Michael Cremo - Human Devolution - A Vedic Alternative To Darwin's Theory

There is some corroboration for the Hill incident. There was a radar sighting of a UFO near the landing approach to Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire on the night of the Hill sighting, although not exactly in the same area where the Hills had their encounter. An amateur astronomer, Marjorie Fish, produced a three dimensional map of stars near our sun that matched the star map drawn from memory by Betty Hill. From the information supplied by Hill, Fish determined that the points of origin for the humanoids were the stars Zeta 1 Reticuli and Zeta 2 Reticuli. In December 1974, Terence Dickinson, editor of the journal astronomy , wrote for that publication an article about the star map. Dickinson asked scientists to give their opinions, and many were intrigued by the apparent match between the map and the actual stars. Throughout the next year, the magazine carried letters from scientists debating the merits of the star map.

Another abduction experience was reported in what came to be called the Buff Ledge Case. The principal investigator was Walter N. Webb, director of the planetarium at the Boston Museum of Science. On August 7, 1968, a boy sixteen years old and girl nineteen years old were working at a private summer camp for girls near Buff Ledge on the shores of Lake Champlain in the state of Vermont. According to the boy, he and the girl were sunbathing on the dock when a large UFO appeared, and three smaller UFOs emerged from it. One of the three UFOs approached, emitting sounds that appeared synchronized with its pulsating aura. The object was as big as a small house. The boy could see inside the craft some humanoid entities with large heads, big eyes, and small mouths. They were wearing silvery uniforms. The boy received from them a telepathic communication that they were from another planet and that he would not be harmed. When he tried to reach up and touch the bottom of the UFO, which was then floating over his head, he saw a beam of light, and felt a sensation of losing consciousness and moving up while holding on to the girl. The next thing he remembered was being again with the girl on the dock, at night, as the UFO floated overhead and then disappeared. The boy and girl went to their residences separately. The boy felt very tired, but before going to sleep he called nearby Plattsburgh Air Force base to report his experience. The person he spoke to said that other calls had been received, but military planes were not responsible. The boy never spoke about the incident to the girl, and after they left the camp, they did not see each other. After some initial attempts to speak about his experience to disbelieving friends and relatives, the boy stopped saying anything about it. But after ten years, he was still privately wondering about what had happened to him, so he contacted Walter Webb, who decided to thoroughly investigate the case. Webb located the woman who had been with the subject at the time of the incident. Webb had the two subjects separately hypnotized by two professional clinical psychologists in an attempt to recover their memories. They both reported similar experiences, which involved their being taken by the UFO to a “mother ship” in space above the earth. During the journey both the subjects were subjected to medical tests and probes by the aliens. The male subject reported that the aliens communicated with him telepathically. During his return to earth, the male subject reported that he passed through a television screen on the UFO that showed him and the girl lying on the dock. The woman’s recollections of the events before entering the UFO were very close to those of her male companion. Both subjects took psychological tests that showed they were normal (Webb 1988; Thompson 1993, pp. 116–122). That the accounts given by the two subjects, who had not communicated with each other, were similar to a remarkable degree, including minor details, convinced Webb that the incident they reported actually took place.

There have been hundreds of such alien abduction reports, most of them with very similar features. In abduction accounts there is often a strong sexual element. In some cases the aliens are said to collect sperm or eggs, or engage in other kinds of medical activities connected with the human reproductive system and process. In other cases, aliens themselves engage in sexual activities with their human subjects. A Brazilian farmer named Antonio Villas Boas in 1957 was abducted and taken aboard a craft manned by beings of the “gray” type (i.e., small, with large heads and thin limbs). While he was on board, he was approached by a naked woman who appeared like a normal human, and she seduced him. After this, he was left on the ground (Creighton 1969; Thompson 1993, pp.

135–136). Women report being impregnated, either mechanically or by sexual contact with aliens, and bearing alien/human hybrids (Hopkins 1987; Jacobs 1992; Fowler 1990; Thompson 1993, pp. 137–138).

Psychological evaluations of abductees have been carried out, and researchers have found them to be sane. In 1981, psychologist Dr. Elizabeth Slater tested and interviewed nine abductees without knowing anything about their UFO experiences. She found they were normal, although somewhat anxious (Slater 1983a, p. 18). After learning about their experiences, she reported: “The first and most critical question is whether our subjects’ reported experiences could be accounted for strictly on the basis of psychopathology, i.e., mental disorder. the answer is a firm no. ” Slater also concluded that the anxiety they displayed was what one might expect from an abduction experience, which she said could be characterized as “a trauma of major proportions.” She said that in this respect the abduction experience’s “psychological impact might be analogous to what one sees in crime victims or victims of natural disaster” (Slater 1983b, p. 33; Thompson 1993, p. 153).

Conclusions similar to those of Dr. Slater were reached by other psychiatrists and psychologists. In her studies, psychiatrist Rima Laibow found no evidence of psychosis in abductees. She did find symptoms of post traumatic sress disorder, and pointed out that PTSD normally occurs only in cases where people have undergone very stressful physical experiences. It normally does not occur in response to purely psychological events such as nightmares or hallucinations. Laibow also pointed out that psychotic fantasies tend to be bizarrely unique, whereas the abduction accounts were quite similar to each other (Conroy 1989, pp. 237–

240). Dr. Jean Mundy worked at St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York City as a senior clinical psychologist. In her studies of abductees, she, like Slater, found they were not psychotic and displayed classic symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder: “This is how people who have experienced terrible trauma react—people who were holocaust victims, or Vietnam veterans, or rape victims. We don’t know the nature of the trauma they experienced, but we know it’s not their imagination. It’s something that hit them from the outside, and in that sense it’s something ‘real’” (Stark 1990, p. 30; Thompson 1993, pp. 154–155).

Dr. John E. Mack, a psychiatrist at Harvard University, got his introduction to abductee reports through UFO researcher Budd Hopkins. After studying some of the reports collected by Hopkins, Mack (1994, p.2) concluded they were genuine: “Most of the specific information that the abductees provided . . . had never been written about or shown in the media. Furthermore, these individuals were from many parts of the country and had not communicated with each other.” This seemed to rule out collusion and repetition of media stereotypes as an explanation for the similarity of the reports coming from these individuals. Mack (1994, p. 2) added: “They seemed in other respects quite sane, had come forth reluctantly, fearing the discrediting of their stories or outright ridicule they had encountered in the past. They had come to see Hopkins at considerable expense, and, with rare exceptions, had nothing to gain materially from telling their stories. . . . What Hopkins had encountered in the more than two hundred abduction cases he had seen over a fourteenyear period were reports of experiences that had the characteristics of real events: highly detailed narratives that seemed to have no obvious symbolic pattern; intense emotional and physical traumatic impact, sometimes leaving small lesions on the experiencers’ bodies; and consistency of stories down to the most minute details.”