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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place any faith in Steven Spielberg films like E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the visitors from outer space are benign and friendly folk. But several recently reported episodes have been more sinister. High on the best-seller lists this past summer stood Communion by Whitley Strieber, previously known mainly as a writer of fantasies (The Wolfen, Warday), who vehemently describes as a "true story" his chilling account of being spirited onto a spaceship by a pack of 3-ft.-high "visitors." When they proposed sticking a needle into his brain, he recalls, one of them casually asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: New Age Harmonies | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...Whitley Strieber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bookends Lovely Me: the Life of Jacqueline Susann | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

...They're here. Creatures from Out There, UFOs are invading the nation's bookstores. Moreover, these accounts of aliens are not sci-fi; they are on nonfiction shelves, and one has even climbed up the best-seller list. In 1985, according to Novelist Whitley Strieber (The Wolfen), small creatures with "fierce, limitless eyes" abducted him from his cottage in upstate New York and subjected him to painful prods and probes. Through hypnosis, Strieber later recalled more than a dozen similar occurrences. Credibility is dissipated when he remembers "being terrified as a little boy by an appearance of Mr. Peanut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bookends Lovely Me: the Life of Jacqueline Susann | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

...Warday, Strieber and Kunetka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Best Sellers: May 28, 1984 | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...Warday, Strieber and Kunetka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Best Sellers: Apr. 30, 1984 | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

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