In depth coverage

Have followed this case for some time now with great interest. There’s always more to what current media shows. Highly recommend reading/listening

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Really enjoyed this book!

Having read Calvin Parker’s previous book I thought I would not learn anything further from this book but I was wrong. Having a chance to hear all the hypnotic regression recordings were just fascinating. These recordings go into detail and you can get a feel for the emotions that the abductees were feeling. Some of the Audio of the regression sessions are not great but you must understand that some of these recordings are old, recorded on cassette tape as such you cannot expect crystal clear digital quality. Another classic from Philip Mantle. WUFORN

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A proper investigation

I was given a free audio copy in exchange for an honest review and wow, this book is packed full of witness testimony and extensive regressions to pour over. If you’re a fan of knowing every detail of an investigation to the point of being able to thoroughly be involved with the investigation itself, then this book is for you. The author took a lot of time to compile this and it shows! Great work taking this case seriously!

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Fantastic archive but with a questionable addendum

The recordings are fascinating to listen to, although I wonder if the audio quality can be improved on some of them?

My opinion is that there needs to be a more rounded discussion of hypnosis. It’s mentioned several times that regression therapy is “frowned upon”, and Kathleen Marden sets out some of the critique, but she does this from her own corner of firmly held belief.

For example, Marden points to Clancy’s claim that alien abduction is not possible, while seeing no irony in the fact that she’s an “experiencer” herself and believes that abduction by aliens is real. So, they are equally biased at the outset of any investigation.

Marden claim’s “hypnosis facilitates the recall of accurate information” but cites no study. Rather, the literature shows that hypnosis has no significant effect on the accuracy of recollected detail.

Marden may be alluding to the Stalnaker-Riddle experiment from the 1930s which apparently showed Hypnosis aided recall of a text. However, the results were not repeatable. Later experiments showed that hypnotised subjects were just more likely to give more answers, thereby increasing their likelihood of correct answers — but it also increased confidence in incorrect answers.

It could also be mentioned that while Freud saw that hypnotically retrieved biographical memories are “emotionally valid”, there’s no way for the patient or researcher to determine their truth. One of the reasons why he abandoned hypnosis as a method in favour of free-association.


Crystal Slaughter’s “regression” of Maria Blair is deeply troubling and is a questionable addendum to this otherwise fascinating collection of recordings. It’s not because of the content of Maria’s responses but because of how the session is conducted.

The 25 or so minutes of her induction will no doubt infuriate hypnosis researchers who argue that hypnotic induction is a myth in need of being dispelled. It’s simply not necessary, they argue, as practitioners of “handshake induction” can demonstrate.

Although, it’s stated that Slaughter was not provided with any instructions beforehand, she’s clearly knowledgeable about the supposed pattern of an alien abduction, and this is revealed by her leading questions.

For example:

She asks/suggests if Maria had been undressed yet, “You still have your clothes on and everything?” [03:20] pt 2. And later says “Lets see if they end up touching you in any kind of way” [15:24] pt. 2.

If she’s asking these questions because they’ve had a conversation about the abduction prior to the session, then how can it be claimed that Slaughter is going into the regression blind?

Slaughter also constantly pressurises Maria to provide a response and seems impatient to get to the next piece of content, saying: things like:
“Fast forward to the next scene”
“zoom in to that scene there”
“Tell me more”
“You have a RIGHT to know [what the aliens are keeping from her]….We demand to know”

Unfortunately she sounds more like a stage hypnotist when she commands “1,2,3 now” - as a mechanism to elicit a response from what sounds like a reluctant Maria.

She also inserts details saying: “You’re back on earth” - but, Maria never said she’d left Earth, only that she’d been inside a spacecraft.

Most troubling is Slaughter’s invocation of other consciences to assist in the retrieval of detail when Maria is struggling to provide answers. This is at odds with the other abduction researchers in this collection - (with the possible exception of Marden, who asks for Calvin Parker’s subconscious to speak for him).

Slaughter asks “Can we get someone from Maria’s spiritual team?” to help out. She also asks Maria to “connect with the consciousness” of one of the beings [aliens] to ask why they are taking her DNA and eggs. But, how exactly is that supposed to work? 45 years after the supposed event the answer has lay dormant in the mind of an alien consciousness who just hadn’t been asked in the proper way?

When Maria does provide a response to the question about what the aliens mission is, she says “To help mankind”, to which Slaughter praises the answer as “Very good!”, as if Maria had provided the “correct” answer.

Another problem is that at one point Maria says’ they’ve put her out (made her unconscious) yet the Slaughter insists Maria can simply change her consciousness to view the scene from outside of herself - the assumption being that hypnosis can tap into some objective recording of the whole scene that exists independent of Maria’s senses.

Far and away the biggest criticism of using hypnosis to aid recall is the problem of Source Monitoring. What is the referent of the memory? Was it real experience, science fiction, or a book about alien abduction? Hypnosis has been shown to interfere with the ability to make that determination. (See for example Martin Orne’s demonstrations in the 1960s, with wide-awake, yet hypnotised, subjects who are (quite calmly) unable to distinguish between a real person and a hallucinated one).

It’s this problem of source monitoring which I think is a problem for Maria Blair’s account, and makes me question her addendum to the Pascagoula collection.

There is nothing novel in any of her responses about her supposed abduction. All of the descriptive details she provides (which are very few) are already public knowledge. Hickson & Parker’s story by this time is decades old, well known and has been retold in various ways — as have the stories of numerous other supposed alien abductees.

The terror of aliens harvesting DNA and reproductive material from humans has been well covered - particularly in the TV miniseries Intruders (1992) based on Budd Hopkins’ research.

But it’s two particular details which appear to reveal that Maria may have a similar source monitoring problem and is remembering not an actual experience but her exposure to abduction literature.

Consider these remarks that Maria gives while under hypnosis:
She describes how aliens are taking human DNA to make “new beings” to “make their race better” and that “they’re among us now” - by this she’s referring to alien human hybrids. She goes on to say “they’re driving cars” - because, for some reason, she believes these hybrids are driving cars.

Now compare these remarks to the title of a book by abduction researcher David Jacobs — “Walking Among Us The Alien Plan to Control Humanity” (2015). In it he describes the exact same strategy employed by aliens to breed with humans the make new beings, and it has a whole section about hybrids [he calls them Hubrids] driving cars as a means to fit in with human society. A quote from that book:

“Driving gives the hubrids freedom from a UFO and its transportation technology, and allows them to insinuate themselves more closely into society.” p.157 in a chapter named “Integrating Hubrids”.

For this to be a coincidence seems unlikely. So it raises the question of how (or who) is able to determine what details in Blair’s remarks should be considered factual and what are cultural contaminants. In this recording neither subject nor hypnotist appear to know that answer.

I may have missed it but did the Blair’s provide any contemporaneous notes about their abduction, diary entries for example before they remained silent about their encounter with aliens for 45 years?

Without such records why shouldn’t we believe that the Blair’s simply have an emotionally valid, yet incorrect, notion that they were in the vicinity of the famous UFO abduction event at Pascagoula in 1973?

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Fantastic!

I became friends with Calvin around a year before his passing. He was as genuine as night and day. Even so, this book has made me realise just what a good honest man he was, and what an ordeal they had to deal with on a daily basis. Philip and all involved in this book should be extremely proud of their work. It is a testament to all that we get to share this remarkable story. It is both amazing and scary, a story that stands the test of time. This book like the previous brings it to life in a way that will have listeners/readers hooked. R.I.P. Calvin and Charles, your story will live on.

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