SETI public: Aftermath Of Dr. Mack's Book 'Abduction' - Bruce Cornet

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    May be freely reproduced in its entirety, material in the letter
    by Dr. Cornet is Copyrighted, Dr. Bruce Cornet, all rights
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    This letter was written by Dr. Bruce Cornet to defend Dr. Mack
    against the outrageous attack against him by the secret committee
    at Harvard University trying to remove him from his position as
    faculty for his statements on the existence of extraterrestrials.

    Dr. Mack has interviewed hundreds of patients who claim to have
    been abducted by extraterrestrials, and is the author of the best
    selling book, "Abduction," and earned the Pulitzer prize in 1977
    for "A Prince of Our Disorder."

    Marc Whitford

    __________________

    Dated: 11 March 1995

    Bruce Cornet, M.S., Ph.D.
    27 Tower Hill Ave.
    Red Bank, New Jersey 07701

    Arnold S. Relman, M.D.
    Chairman
    Special Harvard University Faculty Committee
    Office of Legal Counsel
    Harvard University
    Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

    Dear Dr. Relman & Associates:

    I have been contacted by Dr. John E. Mack, and have been asked by
    Dr. Mack to communicate to you my professional judgement
    regarding a number of issues that your Committee is addressing. I
    am concerned that any "findings" that you make with regard to Dr.
    Mack's work will be based on inadequate or biased data and
    misinterpretation, and on an inadequate understanding of the
    benefits his work is having on his patients, not to mention
    mankind.

    I wish my present STATEMENT to be included as a formal part of
    the Official Record of your inquiry into the research being
    conducted by Dr. Mack.

    My education and professional backgrounds are as follows:

    I earned my B.A. in biology (1970) and M.S. in paleobotany
    (1973) at the University of Connecticut, and my Ph.D. in geology
    and palynology (1977) at the Pennsylvania State University. I did
    post-doctorate research in geology and paleobotany at the
    Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University (1989-
    1990), and worked closely with Professor Paul E. Olsen, one of
    the leading experts in the country on ancient climatic cycles and
    dinosaur evolution. I am the author or coauthor of 21 refereed
    scientific papers and two books, all on paleontological and/or
    geological subjects. I have 14 years experience in the oil
    industry, and was president of Geminoil, Inc., which successfully
    explored for and found oil on the East Coast in the early 1980's
    in Triassic age rocks thought to be barren of hydrocarbons. I was
    an integral part of the largest, NSF funded, continental coring
    project on the East Coast (1990-1992), which successfully
    recovered the first detailed history of the earth's climate
    preceding and during the early part of the age of dinosaurs.

    During my doctoral studies at Penn State I discovered
    angiosperm-like pollen in rocks 100 million years older than the
    oldest accepted age for the flowering plants, and I publically
    announced my discovery not long after the majority of botanists
    had cast their vote for the dominant theory, which stated that no
    such fossils of that age could exist. Subsequent discoveries of
    leaves and flowers strongly support a Triassic rather than
    Cretaceous age for the oldest angiosperms. One of my most recent
    discoveries on this subject is acknowledged in the January 1995
    issue of Discover magazine.

    Selected references for my publications are given below:

    Cornet, B., In Press. A new gnetophyte from the late Carnian
    (Late Triassic) of Texas and its bearing on the origin of the
    angiosperm carpel and stamen. In Taylor and Hickey (eds.),
    Angiosperm origin, evolution and phylogeny, Chapman & Hall, NY.

    Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V., Cornet, B., Witte, W.K., and Schlische,
    R.W., In Press. Stratigraphy of the Newark rift basin (Early
    Mesozoic, eastern North America): Results of the Newark basin
    coring project. Geological Society of America Bulletin.

    Cornet, B., 1993. Applications and limitations of palynology in
    age, climatic, and paleoenvironmental analyses of Triassic
    sequences in North America. In Lucas and Morales (eds.), The
    Nonmarine Triassic. New Mexico Museum of Natural History &
    Science Bulletin, 3: 75-93.

    Cornet, B., 1992. Dicot-like leaf and flowers from the Late
    Triassic tropical Newark Supergroup rift zone, U.S.A. Modern
    Geology, 19: 81-99.

    Cornet B. and Habib, D., 1992. Angiosperm-like pollen from the
    Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) of France. Review Paleobotany
    Palynology, 72: 269- 294.

