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...final category of persons who might be suspected of involvement in the sightings, Grinspoon said, are those with anti-social or psychopathic personalities. Such persons, he explained, would be capable of purposely falsifying reports to satisfy a conscious wish for some sort of personal gain...
...Studies suggest that a significant and perhaps increasing proportion of our population falls into the category of diagnosable mental illness," Grinspoon said. "Faced with high levels of environmental or intro-psychic stress, both groups, healthy and ill, may revert to more primitive modes of thinking, often characterized by magical explanations and symbolic usage...
...Grinspoon said last night that there are many other explanations of the UFO sightings, but that he considered the extra-terrestrial life explanation "absurd"-not because such life does not exist, but because of the technological difficulties involved in travelling such enormous distances...
...Grinspoon was one of seven speakers participating in a panel discussion on UFO's held at the conference...
...study of UFO's, Grinspoon said, generated an "inordinate amount of affective heat in which mature scientists accused each other of publicity-seeking, deceiving the public, stealing documents, and in other ways being dishonest. "It was not even possible to organize this panel without arousing considerable passion," he pointed...