Scientists & Researchers
John Mack
1992–2004
Harvard Medical School psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer; spent the 1990s interviewing over 200 people reporting alien-abduction experiences, part of NIDS's 'invisible college' advisory circle. By his second book, Passport to the Cosmos (1999), he had moved away from a nuts-and-bolts reading toward treating the encounters as a real event met through an altered state of consciousness - a shift that anticipated the modern consciousness-first framing of the phenomenon.
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scientific advisory board ("invisible college")
Source: NIDS / Skinwalker Ranch research history; Kelleher & Knapp, Hunt for the Skinwalker
fellow "invisible college" researcher
Source: Hynek & Vallee, The Edge of Reality (1975); 'invisible college'
his legal counsel in Harvard's academic-freedom inquiry
Source: Harvard inquiry records, 1994-95
central figures in the experiencer/abduction discourse
Source: Strieber, Communion (1987); Mack, Abduction (1994)
funded his alien-abduction research
Source: John Mack Institute obituary (2004)