The Alien Abduction Files
by Kathleen Marden and Denise Stoner (2013)
Kathleen Marden is the niece of famous abductee Betty Hill. She has been involved in abduction research for over 23 years, working for MUFON, and has written a book on the Hill abduction with Stanton Friedman. Denise Stoner is also an abductee researcher, as well as an abductee herself and one of the main subjects of the book. The first part of the book focuses on Stoner's experiences, which include a well-documented, multi-witness case of missing time involving her and her family. While driving to a campground, the family lost several hours, their awareness shifting from one moment (seeing some strange lights off the side of the road, and their car inexplicably moving off the road) to another, miles away, heading in the opposite direction. The second main abductee, "Jennie," recounts experiences involving multiple members of her family, as well as some pretty extreme psychokinetic/poltergeist phenomena following a traumatic abduction.
Overall, there isn't very much new in the accounts--you've got your standard missing time, various 'races' (greys, reptoids, humans, insectoids), screen memories, vats of gelatinous goo and fetuses, levitation through walls, medical/gynecological experiments and procedures, scoop marks and hand-shaped bruises, altering or activating DNA, strange compulsions (e.g., to destroy evidence of the abduction), hybrids, telepathic impressions, orbs 'popping' into images of aliens, military connections in the families, impression of aliens being cruel and lacking emotion (e.g., even if they do something to stop extreme pain, you'd think they could make it so the pain wasn't experienced in the first place), manipulation (e.g., causing abductees to 'feel loved' during eye gaze), ridiculous explanations given to the abductees for what's going on, e.g., the hybrid program creating 'more loving' beings. (Marden notes that the messages received are usually consistent with abductees' religious/political beliefs, which suggests to me that it's basically propaganda.) Incidentally, Jennie has on record a documented abduction involving 'missing fetus syndrome' years before such stories made their way into the abduction literature.
There are a few interesting details that I hadn't read of before. For example, several abductees report that the craft in which they find themselves are operated biologically, and are actually living entities. Sometimes abductees will return wearing someone else's clothes (this happened once to Betty Hill, suggesting she might have been a serial abductee, not a one-timer). Also, some relatives seem to act as 'agents' for the abductors, e.g., Jennie's husband Tom, who destroyed evidence of an abduction and whom she observed handing over their children to the abductors. At one point, "Jennie" describes a tool that has something to do with "harmonic ... vibrational frequency," which she doesn't understand. During transport, many abductees report feeling "a rhythmic, pulsing energy" that can feel "as if every cell in their body is coming apart" (p. 159). Marden speculates this has to do with frequency vibration, basically moving abductees into a higher physical state. Jennie thinks this 'frequency change' might have something to do with the poltergeist-type activity she experienced, a kind of electromagnetic discharge.
There is also a study Marden and Stoner carried out on 50 self-identified abductees and a control group to find possible commonalities among the abductees that might differentiate them from non-abductees. A few of the commonalities stand out for me. First is the the paranormal phenomena (88% experienced poltergeist-type phenomena), which Marden says she had avoided until it became clear that there was definitely a paranormal component to the phenomenon. (She notes that many researchers avoid the subject because of the strength of materialistic philosophy.) Two-thirds have conscious recall of at least some of their experiences. And 38% have diagnosed chronic fatigue syndrome and reactivated mononucleosis (less than 1% prevalence in the general population).
