Encounters: The UFO Phenomenon, Exposed!/Encounters - The UFO Phenomenon, Exposed (1995).iso/abduct/abduc001.txt

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HUFON Abductions Investigation Update
by Vince Johnson


Master hypnotherapist Derrell Sims has been taking a different approach to
the abduction phenomenon. Sims uses forensic hypnotic regression as well as
a barrage of other techniques to break through induced amnesia and screen
memories that mask the abduction experiences of his clients, who usually
come to him only knowing that they experienced something weird, like missing
time, or paint mysteriously bubbling off their car at night. "When someone
comes to me and says 'I've been abducted by aliens,' it's almost always
fantasy or delusion," says Sims.

He takes a different approach, however, by utilizing "active measures" to
deal with abductees' interactions with their abductors. As chairman of
HUFON's Abductions Investigation Committee, Sims, along with his research
assistants Patrice Eldridge and Dale Musser, provide an abductions support
group for Houston-area abductees.

He is not exactly awed in his opinion of the mysterious entities that
reportedly kidnap people, and take them aboard flying saucers to conduct
medical procedures indicative of a genetic engineering / cross-breeding
project.

"First of all, they're stupid--they make mistakes," says Sims. He goes on to
describe instances where the otherworldly visitors make surprisingly dumb
errors, such as when one of his clients was a little girl and was taken
aboard a UFO in her tee shirt, and was later returned wearing a man's
oversized military jacket. Sims assumes that somewhere, a soldier awakened
to find himself squeezed into the child's tee shirt, and is currently
attempting to locate the man. Another case in point concerned Mr. Sims' own
abduction experience as a youth in New Mexico. He had been target shooting,
and when he suddenly came out of a trancelike state, he saw a grey "alien"
a short distance away. Says Sims, "I'm sure they did not intend for me to
come out of the trance state with a loaded rifle in my hands."

Like many abductees, Mr. Sims' children were at risk for abduction; his son
has also experienced the phenomenon.

Mr. Sims' case load exploded after the airing of the CBS mini-series of Budd
Hopkins' "Intruders." Some of the abductees who have come forward have
presented some remarkable medical evidence, such as the mother and daughter
whose x-rays reveal tiny T-shaped implants in their feet. He is currently
arranging for interested M.D.s to extract these implants for analysis.

According to Sims, "They seem to be discontinuing the use of metallic
implants in favor of organic implants, which are much harder for us to
detect."  Increased frequency of sightings of UFOs by abductees indicate
that the organic implants are not as efficient as the metallic ones, and
that UFOs must be closer to the abductees to "download" the data collected
by the implants. Sims believes that all UFO sightings are abduction-related,
and surmises that, "they're not here sightseeing."

One problem with recovering implants seems to be a reluctance on the part of
the abductees to have them removed. "Abductees have received a very strong
hypnotic suggestion not to tamper with them, they'll come up with a variety
of reasons not to have them removed," says Sims.

Like fighting fire with fire, Mr. Sims is attempting to establish post-
hypnotic suggestions in the abductees in order to establish a channel of
communication with the abducting entities. Another area of his research is
in attempting abduction intervention. This has met with some success; one
abductee who was hypnotically "programmed" to resist was able to thwart an
abduction attempt.

The HUFON abductions investigation team is compiling a personality profile on
abductees. One interesting common denominator among abductees in this study
is that many have the same rare allergy.

High strangeness is apparently the norm in abductions research. Several of
Sims' clients have reported "peripheral people," i.e., men-in-black (MIBs),
zombielike people, and even an "alien woman" wearing a cheap wig and driving
a red Escort! Persons unfamiliar with abductions research might scoff at such
claims, except that several of the abductees have reported the same entities
in different states and years apart.

At a recent HUFON event entitled "Working with the Abductees," Mr. Sims
presented a panel of six abductees who answered questions from a sometimes
skeptical audience. The abductees revealed themselves to be articulate,
rational, and convincing. Far from being self-proclaimed heralds of some
"Cosmic Brotherhood," they were just as puzzled about the phenomenon as the
rest of the audience.

Persons desiring more information, or wishing to report an anomalous
experience can contact Derrell Sims at [phone], or Patrice Eldridge at
[phone], or by writing c/o HUFON, P.O. Box 942, Bellaire TX 77402-
0942.