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    The Andreasson Affair: The True Story of a Close Encounter of the Fourth Kind

    By Raymond E. Fowler and Allen Hynek

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    The Classic Case of Alien Abduction Rereleased with a New Afterword for a New Generation

    The Andreasson Affair is more than just a classic example of a close encounter. It is—to use the jargon of ufologists—a case of such “high strangeness” that even the most open-minded investigators were at first inclined to dismiss it out of hand. Yet it has become probably the best documented case of its kind to date, the subject of an intensive 12-month investigation conducted for the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) that involved, among other things, the recording of large quantities of testimony given under hypnosis, extensive lie detector testing of witnesses, detailed analysis of corroborative circumstantial evidence, exhaustive comparison with other such accounts, and much more.

    The Andreasson Affair includes:
  • The most detailed description of any UFO abduction experience.
  • Betty’s precise drawings of her experience.
  • A supporting foreword to the book by astronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek.
  • Verification of all events associated with Betty’s experience.
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Page Books
    Release dateOct 20, 2014
    ISBN9781601634405

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    • 5/5
      A totally bonkers case of alien abduction with loads of high strangeness, emotion and religious symbolism.

      As the book is essentially a chronologically ordered collection of hypnosis transcripts, the audiobook version is definitely the way to go as the narrator did an amazing job voicing Betty and the investigators, as well as emulating Betty's emotions.

      This case amazes me on so many levels as the investigators did not stop at the point Betty's story took a very weird very religious turn, but rather allowed her to go deep into the personal side of the experience. What seemed at first like a classic abduction story deviated into a much more otherworldly place full of messages and symbolism. I can't help but draw parallels between her experiences and historic fairy folklore.

      A must read if you are looking for something different than the standard nuts and bolts UFO stuff. I should note this is not a religiously biased book, rather it investigates an experience by a deeply religious person, whose belief played an integral part in the experience. The book is as unbiased as it gets, just presenting the experience as told by the witness during her regressions.
    • 4/5
      Compelling, But...

      Don’t get me wrong, this was an excellent book, even at only 4 stars (I really wanted to give it 5, except for a few spelling and grammatical errors, it was well written). The Andreasson account really drew me in; it feels right in the sense that it resonated more strongly than many other abduction accounts I’ve heard/read. But it would be easier to make a more informed determination if I could have seen, at the least, a video of this regression. (If there IS one, I have yet to see it.)

      Still, there was something...couldn’t quite put my finger on it. At first. In spite of being ‘drawn in,’ I don’t believe everything I read, hear or even see. However, I too have had my own experiences. And the fact that there are so many who have experienced the abduction scenario and many who have experienced almost identical events without knowing each other or being aware of what others have experienced, causes me to take a second (and third and more!) look at some of these claims. Not to say that I’ve experienced all of what Andreasson experienced. But some of it, certainly. And it’s those few similarities that resonated.

      Regardless, one thing that continues to nag at me is: if these beings are so beneficial – and in spite of the ‘fact’ that we seem to have agreed to these abductions before our birth into this incarnation – why do they terrorize those they abduct? Why aren’t they understanding that their collective actions ARE terrorizing the majority of those they abduct? Why can’t they provide an anesthetic, a pain killer and/or do away with the psychological torture if they are truly doing something beneficial for us, because it IS torture. Apparently not all (or any) of them care enough to even consider this.

      Conversely, those who claim to have positive contact interactions with the ETs don’t seem to feel threatened by them. But according to their own memories of their encounter/s, they didn’t experience anything that could be considered threatening. And none of them were probed, prodded or experimented on in any way, to my knowledge. So what’s the difference between these two scenarios?

      This reminds me of the Biblical Old Testament god, Yahweh, coercing Abraham into sacrificing his son, Isaac. There’s no excuse for this kind of behavior. A loving parent would not trick their child into killing their ‘grandchild’ just to prove that the adult child would do anything s/he were told. Talk about messing with someone’s mind! “It’s for your own good,” just doesn’t cut it! Where’s the love in that?

      After all the research I’ve done in vast areas on this topic and on the topic of The Watchers and The Angels, I’m not so sure that the Greys are the Watchers. From what I’ve read, there seems to be numerous species of Greys (possibly more than 10?), and one or more of those ‘species’ are allegedly non-organic (non-biological entities) and work with the group Raymond Fowler referred to as the ‘Nordics,’ (also known as the Tall Whites). These entities do NOT appear to have mankind’s best interests at heart. At all.

      Additionally, according to the Book of Enoch and other ancient writings, there were at least two groups of angels who were considered Watchers: one was good and helped humans, and the other supposedly chose to come to the earth and interbreed with human women (and thus sired the Nephilim). Apparently, THEY were conducting a genetic experiment too. Just like these entities who have been abducting humanity seem to be. Are these ‘Nordics’ the offspring of the negative Watchers, that is, are they actually the Nephilim?

      While I believe that what Betty Andreasson experienced was a valid UFO/ET experience, I don’t think the experience was quite what Fowler and others may have thought it was/is. In fact, I strongly sense that the entities known as the Elders/the Nordics/the Tall Whites are the ones running the show, while the Greys are essentially doing the grunt work, and that these Nordics et al (who really don’t seem to care if they hurt humans) primarily focus on individuals who are highly religious in some manner, or who especially profess to be ‘Christians,’ who are often fundamentalists and who claim ‘Jesus as their savior,” and especially those who use both the Old and New Testaments of the Judaeo/Christian Bible to ‘prove’ their beliefs. Is this possibly a form of vengeance on the part of the Nordics/Elders/Watchers and/or Nephilim? I can’t prove this. And I could be wrong. But so far this is where my research is leading.

      What is really intriguing, however, is the fact that the author, Raymond Fowler, himself, has had numerous UFO/ET experiences and has even written a book about those experiences: UFO Testament: Anatomy of an Abductee.

      And not sure what this may mean, but what really caught my attention is the fact that Raymond Fowler was apparently with the NSA when he was in the military, and then was working for MUFON when he interviewed Betty Andreasson. And if I’m not mistaken (and I could be), MUFON was essentially ‘taken over’ by the CIA.

      What does all this mean? Maybe someone out there knows for sure and can share.

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