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Carol Rainey, former wife of Bud Hopkins, tells a story in videos of Bud.

Newly revised, "A Key Witness" is an excerpt from a documentary in progress,"Priests of High Strangeness." It is filmmaker Carol Rainey's uniquely personal journey into the heart of a human enigma—the UFO abduction phenomenon. Shot over ten years of marriage to a leading UFO investigator, Rainey's film is a detective story and a story of love that goes awry during the couple's pursuit of answers to an otherworldly mystery.


Newly revised, this is excerpt #2 from the rough cut of "Priests of High Strangeness: Co-Creation of the Alien Abduction Phenomenon." Producer/Director: Carol Rainey. The series of excerpts focuses on the controversial research techniques used by some well-known alien abduction investigators.

Their subjects certainly are having inexplicable and baffling experiences and the researchers do offer the therapeutic, healing benefits that come from any empathetic, willing listener.

But what have we actually learned about the phenomenon? The how, the why, the who, the where, and when? Coming out of the humanities and arts, the few researchers making the most lurid claims are simply extrapolating far beyond what their actual data or evidence can support. The tools used--primarily hypnotic memory retrieval--are also so unreliable that the testimony based on hypnosis is not allowed in the U.S. courts.

Linda Cortile, main subject of the book "Witnessed," has stated on several occasions that 80-85% of her memories of alien abduction were retrieved during hypnosis sessions. Her interactions with investigator Budd Hopkins are at the heart of this 18 minute segment.


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The majority of abductees remember the beginning and end, sometimes fragments if we wake up during... if all is thru hypnosis, I would also discount it and the person. I was hypnotised by Budd once because I remembered so many of my encounters, same as people with me.. Remembered being electrocuted before all memories stop - that's all I recovered thru hypnosis...Budd had to bring me out off it as I was screaming, freaking out.

Check with Kathy what's her name, head of abductions for MUFON. Betty and Barney Hills niece..I.did her survey and she also found out the majority of us all remember vivid parts without hypnosis...how else would we be traumatised...unlike the rest whom are having dreams... If you haven't had a extreme up close encounter.....you probably are not an abductee...and if no one else in your family has/had encounters, sees up close UFOs --again you are not likely an abductee...This is a family thing, for generations.

My mom described a morning encounter when they came out of the milk barn around 1945 when everyone wondered what was making the noise, hovering 50 feet off the ground in the middle of the yard....she described it as a really shiny sombrero...and the place behind the house where one landed before that.. As a big round circle 50 feet across - like someone took a huge teapot and pressed it into the hard dirt..perfectly round, flat bottom and nothing ever grew there and not only wouldn' t the cows go near (she moved them around for grazing, so she knew) but for some weird reason none of her brothers would play in that field either...

Her parents left the Hutterite colony in Fremont South Dakota around WW1 and moved to Saskatchewan for cheap land and to avoid being forced to fight as they were pacifists for 600 years. Really, really religious even grandma would hush and say all that paranormal stuff was the devil.

Sometimes witnesses catch a glimpse of a UFO abducting a relative or neighbour and then get all freaked out that they are an abductee. Of course they would be scared

Linda (in that video)was a very nervous, chain smoking woman that I never felt good about..She maybe an abductee, but I think she may have exaggerated too much.. I don't know, but we can usually feel who in a room is one. And who is lieing..

Budd's last wife I never liked..I almost warned him she was a snake.. You could see how hurt or jealous she was when his time was being used by abductees and she was left alone. Now she is still trying to destroy this kind man - and he is dead...

Now, here is a question..everyone critizises researchers like Budd.. He was to most of us - a friend, a refuge at times of abject terror...None of the others could or would give such time... There is no research...no microscopes. Instruments to tune, programs to use...Nothing... How can you be a researcher..of what.. If I read 300 comic books - does that make me a Comicolgist. All there are people whom listen to experiences or witnesses and tell each other the stories, write books, go to comic conventions (I mean ) UFO conventions and yak yak yak making up theories on podcasts. Problem is 95% of abductees don't talk to these frauds, most witnesses go under cover very quickly after their sighting at places like O'Hare airport.. And the rest whom get excited over little lights in the sky and heat rashes when they wake up with no memory because they were sleeping...and finally get people to listen to their problems because everyone else won't listen anymore.. .because now they have another sexier reason for being so screwed up... UFOs.

