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The UFO name is a registered trademark of UFO Magazine, Inc. 444 Issue #153 UFO The Heat is On by William J. Birnes I’m sure we’re going to be taking a lot of heat for this issue. must get the OK from one of the many self-described experts. We’re publishing Jeremy Vaeni’s article on the controversy How about alien abduction? Unless you get the nod from one between pseudonymous Emma Woods and Associate Profes- of researchers, many of whom are completely unqualified, sor David Jacobs of Temple University. In UFO circles, Ja- unlicensed, and uncertified to conduct any therapy what- cobs is best known for his research into alien-human hybrids soever, you’re out of line. Thus, in this issue, because we and the alien abduction of human beings. dare to question the nature of the controversy between David Professor Jacobs uses hypnotic regression as a part of his Jacobs and Emma Woods, we are out of line. research into the experiences of the alien abductees he works Having heard Emma’s side of the story as well as David’s with. This is a very touchy subject for us because on her web- own appearance on the Paracast podcast where he dis- site www.ufoalienabductee.com and on Jeremy Vaeni and missed Emma’s charges, I called David Jacobs, whom I know Jeff Ritzmann’s Paratopia and Lan Lamphere’s Overnight AM personally, for an interview. However, it was Jacobs himself radio shows, Emma woods has publicly accused Professor Ja- who questioned why we were even covering the story. cobs of, among other things, conditioning her to believe that He said that to give Emma Woods any space was to give her she is suffering from multiple personality disorder. a legitimacy she did not deserve because she was trying to Jacobs has said that he did this with her full consent be- ruin his life, and we, by covering the story, were also out to cause he and Woods were in an agreement to throw off the ruin his life. Needless to say, I was pretty surprised. alien hybrids who were using her to get to him. David’s re- Instead of information, we got our first threat. Jacobs said buttal to Emma’s charges and his own explanation of the that on advice of his attorney he is not making any statement. controversy can be found at www.ufoabduction.com/defa- However, if he believes that we are repeating what he referred mationcampaign.htm. to as Emma’s defamation of his reputation, he will sue. Jeremy tries to unravel the intricacies of this relationship Interesting logic here. He claimed that Emma had been de- in his article in this issue. As a magazine, we take no official faming him for over two years, but he has taken no action position on who is right and who is wrong. But, inasmuch against her. However, if a magazine covers the story in such a as this is a news story concerning a woman who says she way that he interprets it to be damaging to his reputation, he is a victim of a UFO researcher and a UFO researcher who will sue. In other words, he has no response to what he calls says he is a victim of a woman he has worked with, we are defamation but rather a response to news coverage of what covering it. he calls defamation. The illogic is stunning. We have been warned not to cover it by various folks in the In subsequent conversations, David and I did get into a UFO community who, much to their discredit, have dictated discussion of some of the substance of Emma Woods’s com- to us that we must conform to the party line. David Jacobs plaints against him, complaints that Jacobs says are not only is a respected alien-abduction researcher who has devoted unwarranted but untrue. He admitted that he suggested to his life to the field, and therefore, he is beyond criticism. Emma that she was suffering from multiple personality dis- Emma Woods, they say, is simply a venomous and vindic- order—we heard Paratopia’s broadcast and the tape of him tive woman who is suffering from a mental disease and is suggesting it to her over the phone—but Jacobs says that out to defame poor Professor Jacobs. But we don’t buy the Emma took that snippet of conversation out of context.