Date:   Fri Mar 19 1993  15:13:48
From:   Bruce Baugh
To:     David Bloomberg
Subj:   UFO Abductions
UFO                            -------------------------------

On (17 Mar 93) David Bloomberg wrote to Brian Karem...

 DB> "ship" that allegedly abducted them and then brought it back.  Some
 DB> people have claimed to have strange marks that they didn't have before,
 DB> but there hasn't been medical confirmation of this that I know of.

This is a matter where I have some direct knowledge. No, I've
never been abducted, to the best of my knowledge. I DO have
complex immunological and neurological problems, which have
included allergic reactions to common neurotransmitters and
other not-very-fun problems. I too have woken up to find my
body bearing strange burn-like marks, odd weals that look
vaguely like the sort of script shown in pulp magazines, and
so forth. I've even seen them appear over a period of seconds
or minutes without any apparent trigger only to fade equally
mysteriously.

But...I've also had these circumstances reproduced in a
properly equipped allergy-testing lab (those of Dr. Jonathan
Wright in Kent, WA, and of Dr. Michael Rosenbaum in Marin, Ca,
to be specific). I know them to be reactions to things that
people don't normally react allergically to (and which don't
usually provoke such reactions in those who DO react). I can
pin down emotional changes, losses of short-term memory (how
weird it is to pick up a book I _know_ I read and find it all
strange--maybe even stranger to pick up a book I know I have
no recollection of at all and find it familiar), and lots of
other strange stuff to similar sources.

Too often I see a dichotomy between "my UFO experience
happened just as I said and means just what I say" and "your
UFO experience is a fabrication or delusion". It could, for
example, be something like my situation, only undiagnosed; it
took my family five years to get things pinned down, and
someone with less background in non-standard health approaches
or less orneriness and willingess to keep at it could miss
such understanding altogether.

Evidence is evidence. But it doesn't have to mean what the
presenter claims.

--- PPoint 1.54  "Gamera is really neat, he is full of turtle meat..."
 * Origin: A clever origin line. (1:105/40.23)