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"Yeah, and when he died the feds confiscated all his experiments and files,"remarked Deidre. "I guess they were tired of playing with their old erector sets.""So you basically think that these things are ours?" Malcolm followed."Yep. Some of the books I've read have demonstrated through patents,declassified flight schedules, and other military memoranda that most of the sightings ofthe forties, fifties, and sixties were either experimental aircraft or secret, high altitudeweather balloons. Sony, ET still hasn't paid us a visit; although I think it would be cool ifhe did.""Well, that's more like it," Malcolm said, exaggerating his relief "I was beginningto worry about you, buddy. I'm not so sure about her, though.""Don't write my intellectual obituary yet," Deidre smirked. "I'd have to agree withBrian. In regard to the abduction syndrome, I'll put the burden of proof on you toconvince me it's all a crock. Something is definitely going on there. I'm not willing to saywhat we have on our hands is an alien breeding program or hybridization efforts— that'sDavid Jacobs.""Who's he?" asked Malcolm."A history professor at Temple University. He's the leading mainstream academicauthority on UFOs and abductions.""Mainstream?""You've heard of Temple, haven't you'?""Of course.""Hey—I'm just telling you who the man is. Anyway, clinically speaking,abductees exhibit the same types of particular behaviors and reactions as people whohave undergone intensely stressful situations that we'd never question as real or not. Theynearly always produce extremely detailed narratives that have no obvious symbolicpattern, but that betray an intense emotional experience.""Maybe they're just all emotionally disturbed," retorted Malcolm."You mean nut cases. Sorry, but no clinical study will back you up there. They'reonly disturbed as a result of their experience. They typically give no evidence ofanything that could clinically be diagnosed as a legitimate mental illness. A few of themhave had emotional problems, like depression, but nothing that would produce thepsychological trauma of an abduction experience; there's no discernible pattern ofpsychopathology in the group. Mack's research also indicates that none of the efforts tocharacterize abductees as a group has been successful either. There are no consistentpersonality types and no obvious dysfunctional patterns within the immediate family.Abductions do, however, tend to run in families over three or four generations. Manyabductees say their experiences began as children and continued throughout adulthood—like they were being studied over the course of their life.""I also heard these people had their `visions' or delusional experiences because ofsexual abuse—what about that?" commented Brian."Untrue. Very few have any history of sexual abuse, and if that were a link, whyis it that victims of sexual abuse don't have alien abduction nightmares or recallspaceships under hypnosis? Satanic ritual abuse was another theory that's a little morehelpful in creating a profile.""How so?" asked Brian, his curiosity piqued."Well, there are a lot of element matches in descriptions of satanic abuse and alien72