This week the I am reading from Steve Aspin's book ''Out of Time: The Intergenerational Abduction Program Explored'. In the second half of the episode I am lucky enough to have been given permission to add an excerpt from the audio book of Alexander Batthyány's book 'Threshold: Terminal Lucidity and the Border of Life and Death' read by Eric Meyers.Steve AspinIn Out of Time, author Steve Aspin attempts to write a crossover work about the enduring worldwide reports of alien abduction. It is intended for both those familiar with the historic published case material and the curious reader unfamiliar with the decades of serious research on this superficially improbable phenomenon.He details his lifelong ET contact experiences and the relationships he built with leading researchers during his years of investigating this phenomenon. He has at all times attempted to approach the subject with critical thoroughness and intellectual rigor.From stumbling upon a cattle mutilation in Ireland in 1970 to witnessing a UFO after a period of missing time at the age of 16 near Chester in 1972, Steve relates a lifetime of anomalous experiences in his new book. But this is only the starting point of the journey the reader of Out of Time will make. Steve then details several years of investigation into the subject and how what he has learned has shaped his thoughts on what is happening to perhaps millions of people worldwide. He had the good fortune to meet with several leading researchers in the field including Budd Hopkins and Dr David Jacobs and read hundreds of published works on the subject of UFOs and Abductions. He has attempted to bring hard evidence to the discussion and to follow that evidence where it may lead.His conclusions will be of interest to anyone attentive to this phenomenon. Whether they are inevitably proved to be right or wrong, they stem from a conscious effort to bring objectivity and honesty to the analysis of his personal interaction with this phenomenon.Although successfully normalised in popular culture to become background noise or a minor comic footnote in otherwise busy lives, this subject has real and serious implications for both the individual experiencer and human society collectively.BioSteve Aspin worked for 35 years in management, marketing and sales. In 1999, he founded a surgical innovations company near London. He subsequently designed, patented, manufactured and exported thousands of innovative medical and surgical products to the global marketplace.Now retired with his wife in a quiet corner of eastern England, he may be found most early mornings walking his dog over the Lincolnshire Wolds.'Out of Time' focuses on the improbable but widely reported subject of alien abduction, following the author's lifetime of coerced entanglement with this phenomenon. Drawing on extensive personal experience and voluminous case literature - both published and unpublished - the book melds together interviews with abductees and face-to-face discussions with researchers, resulting in a crossover work designed to appeal to both the reader familiar with the subject matter and those less acquainted with the classic case material.The book contains a body of hard scientific evidence confirming the reality of the phenomenon: forensic analysis of biological material recovered from abduction events; medical analysis of a 'scoop biopsy'; photographs of typical patterns of bodily scarring; and extensive materials analysis of a micro-implant surgically recovered from an abductee revealing a complex manufactured nano-device composed of non-terrestrial isotopes and emitting radio signals in three separate frequency bands.The author's conclusions about the essential architecture of the abduction program, historical timeframe since its instigation, possible reasons for its confirmed intergenerational component, the number of abductees in the global human population and the probable purposes/goals of the program have been widely praised as