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Prisoners of a UFO

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John G. Fuller

PRISONERS OF A UFO

Armenia, Milan 1974, 1997


There are three good reasons in order riproporre to the public Italian this book after trent' years from its publication originates them (ventitré from its first Italian edition): the interrupted travel of the Hill spouses remains one miliare stone of the ufologica casuistry, let alone the prototype of the cases of " rapimento UFO " (abduction); the volume of Fuller has been one of the classics of the ufologica literature; the case and its surveying have still much from dirci today that the abduction they are not more therefore rare and indeed to seeming of many they would constitute the nucleus centers them of phenomenon UFO
E' difficult to find someone, between the students and gets passionate you to it of ufologia, than it has not never felt to speak about the " case of the Hill spouses ". More or less diffusely all the books and the specialistic reviews have written some nearly.
case had importance historical only, because it was the first one in which the witnesses they told of to have been kidnapped from a UFO, to reach acquaintance of the great public; at the same time it was the first case of this type to seriously attract the attention of the same students of ufologia, to the age extremely prudent (in order not
to say skeptics) on the cases of encounter it even draws near you of third type (IR-3).
Since first years ' 50, the storys of the contattisti (persons who said themselves in less regular contact more or with the extraland pilots of flying discs) in fact had had the twofold effect to generate an underbrush of nearly-religious movements (in which the contattista it carried out the function of the prophet inspired from divinity tecnologizzate), and to disqualify to the eyes of the public, mass medium and the scientists every the future testimony of umanoidi beings it associates you to the UFO presence. This prejudgment of bottom lasted until the half of years ' 60, when - more or less at the same time - they were publishes some monographic books to you that riabilitarono those that only years after was then calls IR-3 to you, indeed they overbearing carried them to the center of the attention of the students. The book of Fuller (with to the volume of the spouses Lorenzen [ 1 ] and to the first special number of the English review Flying Saucer Review [ 2 ]) was one of these, but not only: the experience of the Hill had particular peculiarities, that they rendered it only.
While it was not be a matter only of the observation of occupants of a UFO, but of true and just a physical contact with they. Not but a contact " classic ", with the invited protagonist to edge from beings of human or quite seed-angelic aspect, but the capture from part of umanoidi of small ransom, rather similar to those
described from the occasional witnesses of many landings UFO; a isolated episode, while the contattisti boasted of usual one not occasional frequentation; a traumatic experience, tutt' messianica other that; the subjugation to that they seemed unpleasant medical examinations, instead that soothed arguments of science and philosophy; it converses surrealistic, instead that detections and messages from part of " cosmic siblings "; one neutral attitude apparently and distaccato, instead that friendly, from part of the averse ones.
A second peculiarity was given from the fact (practically without previous in contattista literature) that the contact did not regard but two various witnesses, that they had lived a same experience or quite two are made in part various but complementary of the same vicissitude (look at the episode of the denture of Barney)
and that they had reported to them separately, without contradictions, excluding every hypothesis of montatura, menzogna or fantasy, to the point that from there had removed the memory from the own aware memory, and under ipnosi was only resolutions to recall it.
Just the use of the ipnosi constituted the third peculiarity of this case. If it were not the first application of the techniques of ipnotica regression to a experience UFO, the conduct series of sitting from Dr. Benjamin Simon on the Hill spouses opened however a new road, than in the years succeeded to you it came struck from an increasing number of students, above all in similar cases (episodes of " lacking time " that they made to suspect an averse rapimento): medical science supplied one instrument to test of menzogna in order reconstructing the facts and indirectly to obtain the tests of the existence of extraland visitors.
The case of the Hill has been just defined " seeds them ", in how much it was the true prototype of a fenomenologia that in thirty years enormously evoluta and has been complicated, beyond easy readings to feeling [ 3, 4 ]. According to some authors, just the reconstruction of their " travel interrupted " in the dramatize-truth The UFO Incident,
mandate in wave in first evening from the television network 20 American NBC the 9 October ' 75 and then newly september ' 76, would have primed the small American big wave of cases of abduction between the ' 75 and the ' 76. Al.di.là.della importance of the case, the book that of it has collected in detail the vicissitude has undoubtedly contributed to
to make of a classic of the ufologia.
In the 1965 John Fuller she was a famous journalist of the printed publication paper and a documentarista television, already winning of a Emmy Award (the Prize Oscar of programs TV Americans). Its involvement with the ufologico argument had been accidental: to first of October, made curious from the news appeared on a local newspaper, it had
shortly interviewed for telephone the witnesses of a happened sight to Exeter, in the New Hampshire, and of it it had spoken in its rubrica on the compassata review Saturday Review of Literature; to continuation of the reactions of its readers, meticulous inquiry had decided to deepen the case with one on the place,
