Case file · Abduction
David M. Jacobs
Temple University historian (b. 1942) who wrote a serious history of the UFO controversy and then became a leading abduction researcher.
1992 CE · 39.98, -75.16 · status: claim
The account
His 'The UFO Controversy in America' (1975), based on his dissertation, is still cited by historians. He then used hypnosis with abductees in 'Secret Life' (1992) and argued in 'The Threat' (1998) that aliens are creating hybrids to infiltrate humanity.
The sceptical view
Carl Sagan, Martin Gardner and psychologist Susan Clancy criticised his hypnosis methods and his reliance on recovered memories.
Connections in the atlas
- Secret Life
- John E. Mack
- Budd Hopkins
- Betty & Barney Hill