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..isn't the unexplained rate more like twenty to thirty per-cent - and that's not even taking into account where the government has just 'made the explanations up' (link).
The objects haven't caused us harm and there are many other, more immediately dangerous and pressing issues to be addressed, involving human survival both economical and environmental.
Anyone working with abductees - John Mack included - has also become aware of these experiences' negative side-effects: post traumatic stress disorder, depression, low self-esteem, elevated scales of distrust, and so on. In over thirty years of experience of working with many hundreds of abductees, I am aware of several suicide attempts - some successful - and a number of emotional breakdowns and hospitalizations, all of which is not surprising.
Originally posted by Scramjet76
reply to post by karl 12
..isn't the unexplained rate more like twenty to thirty per-cent - and that's not even taking into account where the government has just 'made the explanations up' (link).
I could buy that. There is a difference between lights in the sky and truly hard to explain objects. If you include all the reports of "something strange in the sky," then it's probably 95% like Kean says.
If you whittle it down to only pilots, policemen, engineers, military personnel, multiple eye witnesses, radar, etc.... In other words, only the very credible sightings (stronger data), then the percentage probably jumps up to 20-30%.
Originally posted by Son of Will
reply to post by SplitInfinity
The big picture is naught but many smaller elements combined. Leslie Kean is a scholar who can provide insight into some of those smaller elements.
My question: What is your general opinion on the abduction phenomenon? Have you come across much, if any, witness testimony from those claiming to have insight on that aspect of UFOlogy?
Originally posted by Jack Jouett
*Question for Leslie Kean*
Leslie, your book places a lot of emphasis on the triangle photo from the 1990 Belgian UFO wave. In July of 2011 somebody came forward to say that they hoaxed that photograph. How do you feel this impacts your research? Do you believe the photo was hoaxed? How does this impact the UFO community and your work in particular? Will you stop using the photo as a prime example of an unidentified flying object?