John Mack publishes Abduction

Name: John Mack publishes Abduction
Start: 1994
Location: Cambridge, MA

When: 1994
Where: Cambridge, MA
Sources: 2 public sources

John Mack (with Budd Hopkins) in a 1995 session with a woman reporting an encounter Becket01, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Harvard Medical School psychiatrist John E. Mack published Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens, drawn from his work with people who said they had been taken by aliens. Harvard reviewed his methods and in 1995 decided not to censure him, affirming his academic freedom.

Sources

PressHMS Takes No Action Against 'UFO Doctor' (opens in a new tab)The Harvard Crimson / 1995-08-04
PressU.F.O.s and Ph.D.s (opens in a new tab)The Harvard Crimson (Samuel J. Rascoff, column) / 1995-05-05

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Earlier in Close encountersCarleton study finds UFO reporters psychologically typicalNov 1993 Later in Close encountersMeng Zhaoguo abduction claim, Wuchang, Heilongjiang1994

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