The following transcript is reprinted with the permission of,

Ann Fischer, Exec. SYSOP

COMPUSERVE UFO FORUM

(EDITED BY JOHN VELEZ)


Chat session with,

Dr David Jacobs, Ph.D

Tracy/Moderator | The UFO Forum proudly presents David Jacobs, Ph.D., Temple University Professor, author and researcher, who will share with us some of his conclusions, and ideas resulting from over thirty years of research into UFOs and the abduction phenomenon. Dr. Jacobs is considered to be the world's foremost academic expert on UFOs and abductions!

Dr. Jacbobs received his Ph.D. in History in 1973 with only the second UFO related dissertation ever written. His first book, THE UFO CONTROVERSY IN AMERICA (1975) remains the only book that takes a positive viewpoint towards UFOs ever published by an academic press. Since then he has published many article about UFOs and appeared at UFO conferences and on television and radio shows throughout the country.

As a professor of history at Temple University in Philadelphia, Dr. Jacobs has for the past eighteen years taught the only regularly scheduled, full-credit, undergraduate course on UFOs in the world. Since 1982 Dr. Jacobs has concentrated on the abduction phenomenon. His 1992 book, SECRET LIFE: FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS OF UFO ABDUCTIONS, outlined the structure and content of typical abduction experiences.

Based on over three hundred hypnotic regressions with abductees, SECRET LIFE expanded our knowledge of abductions to a greater depth than ever before. At present Dr. Jacobs is working on another book to be published by Simon & Schuster in June, 1997. This book will expand on our knowledge of the abduction phenomenon add previously unknown information about this extraordinary subject that will enable the society to understand what the UFO phenomenon is all about! Join us for what promises to be one of the most remarkable online events anywhere!

This conference is formal. To ask a question please use a ?...question mark. To make a statement use a ! an.... exclamation point. Please adhere strickly to formal conference rules. Failure to do so could cause you to be removed from the room.

Dr. Jacobs, do you have an opening statement or should we start with questions?

Chessie | I am curious to know your opinion on UFO vs. the Christianity info?

David M. Jacobs | All I can say is that this is an extremely important area and information about it is not too available.

Tracy/Moderator | Chessie, please enter a ? for a question and wait to be called on, please.:-)

David M. Jacobs | My answer to the question about christianity is that the major religious of the world are probalby elastic and flexible enough to incorporate the UFO and abduction phenomenon.

Tracy/Moderator | Ann, you're up.GA

Ann F./ExecSYSOP | Thanks for joining us tonight.... What strikes you as the most interesting aspect of abductions to date?

David M. Jacobs | I have been researching UFOs and abductions for over 30 years and I find nearly all aspects of them to be very interesting. I am especially interested in the hybrid phenomenon.

Ann F./ExecSYSOP | Thanks David, so you've found the hybrid program is widespread?

David M. Jacobs | This is a secret phenomenon operated clandestinely. They are doing something to us that we do not like. They know that.

Tracy/ Moderator | Matt, you're next. GA

Matt | Dr. Jacobs, can you tell us what your new book is about?

David M. Jacobs | I am in the throes of just completing yet another revision of it. It will be published at the beginng of next summer. It is about the future of the abduction phenomenon and the meaning of it all.

Tracy/Moderator | Steve, you're next. GA

Steve Q | What are your latest findings about the reasons for abductions, could you please elaborate on anything you have found out about the hybred subspecies.

David M. Jacobs | I have found that the hybrid phenomenon is far more complicated than we had thought. The process of hybridization is more complex as well. I have found that the hybrids might be bred to look increasingly like humans.

Tracy /Moderator | Steve, follow-up question?GA

Steve Q | Yes, what is complicated about the hybred program?

David M. Jacobs | I used to think that hybrids were made by joining alien "DNA" and human sperm and eggs. I think that this is only the beginning stage. I think that each successive stage is somewhat like that, but increasingly using more human DNA.

