UFO Abductions In Germany, Austria and Switzerland 1/2 http://www.alienjigsaw.com/Part_II/ufo-abdu.html A Lecture by Johannes Fiebag, Ph.D. © 1997 Edited by K. Wilson The late, Dr. Johannes Fiebag was born in 1956, and is Germany's leading abduction research specialist. He has published many books about alien contact in ancient and modern times, and four books specifically about the abduction phenomenon in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Dr. Fiebag founded the CE-IV-Report, a newsletter for abductees, and he also organizes an annual meeting called Project Exchange that allows abductees to network with one another. In addition to CE-IV-Report and Project Exchange, Dr. Fiebag has also formed an interdisciplinary organization of Psychiatrists, psychologists and other medical professionals who work to help abductees. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- UFO abductions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland - Introduction Exactly fifty years ago, the modern UFO age began. At that time, on the 24th of June in 1947, an American pilot named Kenneth Arnold observed several crescent-shaped objects. Arnold described the objects as looking like a saucer might look if it were skipping across the water. The media adapted the term "flying saucer," hence, from this sighting a new term was born. [1] In the middle of the sixties, a new aspect of the UFO phenomenon became known, which until that time, nobody had any knowledge about. However, it was not until the seventies that UFO researchers became interested in it. This aspect - one that could be considered a sub-phenomenon - is the abduction of a human being into a UFO by alien beings. Today the abductions themselves appear to be at the heart of the UFO phenomenon. Without a deeper understanding of abductions, it is difficult to explain the presence of the UFOs. Abductions What occurs during an abduction that causes the individual to feel both alarmed and euphoric? What kinds of changes occur to individuals who experience an abduction? What happens to their environment and with the people who are with them? To be honest, we do not really know the answers to all of these questions. We have only the reports from those people who have encountered this phenomenon first-hand. We have statistical results, identical statements from people who do not know one another, and experiences that seem to repeat themselves. However, we still do not know why the abductions are occurring in the first place. Abductees almost always report the same thing: strange figures appearing in their room; they are taken - kidnapped - from their environment to suddenly find themselves inside a strange room. Once there, they are subjected to bizarre physical and psychological procedures. For example: the artificial insemination of women, followed by the removal of the grown embryo months later. After such procedures the abductee is then returned to their home or to their car in each case. However, with all this in mind, we must be aware that until now, only a sub-set of experiences representing the phenomenon has been made public, and even this sub-set may be an illusion: it may not correspond to what really happened to the abductee, but rather, what they "believe" occurred to them. The Hill Case Abductions by alien beings has been known since the early sixties. The famous Hill case is now considered a classic case. Betty and Barney Hill encountered a landed UFO on a secluded highway in 1961 in Canada. If we want to believe their report, they claim to have been forced - under mental control - into the landed object. In separate rooms, they were subjected to physiological tests. Betty was also was shown a star map and was asked by one of the UFO occupants if she recognized where she was on the map. Betty said she did not know. Later, Betty and Barney were returned to their car. It is believed that the aliens made them forget most their experience by the use of a post hypnotic suggestion or command. Only when the Hills arrived home, did they notice they were three hours late. Barney began to have nightmares and after some time, he developed a gastric ulcer. Betty and Barney went to a doctor, but he referred them to a psychiatrist named Dr. Benjamin Simon. Dr. Simon used regressive hypnosis on Betty and Barney Hill (during separate visits) and took them back to the events that transpired that night they saw the UFO. Current Reports Today we know that most abductions occur where one expects them the least. They begin where we feel secure: at home. The aliens penetrate the bedrooms of the abductees, in most cases appearing as small gray beings with huge heads and big black eyes. It is mostly the memory of the aliens' entering into the abductee's home that remains preserved in the conscious memory of the abductee. The beings bring the abductee, using an unknown technology, into strange rooms. They subject them to medical tests, physical experiments, and psychological tests. Then they return the abductee in the same unknown manner. The abducted person awakens in the morning and can remember very little about the events from the night before. [Although there are a few people who remember a lot of details.] However, for the most part, the abductee will only detect an unusual injury, a wound or scars that were not yet there the night before. It has also become clear that abductions are not single events. They usually begin in early childhood and occur episodically again and again throughout the individual's life. Conventional Explanations Inadequate There are numerous conventional explanations that have attempted to explain abduction experiences. However, these approaches are not able to explain all of the different aspects of the abduction process. Sometimes the people behind these conventional explanations manipulate the events in order to make the explanation fit with the experience. Let's have a look at some of the hypotheses that have been proposed to explain the abduction process: Do people who claim to have been abducted by alien beings suffer from psychoses or schizophrenia? Hallucinations are usually the product of an enduring