The Triangle

Issue date: 9/30/05 Section: Sci-Tech

Media Credit: http://www.stopabductions.com Professor David Jacobs, Temple professor and UFO researcher.

Aaron Sakulich: ...also, this is the first interview that I've done. I think that people are getting tired of just reading, well, this is the thing that happened, I can't explain it, here are the options, decide for yourself. So I figured I would try to start to get more interviews, things like that...

David Jacobs: Well, did you come with a prepared set of questions and I'll answer...

Aaron Sakulich: Well, I did. There's a handful of them, they're kind of out of order, not in any particular order, but, also, I'm sure when I ask one it will raise a question in your response. So the way that the interview is going to work...this is a terrible printer...but the way that the...that I guess the article will work is I'll probably be able to get a full page for it from the design people, because I've done it for so long, but it'll start with "last..." what is this..."last Thursday I sat down with, you know..."who wrote one of the first UFO related doctoral theses or, uh...doctoral theses is I guess how you would say it...

David Jacobs: Dissertations?

Aaron Sakulich: Yes, dissertations, that's the word I was thinking of. You also teach one of the only regularly scheduled courses on...uh...

David Jacobs: The only regularly scheduled course on the subject in the United States, most likely in the world.

Aaron Sakulich: Right. So the beginning will just be a general introduction. If you have a particular picture you'd want to use, I'll give you my email address, just send it along.

David Jacobs: Uh...okay. Well, I'm associate professor of history at Temple, I've been here since 1975, I specialize in 20th century US history, primarily culture and popular culture. I also of course have done most of my research in things strange, mainly UFOs and UFO abductions. I've published 4 books on the subject, UFOs and abductions, and God knows how many articles. I am continuing my work, I do hypnotic regressions of abductees, in my spare time and I continue to write on the subject and continue to do research.

Aaron Sakulich: Sounds good. So, for your work, when you do these, these hypnotic regressions, interviews, things like that, I assume that the people find you somehow?

David Jacobs: I do not solicit. I try to maintain the standards of, or the ethics of the therapeutic community. So I do not solicit, and I do not advertise, and I do something very different than the therapeutic community - I do not charge for anything I do, which puts me in a very, very outside of that...

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