The study of the modern alien abduction phenomenon actively began in the 1960s with pioneer researchers like Budd Hopkins. Over the years psychiatrists like Harvard's John Mack, M.D. (Abduction, Passsport to the Cosmos) and Temple University professor David M. Jacobs, Ph. D. (Secret Life, The UFO Conspiracy in America) discovered, much to their surprise, many of their patients had experienced encounters and abductions which were revealed while they were hy