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Barbara Bartholic (Author), Peggy Fielding (Author)
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January 1, 2004
"My research began with hosting the Heaven's Gate people before they were Heaven's Gate. I went on to work for seven years with Jacque Vallee. He was portrayed as the French scientist in the movie, 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Vallee and I traveled around the U.S. and around the world researching cattle mutilations, UFO sightings and abductions."


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Told with a bone chilling honesty, BARBARA draws the reader into a world that is rarely seen but often felt. --Valerie Gawthrop

If you enjoy having the hairs on the back of your neck stand at attention, you must read this book. --Norma Boone

there will be legions of readers who will have a whole new concept about UFO's after reading Barbara. --Mary E. Alexander

About the Author

Tulsa, Oklahoma's well recognized UFO investigator and researcher, Barbara Bartholic, uses hypnosis and regression techniques as analytical tools. When troubled people who suspect UFO abduction in their pasts, learn of her work they are relieved that there is someone whom they can call out to for help. When Bartholic takes on an alien abduction or sighting or other incident that is so disturbing to them. Bartholic, who is nationally, even internationally, known for her work in the field, has a number of video documentaries and written materials covering the UFO experiences of people from all over the U.S. Peggy Fielding is a writer and teacher of writers. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma and teaches writing at Tulsa Community College. She has degrees from Central State University in Edmond, Oklahoma and the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, R.P. She is the author of several nonfiction books, two novels and hundreds of short stories and articles in local and national magazines.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 190 pages
  • Publisher: AWOC.COM (January 1, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0970750773
  • ISBN-13: 978-0970750778
  • Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,832,063 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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3.0 out of 5 stars Barbara Bartholic's fascinating story marred only by poor editing, August 6, 2011
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Barbara Bartholic was a Tulsa OK-based UFO/abduction researcher who died of a stroke in November 2010 aged 71. Barbara lived a varied, interesting and highly unusual life and was widely respected for her pioneering and fearless attitude to investigating the paranormal, particularly the UFO/abduction issue.

This short, 191-page book first published in 2003 is a kind of authorised mini-biography co-written by Barbara and Peggy Fielding.

Born Barbara Leigh Simon in St. Louis MO in 1939, she had several childhood experiences in the 1940s of what we would now describe as classic abductions by non-human entities, along with other attendant paranormal weirdness. The family moved to Tulsa when Barbara was a small child. As a young woman her striking good looks and 5ft 11inch stature brought opportunities to work as a fashion model in LA and in NYC. Barbara returned to Tulsa in her early 20s and soon married Bob Bartholic, a professional artist several years her senior. The marriage turned out to be lifelong and mutually supportive, and they had four children together but never much money.

The Bartholics ran their own art gallery in Tulsa for several years and gradually became the centre of the local art scene. Barbara later worked in TV as a documentary film maker, became a `public face' and was increasingly attracted to paranormal research.

The most interesting part of the book is the long middle section which narrates the history of Barbara's several-years' investigative partnership with French astronomer/computer scientist Jacques Vallee. The manner of their meeting and coming together contains several paranormal elements: as a child, Barbara had had a `vision' of a man playing a grand piano in her grandmother's old house who she felt she would meet some day and on meeting Jacques years later, recognised him immediately. Vallee in his turn proclaimed when they met: "Barbara, I know you from the future" and persuaded her to work with him to form a field investigation team. They worked together mainly investigating cattle mutilations in the OK/AK/MO region - though they also travelled further - in a productive professional partnership lasting seven years. It was Barbara who eventually broke away to go out on her own, being drawn to investigate UFO abduction events reported to her by people in her home town (this was prior to the 1987 publication of Whitley Strieber's `Communion' and before the work of NYC-based investigator Budd Hopkins brought the issue to widespread public attention). Barbara later trained as a regression hypnotist and worked with hundreds of abductees including the late Karla Turner and her family - who BTW do not feature in this book - becoming widely known and sought after in the region. Other cases of deep paranormal weirdness also came her way to investigate, a few of which are detailed in the book.

Despite phone calls and entreaties from Vallee to resume their investigative partnership, Barbara felt it unwise to do so and declined. The full story behind her decision contains some rather sinister and extraordinary paranormal elements which you will need to read the book to discover.

(Reviewer's note: does this strange history with Barbara Bartholic explain to us something about the origin of Jacques Vallee's oft-expressed and otherwise uncharacteristically personal antipathy towards abduction research in general, and the use of hypnosis to access suppressed memories in particular?)

The book is a pretty easy one-day read. If you're at all interested in Barbara Bartholic, in the complex history of investigation into the UFO/abduction issue or in the work of Jacques Vallee and how his ideas developed, then it's essential reading. Unfortunately the manuscript is not well edited: too many typos, grammatical errors and examples of poor syntax reflect badly on the content - a pity, as the story is fascinating and needs to be told. Even the `revised' 2004 edition is not much of an improvement and for me, this poor editing knocks the review rating back from 4 stars. The material is unique: surely Peggy Fielding and AWOC publishing can deliver better than this?

BTW though the book is good to have on your shelf as a minor but important contribution to the field you can get the whole thing online, unabridged and for free, as a long pdf document.
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1.0 out of 5 stars BARBARA, THE STORY OF A UFO INVESTIGATOR, October 16, 2011
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MY HUSBAND READS ALL THESE UFO BOOKS; I DON'T. HE DIDN'T LIKE THIS ONE. HE ACTUALLY KNOWS THE GRANDSON OF THE AUTHOR
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