Chapter 13 Chapter 10 The Flying Dragon in the Garage

(I'm following a group therapy study conducted by psychologist Richard Franklin).If I say this to you with absolute certainty, you'll want to see it for yourself.There have been countless stories of dragons told over the centuries, but none of them have been proven.This is a great opportunity! " "Show me." You said.I'll take you to my garage.You look inside and all you see is a ladder, some empty paint cans and an old tricycle, but no dragons. "Where's the dragon?" you ask. "Oh, here it is," I replied, waving my hand wildly. "I forgot to say, it's an invisible dragon."

You suggest dusting the garage floor with flour for dragon paw prints. "Good idea," I said, "but dragons float in the air." Then you want to use an infrared detector to detect the invisible fire that the dragon spews. Good idea, but invisible fire doesn't give heat either. You want to spray paint the dragon to make it appear. "Good idea, but it's an immaterial dragon, and the paint has nowhere to stick." So true.Every time you propose a physical detection method, I find a specific reason why your method will not work. Now, what's the difference between an invisible, disembodied, floating dragon breathing heatless fire and no dragon at all?If there is no way to disprove my argument, no convincing test against it, what does it mean that my dragons do exist?You can't disprove my hypothesis, which is a completely different thing from being able to prove it.Untestable ideas and unfalsifiable assertions are practically worthless, no matter what usefulness they may serve to enlighten us or arouse our curiosity.All I want you to do is trust my personal opinion in the absence of evidence.

From the time I insist that I have a dragon in my garage, the only thing you realize is that some weird idea is going on in my head.You want to know how to convince me if there is no physical test available.Of course you would think that it might just be a dream or a hallucination.But why am I taking it so seriously?Maybe I need some therapy.At the very least, I may have grossly underestimated the human gullibility. Imagine that you want to be cautiously unbiased and open to new ideas despite all the testing methods failing.So you're not totally denying that I have a fire-breathing dragon in my garage.You just reserve opinions.While the current evidence strongly argues against it, if new data comes out, be prepared to check it out to see if it convinces you.Of course, if I'm offended by not being believed, or accuse you of being too bland and unimaginative just because you insist, like the Scots, that it's "unproven", then I'm obviously not being fair.

Suppose things develop in the exact opposite way.Dragons are invisible, yes, but there are dragon paw prints in the flour sprinkled on the floor as you look, IR finds fallen scales, spray paint reveals a jagged comb in the air in front of you swing back and forth.No matter how skeptical you were of the existence of dragons at first—denying the unseen—you now know there must be something here, and can be tentatively certain that this is consistent with the existence of an invisible fire-breathing dragon. Now imagine another scenario where not just me, but several people you know well, including some you're pretty sure they don't know each other, all tell you there's a dragon in their garage—but everyone's evidence It's all so insanely hard to figure out.Each of us admits that we are distraught at being attracted to such an oddly unsubstantiated belief.None of us are mentally ill.We wondered what it would mean if there were indeed invisible dragons lurking in garages all over the world, and we humans couldn't figure out what to do.Honestly, I'd rather that wasn't true.But maybe all the ancient European and Chinese "myths" about dragons weren't myths at all...

Happily, there have been reports of some dragon paw prints found in the flour.But they never appear when the skeptics observe.Naturally, there is another explanation: upon careful inspection, it appears clear that the dragon's paw-prints appear to be forged.Another dragon fanatic pointed to a charred finger as rare objective evidence of a dragon breathing fire.But there are other possibilities as well.We know there are other ways to burn fingers than the fire from the invisible dragon.This kind of evidence—no matter how important dragon advocates think it is—convinces one to believe that it is far from it.Again, the only sensible course of action is to deny the dragon hypothesis for now, awaiting future factual material, and ponder what it is that keeps so many awake.Serious people have the same strange delusion.

Magic requires the tacit cooperation between the audience and the magician-the renunciation of disbelief, or, as we sometimes say, the willing disbelief of disbelief.We can see at once that we must break off our co-operation if the magic trick is to be unraveled, if the trick is to be revealed. How can some progress be made on such a very emotional, contentious, and distressing topic?A patient may be wary of a therapist who readily infers or is convinced of an alien abduction, and someone who treats an abductee may explain to his patient that hallucinations are normal and that childhood sexual abuse is embarrassingly common.Medical professionals should probably remember that no client is completely immune to the alien legends that circulate in popular culture.They should be very careful not to lead witnesses by any slight suggestion.They should teach their clients how to look at things that come up with a skeptical view, and perhaps their own minds should keep filling their own minds with the same thoughts that are dwindling.

