Jerome Clark's "UFO Encyclopedia"--Thomas Bullard's "Abduction Phenomenon" - Journal of a UFO Investigator

David Halperin uses Dr. Thomas E. Bullard's contribution to The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition, edited by Jerome Clark, to reflect upon one of the most compelling problems in ufology. No researcher on the subject of UFO abductions is more qualified than Bullard, and Halperin accords Bullard's comprehensive section on the subject the highest praise. Bullard describes how the abduction phenomenon appears to have changed, and yet stayed the same, over the years, and in the end remains a mystery. Bullard is unwilling to cavalierly reject thousands of witness testimonies, yet is uneasy with the notion that most, even many, abduction experiences take place in the physical world. This stance recalls Clark's "distinction between 'event anomalies' where something weird is really happening in the physical world, vs. 'experience anomalies' where the experience is real but doesn't seem to have any correlate outside the experiencer." This important aspect of Clark's thinking is largely the subject of Paracasters Gene Steinberg and J. Randall Murphy in the Jerome Clark Interview. It's an important discussion, but the conversation also touches upon how the whole UFO field has changed since Clark got involved in the 1960s, and particularly since his The UFO Encyclopedia first appeared starting in 1990. More time might have been spent on other entries in the book itself, which in our opinion is one of the ten most important books in the field. But the dialogue, especially between Clark and ardent ETH'er Murphy, is stimulating. (WM)

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