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Clancy argues that abductees are sane, intelligent people who have unwittingly created vivid false memories from a mélange of nightmares, culturally available texts, and a drive for meaning that science is unable to satisfy. This book is not only a subtle exploration of the workings of memory, but a sensitive inquiry into the nature of belief.
alien abduction --- psychology --- alien contactees --- Alien abduction. --- Human-alien encounters.
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"In 1961, Betty and Barney Hill claimed to have experienced a bizarre night that included extraterrestrials, flying saucers, and a few lost hours during which they could recall very little until they underwent hypnosis. Their mysterious story was just the first of many that have been told by people who have since come forward with their own similar experiences. Although there are thousands of people who claim to have experienced alien abduction, much of the world remains skeptical. Is alien abduction a real phenomenon that has affected people worldwide or just an imagined shared experience? Could the US government be working to cover up these stories? Here are the facts about what we really know about alien abduction"--
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Based on almost 25 years of investigation and research, science writer Chris Rutkowski looks critically at abduction stories.
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Alien abduction --- Human-alien encounters --- Social aspects
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1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredicatable interaction of its three suns. This is the Three-Body Problem and it is the key to everything: the key to the scientists' deaths, the key to a conspiracy that spans light-years and the key to the extinction-level threat humanity now faces.
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"Are there aliens living beyond Earth? An unearthly experience one night has Travis Walton convinced that there are. Because if Travis wasn't taken by extraterrestrials, where was he while he disappeared for five mysterious days in the winter of 1975. Explore the story of an alien abduction in this graphic adventure based on a true story. Then, learn other stories of possible encounters with life from space and discover the truth about alien abductions"--