Tracy /Moderator | Bill, you're next.

Bill | I read alot about this subject, and will most likley read your new book when it is out. I just finished Witnessed by Budd Hopkins (about the case of Linda in NYC), do you have any thoughts on that incident?

David M. Jacobs | Budd Hopkins has researched this case exhaustivley. I think that this is a good, solid, case that is extraordinary because of the number of witnesses and the character of the witnesses.

Tracy /Moderator | Tom, you're next. GA

Tom Genereaux | I note that the sequencing of the purported hybridization program tracks *human* science. Comment?

David M. Jacobs | I am not sure what you mean.

Tom Genereaux | I find it suspect that the "alien" hybrid program is tracking...human DNA understanding....and that the bleeding edge techniques of human science are those being used by the aliens.

David M. Jacobs | I would not presume to understand the science that is employed in the techniques that aliens use. I do know that they have an exceptionally advanced of knowledge of human biology and physiology.

Tracy/Moderator | Tom, follow-up?

Tom Genereaux | David - that's the problem, though...they aren't any more advanced in practice than the last Journal of Celluar Biology.

David M. Jacobs | This is not what I have found. This is a very advanced science that we are dealing with. Any attempts to try to link it to human science and thus to human imagination have failed.

Tracy/Moderator | Chessie, you're next.

Chessie | Is there any evidence of human/alien embroyos from impregnated female humans?

David M. Jacobs | Aliens have no apparent genitals. There is no evidence of sexual contact between aliens and humans. However, all of the female abductees with whom I have worked over any extended period of time have indicated fetal implantations and fetal extractions from them during abduction events. The missing fetus is sometimes noticed and sometimes not.

Tracy/Moderator | Visitor, you're next. GA

- Visitor | I'm a newcomer to all this. I take it you believe there are aliens on earth, and they abduct people. Why do we have no evidence? Why are there no pictures? ...And please don't say it's a conspiracy. Time and NBC would pay millions for a real photo.

David M. Jacobs | At the beginning of an abduction, the environment and the abductee is controlled. They can walk, but not run. They can lift their arms, but not swing. They cannot reach over, grab a bat, rifle, camera, knife, and so forth in order to protect themselves or detect their abductors.

Tracy/Moderator | Follow-up, Visitor?GA

- Visitor | And in all these cases, not once has something gone wrong. No one has gotten away with a picture, a piece of machinery, a scrap of unearthly cloth?

David M. Jacobs | We have learned that Murphy's law applies throughout the universe. Things go wrong all the time. No one has actually stolen anything because they are naked, and walking around like, in their words "zombies." But we do have some evidence from the event. More and more implants are being looked at, Ihave a series of unusual stains from solutions used on abductees, and every once in a while there is some other type of evidence.

Tracy/Moderator | Matt, you're next.

Matt | I was uncomfortable with the importance you attached to a narrative line and literal interpretation of abduction events in "Secret Life". What are your thoughts about possible symbolic content and our own pyschology in shaping the experiences?

David M. Jacobs | We now have thousands of abduction cases. We know a tremendous amount about them. We know that when an abductee describes the shape of a certain instrument, what that instrument is used for even though the abductee does not. People do not tend to talk in terms of symbols. They describe real evnets that have befallen them.

Matt | the events are real, but they may be intended to communicate symbolically, ...

David M. Jacobs | I am not sure what you mean. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Matt | i.e. the hybrids may symbolize integration necesaary for pschological transformatiom,....they are real but symbolic....maybe we're missing the point taking it too literally.

David M. Jacobs | All attempts to take the UFO and abduction phenomenon symbolically on any level, have resulted in industrial strength wheel-spinning.

Tracy/Moderator | Harv, you're next.

HARV | In your line of work, have you run into any walls built by the scholastic establishment, or has it been smooth sailing? AND......What's your views on the governments' "DOES NOT EXIST" policy.

