X-Files agent
Fox Muldar has nothing on Abbotsford resident Arva Abraham. The
39 year old has been abducted and visited regularly by aliens.
"The truth
is out there, that's for sure," says Abraham borrowing a
line from the popular television show which explores the
phenomenon.
She is bringing
other abductees to the Clearbrook branch of the Fraser Valley
Library for a May 3 seminar between 1 and 4 pm.
Abraham
describes the aliens as grey with large heads, long narrow eyes,
and long three fingered hands.
She says four
times in the last five years she has awoken from hazy scenarios
with vague memories of aliens probing and inspecting her with
medical tools and lasers, adding she awakes with burned skin,
scars on her forehead, ringing ears and severe headaches.
"There is
no explanation of why I woke up like that," she says.
Dr. Barry
Beyerstein is an SFU psychologist who heads the B.C. Skeptics
Association. Yes, the truth is out there he says.
"I have a
version of it that makes more sense to me."
While not
discounting the possibility of life existing elsewhere in the
universe, he says alien visit type experiences are products of
regular sleep-dream patterns or disorders which people try to
interpret.
"In the
past,similar experiences were attributed to demons, fairies or
witches," says Beyerstein, (who by the way, does not watch
the X-Files).
"There's a
lot of people out there who fervently believe it."
Astronomer
David Dodge of the H.R. McMillan Planetarium says he receives
reports constantly.
"Where I
can't help them astronomically, I pass it on. "Dodge says he
hasn't seen anything, personally, that he couldn't explain.
Graham Conway,
president of UFO*BC, says more people are reporting these
experiences because the social atmosphere is opening up, in part,
because of the TV and movie industry's focus on the phenomenon.
"They feel as though they are being watched." He says
B.C. has the highest number of UFO in Canada.
"Absence
of evidence is not evidence of Absence" Conway says.
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