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Article: The Alien Notion
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 27, 1994
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Why do some people think they've been abducted by aliens from
space?
Normally, being calm and rational types, we greet tales of
alien abduction with hoots, sneers and guffaws, then quickly return
to our previous work on behalf of the Zorgon Empire.
But lately the alien thing has gotten out of hand.
Alien-abduction stories have gotten a big boost with the publication
of a book by a well-known, Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard
psychiatrist, John Mack, who says he believes that these stories,
however far-fetched, are actually true. Alien abduction is also a
regular theme of allegedly nonfiction TV programs. Getting abducted
by little gray men with large eyeballs is to the '90s what disco ...