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(BRYAN) C.D.B. Bryan ~ Close Encounters Of The Fourth Kind, Alien Abduction, UFOs, And The Conference At M.I.T

Author ~ C.D.B. Bryan

Title ~ Close Encounters Of The Fourth Kind, Alien Abduction, UFOs, And The Conference At M.I.T

ISBN ~ 9780307803160

Publisher ~ Knopf

Published ~ 1995

Language ~ English

Pages ~ 476

Format ~ Hardcover 

Condition ~ Used, Very Good 

• Good Bits ~ No notes or inscriptions. Not clipped 

• Bad Bits ~ Light marks and shelf wear. Dust jacket has a scratch going through the 'c' in the title, please see pictures 

Categories ~ #AlienAbduction, #Aliens, #UFOs, #UAP, #Philosophy, #PopularCulture, #Astrobiology, #Exobiology, #Biography, #Memoir, #NonFiction, #CDBBryan, #ISBN9780307803160

Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: cases in which personal contact between an individual or individuals is initiated by the “occupants” of the spacecraft. Such contact may involve the transportation of the individual from his or her terrestrial surroundings into the spacecraft, where the individual is communicated with and/or subjected to an examination before being returned.

One might expect that a “scientific conference” devoted to people who have reported being kidnapped by “little green men” would be dismissed out of hand. But C.D.B. Bryan, the greatly admired journalist and author of Friendly Fire, did not dismiss it: the conference was to be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and would have as its chairmen a Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatry professor and a professor of physics from M.I.T.

Bryan attended the conference throughout its five days. He approached the subject with no prior stand, no agenda, and an open (if slightly skeptical) mind.

As the conference progressed, he was astonished by the quality of the stories told by the hundreds of men and women who came forward hesitantly and reluctantly with their utterly amazing—and utterly convincing—accounts of having been abducted and then examined aboard extraterrestrial spacecraft by spindly limbed, telepathic gray creatures with outsized foreheads dominated by huge, compelling, tear-shaped black eyes.

What most astonished Bryan were the similarities found again and again in these account…

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