It is quite common among UFO researchers to test the information obtained by a person during a "close encounter" by means of regressive hypnosis. The subject is placed in a state that gives the researcher access to blocked or deeply forgotten information.

It is remarkable that when a person is being put into a hypnotic state everything begins with a sense of bodily lightness (occasionally heaviness), then the person leaves his or her body, seeing it from the side. Very frequently the subject finds himself in a strange corridor, after which he comes out into open cosmic space. UFO researchers using this technique know of dozens of cases when the subject's onward flight to a nearby star (or specifically to Orion) and his visit to some planet made it possible to establish contact with a representative of that planet. The resulting conversation provided interesting information. In this technique the ufologist always acts as an instructor, directing the subject (especially a novice) and explaining what is happening to him and how he should behave.