From: Mark Cashman <mcashman@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 00:13:12 -0500
Fwd Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 09:45:04 -0500
Subject: Re: Budden's Checklist for ElectroMagnetic


>From: Joseph Polanik <jpolanik@mindspring.com>
>Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 11:37:06 -0500 (EST)
>To: UFO UpDates <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Budden's Checklist for ElectroMagnetic Sensitivity

>It has long been thought that some UFOs radiate electromagnetic
>energy strong enough to shut off vehicle engines and to leave
>burn marks on the individuals who encounter them.

That's true, but unfortunately nothing that follows
serves to illuminate the cause of those cases.

>Albert Budden has investigated the ElectroMagnetic Hypothesis
>[EMH] more thoroughly than anyone I'm aware of... >He writes
>that, among those with Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity,
>exposure to EMFs

>   ... could translate into the utterly bizarre consciousness
>effects of alien abductions, out-of-body experiences (OBEs),
>ghostly visitations and the physical phenomena of 'hauntings',
>poltergeists and UFOs.

Unfortunately, this "hypothesis" utterly fails to explain
interesting UFOs, such as those found in RV cases, multiple
witness sightings, and, of course, physical trace cases.

>Budden naturally urges UFO/Abduction investigators to gather
>evidence that would either implicate the EMH or rule it out in
>any particular case. To help investigators standardize their
>approach, Budden distills his approach into a series of
>questions to ask experiencers.

>They are:

<big snip>

So how many of these with a "yes" response will "implicate the
EMH"? Because it seems to me that most of these questions will
get a "yes" from most people on earth. They can't really be said
to help "implicate" or "rule out".

>Oddly enough, Budden does not ask, "Have you ever found
>yourself lying fully conscious or in a dreamlike state, unable
>to move or cry out, while experiencing auditory or visual
>phenomena, or total blackness?"

It doesn't seem odd to me to find one item missing from a
laundry list of questions that mostly have positive responses.

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