Donna Bassett says she faked abduction memories in John Mack's study

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Budd Hopkins and John Mack in a hypnosis session in Istanbul, 1995
John Mack (with Budd Hopkins) in 1995; Donna Bassett said she faked memories in Mack's study Becket01, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

TIME reported that Donna Bassett, a Boston writer, said she invented an abduction story and faked hypnotic-regression sessions with Harvard psychiatrist John Mack, who she said asked leading questions. Mack cited patient confidentiality; she repeated the account at a skeptics' conference in 1995.

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  1. PressThe Man From Outer Space (opens in a new tab)TIME (James Willwerth) / 1994-04-25
  2. OtherProfessor Mack and his Amazing Abducting Aliens (opens in a new tab)NZ Skeptics (abridged from a Skeptical Inquirer report) / 1995-05-01

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