When Harvard Psychiatry Professor, Dr. John Mack, a celebrated man of science, reluctantly agreed to help people who claimed to have been abducted by aliens, his conclusion rocked an iconic institution to its core and destroyed his life.

In 1994, Harvard Psychiatry Professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Dr. John Mack, a celebrated man of science, was asked to help people who claimed to have been abducted by aliens. He reluctantly agreed, curious what the underlying psychiatric syndrome might be. When he concluded that what the abductees were telling him was real, his worldview was shattered and his life transformed. But when the mortified powers-that-be at Harvard put him on trial, he lost everything: his career, his reputation, his family - and ultimately, his life. A True Story.—ddw