Abduction

Harvard psychiatrist John Mack's clinical study of people who reported alien abduction experiences — arguing they were genuine psychological events requiring serious investigation.

Mack's argument: his 200+ subjects were not mentally ill, not lying, and not confabulating in any ordinary sense — their experiences were real to them in ways that resist conventional psychological explanation. He takes seriously the possibility that these are encounters with genuinely non-human intelligences. The Harvard controversy: Mack was subject to a formal investigation by Harvard Medical School for publishing this work — he was ultimately exonerated.