Conflicting Opinions
Whitley Strieber has repeatedly expressed frustration that his experiences have been taken as "alien contact" when he does not actually know what they were. While many support his work and the mainstream media largely ignores it, there has also been speculation that Strieber's accounts are neither fabricated nor entirely accurate. Strieber has reported anomalous childhood experiences and suggested that he may have suffered some sort of early interference by intelligence and/or military agencies. He was extensively tested for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and other brain abnormalities at his own request, but his brain was found to be functioning normally. The results of these tests were reported in his book Transformation. An early confusion about whether or not he was present at the infamous clocktower shooting incident that occurred at the University of Texas was mentioned in the Strieber biography Report on Communion, but the confusion was found to be due to traumatic amnesia, which typically occurs in situations of extreme stress, such as being shot at.
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