Good post Artemis.... :Clapping:

I have read that at one stage people who had these type of experiences were consider special... nowadays they are considered nuts. I could not tell anyone my experiences for the same reason.... I suffered through them silently.... fearing telling anyone because I knew I would be called nuts. I know I am not nuts.... and in my old age I don't concern myself with what others think of my experiences. If they have not had the experience then I can understand why they cannot accept another person who has had such an experience. But that is the thing.... they also fear accepting for the same reason that experiencers fear telling. FEAR.

Where it all started..... I would speculate with the American military establishment who were making their own flying saucérs and did not want other countries to know. Russia was another country .... where it was a danger to even mention you saw a UFO. China welcómes UFO reports, and I think that is because they know that many are from other countries.

Astronomer J. Allen Hynek

[quote]In 1952, in an informal survéy of 44 of his fellow astronomérs, J. Allen Hynek of Project Blue Book learned that five had seen UFOs. "A hígher percentage than among the public at large," Professor Hynek noted in an internal Air Force memorandum. Fear of ridicule kept most scientists silent about their sightings, however. In a 1976 survéy of members of the American Astronomical Society, 62 admitted to having had UFO experiences; only one of the scientists made a public report of his sighting.

Read more @ http://science.howstuffworks.com/space/ ... -hynek.htm

There are a few UFOlogists that have searched folklore and seen the similarities with modern day alien abductions.

Supernatural Abductions: UFO & Folklore Narratives

http://culturepotion.blogspot.com.au/20 ... on-of.html

Alíen Abductions and Folklore Narratives

http://socyberty.com/paranormal/alien-a ... arratives/

When you have intelligent people like Jacques Vallee writing books on the subject.... we know that the alien abduction experience is taken seriously by some, and not as an experience by a person with mental problems, although I do know that many people who suffer from psychosis see and experience aliens.

Pen

EDIT: Abducted By Alíens ? http://www.qtm.net/~geibdan/newse/abduc.html


Artemis wrote:
I'm not very good at starting threads so I'll just jump right in.
Why do most people make it so hard to talk about alíen experiences?
If you see a UFÓ you're mistaken, If you're abducted/contacted you're crazy. If you're a hybrid/part alíen your a "F-ed up nerd" (actual quote from a CIT at the camp I went to, when one of my friends admitted to being part alíen) :mad:
All of this makes it so hard to cóme oút of the UFÓ. So you have a lot of traumatized people, who can't talk about it because they don't want to be labeled crazy for life. They can't talk to therapists or they'll just be prescribed braín squelching medication (though that applies to any mental problem).
It's actually part of popular culture to pick on the "UFÓ nut" who undoubtedly wears a tin foíl hat and has Christmas tree lights strung up on a trailer.
It seems very odd that this is encouraged so strongly, and not just by one political side.
Belief in extraterrestrials is picked on more than less evidence based beliefs.
It seems like someone wants alíen encounters kept quiet, someone not limited by political parties.
I just read something about a poll that said that 43% of people (in the US) believe that the government is definitely or probably concealing the existence of éxtráterrestrial life on Eárth. So why do more than 57% of people ridicule those who have experiences? :Sigh: