UFOs and Abductions: Challenging the Borders of Knowledge 0700610324, 9780700610327

The subject of this breakthrough book is controversial, but its message is simple: the study of UFOs merits the serious

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Table of contents :
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction • David M. Jacobs
1. Ufology and Academia: The UFO Phenomenon as a Scholarly Discipline • Stuart Appelle
2. Limited Access: Six Natural Scientists and the UFO Phenomenon • Ron Westrum
3. Science, Law, and War: Alternative Frameworks for the UFO Evidence • Don C. Donderi
4. UFOs, the Military, and the Early Cold War Era • Michael D. Swords
5. The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis in the Early UFO Age • Jerome Clark
6. UFOs: Lost in the Myths • Thomas E. Bullard
7. The UFO Abduction Controversy in the United States • David M. Jacobs
8. Hypnosis and the Investigation of UFO Abduction Accounts • Budd Hopkins
9. How the Alien Abduction Phenomenon Challenges the Boundaries of Our Reality • John E. Mack
10. The UFO Experience: A Normal Correlate of Human Brain Function • Michael A. Persinger
11. Research Directions • David M. Jacobs
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index

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