A Curious Aristocrat

P.T. Barnum had it right. But then, there are a lot of gullible people out there in the world. The three-dimensional world we know so well. We are not yet familiar with the four-dimensional world. But it is reputed to be out there. Who knows? We could be living simultaneous lives on a number of existential planes.

And then there are those planes that are lofted adrift in Outer Space timelessly flitting among Galaxies doing their social science research. From time to time visiting Planet Earth. Organisms of higher intellectual capability than mere humans aboard those orbs so popularly called 'flying saucers'. Who select specimens from among the human race to briefly study, then discard them.

Leaving no trace, and certainly no real memory in the recollection of most abductees who are briefly examined, then released back into the custody of their normal preoccupations and lifestyles, but with a niggling sense of something 'different' having occurred to them, a dim memory of something truly askew.

If you're an individual who as a young boy became fascinated with such accounts of alien abduction and unexplained phenomena, and urban legends like space ships being held in top-secret, highly confidential military confines so as not to alarm the public, such conspiracies are appealing. And if you eventually become an academic and that unshakable belief in the extraterrestrial visitors remains, you write a book.

Retired Montreal psychology professor Don Crosbie Donderi did just that. He wrote UFOs ETs and Alien Abductions, a Scientist looks at the Evidence.  Professor Donderi is convinced on the basis of his decades of research, that extraterrestrials do exist, that they have flown intergalactically, and have hovered above the globe, and have taken into custody human specimens to study.

"There is an entire chapter on six UFO abduction cases. Each of them has what you might call in common a touchstone. Every one of the people involved saw a close-up of a UFO. Every one of the people had missing time they could not account for, a period of an hour or more, maybe even two or three hours. After the initial sighting, they ended up driving down a road not knowing how they got there. In several other cases, people saw the UFO as well. Some of these people wound up with scars they could not explain."

Professor Donderi spent 47 years at McGill University, including as associate dean of the faculty of graduate studies and research. He submitted to an interview that was later published in a national Canadian newspaper.  He has no physical evidence to support his beliefs, but his knowledge of the human psyche leads him to believe that what he had recounted to him by those who believe they were abducted by extra-terrestrials establishes without a doubt his theories as fact.

"I was interested as a boy when this stuff started happening in 1947. I was old enough to read the newspapers. I'm a curious person and I was persuaded this was a curious phenomenon. Thirty years later, I had a university position. I had tenure. I could study things without worrying about what other people thought about them. This is a very liberating thing. Nobody except university professors have tenure in the world, it makes you an aristocrat right off the bat. You can do what you like as long as you do your work, which I always did."

Multiple photographs or photographs taken by gun cameras on fighter planes chasing UFOs, several examples of which the good professor is privy to, support his arguments, he says. Radar plots taken during a UFO chase. "...a tremendous amount of corroborative evidence".

This is not self-delusion, not waking nightmares, not intellectual and imaginative confusion, alcohol or drug-induced, or simply fanciful thinking. This.is.the.real.thing. Plausible, real.

Get your mind around that!