Regret Is Alien to UFO Abductees

Harvard University psychology researcher Susan Clancy thinks the chances are good that you know at least one person who claims to have been abducted by aliens. And she has another surprise: The people who tell these stories aren't candidates for the funny farm.

Eu cá não conheço ninguém, mas gostava de conhecer! Alguém conhece alguém que tenha sido raptado e tenha regressado para contar a desventura?

"They're not nuts," said Clancy, a postdoctoral researcher and author of a new book, the first to analyze the psychological underpinnings of abduction stories. "They're normal."

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Sim, sim, de acordo.

And she throws in a new wrinkle: Despite the horrors that many abductees report enduring, including rape, they don't regret the experiences.

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Não se arrependem da experiência, mesmo com violação incluída no pacote?! (Ou neste caso “do pacote”!?) Hmmm...

In fact, the lives and occupations of abductees are often entirely ordinary. Clancy writes about her interviews with several schoolteachers, a dermatologist, a spa chef and a house cleaner. One was abducted while watching David Letterman's show in order to create "hybrid babies"; another told about aliens who wanted to "buy land in New Hampshire, stay here and breed."

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Quem diz o David Letterman, diz o Esquadrão G ou a 1ª Companhia...

She said she asked abductees if they'd relive their experiences if given the chance to change the past. "Not one of them ever said, 'I wish it didn't happen."

E quem somos nós para contrariar essa maioria silenciosa.

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