Alien Discussions: Proceedings of the Abduction Study Conference

by Abduction Study Conference (editor), John E. Mack (editor), David E. Pritchard (editor)

The Abduction Study Conference, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 6/13-17/92, is the best scientific conference ever convened on abductions. Alien Discussions, the resulting proceedings, provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary introduction & research report on the abduction phenomenon.

692 pages, Spiral-bound

First published September 1, 1995

Reviews

[Erik Graff · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a transcript of the extraordinary interdisciplinary conference on the alien abduction phenomenon held under the sponsorship of the MIT Physics Department. Not only were papers delivered by physicists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, folklorists and other specialists, but experiencers were given the platform as well. The conference was exemplary in that it represented a serious scientific consideration of the phenomenon. While presenters certainly had their agendas, the conference itself took no particular line, but was most evidently open to a wide range of opinion. Would that more of this was done by the scientific community as regards the broader issues raised by the UFO phenomenon.

[Elliott · Rating 5 out of 5]

This will probably be the only time I rate a book on UFOs so highly.
While I don’t agree with the premise of abductions as a physical phenomenon the book’s tone of a sterile conference was profoundly unsettling. As a work of horror it is superb and I definitely slept a little more restlessly after finishing it.