X-Files
agent Fox Muldar has nothing on Abbotsford resident Arva
Abraham. The 39 year old has been abducted and visited
regularly by aliens.
"The
truth is out there, that's for sure," says Abraham
borrowing a line from the popular television show which
explores the phenomenon.
She
is bringing other abductees to the Clearbrook branch of
the Fraser Valley Library for a May 3 seminar between 1
and 4 pm.
Abraham
describes
the aliens as grey with large heads, long narrow eyes, and
long three fingered hands.
She
says four times in the last five years she has awoken from
hazy scenarios with vague memories of aliens probing and
inspecting her with medical tools and lasers, adding she
awakes with burned skin, scars on her forehead, ringing
ears and severe headaches.
"There
is no explanation of why I woke up like that," she says.
Dr.
Barry Beyerstein is an SFU psychologist who heads the B.C.
Skeptics Association. Yes, the truth is out there he says.
"I
have a version of it that makes more sense to me."
While
not discounting the possibility of life existing elsewhere
in the universe, he says alien visit type experiences are
products of regular sleep-dream patterns or disorders
which people try to interpret.
"In
the past,similar experiences were attributed to demons,
fairies or witches," says Beyerstein, (who by the way,
does not watch the X-Files).
"There's
a lot of people out there who fervently believe it."
Astronomer
David
Dodge of the H.R. McMillan Planetarium says he receives
reports constantly.
"Where
I can't help them astronomically, I pass it on. "Dodge
says he hasn't seen anything, personally, that he couldn't
explain.
Graham
Conway, president of UFO*BC, says more people are
reporting these experiences because the social atmosphere
is opening up, in part, because of the TV and movie
industry's focus on the phenomenon. "They feel as though
they are being watched." He says B.C. has the highest
number of UFO in Canada.
"Absence
of
evidence is not evidence of Absence" Conway says.
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