-=> Quoting MATTHEW SCRUGGS to MICHAEL HOLT <=-
 MS> Re: Psychlogical origions.
 MS> I was leaning toward that way myself, except for nagging little
 MS> puzzles like some abductees turning up missing (for days in the Walton
 MS> & Pat Ramsay cases), the UFO tracked by radar during the Hill
 MS> Abduction, the radioactive traces in a handful of other cases. All
 MS> strongly argue AGAINST a completely psychlogical origion.
I tend to discount radar evidence, simply because reading a radar echo
is pretty much an art form, particularly in those days when UFOs were
popping up on screens all over.  I've talked with WW@-era USAAF radar
officers, and they've reported all sorts of odd things appearing.
Oh -- I see the eyewitness testimony of the particiapnts as suspect, also.
I found an essay written during the late 70s by a chap who set up a UFO
during a early-60s Boy Scout camping trip.  He sent aloft a white balloon,
let the Coleman lantern bob about, and salted a campfire site with some 
sort of medical tracer.  Then he went back to camp, told some of the other
about seeing at midnight something odd on the other side of the lake,
and went home to watch the 6 o'clock news.  
The missing persons aspect of it is the most puzzling for me.  Could Travis
Walton have survived in the wood alone for that period?  Might he have 
lanned
it all in advance?  Were the others involved in it?  
There are still missing persons, from abduction-like situations.  I've long
felt that there needed to be a national clearing house for such missing 
persons, just for UFO researchers.  A couple of years ago, for example,
there was reported missing a truck driver; what happened to that?
I'm intrigued by the on-again, off-again pregnancies.  And the odd markings
on the bodis.  I keep hearing about odd scars; I have two scars that appear 
to be the result of some surgery, but no one knows of any surgery on those 
parts of me; was I abducted?  Or is some of this birthmarks or related to
stigmata?  
 MS> Which STILL does not  *RULE OUT* human creation. However I find
 MS> that notion evidence of your misplaced fear & paranoia.
That's a good point.  If humans did it, we'd naturally evolve some sort of
protective psychological mechanism to handle the trauma.  The proposal I make
is that some other trauma is displaced into a UFO experience, as that sort
of event garners for the participant positive attention (sometimes).  But
what is obtainedfrom the UFO report may be less difficult to face than the
truth.  (I've seen just this in persons who were sexually abused; I wonder
if it appears in the families of, for example, murder victims, or after an
autmobile accident resulting in profound physcial injury to someone else.)
 MS> I'd much prefer the whole topic of abductions would just GO AWAY,
 MS> but it looks unlikely at present.
Having opened this bottle, we're stuck with the genie.  If someone could
offer an explanation -- with evidence -- that ties it all up and we're
left with no problems, whether or not ETs are invloved, I'd be happy.
Mike
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