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Lets recap shall we. You asked what cases I was talking about, for me to "source" abduction accounts from "researchers". I then explained it doesn't need to be "researcher", ATS accounts are perfectly valid, as valid as all other testimony anyway. Then you say I'm still wildy missing the point. Uh huh.
You still wildly miss the point.
What compels me? Well firstly, several years researching UFO's and aliens. I can't expect you to suddenly see where I'm coming from, but I've researched to the point where I feel there's little possibility an alien presence isn't real. There may not be any consclusive evidence, but that really doesn't mean aliens aren't here, all the evidence and testimony when combined is so powerful it could win in a court of law.
How do you know it isn't more than coincidence? Humans love their archetypes. What compels you to believe they are more than coincidence? The similarities in stories? The number of people?
Lets recap again shall we. I stated research has shown it's more than possible to get completely valid information from people, you then request studies that corroborate this, as if my statement were wrong, and people only tell lies under hypnosis. It is getting quite late, but give me a minute to finish this response and find you the info you request, because I know you'll not rest until I do.
Problem is, I never said such a thing. It is much easier for you to attack your straw-man than my actual point.
I cherry picked it did I? I'll have you know I was debating whether intelligence agencies have tried hypnosis to get information from subjects, it took me one Google search to find that document.
You cherry-picked one study that has little to do with the subject at hand.
THE ABDUCTION EXPERIENCE:
A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THEORY AND EVIDENCE
STUART APPELLE
Department of Psychology
State University of New York College at Brockport, Brockport, NY 14420-2977
ABSTRACT: Prevalent hypotheses regarding the etiology of the abduction experience
are examined, especially in regard to the existing evidence. Deception, suggestibility
(fantasy-proneness, hypnotizability, false-memory syndrome), personality, sleep phenomena,
psychopathology, psychodynamics, environmental factors, and event-level
alien encounters are each considered as origins of the abduction experience. The data
are discussed in terms of what is and is not consistent with theory, the concept of
parsimony, and the need for converging lines of evidence in establishing linkages
between fact and theory. On the basis of this analysis, it is argued that no theory yet
enjoys enough empirical support to be accepted as a general explanation for the
abduction experience. The concept of the abduction experience as a multicausal
phenomenon is discussed, and suggestions for future research are provided.
The “abduction experience”2 is characterized by subjectively real memories of
being taken secretly and/or against one’s will by apparently nonhuman entities and
subjected to complex physical and psychological procedures.3 The number of such
experiences has been estimated by Jacobs (1992) as 5–6% of the population, and by
Hopkins, Jacobs, and Westrum (1992) as 2% of the population. More conservative
estimates may be derived by counting the actual number of cases that have been
reported by investigators. For example, Bullard’s (1994) survey of 13 investigators
yielded 1,700 cases. Whatever the number, few aspects of ufology have attracted as
much attention. To those who dismiss the possibility that UFOs may be spacecraft,
the notion of abductions by UFO occupants is seen as inherently implausible. For
those who believe that UFOs are under the control of extraterrestrials, abduction
experiences suggest both a rationale for surreptitious UFO activity and an opportunity
to learn about the purpose underlying such activity. In essence, the abduction
experience is seen as an answer to the proverbial question, “Why don’t they land on
the White House lawn?”
In addition to the extraterrestrial hypothesis, there are numerous alternative explanations
for the abduction experience, many of which have been actively debated
in the ufological literature. However, these debates have often shed much more heat
than light. The purpose of this paper is to closely examine the proposed explanations
(causes) for the abduction experience in terms of their theoretical strengths
and weaknesses, and more importantly, in terms of what (if any) empirical evidence
exists in their support. The review does not address subsidiary issues which presuppose
a particular etiology. (For example, what planets do the abductors come from?)
Nor does it entertain the position advocated by some that an understanding of the
abduction experience is not amenable to scientific analysis (a position with which I
disagree; Appelle, 1994b).
Originally posted by WhizPhiz
Lets recap shall we. You asked what cases I was talking about, for me to "source" abduction accounts from "researchers". I then explained it doesn't need to be "researcher", ATS accounts are perfectly valid, as valid as all other testimony anyway. Then you say I'm still wildy missing the point. Uh huh.
Originally posted by WhizPhiz There may not be any consclusive evidence, but that really doesn't mean aliens aren't here, all the evidence and testimony when combined is so powerful it could win in a court of law.
Originally posted by WhizPhiz
I believe the testimony as a whole CANNOT be ignored, and I find it quite ignorant to ignore all these people trying to tell us something important, and in return we mock them.
Originally posted by WhizPhiz
And I'm pretty much done debating whether aliens exist not, it's just so silly at this stage
Originally posted by WhizPhiz I stated research has shown it's more than possible to get completely valid information from people, you then request studies that corroborate this, as if my statement were wrong, and people only tell lies under hypnosis.