    Cornet, B. and Olsen, P.E., 1990. Early to middle Carnian flora
    and fauna of the Richmond and Taylorsville basins, Virginia and
    Maryland, U.S.A. Guidebook No. 1, Virginia Museum of Natural
    History, Martinsville, 83 p.

    Cornet, B., 1989. The reproductive morphology and biology of
    Sanmiguelia lewisii, and its bearing on angiosperm evolution in
    the Late Triassic. Evolutionary Trends in Plants, 3: 25-51 (cover
    picture).

    Cornet, B., 1989. Angiosperm-like pollen from the Late Triassic
    Richmond rift basin of Virginia. Palaeontographica, 213B: 37-87.

    Olsen, P.E. and Cornet, B., 1988. Evidence for early Mesozoic
    mass extinctions in eastern North America rift deposits (Late
    Triassic-Early Jurassic, Newark Supergroup. IGCP Project 199,
    Rare Events in Geology, Berrichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt
    (Wein), 15(Abs.): 20.

    Ziegler, D.G. and Cornet, B., 1985. Newark rift system: a
    potentially prolific hydrocarbon province. American Association
    of Petroleum Geologists Bull., 69 (Abs.): 1452.

    Cornet, B and Ziegler, D.G., 1985. Structural styles and
    tectonic implications of the Richmond-Taylorsville rift system,
    Eastern Virginia. American Association of Petroleum Geologists
    Bull., 69(Abs.): 1434.

    Cornet, B., Phillips, T.L., and Andrews, H.N., 1976. The
    morphology and variation in Rhacophyton ceratangium from the
    Upper Devonian and its bearing on frond evolution.
    Palaeontographica, 158B: 105-129.

    Cornet, B. and Traverse, A., 1975. Palynological contributions to
    the chronology and stratigraphy of the Hartford basin in
    Connecticut and Massachusetts. Geoscience and Man, 11: 1-33.

    Cornet, B., Traverse, A., and McDonald, N.G., 1973. Fossil
    spores, pollen, and fishes from Connecticut indicate Early
    Jurassic age for part of the Newark Group. Science, 182: 1243-
    1247.

    With regard to the issue of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, it is
    my professional and academic judgement that there are ample
    physical, geophysical, and photographic data collected by me
    during my two and a half years of research into the UFO
    phenomenon to support the hypothesis that this planet is
    currently inhabited by more than one sentient intelligent
    humanoid species, and that this non-human species has in its
    possession technologies thousands of years beyond our own.
    Through my own personal experiences I have observed and witnessed
    this phenomenon, and interacted with this intelligence. From
    direct field investigation I have overwhelming photographic and
    geophysical evidence for the existence of these technologies and
    this intelligence, and for the ability of this species to conceal
    its activities through the use of technology-assisted mind
    control techniques and telepathy. My success in obtaining these
    unprecedented data appears to have been deliberately planned by
    the non-humans as part of a long term agenda to gradually educate
    mankind without causing undue harm or damage to his religious and
    socio-economic structures and institutions. I can state from
    personal contact with this species that their behavior, culture,
    and appearance are so different from ours that no simple and
    direct contact is currently possible without overloading man's
    capability to recover from the intellectual and cultural shock.
    My education by the extraterrestrials has been slow, progressive,
    and benign, with considerable compassion, foresight, and planning
    to allow me to recover from the many tolerable shocks I have
    endured through their revelations. Because of my scientific
    training and critical inquiry, I first attempted to model what I
    had learned in order to build a credible theory for their
    activities and purpose. I have attempted to falsify my
    interpretations wherever and whenever possible, and I required
    the non-humans to give me adequate redundancy of evidence before
    I would draw any substantial conclusions. It has been made clear
    to me by them that they will push our envelope of acceptance of
    new realities only as far as we can tolerate the rate of change
    (i.e. without causing rupture of the envelope). I can demonstrate
    from the sequence of my many personal experiences, contacts, and
    discoveries that they have carefully laid out many clues,
    symbolic and actual, for me to contemplate and/or follow as my
    awareness of their reality and the reasons for their methods has
    increased. They want us to know them without fearing them. They
    will no longer tolerate cover-ups.

