There is a certain sense of stability in the physical world that most of us take for granted. However, in the current arena of UFO abduction literature, the term ‘physical world’ may need redefinition. UFO abductees have found their world stretched out and distorted in a way that defies modern science. Abductees’ testimony now includes levitation, paralysis, telepathy, and startling visions. To ignore these reports is to ignore the vast amount of evidence that seems to accumulate in many personal accounts. However, to accept these reports blindly is to accept data whose source is the testimony of hypnosis, vague memories and spontaneous recollection. Do abductees really levitate out of their beds at night, float up to a floating UFO, and undergo physical exams? Perhaps this question can be answered by looking more closely at the abductee’s testimony.
In the past decade, UFO abduction researchers Budd Hopkins and Whitley Strieber have strongly promoted the notion of physical abductions as a norm for UFO-human contact. However, based on an article published in UFO Magazine (Vol. 4, No. 4), researcher Ann Druffel offered a new perspective on the phenomenon of abduction. This perspective altered the focus of an abduction from something physical to something within the mind. Ann Druffel, in her book ‘The Tujunga Canyon Contacts’, talks about the hypnotic regression of a particular abductee named Emily who’ learned that if she managed to move even one toe or hand, the paralysis would break and the creatures would disappear ‘. The article goes on to report that Emily could make a mental effort to wake up her roommate and also break abduction paralysis. In another case, Ms. Druffel points out that the abductee was able to break “contact” by making a sound or a mantra within herself.
Breaking up the alleged kidnapping by force of will is just a clue to its non-physical nature. There’s others? When observing the varied testimonies of the kidnapped, one perceives the lack of coincidence from one report to another. One person said she was transported through the wall of her apartment. While others feel that the hijackers lead them ‘by hand’ to the waiting UFOs. Whitley Strieber, in her book ‘Transformation’, writes about her astral travel attempts and the similarity of that experience to her abductions. He also points out the strangeness factor in the abduction reports from his article in UFO Magazine (Vol 4, Num 2). Strieber writes: “Of the 690 narratives sent to me by the readers of Communion and Transformation, only a few seem to support these current theories on kidnapping. Instead, the vast majority describe perceptions and experiences far stranger than those reported by leading kidnapping investigators. ” Another UFO researcher, Richard Grossinger, writes about the inability of contactees to distinguish between the concrete or real and the psychic or hallucinatory. It suggests that we may be dealing with both levels of reality, thus creating the current paradox of conflicting abduction testimonies.
Before the phenomenon of the ‘Communion’ and the ‘Intruders’, the astrophysicist and UFO researcher Jacques Vallee warned the conception of UFOs as something truly physical. Vallee’s position is that the individual and social psychological manipulation of those contacted with UFOs may not be extraterrestrial at all, but rather encounters with another reality. It suggests that the intelligence community around the world is probably “in the dark” about most aspects of the UFO phenomenon. In the MJ-12 document, he writes: “However, given the names on the MJ-12 roster of scientists, it seems to me that their work might have had a completely different orientation, related to psychological warfare. I scratched the surface of that topic in ‘Messengers of Deception’, and I got burned because the UFO research community wasn’t ready even to consider that side of the problem. ‘ Now that the verdict is in the MJ-12 documents with the information disclosure planted by Bill Moore, Dr. Vallee’s comments seem much more powerful.
In his book “Dimensions”, Dr. Vallee strongly emphasizes the psychological nature of UFO encounters. His research has shown that historically, UFO encounters have been perceived as the common myths of the time, such as the miracle of Fatima, Portugal in 1917. ‘The events of Fatima involve luminous spheres, lights with strange colors, a feeling of’ heat waves – all physical characteristics commonly associated with UFOs. They also encompass prophecy and the loss of ordinary consciousness by witnesses, what we have called the psychic component of UFO sightings ”(p. 174). Dr. Vallee even implies that much of human history may have been shaped by the psychological effects of UFO encounters and that the form may have a purpose.
Alien or not, it appears that UFO abductions are far more psychological in nature than physical. However, the common belief is physical contact! Is this what we should believe?