A Dangerous Game, by Philip J. Klass: Review of a Book About UFO Abductions

The book on UFO abductions is based on a bizarre premise. The author has set out to debunk ufo abductions. His premise is that these abductions are played up by the mainstream media and by other tabloid media without need of proof or verifications. Many lives have been destroyed and reputations irrefutably damaged without by secret accusations and behind closed doors branding. His noble purpose of bringing out into the open these charlatan attacks is admirable. His brave finger pointing at the lack of fbi investigation is suspicious. His absurd command of details on the most secret, at least to us, claimed ufo abductions is mind boggling.

I am most touched by his dedication, " This book is dedicated to those who will needlessly bear mental scars for the rest of their lives because of the foolish fantasies of a few." It would have been more becoming if his premise that these allegations of ufo abduction were nothing more than foolish fantasies, if he had contacted just a few of the lives of those who are bearing mental scars and offered them just the comfort of his knowing.

I am of the opinion that Philip Klass is working for an organization that has access to these distributors of foolish fantasies that are foolishly causing mental scars to those innocent of the reason and the cause.

His account begins with the beginning of the ufo abduction frenzy. His knowledge into such claimed abductees as Travis Walton, the Hills, is uncanny. The chapter that I found most interesting was Chapter 6, The Truth About Hynosis. I suppose he got most of his information from a bona fide lunatic, in my opinion, by the name of Raymond Fowler who wrote a ufo book called The Andreasson Affairs. In my opinion, the title fits the book, after all what good is reason in writing a book about some relgious nut named Betty who had a visitor named Quazgaa who ate only food burned by fire found in a little blue book.

I don't even need hypnosis to know that this man is nuts.

From the sublime capable hands of lunacy, we are led naturally to Dr. Martin T. Orne, past president of the International Society of Hypnosis, director of experimental psychiatry at the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, and a professor psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The total irrelavancy of Orne's work is perplexing. We are given his credentials and an affirmation that he does not work in ufological purposes. Then why use him and his credentials? Except for one key point that Orne states conclusively, "it is possible for even deeply hypnotised people to lie." If this is true, then all information obtained from those claiming to have been abducted and who choose to prove it by undergoing hynosis would be nill and void.

I am of the opinion that ufo abductions were dessimated by people who were hypnotised. Chapter 16 titled
Absurd Suggestion with the word Absurd in quotations is indeed absurd. The word itself is of common usage. Who is he quoting in his chapter title and why bother not explaining who in the very first sentence?

Instead of sanity we are given a hypnotic suggestion of threat. He equates ufo abduction to arab terrorists.
The man is an artist of mental mass suggestive hypnosis of a kind that is dangerous but is usually discredited as harmless and the work of caring human being.