CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION by V.J. Ballester-Olmos with Richard W. Heiden 9
FOREWORD by Dr. Leonard S. Newman 19
I. CASE STUDIES 23
Chapter 1. Memory Games: A False Recall Episode 25
V.J. Ballester-Olmos
Chapter 2. The Phoenix Lights: The Fallibility of Human Perception and Memory 39
Tim Callahan
Chapter 3. Missile Flights and Fantasies 45
James T. Carlson
Chapter 4. Meeting the Abductees: Betty Hill, Richard Price & Others 61
Peter Huston
Chapter 5. Investigating Ball Lightning Eyewitness Reports 77
Dr. Alexander G. Keul
Chapter 6. Very Close Encounter with a UAP in Levitation 94
Éric Maillot and Dr. Jean-Michel Abrassart
Chapter 7. The Real Raël, UFO Contactee and the Last Prophet 107
Claude Maugé
Chapter 8. The MUFON-ian Candidate: The Gulf Breeze UFO Case as Political Contest 121
Craig R. Myers
Chapter 9. The Pascagoula Abduction: A Case of Hypnagogia? 137
Dr. Joe Nickell
Chapter 10. Misinterpretations of Fireball Swarms from Satellite Reentries 141
James Oberg
Chapter 11. When Testimony Becomes Testament: The Case of Raël, UFO Prophet,
and the Question of Witness Reliability 153
Dr. Susan J. Palmer
Chapter 12. The Legendary Cash-Landrum Case: Radiation Sickness from a Close Encounter? 166
Dr. Gary P. Posner
Chapter 13. The Weinstein Catalog: Ufological Bullion or Fool’s Gold? 180
Tim Printy
Chapter 14. The Changing Case of Próspera Muñoz: An Abduction Remembered Over 41 years? 189
José Ruesga Montiel
Chapter 15 Lunar Terror in Poland: A Doctor’s Dilemma 205
Wim van Utrecht
Chapter 16 On the Credibility of the Barney & Betty Hill Abduction Case 220
Nigel Watson
Chapter 17. Metamorphosis: Claimed Witness Accounts of the Great Lakes Fireball 229
of December 9, 1965
Robert R. Young
II. PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES 239
Chapter 1. On Eyewitness Reports of Extraterrestrial Life 241
Dr. Thomas D. Albright
Chapter 2. Close Encounters of the “Other” Kind: On the Psychology of “Alien Abductions” 257
Dr. Jorge Conesa-Sevilla
Chapter 3. Dissociation and Alien Abduction Allegation 266
Dr. Olivier DodierCONTENTS
INTRODUCTION by V.J. Ballester-Olmos with Richard W. Heiden 9
FOREWORD by Dr. Leonard S. Newman 19
I. CASE STUDIES 23
Chapter 1. Memory Games: A False Recall Episode 25
V.J. Ballester-Olmos
Chapter 2. The Phoenix Lights: The Fallibility of Human Perception and Memory 39
Tim Callahan
Chapter 3. Missile Flights and Fantasies 45
James T. Carlson
Chapter 4. Meeting the Abductees: Betty Hill, Richard Price & Others 61
Peter Huston
Chapter 5. Investigating Ball Lightning Eyewitness Reports 77
Dr. Alexander G. Keul
Chapter 6. Very Close Encounter with a UAP in Levitation 94
Éric Maillot and Dr. Jean-Michel Abrassart
Chapter 7. The Real Raël, UFO Contactee and the Last Prophet 107
Claude Maugé
Chapter 8. The MUFON-ian Candidate: The Gulf Breeze UFO Case as Political Contest 121
Craig R. Myers
Chapter 9. The Pascagoula Abduction: A Case of Hypnagogia? 137
Dr. Joe Nickell
Chapter 10. Misinterpretations of Fireball Swarms from Satellite Reentries 141
James Oberg
Chapter 11. When Testimony Becomes Testament: The Case of Raël, UFO Prophet,
and the Question of Witness Reliability 153
Dr. Susan J. Palmer
Chapter 12. The Legendary Cash-Landrum Case: Radiation Sickness from a Close Encounter? 166
Dr. Gary P. Posner
Chapter 13. The Weinstein Catalog: Ufological Bullion or Fool’s Gold? 180
Tim Printy
