AudioBlog:UFO Abduction Research Gone Sideways

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 that 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. “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. Read more