Alien abductions are said to haunt many people in more than one way.This topic opens a window into our inner lives.If there are many reports of people being hijacked that are fabricated, then that is a major cause of our concern.But even more worrisome is the fact that therapists accept these reports on the basis of content alone—without paying sufficient attention that their clients are easily impressionable and receiving unconscious cues from those with whom they are speaking. It amazes me that some psychiatrists and others with at least some scientific education who know the frailties of the human mind forget that these statements may just be some kind of hallucination or hidden memory.I'm even more amazed at the notion that alien abductions represent real magic.This is a challenge to our ability to understand reality, or this so-called real magic can constitute evidence of the mystery of the world.Or, as John Mark said: "There are many phenomena that are so important that we have every reason to study them seriously. The speculative philosophy embodied in the mainstream Western scientific and technological paradigm may not be able to fully support this research." In an interview with "Time Magazine" When he went on to say:

But we do know that hallucinations result from loss of perception, narcotics, illness or high fever, lack of REM sleep, changes in brain chemistry, and more.Even if, like Mike, we think of these events in terms of reports, their most salient aspects (like twisting and sliding through walls like snakes, etc.) should be described as matter - highly developed alien technology - category something, not magic. A friend of mine said that the only really interesting question in a typical episode of alien abduction is "who's cheating whom?" Is the customer cheating the therapist, or is it the other way around?I disagree with this statement.On the one hand, there are many other interesting issues in the alien abduction lore, and on the other hand, the two are not mutually exclusive.

For a few years now I've been trying to recall something about alien abductions.Finally, I remembered that it was a book I read in college, "Fifty Minutes an Hour" published in 1954.The author, a psychoanalyst named Robert Linner, was invited by the Los Alamos National Laboratory to treat a brilliant nuclear physicist whose hallucinatory system was affecting his official secret research.The physicist (under the pseudonym Kirke Aron) was found to be simultaneously leading another life besides building nuclear weapons.He reveals that, in the far future, he once piloted (should say will pilot, here his tense gets a little confused) an interstellar spaceship.He is fascinated by the uplifting.A wandering adventure to planets from other stars.He is the "Master" of many worlds.Maybe they'll call him Captain Chalke.Not only can he "remember" this life, but he can enter it whenever he chooses a time.With this manner and will, he can transport himself across distances of light years and centuries.

Linna found him intelligent, sensitive, likable, well-mannered, and perfectly capable of handling people's ordinary day-to-day affairs.But—reflected by his excitement about life in the universe—Aron knew he had some distaste for life on Earth, even if it did involve building weapons of mass destruction. When his lab supervisor warned him not to be distracted.When he was cranky, he apologized.He assured them that he would do his best to spend his time on this planet.That's when they first started connecting with Linna. Allen wrote 12,000 pages of material on his future experiences, as well as numerous technical treatises on geography, politics, architecture, astronomy, lifestyle, genealogy, geology, and ecology on other planets.The titles of these feature articles reflect what the material covers, "Unique Development of the Brain on Srom Norba X", "Worship and Sacrifice of Fire on Srom Sodrat II", "History of the Galactic Science Society", "Unified Field Theory and applications of stellar drive mechanisms to interstellar travel". (I want to read the last one. After all, people say that Allen is a first-rate physicist.) Fascinated, Linna read these materials by heart.

