MEASURING A MYSTERY
In the late 1980s the interest in alien abductions reached its peak, and the scholarly two-volume UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery by folklorist Thomas Bullard inflamed a debate between those who regarded abductions as real events and those who saw them as the product of psycho-sociological factors. The former faction tended, with a few notable exceptions, to be based in the USA, and the latter in Europe.
Much of the debate was carried out from 1989 onwards in the pages of magazine, and was mainly kicked off by Bullard in his 34, Oct 1989). His main point was that: “The belief in abduction by extraterrestrials has a firm rational basis, whether that belief is right or wrong.”
