I've spent the past month digitizing Thomas Bullard's 1987 UFO abduction taxonomy — 550 motif codes across 270 cases — into a queryable relational database.

I've spent the past month digitizing Thomas Bullard's 1987 UFO abduction taxonomy — 550 motif codes across 270 cases — into a queryable relational database. Bullard himself has been corresponding with me about the methodology. The original work catalogued narrative elements across abduction accounts: what beings look like, what examinations involve, what messages are delivered, what aftereffects persist. Bullard found remarkable consistency across cases that had no contact with each other. Bu...