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204 Puddy’s abduction
Aliens, or psychoterrestrials, capture a man played by James Earl Jones in The UFO Incident, an NBC TV movie, 1975.
(Photofest)
notion of “materialized psychisms” as impossible,
and, in particular, he dismissed the notion
that materialized psychisms, even if they
could be proved to exist, could be detected by
instruments such as radar.
See Also: Imaginal beings; Marian apparitions; Men
in black
Further Reading
Grosso, Michael, 1985. The Final Choice: Pl a y i n g
the Su rv i val Ga m e . Walpole, NH: St i l l p o i n t
Pu b l i s h i n g .
———, 1992. Frontiers of the Soul: Exploring Psychic
Evolution. Wheaton, IL: Quest Books.
———, 1989. “UFOs and the Myth of the New
Age.” In Dennis Stillings, ed. Cyberbiological
Studies of the Imaginal Component in the UFO
Contact Experience, 81–98. St. Paul, MN: Arches
Project.
———, 1991. “The Ultradimensional Mind.”
Strange Magazine 7 (April): 10–13.
Jung, C. G., 1959. Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of
Things Seen in the Skies. New York: Harcourt,
Brace and Company.
Puddy’s abduction
An incident from Australia in the early
1970s may or may not shed light on the
UFO abduction phenomenon. Ma u re e n
Pu d d y’s experiences, some contend, indicate
that persons who believe that aliens have kidnapped
them may instead be suffering vivid
hallucinations, perhaps in altered states of
c o n s c i o u s n e s s .
On the evening of July 3, 1972, on her way
home from seeing her hospitalized son, this
thirty-seven-year-old Victoria woman was
alarmed to see a glowing blue UFO pacing
her car at a distance of no more than a hundred
feet. Just as suddenly as it appeared, it
was gone. One night later that month, she
began hearing a mental voice repeatedly
speaking her name. The next evening, July 25,
at the same place she had seen it before, the
UFO showed up. Her car engine abruptly