We don't seek out help for decades, me 45 years... have so many close encounters that we can no long deny it any more.. Then maybe we reach out. Most often quickly and only temporarily. Budd told me most of the people he worked with go crazy, start drinking or drugs, self medicate thru church or cults or just crack up.

When you grow up terrified and no one to protect you, no one to talk to...you never learn to trust...and we very often never do.. Being hypnotised was extremely frightening, took 2 months to get the courage, after being warned over and over not to as you may open up a can of worms you shouldn't open and you better have very strong family support and financial strength or forget it...and Budd was there for you after an abduction that puts you into a feral position for weeks...never ever wanting to hypnotise ,,,, just there to help you feel safe again..The majority of these researchers are losers whom never wanted to work 9-5 and like used car salesmens are ready to sell the next BS . A large percentage are hynosists making a fortune from poor mentally handicapped people whom saw something out of the corner of their eye... Yup way better than the odd stop smoking or over weight person...

Everyone on Mufons abduction team is a hypnotist, one even frauduantely calling himself a Doctor of Clinical Hypnosis. Total phony mail order degree that Kathy says he did not even write his thesis. But paid that degree mill for the made up PhD so its OK because he has done so for 20 years.. It was not his fault they werent certified. I have that in an email from her saying that..right after she announced on a podcast that she was an abductee as well and the only way to get over the trauma, the PTSD was thru hypnosis ..then you will know, like her that she agreed to be abducted before she was born, and it is actually a wonderful thing. The president of MUFON refused to talk about this, referred me to her and she confirmed they are independent and are not under the control of MUFON.. Wow

Nice, they have a network of hypnotist's to refer to each other....cha ching cha ching

You do know that hypnosis is a self regulating group that makes up their own rules, but if you pay you can join and it sounds more official... Some states like WA lists it as the same as crystal channelling or witches and as long as you don't have a criminal record they don't care what you call yourself. .BUT PhDs and Doctors must meet the Federal agencies regulations and be from a federally approved institution...not a state made up one..but they have lost control with these con colleges ripping off the unsuspecting public..

One of these issues Masters and PhDs of Ufology... Wow. You would be shocked which big time researcher publisher is a online teacher at that one. Cha ching

I have so much of this stuff about these con people.. Reminds me of some evangelists whom steal from stupid and damaged people.. These nuts ensure this remains a laughing stock while many suffer a life of surreal terror and the rest fork over thousands for a certificate making them an Ambassador to ET... Hell for half price I'll make them ruler of a Amazonian planet full of sex starved women or men if they want...

sick sick

I've ranted and raged enough..this field is full of con men and I'm wasting my breath..

Good bye, delete my member stuff
 
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The majority of abductees remember the beginning and end, sometimes fragments if we wake up during... if all is thru hypnosis, I would also discount it and the person. I was hypnotised by Budd once because I remembered so many of my encounters, same as people with me.. Remembered being electrocuted before all memories stop - that's all I recovered thru hypnosis...Budd had to bring me out off it as I was screaming, freaking out.

Check with Kathy what's her name, head of abductions for MUFON. Betty and Barney Hills niece..I.did her survey and she also found out the majority of us all remember vivid parts without hypnosis...how else would we be traumatised...unlike the rest whom are having dreams... If you haven't had a extreme up close encounter.....you probably are not an abductee...and if no one else in your family has/had encounters, sees up close UFOs --again you are not likely an abductee...This is a family thing, for generations.

My mom described a morning encounter when they came out of the milk barn around 1945 when everyone wondered what was making the noise, hovering 50 feet off the ground in the middle of the yard....she described it as a really shiny sombrero...and the place behind the house where one landed before that.. As a big round circle 50 feet across - like someone took a huge teapot and pressed it into the hard dirt..perfectly round, flat bottom and nothing ever grew there and not only wouldn' t the cows go near (she moved them around for grazing, so she knew) but for some weird reason none of her brothers would play in that field either...

Her parents left the Hutterite colony in Fremont South Dakota around WW1 and moved to Saskatchewan for cheap land and to avoid being forced to fight as they were pacifists for 600 years. Really, really religious even grandma would hush and say all that paranormal stuff was the devil.