schizophrenic illness. These people are completely withdrawn and are incapable of participating in life or in social events. However, illnesses such as these have never been found to account for an "abduction" experience. It has also been proposed that UFO abductees suffer from the phenomenon of Multiple Personality Disorder or MPD. Actually, we know today that a person's consciousness can split into several different personalities. This has occurred, for example, in children or people who have been sexually abused. In these instances, a partial or second personality takes over for the time needed and the main personality resigns and then feels a loss of time later. Importantly, all tests carried out up to the present show that abductees do not suffer from Multiple Personality Disorder. In addition, there are numerous cases in which the abducted person actually disappeared during an abduction experience. And of course, this does not occur with multiple personality disorder. Another hypothesis is that abductees suffer from Paranoia. Paranoid individuals are passive, unsure, evasive people. They are not able to accept their own feelings and they transmit them to others. They feel persecuted by these "other" people; they feel they are under attack and are at the center of a worldwide conspiracy. Paranoia or paranoid episodes develop over a period of years, so there is a traceable history for their illness. UFO abductees suffer from their share of fears, but they do not show the internal dynamics that you find in paranoid patients. For example, their fear wasn't there before the abduction occurred - it came on suddenly and without any overt stimulus. In clinical psychology it is without precedent for a worldwide Paranoia to be directly linked to the same cause. Perhaps it is a mass hysteria? Hardly. A mass hysteria can only result from very specific conditions. It is possible in cases of very narrow contact of the participants or in communities that are isolated from the outside world. It has never before been observed with individuals who have no contact with each other and live hundreds of miles away from one another. Today, it is very popular among skeptics to assume that abductions and the bedroom visitor observations are simply hallucinations during sleep paralysis. Actually, sleep paralysis is a normal physiological phenomenon. During REM (Rapid Eye Movement or during the dream phase) the central nervous system paralyzes the body. Only the pupils can move under the closed eyelids. This paralysis can sometimes last into the first moments of wakefulness: The spirit [mind - consciousness] is already "awake," but the body is still in the state of sleep. Many abductees report a similar type of paralysis. They awake from sleep to find that their body is paralyzed and at best, are only able to move their eyes back and forth. It is during this moment of terrible fear that the strange beings approach them or step onto their bed. The question automatically arises: Have all of these people really experienced temporary sleep paralysis? Did they awaken from a dream to find that they could not move, and then become terrified? Then later they tell stories of small gray beings standing next to their bed? Is this what really constitutes the heart of the visitor phenomenon? Certainly not. We simply have too much information that contradicts this assumption. First, the perception of the bedroom visitor itself. His appearance is automatically by no means combined with sleep paralysis. Even more important is the simultaneous perception of these intruders by married couples, siblings, friends and acquaintances; as well as the simultaneous paralysis of several persons. The paralysis and hallucinations of one individual can hardly explain this. In addition, during an abduction paralysis also occurs in the waking state, for example, immediately after an abductee goes to bed, or after they have already awakened. And finally, we must take into account, the many abductions that have occurred in broad daylight without the abductee being in their bed. Important questions we must ask during this discussion are: Are all of these people who are experiencing sleep paralysis having completely identical hallucinations? Can so many people be sick in exactly the same manner? Do all of them suffer from identical hallucinations? Do all of them dream about identical figures which do the same thing to them every time? To accept these beliefs is much more improbable than the simple hypothesis that these people have experienced an alien abduction. Abductions in Europe The phenomenon of alien abduction is not limited to America. I am currently working with several abductees in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. They are very normal people like you and me. This sketch [slide] shows the evaluation of an investigation that I undertook with the German test psychologist Gerd Höchsmann, on 100 people who claimed to have been abducted. The Maudsley Personality Inventory or MPI matches the test subject to one of the different psychological and psychopathological groups we know exist. You can see that only five of the subjects who were tested classified as psychopathic, and therefore, were psychologically ill. Clearly, the majority of the test subjects are in the upper field. In other words, they are completely normal people. The distribution tells us that out of this sample, 95 percent of the subjects who claim to have had abduction experiences are psychologically healthy individuals. The number of abductees who go public with their information is also very small. Hardly anyone wants to put him or herself in the spotlight of this type of "fame," which in the final determination has very doubtful consequences in our society. However, in one respect, they all seem to be ahead of the rest of us. They have met the unknown - they have met with The Others. Important Cases At this point, I would like to provide you with some brief examples and descriptions of a few cases. Nicole is a 38 year-old television journalist from Munich. She invited me to a TV program about the abduction phenomenon in January of last year. After