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From: Greg Sandow <GSANDOW@prodigy.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 23:42:52 -0500
Fwd Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 02:01:41 -0500
Subject: Re: Abduction??



> Got a question I'd like to pose to you subscribers: What's the
> likelihood of an abduction NOT occurring in the event of an extremely
> close encounter (under 30 ft.) that takes place on a dark and deserted
> road with an object giving every indication that it's maneuvering to
> intercept? I'd like to think "they" took a pass on me, but I don't know
> how realistic that is. Any thoughts?

>                                  Jerry Washington
>                                  SD KENTUCKY/MUFON


Jerry, speaking only for myself, I think we'd be pretty rash to try to
answer that. Even if, for the sake of argument, we think we're certain
that abductions really do take place, we'd be foolish to think we
understand the alien MO.

Two thoughts. One, not very helpful for your hope that they passed you
up, is that David Jacobs thinks all close encounters are abductions. He
should speak for himself on this one; I don't want to put words in his
mouth. I believe he may feel that many distant UFO sightings are marks
of an abduction, too.

More practically, though...if you feel you may have been abducted, you
should ask yourself a series of fairly standard questions. Do you have
conscious memories of anything strange happening the night you saw the
UFO? Did you have a period of missing time?

More generally, have you seen lights in your home, and particularly in
your bedroom, that you find hard to explain? Have you ever had the
feeling you were flying? Do you have memories of people or beings
standing by your bed? Do you have marks on your body that you feel you
can't explain? Have you had periods of missing time in the past,
particularly as a child? Have you seen UFOs before?

I suppose there are some people on this list who will be horrified to
see me mentioning these questions, as if I was encouraging you to
believe you've been abducted. What I'm doing, though, is, for better or
worse, passing on to you the kind of questions Budd Hopkins or David
Jacobs might ask. I'm also suggesting that you might want to look for
signs of abductions throughout your life, if you believe you might have
been taken on that particular night. The supposed pattern is that people
are abducted not once, but repeatedly. I doubt there are many
experiencers without some degree of conscious memory. So -- assuming for
the moment that the standard abduction scenario is at all accurate -- if
you were abducted that night, you surely were abducted at other times,
too. And you should have some fragmentary memory of those abductions.

Hope this helps.

Greg Sandow

There's a longer series of questions Dave Jacobs gives to people who
feel they might have had these experiences. If you're curious, I can
post it on the list.