| Editor: | Kendrick FRAZIER |
| Magazine: | Skeptical Inquirer |
| Language: | English |
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| Year: | 1998 | |
| Issue: | Vol. 22 No 3 May/June | |
| Contents | |
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| Author | Title | Pag | |
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| Investigative Files | |||
| Joe NICKELL | Alien Abductions as Sleep-Related Phenomena | 16-18 | |
| Psychic Vibrations | |||
| Robert SHEAFFER | From Ark-eology to UFOlogy, from Ararat to Arizona | 19-20 | |
| Susan BLACKMORE | Abduction by Aliens or Sleep Paralysis? A Roper Poll claimed that nearly four million Americans have had certain "indicator" experience! and therefore had probably been abducted by aliens. But a study of 126 school children and 224 undergraduates shows knowledge of aliens is related more to watching television than to having the relevant experiences. | 23-28 | |
| Robert E. BARTHOLOMEW | Before Roswell: The Meaning Behind the Crashed-UFO Myth Stories about a crashed saucer in the New Mexico desert are part of a broader myth dating back to at least eighty-five years before Roswell. What makes this myth so appealing | 29-30+59 | |
| (Spanish/Catalan translation La Nave de los Locos Año 2 No 07-08 Marzo/2001 Antes de Roswell: El significado subyacente tras el mito de los OVNIs estrellados, pp. 9-11) | |||
| Bernard D. GILDENBERG, David E. THOMAS | Case Closed: Reflections on the 1997 Air Force Roswell Report The Air Force "crash dummy" explanation of the Roswell "bodies" was not a desperate attempt to preserve the Roswell coverup, as UFO promoters would have us believe. Rather, clues that anthropomorphic test dummies may have been mistaken for "aliens" came from testimonies of the Roswell "alien body" witnesses themselves. The 1997 Air Force Case Closed report, and new findings presented in this article, provide intriguing new speculations on the origin of various parts of the Roswell legend | 31-36 | |
| John C. SHERWOOD | Gray Barker: My Friend, the Myth-Maker Gray Barker, who raised the "Men in Black" concept to prominence in UFO lore, didn't mind if the sensational flying-saucer stories he published were made up—as long as they were presented as fact. To him it was all a joke. Here John Sherwood ("Dr. Richard H. Pratt") for the first time confesses his role in Barker's flying-saucer, "Men in Black" myth-making. | 37-39 | |
| Martha A. CHURCHILL | A Skeptic Living in Roswell Roswell residents generally regard the UFO hoopla as harmless fun and a source of tourist dollars. Local civic leaders ignore the dark side of UFO mania, especially its common roots with sex-abuse hysteria and urban legends such as satanic cults | 40-43+60 | |
| August Jr. PIPER | Multiple Personality Disorder: Witchcraft Survives in the Twentieth Century Since 1980, some psychotherapists have claimed that thousands of Americans are afflicted with multiple personality disorder. Believing such claims requires ignoring their many serious deficiencies | 44-50 | |
| Book Reviews | |||
| Peter HUSTON | Skeptics Attack Bug-eyed Monsters from Space! | 52-53 | |
| Review: Kendrick FRAZIER, Barry KARR, Joe NICKELL (eds.),THE UFO INVASION - 1997 | |||
| David E. THOMAS | Demolishing the Roswell "Alien" Myth | 53-54 | |
| Review: Philip J. KLASS,THE REAL ROSWELL CRASHED-SAUCER COVERUP - 1997 | |||
| New Books | |||
| Kendrick FRAZIER | Jodi DEAN, ALIENS IN AMERICA , James McANDREW (Capitan), THE ROSWELL REPORT: CASE CLOSED | 55 | |
| Review: Jodi DEAN,ALIENS IN AMERICA - 1998, James McANDREW (Capitan),THE ROSWELL REPORT: CASE CLOSED - 1995 | |||