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famous October 1957 Brazilian abduction
case, a young man allegedly had sexual intercourse
with an alien woman who, were she to
have been reported in a more recent episode,
would probably be judged a hybrid. Through
hand gestures, the woman seemed to indicate
that the fruit of their union would be born on
another planet.
On the other hand, critics point out, hard
evidence for the existence of hybrids simply
does not exist. Most of the testimony to their
presence owes, moreover, to accounts elicited
under hypnosis, a state in which unconscious
fantasizing frequently occurs. Scientific critics
have stated flatly that hybridization procedures
of the sort described are biologically impossible.
Though there is no shortage of anecdotal
testimony, no medically documented
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instances of anomalously terminated pregnancies
have ever been demonstrated.
See Also: Abductions by UFOs; Close encounters of
the third kind; Hopkins, Budd; Keel, John Alva
Further Reading
Hopkins, Budd, 1987. Intruders: The Incredible Visi -
tations at Copley Woods. New York: Random
House.
Jacobs, David M., 1992. Secret Life: Firsthand Ac -
counts of UFO Abductions. New York: Simon and
Schuster.
———, 1998. The Threat. New York: Simon and
Schuster.
Neal, Richard, 1991. “Missing Embryo/Fetus Syndrome.”
UFO 6, 4 (July/August): 18–22.
Schnabel, Jim, 1994. Da rk White: Aliens, Ab d u c -
tions, and the UFO Ob s e s s i o n . London: Ha m i s h
Ha m i l t o n .
Swords, Michael D., 1988. “Extraterrestrial Hybridization
Unlikely.” MUFON UFO Journal
247 (November): 6–10.