Robert A. Baker

Well—trained and knowledgeable hypnotists who have worked with people who claim to have been abducted by aliens have discovered that the subjects were quite prone to fantasies and that their abduction experiences were actually inspired by dreams and books they had read. Following an explosion of alleged alien abduction cases in the 1980s, many untrained, amateur hypnotists began contacting abductees and elicited strange accounts of abductions and medical and sexual experimentation. However, a close examination of alleged abductees and the stories they tell during hypnosis finds that a large amount of information contained in their accounts are confabulations-made—up "facts" told as if they were really true. In fact, hypnotists can suggest in their subjects memories of events that never happened. Due to amateur hypnotist—gurus...