Originally posted by WhizPhizI cherry picked it did I? I'll have you know I was debating whether intelligence agencies have tried hypnosis to get information from subjects, it took me one Google search to find that document.
I've read absolutely everything you've said so far, but I don't have time to reply to absolutely everything you've said, but by any measure I'm replying to a great deal of it.
Perhaps you should try reading other posts instead of just ignoring points that contradict your beliefs.
Yeah, the standards are different, but I'm not about to wait for science to find the all mighty conclusive proof it seeks, because an alien race apparently so advanced is not go to make that easy at all if they want to keep hidden, I'll be long dead before scientists ever reach any sort of conclusion. I'm not here to fool around, you can wait for that sure proof, but I can't deny all the less conclusive proof, it takes a lot for me to believe something like an alien presence, but there is a certain level where I draw the line.
Oh yes, the court-of-law fallacy. You are arguing about a scientific reality. The standards of evidence in a court of law and the court of science are very different.
Oh I would beg to differ, anyone who claims to believe in aliens better be well prepared from some harsh mockery if they intend to make those beliefs known.
No one is mocking them or ignoring them.
You must have seen me say THIS:
No, that isn't what you were debating. CIA is only mentioned twice on that page, once when Mr. Vaeni says the CIA was using as behavior modification tool and when you brought it up. You cited it as an example of a study supporting that a researcher cannot coerce a subject under hypnosis. However, you failed completely to understand that was for subjects under duress and resistant, ignoring information within the paper contrary to your beliefs.
It most definitely CAN retrieve valid information from a person, and if you think intelligence agencies haven't also used it for that purpose you're sadly mistaken. They've probably experimented with every possible use for hypnosis, with memory extraction most likely playing a major role."
Simulations of the abduction experience.
Lawson (1977) asked hypnotized subjects
to describe events associated with a suggested close encounter with a UFO. He
claimed considerable similarity between these reports and those from real abduction
experiencers. This study has been widely cited by skeptics but widely criticized
by ufologists (Bullard, 1989) for its methodology, conclusions, and generalizability.
Whatever its validity, it remains the only direct test of the role of hypnosis in the
abduction experience.4
Lynn and colleagues describe a related experiment (Lynn & Pezzo, 1994; Lynn &
Kirsch, 1996). Testing the premise that similarities found across abduction experi-
ences can be accounted for by familiarity with these elements in our popular culture,
they reasoned that encounter scenarios deliberately and consciously made up
by non-abduction-experiencers should approximate those generated by actual abduction
experiencers. To test this, volunteers were asked to simulate (role play) the
behavior of an excellent hypnotic subject asked to recall events following the observation
of a mysterious light in the sky. (The subjects were not actually hypnotized.)
Like Lawson, these experimenters report certain (yet sketchy) similarities between
their subjects’ accounts and those typically found in the abduction experience literature.
On the other hand, Randles (1994a) noted a number of inconsistencies between
the prototypical abduction experience and the stories of twenty British subjects asked
to imagine a close encounter. These inconsistencies included more humanlike entities,
almost no reports of “doorway amnesia” (failure to recall events associated
with entry into the abductors’ craft), not a single medical examination, and little
resemblance of apparent alien motives to those indicated in the reports by actual
abduction experiencers.
Although these results seem contradictory to those of Lawson and Lynn and Pezzo,
it is interesting to note that compared to the stereotypical American abduction scenario,
British abduction experiencers report humanlike entities about four times
more often, and medical examinations about !/3 as often (Randles, 1994b). Therefore,
the results with British subjects who are asked to make up a close encounter
are more consistent with the typical British abduction report than might otherwise
be apparent.
Each of these studies could benefit from tighter methodology and closer examination
of the content and frequency of the generated reports. In the meantime,
however, they suggest that elements of the abduction experience are found in the
imaginations of the nonexperiencer population, and that consistency in abduction
accounts is becoming more difficult to justify as evidence of veridicality.
So you're going to leave us all hanging in suspense?
The evidence does not point in this direction, it points to something else, which is far stranger and more disturbing than your little green aliens theory.
Jacques Vallee - Dimensions (1989)
The central question posed by the UFO phenomenon is this: What happens to the witnesses who have a close encounter? Are the "abductions" real? And, if so, where do these people go?
Here again it is useful to take the stories out of the twentieth-century North American context and to relate them to the larger universe of reports from other times and other places. The Secret Commonwealth, after all, already took ordinary folks away. So did the denizens of Magonia, and the sky people of American Indian lore.
Part Two of this book is concerned with the direct interaction between humans and these alleged beings – with what we know of their physical reality and their impact on us.