Allen wasn't shy about showing Linner his work and discussing the details.Unhurried, intellectually difficult to deal with, he doesn't seem at all to succumb to Linna's psychiatric help.After all else had failed, the psychiatrist tried a different approach. Linner highlighted certain apparent inconsistencies in the file and demanded an explanation from Allen, which required physicists to re-enter the future to find answers, and Allen would responsibly bring a neatly written explanation with him to his next session Documents came, and Linner anxiously awaited each meeting so that he could once again be fascinated by the spectacle of life and intelligence abounding in the galaxy.Between them, they can resolve many document inconsistencies. Then a strange thing happened: "Kerke's psychotic material met the Achilles heel of my personality and meshed like cogs in a clock." The psychiatrist became complicit in his patient's phantasies .He begins to reject psychiatric explanations for Allen's stories, and how sure are we that those things might be true?He found himself beginning to justify the idea that an effort of will alone could lead to another life, a life of a cosmic wanderer in the far future. But in the end, something even stranger happened: Concerned about the health of his therapist, Kirk Aaron mustered up the admirable honesty and courage he had preserved, and admitted that he had made up the whole story .The root is that he was lonely as a child, didn't get along well with women when he grew up, he hides and forgets the line between fact and imagination, fabricates plausible real details, weaves rich pictures about another world, It's challenging and exciting.He feels guilty for leading Linna to an absurd life. "Why," the psychologist asked, "why do you pretend, why do you keep telling me..." "Because I feel I have to," replied the physicist, "because I feel you are asking me to." Kerke and I switched roles, Linna explained: I can't be sure from this description if Kirke Aaron is actually hallucinating, maybe he's just caught in some kind of personality disorder and takes pleasure in inventing a game to make others pay.I don't know to what extent Lynner embellished or fabricated parts of the story, when he wrote "Share" and "Break into" Aron's fantasies, there is no indication that the psychic imagined himself sailing in the distant future and participating in the planet adventure.Likewise, John Mack and other alien abduction therapists do not suggest to their patients that they have been abducted, only their patients think so. So what if physicists didn't admit it?Perhaps Lindner had convinced himself, beyond rational skepticism, that a more romantic era was possible?He will say that he was skeptical at first, but was he convinced by the strong evidence?Maybe he billed himself as an expert in helping space travelers from a future world stranded in the 20th century?Would such a psychotic exception encourage others to take such fantasies or hallucinations seriously?After treating some similar medical records, would Linna impatiently reject all "sane" ideas and deduce that he was gaining a new level of understanding of reality? Kirk Allen's scientific education kept him from going mad.There comes a time when the therapist and patient switch roles.I prefer to think that the patient saves the therapist.Maybe John Mark wasn't so lucky. Consider a different way to go about finding aliens—using radio waves to find alien intelligent life. How is this different from fantasy and pseudoscience? In the 1960s, Soviet astronomers held a press conference in Moscow, announcing that a strong radio signal from a distant mysterious object called CTA-102 varied regularly like a sine wave for about 100 days.No distant periodic radio source has ever been detected before.Why did they hold a press conference to announce such a mysterious discovery?Because they think they have discovered an alien civilization with great power.Of course, this deserved a press conference, the report was just so sensationalized in the media that the rock band Byrds even produced and recorded a song about it: "CTA-102, we're here for you, Signals tell us you're there, we can hear them clearly:  …' Radio signal from CTA-102?Sure, but what is CTA-102?We now know that CTA-102 is a distant quasar.Back then, the word "quasar" didn't exist, and we didn't quite know what a quasar was; there were more than one conflicting explanations for it in the scientific literature.Still, no astronomer today—including those at the Moscow press conference—seriously argues that quasars like CTA-102 are extraterrestrial civilizations billions of light-years away capable of harnessing enormous amounts of energy .Why?Because we have other explanations for the characteristics of quasars, they are consistent with the known laws of physics, and don't have to beg for extraterrestrial life.Aliens represent a