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Show ___TheSalt Lake Tribune NATION Sunday, May28, 1995 ae UFO-Believer Scrutinized Ss 00! Uncomfortable With Unusual Work ‘Of: Tenured Professor : By Gene Emery ‘ REUTER NEWS SERVICE ‘ CAMBRIDGE, Mass, — Even ‘by the sometimes eccentric stan- dards of his colleagues on the teaching staff at Harvard, John Mackis an oddity, Mack,a psychiatrist attached to Harvard's prestigious medical school, believes millions of humans may have been abducted by spacealiens. His workis being investigated by a panel appointed by the dean of the medical school —arare and uncomfortable position for a tenuredprofessor, This week Mack, breaking a long silence, agreed to take questions from reporters on a conference call. He seemed to be a man wrestling with two parallel uni- we have 15 to 20 years before the psychological, moral, physical, and environmentalcollapse of the Earth as a living entity becomes altogethera reality. This is scientific, predictable fact if you just movethe clock ahead from what's going on now,” he said. Undeterred by Harvard's growing unease with his work ani Montana Burglar Nailed by Own Ego because he is convinced his work helps abductees. “There are hundreds of thousands,if not millionsof these individuals in this country alone,” he said, “So from the point of helping the people, it’s been worthwhile. GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE GREAT FALLS, Mont. — A guest-booksignatureleft during a burglary helped convict a Great Falls manthis week. On Thursday, Mike Spangler, 23, was given six-year deferred sentences to run concurrently and A238 ordered to makerestitution of morethan $26,000 to the owners of 10 summer homes he burglarized in 1993 According io court documents, Spangler broke into cabins in mid-1993 in the Little Belt Mountains southeast of GreatFails, Cascade County sheriff's Det Duane Halvorsonsaid a tip led to rep- utation, Mack is determined to keep pushing his message, if only oy @ spa~not overhead We've eliminated store overhead Can't Touch This! (OMCot it Bey et cae ee coe You Could: Never Have" In only 6 weeks, you can: Nobody can match our prices and service, Nobody! Find out why OIRE erce wert be iPitoriitec Paty Without’ Chai Lose 10-20 lbs. of Body FAT!! 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"Askedif he has paid a price for iexploring a topic many people reigard as just plain kooky, Mackre{sponded:“Absolutely.” The cost, the said, has come in “energy, ‘time, money, attack andcriticism. meaane other hand,it's been worth Beerecause it’s contributed to Bening people's minds to some Bat in consciousness,’ oORa OFa ickensian Time: In many these are the best and the of times for the talented ard professor, who won a eer! Pulitzer Prize for his biogratphy of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence STN avNard: NA NTA 29 st OFF ‘ofArabia), & His hardcover best seller, Ab‘ductions: Human Encounters ith Aliens, recently released in “paperback, already has put him won virtually every major U.S.talk (show. And he is the man of the ‘moment among UFO enthusiasts because his Pulitzer Prize and 0% SELECTED MISSES CAREER SPORTSWEAR COORDINATES Yo ‘Harvard credentials lend an air of ‘credibility to beliefs and theories slong shunned by academia and sthe seriousscientific community. » But Mack alsois frequently the tbuttof jokes and derision — none fof which has done Harvard's im{age any good. For example, a Aengthy article on Mack in the ‘Boston Globe last year bore the theadline ‘‘E.T. phone Harvard.” ; And onealleged abductee counseled by Mack turned outto be a swriter working undercover, who ‘told Time magazine she had dooled Mack into believing that, ‘while aboard a UFOin 1962, she shad met President John Kennedy sand Soviet Premier Nikita KhruShehey during the Cuban missile crisis. | After the deception was re‘vealed, Mack responded by sugigesting that the woman may have jbeen abducted byaliensafter all andlater tried to suppress the ex{perience No Comment: Harvard's seeret probe of Mack's activities surfaced last month after one of his former lawyers distributed a letter to UFO supporters warning that the university was trying to “silence” Mack. The university has refused all comment on the investigation, but it is reportedly concerned that Mack encourages his patients to believe they have been abducted by extraterrestrials when there may well beper fectly valid psychological diag noses of their problems. Mack disagrees. ‘The psychological approaches to this have been proven pretty solidly bankrupt for about 25 years,” he said. Askedto cite a single, compelling case that might convince doubters, Mack declined, saying skeptics can always poke holes in a legitimate case. Hecited the example of UFO photographs taken in Guif Breeze, Fla. Skeptics branded the pictures a hoax after a UFO mod- el was found hidden in the photographer's attic and a young neighbor told how he helped the photographer make the pictures, Mack contends that the model was “planted” and the youth ‘was put upto it by his fatherto do this as a scam." Another Dimension: Mack benieve the alien abductors are another dimension. 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