Chapter 14. The Changing Case of Próspera Muñoz: An Abduction Remembered Over 41 years? 189
José Ruesga Montiel
Chapter 15 Lunar Terror in Poland: A Doctor’s Dilemma 205
Wim van Utrecht
Chapter 16 On the Credibility of the Barney & Betty Hill Abduction Case 220
Nigel Watson
Chapter 17. Metamorphosis: Claimed Witness Accounts of the Great Lakes Fireball 229
of December 9, 1965
Robert R. Young
II. PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES 239
Chapter 1. On Eyewitness Reports of Extraterrestrial Life 241
Dr. Thomas D. Albright
Chapter 2. Close Encounters of the “Other” Kind: On the Psychology of “Alien Abductions” 257
Dr. Jorge Conesa-Sevilla
Chapter 3. Dissociation and Alien Abduction Allegation 266
Dr. Olivier Dodier
Chapter 4. Alien Abduction: Takeaways 275
Dr. David V. Forrest
Chapter 5. Hypnotic Regression and False Memories 283
Dr. Christopher C. French
Chapter 6. Aliens, UFOs, and Personal Schemas 295
Dr. Stanley Krippner
Chapter 7. Clinical Approach to UFO Sightings and Alien Abductions 299
Hélène Lansley and Dr. Thomas Rabeyron
Chapter 8. Manuel Jimenez and the Perception of UFOs: Hypotheses and Experiments 313
Claude Maugé
Chapter 9 Cognition and Memory Distortion behind UFO Testimonies 331
Dr. Subhash Meena and Dr. Surabhi Das
Chapter 10. Clinical Evidence in the Italian Phenomenon of Alien Abduction 339
Dr. Giulio Perrotta
Chapter 11. From “I Witnessed…” to Established Hypothesis: UFO Cultures and Contexts 355
Dr. Scott R. Scribner and Dr. Gregory J. Wheeler
Chapter 12. Forensic Cognitive Science and the UFO Phenomenon 368
Dr. Matthew J. Sharps
III. ON WITNESS TESTIMONY 385
Chapter 1. UFOs: The Role of Perceptual Illusions in the Endurance of an Empirical Myth 387
Manuel Borraz Aymerich
Chapter 2. Calibrating the Instrument: How Reliable Is Eyewitness Testimony? 402
Dr. Thomas E. Bullard
Chapter 3. Bizarre Accounts: Remarkable Missile Sightings from the Canary Islands in the 1970s 419
Dr. Ricardo Campo Pérez
Chapter 4. Some Considerations About the Behavior and Reliability of UAP Eyewitnesses 433
Luiz Augusto L. da Silva
Chapter 5. UFO Myth Propagation before the Arrival of Social Networks 440
Marcel Delaval
Chapter 6. Witness Reliability: Accuracy - Reliability of Pilots - Personal Honor 447
Dr. Richard F. Haines
Chapter 7. Memories Are not Documentaries: The Weakest Link in the Chain of UFO Evidence 454
Jochen Ickinger
Chapter 8. Three Simple Tests of Eyewitness Reliability 467
Ulrich Magin
Chapter 9. Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony in Extreme Close Encounters: 472
“Abductees” and “Contactees”
Dr. Daniel Mavrakis
Chapter 10. Satanists, Aliens and Me 488
Dr. Richard Noll
Chapter 11. The UFO Testimony Reliability from 2000 GEIPAN Reports 497
Xavier Passot
Chapter 12. Data are Worth a Thousand Accounts 504
Julio Plaza del Olmo
Chapter 13. The Objectivity of Witnesses and the Subjectivity of Testimonies 513
Cláudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga
Chapter 14. Aliens Are Good to Talk With 524
Dr. Luise White
IV. EMPIRICAL RESEARCH 529
Chapter 1. Alien Delusions: Some (Real) Clinical Cases 531
Dr. Carles Berché Cruz
Chapter 2. Memory Distortion in a Social Judgement: People who Report Contact
with Aliens are More Susceptible 537
Dr. Stephanie Kelley-Romano and Dr. Amy Bradfield Douglass
Chapter 3. It Was as Large as the Full Moon 551
Hans-Werner Peiniger
Chapter 4. When a Fire Balloon Transforms into a UFO 556
Hans-Werner Peiniger
