UFO Abduction Research Under Scrutiny at Harvard

by Charles Lear

Out of the three most prominent people in UFO abduction research, Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs, and John Mack, only Mack had any formal training in psychology. Hopkins was an artist, Jacobs was an historian, and Mack was the head of the psychology department at Harvard Medical School. Mack’s interest in UFO abduction research first gained major media attention when he co-chaired the Abduction Study Conference at M.I.T. in June of 1992. His position at Harvard lent credibility to the subject, and he worked to convince other academics to consider it seriously. Harvard’s leadership didn’t interfere with Mack’s interest until he published a book in 1994 titled Abduction: Human Encounters With Aliens based on his research with 13 subjects. Mack had had previous success as an author with a 1976 book on T. E. Lawrence, A Prince of Our Disorder, which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1977. Abduction was a hit and Mack was featured in many newspapers, television news shows, and talk shows. As Mack’s position at Harvard was part of the story, there were some there who felt it was necessary to examine the validity of Mack’s investigations.

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The UFO World Since December 16, 2017

By Martin Willis

Since our blogger, Charles Lear is off the week, I thought I would inject a brief opinion about my thoughts on what has changed with UFOs since late 2017. What better time to do that than now with my guest, Lue Elizondo who played a key role.

It may have had an unusual title: “Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program” but it certainly changed everything in the world of UFOs. There have been other great informative articles since in the New York Times, but this one was on the front page and it started the UFO ball rolling.

Those of us really fascinated with the UFO topic were really paying attention when To The Stars Academy Of Arts & Science launched in October of the same year and ran a livestream featuring their prestigious team consisting of: Luis Elizondo, James Semivan, Harold (Hal) Puthoff, Steve Justice, Chris Mellon, and president, Tom Delonge. We heard some amazing things that day, and there was a real bustle among the UFO community, social media was ablaze for several days, and then things seem to settle down. There was some talk here and there, but the needle wasn’t really moved too far from what I could tell.

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