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So what is so credible about this man?
A list as long as an arm contains credentials of a diverse nature. Testimonials praise the Alien Hunter, Derrel Sims, for his trained abilities and instinctive ones.
Sims is a master hypnotherapist who can also train and certify others. He is a board-certified hypnotic anesthesiologist, another area he can teach to others. He has certification in medical hypnotherapy and hypnotherapeutic intervention. Other areas of expertise include neurolinguistic programming (one technique is called “change of personal history”), advanced behavioral modeling, timeline therapy, experimental post hypnotic suggestions, optimal learning, symbolic profiling and graphoanalysis analysis (handwriting analysis or “brain writing,” as Sims puts it).
“Intuition is knowing, not guessing. It shows up in handwriting,” he says.
For those questioning the validity of his methods, he has this to say: “The second chapter of Genesis skeptics should read carefully. It’s in the Bible all along. God gives us all we need to do. We just forgot it.”
Yet Sims, who says he understands how memory works, admits, “Most of the work I do does not involve hypnosis. There are very good memory recovery techniques available without it.”
And evidence he obtains often comes from other witnesses, and even weather reports that support the findings. Forming a clear distinction between reality and what may have occurred is imperative to the investigator, who says he knows “how the mind will work to protect itself in extremely stressful situations.”
But Sims remains confident.
“There is nothing the alien can do to us that we cannot at times undo,” he says.
His extensive Web site even links abductees with each other, since support groups for self development are what he feels are essential in all walks of life. His online support group is called Alien Hunter Support Group. It is his Web site and the link with other abductees that the local woman found beneficial.
A special section urges individuals to send drawings and brief stories about memories of alien experiences, which will all be kept confidential.
A gallery of “symbolic profiling” can be found at Saber Enterprises: “In the hallway of our work hang the wonderful pictures of abductees and their symbolic drawings that bespeak of amazing ‘other-world’ and inner-world’ experiences. These are unlike the surrealist drawings or the drawings of the mentally deranged or brilliant artists who construct them for modern art. You do not find that here with the individuals of these experiences. You find emotionally-charged lines, sharp with pain, the depth of the line clamoring for emotional release, repressed curves afraid to get outside of the prescribed borders of ‘what they are supposed to do.’ Colors splashed across paper never designed to accept such chastened thoughts. Images from ‘over there’… that curse some, torment those, and bless others… and yet hold all to a hypnotic state of awe and sometimes fear.”
A questionnaire, developed by Sims and “The Dream Team,” offers a checklist to help persons determine if they may have fallen victim to an alien encounter.
Advice for abductees
If you suspect you are a victim, Sims advises, “Educate yourself to the experience by collecting physical evidence and information regarding the experience.” He offers this check list:
• Check your body for unexplained marks, bruises, burns or scratches. Check feet and hands. Look under your nails. Look for dirt, mud or leaves on your body. Look for scoop marks on the body.
• Check for wearing unexplained clothing or jewelry; or wearing clothes inside out or backwards; or having dirty clothing after sleeping, when you went to bed clean.
• Check surroundings — like the room — for things that don’t belong (leaves, weeds, grass and seeds).
• Notice if you’re driving the wrong way on a highway — you might be miles from where you remember, but the gas tank is full and time is missing.
• Use a black light. Radiological evidence can also be found using X-rays, MRIs and CT Scans and includes finding “physical objects in the body sometimes described by the physician as ‘surgically installed’ and there was no previous surgery in that area.”
• Check your dreams if no physical evidence exists, but persistent feelings tell you otherwise. Repeated dreams or others having similar dreams can be a sign.
• Keep a log: If you avoid an area due to a feeling of uneasiness or fear, keep a log, recording the date, time, a brief description and your reaction.
• Take pictures and videos.
• Get copies of medical records that report foreign bodies unaccounted for.
• Document unusual senses of taste, touch, smell, sound, or feeling before events and afterwards. Have witnesses do the same.
According to Patricia Gray, R.N. of Saber Enterprises, abductees may experience electrolyte imbalances, have salt cravings and altered neurohormones such as dopamine, serotonin and melatonin. She wonders if it is the chicken or the egg syndrome, as in which came first — alteration or abduction? She asks, “Does body chemistry change attract aliens or do aliens alter body chemistry?”