hypothesis of last resort.You turn to it only when all else fails. In 1967, British scientists discovered a signal from a much closer star: an intense radio signal source switching with astonishing precision, showing that its period was always ten or more meaningful numbers.What is it?Their first thought was that it was a signal to us, or perhaps a timed navigation signal from a ship flying in the open air.At Cambridge University, they even had a name for it: LGM-1. LGM is the abbreviation of Little Green Man. Smarter than their Soviet counterparts, though, they didn't hold a press conference, and they soon learned that what they were observing was what is now known as a pulsar, the first of its kind, the Gramm's Nebula pulsar.So, what is a pulsar?A pulsar is the final state of a gigantic planet, a star that has shrunk to the size of a city and, unlike other planets, is maintained neither by air pressure nor by electron decay, but by nuclear forces.In a certain sense an atomic nucleus about 10 miles in diameter.I insist that's a concept at least as outlandish as interplanetary navigation signals.As for what is a pulsar, the answer may be very strange, it is not an alien civilization, but something else, just to broaden our horizons and minds.Proof that nature is full of wonders.Anthony Hughes won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of pulsars. Original OZMA experiment (first planned radio search for extraterrestrial civilizations), Planetary Society Megachannel Extraterrestrial Assay Program at Harvard University, Ohio State University research, California University Parkley The branch's SERENDIP project, as well as many other groups, have detected unusual signals from extraterrestrial origin that have excited observers.For a while, we thought we were receiving a genuine signal from a distant civilization beyond our solar system.In fact, we don't even have the faintest idea of ​​what it is, because the signal doesn't repeat itself.A few minutes later, or the next day or .Years later, you turn the telescope to the same point in the sky with the same frequency, bandwidth, polarity, and other parameters, and you hear nothing.You cannot infer, let alone declare, the existence of aliens.It could be a statistically unavoidable surge of electrons, or a malfunctioning detection system, or a spaceship originating from Earth, or a military aircraft flying by, transmitting in a band considered reserved for radio astronomers.It might even be a garage door opener down the street or a radio station hundreds of kilometers away.The possibilities are many.You have to systematically check all the possibilities and see which ones can be ruled out, and you can't claim to have found aliens when the only evidence you have is strange non-repeating signals. If the signal is indeed recurring, will you be able to announce it to the press and the public?you can not.Maybe someone is lying to you.Maybe you're not smart enough to figure out what's wrong with the detection system, or maybe it's a result of astrophysics that you didn't know about before.What you should do is, call scientists at other radio astronomy observatories and tell them that at a certain point in the sky, with a certain frequency, bandwidth, polarity, and other parameters, you seem to find something interesting, and ask Can they try to make sure?Only when several observers (all of whom are well aware of the complexities of nature and are aware of their own fallibility) make the same observation at the same point in the sky can you seriously consider yourself truly detecting There is a signal from aliens. There are some principles involved in this.We can't always yell "little green men" as soon as we spot something we can't immediately identify!Because if it turned out to be something else later, it would make us look stupid, like the radio astronomers in the Soviet Union.Be especially cautious when someone is offering a very high reward.When the evidence has not been fully obtained, we do not need to draw conclusions, "unsure" is allowed. I'm often asked, "Do you believe in extraterrestrial intelligence?" When I do this, I always answer with the standard view—there are many places beyond Earth, and the molecules of life are everywhere—and I use "billions. " to describe them.Then I'd say I'd be surprised if there wasn't extraterrestrial intelligence, and of course there hasn't been strong evidence for it until now. Often someone will ask: "What do you think about this?" I said, "I've told you what I really think." "Yes, but what on earth is on your mind?" But I always try not to think in my own mind.If I'm serious about "understanding the universe," thinking in terms of things outside my head, as tempting as that is, is likely to get me in trouble.Until you get the evidence, just reserve your judgment, that's all. If the proponents of flying saucers and alien abductions are right, and there