Fwd: Alien Abduction Memories Under Hypnosis/ Re: Strontium-90 onTennessee Highway 95

[Stewart Farber <farbersa@optonline.net>]

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From: Stewart Farber <radproject@optonline.net>

To: jjcohen <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>, RuthWeiner@AOL.COM, vargo@physicist.net, joseroze@netvision.net.il, 

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Subject: Fwd: Alien Abduction Memories Under Hypnosis/ Re: Strontium-90 on Tennessee Highway 95

Date: 5/18/04 1:19:23 PM



5/18/04 10:33:35 AM, John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM> wrote:



>I believe that it was in Carl Sagan's book, "The

>Demon-Haunted World," that some psychologist believe

>people were abduced by aliens from space.  It has to

>be true because the patients said so.

>

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Hi all:



An interesting intersection of a radiation therapy done on hundreds of thousands of young children and 

alien abduction memories follows. Bear with me, it might be of interest to some. If not, simply delete.

 

I recall hearing about the psychiatrist at Harvard [Dr. Mack] who wrote a book about 10 years ago 

claiming that he had hypnotized a number of patients who had alien abduction memories. Many of these 

people studied by the Harvard psychiatrist recalled quite clearly under hypnosis that they were held down 

under bright lights and metal rods inserted up their noses or in their ears. 



This Harvard psychiatrist claimed that these memories were "real" --that something really happened to 

these people. However, what happened may have NOTHING to 

do with aliens but with an ill-advised medical procedure done on mostly children from post-WWII up 

through the mid 1970s in some locations -the procedure called Nasal Radium Irradiation [NRI]. The CDC now 

estimates that no fewer [their Lo-Lo Estimate] than 560,000 children received this procedure up through 

1961 [with a Hi-Hi Estimate of 2,600,000 treated]. The most likely mean number of children treated is 

quite approximately 1,000,000.



As strange as it may seem, it is possible that some of these claimed cases of alien abduction memories 

may be related to a medical procedure received by these individuals as children wherein radium tipped 

rods [50 mg source strength, 0.3 mm Monel encapsulated to maximize beta dose] were inserted three to four 

times [for a single course of therapy] bilaterally up their noses and positioned at the opening of the 

Eustachian tube to shrink the individual's adenoids. See the photo on page one of the following former 

web page I had started on this issue  which came from a medical text issued by a doctor from Johns 

Hopkins, to see what a child being treated looked like:



http://www.farber.info/reap/default.htm



BTW, if anyone is interested in the NRI issue which delivered average contact doses to the nasopharynx of 

about 2,000 rads, they can scroll through the above "snapshot" of my former, expired web site on this 

issue. 



As mentioned in the Annotated Bibliography, NRI was found to have had the highest risk of cancer death to 

a 

group of children treated experimentally by Johns Hopkins from 1948 - 1953 of any of the 4,000 

experiments reviewed by the President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments in their 

Final Report to Pres. Clinton in 1995. NRI was also found to be the only experiment reviewed by the ACHRE 

to exceed [by a factor of about 10] the ACHRE committee's preselected threshold for medical notice and 

followup [excess risk of cancer death of 1 in 1,000 experessed over a lifetime], but refused to recommend 

notice. Dr. Glatstein, a respected radiation oncologist and one of the 14 members of ACHRE, voted in 

favor of notice and followup but was opposed by the other 13 members of the committee because it was not 

"politically acceptable" according to Dr. Glatstein to notify this population of human radiation 

experimental subjects. So as usual politics [even under Clinton], and fears of embarassment by Johns 

Hopkins University and Hospital if medical notice and followup were done for 500 or so individuals in the 

Hopkins NRI experiment, trumped science. But I digress. Back to Alien Abductions:



A friend of mine who collects books on alien abductions and other paranormal issues tells me that THE 

most common theme in every alien abduction memory mentioned by people who think they were abducted is 

that the person was held down under bright lights and metal rods inserted up their nose or in other body 

orifices by aliens. Oddly enough, of the 1,000 or so people who contacted me back in 1996 -97 from 

Maryland primarily, who received NRI treatments after extensive news coverage there, a goodly number of 

individuals treated as older children, clearly told me that some doctors inserted the rods into their 

ears foolishly thinking it would help destroy bacteria present with middle ear infections!!  So some 

children were indeed treated 

with radium rods in the ears as well as in the nose with radium tipped rods [to shrink their adenoids and 

open the Eustachian tubes], even though there was no 

evidence or expectation that radium irradiation of a middle ear bacterial infection [through the eardrum] 

was the least bit efficacious.



These children who received NRI [some of whom were treated as infants as young as 6 months to only a few  

years old, average age about 8 yo.] would likely have very strange, and sometimes repressed memories of 

what was in some cases a traumatic treatment. The child would have been required to recline under a 

bright light while a doctor with a 6" or so a parabolic metallic relector with a hole in the middle [for 

the doctor to view through] focused the bright light on the nasal opening so the doctor could accurately 

position the rod through the nostrils, past the turbinates in the nasal opening,  to the rear of the 

nasopharynx. There is a photo in the book which is a source for the photo in the link above [Proctor, 

D.F., "The Tonsils and Adenoids in Childhood". 1968]  which shows what a child would have seen in looking 

up at a doctor inserting the rod. I haven't yet scanned this photo but it is quite suggestive of a large 

one-eyed 

alien form to a nervous young child. From the perspective of the child they would see a head with one 

very bright "eye" in the middle which may in a repressed, fuzzy memory have become an "alien" inserting a 

metal rod. Who knows. This may explain some of the strange abduction memories in some people. This is 

obviously just a "hypothesis".



If a very young child squirmed, or would not keep still in their parent's arms while being treated, they 

were put on a "papoose board" and bundled [wrapped in blankets] to restraint them for the 10 to 12 

minutes duration of each irradiation, until the rods were removed. Some older children were put in barber 

chairs in some centers in Baltimore which used NRI extensively in the 1950s,  and straps put on their 

arms, head and chest to keep them perfectly still while they were reclined and  the NRI procedure done. 

What kind of memories might these people, treated as children,  have? Perhaps they could not 

intellectually, in their conscious mind,   accept their parents taking them to a doctor to have this done 

and the repressed memories of them having the procedure done took on that it was done by some outside, 

alien being. Interesting hypothesis? The use of NRI reached a peak in the mid-1950s when movies about 

aliens were capturing the fancy of the public and may have been more acceptable to a child's psyche to 

reduce anxiety than thinking their parent would let such a bizarre treatment be done to them.





Stewart Farber, MSPH

[203] 367-0791







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