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Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at M.I.T.

A journalist attended and chronicled the landmark 1992 MIT abduction study conference organized by John Mack and physicist David Pritchard, presenting a balanced, novelistic account of the researchers, abductees, and skeptics who clashed there — and his own gradual unsettlement in the face of testimony he could not dismiss.

Author
C.D.B. Bryan
Published
1995
Library rank
#94

Why it matters

The most vivid firsthand account of the moment abduction research briefly entered elite scientific institutional space.