I've been intending to review Jack Brewer's book, The Greys Have Been Framed: Exploitation in the UFO Community, for some time now. I've linked to some of Jack's research posted on his blog The UFO Trail before. Jack has devoted considerable effort into tracking the...
Alien Abduction
Stopping Abductions with Prayer?
Greg Bishop recently blogged about the experiences of some of acquaintances (he missed the event itself) at a recent session during the Roswell UFO Festival. You can read the full entry for yourself, as well as comments, but I'd like to say a few things about both...
Short Summary of an Episode in UFO Infamy: the Paul Bennewitz Affair
I've often referred to the Bennewitz affair in conversation about how certain U.S. government agencies and personnel are not above using UFO believes as tools to perpetuate a UFO narrative they find useful (read: a useful myth designed to misdirect away from something...
Alien Abductions Round-Up
That's probably the best way to characterize what's been going on with Jack Brewer and microbiologist Dr. Tyler Kokjohn. Both have posted recently about the questionable methodology (that's being kind) of Budd Hopkins, one of the more famous names associated alien...
Alien Abduction, Contact, and Mind Control
Jack Brewer over at The UFO Trail has begun a two-part series on the CIA's mind-control programs. UFO Religions readers (and Facade fans) will want to read Part One, along with an earlier essay on John Marks, the researcher who blew the lid off the secrecy. John Marks...
Betty Hill’s Star Map vs. Real Astronomy
From time to time I see the idea of actual intelligent ET visitation defended on the basis of the Betty and Barney Hill abduction -- specifically, on the basis of the "star map" that Betty Hill allegedly saw while on board the alien space ship during her abduction....
Night Terrors and Sleep Paralysis
Nick Redfern recently posted something on night terrors put together by Tim Binnall. Interesting reading, but there was a curious omission. Binnall's work (at least in this installment) neglects to mention the major scholarly work on night terrors and its relation...
Newly-Released CIA MK-ULTRA Documents
I saw this today on Twitter. Apparently the newly-released material is the result of the tenacious efforts of John Greenewald and his amazing Black Vault website. Here's a link to the Black Vault archive for CIA mind control programs, including MK-ULTRA.
Sleep Paralysis and Alien Abduction
A few months ago my PEERANORMAL podcast did an episode on the phenomenon of sleep paralysis. As is our format, I and the other hosts read several peer-reviewed articles about the topic and discussed them. Below is an article we didn't discuss, as the episode wasn't...
The Elephant in the Alien Abduction Research Room: Methodological Integrity
In another excellent piece on the UFO Trail blog, Jack Brewer takes the issue of the use of hypnosis in alien abduction research head-on. The post is another example of why, if you care about thinking clearly about matters ufological, you should be reading his blog. A...
U. S. Mind Control Programs, UFOs, and Alleged Alien Abductions: A Cold War History Lesson
Honestly, folks, this piece by Jack Brewer at the UFO Trail is one of the best things you'll ever read on this topic. Psy Ops and Mind Control: Then, Now and the UFO Community It's a telling history of how these odd subjects are inextricably related, complete with the...
Alien Abductee Testimony About Telepathic Messsaging from Aliens
I've long been skeptical of this claim. I can remember back when writing The Facade reading articles about how the military-industrial complex was working on electronic means to convey messages directly to a person's auditory mechanisms or brains. It's a mind control...
CIA, Mind Control, Alien Abduction: Addendum
I recently blogged about Jack Brewer's series on government mind controls programs and their potential overlap with alien abduction reports. As Facade readers know, mind control was one of the sub-threads in the novel. That previous post pointed readers to two posts...
Third Article from Psychological Inquiry
Readers recall that, back in 1996, the peer-reviewed journal Psychological Inquiry devoted an entire issue to discussing alien abduction. The second article (posted a few weeks ago), agreed with the first one by Newman and Baumeister with respect to the notion that...
Second Article in Psychological Inquiry
I'm guessing anyone who's interested in the first article has read it by now. I enjoyed some of the humorous responses. Yep, it's another one-size-fits-all explanation from the psychiatric community. They can't seem to deal with those abductees who have conscious...