AudioBlog: UFO Abductology Under Attack: The First Shots Fired

Throughout the 1990s, the foremost authorities on UFO abduction
research were Budd Hopkins, an artist who brought the subject to
mainstream attention with the publication of his 1981
book, Missing Time, David Jacobs, an associate professor
of history at Temple University who published Secret
Life in 1992, and John Mack, head of psychiatry at Harvard
Medical School, who published Abduction in 1994. Their
books sold well, and they all spoke openly to the press and were
largely responsible for getting the alien abduction phenomenon a
good deal of media coverage. Even some in the scientific community,
probably due to Mack’s efforts and tenure at Harvard, were willing
to look at the phenomenon with an open mind, and an Abduction Study
Conference was held in 1992 at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, sponsored by a physics professor there, David
Pritchard, with the help of financial backing from Robert Bigelow.
Hopkins, Mack, and Jacobs were featured speakers, and Hopkins faced
some public criticism during the conference regarding his methods.
It wouldn’t be long before he faced even harsher criticism from
within the UFO community. Read more