While few mainstream scientists believe the phenomenon literally occurs as reported—some experts contend the field is rife with kooks and pseudoscience—there is little doubt that many apparently sincere persons report alien abductions they believe are utterly genuine. Stigma and self-doubt may be obstacles to more widespread study and/or reporting. Local support groups for people who have experienced the phenomenon are not uncommon. The "terror abduction" experience is reported mainly in the USA, while in the rest of the world, the ET encounters are benevolent rai ...

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The notion of being kidnapped by extraterrestrials goes back at least to the mid-1950s, with the Antonio Villas Boas case (which didn't receive much attention until years later). Widespread publicity was generated by the Barney and Betty Hill abduction case of the 1961, perhaps culminating in a made for television film broadcast in 1975 (starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons) dramatizing the events If we include such clearly fictional sources as science fiction movies and pulps, the phenomena might be traced back to the 1930s. ...

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The notion of being kidnapped by extraterrestrials goes back at least to the mid-1950s, with the Antonio Villas Boas case (which didn't receive much attention until years later). Widespread publicity was generated by the Barney and Betty Hill abduction case of 1961, culminating in a made for television film broadcast in 1975 (starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons) dramatizing the events If we include such clearly fictional sources as science fiction movies and pulps, the phenomena might be traced back to the 1930s. The so-call ...

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Although different cases vary in detail (sometimes significantly), some argue that there is a broad, fairly consistent sequence and description of events which make up the typical "close encounter of the fourth kind". ("Abduction" in J. Allen Hynek's classifying terminology) Though the features outlined below are often reported, there is some disagreement as to exactly how often they actually occur. There has been some debate over the subject, and some researchers (especially Budd Hopkins and David Michael Jacobs) have been accused of excluding, minimising or suppressing testimony or data which d ...

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Although different cases vary in detail (sometimes significantly), some argue that there is a broad, fairly consistent sequence and description of events which make up the typical "close encounter of the fourth kind". ("Abduction" in J. Allen Hynek's classifying terminology) Though the features outlined below are often reported, there is some disagreement as to exactly how often they actually occur. There has been some debate over the subject, and some researchers (especially Budd Hopkins and David Michael Jacobs) have been accused of excluding, minimising or supressing testimony or data which d ...

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There are reports that abduction of children to be used or sold as slaves is common in parts of Africa. The Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel paramilitary group operating mainly in northern Uganda, is notorious for its abductions of children for use as child soldiers or sex slaves. According to the Sudan Tribune, as of 2005, more than 20,000 children have been kidnapped by the LRA. [1] ...

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That evening while driving back to their Portsmouth, New Hampshire area home from a vacation in Canada, the Hills spotted a light in the sky that seemed to be following them. They reported that the object came closer, and was clearly a craft. Barney was concerned that the occupants intended to kill or capture them, so he stopped to retrieve a revolver from the car's trunk. He then claimed to have seen human-like creatures peering at him through windows on the craft. He drove away quickly, but the Hills later reported so-called "lost time": several hours seemed to have passed without their recollection, and they were at a location ...

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Alien Abduction:

Term used to describe being taken onboard an "alien" craft against one's will or being 'kidnapped' by extraterrestrial beings.

(See also: Alien Abduction, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

Alien Abduction

Kidnapping by non-human beings. The first reported claim of alien abduction was in Brazil in 1957 and since then there have been reports from all over the Western world - in Europe including the UK, Australia, South Africa, Russia, and North America. Although people�s experiences vary quite widely, the following features recur

• Light, especially a beam which draws the person up, and sometimes vibration.
• A spacecraft of some kind.
• Humanoid beings, especially small gray ones with large black eyes, who communicate by telepathy.
• Medical tests being performed and eggs or sperm removed so that human/alien offspring can be produced.
• Lost periods of time and inexplicable small wounds.
• Very few accounts are complete but sometimes the full story is recovered through hypnosis.

(See also: Alien Abduction, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

The philosopher Charles Peirce introduced abduction into modern logic. In his works before 1900, he mostly uses the term to mean the use of a known rule to explain an observation, e.g., “if it rains the grass is wet” is a known rule used to explain that the grass is wet. He later used the term to mean creating new rules to explain new observations, emphasising that abduction is the only logical process that actually creates anything new. Namely, he described the process of science as a combination of abduction, deduction and implicati ...

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The 1966 publication of Interrupted Journey, by John G. Fuller, details much of the Hills' claims. Excerpts of the book were published in Look Magazine, and Interrupted Journey went on to sell many copies and greatly publicize the Hills' account. Barney Hill died of a cerebral hemorrhage, in 1969, at age 46. Later, Betty claimed to have seen UFOs a number of times after the initial abduction, and she "became a celebrity in the UFO commun ...

