DAVID M. JACOBS, Ph.D.

David Jacobs, Associate Professor of History at Temple University in Philadelphia, is one of the best-know and most respected UFO abduction researchers in the world. His research began in the mid-1960's when he was a graduate student in American history at the University of Wisconsin, where he received his doctorate. After years of experience with sightings paradigms that historians developed to determine the credibility of innumerable UFO reports, Jacobs, with great skepticism, began examining claims of alien abductions. Since 1986, he has conducted more than seven hundred and fifty hypnotic regressions with alleged abductees. His research takes into account objections such as False Memory Syndrome, memories of sexual abuse, media contamination, leading the witnesses, mutual confirmational fantasies and abduction confabulation. If the claims of abductees were merely psychological, Jacobs notes, the details would tend to vary from case to case rather than holding to the consistent patterns he has repeatedly observed.

Professor Jacobs has written and delivered many articles, papers and lectures on UFOs and abductions. He has also been a guest on hundreds of radio and television shows, including Larry King Live, A Current Affair, Hard Copy, Entertainment Tonight, The Joan Rivers Show, The Geraldo Rivera Show, CNBC, CNN News, BBC, The Art Bell Show and documentaries on The Discovery Channel, The Arts and Entertainment Network and The Learning Channel. For the past nineteen years, has taught the only regular curriculum university course on UFOs: "UFOs and American Society" at Temple University. Jacobs books include The UFO Controversy in America, Secret Life: Firsthand Accounts of UFO Abductions, and most recently, The Threat: What the Aliens Really Want...and How They Plan to Get It.