Once I started reading this book, I was unable to put it down. There’s nothing I like better than retiring for the night with a good book and Big Beryl, (my favourite teddy bear). Who was it that said that surrounding yourself with teddy bears keeps the greys away? Anyway, this book basically covers a week long alien abduction study conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in June1992. Amongst the lecturers were Harvard psychiatrist John E. Mack, M.D., Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs, and Jenny Randles to name a few, not forgetting a panel of alleged alien abductees. The first half of the book pays attention and detail to the conference itself and the participants. The author himself attended this conference and the book is basically a full report as such, with the latter half of the book being devoted to the personal experiences of people who claim that they have been abducted by aliens. The author follows the hypnotherapy sessions of two people in particular, known as Carol and Alice, and interviews a wide variety of people including hypnotherapists, psychiatrists, ufologists and experiencers themselves. Anyone who has studied the UFO and alien abduction subject must know by now that this is a phenomenon which runs a lot deeper than the ‘nuts and bolts and little green men from outer space’ theory goes.  Anyway, ‘they're not green!’ as Matt Brazel told the reporters in the Roswell movie! Sorry, I digress. The fact is that there appears to be more to this grey business than meets the eye. At least according to the stories and opinions expressed in this report. Some of the accounts as told by the abductees, Carol and Alice, seem bizarre to say the least. I especially loved the part about the time when Carol was abducted along with a Christmas gift box of goodies containing fudge, brownies, cookies and fruit cake, only to later discover that those dastardly greys had gluttonised on most of her goodies leaving her with an almost empty box! Mmmm, even the greys have got a sweet tooth. Seriously though, another gentleman interviewed by the author was Richard Boylan, a clinical psychologist who recounted the time that he had embarked upon ‘a six-state grand tour of reported south west secret sites’. These included the Tonopah test range, Nevada, USAF Air Defence Command Headquarters, Area 51and S-4 Nellis test range, (the Groom and Papoose Lakes bases), Los Alamos National Laboratories, the infamous Dulce area and the Northrop ‘saucerplant’ amongst others. This particular account of his travels and what he uncovers spans twenty four pages and makes for some interesting reading regarding black op’s, underground facilities, pulse beam weapons technology, SETI cover-ups, and UFO / alien connection theories.

With regard to the whole phenomenon and the attempt at research in the face of the world we live in, John Mack sums it up in a comment he made to a reporter at the conference: "We do not have a legitimate reality that will permit my reality to be heard"!