Jenny Randles
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Jenny Randles (born 1951) is a British author and UFO researcher who was director of investigations for the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA) from 1982 to 1994 and has written dozens of books on UFOs and the paranormal. She was one of the first investigators of the Rendlesham Forest case and later concluded that it was largely a series of misperceptions.[1]
Career
Randles has written for Flying Saucer Review and Fortean Times, edited Northern UFO News, and helped found the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena.[1] In 1981 she told a newspaper that she had started out believing beings from other worlds were visiting, but had come to think that nine out of ten cases had ordinary explanations and that the more colourful contact cases came from the minds of the witnesses.[1] She has argued that abduction reports do not involve real extraterrestrials, and that under hypnosis witnesses relive a genuine trauma reshaped by UFO beliefs.[1]
Rendlesham
Randles co-wrote Sky Crash, one of the first books on the 1980 Rendlesham Forest case. She later became skeptical of it, writing that while some puzzles remained, "no unearthly craft were seen" and that the events were mainly misperceptions of ordinary things in unusual circumstances.[1] Her early writing had contributed to the conspiracy theories around the case.[1]
Other work
Her books include Science and the UFOs (with Peter Warrington), UFO Retrievals and Alien Contact: The First Fifty Years. She also worked on the television series Strange but True? in the 1990s and investigated other cases, such as the 1987 Ilkley Moor photograph.[1][2] Reviewers have praised her detachment while some skeptics have criticised her more speculative books, such as one on time warps.[1]
References
- Jenny Randles — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Ilkley Moor UFO incident — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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