Ultimately, the physical evidence is the most compelling for Sims. The body does not lie, according to the investigator.
“Twelve percent of the mind is conscious. The subconscious mind is 88 percent. Fifty-five percent of all communication is your physiology. Thirty-eight percent is your tone, pitch and timber of your voice. Only 7 percent is the words. Why do I not believe the words?”
Sims, an abductee himself
Sims claims to have been abducted by aliens a total of 10 times (the last time at age 17) and says the phenomenon runs in families (including his own).
“There’s something like a ‘neuroprint’ that will draw aliens to certain families,” says Sims.
He says “tagging” (or abduction) often occurs during time periods that are in “divisions, multiples, additions and subtractions of 11s.” The man who was born on 1-11 says his first experience occurred a wee bit past his toddler stage. Yet, he is adamant to all (even his mother) that he was not too young to remember. In, fact, he still recalls his exact address and telephone number, when even his mother can’t after so many years and so many moves.
At the age of four, Sims awakened in Midland, Texas, to find a skinny, pure white, naked entity with a large head and big, round black eyes peering at him. Even he says that his recollection at that age is in contrast to the way he views it today. Curiosity then outweighed fear.
“Kids have a different perspective,” he says. “I look at events differently now.”
He came to realize that the entity that night was not visiting him, but returning him. Lying in bed, the young Sims could only see the creature from the thighs up. And he wishes now, he could have seen its knees and feet. The vivid memory includes seeing a being that had no genitalia, no mammary glands and no navel — in essence unable to reproduce, suckle infants and was never “born.”
The experience with this “hatched, cloned or manufactured” being left a legacy. A knee injury — a “crater-like thing” called a “scoop mark,” an apparently cauterized indentation on Sims’ right shin — appeared the next day, left no scab, and is a lasting memento even now. And, during the interview, he didn’t hesitate to display it. (Scoop marks are equivalent to solar-elastosis, which means that the wound is cauterized with ultraviolet light.)
Sims remembers asking himself, “Where’s the scab?” and hearing a voice inside his head say, “You fell and hurt yourself.” Now, years later, his reaction is reflective as well as interpretive: “That’s funny, I never talk to myself in the second person. Who does? No one. That’s a post-hypnotic suggestion installed by them to not ever look for your evidence.”
Sims has now documented similar markings in others, including patterns of touch and tattoo-like impressions of symbolic meaning left on the skin of various body parts, proof he says of alien contact, which he detected through use of a black light. Marks may last or disappear, but the telltale fluorescence imbedded under the skin (brilliant pink, orange, green, yellow-green or lavender) he says can last for a few hours or two weeks. And each color is indicative of a different experience.
“I use UV and IR radiation (both short and longer wavelengths) in my work with abductees,” said Sims.
A specialized black light with multiple nanometer links allows him to see blood (or traces of blood like that found on the Shroud of Turin, which he cites as an example) all the way to finding traces of fluorescence on abductees (about 267 nanometers).
“That’s where we often find it,” he says. For “radiation detection, metal detection on people if they claim they’ve been surgically tampered with,” X-rays are suggested. The “Dream Team,” including a cardio vascular surgeon and a brain surgeon, then reviews the findings.
“Theses people are ‘high-dollar’ folks,” says Sims. “These are not nuts in the UFO thing. These people do the medical end of it. Those who do the scientific end of it are York University and other universities.”
Even UFO animal mutilation cases are addressed on the Alien Hunter Web site: “cuts administered with surgical precision (like laser) devoid of blood, flesh will be pinkish-whitish instead of bloody.” The site further states, “The apparent gap between UFO-related mutilation occurrences and those done by humans is widening.”
Like many who are leery of divulging information of alien contact (including the anonymous Dunn County woman), Sims didn’t tell his parents about his experience. He was 52, and appearing on TV, when his mother first heard the news.
But Sims’ notoriety didn’t stop or start there. And the beginning is just as intriguing.
(Original headline: Investigator’s lengthy vita includes being an abductee )
