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Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind
by
C.D.B. Bryan
One might expect that a "scientific conference" devoted to people who have reported being kidnapped by "little green men" would be dismissed out of hand. But C. D. B. Bryan did not dismiss it: the conference was to be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and would have as its chairmen a Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatry professor and a professor of phy...more
Hardcover, 1st, 476 pages
Published
May 30th 1995
by Alfred A. Knopf (NY)
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Jeepers--a whopping great read! Liked his tone of open-minded skepticism throughout. Boylan was a pud--but everybody else was pretty cool; actually the only real dinks were the scientist types with their bloated pious self-important nonsense--like the guy taking a couple pages to "explain" the Old Hag phenomenon. Also found it interesting (as a sidelight) how many different things can go wrong with pregnancy; like the bunch-of-grapes thing and all that. (I never knew.) Also like the humorous tou...more
I have a weakness for this stuff. This one is written with a refreshing skepticism for a book of this nature, but it focuses too much on uncharacteristically bizarre and incongruous reports when there seem to be far more interesting ones mentioned that go unexplored. There is also a lot of focus on government conspiracy nonsense that is known to be trumped up (Majestic 12, etc.) when the actual abductee experience is a far more interesting phenomenon, whether you believe it represents something...more
Very concise. While a bit verbose I found this book to be well researched.
If you are interested empirical evidence on this subject you won't be disappointed.
One is left with little doubt that these abuctions happened and that there is absolutely
nothing we can do about it.
I was left with questions as to commonality. Why were certain people chosen?
A good if lengthy read that will ask more questions than it answers.
If you are interested empirical evidence on this subject you won't be disappointed.
One is left with little doubt that these abuctions happened and that there is absolutely
nothing we can do about it.
I was left with questions as to commonality. Why were certain people chosen?
A good if lengthy read that will ask more questions than it answers.
Started off strong but this book really dragged at the end. Way too many accounts of hypnotherapy sessions. Still, a good resource for those interested in alien abductions.
May 22, 2012
TaleofGenji
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I'm so tempted to give this a 5! Just because it's SO interesting to me & I've read it so many times. I want to believe! ;) 4.25
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Dec 02, 2012
Shannon Karen
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Anyone interested in alien abduction
Shelves:
ufos
This is an excellent text covering all of the basics of 'close encounters of the fourth kind'(abduction).
I detracted a point in my rating due to references to Linda Cortile.
I detracted a point in my rating due to references to Linda Cortile.
Jan 04, 2011
Erik Graff
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
ufologists
Recommended to Erik by:
Michael Miley
Shelves:
sciences
Michael Miley mailed me the telephone-book-sized, spiral-bound proceedings of the alien abduction conference held at MIT in 1992. I read it at the time, then, when he told me about Bryan's book about the conference, I picked it up and read it as well. All-in-all it is a fair bit of reportage, going beyond the conference itself to include matter obtained from interviewing some of the principals. Bryan does not subscribe to the aliens-from-spacecraft hypothesis, but he does take the abduction phen...more
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Courtlandt Dixon Barnes Bryan, better known as C. D. B. Bryan, was an American author and journalist.
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