Another Researcher Says UFO's - Aliens are Demonic or Spiritual

Joe Jordan is a longtime UFO investigator whose exploration of claims of alien abduction took him down an unexpected path. Next weekend, he'll run a conference in Roswell, N.M., site of the purported UFO crash of 1947. But what he has to say won't please many of those attending. "I am probably the most hated man in UFOlogy," says Jordan, who works for Sea Ray on Merritt Island in environmental health and safety. What some people see as an alien abduction, Jordan sees as a religious experience, a spiritual war. Still others, the skeptics, say those who claim such supernatural experiences are interpreting a waking dream, derived from a natural phenomenon called sleep paralysis. The controversy raises fascinating questions about the way the brain works and the way a mystery unfolds. This mystery starts in 1977 with eerie lights, a frightening night and William Deffendall of Titusville, who works for an industrial cleaning contractor at Kennedy Space Center. He was living in Christmas. On a Friday night in late summer or fall -- he can't recall the date -- he saw lights in the woods outside his window. He thought, perhaps, there was a drug raid going on and police were using a helicopter.

When he went to bed and lay next to his sleeping wife, his dogs were restless outside. He got up several times to open the window and shush them, then tried to get back to sleep. "I remember the dogs barking again, but then I couldn't move . . . and I couldn't see anything," Deffendall says. "It's like everything just turned gray, and my eyes were open. I'm scared to death. I didn't know what was happening . . . and then I felt like a presence around me other than my wife laying there on the bed, and I felt like I was floating up off the bed." He felt a pain from behind that he assumed came from something pushing him into the air. He tried to scream and couldn't wake up. "I was in such a panic," he says. "I was so scared. I didn't know what to do." Though he doesn't remember exactly what he said, he called the name of Jesus, and he woke up.