the television show she reported to me that she has experienced something similar to an abduction. During a vacation to Hawaii, Nicole had to go to the bathroom one night and she looked at the window. She then saw a round object with a dome-like structure at the top. It landed on a hill, one hundred meters away from the house. Something like a porthole opened. Nicole stated, "A flashing white light appeared in it and a figure emerged. The figure went down an invisible stairway. However, it stopped after two steps. I had the feeling that he detected me, saw me or felt my presence. I panicked. I ran into the bedroom as fast as I could and hid in the bed under the bedspread. I do not know how long I stayed there and trembled. I don't know how much time passed until I finally got up and went to the kitchen to get something to drink. It was already becoming daylight when I went back to bed again." If anything else occurred that night, Nicole cannot remember it. Most of these experiences and subsequent abductions in the individual's life are somehow deleted from their memory. Nevertheless, my conversation with Nicole caused a spontaneous memory of an earlier experience to surface. Nicole wrote to me a short time later. In her letter she said, "I remember a dream which was so dreadfully real. I dreamed that men came into my apartment and into my bedroom. They seemed amused and whispered to each other wondering if I was asleep or not. I had heard a crash on the terrace earlier, so I was not asleep. The men applied some devices to my back. After a while I heard them leaving the room. I jumped from my bed and was surprised to see that my nightgown wasn't on me anymore. However, on the roof terrace, I noticed that two small limbs had been broken off a tree." Many people have had similar bedroom visitor experiences. In numerous cases, the abductions began in their early childhood. For example, Eva-Maria from Berlin, remembers an event that occurred when she was about five years old: "I lay awake in my bed. Something moved above my head. It seemed to be a feminine presence. Suddenly, I saw three light bullets [three lights] hovering above my forehead in the air. Even when I had closed my eyes, I still saw the light glimmer through my eyelids." Hans-Joerg is a retail businessman and lives in Dortmund. He reported the following to me: "Some years ago, when I was living with my fiancee, something happened that made me completely confused. It made my fear of darkness in my own apartment become almost pathological. I cannot remember the precise date. It was at the end of 1990, or at the beginning of 1991. One night I awakened and saw a small male passing by me. I know how mad this sounds... He was about a meter tall and seemed to be wearing something like a hood. He did not look at me, but he passed by me and went into the corner. However, there was no door at all. Since I was afraid he would be able to tell that I was awake I followed him with my eyes only and did not dare breathe. My girlfriend did not wake up. Later she saw that all I could do was sit in a cramped manner in the bed. I couldn't do anything else the entire time because of my intense fear." Thirty-six year old Carola is a photographer from a small village in the German state of Mecklenburg. She had a very impressive experience at the end of March of 1994: "It was around eleven o'clock in the evening. The children were already asleep and I was by myself. On my way to my room, I suddenly felt uncomfortable, as if I were being watched. I checked everywhere, including the windows. The courtyard was dark. I suddenly became panic-stricken and ran into the bedroom and got into bed. After I had calmed down a little bit, I suddenly heard a strange humming sound. I was frightened and wanted to sit up so I could hear better, but I could not move. I was paralyzed. I recognized several small gray figures at the end of my bed. They seemed to be saying something in relation to me. Two similar figures also stood next to my son's bed. My fear for my 15 month old son was indescribable. I wanted to call my daughter, but I could not. At this moment I knew that it would had been pointless because they were also with her in her room. I sensed that precisely. She groaned aloud in her sleep. Then suddenly - I wasn't able to hear or see. And the worst was when I noticed that my mind was unable to form words and sentences. It was as if all of my abilities were suddenly taken away. All I knew was that it was all connected to the hideous figures. We are handed over to them now, and perhaps forever. I don't really know what happened to my family and me." Scientific evidence of alien abductions does not appear to exist. At best, we have circumstantial evidence like the broken tree limbs on the roof terrace belonging to Nicole. This lack of pure scientific evidence makes it difficult for us to study this phenomenon. It continuously slips away from our grip. Every time we think we are making progress and gaining understanding, it slips back into the darkness and we stay in a fog of ignorance and confusion. But something continues to occur at night when we sleep at night...when we enter into that strange and extraordinary dream world. Historical Perspective I want to back up in time and give you a historical perspective of this phenomenon. It would seem that UFO abductions were occurring as far back as the Middle Ages. At that time in history a great number of people were being abducted by airships. They were thought to be powerful magicians from the mythological Magonia land, far away and beyond the horizon. Similar events occurring today are attributed to powerful extraterrestrials from far away beyond the stars. When we compare ancient chronicles, myths and legends, to what is occurring today, it seems we going through the same mystical visitations yet again. In past centuries people believed they were being taken away by fairies, dwarfs and elves. Fairies were said to have robbed pregnant women of their newborn children in order to raise them as their own. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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