Penniston refers to multiple use of sodium pentathol and maybe other drugs by AFOSI. To get at hidden memories or to create a false memory trail?
The following would seem to be pertinent here.
From my archives and again, ye olde formatting does not travel well!
Into the Night
by AJS Rayl
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- Hypnosis -
In 1994, after much contemplation, Penniston says, he agreed to
undergo two hypnosis sessions at the urging of several colleagues
with whom he was working to uncover any information on the
identity of the craft at Bentwaters, the plan being to co-author
a book. "The idea was that there might be more valuable
information, specifically times, dates, and other names that
perhaps we could retrieve," says Penniston. "I knew that
information gleaned from hypnosis wasn't always perfect and that
if it wasn't done right, the information could be contaminated.
So I was reluctant about the whole thing."
His colleagues came up with a list of questions for the
psychologist that they felt were not leading or suggestive, and
they agreed to let him be hypnotized by a family psychologist who
had helped his teenage daughter.
The first of two hypnotic regressions -- both of which were
videotaped -- took place in September 1994. In that session,
Penniston recounted the same events that he remembered
consciously. Nothing new surfaced. The session did, however, turn
up a jump in time: Penniston described being near the craft,
examining it, and then suddenly standing 30 feet away next to
Airman First Class John Burroughs, one of the men dispatched to
investigate the scene with him. That sequence of events left
about 45 minutes unaccounted for. He and his colleagues decided
to try another hypnosis session two months later to explore that
seeming discrepancy. (That second session is covered in the next
section.)
Travellers from the Future
During the second hypnotic regression, the psychologist takes
Penniston back to the debriefing by two Office of Special
Investigation (OSI) agents, and he recounts the scene and events
just as he recalled them consciously. But then, according to
Penniston's memory under hypnosis, those two agents leave the
room and two other officials, one American and one with a British
accent, come into the room and ask Penniston to again recount the
story. They ask him, he says, if he would mind being given a shot
of something and then telling his story again while they tape-
record it. Penniston agrees, "if that's what it takes." But he
also tells his interrogators that he doesn't like shots.
In a dramatic and striking scene on the videotape, Penniston
lifts his arm for a shot of sodium pentathol and the agents
question him repeatedly about the trajectory of the craft, its
speed and approach. Penniston calmly repeats over and over that
he did not see any of that, that the craft was already on the
ground when he saw it.
The interrogation continues, and Penniston answers the officials'
questions about the craft itself and the symbols he found on one
side. He recalls the two agents talking to themselves, saying
there was "no point in going further," that they knew what had
happened and now the question was how to contain the situation.
"They know about what I've seen. They knew it already," Penniston
says under hypnosis.
As the regression continues, the psychologist begins questioning
Penniston about possible "beings" in the craft and he begins to
answer. On the tape, it seems that Penniston knows the answer to
just about every question the psychologist asks. "I look at this
and find it hard to believe it's me," said Penniston during one
viewing of the tape.
Under hypnosis, Penniston describes the alien visitors, saying
that they are "travellers from our future." They have been coming
here in teams, each team assigned a different "tasking," a
different mission. Each team targets certain people when it comes
back to our time, rather than just encountering people randomly.
When the psychologist asks him why, Penniston -- still under
hypnosis -- says, "They've got a serious problem. The world isn't
like it is now. It's darker, in bad shape. It's very polluted and
much colder." He goes on to recount that the visitors from the
future also have serious social problems and difficulties with
reproduction. Accordingly, one of the travellers' main tasks is
to obtain sperm and eggs and chromosomes in order to keep the
species alive. The species in question, he says in response to
the psychologist's question, is "us. They're humans."
"The problem here," says Penniston to Rayl after the videotape
ends, "is I don't know if this information is real in any sense,
if it's been planted in my mind or if any of it is actually
rooted in truth as we know it."
Questions Still Unanswered, Mystery Still Unsolved
OMNI asked David Jacobs, one of the country's leading abduction
researchers, to view and comment on the videotape of Penniston's
second hypnosis session. Jacobs, history professor at Temple
University, has conducted more than 600 hypnotic regressions and
has written two books on the phenomenon, Secret Life and a new
book, tentatively entitled The Threat, due in June 1997 from
Simon & Schuster. Based on his research, Jacobs believes that the
alien abduction phenomenon is real, that people really are being
taken aboard spacecraft and subjected to often cruel medical and
genetic examinations.
"The hypnosis started out fine," Jacobs says of the Penniston
session. "The psychologist didn't ask a lot of probing questions.
She did ask a few leading questions, but he didn't bite. It was
okay. I feel quite certain that they, the military agents, did
get him up into the office for an interrogation and that they did
inject him with sodium pentathol, put him on a table, and ask him
all those questions. It was quite a striking scene, and it all
had the ring of truth to me. In other words, it appeared that
this is exactly what happened. It had a beginning, a middle, and
an end and each part led logically to the next up until the
sodium pentathol. Once that was administered, it was chaos as far
as I was concerned.
"He zoomed off into a channelling mode, and the psychologist
didn't recognize it," contends Jacobs. "He simply dissociated,
which is what happens when people begin to channel. The
information is coming from one part of his brain, and the other
part hears it and think it's coming from the outside. And
suddenly he knows the answer to everything, as the psychologist
begins to ask him one question after another about the beings. He
knew the answer to absolutely everything, and only one question
was he unable to answer. This is a certainty of channelling. It's
a psychological phenomenon, and all the information that comes
from this is internally generated. If the hypnotist isn't real
experienced and doesn't recognize this, they can easily fall into
this trap, and this I believe was a classic situation of just
that."
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