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1940. According to testimony elicited under
hypnosis in 1980, aliens placed implants inside
her head to facilitate communication
later between them and her. In 1978, she
began to hear from Hweig on a regular basis,
after a failed 1968 experiment that so terrified
her that she ended up in a mental hospital.
She was released when no evidence of psychopathology
could be uncovered.
H weig and his associates are here to re j u venate
Earth and its inhabitants. They plan to accomplish
these changes via communication
with contactees, who will be led to “c e rtain disciples
and . . . specific discove r i e s” that will imp
rove humanity’s lot and Eart h’s enviro n m e n t .
See Also: Channeling
Further Reading
Sprinkle, R. Leo, 1999. Soul Samples: Personal Explo -
rations in Reincarnation and UFO Experiences.
Columbus, NC: Granite Publishing.
Hybrid beings
Hybrid beings are entities who are part
human and part humanoid. They figure in a
number of accounts of UFO abductions. Female
abductees sometimes report anomalous
pregnancies that are enigmatically terminated,
typically in association with a missing-time
experience of the sort in which the abductions
allegedly took place. In a subsequent onboard
UFO encounter, the aliens present the abductee
with a child who has the features both
of the human mother and of the abducting
entities, most often described as thin, gray- or
white-skinned, with oversized heads and large,
hypnotic eyes.
As early as the late 1960s, paranormal
writer John A. Keel, investigating reports of
UFOs and other strange occurrences in New
York City and on Long Island, noted that
some female witnesses experienced what he
called “hysterical pregnancies” (Keel, 1975).
Keel’s observation was little noted and soon
forgotten. In the 1980s, however, abduction
specialist Budd Hopkins independently came
upon the same phenomenon. Mostly through
the use of hypnosis, the women “recalled” in-
stances in which a kind of suction device removed
fetuses from their wombs. In later abductions
the women would be shown babies,
toddlers, and older children and told to touch
and interact with them in other ways. Though
generally human in appearance, the children
often appeared to be lacking the emotional
makeup of human beings.
In time, abductees reported encounters
with young adult hybrids. These hybrids,
among those sufficiently human-looking to
pass unnoticed on the street, would sometimes
have sexual relationships with younger
abductees, who may or may not have given
their consent. David M. Jacobs, who has written
extensively on the issue of hybrids, believes
these particular beings are from a late
stage of the process. His investigations lead
him to believe that first-stage hybrids are halfhuman/half-alien.
These entities tend to look
“almost alien.” In the next stage, Jacobs speculates,
“the aliens join a human egg and sperm
and assimilate genetic material from the firststage
hybrid . . . into the zygote” (Jacobs,
1998). The third-stage hybrid, created from
human sperm and egg and genetic material
from a second-stage individual, looks more
human. Only in the latest stages, the fifth or
sixth, do the hybrids resemble humans
enough to walk among us and, just as important,
reproduce. They retain the strong mental
and telepathic powers of their alien heritage,
however. In Jacobs’s view, based on testimony
from abductees whom he has hypnotized, the
aliens are preparing to replace the human race
with a hybrid population. The aliens themselves
are unable to reproduce, but through
hybrids, their species will survive—at the expense
of humanity’s. Jacobs holds that this
takeover could occur at any time and is more
likely to occur sooner than later.
Hybrids are a relatively new concept
among ufologists and in the accounts of alleged
UFO experiencers. In retrospect, some
have suggested that the presence of human or
humanlike beings in early close encounters of
the third kind suggests hybrids were being
seen before they were being recognized. In a