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In Secret Life, Professor David M. Jacobs of Temple University takes us into the private world of those abducted by aliens, letting them describe in their own words what it is like to be abducted. Based on interviews with sixty individuals and more than 300 independently corroborated accounts, Secret Life presents the most complete and accurate picture of alien abductions ever compiled.

Dr. Jacobs takes the reader on a minute-by-minute journey through a typical abduction experience and describes in detail the bizarre physical, mental and reproductive procedures that abductees claim have been administered by small alien beings. Jacobs draws from these interviews a profoundly unsettling reason behind the abductions: aliens are conducting a complex reproductive experiment involving the conception, gestation. or incubation of human and alien hybrid beings.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #330524 in Books
• Published on: 1993-04-16
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

From Kirkus Reviews
Next time you glance at your watch and find a few minutes missing, better rush to your local hypnotist--you, too, might have been unwittingly kidnapped by a UFO. So Jacobs seems to suggest, estimating that over a million Americans have been abducted in recent years. ``We have been invaded,'' he proclaims, warning that ``the aliens have powers and technology greatly in advance of ours.'' Odd words, coming from a professor of history at Temple Univ., and a sign of the extreme oddity of the phenomenon, which Jacobs explores through extensive structural analysis. Each stage of a typical abduction, including the most sensational--the sexual encounters and reproductive experiments found in nearly all cases--are scrutinized through firsthand transcripts of hypnotic-regression interviews with more than 60 victims. The conclusion? That aliens are impregnating earth women in order to create quasi-human ``hybrids'' for some unknown purpose. The mind reels, but the sober, obviously terrified abductees make a strong case for the veracity of their experience. Jacobs's own presentation is a mixed blessing: His scholarship is punctilious, but he reveals the zeal of the converted in his debunking, after slight analysis, of all earth-bound explanations for UFO abductions (hysterical contagion, psychogenic fugue states, temporal-lobe dysfunction, and the like). By bringing solid scholarship to the pioneering efforts of Bud Hopkins and the hot prose of Whitley Strieber, this marks the next stage in UFO abduction research--and is just as likely to fly off the supermarket bookracks. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Simon & Schuster
In Secret Life, Professor David M. Jacobs of Temple University takes us into the private world of those abducted by aliens, letting them describe in their own words what it is like to be abducted. Based on interviews with sixty individuals and more than 300 independently corroborated accounts, Secret Life presents the most complete and accurate picture of alien abductions ever compiled. Dr. Jacobs takes the reader on a minute-by-minute journey through a typical abduction experience and describes in detail the bizarre physical, mental and reproductive procedures that abductees claim have been administered by small alien beings. Jacobs draws from these interviews a profoundly unsettling reason behind the abductions: aliens are conducting a complex reproductive experiment involving the conception, gestation. or incubation of human and alien hybrid beings.

About the Author
David M. Jacobs

David M. Jacobs is an Associate Professor of History at Temple University in Philadelphia and a leading authority on unidentified flying objects. He is the author of The UFO Controversy in America.

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Customer Reviews

Very Informative
This book sheds light on terryfying incidents that deserve wider attention. Dr. Jacobs is to be congratulated for doing so. It is a troubling topic but someboddy must investigate . Very very informative book. Unique.

The best alien book ever!!
This book is so good, it is one of the best books I have ever read on alien abduction!!! It has the actual hypnosis sessions of these people being abducted. Their stories are truly sensational! A must have book!!

Most Annoying Read
Dr.Jacobs goes into great detail to get you to believe he is credible. He is a professor at Harvard, devised a matrix of UFO experiences,and has his "profouldly unsettling" reason as to why aliens abduct people.

Who cares about that crud? I just want to read the abductee's stories!
Dr. Jacobs ruins those stories too! He never lets the abductee tell his/her story from begining to end. He breaks up the stories into different chapters like, What happens when someone sights a UFO, How do the aliens go about taking humans into a craft? When in the UFO, what happens prior to the procedures? For heavens sake! Don't drag it out! Additionally, Dr. Jacobs says that he will only tell the portions of the abductee's stories that are similar to one another. This is supposed to add more credibility. I want to hear the differences too! Don't bother with this book. It is really about Professor Jacobs. There are other great books about alien abduction. I highly recommend Reaching for Reality by Constance Clear and Invitation to the Self by Bonnie Jean Hamilton.