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| Vicente-Juan BALLESTER OLMOS, Richard W. HEIDEN | Introduction | 9-18 |
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| Leonard S. NEWMAN | Foreword | 19-22 |
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| | I. Case Studies |
| Vicente-Juan BALLESTER OLMOS | Memory Games: A False Recall Episode | |
| Tim CALLAHAN | The Phoenix Lights: The Fallibility of Human Perception and Memory | |
| James T. CARLSON | Missile Flights and Fantasies | |
| Peter HUSTON | Meeting the Abductees: Betty Hill, Richard Price & Others | |
| Alexander G. KEUL | Investigating Ball Lightning Eyewitness Report | |
| Eric MAILLOT, Jean-Michel ABRASSART | Very Close Encounter with a UAP in Levitation | |
| Claude MAUGÉ | The Raël Rael, UFO Contactee and the Last Prophet | |
| Craig R. MYERS | The MUFON-ian Candidate: The Gulf Breeze UFO Case as Political Contest | |
| Joe NICKELL | The Pascagoula Abduction: A Case of Hypnagogia? | |
| James OBERG | Misinterpretations of Fireball Swarms from Satellite Reentries | |
| Susan J. PALMER | When Testimony Becomes Testament: The Case of Raël, UFO Prophet, and the Question of Witness Reliability | |
| Gary P. POSNER | The Legendary Cash-Landrum Case: Radiation Sickness from a Close Encounter? | |
| Tim PRINTY | The Weinstein Catalog: Ufological Bullion or Fool's Gold? | |
| Josè RUESGA MONTIEL | The Changing Case of Próspera Muñoz: An Abduction Remembered Over 41 years? | |
| Wim VAN UTRECHT | Lunar Terror in Poland: A Doctor's Dilemma | |
| Nigel WATSON | On The Credibility of the Barney & Betty Hill Abduction Case | |
| Robert R. YOUNG | Metamorphosis: Claimed Witness Accounts of the Great Lakes Fireball Of December 9, 1965 | |
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| | II. Psychological Perspectives |
| Thomas D. ALBRIGHT | On Eyewitness Reports of Extraterrestrial Life | 241 |
| Jorge CONESA-SEVILLA | Close Encounters of the "Other" Kind: On the Psycology of "Alien Abdcutions" | 257 |
| Oliver DODIER | Dissociation and Alien Abduction Allegation | 266 |
| David FORREST | Alien Abduction: Takeaways | 275 |
| Christopher C. FRENCH | Hypnotic Regression and False Memories | 283 |
| Stanley C. KRIPPNER | Aliens, UFOs, and Personal Schemas | 295 |
| Hélène LANSLEY, Thomas RABEYRON | Clinical Approach to UFO Sightings and Alien Abductions | 299 |
| Claude MAUGÉ | Manuel Jimenez and the Perception of UFOs: Hypotheses and Experiments | 313 |
| Subhash MEENA, Surabhi DAS | Cognition and Memory Distortion Behind UFO Testimonies | 331 |
| Giulio PERROTTA | Clinical Evidence in the Italian Phenomenon of Alien Abduction | 339 |
| Scott R. SCRIBNER, Gregory J. WHEELER | From "I Witnessed..." to Established Hypothesis: UFO Cultures and Contexts | 355 |
| Matthew J. SHARPS | Forensic Cognitive Science and the UFO Phenomenon | 368 |
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| | III. On Witness Testimony |
| Manuel BORRAZ AYMERICH | UFOs: The Role of Perceptual Illusions in the Endurance of an Empirical Myth | 387 |
| Thomas E. BULLARD | Calibrating the Instrument: How Reliable Is Eyewitness Testimony? | 402 |
| Ricardo CAMPO PÉREZ | Bizarre Accounts: Remarkable Missile Sightings from the Canary Islands in the 1970s | 419 |
| Luiz Augusto L. DA SILVA | Some Considerations About the Behavior and Reliability of UAP Eyewitnesses | 433 |
| Marcel DELAVAL | UFO Myth Propagation Before the Arrival of Social Networks | 440 |
| Richard F. HAINES | Witness Reliability: Accuracy - Reliability of Pilots - Personal Honor | 447 |
| Jochen ICKINGER | Memories Are not Documentaries: The Weakest Link in the Chain of UFO Evidence | 454 |
| Ulrich MAGIN | Thress Simple Tests of Eyewitness Reliability | 467 |
| Daniel MAVRAKIS | Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony in Extreme Close Encounters: "Abductees" and "Contactees" | 472 |
| Richard NOLL | Satanists, Aliens and Me | 488 |
| Xavier PASSOT | The UFO Testimony Reliability from 2000 GEIPAN Reports | 497 |
| Julio PLAZA DEL OLMOS | Data are Worth a Thousand Accounts | 504 |
| Cláudio Tsuyoshi SUENAGA | The Objectivity of Witnesses and the Subjectivity of Testimonies | 513 |
| Luise WHITE | Aliens Are Good to Talk With | 524 |
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| | IV. Empirical Research |
| Carles BERCHÉ CRUZ | Alien Delusions: Some (Real) Clinical Cases | 531 |
| Stephanie KELLEY-ROMANO, Amy BADFIELD DOUGLASS | Memory Distortion in a Social Judgement: People who Report Contact with Aliens are More Susceptible | 537 |
| Hans-werner PEINIGER | It Was as Large as the Full Moon | 551 |
| Hans-Werner PEINIGER | When a Fire Balloon Transforms in a UFO | 556 |
| Michael RADUGA | Bedtime Alien Abduction Stories: A Checklist to Detect its Dreaming Nature | 562 |
| Raoul ROBÉ | Fantasy Imagery and UFO Testimonies | 570 |
| Jean-Pierre ROSPARS | Abilities and Limitations of Eyewitnesses Assessed on Atmospheric Entries of Meteoroids and Artificial Satellites | 585 |
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| | V. Anthropological Approach |
| Ignacio CABRIA | Inside a Spaceship: Cognitive and Social Adpects of an Alien Contact | 605 |
| Frédéric DUMERCHAT | Alien Big Cats and UFO Testimonies: Similarities and Questions | 615 |
| Carlos REIS | Belief in Aliens and the Imaginary: A Transdisciplinary Approach | 632 |
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| | VI. Metrics and Scaling |
| Vicente-juan BALLESTER OLMOS, Miguel GUASP | Measuring the Subjectivity of UFO Testimony | 651 |
| Marc LEDUC | The Reliability of the UFO Sighting Story | 656 |
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| | VII. Epistemological Issues |
| Félix ARES DE BLAS | On The Fallacy of the Residue | 673 |
| Leonardo B. MARTINS | Scientific Case Studies: Research Guidelines for Dealing with the Lack of Reliability of UDO/UAP Testimonies | 681 |
