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Journal of Scientific Exploration
Anomalistics and Frontier Science
Volume 36 Issue 4 Winter 2022
Society for Scientific Exploration, Versailles, KY

Editor: James HOURAN

Name: Cockrell, Chase; Murphy, Linda; Rodeghier, Mark (1953)

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

	`Research Articles`
Chase COCKRELL, Linda MURPHY, Mark RODEGHIER	Social factors and UFO Reports: Was the SARSCoV-2 Pandemic Associated with an Increase in UFO Reporting?	641-656
	Abstract: The ongoing SARS-Cov-2 pandemic had many drastic effects upon society beyond the illness and death it caused. Pandemic mitigation measures disrupted and altered behaviors related to social mobility, significantly increasing the time spent at home compared to the pre-pandemic period. Further, it was well documented that social anxiety and stress increased at a population level. Early in the pandemic there was speculation in the popular media that reporting of paranormal phenomena (e.g., UFOs, ghosts, etc.) increased due to factors associated with the pandemic. Past research on UFO/UAP reporting has theorized that increases are triggered by social factors, and so the pandemic provided a natural experiment to test these claims. To measure UFO reports we utilized two public databases of UFO reports for sightings in the United States, provided by the National UFO Reporting Center and the Mutual UFO Network. To estimate the impact of the pandemic we utilized two measures, one for social mobility and one for pandemic/disease severity. Google Community Mobility Reports provided a metric of social mobility for people who use Google Maps on their cellular telephone (i.e., amount of time spent at work compared to home), which we aggregated to a state level to estimate time spent at home. Second, we used new weekly SARS-CoV-2 cases and deaths, both absolute counts and per capita, which can be considered to be an indirect measure of anxiety and stress. We find that UFO reports did increase in 2020 compared to 2019 (p < 0.001 for both databases); however, the level of UFO reporting had little to no association with the various pandemic-related measures, offering no support for hypothesized social factors that influence reporting. A complicating factor in UFO reporting is the start in 2019 of Starlink satellite launches. These launches include up to 60 small satellites at once, and so are very distinctive and often easily visible. As a result, many people report these as UFOs. We coded and removed these reports from the sighting databases, and the filtered data similarly have no association with the pandemic-related factors. Further, with Starlink reports removed, there was no increase in sightings in 2020 compared to 2019. Our results contribute to an understanding of large-scale factors that impact the reporting of paranormal events, especially timely given the renewed public and government focus on the UFO phenomenon today

Journal of Scientific Exploration
Anomalistics and Frontier Science
Volume 37 Issue 4 Winter 2023
Society for Scientific Exploration, Versailles, KY

Editor: James HOURAN

Name: Ironside, Rachael; Smoot Tramont, Nancy; Storm, Lance

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

	`Research Article`
Rachael IRONSIDE	Death, Ghosts, and Spiritual Tourism: Conceptualizing a Dark Spiritual Experience Spectrum for the Paranormal Market Paranormal tourism is a lucrative market offering visitors the opportunity to engage with enchanting experiences and stories in destinations around the world. Specifically, ghost tourism connects people to the dead (and death) through dark narratives, supernatural legends, and participatory experiences. Previous scholarship has suggested that ghost tourism exhibits characteristics of dark tourism (by visiting dark places) and spiritual tourism (by engaging in spiritual practices); however, this relationship has not been fully explored. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to consider where the experiential and motivational characteristics of dark, spiritual, and paranormal tourism converge, and to consider whether this convergence produces a dark spiritual experience for consumers. Three dimensions are identified as contributing towards the degree of dark experience offered by ghost tourism: place, promotion and production, and participation. To conclude, a Dark Spiritual Experience Spectrum is proposed, illustrating the characteristics of each dimension and their influence on the degree of dark spiritual experience offered to consumers. It is argued that these dimensions have the potential to impact the tourist experience, influence visitor motivations, and, consequently, drive an evolving paranormal market.	602-615

	`Essay`
Lance STORM	The Dark Spirit of the Trickster Archetype in Parapsychology In this paper, the phenomenology of the Trickster (its ‘darker’ side) is explored. The archetypal Trickster is shown to manifest as psychosociological aberrations and bizarre physical effects often associated with unique individuals during certain emotionally charged states. Though the Trickster and its many variants have mythological roots, the modern-day equivalent (free, for example, from anthropomorphization) can be seen as an activated psychological proneness to err in thinking when a liminal phase is entered into—that borderland between doubt and certainty. Mainstream academia considers the field of parapsychology to be controversial—it is marginalized because the phenomena it studies (the paranormal) is mostly illusive, usually weak even when proved to be statistically anomalous, and the psi process itself has not been theoretically explained. This state of affairs propagates uncertainty which can trigger ‘tricksterish’ (spurious) interpretations of parapsychological data and findings: Long-term experimenter psi and chronological decline effects are cases in point. Due caution and bias-free analysis of the data and findings may help ameliorate, perhaps even dissolve, the problem of the Trickster

	`SPECIAL SUBSECTION`
Nancy SMOOT TRAMONT	From ‘Baby Doctor’ to ‘Witch Doctor’: A Retrospective of Charles Tramont’s Work with Spirit Releasement Therapy
	Abstract: The work of Charles Tramont, M.D. showed that Comprehensive Hypnoregression Therapy can be a powerful healing tool when a hypnotized patient’s subconscious reveals to the conscious mind the cause of suffering. Often perceived to be from pastlife events or attached discarnate entities of which the subject was previously unaware, Tramont’s patients reported significant improvement after experiencing techniques related to apparent past-life regression and ‘entity removal.’ Eight such cases are summarized here, and these might suggest that various types of ‘dark forces’ do indeed exist and can disrupt people’s overall development and well-being

Journal of Scientific Exploration
Anomalistics and Frontier Science
Volume 38 Issue 1 Spring 2024
Society for Scientific Exploration, Versailles, KY

Editor: James HOURAN

Name: Ali, Sopphie; Clark, Jerome (1946); Lomas, Tim; Stubbings,Daniel R.; Wong, Alexander

CONTENTS

Author	Title	Pag

	`Research Article`
Daniel R. STUBBINGS, Sopphie ALI, Alexander WONG	Who Sees UFOs? The Relationship Between Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Sightings And Personality Factors	11-27

	`Essay`
Tim LOMAS	A History of Scientific Approaches to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Time to Rethink their Relegation to the Paranormal and Engage Seriously?

	`BOOK AND MULTIMEDIA REVIEWS`
Jerome CLARK	Redemption of the Damned, Vol 2: Sea & Space Phenomena	166-167
	Review: Martin SHOUGH, Wim VAN UTRECHT,Redemption of the Damned, Vol.2: Sea and Space Phenomena - 2023
	`Related:` Journal of Scientific Exploration Volume 38 Issue 2 Summer/2024 - Response to Review of Redemption of the Damned: Volume II

Nation:	`United States of America`
Language	`English`
ISSN:	`0892-3310`
Acronym:	`JSE`
Subject:	`Fortean`
Collezione completa:	`Si`
First Publication Year:	`1987`
Website:	`https://www.scientificexploration.org/`
Editor:	`Howard, Ronald A. (1987)`
	`Haisch, Bernhard M. (1988 - 1993)`
	`Bauer, Henry (2001 - 2002)`
	`Braude, Stephen E. (2013 - 2021)`
	`Houran, James (2022 - 2024)`



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