By Mike Clelland
Dr. Leo Sprinkle
I've started a list of UFO abduction researchers who also claim life events that can be called contact experiences. Not just seeing a funny light in the sky, I'm talkin' alien abduction. These are sorted in no particular order and suspect there are more beyond the 18 listed below. Some of these folks are controversial and I’m not trying to support the veracity of their claims. I am just trying to look at the overall pattern.
~ Dr. Leo Sprinkle - Pioneering UFO researcher, psychologist and author of Soul Samples. He also claims to channel.-------------------------------------------------------------
~ Raymond Fowler - Author of the Andreasson series, the Allagash Abductions and a book on synchronicity.
~ Barbara Lamb - Family therapist, licensed hypnotherapist, abduction researcher and author of Alien Experiences.~ Dr. Karla Turner - Author of a series of books including Taken and Into the Fringe. Died in 1996 at 48 years old.
~ Melinda Leslie - Researcher with a focus on the Military Abduction reports (MIL-ABS).
~ Suzanne Hansen - Resident of New Zealand, therapist and grief counsellor. Created the group UFOCUS NZ in 2000.
~ Darryl Simms - Author and abduction researcher.
~ Collin Andrews - Crop circle researcher and author.
~ Lynne Kitei, M.D. - Author, documentary film-maker and witness to the Phoenix Lights event in 1997. She also tells of channeling.
~ Dr. Steven Greer - Outspoken author and wanna-be cult leader.
~ David Sereda - Author, documentary film maker and researcher.
~ Bill Ryan and Kerry Cassidy - This is the team behind Project Camelot. Both claim contact experiences.
~ Sesh Heri - Author and researcher. Author of The Handprint of Atlas. He writes about an event in his youth that involves meeting a small being in his yard.
~ Michelle LaVinge Wedel - Author and channeler. She (and her husband Paul) wrote a series of books including The Alien Abduction Reference Guide.
~ Christopher O’Brien - Author, film-maker, researcher and investigator. He shared a very telling experience from his youth on THE PARACAST. This involved seeing odd skinny entities that appeared as two-dimensional flat apparitions.
There are a few more authors and researchers that I know of (or suspect strongly) that have their own first hand experiences, but are understandably not sharing their experiences publicly.
The number of authors who tell their first-person abduction experiences is too long to even attempt to list here. The bookshelves sag under the weight of these autobiographies focused on contact. Many of these people have played the role of researcher as part of their story, and some are quite dedicated to the advancement of these elusive reports. The list includes: Whitley Strieber, Katrina Wilson, Leah Hailey, Kim Carlsberg, Lisette Larkins and Ida Kannenburg
