The Roper Report
The publication of the 1992 report titled "Unusual Personal Experiences: An Analysis of the Data from Three National Surveys Conducted by the Roper Organization" represents one of the most successful psychological operations in the history of fringe belief systems. Funded by Las Vegas billionaire Robert Bigelow and authored by a trio of non-clinical abduction researchers—Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs, and Ron Westrum—the report utilized a sophisticated statistical "trap" to claim that 3.7 million American adults had likely been abducted by extraterrestrial entities.[1, 2, 3] By leveraging the rep
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