Jack Brewer is the force behind the excellent blog, The UFO Trail. Since 2009 Jack has devoted considerable time to researching the connections between elements of the alien abduction narrative, hypnosis techniques used to “recover” memories of the alleged abduction...
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Aliens and Demons: New Documentary
This has been quite a while in coming, and I had to keep it under wraps. My employer, Faithlife (makers of Logos Bible Software) has a relatively new streaming TV channel called Faithlife TV. They're about to launch a documentary (74 minutes) featuring some of my...
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...
Review of The Greys Have Been Framed: Exploitation in the UFO Community
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...
PEERANORMAL Episode 6: Sleep Paralysis
Sleep paralysis can be defined in several ways. In terms of the experiencer, it can be described as “a visitation by a malevolent creature which attacked its victims as they slept” (Cox). More clinically, sleep paralysis is understood as “a transient, conscious state...
The Betty and Barney Hill Case: More Reasons to Disbelieve
Robert Schaeffer's recent post on the Hill case is worth a close read: Dr. Simon Reveals his Real Thoughts on the Hill "UFO Abduction" Case. In the post Schaeffer provides new documentation as to the inconsistencies of the Hill testimony, including evidence that the...
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...
Hypnotic Regression: A Critique
I'm still getting caught up on some items I want to make sure readers know about after my recent "finish The Portent draft or die" session of the last two weeks. A couple days ago I directed readers to Jack Brewer's UFO Trail about true conspiracy theories. I have one...
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...
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...
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....
Understanding the Christian Fundamentalist View of UFOs and Aliens, Part 9
Here is a link to my ongoing eschatology (end times) archive over on my other blog. I'm still showing how any view of end times is based on guesses and presuppositions. I should warn readers at this point, though. If you are married to the pre-trib / pre-mill view of...
Understanding the Christian Fundamentalist View of UFOs and Aliens, Part 8
Readers will recall that we're looking at elements of Christian eschatology as preparatory to me getting into my concerns as to the marriage of one specific view of eschatology to the UFO / ET question on the part of Christians into UFOs and ETs. Here is the latest...
Understanding the Christian Fundamentalist View of UFOs and Aliens, Part 7
I just posted another installment on eschatology (end times) over on my Naked Bible blog. Again, the goal in that series is to get people to understand that the typical "there's going to be a Great Tribulation, a rapture, and a millennial kingdom in Israel" view of...