    After watching the miniseries on television called Intruders in
    May of 1992 (based on the work of Hopkins and Mack), I was moved
    to want more information on the subject of alien abductions.
    Prior to seeing that miniseries I had no interest and almost no
    conscious knowledge of UFOs or aliens. I went to the bookstore
    and found one book that in hindsight changed my life, research
    interests, and career goals. It was Silent Invasion (1991) by
    Ellen Crystall. From reading that book I discovered that I lived
    next to a major UFO hotspot in Orange County, New York. I
    contacted Ellen, and she took me out into the field with her. It
    only took two visits to the Pine Bush area before I realized that
    what I was seeing was too weird to be explained as either natural
    phenomena or conventional aircraft. I began a 20 square mile
    magnetic and geologic survey of the area, which was completed in
    1993. From that survey I discovered magnetic anomalies that could
    not be produced by any natural or known phenomena. I discovered
    and documented locations for apparent underground transmitters of
    polarized magnetic photon beams out into space. One physicist
    told me that my data proved a theory that such a form of
    "invisible" light actually existed! I found areas where the
    magnetic background sometimes became so unstable and changed so
    radically that I could feel it change moment by moment. I
    recorded transient magnetic anomalies that were measured in tens
    of thousands of gammas, which is far beyond anything normal or
    cultural. And I witnessed and recorded my compass pointing
    towards the south during the photographing of a UFO performance,
    indicating a synchronous aerial magnetic anomaly.

    I have photographically recorded with time exposures (sometimes
    with accompanying dynamic camcorder records) over 100 night
    sightings and close encounters, including low fly-overs and
    spectacular maneuvers of plasma lights in the sky. The shapes of
    these craft were anything but conventional, and they certainly
    were not figments of my imagination (there were sometimes
    multiple witnesses). Their stealth technology is awesome, and
    beyond anything our military has admitted to having. For example,
    I was in a helicopter over the hot spot in daylight when a craft
    buzzed us at Mach 8 less than 500 feet away. We saw a flash of
    light and felt a very muffled shock wave that bounced the
    helicopter. We captured three such passes on film and videotape,
    which allowed me to determine speed and plasma light
    characteristics. But why then did these craft put on so many
    spectacular performances for my cameras? The military would not
    display top secret technology for any civilian camera.

    I have redundant documentation that these craft use ionized
    plasmas for light sources rather than conventional lights. I have
    extraordinary photographs that show plasma bubbles being
    generated (identified and confirmed by plasma physicists). The
    plasma lights can be powered up to 30 times normal size and
    brightness, lighting up the sky and causing the ionization of the
    atmosphere to produce plumes of visible nitrous oxide gases. The
    photographs are conclusive! Such displays have to involve
    enormous amounts of energy. I have photographic and audio
    documentation that they can mimic conventional aircraft light
    patterns and colors, produce conventional aircraft sounds, and
    even change shape to confuse and/or deceive observers. From my
    observations, most craft travel silently; they can hover, make
    high speed right angle turns, and can accelerate to incredible
    speeds in an instant (documented with video and photographs). The
    performances for my cameras were clearly designed to show me
    their technological capabilities and how they can transformation
    to create illusions. I have documented with cameras on tripods
    two feet apart that their craft can project different images to
    each camera and observer. I have dozens of photographs that show
    how they can manipulate and bend their plasma lights by powerful
    magnetic force fields around the craft to produce all sorts of
    figures in the night sky on my photographic canvas. I have time
    exposures showing double helix patterns complete with nodes,
    Fibonacii vortices, giant loops of spiral light, and various
    types of wave forms, small spirals, alternating loops, and
    harmonic oscillations that cannot be reproduced by camera
    vibration or any known natural phenomena. I even have two
    photographs showing craft diving into the ground without any
    visible or detectable effect. I don't know of any stunt pilot who
    could create such an illusion, if that is what it was!