published with prominence from the prestigious illustrated weekly magazine Look [ 5 ] and then sfociata in a book [ 6 ]. In successes to you articles on reviews to great pulling, the Air Force had then supported the inadequacy of conduct surveyings American. Like consequence, it had been found to repeatedly being interviewed in radio and TV and was of become fact one of more you notice supporters of the seriousness of argument UFO
For this the Hill official version of their history chose it in order to supply one, already ended malamente in meal to the public in the October of the ' 65, when journalist John Luttrell (after to have accidentally learned of their experience and to have collected information on the case and on they in one long surveying, without but interviewing them
directly) it had published along service in first page for five days consecutive on the daily paper Boston Traveler Herald.
Fuller, like its usual, one applied to surveying with stubbornness and precision: it passed two entire months with the Hill, in their house, sondando them from every possible angle; travelled over again in two weeks with Barney and Betty all the way of their travel in Canada and return, asking the spouses to reconstruct all the stages and their actions, in particular for the several ones is made of the sight; it passed the evenings of six weeks in study of dottor the Simon to listen to with he the tapes records you of the 40 ipnotiche hours of sitting, chiedendogli clarifications and explanations; riascoltò the tapes with to Barney and Betty for some weeks; it passed days to interrogate the friends and knowing of the Hill, their neighbors, their advanced ones, in order an idea preciser of the persons is made. [ 7 ]
A clamorous service published in two exited some aiming at Look [ 8 ], than with those numbers it struck every record of sale. From the service, anticipated from an article on the Saturday Review [ 9 ], this book gushed then that, published in various editions and translate in numerous languages, remains a classic of the investigative ufologia,
introducing to the reader the facts and they give (in particular the integral transcriptions to you of sitting ipnotiche), without never to fall in the easy temptation to force the conclusion.
The public Italian - that he had already been able to quite read to the service of Fuller published on the weekly magazine Age before Look [ 10 ] - was in order once fortunate, being able to decide in the ' 74 of the Italian translation de the interrupted travel.
That first edition but is exausted by now from vent' years, for which this new edition of the book of Fuller has become opportune, than is not reduced to a reprint because it includes - beyond to some rettifiche on the text - the preface of the same Fuller to the English edition of 1979 and an appendix of refresh cured from
Center Italian Ufologici Studies, that he reports of the developments that the case of the Hill spouses had in the years succeeded to you.
Just the enormous dissemination that also in Italy the storys of the " averse rapimenti " today have renders this volume written in the ' 66 useful, when the land was still vergine from the not secondary contaminations that at this point the argument has endured to work of the mass medium and of the same ufologica literature (pack-saddles to think next to films
cinematographic like Flares in buio [ the 11 ], to books to great pulling like Communion [ 12 ], to sure sensazionalistiche video cassettes [ 13 ], to reviews it trades them that they make of abduction a argument centers them, to television film like X-Files [ 14 ]).
From there the young people will draw advantage get passionate to you of years ' 90, that they are coming on with a baggage of convictions and sideboards in great part distorted, inoculate from one pubblicistica tendenziosa that heads, in the best one of the cases, to sell easy feelings, and in the worse one to make of the missionariato one in favor of a modern mythology in which the abduction they find place beside the bases basements of the extraearthlings, the filmati ones of averse autopsies to the planetary conspiracies of Hush on the orribile truth of an invasion that it would not have null to envy to the fantascienza of Independence Day.
To forehead of the arrogant certainties propagandate from sedicenti " alien hunters " of profession; of the ipnosi improvised from nostrani amateurs; of the irresponsabile story propagation that would go it analyzes to you from the ribalta far away; of the symmetrical sideboards preconcette of who in the averse rapimenti it sees an opening towards the cosmic conscience or viceversa the symptom of an averse invasion; they are worth like example dry and factual style of a true journalist like John Fuller and the aseptic precaution of a true one psichiatra like Benjamin Simon. With the ulterior precisazione - of obligation for the Italian readers malamente he indoctrinates to you from one pubblicistica trades them - than also in this moment there are all over the world studious and investigators object and scientific who take care themselves of the cases of abduction, from psychological attendance, points of view also many various between they (doctors to you, anthropological, philosophical), as she demonstrates a wide specialized bibliography to international level, than will not find but cited neither recepita on the misteriosofiche and pseudo-ufologiche reviews that are crowding our newspaper stands.

Who was interested to the argument beyond easy and epidermic sensazionalismi, can put in contact with the Italian Center Studies Ufologici (CISU, post office box them 82, 10100 Turin, tel. 011-329,02,79), than on the argument has collected a wide bibliography and product several monographys.

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