In the last couple days I have been reviewing the draft of a 27-page article titled “The Breaking of Jim Sparks, or, why the Aliens Don’t Land on the White House lawn.” The article has been written for the second issue of The Journal of Abduction Research (JAR) which is a new first class magazine with articles from the top abduction researchers around the world. The article I was reviewing was written by JAR Board Member Elaine Douglass, who is also Utah Co-State Director for MUFON. 
Elaine and I go back a long way. We have met many times at conferences on the west coast, and I stayed at her house once on my way back from the World UFO Congress in Laughlin, Nevada. Elaine is like me in that she is ultimately interested in “what the hell is going on” as opposed to collecting UFO cases. Elaine holds a master degree in military policy from MIT, which has always made me wonder how she got into UFOs.
Elaine is very direct. I recall lecturing in Denver where I indicated that, based on the evidence I was seeing, I was starting to have doubts the President of the United States knew what was going on regarding UFOs. I left the building following my song and dance to have a cigarette and ran into Elaine who was already standing there smoking. (Unknown to non smokers who stay inside and watch the presentations, smokers are busy outside any UFO conference doing the big job of saving the world with sensitive negotiations.)
Almost without introduction Elaine said, “I can’t believe that the President of the United States doesn’t know. What evidence do you have to support your case?” The conversation went back and forth for almost the rest of the day. We did not come to any firm agreement which is the problem I would like to discuss. It has been 60 years to the day when aliens first supposedly crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, and we really don’t know much more now about who, why, or what really happened. Were they all dead? Was it a weather balloon? Was it really aliens? Why did they crash? Where are the bodies? How did they keep the secret? Where did the craft go? Who has the answers to Roswell? Many have claimed to have a piece from the crash, so how do we determine the material is extraterrestrial? No one really knows for sure.
And so it is with the article Elaine has just drafted about the extraordinary abduction case involving Jim Sparks. Elaine and I again appeared to have come to somewhat different views about what the motives of the aliens really are. I will discuss mine at a later date, and to read Elaine’s you will have to buy Issue #2 of JAR. When I saw Elaine and I had a different take on alien motive, it occurred to me that, like the Roswell crash, we in Ufology don’t appear to know swat about the real motive of the aliens, or about abductions which appear to be a big part of what they are doing while here. There are lots of ideas, but no generally accepted theory. Are they good guys here to save the planet? Are they here to take over the planet? Are they here, as the head of the Canadian government UFO study Wilbert Smith used to say, only here to watch as we like children in school learn our lessons? Are they creating a hybrid being that can infiltrate our society? Or it is, as researcher John Lear used to say, “All over except for the screaming.”
In the end there are Ufologists who believe all these theories after 60 years of alien research. That fact leads me to conclude we really have a long way to go. In 60 years we have learned a lot, but have agreed on little. I never would have believed UFO research would be here in 2007 when I saw my UFO back in May 1975. I was so taken back by what I saw I started off on a search for what was known about UFOs. I had never thought about UFOs, so I did not know the state of the research at the time. I thought in my ignorance that the search would take me about maybe a month. Then I could get back to my daily life.
Now I can see the end of my life and think seriously I may never know for sure. Who would have believed?
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