As we progress from chapter to chapter in this search, the reader will see the outline of a major fact towering above the haze of human theories and fragile dreams. This is not simply a case of a few tales relating encounters between a few humans and strange creatures from the sky. This is an ageold and worldwide myth that has shaped our belief structures, our scientific expectations, and our view of ourselves.
...............
In the past twenty years, UFO reports have been studied by serious persons who have tried to place them within the framework of space science, modern physics, psychology, or the history of superstition.
Superficially, the most appealing of the theories proposed is the extraterrestrial theory which would regard the UFOs as probes from another planet. Yet it falls short of explaining the phenomena in their historical development. Present-day saucers cannot be evaluated without reference to the 1897 airship or to earlier sighting of similar objects. Then, too, the theory of simple visitation must be compared with the assumption that the visitors know far more physics than we do – so much more, in fact, that an interpretation in terms of physical concepts known to us is bound to end in failure and contradiction. A second major flaw in all the theories proposed so far is found in the description of the entities and their behaviour. As we will see below, any theory can account for some of these reports, but only at the expense of arbitrary rejection of a much larger group.
To put it bluntly, the UFO phenomenon does not give evidence of being extraterrestrial at all.
Instead it appears to be inter-dimensional and to manipulate physical realities outside of our own space-time continuum.
GOOD GUYS AND BAD GUYS
Picking up on an implication within a statement from Casey, Reagan asks, "Are you telling me there are different races or species, as you said, visiting Earth at the same time?"
"Can you tell me how many different species have visited us?" Reagan asks.
The Caretaker states, "At least five."
Reagan: "Are they all friendly?"
An advisor who is not named in the transcript reportedly says, "Mr. President, that is a very difficult question to answer. There are many parameters that we follow to evaluate the threat. However, we have little intelligence on four of the five."
"We have plenty of intel on the Ebens ... gee ... they've given us everything we asked for! They have also helped us to understand the other four species. I'm afraid to say, Mr. President and please don't misunderstand my words, but we think one of the species is very hostile."
Reagan is clear about his position. "I'm the President of the United States. I should know if we are endangered by some threat from outer space. If you have something to say about a threat posed by this one species of aliens, then I want to hear it.
Casey explains. "Mr. President, we have intelligence that would indicate this one species of aliens have abducted people from Earth. They have performed scientific and medical tests on these humans. To the best of our knowledge, no humans have been killed."
"We have captured one of these hostile aliens. This gets into some very, very sensitive areas, Mr. President. I strongly suggest we end this discussion and move on to any further questions you might have and then get back to this. I don't think we are prepared to provide you with accurate answers to your questions about the potentially hostile aliens at this time," Casey reportedly says.
Reagan: "OK, but expect this to be given to me as soon as possible. I want to know everything about these hostile creatures so I .... or I mean we should start forming policies on how to deal with them … do we have operational war plans on this?"
Presidential advisor (name redacted): "Yes, Mr. President, we have war plans on all potential threats to our country."
The Caretaker explains further, "We call the hostile aliens simply that, HAV, meaning Hostile Alien Visitors. MJ-12 placed that code on them back in the '50s."
Reagan asks, "You mean to say, these H-A-Vs have been visiting us and kidnapping our people since the '50s?"
Casey: "Mr. President, we have some indication that they might have been doing this for some time. But we really have to consider all of the evidence, listed in our reports, and compare that to some of the open source information."
Originally posted by 6205LH
I suggest to stop blabering about aliens being evil, until somebody will present rock solid proof that they actually do exist and are visiting earth...
As I've stated many times now, if you want to debate the validity of the alien presence, please use one of the other thousands of threads dedicated to that topic. There are people here who aren't going to wait for science to confirm things they already know. This is a conspiracy forum, and this thread is intended to discuss the alien agenda on the assumption there is an alien presence. If you don't agree with that, simply don't post. Cheers.
Originally posted by Turiddu
Originally posted by 6205LH
I suggest to stop blabering about aliens being evil, until somebody will present rock solid proof that they actually do exist and are visiting earth...
Exactly. I see lots of copy and pasting from "abduction" books but no solid evidence that aliens exist and/or are visiting Earth.
Lets prove they exist before we speculate if they are "good" or "evil".
Originally posted by PsychedelicSam
reply to post by WhizPhiz
Hey man,
just woke up so I haven't read all your thread just yet.
I will soon though, just wanted to ask, have you seem any presentations (they can be found on Youtube) or read any books by Mary Rodwell?
She's interviewed 1000s of people who have had alien experiences and I have not heard of a more learned person on the subject than her.
Best to start with her Youtube video called The Reality of Contact. If you just search her name in Youtube the presentation will come up