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14 THE ALIEN COSMIC EXPO 2015
Meet The Speakers Form road not knowing how they got there. In several that a more plausible explanation is that there is
The other cases, people saw the UFO as well. Some an element of self delusion, or waking
of these people wound up with scars they could nightmares at play here? Do you not think there
Alien Cosmic Expo not explain. is a more plausible explanation for these reports
than the idea that there is an alien species
Continued From Page 13 Q. Can you tell me a little bit about your coming down to Earth to kidnap humans?
background and what you do?
DON DONDERI A. That is a plausible explanation for many of
UFO’s, ETs and Alien A. I worked at McGill University from 1962 to the reports, but not all of the reports, I agree
2009. I was an associate professor of with you. I also said evidence for abduction is
Abductions psychological research and published well over that is a balance of probable evidence, not
100 papers on one thing or another. In 1982 I beyond reasonable doubt.
co-founded a consulting company that does
human factors ergonomics consulting. I've been Q. Don't you think the balance of probability
on the mainstream of science and engineering favours a much less glamorous, much more
my entire professional life. human explanation that our perceptions are
flawed?
Q. How did you get interested in this particular
subject? A. No.
“There is an entire chapter (in Don’s book A. I was interested as a boy when this stuff INSERT DON DONDERI INTERVIEW
UFOs, ETs, and Alien Abductions, a Scientist started happening in 1947. I was old enough to HERE
looks at the Evidence) on six UFO abduction read the newspapers. I'm a curious person and
cases. Each of them has what you might call in I was persuaded this was a curious MARC ST-GERMAIN
common a touchstone. Every one of the people phenomenon. Thirty years later, I had a MUFON – The Silence
involved saw a close up of a UFO. Everyone of university position. I had tenure. I could study
the people had missing time they could not things without worrying about what other Keepers
account for, a period of an hour or more, maybe people thought about them. This is a very
even two or three hours. After the initial liberating thing. Nobody except university Marc St-Germain is a former Canadian military
sighting, they ended up driving down a road not professors have tenure in the world, it makes who after working in various sectors of activity
knowing how they got there. In several other you an aristocrat right off the bat. You can do has gradually turned to ufology. Throughout his
cases, people saw the UFO as well. Some of what you like as long as you do your work, career, he will use his free time to do research in
these people wound up with scars they could not which I always did. several areas; archaeology of civilizations,
explain.” mythology, anthropology and ufology. In 2008
Q. We've seen a lot of studies showing that he published his first book, The Age of Chaos,
February 25, 2013 human perception is a very spotty thing. People Secret History of mankind (available in French
Jen Gerson have a way of even inventing memories; only). While writing this book he discovered
National Post sometimes when more than one person claims that extraterrestrial reality was part of the
to see something, they start talking to each other history of our civilization and he developed an
Q&A: Retired McGill University and can affect each others' accounts, for ancient alien theory based on ancestral
professor convinced ‘beyond a example scriptures. The publication of this book led him
reasonable doubt’ that aliens exist to become a renowned lecturer in Quebec and
A. I cover all of this stuff [in my book] including while giving lectures across the province he
The former Montreal psychology professor, and everything you've talked about, because I've realizes that UFOs where still a well established
author of ETs, and Alien Abductions a Scientist investigated some of these things professionally taboo!
looks at the Evidence, is convinced myself. I can assure you the evidence that
extraterrestrial... survives a critical look at what might have He intuitively felt that this taboo may
contributed to those reports is sound evidence. have been created by some occult organizations.
Retired Montreal psychology professor To understand the origin of this taboo and to
Don Crosbie Donderi is convinced Q. Are we talking about physical evidence? verify his intuition, he conducted a brief
extraterrestrial life exists. The educator, who historical research of the UFO phenomenon.
spent 47 years at McGill University, including A. Now anybody can take a photograph from the
as associate dean of the faculty of graduate Internet, jazz things up in Photoshop. So a (Continued on Page 15)
studies and research - applies his insights into photograph is worthless as evidence in and of
psychology to a book: UFOs, ETs, and Alien itself. But when you get multiple photographs,
Abductions, a Scientist looks at the Evidence. It or photographs taken by gun cameras on a
will be published in May. Mr. Donderi spoke to fighter plane chasing UFOs - of which there are
the Post's Jen Gerson on Monday. several examples - or radar plots taken during
a UFO chase. You'll find there is a tremendous
Q. Give me an example of some of that amount of corroborative evidence.
evidence.
Q. Just because we don't always know what's
A. There is an entire chapter on six UFO seen on these types of tapes doesn't mean that's
abduction cases. Each of them has what you proof that it's extraterrestrial.
might call in common a touchstone. Every one
of the people involved saw a close up of a UFO. A. No, but what else is it? What you have to do
Everyone of the people had missing time they is you have to eliminate the other probable
could not account for, a period of an hour or causes ... and what you begin to build up is a
more, maybe even two or three hours. After the collection of evidence that stands the sniping of
initial sighting, they ended up driving down a people who say it can't be therefore it isn't.
Q. From a psychological perspective, when we
hear about people getting abducted by aliens, do
you not think that on the balance of probabilities