    I have dozens of photographs that prove that the pilots of these
    craft are capable of either reading my mind or controlling my
    mind during a photographic event. Sequences of time exposures for
    several encounters show purposeful movements or signatures of
    light just after the camera shutter opened and just before it
    closed. One sequence shows a craft making right angle elevator
    moves timed exactly across the gaps between pictures, indicating
    a synchronicity that is undeniable and impossible to explain
    without employing some kind of telepathy! My being able to
    capture a craft travelling at Mach 8 past my helicopter with
    single photographs taken at 1/1000th of a second is extraordinary
    proof that there was a mind link during the fly- by. There is no
    other way to account for such timing or synchronicity. The
    distance the lights moved at that exposure time was how I
    established their approximate speed. Try photographing a bullet
    leaving the muzzle of a rifle without knowing when that rifle is
    going to be fired; muzzle velocities are typically less than a
    third the calculated speed of the craft. I captured on film three
    such craft buzzing the helicopter like that, and each picture
    shows the plasma lights on the craft just entering the frame! I
    also have corroboration from a video record of one of those
    events. Through photographing numerous performances I became
    aware of changes in my mental state during the events. I found
    that I could override or confuse the situation by deliberately
    changing my thoughts and reactions, which resulted in out-of-sync
    patterns of light movement. Through experimentation (with willing
    performers) I have accumulated an extraordinary body of evidence
    that strongly supports if not proves the existence of
    intelligently controlled non-human technology on earth.

    My gradual education by the extraterrestrials progressed to the
    point that I would sometimes be escorted by a UFO as I drove
    along a highway at night. A single bright white light would move
    close to my vehicle, and position itself just off to the right
    side of the highway. The craft itself was usually as black as the
    night sky, and only occasionally would a silhouette of its shape
    be glimpsed. It would pace my vehicle about 1/8th to 1/4 mile
    ahead of me about two or three tree heights above the ground.
    This light matched the speed of my vehicle, stopped with me for
    tolls, and made the same exit and turns I made. On several
    occasions such a light would precede me home (so that I would
    always have it in sight while driving), and then park itself in
    the sky for awhile before leaving or blinking out. One time a UFO
    light paced my van with my family in it from Red Bank, New
    Jersey, to Newark airport. I got photographs. Another time when a
    friend (who works as an editor for the New York Times) and I
    entered the UFO hotspot area in New York, a craft (with one large
    white light and a small red light) moved in front of us and
    escorted us silently into the area, stopping with us (just above
    and ahead of the traffic light), then turning with us several
    times. I had a clear telepathic link with one of the occupants,
    because I got a mental greeting and felt an expression of joy or
    excitement that I was there. When I told my friend, who was
    driving (he was impressed beyond words), that we were going to
    make a turn up ahead, the craft sped ahead and waited for us at
    the turn! I know of no helicopter pilot who could do that without
    first bugging our vehicle!

    Another time two UFOs paced me along the Garden State Parkway,
    one on either side of me, all the way from the Atlantic City exit
    to Red Bank, a distance of about 72 miles. I had clear telepathic
    contact with occupants of both craft, who complimented me on the
    cable TV show I had just done on UFOs in Atlantic City, and who
    even made some funny statements, such as, "You must have a
    problem refueling." I was telepathically told not to slow down or
    stop. One craft moved silently back and forth across the highway
    in plain view of other drivers, and shot ahead several times. For
    me it was entertaining to see this activity, and realize how
    unperceptive and blind to this reality most humans are. That
    craft stopped and hovered over some buildings, and began glowing
    a powder blue color. The size of the elliptical craft was
    enormous. The other smaller craft paced me all the way to Red
    Bank, and allowed me to photograph it at an intersection. As I
    slowed to a stop for a red light, the craft slowed to a stop just
    ahead of me. I thought of taking a picture, and grabbed my
    camera, which was on the seat beside me. The craft turned around
    and came back towards my truck. I braced and steadied my camera
    against the side window for one second exposures. The pilot
    stopped the craft over the intersection in front of the camera,
    and turned on many lights so that I could get two spectacular
    photographs. This really happened, and I've got photographs to
    prove it!

