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Spawning is usually complete within two weeks of breakup, after which they quickly migrate to their summer feeding grounds. They must be hungry after a long winter without food because they move quickly. For example, some Lower Goodpaster River spawners are destined to go to the Delta Clearwater River, and they traveled 10 miles of the Tanana River between the two in about 24 hours. Other spawners in the Lower Goodpaster River head to its upper reaches, traveling much further but with as much determination.

One individual traveled miles to the Upper North Fork Goodpaster River in just 15 days, moving an average of 7 miles a day. This fish traveled well over miles within a year as it had also moved downstream miles the previous fall. Not all grayling move extraordinary distances. Some individuals in the Goodpaster River moved no more than 10 miles throughout the year, despite many others moving great distances.

In the Delta River, no grayling were found to move more than 10 miles; however, the Delta River presents a different situation. Grayling are prevented from moving upriver to the Tangle Lakes by significant waterfalls. Grayling did not move downriver beyond the glacial Eureka Creek tributary during any season because seasonal habitats were unavailable in the wide, braided, shallow, and silty river.

Arctic grayling have also shown a propensity to be very selective of where they reside in a river during each season. For example, a radiotagged grayling in the Salcha River featured in the map traveled 50 miles between the same spawning and summer habitats two years in a row. In fact, it spent its summers in the first pools to form in a valley floor below mountainside springs. And, of course, some fish do exactly the opposite. The grayling featured in the next map spent a summer in the Upper Goodpaster, and then spent the next summer miles away in the Delta Clearwater River.

What does all this mean? Three of the above items describe common symptoms of sleep paralysis. Needless to say, there is no convincing evidence for a link between any of the experiences described above and alien abduction. However, according to Hopkins, if you answered "yes" to four or five of the above items, you have probably been abducted by extraterrestrials. Extrapolating to the American adult population as a whole, the authors claimed that 3.

This figure received very widespread media coverage, often being misquoted to the effect that "3. A small minority of people who go to see The Fourth Kind will suffer from sleep paralysis but won't have heard of the scientific explanation for their condition.

There is every possibility that some will believe that the film is based upon true events and that it provides a plausible explanation for their own bizarre experiences. They may decide that they should undergo hypnotic regression to "recover" the rest of their memory for this traumatic event and thus end up with detailed false memories of being abducted by aliens. For that reason, this film and the manner in which it has been promoted deserve to be condemned as totally irresponsible.

He edits the [UK] Skeptic magazine. This article is more than 12 years old. Chris French.