David M. Jacobs | I have been in academia all of my adult life. Academics do not like this phenomenon. They understand immediately the wide range of psychological and psychiatric reasons for why people would think they are being abducted. What they do not know is that we understand this as well and have looked at all the alternative explanations. Suffice it to say that this has not helped my career. Also, I do not beleive that the Government knows much about this subject. I think it takes its cues from the scientific community which is still resolutely hostile to the subject.

Tracy/Moderator | Steve Q., you're up next.GA

Steve Q | Have you been the subject of any government harassment, if so how and what kind of fire have you drawn from the University system?

David M. Jacobs | I have never been questioned by anyone in the government. To the best of my knowledge, my phones are not tapped. The university has not been happy with my work. I won't go into my personal situation, but there is a "situation."

Tracy/Moderator | Frank, you're next.

Frank Stanley, Ph.D | Hi David. If you would be willing to discuss to some extent some of the information you have obtained about IHA and the places their activities have been found? Also what do you think their intentions are from your opinion? Waiting eagerly for your book. Budd's is great.

David M. Jacobs | Hi Frank. I owe you some materials. IHA is Independent Hybrid Activity. There are increasing numbers of reports of hybrids conducting abduction related activities in an abductee's normal environment. These very disturbing reports are going to be the heart of my next book. The activity takes place almost anywhere and suggests that for short times, at least, some hybrids can be here undetected.

Tracy/Moderator | Frank, follow-up question?GA

Frank Stanley, Ph.D | Can you elaborate on what you mean by in the "normal environment?"

David M. Jacobs | The abduction activity does not take place on board a UFO. Rather it is in an abductee's home or even in an abandoned or closed building or office. All of this suggests an intrusion into human life that we had not dreamed of before. It is the natural outcome of the hybrid program.

Tracy/Moderator | Ann, you're next.

Ann F./ExecSYSOP | I've heard accounts from woman who have had total hysterectomies who report they are still actively involved in the hybrid program. Have you also heard of these accounts, and if so, is there a theory to explain this?

David M. Jacobs | I have worked with women with tubal ligations, hysterectomies, oopherectomies, and who are post-menopausal. All are stil not only involved with abductions, but actively involved with producing hybrid babies. Once again this will all be spelled out in my book, but I can say now that these women are having what I call Self-Contained Gestational Units inserted into them for reproductive purposes.

Tracy/Moderator | Ann, follow-up question?

Ann F./ExecSYSOP | No follow-up. Thanks David.

Tracy/Moderator | Jeannie, you're next.

Jeannie/ASYSOP | Thanks for joining us tonight! In light of your statement that it appears that some of the hybrids are perhaps begin created to appear more *human*, do you feel any of the hybrids are integrated into life on earth as a way to enhance this more human evolution in their genetics?.If so, how would we recognize them?Any description as to their appearance and what we should *look* for?

David M. Jacobs | I do not think that you will find a hybrid working at the local 7-11 store. I think that the evidence suggests that they can only be here for short periods of time and that only certain hybrids are in this program. If they were here, you would not be able to tell
them from full-fledged humans.

Tracy/Moderator Billie, you're next. GA

Billie Schofield | Dr. Jacobs, How long do you feel that the abductions have been taking place in our society and do you think it will continue for an indefinate period of time? What do you feel is their ultimate goal?

David M. Jacobs | I think that abductions have been occuring since the late 1890s. Trying to place it much earlier has been problematic. I think that we are at the end of the abduction program. In my opinion we have between five and forty years left and I tend to lean to the fifteen year time period. I think that the evidence is increasingly pointing to some sort of integration into the society by the aliens or the hybrids or both.

Tracy/Moderator | Ann, you're next.

Ann | Has anyone yet identified any commonalities among abductees? I have talked to a number of abductees in the forum over the last year and it seems to follow "families" . . .could "they" be tracking certain X or Y chromosomes, or could other individual genes be involved? I would assume that ET is expert at gene mapping?

