![]() ![]() Seventeen of the adults drew grays, and 103 did not. Again, there was no correlation between the two measures. Oddly, there was a small positive correlation between the amount of television watched and the number of experiences reported.įor the adults, mean alien score was 1.23 and mean number of experiences 1.64. Nor was there a correlation between the amount of television watched and the alien score. Those children who drew grays did not report watching more television. Not surprisingly, those who drew a gray also achieved higher alien scores, but they did not report more (supposed) alien sexperiences. For each person, an “alien score” from 0 to 6 was given for the number of “correct” answers to the questions about the alien…, and another score for the number of Roper Poll indicator experiences reported (0–4).įor the children, the mean alien score was 0.95, and the mean number of experiences 1.51.… The drawings of aliens were roughly categorized by an independent judge into “grays” and “others.”… Twelve (12 percent) of the children drew grays and 87 did not. Large numbers of both adults and children reported having had most of the experiences. ![]() To challenge Hopkins’ and Jacobs’ conclusion, Blackmore had 126 school children and 224 university students listen to a typical abduction story, draw pictures of the aliens, and then fill out a questionnaire based on the Roper survey questions including one about false awakenings (that is, dreaming you have woken up) as well as questions about amount of television viewing. Since the population represented by the sample was 185 million, the prorated estimate was 3.7 million. Of the 5947 people interviewed, two percent reported four or five of the indicators. Seeing unusual lights or balls of light in a room without knowing what was causing them, or where they came fromįinding puzzling scars on your body and neither you nor anyone else remembering how you received them or where you got them.Īnswering “yes” to at least four of the five questions was considered to be strong evidence of an alien abduction. Waking up paralyzed with a sense of a strange person or presence or something else in the roomįeeling that you were actually flying through the air although you didn’t know why or howĮxperiencing a period of time of an hour or more, in which you were apparently lost, but you could not remember why, or where you had been A representative sample of adults were given a card listing eleven experiences and were asked to say how often each had happened to them. This supplemental part of the survey was designed and analyzed by self-identified UFO experts Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs. The Roper organization provides a service by which other questions can be appended to the main polls. ![]() In 1998, an important study by psychologist Susan Blackmore was published in the Skeptical Inquirer, 1 titled “Abduction by Aliens or Sleep Paralysis? (Skeptical).” Professor Blackmore began by referring to a Roper poll released in 1992 that purported to show that nearly four million Americans had been abducted by space aliens. ![]()
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