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Women who kidnap babies to bring up as their own are typically unable to have children of their own. The crime is often premeditated, with the woman often simulating pregnacy to reduce suspicion when a baby suddenly appears in the household. An example of child abduction is the case of Montana Barbaro, stolen in Melbourne, Australia on Saturday 7 August 2004. A male attacker knocked the mother to the ground, and a female removed the baby. They fled in a ca ...

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Women who kidnap babies to bring up as their own are typically unable to have children of their own. The crime is often premeditated, with the woman often simulating pregnancy to reduce suspicion when a baby suddenly appears in the household. An example of child abduction is the case of Montana Barbaro, stolen in Melbourne, Australia on Saturday 7 August 2004. A male attacker knocked the mother to the ground, and a female removed the baby. They fled in a ca ...

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Alien Abduction

Kidnapping by non-human beings. The first reported claim of alien abduction was in Brazil in 1957 and since then there have been reports from all over the Western world - in Europe including the UK, Australia, South Africa, Russia, and North America. Although people’s experiences vary quite widely, the following features recur

• Light, especially a beam which draws the person up, and sometimes vibration.
• A spacecraft of some kind.
• Humanoid beings, especially small gray ones with large black eyes, who communicate by telepathy.
• Medical tests being performed and eggs or sperm removed so that human/alien offspring can be produced.
• Lost periods of time and inexplicable small wounds.
• Very few accounts are complete but sometimes the full story is recovered through hypnosis.

(See also: Alien Abduction, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

In the meantime, Spaulding had announced to the press that he and "Dr." Steward had questioned Walton for two hours, and had uncovered inconsistencies in Walton’s account that would "Blow this story out". (Clark, 637) The Phoenix Gazette ran a story about Steward, who related his claims that the "Waltons fear exposure" of a carefully-crafted lie. (Clark, 638) Sheriff Gillespire arranged for a polygraph, but when word of the exam was leaked to the press, Duane canceled it, thinking that Gillespie had broken his promise to keep the te ...

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A little after 6.00pm on the evening of November 5, Rogers and his crew finished their work for the day and piled into Rogers’s truck for the drive back to Snowflake. Shortly after beginning the drive home, the crew reported that they saw a bright light from behind an upcoming hill. They drove closer, and say they saw a large silvery disc hovering above a clearing and shining brightly. It was some eight feet high and twenty feet in diameter. Rogers slowed the truck to a stop, and then they claimed Walton leapt from the truck ...

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Additionally by Saturday, word of Walton's disappearance had spread internationally. News reporters, ufologists and the curious began travelling to Snowflake. Travis Walton’s family and friends began receiving all manner of prank telephone calls regarding the case. Among the visitors was UFO researcher Fred Sylvanus, who interviewed Rogers and Duane Walton on Saturday, November 8. While repeatedly expressing worry for Travis’s well-being (and criticizing what they saw as a halfhearted search effort by police), both men would make statements that wou ...

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At about 7.30pm, Peterson called police from Heber, Arizona, near Snowflake. Deputy Sheriff Chuck Ellison answered the telephone call; Peterson initially reported only that one of a logging crew was missing. Ellison then met the crew at a shopping center. They related the tale to him--all the men distraught, two of them in tears--and though he was somewhat skeptical of the fantastic account, Ellison would later reflect "that if they were ...

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The case began on a Wednesday, November 5, 1975. Walton was employed by Mike Rogers, who had for some nine years contracted with the United States Forest Service for various duties. Rogers and Walton were close friends; Travis was dating Rogers's sister Dana. The other men on the crew were Ken Peterson, John Goulette, Steve Pierce, Allen Dalis and Dwayne Smith; they all lived in the small town of Snowflake, Arizona. Rogers was hired to thin out scrub brush and other undergrowth from a large area (Over 1200 acres) near Turkey Springs, ...

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On Monday, November 10, all of Rogers’s crew (except Walton, of course) took polygraph examinations administered by Cy Gilson, an Arizona Department of Public Safety employee. His questions asked if any of the men caused harm to Travis (or knew who had caused Travis harm), if they knew where Travis’s body was buried, and if they told the truth about seeing a UFO. The men all denied harming Travis (or knowing who had harmed him), denied knowing where his body was, and insisted they had indeed seen a UFO. Excepting Dalis (who had not completed his exam, thus rendering it invalid), Gilson co ...

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Under hypnosis sessions in 1963, the Hills recounted what later became the standard UFO abduction template: They seemed hypnotized or paralyzed, and were unable to resist the apparent medical examinations they were forced to undergo. Their abductors were described as more or less human, though with very large eyes and small noses. Barney described their clothing as resembling military uniforms. While on the craft, Betty reported seeing a hologram-like star map, which she assumed depicted the craft's home planet. She later sketched thi ...

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