is real evidence of extraterrestrial life for us to examine, then I would be very happy.But they do not ask us to believe out of faith, but to believe in the strength of their evidence.We certainly have a duty to examine this so-called evidence with at least as much care and deliberation as radio astronomers who look for alien radio signals. Any anecdotal statement, however sincere and resonant it may be, and however exemplary the life of the person who testified, carries little weight in this matter.In previous UFO cases, the anecdotal descriptions had some unavoidable mistakes.This is not a personal critique of those who claim to have been hijacked or questioned them, and does not amount to contempt for those who claim to be witnesses (original note: they cannot even be called simply witnesses, because, did they actually see what (or, anything belonging to the external world) is precisely the point), nor is it - or should be - to arrogantly dismiss sincere and emotional testimonies, but only reluctantly admit that people make mistakes mistake. If any power can be attributed to aliens - because their technology is so advanced - then we can point out any deviations.inconsistent or unreasonable.For example, one UFO scholar believes that during an abduction, both the alien and the abductee enter a state of invisibility (but they can see each other), so most neighbors don't notice.Such an "explanation" can explain everything, and therefore practically nothing. The American police investigative process emphasizes evidence rather than statements.Witch trials in Europe may serve as a reminder that suspects can be intimidated during interrogation; people can confess to crimes they didn't commit; and witnesses can be wrong.This is also the part that many detective novels should focus on.But the real, unfabricated evidence—gunpowder burns, fingerprints, DNA samples, footprints, hair left under the fingernails of victims as they struggle—carries a lot of evidentiary value.Criminologists use methods very similar to scientists, and their starting point is the same as scientists.So in the field of UFO and alien abduction research, there is every reason to ask: Where is the evidence?Where is the real, unambiguous, tangible evidence that would convince an inconclusive jury? Wouldn't it be enough, some enthusiasts would say, that there are thousands of cases where the ground has been turned over, where UFOs are supposed to have landed?This is really not enough, because besides being turned by aliens on UFOs, there are many ways to turn the land-turning over with a shovel is the easiest possibility to think of.A UFO scholar accused me of ignoring "4400 cases of physical traces from 65 countries".But as far as I know, none of these cases have been analyzed and the results published in physics, chemistry.A peer-reviewed journal in metallurgy or soil science shows that these "marks" are not man-made.Compared with the circles in the Wiltshire wheat fields, this is a modest deception. Likewise, not only can photographs be easily faked, but a large number of photographs of alleged UFOs are unquestionably faked.Some enthusiasts stayed in the fields all night looking for the light in the sky and saw a bunch of click flashing lights.Sometimes, they say there will be responsive flashes, and maybe they are.But low-flying aircraft also emit bright lights, and the pilot can, if he likes, respond by flashing his lights, so that neither constitutes serious evidence. So where is the objective evidence?Since they speak and point in satanic rituals in response to the "devil's marks" in witch experiments, their most common physical evidence refers to the scars and dents on the abductee's body, so they claim to have no knowledge of these scars. No impression of where it came from.But it's important to note that if the scars were human, they wouldn't serve as convincing evidence of alien abuse.There are actually many well-publicized cases of psychiatrists who wound, lacerate, and even maim themselves and others.Some people with high distress thresholds and poor memory may occasionally injure themselves facing the entire event with no memory. John Mark had a patient who said she had scars all over her body, which completely puzzled her physician.So what do they look like?She couldn't tell.Like the manias of witchcraft, they are in hidden places.Mark thinks this is compelling evidence.Did he see the scars?Do we have any pictures of scars taken by skeptical internists?Mark said he knew a quadriplegic with dents and thought it provided evidence by absurdity that could be used against doubters.How can a quadriplegic scar himself?This reasoning is only valid if the quadriplegic is sealed in a room that no one else can enter.Can we see his scars?Can an independent physician examine him?Another of Mark's patients claimed that aliens had been harvesting her eggs from the time of her sexual