David M. Jacobs | We have found no commonalities as yet among abductees. Actually nothing overt, but we have not mounted a sustained medical search over a large number of people. It runs in families. If one is an abductee, there is a great chance that one's father or mother or both were abductees as well.

Tracy/Moderator | Steve Q., you're next.

Steve Q | You spoke of the hybrids only remaining here for short periods. Do you have a concept of where they are when not here? IE normal space time and off planet or are they multi-dimensional?

David M. Jacobs | We know that they are not -here-. My guess is that the majority of them live on some other planet or wherever. I also think that a significant number of them reside on UFOs where there task is to assist in the abduction and breeding program. It is also important to say that the abduction phenomenon takes place in real time without any time-space alterations as far as we can see. But you
have to remember that we are dealing with a superior technology.

Tracy/Moderator | Ann, you're next.GA

Ann F./ExecSYSOP | Which species of aliens besides the greys are
involved in the hybrid program?

David M. Jacobs | There are a number of reports of Insectoid, repitilian , and other types of aliens involved. The bottom line is that they are all doing the same thing. They usually are all together on board, and the net effects on the abductee are the same. So whatever the species , they seem to be working in concert for the common goal.

Tracy/Moderator | Steve, you're next.GA

Steve Q | I have been in the "abductee/contactee" catagory for over 40 years. I have had incidents that seem to indicate not normal space time continum, but it is rare. Example; one abduction that would normally take 1 and a half hours was completed in 4 minutes from a car. Any
comments?

David M. Jacobs | This may be true in your case, but all events must be investigated by a competent individual. Consciously remembered events are, contrary to current opinion, notoriously inaccurate.

Tracy/Moderator | Steve, follow-up question?

Steve Q | I did not conciously recall the event, but had the normal rectal bleeding following an abduction. I've had a vasoectomy. They do the sperm removal via the back side of the testes. Comments?

David M. Jacobs | Once again, competent investigation by a hypnotist who is well-versed in the realities of the abduction phenomenon and in hypnosis should help resolve the issues. Sperm removal via the back of the testes is something that apparently does happen. I know that men with vasectomies still report sperm harvesting procedures.

Tracy/Moderator | Frank, you're next.GA

Frank Stanley, Ph.D | David. What makes you come up with the time line of the end of abductions, namely, what specifically are you focusing in on? Would you be willing to come back again and discuss your book in greater detail in the future or right after it is out?

David M. Jacobs | My time line is based on what aliens and hybrids tell the abductees. They all say that the end of the program is near. They are vague about when the actual end is coming but from what I can gather it will be soon. I will be glad to come back and bore people whenever I am asked.

Tracy/Moderator | Great! We'll defintely ask.<G> Shelley, your next.

Shelley | In speaking and working with abductees, what is the general nature of the experiences? Do people seem to grow from them overall, or are they more of a traumatic nature?

David M. Jacobs |Excellent question. People cope with the phenomenon in a variety of ways depending on how they have coped with it (without knowing) over their lives and also on the quality of individual who has been their investigator. I try to be as honest and accurate as I possibly can. BS is easy to come by in this area. My responsibility is to say "The buck stops here" Now we will engage with the material on a realistic basis and learn to cope with it in a way that allows for one's life to continue even though one may know that it might happen again.

Tracy/Moderator | May, you're next.

May | In a case where the generations of ones family are not abducted and there are no signs of the usual light in the bedroom, floating in the air, etc present..... What do you make of the event where one has seen a ufo and experienced missing time? How does this experience differ?

David M. Jacobs | Basically, what you are dealing with is the amount of information that the person remembers consciously about the event. Most people remember absolutely nothing and could never imagine that they are involved with the abduction phenomenon. Others remember bright lights, some remember missing time, some remember beings in their room, and so forth. There is no set thing that should or should not be remembered. Each case must be investigated on its own.

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