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Right now, in addition to maintaining the largest UFO case depository in the United States and publishing a magazine and a scientific journal, CUFOS is engaged in two major investigative projects...
...first is a study of UFO abductions, a relatively common phenomenon that Eberhart says "may or May not be related to UFOs." In the usual scenario, people are abducted by "little grey men," brought onto an alien craft, examined, and then allowed...
CUFOS has investigated about 16-20 abduction cases, beginning by putting subjects through a battery of tests that is designed to see if there is one specific personality type that favors UFO abductions. Abductees usually have one of two basic personality types: "fantasy-oriented and paranoid" or "totally normal, overly calm and objective...
...second big CUFOS project involves an investigation of an alleged UFO crash that occurred in Roswell, New Mexico, in July, 1947. Several people saw the alleged crash, which supposedly left behind a significant amount of physical debris--including an odd, tin-foil like metal that could not be cut, a "weird balsa wood-like substance with odd characters on it," and, Eberhart believes, alien crew members' bodies...
...what really keeps the ufologists going are reports of actual sightings. In the Massachusetts area alone, Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) investigators have examined about a dozen cases in the last year, including two sightings of 12 to 18 inch glowing green disks near highways, a 30-foot metallic disc seen near Cape Cod in January, a silver domed disc seen in Malden in October of 1990, and two reports of a large angular object, flying at tree level...