Abductees help group.

04-09-90 DETROIT, MI Abductions by aliens usually not little green
men with antennae, but gray or white men about 3 feet tall've traumatized
dozens of people in Michigan.

But they aren't suffering alone, according to a Flushing woman, who'd
an experience with little gray extraterrestrials herself & found
they cured her of lupus & Addison's disease, a serious adrenal gland
dysfunction. Shirley Coyne says her abduction occurred on a hot summer
night in 1983, when she saw the bright light of a domed UFO moving
over a corn field near her home. She said she awoke her husband,
George, & they ran outside barefoot to look at it.

The last thing they remembered was the feel of grass on their feet.
Then they were back in bed, said Mrs. Coyne, adding that her memories
were revived through hypnosis sessions. "It was very traumatic but
you get over it," said Coyne, reached Sunday at a three-day Ozark
UFO conference in Eureka Springs, Ark. Coyne & her husband helped
organize a support group for alien abductees, which she said has
had a 100-percent success rate in helping people over their trauma.
"In Michigan we've 60 people we're working with who've already gone through different
stages of hypnosis & probably 20 to 30 waiting to be regressed
(hypnotized)," Coyne said. "We've a certified hypnotist & a clinical
psychologist." Coyne said the support group's like any other, helping
helps people learn to deal with & accept the experience. She said
at least one person who'd an abduction experience with aliens was
in an institution before meeting with the group but now's living
a normal life. "There're many who've gone through who aren't able
to hold down jobs. They barely function," she said. "There're others
who're able to cope with it very well." She estimated there were
similar support groups in at least 23 other states.

Ed Mazur, Arkansas director of Mutual UFO Network, said Coyne's story
isn't unusual. Mazur said he's working with about four abduction
cases in Arkansas. Michael Swords, a professor of natural sciences
at Western Michigan University & editor of the Journal of UFO Studies,
said he believes support groups're helpful as long as they're "essentially
healthy. From what I'm hearing, it sounds as if support groups, as
long as they don't markedly demand certain behavior, are good for
people," Swords said. "There might be some professional who disagree."
Swords said, however, that some researchers believe reports of alien
abduction may be a "shield fantasy" for some people, developed as
part of a neurosis. Swords said those researchers think the cause
of the neurosis may be stress, a desire to be "involved" or even
a bad experience in childhood.

Swords, who earned a doctoral degree in the history of science from
Case Western Reserve University, said there seem to be a lot of abductions
of people reported, but it's not nearly as high as the number of
reported UFO sightings. He also said it's always hard to investigate
the reports. "It may be as real as tomorrow's breakfast" to the victim,
Swords said, "but as long as there's no conclusive evidence sitting
there you still've to say, `I'm empathetic with you, I'd like to
believe you, but the evidence's justn't there.'"

      
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