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Hard work yields quality investigation, March 27, 2000
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This review is from: Encounter at Buff Ledge: A Ufo Case History (Paperback)
Webb is a professional astronomer who has been a UFO investigator for 42 years. He has brought the full weight of his experience to bear on this productive case. Though the experience itself is not as rich in detail as those reported these days, its special benefit is that the two people involved are not related and knew each other only briefly for a few days at a camp where the abduction happened. Such events are rarely reported and have exceptional value as evidence as do the more recent Australian multiple abduction cases. There were confirming witnesses in this case and the investigator has little doubt in his own mind these two people did indeed share some sort of intense UFO experience. The report can be considered a model for other investigators in its thorough and systematice approach.
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Essential., August 4, 2008
This review is from: Encounter at Buff Ledge: A Ufo Case History (Paperback)
Walter N. Webb's investigation into this forty year old Lake Champlain UFO abduction account deserves to be ranked amongst the literature's top ten. Superbly comprehensive and thorough and clearly written, this account contains a wealth of detail that intrigues, mystifies... And corresponds with so many similar accounts and on such a minute level - for example, the Alagash abductee's experience within the beam of light - that the truly objective skeptic (the truest definition of that term) simply must concede the tantalizing yet frightening possibility that much of this is simply true. Webb's book deserves to be reprinted and more widely read. I wish he wrote more, or, at the very least, supplied a prefatory update on the lives of these two abductees. It would be interesting to know how they have coped with their memories, or if other such experiences have followed them into their adulthood. In any event, this is one of the very few books that anyone truly interested in the subject absolutely must read. Scientific methodology meets journalistic integrity. Not for those sensation-seekers hungry for the easy answers and all the New Age-ish speculations.
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A Terrific, Important Work, June 15, 2005
This review is from: Encounter at Buff Ledge: A Ufo Case History (Paperback)
The best treatment of UFO evidence I've read. Completely objective. Takes pains throughout and again at the end to point out both the strengths and weaknesses of the case under investigation. Although he clearly believes in the reality of the event reported by the alleged abductees--as do I, after reading the book--he concedes that some of what they report could be embellished, or due to memory contamination as part of the hypnosis process. In the final analysis, he invites the reader to draw his own conclusions. None of what I've written above should "spoil" this book for the reader. The book wouldn't have been written if the final conclusion was hoax, fraud, or hallucination. The value and beauty of the book and of the investigation it recounts are in the details of the investigative methodology and the reasoning applied to the case. Webb has done the field a great service and produced an important work.
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