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PROFESSOR SAYS ALIENS HAVE A CATCH AND RELEASE PROGRAM
"RETIRED" MONTREAL PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR DON CROSBIE DONDERI IS CONVINCED EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE EXISTS. THE EDUCATOR, WHO SPENT 47 YEARS AT MCGILL UNIVERSITY, INCLUDING AS ASSOCIATE DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES AND RESEARCH - APPLIES HIS INSIGHTS INTO PSYCHOLOGY TO A BOOK: UFOS, ETS, AND ALIEN ABDUCTIONS, A SCIENTIST LOOKS AT THE EVIDENCE. IT WILL BE PUBLISHED IN MAY. MR. DONDERI SPOKE TO THE POST'S JEN GERSON ON MONDAY"
Q. YOU WRITE ABOUT CASES OF HUMANS BELIEVING THEY WERE ABDUCTED. I BELIEVE YOUR PRESS RELEASE REFERS TO A "CATCH AND RELEASE" PROGRAM. DO YOU HAVE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THAT?
A. I don't personally have physical evidence to support that. What I say in the book is that the evidence of the extra-terrestrial nature of some of what UFO phenomenon is reported is in my opinion established beyond a reasonable doubt.
Professor Don Donderi
Q. GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF SOME OF THAT EVIDENCE.
A. 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. Everyone 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.
Q. CAN YOU TELL ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR BACKGROUND AND WHAT YOU DO?
A. I worked at McGill University from 1962 to 2009. I was an associate professor of psychological research and published well over 100 papers on one thing or another. In 1982 I co-founded a consulting company that does human factors ergonomics consulting. I've been on the mainstream of science and engineering my entire professional life.
Q. HOW DID YOU GET INTERESTED IN THIS PARTICULAR SUBJECT?
A. 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.
Q. WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF STUDIES SHOWING THAT HUMAN PERCEPTION IS A VERY SPOTTY THING. PEOPLE HAVE A WAY OF EVEN INVENTING MEMORIES; SOMETIMES WHEN MORE THAN ONE PERSON CLAIMS TO SEE SOMETHING, THEY START TALKING TO EACH OTHER AND CAN AFFECT EACH OTHERS' ACCOUNTS, FOR EXAMPLE
A. I cover all of this stuff [in my book] including everything you've talked about, because I've investigated some of these things professionally myself. I can assure you the evidence that survives a critical look at what might have contributed to those reports is sound evidence.
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