From: UFO UpDates - Toronto
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:05:41 -0500
Re: Budd Hopkins' Response to the ABC Peter Jennings
"Seeing is Believing" TV Program
(Courtesy of the Intruders Foundation)
Source: The John E. Mack Institute
http://johnemackinstitute.org/center/center_news.asp?id=249
Feb 25, 2005
......Budd Hopkins
During the past year Jenning's producers interviewed me a number
of times, and because I sensed what they had in mind, I made, as
a preemptive strike, a number of careful, highly specific
observations about the UFO abduction phenomenon. All of these
crucial points - recorded by ABC on videotape - were designed to
underline the physical reality of UFO abductions and to
demonstrate the implausibility of current skeptical
explanations.
To its shame, ABC suppressed _all_ of these observations.
I knew, of course, that the skeptics' favorite explanation du
jour is impossibly simple: abduction reports, they believe, are
all due to misperceived "sleep paralysis." Ranking as a distant
second is another erroneous belief: abduction reports, they say,
"ONLY emerge under hypnosis," and since hypnosis is "totally
unreliable", all abduction reports must be discarded. In the
light of these tediously familiar errors and misstatements, I
made certain in my taped interviews to explain the following:
* In the first two decades of our research, _all_ of the central
abduction cases involved people who were outside their houses
when they were taken _none_ were lying paralyzed in their
bedrooms. They were driving cars, walking, fishing, hunting and
even, in one famous case, driving a tractor on a farm. "Sleep
paralysis" as a blanket explanation of UFO abductions is
therefore, ipso facto, a ludicrous non-starter. Nevertheless
_all_ of my insistent statements on this point were
systematically eliminated by the producers.
* Second, I indicated that there are many abuction reports
involving two, three, six or more people who were taken
simultaneously and whose highly detailed recollections are
virtually identical. This fact alone eliminates not only "sleep
paralysis" but "fantasy-proneness" or any other idiosyncratic
psychological aberrations as triggering causes. My descriptions
of these many cases of multiple abductions were likewise
completely suppressed by the producers
* Third, I showed the interviewers many photos of, again,
virtually identical scoop marks, consistent straight-line scars
and ground landing traces at abduction sites, and other physical
sequelae. _All_ of these vivid photographic examples of physical
evidence were suppressed by the producers.
* Fourth, I was not alone in making these points. My colleague
Dr. David Jacobs was asked by ABC to carry out a hypnotic
regression for the camera, but since the woman he chose had been
abducted in the daytime while driving a car, the case did not
fit ABC's "sleep paralysis" agenda and was thus not only
suppressed, but Dr. Jacobs' many hours of taped interviews were
also scrapped.
* Fifth, I made it very clear that perhaps 30% of all the
abduction reports collected by researchers are recalled
_without_ the aid of hypnosis, a fact which renders the issue of
hypnosis moot. This point was also suppressed by the producers
whose only goal, it appeared, was to eliminate any data that
contradicted their transparently false debunking hypotheses.
Despite my having presented - and reiterated - the points above,
the producers chose to trot out on camera two debunking
scientists (whose experiments with a mere handful of subjects
have yet to be taken seriously by the psychological community)
to buttress the untenable "sleep paralysis" theory, the false
"no physical evidence" claim, and the demonstrably untrue "its
all hypnosis" assertion. The smug presentations of these two
would-be experts were accompanied by the producers' lurid
"reenactments" of "sleep paralysis" phenomena, complete with
flashing lights and spooky music. The taped testimony of a
serious mental health professional like Dr. John Mack was
likewise suppressed, along with my statement that over the years
eight psychiatrists and numerous other mental health
professionals had come to me about their own UFO abductions. The
producers' obvious goal was to conceal the fact that within the
mental health community there are many professionals who look
with amusement on the "sleep paralysis" theory, and who accept
the physical reality of UFO abductions.
So what can one say about such a deliberately dishonest
presentation as Peter Jenning's "Seeing is Believing" take on
abductions? Perhaps one can only shrug and warn, yet again, that
the incurious members of the press and the many blinkered,
conservative scientists had better collectively pull their heads
up out of the sand and join us in our work. Whatever one's
personal attitude toward the UFO abduction phenomenon, science
insists that an extraordinary phenomenon demands an
extraordinary investigation. What ABC served up on Thursday
night was, instead, an extraordinary whitewash of the abduction
phenomenon, and a brutal suppression of the evidence for what
may well be the most portentous event in human history.
Peter Jennings and his staff should be ashamed
Budd Hopkins
New York
9/24/2008 
jc: As if that isn't interesting enough, clicking HERE
and noticing what some upper-level people have involved themselves
in (people prominent in several cases I and others have posted ), it makes one
realize that there may be more to this than many realize and should
spur us to seriously ponder how deep this whole thing may really go.
Do we really think all these people are totally crazy or misidentifying
what they are reporting? Who would do this if they really didn't
believe it? Look closely at who some of them are, and which cases
they are from. (Major General DeBrouwer - Belgium NATO :
General Parviz Jafari - Iranian AF (found within FOIA releases) :
Charles Halt - Deputy Base Commander of RAF Bentwaters England
in 1980 : Ex-Governor Fife Symington - Arizona (Phoenix Lights case)
Respectfully submitted,
Jerry Cohen
(CohenUFO.org)
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