From: Franklin D. Fields <fields.nul>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:48:59 -0400 (EDT)
Archived: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:10:30 -0400
Subject: Re: Abduction Explanations


>From: Carol Maltby <carolmaltby.nul>
>To: ufoupdates.nul
>Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:07:29 -0400
>Subject: Re: Abduction Explanations

>>From: Franklin D. Fields <fields.nul>
>>To: ufoupdates.nul
>>Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:02:26 -0400 (EDT)
>>Subject: Re: Abduction Explanations

>>I am personally involved in an abduction investigation where the
>>lady has multiple witnesses and since she is dying of cancer, I
>>see no reason for her to lie.

>As with any investigation, if the witness accounts match, her
>credibility is of course enhanced.

>But with all due respect for her condition and I'm not addressing
>her particular case, the dying process itself is not a guarantee
>of greater or more verifiable truth. The dying can be in a
>natural altered state of consciousness, reacting to medication,
>driven by physical changes brought on by their illness, or
>continue to be in the state of denial about something that
>they've maintained for decades. And people can lie to themselves
>or others for all sorts of reasons that we can never see, or
>think is justified.


The case started years before she was diagnosed with cancer. I
mentioned her illness and impending death because it is a long
established legal precedence that testimony from dying persons is
given more weight.

If she had been lying or deluded before she became ill, her
knowledge of impending death might help her to set the record
straight. That entirely aside, she is credible and her story
matches the witnesses. She also provided video evidence of a UFO,
to corroborate her belief that something physical occurred.


Frank



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