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1965, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, USA, SOMEONE:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

Psychologist and "contactee" Leo Sprinkle, USA, reportedly told that in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the USA, in 1965, at an unspecified date and time, a woman was with her husband close to a maize field, and remembers to have seen a light in the sky, beings, and a peaceful feeling associated with the experience.

Under hypnosis, she "remembered" to have parked the car at the edge of the road while a UFO landed. She came out on a side and her husband of the other, then she apparently lost consciousness and fell to ground, to awake when a being helped her stand up.

The being, not described, touched her cheek, leaving her with a feeling of love and compassion.

Basic information table:

Narratives:

[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:

Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1965, at an unknown time, while riding by a cornfield with her husband, the witness remembered a light in the sky, beings, and a peaceful feeling associated with the experience. Under hypnosis she recalled pulling over to the side of the road while a UFO landed, she got out on one side and her husband on the other. She apparently lost consciousness and fell to the ground, then awoke when a being helped her up. The being (not described) touched her on the cheek, leaving her with a sense of love and compassion.

Albert Rosales indicates as source Leo R. Sprinkle.

Points to consider:

Dr. Ronald Leo Sprinkle (born 1930) is an American psychologist who studied at the University of Colorado and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Missouri. He was possibly the first academic figure to investigate tales of alleged alien abduction, as soon as the 1960s. He used hypnosis to allegedly "recover suppressed memories" of people who suspected they were abducted by aliens and on the base of theses "recovered" stories, he told them and his readers that he concludes they were really abducted by aliens. Eventually, he became convinced that he too had been abducted by aliens. He was the founder of the "Rocky Mountain Conference on UFO Investigation" in 1980.

What happens is that when you put someone who came to see you with the idea that maybe she was in contact with aliens in the state of hypnosis, just about any sort of memories of aliens would surface. Not real aliens that were really met in real life! But any possible souvenir of forgotten dream, or any memory of a sci-fi show or movie, UFO documentary, book or magazine. and then, thanks to careless ufologist, you would end up really convinced that you met aliens.

Real memories recovered by hypnosis, yes, but real memories of any possible fiction. The case illustrate the dangers of this uncontrolled approach, as it can reinforce all kinds of beliefs.

In the 1980's, a number of British ufologists, and ufologists from other countries, realized that, and it materialized in Great Britain by a moratorium on the use of hypnosis by BUFORA, the British UFO Research Association, by the very pioneers of the use of hypnosis in Great Britain. This was a wise decision!

See the List of Issues below for more problems with this case.

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Evaluation:

Probably generated by use of hypnosis.

Sources references:

* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.

• [---] ? Dr. Leo R. Sprinkle, USA.
• [ar1] * "1965 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2007, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1965.shtml

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