The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony
Meeting the Abductees: Betty Hill, Richard Price & Others
Betty Hill and I posing together during out interview in 1998
Greetings.
Today's offering is both shorter and longer than most. Unfortunately it has less Asia content but more cachet than most of my pieces. My intent with this publication is to offer approximately 80% Asian Studies, Asian history, and Chinese history and culture content. However, with the other portion, I will offer whatever I would like while still trying to focus on the area of history and evaluating evidence, evaluating claims, and judging fringe history and unusual claims. Which brings us to the UFO abduction claims of the late 1990s and thereabouts. Although such claims and people who claim to have “experienced” an alien encounter or an abduction by space aliens still exist today, few can deny that they probably peaked in the late 1990s or the early years of the 21st Century.
If you would like, you can read more of my thoughts on UFO claims in my two “Scams from the Great Beyond Books” and “More Scams from the Great Beyond,” easily avalable at Amazon and other online book dealers.
My Days as a UFO Investigating Skeptic
Back in the day, I spent some time looking into such claims and met, interviewed, or otherwise interacted with a few self-identified UFO abductees.
The recent “Reliability of UFO Witnesses” collection
Because of this, not too long ago, I was invited to share my thoughts on these interactions and the people I met, and contribute to a collection of essays entiteld “Reliability of UFO Witnesses.” The volume was put togethery by Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and Richard W. Heiden. These gentlemen decided to offer the book to the public as a free download, and I am sharing the link here. Feel free to not just download the contents but to share as widely as you wish.
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My essay is entitled, Meeting the Abductees: Betty Hill, Richard Price & Others, and you can find it on pages 61-76 of the book. You can even see a much younger me, posing with Betty Hill, the famed abductee.
Abstract: How believable are people who claim to be UFO abductees? An informal assessment based on interviews with Betty Hill, Richard Price, Sr, and attendance at Budd Hopkins’s Intruder Foundation’s Year 2000 UFO Abduction Conference. The author discusses his impressions, concluding that alternate explanations are more believable than the alien abduction hypothesis.
Keywords: UFO Abduction, Betty Hill, Richard Price, Implants, Budd Hopkins
The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony
Page 61 -76
Meeting the Abductees: Betty Hill, Richard Price & Others
Peter Huston
Abstract: How believable are people who claim to be UFO abductees? An informal assessment based on interviews with Betty Hill, Richard Price, Sr, and attendance at Budd Hopkins’s Intruder Foundation’s Year 2000 UFO Abduction Conference. The author discusses his impressions, concluding that alternate explanations are more believable than the alien abduction hypothesis.
Keywords: UFO Abduction, Betty Hill, Richard Price, Implants, Budd Hopkins
Few subjects in Ufology captivate like abduction claims (no pun intended). That beings from a mysterious realm, perhaps extraterrestrial, perhaps something even more exotic and mysterious, might be visiting our world is fascinating on its own. If, as many claim, they are entering our world to seize humans, paralyze them, tamper with their memories, even probe their rectum and sample their DNA, sometimes leaving mysterious implants in people, or causing strange pregnancies as part of a cosmic experiment, is unavoidably disturbing and attention grabbing. To those who believe, the abductee reports and stories are a sign that our very species is on the cusp of a great change, perhaps utopian, perhaps one where humanity’s right to rule and manage our own planet, even our lives, may be in danger.
Yet even the most mundane interpretation, that the claims can be explained by psychology, offers an extreme example of the flexible way the human species at times interprets or distorts reality. Either way, the abduction claims are worth examining.
Who are these abductees and how believable are they? While I do not claim to be an expert, I have met some well-known and not so well-known UFO abductees. Here I offer my thoughts and opinions on three contacts that took place approximately 20 years ago, arguably the height of interest in UFO abduction claims. First is an interview with Betty Hill, widely known as the first UFO abductee to be taken seriously by ordinary people. The second was Richard Price, Sr, a man who reported not just being abducted by space aliens but also claimed physical proof of this encounter. The third was attendance at a large gathering of ufologists and self-identified abductees in Queens, New York, held by Budd Hopkins’s Intruders Foundation, an organization devoted to researching such claims and networking and sharing its beliefs with people who suspected themselves to be alien abductees.
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Chapter 4. Meeting the Abductees: Betty Hill, Richard Price & Others 61
Peter Huston
Page 61-76
The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Richard W. Heiden
Edizioni UPIAR, 2023 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 711 pages
Bibliographic information
Title
The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony
Editors
Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Richard W. Heiden
Publisher
Edizioni UPIAR, 2023
ISBN
9791281441002
Length
711 pages
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