Sometimes witnesses catch a glimpse of a UFO abducting a relative or neighbour and then get all freaked out that they are an abductee. Of course they would be scared

Linda (in that video)was a very nervous, chain smoking woman that I never felt good about..She maybe an abductee, but I think she may have exaggerated too much.. I don't know, but we can usually feel who in a room is one. And who is lieing..

Budd's last wife I never liked..I almost warned him she was a snake.. You could see how hurt or jealous she was when his time was being used by abductees and she was left alone. Now she is still trying to destroy this kind man - and he is dead...

Now, here is a question..everyone critizises researchers like Budd.. He was to most of us - a friend, a refuge at times of abject terror...None of the others could or would give such time... There is no research...no microscopes. Instruments to tune, programs to use...Nothing... How can you be a researcher..of what.. If I read 300 comic books - does that make me a Comicolgist. All there are people whom listen to experiences or witnesses and tell each other the stories, write books, go to comic conventions (I mean ) UFO conventions and yak yak yak making up theories on podcasts. Problem is 95% of abductees don't talk to these frauds, most witnesses go under cover very quickly after their sighting at places like O'Hare airport.. And the rest whom get excited over little lights in the sky and heat rashes when they wake up with no memory because they were sleeping...and finally get people to listen to their problems because everyone else won't listen anymore.. .because now they have another sexier reason for being so screwed up... UFOs.

We don't seek out help for decades, me 45 years... have so many close encounters that we can no long deny it any more.. Then maybe we reach out. Most often quickly and only temporarily. Budd told me most of the people he worked with go crazy, start drinking or drugs, self medicate thru church or cults or just crack up.

When you grow up terrified and no one to protect you, no one to talk to...you never learn to trust...and we very often never do.. Being hypnotised was extremely frightening, took 2 months to get the courage, after being warned over and over not to as you may open up a can of worms you shouldn't open and you better have very strong family support and financial strength or forget it...and Budd was there for you after an abduction that puts you into a feral position for weeks...never ever wanting to hypnotise ,,,, just there to help you feel safe again..The majority of these researchers are losers whom never wanted to work 9-5 and like used car salesmens are ready to sell the next BS . A large percentage are hynosists making a fortune from poor mentally handicapped people whom saw something out of the corner of their eye... Yup way better than the odd stop smoking or over weight person...

Everyone on Mufons abduction team is a hypnotist, one even frauduantely calling himself a Doctor of Clinical Hypnosis. Total phony mail order degree that Kathy says he did not even write his thesis. But paid that degree mill for the made up PhD so its OK because he has done so for 20 years.. It was not his fault they werent certified. I have that in an email from her saying that..right after she announced on a podcast that she was an abductee as well and the only way to get over the trauma, the PTSD was thru hypnosis ..then you will know, like her that she agreed to be abducted before she was born, and it is actually a wonderful thing. The president of MUFON refused to talk about this, referred me to her and she confirmed they are independent and are not under the control of MUFON.. Wow

Nice, they have a network of hypnotist's to refer to each other....cha ching cha ching

You do know that hypnosis is a self regulating group that makes up their own rules, but if you pay you can join and it sounds more official... Some states like WA lists it as the same as crystal channelling or witches and as long as you don't have a criminal record they don't care what you call yourself. .BUT PhDs and Doctors must meet the Federal agencies regulations and be from a federally approved institution...not a state made up one..but they have lost control with these con colleges ripping off the unsuspecting public..

One of these issues Masters and PhDs of Ufology... Wow. You would be shocked which big time researcher publisher is a online teacher at that one. Cha ching

I have so much of this stuff about these con people.. Reminds me of some evangelists whom steal from stupid and damaged people.. These nuts ensure this remains a laughing stock while many suffer a life of surreal terror and the rest fork over thousands for a certificate making them an Ambassador to ET... Hell for half price I'll make them ruler of a Amazonian planet full of sex starved women or men if they want...

sick sick

I've ranted and raged enough..this field is full of con men and I'm wasting my breath..

Good bye, delete my member stuff
Thanks for sharing Grant. It's good to get an inside perspective from an actual expierencer. Your opinions and point of view are well heard here
 
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