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From: clark@canby.mn.frontiercomm.net [Jerome Clark]
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 09:51:14 PDT
Fwd Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 14:01:59 -0400
Subject: Pop Culture & Abductions - A non-Relationship

Hi, everybody,

In regard to the current discussion about the alleged relationship
of abduction motifs to scattered themes in popular culture, I
urge all interested persons to read Eddie Bullard's comprehensive
examination and debunking of same.  (In my judgment anyone who
expects to be taken seriously when he or she talks about the
abduction phenomenon haad better have a thorough familiarity with
Bullard's seminal work on this complex subject.)  Bullard concludes
for many reasons that no relationship exists.  His most recent
contribution to the discussion appears in the forthcoming second
edition of my UFO Encyclopedia, to be published this fall by Omnigraphics.

As for the nonsense (pardon my lack of tact; it's the only word I can think
of) that has the "Bollero Shield" episode of Outer Limits being recycled in
Barney Hill's testimony, see my discussion in High Strangeness (UFO
Encyclopedia #3, first edition), p. 250.  Alas, this piece of debunking
flummery, like so many others, is by now an unkillable canard.

Jerry Clark