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I posted on facebook last night that my second grader brought home a book about UFO's from the school library.  I was completely unprepared for the content of the book, and am seriously considering a visit to the school with book in hand this morning.

I don't think this book belongs in an elementary school to begin with, but I certainly don't think a seven year old should be able to check it out.

I'd really love to hear your thoughts on this one, so please consider posting your comments below - regardless of whether or not you agree or disagree with me or anyone else.

The book is called Exploring the Unknown: UFO Abductions by Neal Bernards (Lucent Books, 1995) and is part of a series of books.

It is written from the perspective of it may or may not be true.  While I found much of the content to be of the nature that would make a child feel afraid or certain that a UFO is going to steal him or her from just about anywhere (home, swimming, out in the yard, etc), here are the pieces I found most concerning:

Story tells of people having needles stuck into their brains by aliens with "painful" medical procedures (Bernards, pg 13).

Here is the story of a teenage girl who was visited and impregnated by aliens, returned to Earth, and recaptured again so they could remove the fetus from her .  See fetus in jar.  The aliens visited her again later so that they could show her the half alient / hachild, a little girl.  The story says that she "cried and fought to keep the developing child, but the aliens took it anyway." (Bernards, Pg 29)

Here, an abducted woman is depicted as being in an alien nursery (notice the fetuses in the jars above) and asked to hold alien babies to show them how to bond with them. (Bernards, Pg 39)




I'll let this one speak for itself (Bernards, Pg 38)

In this last image, a woman tells a story of visiting her grandfather's farm as a child (told under hypnosis).  She was "cheerfully reaching fo rchicken eggs under the warm, feathery tummies of the hens, when suddenly she was someplace else... a pleasant, disembodied voice told her that a cut that would not hurt was going to be made on her leg; a little tiny piece of her was going to be taken."  She said this was a deep cut she did not remember getting. (Bernards, Pg 32-33).

Full Citation:  

Bernards, Neal.  Exploring the Unknown:  UFO Abductions. San Diego: Accent, 1995.