UFO Reseacher John Mack Dies

Harvard professor and psychiatrist John Mack was hit by a car and killed in London on Monday night, September 27. After meeting UFO researcher Budd Hopkins in Cape Cod, where both of them spent the summers, Mack became intrigued by people who claimed to have UFO abductions. He professionally analyzed many of these people and found them to be sane and mentally stable and thus became one of the first scientists to take alien abduction seriously. His courage in risking his career by acknowledging the validity of the UFO phenomenon was highly valued and he will be greatly missed.
While he did not conclude that we are being visited by beings from other worlds, he did feel there was definitely something real going on that we don't yet understand and was especially intrigued by the messages that abductees brought back warning about a future environmental catastrophe, years before global warming was in the news.

After he wrote his groundbreaking book "Abuction—Human Encounters with Aliens" in 1994, Harvard tried to revoke his tenure. However, they were unable to do so without compromising freedom of expression and research for all Harvard professors, so he continued to teach. He published his second book on the subject, "Passport to the Cosmos—Human Transformation and Alien Encounters" in 1999 and formed the non-profit organization PEER to further investigate the UFO phenomenon. He traveled to many countries, investigating UFO reports. One of his most provocative investigations was a film he made in South Africa, where he interviewed several white children who witnessed a UFO landing and a tribal Shaman who was abducted nearby.

Ever intellectually curious, one of the reasons Mack was in the U.K. was to speak at a crop circle symposium. According to reporter Linda Howe, "Yesterday afternoon in London, he spoke before the T. E. Lawrence Society Symposium, in Oxford, England. According to Will Bueche, Communications Director for the John Mack Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Mack's presentation was so well-received that he was asked to do a second presentation yesterday evening. Afterward, he went with colleagues to dinner. He had called the family with whom he was staying after 10 p.m. to say he would arrive at their home around 11 p.m., London time. At 1 a.m., the London police confirmed that John Edward Mack, M. D., had been pronounced dead on a street near the Symposium's location, killed by a motor vehicle."