Arkansas director of Mutual UFO Network,
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said Coyne's story isn't unusual. Mazur said he's working with about four
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abduction cases in Arkansas. Michael Swords, a professor of natural sciences
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at Western Michigan University & editor of the Journal of UFO Studies, said
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he believes support groups are helpful as long as they are "essentially
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healthy. From what I'm hearing, it sounds as if support groups, as long as
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they don't markedly demand certain behavior, are good for people," Swords
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said. "There might be some professionals who disagree." Swords said,
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however, that some researchers believe reports of alien abduction may be a
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"shield fantasy" for some people, developed as part of a neurosis. Swords
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said those researchers think the cause of the neurosis may be stress, a
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desire to be "involved" or even a bad experience in childhood. Swords, who
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earned a doctoral degree in the history of science from Case Western Reserve
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University, said there seem to be a lot of abductions of people reported, but
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it's not nearly as high as the number of reported UFO sightings. He also said
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it's always hard to investigate the reports. "It may be as real as tomorrow's
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breakfast" to the victim, Swords said, "but as long as there's no conclusive
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evidence sitting there you still have to say, `I'm empathetic with you, I'd
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like to believe you, but the evidence is just not there.'"
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