AudioBlog: UFO Abduction Research Gone Sideways: Part 2

by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer
Investigators.”In 2010, an article by Jeremy Vaeni
headlined “The Incredible Visitations of Emma Woods” appeared in
the November issue of UFO Magazine. The story that
was detailed therein caused people in the UFO community to take
hard look at the methods and conclusions of the two most prominent
people in alien abduction research at that time. “Emma Woods” was
the pseudonym of a woman who lived in England, and she was one of
David Jacobs’s research subjects. She had posted
some tapes of her hypnosis sessions with him that
contained some details that Jacobs probably would have preferred
had not been made public. Woods provided more details in
an interview she gave on March 29, 2010, on
the Paratopia podcast hosted by Vaeni and Jeff
Ritzman, which appear in the UFO Magazine article.
The article prompted Budd Hopkins’s wife, Carol Rainey to write
an article of her own headlined “The Priests of High
Strangeness” published in 2011 in Volume 1, Number 1
of Paratopia magazine detailing some of Hopkins’s methods
with his subjects as well. Last week we looked at the experiences
of Woods during her interaction with Jacobs. This week we’ll look
at the aftermath and the reaction of some in the UFO community to
Woods’s story. Read more