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1) “Waking up paralysed with a sense of a strange person or presence or something else in the room” (18 percent);
2) “Feeling that you were actually flying through the air although you didn't know why or how” (10 percent);
3) “Experiencing a period of time of an hour or more, in which you were apparently lost, but you could not remember why, or where you had been” (13 percent);
4) “Seeing unusual lights or balls of light in a room without knowing what was causing them, or where they came from” (8 percent); and
5) “Finding puzzling scars on your body and neither you nor anyone else remembering how you received them or where you got them” (8 percent).
Knowledge of aliens should relate more closely to reading and television-watching habits than to having the indicator experiences if abductions do not really occur.
If real gray aliens are abducting people from Earth, and the Roper Poll is correct in associating the indicator experiences with abduction, then we should expect such a relationship. Its absence in a relatively large sample casts doubt on these premises.
Among the adults (though not the children), there was a correlation between the amount of television they watched and their knowledge about aliens and abductions. This suggests that the popular stereotype is obtained more from television programs than from having been abducted by real aliens.
originally posted by: KansasGirl
Good info, Brit! Thanks for posting.
I'm not sure what her experiments prove except that we can't take the "alien abduction" thing at face value.
originally posted by: BrianFlanders
Can I be considered an abductee if I was born without my permission and forced to live in a world I don't belong in?
originally posted by: mirageman
Interesting, if ultimately frustrating, attempt at trying to work out what is behind the abduction phenomenon.
It correlates watching TV with an explanation for people seeing "grey" aliens. However which TV programmes show 'gray' aliens? The two most globally popular sci-fi shows "Dr. Who" and "Star Trek "certainly don't feature aliens of that ilk very often (if at all). You can also watch a lot of TV and just watch all the soaps, quiz and reality type shows and never be exposed to suggestions that aliens are little grey guys who can breathe our atmosphere and have a penchant for remaining unclothed. Watch the movies "E.T" or "Close Encounters" or the TV shows like "Taken" though and little else and you have skewed the data.
I can't detect small gray aliens anywhere in the entire decade, let alone the 60s when TV shows such as 'The Outer Limits' and 'The Twilight Zone' flew the alien flag. 'Close Encounters Of The Third Kind' (1977) seems the earliest...
originally posted by: mirageman
a reply to: ConfusedBrit
It should also be noted that Travis Walton was aware of a National Enquirer competition for "positive proof" of an extraterrestrial encounter. Guess what?
WHOA! I've never come across that information before- thank you!
This seems like an important consideration when considering what to make of the Walton story.
Why don't "researchers" mention this when they discuss his case? Do they not know about it? If they don't, what does that say about their research skills? If they do, why don't they discuss it?
I think I may know why.edit on 10-12-2018 by KansasGirl because: (no reason given)edit on 10-12-2018 by KansasGirl because: (no reason given)
Why don't "researchers" mention this when they discuss his case? Do they not know about it? If they don't, what does that say about their research skills? If they do, why don't they discuss it?
originally posted by: JackHill
I can't believe even now, so many years after a lot of cases and investigations on the subject, there's people that still consider these experiences are in reality some distorted trauma/nightmares/whatever mixed up with TV shows influence.
I must admit I'm surprised on the extreme grade of efficiency these aliens have while performing their agenda. They won, big time.