maturity, leaving her reproductive system mystified by gynecologists.Is this case puzzling enough to be worth documenting and submitting to the New England Journal of Medicine as a research paper?Apparently it wasn't confusing to that extent. We can see the fact that one of Mark's subjects made up the whole incident.As Time magazine reported, Mark did not comment.He totally believed it.What is his criterion of necessary prudence?If he allows one of his subjects to deceive him, how do we know he won't allow all of his subjects to do the same? Mark sees these cases, these "phenomena" on the Western way of thinking.It poses a fundamental challenge to science, and even to logic itself.He said that the abducting entities were not aliens from our universe, but from another dimension.Here is a typical passage from his book that makes his point: However, the idea of ​​higher dimensions did not originate from UFO theory or Time magazine. On the contrary, it is a part of 20th century physics. According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, a cosmological axiom shows that space and time travel through It is curved in high-dimensional state.The Cruz-Curran theory puts forward the hypothesis of an 11-dimensional universe.What Mark put forward is a completely scientific point of view, as an important theory to explain the "phenomena" that science cannot explain. We know something about what higher-dimensional objects look like when they encounter our three-dimensional universe.Let's simply start with two dimensions. From the point of view of two-dimensional existence limited to a plane, when an apple passes through a plane, its shape will definitely change, starting with a point, and then the cut surface of the apple will gradually become larger and then It began to shrink again, became a dot again, and finally disappeared.Likewise, an object with four or more dimensions (assuming not a very simple hypercylinder passing through three-dimensional space along an axis) undergoes a dramatic change in its geometry as we witness its passage through our space, if about System reports of aliens indicate that they are constantly deforming, and I can at least understand how Mark was looking for the idea that aliens came from high-dimensional space. (Another question is what would the hybridization of 3D and 4D space organisms look like, would it be generated from 3 and a half dimensions?) What Mark is really saying when he talks about beings from other dimensions is that although his patients occasionally describe their experiences in dreams or fantasies, he himself doesn't have even the vaguest idea of ​​what they are.But it is clear that in his description he has recourse to physical and mathematical knowledge, which he must do both: the language used for description and the plausibility of science.But he was not bound by scientific methods and rules, and he does not seem to realize that the credibility of science is precisely the result of these methods. The main challenge that Mark's case poses is the age-old question of how to make this critical thinking approach spread more widely and deeply in a society rife with credulity (which could conceivably even include Harvard psychiatry professors).It's foolish to think that this critical way of thinking is the latest fad in the west, if you want to buy an old car in Singapore or Bangkok, or an old chariot in ancient Rome or Sousse, than you can in Buying a car in Cambridge, Mass. requires the same level of caution. When you're buying a used car, you and I want so much to believe the dealer's "good deal" that it's a good deal, and it takes some effort to be skeptical.You have to know something about the car, which can make the dealer have a bad opinion of you, which is a little unpleasant.Beyond that you might discover that the dealer has an incentive to hide the truth, and have heard something similar about others, so you kick the tires, look under the covers, test the car, and ask probing questions.You even take a mechanic-loving friend along.You understand that a certain amount of skepticism is necessary and why.There is always a little unfriendly conflict in buying a used car, no one will claim that it is a particularly pleasant experience, if you don't raise a little doubt: if you are absolutely unlimited credulity, you will pay a heavy price later.That's when you wish you had been more skeptical earlier.Many homes in the United States have some advanced burglar alarm equipment, including far infrared sensors, camera tracking equipment.An actual videotape with time and calendar indications of the alien invasion (especially when they infiltrated the walls) should be a good piece of evidence.Wouldn't it be weird if millions of Americans had been kidnapped) and not a single incident happened in a house like this? Legend has it that some women were forced to have sex by aliens or were forced to accept