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with] a silent hovering saucer-shaped vehicle [and who has in
consequence] experienced an ongoing development and amplification
of such mental functions as clairvoyance, telepathy,
and the challenging [channelling] of universal life energy for the
purpose of healing.
• Over the years I have seen and talked to 'ghosts', been visited
(though not yet abducted) by aliens, seen three-dimensional
heads floating by my bed, heard knocks on my door . . . These
experiences seemed as real as life. I have never thought of these
experiences as anything more than what they certainly are: my
mind playing tricks on itself.*
• A hallucination might account for 99%, but can it ever account
for 100%?
• UFOs are ... a subject of deep fantasy which has no FAC­
TUAL BASIS WHATSOEVER. I pray you won't lend your
credence to a hoax.
• Dr Sagan served on the Air Force committee that evaluated
government investigations of UFOs, and yet he wants us to
believe that there's no substantial proof that UFOs exist. Please
explain why the government needed to be evaluated.
• I'm going to lobby my Representative to try to cancel funds for
this program of listening for alien signals from space, because it
would be a waste of money. They're already among us.
• The government spends millions of tax dollars for researching
UFOs. The SETI project (search for extraterrestrial intelligence)
would be a waste of money if the government truly
believed UFOs were non-existent. I am personally excited
about the SETI project because it shows that we're moving in
the right direction; towards communication with aliens, rather
than being an unwilling observer.
• The succubi, which I identified more as astral rape, occurred
from '78-'92. It was hard on a moral and seriously practicing
Catholic, demoralizing, dehumanizing, and quite literally had
me worried by the physical aftermath of disease effects.
• The space people are coming! They hope to remove whom they
can, especially children who are the 'seedlings' of the next
* From a letter received by The Skeptical Inquirer; courtesy, Kendrick Frazier.
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