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AUGUST 1978, JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, USA, SOMEONE:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

Circa 2007, Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in Jackson, Mississippi, in the end of August 1978, at an unknown jour, a 28-year-old encountered a hovering disc-shaped object.

Under hypnosis, he recalled being invited inside by several men wearing shiny clothing, with almost human-appearing faces and raspy voice.

Later he began to hear voices in his head and had to undergo prolonged psychiatric treatment.

Albert Rosales says this comes from an "article by Ramona Cortez, and Don Worley."

Basic information table:

Narratives:

[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:

Albert Rosales indicates in his catalogue that in Jackson, Mississippi, on late August 1978, at an unknown time, the 28-year old witness encountered a hovering disc shaped object. Under hypnosis he recalled being invited inside by several men wearing shiny clothing, with almost human appearing faces and raspy voice. Later he began to hear voices in his head and had to undergo prolonged psychiatric treatment.

Albert Rosales indicates that the source is "Article by Ramona Cortez, and Don Worley."

Points to consider:

See the List of issues below. The case is so poorly documented as it stands, that almost any explanation is possible, someone's invention, invention by the alleged witness, psychiatric delusions case, rumor etc.

Some ufologists believe that the use of hypnosis is like the use of a "truth serum." It is not. Many ufologists realize this or eventually realized this.

Here, we know nothing on the use of hypnosis. We do not know whether the practitioner was a qualified and neutral medical personal, or an flying saucer buff. We know nothing of the questions asked, if they were directing or not. We do not know how many sessions there was, if they gave coherent results or not, in short, the so-called "hypnotic regression" here worth nothing.

We learn about the alleged witness: "Later he began to hear voices in his head and had to undergo prolonged psychiatric treatment." This gives reason for thinking that all this affair was but a sad story of someone hit by schizophrenia, quite simply. Whereas this appears obvious and that it would have obviously been necessary to document why this would not be the explanation, nothing is given to deny such an explanation.

While some have no problems with UFO occupants looking just like us, I certainly have.

In short: I do find it likely that any life form coming here from some other planet on board aircraft of their own would have arms, legs, a head with eyes, a mouth and so on. A small "extraterrestrial ladybird" for example would be too small to handle fire, thus could not have mastered metallurgy, hence could not have developed something like an aircraft. Most alien life-forms could indeed look like "plants" or "bacteria", but those who would develop a space travel technology would maybe have more or less humanoid features. But certainly, they would not look almost exactly like us. So I would reject this case as an invention or illusion by the alleged witness. And there is no hard evidence to prove me wrong, we only have a single, unnamed witness, and instead of a conscious report, we get "memories" allegedly "recalled" under hypnosis in undocumented conditions.

Ramona Cortez is apparently someone writing on things like "UFO's, ESP, Pyramid Power, and Psychic Phenomena" and "Crop circles".

List of issues:

Evaluation:

Not a CE3, Psychiatric probable.

Sources references:

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

• [---] ? Article by Ramona Cortez or by Ramona Cortez and Don Worley, USA.
• [---] ? Don Worley, USA.
• [ar1] * "1978 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2007, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1978.shtml

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