alien semen to become pregnant, and the fetuses were later taken away by aliens. There are many such examples.It is very strange that the routine ultrasonography and amniotic fluid diagnosis of these fetuses did not find any difference, and there has never been a miscarriage of an alien hybrid. Is it true that all the medical staff are too stupid and lazy? One look at this half-human, half-alien fetus before moving on to the next patient?The ubiquitous stories of fetal loss are sure to cause quite a stir among gynecologists, midwives, obstetric nurses, especially in an era of such heightened feminist awareness.But no medical record remains that can substantiate such a claim. Some women who claimed to be infertile due to frigidity ended up conceiving, attributing this to alien insemination.Some UFO scholars see this as a compelling point.Most of them were teenagers, and it's not just serious researchers who would admit the possibility of these events on the basis of their statements alone.Of course we can understand why a teenager in the throes of an unwanted pregnancy, living in a society rife with descriptions of alien visits, might make up such a story.Of course, there is also a certain religious influence here. Some abductees claimed that tiny implants, possibly metallic, were inserted into them: for example, in the deepest part of the nostrils.Alien abduction therapy experts tell us that these small implants also sometimes come off, but with all but a few rare cases, the little foreign objects are dropped or thrown away.These abductees seem to be numb to any curiosity, a strange object (probably a transmitter to send the extracted information about your body to a spacecraft somewhere above the earth), falls out of your nose, you I checked it casually and threw it in the wastebasket.We are told that something like this is true for most kidnapping cases.Experts have replicated and tested some of these tiny implants, and none can be confirmed to be of extraterrestrial origin.No elements composed of unusual isotopes have been found, although we know that other stars and worlds may be composed of isotope ratios different from Earth's.Metallic elements known as transuranic "islands of stability" were also not found.Scientists believe that after uranium, there should be a new group of non-radioactive chemical elements that have not been found on the earth. Enthusiasts of alien abduction believe that the best example is the incident encountered by Richard Price, who said he was abducted by aliens when he was eight years old, and was put a small object in his penis; Around 25 years ago, a doctor confirmed that there was a "foreign object" embedded there; after another 8 years, it fell out, about 1 millimeter thick and 4 millimeters long.Scientists at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital have scrutinized it, you want to ask the conclusion?It was just the collagen secreted by the body in the inflamed area plus the cotton fibers from his drawers. On August 28, 1995, Rupert Murdoch showed a 16mm film on his TV station that was said to be an autopsy of an alien autopsy.A pathologist in an old-fashioned radiation suit (with a rectangular viewing window) and a helmet sliced ​​open a 12-fingered, big-eyed monster and examined its internal organs, but the film was often out of focus and the image of the corpse was often crowded Blocked by the crowd, some people who saw the film were disappointed by the effect.同属于默道克经营的《泰晤士报》对影片是如何制作的却一无所知。尽管该报的确引用了一位病理学家的话，他认为尸体解剖进行得有些不恰当，不合实际地匆忙(尽管那对于电视观众是理想的)。据说该胶片是1947年的一个外星人目击者在墨西哥拍摄到的。现在他80多岁了，希望不要披露他的名字。具有决定意义的是，影片的开头一段(头几英尺)含有制作人Kodak1947年译成密码的信息，但事实表明整个胶卷，除了剪下来的开头部分，并未提供给Kodak。众所周知，片子的开头可以从1947年新闻影片(这在美国有很多)上剪辑下来，尸体解剖可分开地在最近导演与拍摄。还有一个龙的脚印，只不过也是伪造的。如果这是一个骗局，那么，编造这个骗局并不比麦田里的圆圈和MJ一12档案需要更多的智慧。 这些故事没有一个能强有力地显示地外文明的存在，当然对超越当代技术的巧妙机械是无法复制的，没有哪个被劫持者能从外星人飞碟船长的日志中偷一页下来，或拍一张飞船内部结构的真正的照片。或者回来时，带一些地球上从未有过的详细的可证实的科学信息，为什么没有呢？这种失败或许会告诉我们点什么。 20世纪中叶以来，地外文明假说的支持者已使我们相信他们已掌握一些客观证据，不是许多年前记忆中的星图，不是伤疤，不是被搅动的泥土而是真正的外星技术。这种分析不断发表出来，他们说的追溯到牛顿和盖博那个最早的坠毁飞碟的骗局。几十年过去后，我们仍在等待，这些文章又发表在公开的科学文献、冶金、陶瓷工业期刊、电力电子工程师协会的出版物、或《科学)与《自然》的什么位置上呢？ 这样的发现确实应该说是重大的发现。如果确有真正的外来物品，物理学家和化学家会为发现有外星人在我们当中的特权而争议不休。这些外星人使用的是不知名的合金或材料，有极强的刚性。韧性和传导性。这种发现的实用意义是巨大的(不管是否肯定是外星人入侵)。这种发现是科学家们生活的目标，而这种发现的不存在也很说明问题。 保持头脑开放是优点，但是，像空间工程师吉姆·亚伯格曾说的，不要太开放了，以至让你的理智掉了出去。当然，如果有新的证据使我们有了充分的理由，我们乐意改变想法。但证据一定要有力。不是所有宣称的知识都有同等的优点，大多数外星人劫持事件中的证据大概与中世纪所谓的圣母玛利亚显灵事件没有什么不同。 精神病分析学先驱卡尔·古斯塔夫·荣格对这类问题有一些比较合理的解释。他明确认为UFO是一种无意识思维的投影。在关于回归，即今天所说的“通道”的相关讨论中，他写道： 也许某一天会有一个完全被证实的UFO或外星劫持事件，伴随着令人不得不信服的客观证据，并只有借助于地外文明的来访才可以清楚地解释。很难想象出一个比这更重要的发现。但迄今为止，还没有这样的事件发生，连接近于此的也没有。迄今为止，看不见的龙还没有留下确确实实的爪印。 那么，更可能的是，我们正在经历一种大规模的，但通常被忽略的外星性虐待者的入侵，或者人们正在经历一些他们不熟悉、不理解的内在精神状态。无可否认的是，我们对于地外生命。对于人类心理学还是非常无知的。但是如果这真的是仅有的两种选择，你会选那一种呢？ 如果外星人劫持的记录主要是关于脑心理学、幻觉、儿童时期扭曲的幻觉或者骗局的话，摆在我们面前的难道就不是极端重要的事情了吗？它们揭示了我们人类的局限性，表明我们是如此容易被误导和操纵，显示了我们信仰的流行性，甚至揭示了我们宗教的起源。在UFO和外星人劫持事件中有些具有研究价值的东西。但是，我认为，它们显然具有明显的土生土长的、地球之内的特征。