HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS British Journal of Psychiatry Advances in Psychiatric Treatment All RCPsych Journals		QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced] Author: Keyword(s): Year:  Vol:  Page:

This Article Full Text (PDF) Submit an eLetter Alert me when this article is cited Alert me when eLetters are posted Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Citing Articles Citing Articles via CrossRef Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Klemperer, F. Search for Related Content PubMed Articles by Klemperer, F.

Sex with aliens: out of space or out of mind?

Community Help Service, rue St Georges 102, Box 20, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

Frances Klemperer reviews BBC2's Horizon programme of 3 December 1994. Extraterrestrial kidnapping is in vogue. A dozen books are available that detail accounts by alleged victims. A telephone survey of almost 6000 Americans revealed that many reported ‘abduction by an alien’. BBC's Horizon programme sent Dr Susan Blackmore, psychologist and TV-troubleshooter for the paranormal, to investigate.

Accompanied by the ethereal sounds of a didgeridoo, North American ‘abductees’ described how small grey beings, usually with large heads and large black eyes, take their victims to their brightly-lit craft. There they investigate and perform experiments (often hybrid breeding experiments) on the bodies of their captive humans, before returning them to where they were before. As a frequent abductee described it: "if I'm sitting reading a book when they come, I'm put back reading a book". Importantly, the aliens usually try, with some success, to erase the victim's memory of the experience: technology indeed.