Marital Status of Abductees
From: jpolanik@mindspring.com
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 08:31:43 -0800
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Researcher John Rimmer wrote:
If we look at those cases where women have been abducted alone, or
in the company of other women ... we find a distinct tendency
towards the phenomenon selecting women who are divorced, separated
or undergoing some sort of marital or sexual crisis.
Besides the _The Addreasson Affair_, three popular American books on
abductions (_Missing Time_ by Budd Hopkins; _Abducted!_ by Coral and
Jim Lorenzen; and _Direct Encounters_ by Judith and Alan Gansberg)
give details of eleven women who have described abduction
experiences.
... of the eleven women described in these cases, it can be seen
that four are divorcees, one a widow, and two living in a lesbian
relationship. Only two out of the eleven appear to have been married
and living with their husbands at the time of the incidents.
The sample on which this survey is based is far too small for any
conclusions to be drawn, but it does suggest a line of approach for
future investigators.
In the past, many UFO researchers have neglected to collect personal
details of the background of witnesses, feeling that this was not
relevant to the subject they were studying. This may be
understandable, but it assumes that the UFO phenomenon is external
to the witness and quite unconnected with their own personal
circumstances. This is far from being proven and there is strong
evidence to suggest the the UFO mystery is very much tied up with
the individuals who experience it.
[_The Evidence for Alien Abductions. p. 73-4.]
Does anyone have further information about possible gender differences
between experiencers and non-experiencers (or is it 'experience
reporters' and 'experience non-reporters')?
If there is a gender difference in the experiencing of alien abductions
(and not a gender difference in the reporting of such experiences) with
females experiencing more abductions than males, that would be another
piece of evidence that ASP was different from SUNDS (or that abductions
were differentially fatal to males).
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Joseph Polanik, jpolanik@mindspring.com
Trionic Research Institute
http://www.trionica.com
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Index: Alien Abduction (#49)
Created: Mar 31, 1998
