John Mack decided to fight back and hired a lawyer, Eric MacLeish. It was the first time in Harvard's history that a tenured professor was subjected to such an investigation. Mack was sent a letter informing him that there was to be an inquiry into his research on alien abductions. It shot to the top of the best sellers list and John Mack appeared on radio and television programmes. In 1990 John Mack's book Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens was published. "I have come to realise this abduction phenomenon forces us, if we permit ourselves to take it seriously, to re-examine our perception of human identity - to look at who we are from a cosmic perspective," he said. And it was this that forced Mack to question who we are in the deepest and broadest sense. The whole experience is often accompanied by a change in the experiencer's understanding of humanity's place in the universe. But then I began to look at the experience outside myself and realised that hundreds if not thousands of people reported that exact same experience. "And that's how I felt when I initially had these experiences. But if it was just me who had contact with aliens, who had intimate experience with female aliens and producing hybrid offspring, I would say I'm certifiable, put me away, I'm crazy.
"Absolutely, every day to a certain degree because the majority of the world says you're crazy for having these experiences. "Have I questioned my own sanity"? says Peter Faust an experiencer and close friend of John Mack's. Sperm samples are taken and women have fertilised eggs implanted or removed.
They are then subjected to procedures in which instruments are used to penetrate virtually every part of their bodies, including the nose, sinuses, eyes, arms - abdomen and genitalia. Usually the experiencer says they are accompanied by one or two or more humanoid beings who guide them to a ship. They say they are unable to move they become extremely hot and then appear to float through solid objects, which their logical mind tells them can't be happening. Here at last was a highly respected psychiatrist who was not only prepared to listen - but also take what they were saying seriously.Īn abductee - or "experiencer" as they prefer to be known - says that alien encounters begin most commonly in their homes and at night. Many had never told anyone else of their experiences apart from Mack for fear of ridicule from colleagues, friends and family. And if reality as we know it was unable to take these experiences into serious consideration then what was needed was a change in our perception of reality. They were not mentally ill or delusional, he said, and it was the responsibility of academicians and psychiatrists not only to take what they said seriously, but to try to understand exactly what that experience was.
Their experiences, he said, were genuine. Then, in 1990, he turned the academic community upside down because he wanted to publish his research in which he said that people who claimed they had been abducted by aliens, were not crazy at all. Professor John E Mack was an eminent Harvard psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and Pulitzer Prize winner whose clinical work had focused on explorations of dreams, nightmares and adolescent suicide. Ten years on from a row which nearly lost him his job, hundreds of people who claim they were abducted still revere him. Not many scientists are prepared to take tales of alien abduction seriously, but John Mack, a Harvard professor who was killed in a road accident in north London last year, did. Object of fascination: a model of an alien at a Roswell museum
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