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UFO-Dynamics: Psychiatric and Psychic Aspects of the UFO Syndrome

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If you finished John Keel's MOTHMAN PROPHECIES, wondering if it could possibly be true, pick this thorough tome and it will lovingly document just about every outlandish assertion therein. Men in Black, "bigfoot" like humanoids, poltergeist effects accompanying UFO encounters, witnesses with histories of psychic experiences, "channeled" messages, everthing but the Garuda.

Many ufologists think parapsychology is irrelevant to UFOs...after all they already *know* that they are "nuts and bolts" spacecraft piloted by "flesh and blood" EBE's. (the "X files" and the MJ-12 documents tell them so!) Many parapsychologists think that ufology is beneath their loftly standards of scientific rigor (perhaps so, but that doesn't make them any more welcome as CSICOP meetings). As a result some interesting cross-fertilization is missed.

Like or not, poltergeist phenomena, crypto-zoa (e.g. "Bigfoot"), apparitions, intrude upon abduction experiences and ufo encounters like night follows day, and any ultimate explanation of one will probably explain the others. Dogmatic advocates of the extraterrestrial hypothesis are continually embarrased by this fact and frequently sweep such "extraneous details" out of their accounts. Skeptics highlight them and say "see, UFOs lead to all sorts of nonsense therefore *they* are nonsensical." Schwarz grasps the nettle firmly and tries to understand the vast spectrum of paranormal experience of which UFOs are only one part.

Fat in data. Slim in judgments. Judicious in speculation. He may not have many answers, but he's asking some new questions.

The chapters on the aftermath to the Barney and Betty Hill case is worth the price of the book alone!