Chapter 5. Bedtime Alien Abduction Stories: A Checklist to Detect its Dreaming Nature 562
Michael Raduga
Chapter 6. Fantasy Imagery and UFO Testimonies 570
Raoul Robé
Chapter 7. Abilities and Limitations of Eyewitnesses Assessed on Atmospheric
Entries of Meteoroids and Artificial Satellites 585
Dr. Jean-Pierre Rospars
V. ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH 603
Chapter 1. Inside a Spaceship: Cognitive and Social Aspects of an Alien Contact 605
Ignacio Cabria
Chapter 2. Alien Big Cats and UFO Testimonies: Similarities and Questions 615
Dr. Frédéric Dumerchat
Chapter 3. Belief in Aliens and the Imaginary: A Transdisciplinary Approach 632
Carlos Reis
VI. METRICS AND SCALING 649
Chapter 1. Measuring the Subjectivity of UFO Testimony 651
V.J. Ballester-Olmos and Miguel Guasp
Chapter 2. The Reliability of the UFO Sighting Story 656
Marc Leduc
VII. EPISTEMOLOGICAL ISSUES 671
Chapter 1. On the Fallacy of the Residue 673
Dr. Félix Ares de Blas
Chapter 2. Scientific Case Studies: Research Guidelines for Dealing with the Lack 681
of Reliability of UFO/UAP Testimonies
Dr. Leonardo B. Martins
Non è “lettura veloce”, è “lettura a tratti”: qui leggo, qui no; a casaccio.
“lettura veloce” è quando leggi tutto spedito, ignorando eventuali typo o virgole fuori posto. Poi magari incontri l’autore e lo picchi lo stesso. Tu non sai perché, lui può immaginarlo.
A proposito del nuovo sito del Pentagono per la segnalazione degli UFO, pardon, UAP:
Smorzo subito gli entusiasmi degli ufologi a proposito di questa iniziativa militare: l’AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) ha lo scopo di “rilevare, identificare e fare attribuzione di oggetti di interesse in, sopra o vicino a installazioni militari, aree operative, aree di addestramento, spazi aerei destinati a usi speciali e altre aree di interesse e, nella misura necessaria, mitigare eventuali minacce associate riguardanti la sicurezza delle operazioni e la sicurezza nazionale” (“detect, identify and attribute objects of interest in, on or near military installations, operating areas, training areas, special use airspace and other areas of interest, and, as necessary, to mitigate any associated threats to safety of operations and national security”). L’attenzione, insomma, è tutta verso la protezione delle aree militari da incursioni indesiderate e pericolose, non verso la protezione del pianeta Terra dagli alieni.
Sottolineo inoltre che il direttore dell’AARO, Sean Kirkpatrick, ha detto esplicitamente, in una udienza pubblica ad aprile 2023, che il suo ufficio “non ha trovato finora prove credibili di attività extraterrestri, tecnologie non terrestri o oggetti che sfidano le leggi fisiche conosciute (“has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology or objects that defy the known laws of physics”).
Maussan è un noto contaballe. Tra l’altro ci aveva già provato anni fa a presentare “alieni a tre dita” mummificati, che si erano poi rivelati essere resti di bambine e bambini. Che personaggio.
Sembra tra l’altro che gli stessi “corpi non umani” mostrati da Maussan martedì si fossero già rivelati dei falsi nel 2021. Come mostra un video condiviso su Reddit, le ossa che li compongono appartenevano sia a maschi e femmine e a volte erano state disposte al contrario, come nel caso delle falangi delle tre dita. Secondo il paleontologo francese Julien Benoit, la testa “aliena” doveva invece essere quella di un piccolo mammifero, come un lama o un alpaca.