SUBJECT: CBC DOCUMENTARY                                     FILE: UFO2721


PART 1




    02 Jul 91 11:37:00
    By: Bryce Eckstein, LATTICE~ (147/66)
    Re: CBC Documentary
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    I  had not heard of David Jacobs prior to listening to the  broadcast,
    so I can't really comment on the apparent dichotomy in his position on
    the abduction issue.  However, here are all the literal transcriptions
    of the Jacobs clips from the program:
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    Jacobs:

    "Basically  what  people say is,  that they are abducted out of  their
    normal environment and are taken into this object,  their clothes  are
    taken  off,   they  are  given a physical examination  of  an  unusual
    variety, -- and here we go plunging into the bizarre, but this is what
    is reported by virtually everyone --  they have a sperm and/or an  egg
    sample  taken  from them and they are then subjected to a  variety  of
    other procedures --  sometimes they are presented with  extraordinary-
    looking,   little babies,  uhh,  strange looking beings that they  are
    required   to   hold  and  then  they  are  sometimes  given   machine
    examinations - placed inside machines and so forth,  and then they are
    released.  Now,  a lot of other things happen,  but they do not always
    happen at every occasion".

    Host:

    "Do they describe how the sperm and egg samples are taken?"

    Jacobs:

    well, eggs are taken internally, with certain very carefully described
    instruments.  Sperm is collected strictly mechanically.  There are are
    actually three or four different kinds of devices,  basically they are
    all the same though,  and oftentimes the man doesn't even know what is
    happening,   it's  a very quick procedure.  What you  are  looking  at
    primarily here is an extraordinary convergence of story and detail,  a
    richness of detail that is impossible to understand other than through
    objective reality.  People begin to describe certain things within the
    abduction - phenomenon that have never,  ever been publicized and that
    they  would  simply not know to invent.  They all essentially say  the
    same thing,  over and over again... and they'll say things and look at
    me inquiringly and say,  "has anybody else ever reported anything like
    this?"  ..  and of course I've already heard it 200  times..  and it's
    just  an extraordinary situation.  Now physically,  when people  think
    they  have  had an abduction experience,  they might first of all  say
    that there was a missing time experience,  they cannot account for two
    hours of their life. For instance they'll travel from work to home and
    they know it takes 12  minutes each way and they've been doing it  for
    years  and then one day it takes two ~hours~ and 12  minutes and  they
    are  at a loss to explain this,  it seemed perfectly seemless to them.
    Well,   in every one of these situations of missing time,  the  people
    have  actually ~been~ missing.  It's not a situation where they  claim
    it,   and  then independent investigation has revealed that they  were
    down  at the corner bar bending the old elbow.  In fact,  people  have
    called the police,  because of missing children,  search parties  have
    been  organized looking for people,  there has been every evidence  to
    suggest  that people are not in place.  The problem here is that if it
    is  not  an  objective event,  then  it  is  automatically  internally
    generated  - people are just dreaming it up for whatever reason.   But
    the  psychological  and the psychiatric community have been unable  to
    account for how this could possibly be,  and there is no precedent for
    it in psychological or psychiatric literature - and most psychologists
    and  psychiatrists  and  therapists of all types who  have  confronted
    this,  have simply drawn a blank.  It does not ~seem~ to be imaginary,
    it does not ~seem~ to be internally generated".

    (Lengthy Betty Hill clip, continuing the abduction experience)

    Host:

    Betty  and Barney Hill's abduction was the first ever reported.   That
    was 29  years ago.  There have been so many reported abductions since,
    that  investigators are able to point to what ~they~ see as an amazing
    similarity  among these stories.  All have the same sorts  of  events.
    Aliens that look the same, the same physical examinations and so on. A
    key  element  here  is  that certain features  of  these  stories  are
    withheld from the public. That makes it much more difficult for anyone
    to  fake an abduction story.  But it's frustrating.  We'd all like  to
    know  what some of these ~secret~ features are.  But you can't ask the
    researchers to reveal them... can you? Dr. David Jacobs."

    Jacobs:

    Sure you can. There's so many of them, there's so little that is known
    about  this  subject  in the public that it's  just  an  extraordinary
    situation.  For instance,  one of the things that people describe that
    can now be revealed... as they say .. is the fact that when they leave
    their car or their house or their bedroom or wherever they are  during
    an abduction event, they say something extraordinary,  sort of amazing
    that makes no sense whatsoever and they all seem to say this. They say
    that  they  float  up  into the air and they  appear  to  be  floating
    directly through a closed window.  Now, this is an extraordinary thing
    or course, and it's outrageous and unbelievable on the face of it. yet
    they ~all~ say it, and they ~all~ realize when they are saying it that
    it  sounds  crazy,  and we have carefully,  carefully questioned  them
    about  whether they stopped first and opened the window and the screen
    and the whole business...  we don't have any cases of them opening the
    window,  they ~all~ say that they do this..  every one of them...  and
    the  question  is,  why would they say this,  this is a dumb thing  to
    say...  this is a thing to say that will obviously point to some  sort
    of  imagination or a hoax.  But they're all fairly adamant that that's
    what  happens.  We don't of course,  understand what is happening here
    completely,   this is a little detail that just has not been published
    before.

    Host:

    Don't  you think I could come to you Dr.  Jacobs knowing the little  I
    know about abduction stories.  read a few more,  then come to you  and
    say .. look. I had this strange experience, make up a bunch of details
    and make a convincing story?"

    Jacobs:

    Well,  there are two ways to deal with that. Number one, 90 percent of
    the abduction phenomenon has not been publicized, so you'd have to bee
    on  target  pretty good {chuckling} it's very tough to do.   You'd  be
    amazed how difficult it is.  In fact,  I teach one of the few ...  the
    only  course  actually  on  UFO's  in the United  States  at  a  major
    university.  I  will tell students...  give them an assignment if they
    wish, to make up an abduction event and I will tell them they can read
    anything that they want..  it doesn't matter,  and I want them to tell
    me  several  facts that ~all~ abductees say ~all~ the  time,   without
    exception..   just to see it they can hit it.  In the four years  I've
    been doing this,  no one has hit it yet.  What we are finding with the
    abduction  phenomenon  is  that is an  extremely  routinized,   highly
    structured event. Certain things happen to people and that's all .. in
    other words,  people don't describe going up ..  and then your sort of
    all  over  the place...  y'know they don't describe  getting  out  the
    scrabble set and playing alien scrabble and that sort of stuff..  they
    don't  describe  sitting  down for a royal meal  ..   and  they  don't
    describe  watching tv with the boys.  There is a whole range of things
    that are never,  ever described.  What ~is~ described is very,  ~very~
    narrow,  and very, very structured.  You have to go where the evidence
    leads  you.  I  think that people are actually describing  experiences
    that have befallen them.  I think that aliens are in fact taking human
    beings.....  I must say Jay, (Jay Ingram - program host)  that I don't
    like this business. I find it extremely disturbing, very depressing. I
    wish  that I had not found this and I wish that ~all~ researchers  had
    not found this.  But we have found it. I think we have to start coming
    to  terms  with this on a fairly serious basis,  even though  this  is
    about as way out as one can get in this society these days.

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    I don't know if what David Jacobs says in the documentary squares with
    what you've heard of him in the past, but this is his position at this
    moment.   I  hope the information has proven useful to you and  others
    reading.

    Cheers,
    Bryce




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