The book has several details similar to experiences described in Laura's Amazing Grace and High Strangeness (e.g., waking up on the wrong side of the bed, with wet clothes, compulsion to hide evidence or come up with nonsensical explanations). There are hints that Marden is heading in some of the directions taken in High Strangeness, but she stays pretty conservative in this volume. However, it was nice to see the paranormal aspect taken seriously, as well as the inter-dimensional hypothesis. She also references Karla Turner, which was nice. Nothing too groundbreaking, but interesting if you want a recent account of abduction research from a pretty level-headed researcher, OSIT to me.
by Kathleen Marden and Denise Stoner (2013)
Kathleen Marden is the niece of famous abductee Betty Hill. She has been involved in abduction research for over 23 years, working for MUFON, and has written a book on the Hill abduction with Stanton Friedman. Denise Stoner is also an abductee researcher, as well as an abductee herself and one of the main subjects of the book. The first part of the book focuses on Stoner's experiences, which include a well-documented, multi-witness case of missing time involving her and her family. While driving to a campground, the family lost several hours, their awareness shifting from one moment (seeing some strange lights off the side of the road, and their car inexplicably moving off the road) to another, miles away, heading in the opposite direction. The second main abductee, "Jennie," recounts experiences involving multiple members of her family, as well as some pretty extreme psychokinetic/poltergeist phenomena following a traumatic abduction.
Overall, there isn't very much new in the accounts--you've got your standard missing time, various 'races' (greys, reptoids, humans, insectoids), screen memories, vats of gelatinous goo and fetuses, levitation through walls, medical/gynecological experiments and procedures, scoop marks and hand-shaped bruises, altering or activating DNA, strange compulsions (e.g., to destroy evidence of the abduction), hybrids, telepathic impressions, orbs 'popping' into images of aliens, military connections in the families, impression of aliens being cruel and lacking emotion (e.g., even if they do something to stop extreme pain, you'd think they could make it so the pain wasn't experienced in the first place), manipulation (e.g., causing abductees to 'feel loved' during eye gaze), ridiculous explanations given to the abductees for what's going on, e.g., the hybrid program creating 'more loving' beings. (Marden notes that the messages received are usually consistent with abductees' religious/political beliefs, which suggests to me that it's basically propaganda.) Incidentally, Jennie has on record a documented abduction involving 'missing fetus syndrome' years before such stories made their way into the abduction literature.
There are a few interesting details that I hadn't read of before. For example, several abductees report that the craft in which they find themselves are operated biologically, and are actually living entities. Sometimes abductees will return wearing someone else's clothes (this happened once to Betty Hill, suggesting she might have been a serial abductee, not a one-timer). Also, some relatives seem to act as 'agents' for the abductors, e.g., Jennie's husband Tom, who destroyed evidence of an abduction and whom she observed handing over their children to the abductors. At one point, "Jennie" describes a tool that has something to do with "harmonic ... vibrational frequency," which she doesn't understand. During transport, many abductees report feeling "a rhythmic, pulsing energy" that can feel "as if every cell in their body is coming apart" (p. 159). Marden speculates this has to do with frequency vibration, basically moving abductees into a higher physical state. Jennie thinks this 'frequency change' might have something to do with the poltergeist-type activity she experienced, a kind of electromagnetic discharge.
There is also a study Marden and Stoner carried out on 50 self-identified abductees and a control group to find possible commonalities among the abductees that might differentiate them from non-abductees. A few of the commonalities stand out for me. First is the the paranormal phenomena (88% experienced poltergeist-type phenomena), which Marden says she had avoided until it became clear that there was definitely a paranormal component to the phenomenon. (She notes that many researchers avoid the subject because of the strength of materialistic philosophy.) Two-thirds have conscious recall of at least some of their experiences. And 38% have diagnosed chronic fatigue syndrome and reactivated mononucleosis (less than 1% prevalence in the general population).
The book has several details similar to experiences described in Laura's Amazing Grace and High Strangeness (e.g., waking up on the wrong side of the bed, with wet clothes, compulsion to hide evidence or come up with nonsensical explanations). There are hints that Marden is heading in some of the directions taken in High Strangeness, but she stays pretty conservative in this volume. However, it was nice to see the paranormal aspect taken seriously, as well as the inter-dimensional hypothesis. She also references Karla Turner, which was nice. Nothing too groundbreaking, but interesting if you want a recent account of abduction research from a pretty level-headed researcher, OSIT to me.
