What Grays Look Like When the Witness Was Never Hypnotized
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In 1987 a folklorist named Thomas Eddie Bullard finished a two volume study for the Fund for UFO Research. He had gathered every abduction report he could find in the published literature up to 1985, 270 numbered entries making 312 cases, and then he did the thing almost nobody does with this material. He counted it.
Out of 429 recorded physical features of the beings, 377 describe one single creature. One hundred and sixty three cases, seventy two per cent, tell their episodes in the same order. Only thirty deviate, twenty seven of those by exactly one episode, and in three cases out of the entire catalogue has anything moved more than a single position. Ninety four per cent of the witnesses who lost time lost it at the same point in the story. Exactly one person in 312 described the full eight part sequence from beginning to end: Betty Andreasson, 1967.
Then, on page 322, Bullard splits his own best sample by whether the witness was ever hypnotized. Seventy three cases came to light under hypnosis. Thirty did not. And in the thirty, hair beats hairlessness, large ears beat small ears, fewer witnesses see gray skin at all, and the creature comes out taller and less human in shape. His own verdict on the next page is one sentence long.
This film is about both halves of that book, and about the man who wrote down the second half himself.
It also takes the contamination argument seriously, with dates. Martin Kottmeyer's 1990 essay Entirely Unpredisposed noticed that the wraparound eyes Barney Hill described under hypnosis on 22 February 1964 had appeared on The Outer Limits twelve days earlier. NBC broadcast The UFO Incident on 20 October 1975. Travis Walton was taken on 5 November, sixteen days later, and both Walton and Mike Rogers acknowledged having seen the broadcast.
SOURCE:
Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, Volume 1: Comparative Study of Abduction Reports. Fund for UFO Research, 1987.
Pages read on screen in this video:
p.48, the eight part pattern, and the note that Betty Andreasson's 1967 encounter is the only account containing all eight
p.52, Fidelity to Type, the 163 against 30, and the three cases that move more than one position
p.61, the time lapse in 188 cases and in its prescribed position in 177
p.68, the Hill case as a chronic offender against standard order, and the chi square result
p.266, 377 of 429 features orthodox, and the short list of what deviates
p.267, the standard being
p.322, the comparison of 73 hypnotic against 30 non-hypnotic cases
p.323, the verdict
Every figure spoken in this film is from those pages. Nothing here is dramatised and no witness in it is invented.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 The number nobody quotes
01:29 The folklorist
04:02 Eight parts
06:21 The first sixty seconds
12:02 The room
13:57 The order
16:32 The two famous exceptions
19:02 The standard being
21:06 The seam
24:09 The other explanation
27:27 What this does not prove
29:52 The coda
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What Grays Look Like When the Witness Was Never Hypnotized
OFF THE METER
1,698 views
In 1987 a folklorist named Thomas Eddie Bullard finished a two volume study for the Fund for UFO Research. He had gathered every abduction report he could find in the published literature up to 1985, 270 numbered entries making 312 cases, and then he did the thing almost nobody does with this material. He counted it.
Out of 429 recorded physical features of the beings, 377 describe one single creature. One hundred and sixty three cases, seventy two per cent, tell their episodes in the same order. Only thirty deviate, twenty seven of those by exactly one episode, and in three cases out of the entire catalogue has anything moved more than a single position. Ninety four per cent of the witnesses who lost time lost it at the same point in the story. Exactly one person in 312 described the full eight part sequence from beginning to end: Betty Andreasson, 1967.
Then, on page 322, Bullard splits his own best sample by whether the witness was ever hypnotized. Seventy three cases came to light under hypnosis. Thirty did not. And in the thirty, hair beats hairlessness, large ears beat small ears, fewer witnesses see gray skin at all, and the creature comes out taller and less human in shape. His own verdict on the next page is one sentence long.
This film is about both halves of that book, and about the man who wrote down the second half himself.
It also takes the contamination argument seriously, with dates. Martin Kottmeyer's 1990 essay Entirely Unpredisposed noticed that the wraparound eyes Barney Hill described under hypnosis on 22 February 1964 had appeared on The Outer Limits twelve days earlier. NBC broadcast The UFO Incident on 20 October 1975. Travis Walton was taken on 5 November, sixteen days later, and both Walton and Mike Rogers acknowledged having seen the broadcast.
SOURCE:
Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, Volume 1: Comparative Study of Abduction Reports. Fund for UFO Research, 1987.
Pages read on screen in this video:
p.48, the eight part pattern, and the note that Betty Andreasson's 1967 encounter is the only account containing all eight
p.52, Fidelity to Type, the 163 against 30, and the three cases that move more than one position
p.61, the time lapse in 188 cases and in its prescribed position in 177
p.68, the Hill case as a chronic offender against standard order, and the chi square result
p.266, 377 of 429 features orthodox, and the short list of what deviates
p.267, the standard being
p.322, the comparison of 73 hypnotic against 30 non-hypnotic cases
p.323, the verdict
Every figure spoken in this film is from those pages. Nothing here is dramatised and no witness in it is invented.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 The number nobody quotes
01:29 The folklorist
04:02 Eight parts
06:21 The first sixty seconds
12:02 The room
13:57 The order
16:32 The two famous exceptions
19:02 The standard being
21:06 The seam
24:09 The other explanation
27:27 What this does not prove
29:52 The coda