    There are now many reports being made by individual human beings
    that they have had direct personal contact with Extraterrestrial
    Beings who pilot these so-called Unidentified Flying Objects. But
    to me they are no less identifiable than any conventional
    aircraft I see in the skies. I have had many sightings and
    encounters with such craft, and now can identify several
    different types, their sizes and shapes, their flight
    characteristics, and their lighting characteristics. It is my
    professional and academic judgement that these craft have been
    designed and built by non-humans. Based on my own abduction
    experiences, of which I have had three since I became involved in
    this research, and based on fragmentary spontaneous recall of
    abductions that go back at least to my senior year in high
    school, memories of which did not begin to surface until after I
    saw Intruders on television, I can say without equivocation that
    these beings do exist. I have met them. I know what they look
    like, feel like, smell like, and telepath like. I have had
    telepathic conversations with them in their presence and while
    they were in their craft. They are not a figment of my
    imagination, an hallucination, or characters in a lucid dream. I
    know because of the surgical procedures some of these beings have
    performed on me, marks and scars of which still can be detected.
    I have also sustained serious injuries: e.g. just before being
    paralized and then knocked unconscious (from an energy blow to
    the back of my head, which left a large brown bruise) I looked
    into the intense plasma lights of a shuttle craft as it landed
    next to my parked vehicle. A sharp pain shot through my left eye.
    As I turned away a clear telepathic voice said, "Do not look at
    the lights; look straight ahead." But it was too late. The
    vitreous humor in that eye was permanently damaged. My wife was
    there also, and remembers the craft and missing time. Every day I
    am reminded of that experience by what I see! I can never forget
    it. I am not bitter. But there are many people who have
    experienced these traumas, and they don't want their intelligence
    insulted by some professional with a belief problem who says,
    "It's all just in your head!"

    It is my understanding that your Committee is contemplating
    declaring that Dr. John Mack's work with persons who have
    reported to Dr. Mack that they have been abducted by
    Extraterrestrial Beings is both violative of the standards of the
    psychiatric profession and contrary to the standards of
    scholastic research demanded of faculty members of Harvard
    University. If such is the case, and if such happens, then
    Harvard University will sink to a new standard for incompetent
    leadership and psychiatric malpractice.

    Even if Dr. Mack communicates his personal beliefs regarding
    these phenomena, or his personal beliefs are known to the patient
    prior to counseling, his integrity and honesty would have far
    less damaging effect than a psychiatrist who does not believe in
    the reality of such experiences or who refuses to consider such a
    reality when treating a patient. It is my professional and
    academic judgement that The Committee would be committing a very
    serious error if it were to conclude that any such communication
    of belief on the part of Dr. Mack to his patients is
    professionally or academically unsound. A professional must look
    objectively at all possible explanations for reported contact
    with extraterrestrial beings, and must consider all available
    evidence, including the vast literature on UFOs. I have found
    that most scientists in mainstream science are profoundly
    ignorant of that literature, and the wealth of valid data it
    contains. I am appalled by the attitudes of scientists, who turn
    in their academic credentials in order to ridicule a phenomenon
    about which they know so little, and all because of appearance
    and vanity. How unprofessional and closed minded can one be!

    In my opinion, it is Dr. Mack who should convene your Committee
    in order to determine the validity and integrity of your inquiry.
    I do not consider it irresponsible for Dr. Mack to communicate to
    his abductee-experiencers and associates his judgement that the
    UFO phenomenon is real, and the possibility that experiencers are
    actually being abducted by UFO occupants. On the contrary, I
    consider it his duty as a professional psychiatrist to examine
    evidence for alien abduction so that he can help the experiencer
    deal with his or her trauma. It is only through revealing the
    truth about a problem that someone can deal with that problem
    effectively. You should know that!

    If I were accorded a reasonable opportunity to appear personally
    before your Committee, I would be able to answer any questions
    which The Committee might have concerning the specific data and
    experiences that form the basis for my professional judgement in
    each of these related areas. I challenge you to come with me into
    the field so that I can introduce you to our non-human earth
    inhabitants. They have been around here longer than we have, and
    I can show you earth-shaking lunar evidence in support of that
    statement also!

    However, without your willingness to undertake such an inquiry,
    it is my firm professional judgement that your Committee will be
    doing Dr. Mack, your respected university, and your personal
    professional reputations a grievious disservice if you manifest
    the "findings" set forth above on the basis of a record which is
    so transparently devoid of any reasonable effort on your part to
    become objectively informed of the undeniable evidence and
    substantial proofs available in this field. Albert Einstein said,
    "Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any information about the
    empirical world; all knowledge of reality starts from experience
    and ends in it. Propositions arrived at by purely logical means
    are completely empty of reality." It is the experiencers who know
    the reality of which you are so ignorant.

    I do hope that you will listen to the evidence in support of Dr.
    Mack before you precipitiously rush to judgement against him and
    his patients in this important matter.

    Sincerely yours,

    Dr. Bruce Cornet
    _____________________

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