There was so much back and forth about the spiritual issue, that little or no time seemed to be spent on what has been learned about the phenomenon, the evidence for it, its purpose and current status.
I sympathize with this to some degree and wrote something like it earlier, but I understand this is an Expanded Consciousness forum so Alex is coming at it from different angles, and there's also only so much material that one can cover in an interview.
I find some potential value in Jacobs' approach at trying to get at the minute-to-minute narrative of the encounter/abduction (without making it want me to dismiss all other methods!), but I wrote already about a first point of contention I had when I read
The Threat, and this is the second: I'm really skeptical that his own method itself prevents either leading or confabulation issues or even intrusion of past sexual trauma (at least some of the time). The reason I'm saying this is that there were some accounts in the book that raised red flags for me.
In order give a context to what I read, I have to spell out, for those not in the know, some of the specifics of the book where Jacobs talks about hybrids and the possibility of integration into human society (that possibility of integration has become a fact for him as he's said in interviews since and will likely be expounded in the book he's said he's going to write after the methodology one, his "crazy book" as he called it.) As I understand it, the grays mate one of their own with a human to create Hybrid A. Then they mate Hybrid A with a human to create Hybrid B. Then Hybrid B with a human to create Hybrid C, and so on and so on until the hybrids are very hard to distinguish from humans. (So that, if one buys into at least the possibility of that reality, what Will Bueche says at the end of the video I posted, i.e. that integration isn't happening because obviously we can't see it, is logically wrong - because we wouldn't be able to notice it if it was.)
But when you read at least some of those accounts of abductees getting raped or mistreated by late-stage hybrids (some of those late-stage hybrids are impulsive and meaner because they are part human and emotional, as opposed to the grays who are more clinical in their reproductive/"clinical" work, and Jacobs notes how the abductees, whether male or female, feel profoundly more disturbed when they are forced into sexual or reproductive activity when it's with a hybrid instead of a gray because of that), it's hard not to read them as either fantasies or recall of a past abusive situation with a human (who happens to look almost exactly like one of those late-stage hybrids), and I find it personally hard not to be skeptical of all of Jacobs' conclusions.
This specific example raised the most questions for me (
The Threat, p. 202-204). (Caution: graphic violence ahead.) "Laura" was in her bed at night, sleeping with her husband, when five hybrids of different stages came in, pissed off because she was using electronic instruments to try and detect them. One hybrid gets on top of her, then she's worried because 3 hybrids are going into the kids' room. Then the kids are at the door watching this. Then another hybrid gets on top of her. Then one forces her to get off the bed and perform oral sex on him/it, while another one is threatening one of the female kids that they'll do this to her if Laura doesn't stop.
Apart from being really disturbed when I read such material, I have a lot of trouble buying into it. For example, how could the husband just be sleeping quietly in the bed alongside Laura when all of this is happening?? Now this could be real, but I don't find it plausible. At the very least, it sounds more like a strange non-physical event given that the husband just doesn't figure into it, or else it's a fantasy or a mixture of God knows what.