alien abduction

“[note: Betty and Barney Hill - Subjects of America's first famous abduction case]”

“Folklorist Dr. T. E. Bullard lists the following elements of UFO abduction narratives: capture; examination (which includes tales of specimen taking, reproductive examinations, implanting of small artifacts inside the abductees, and removal of organs); conference (the witness talks with abductors); tour; otherworldly journeys; theophany (the witness has a religious experience or receives a message from a divine being); return”

“what usually happens is you have a person in an automobile... or maybe two or three persons in an automobile going to a certain destination they see something like a plane crashing in front of them their car comes to a stop and then All of a sudden, the object is gone and they continue to the destination and find that two or three hours have passed.”

“This is the typical humanoid that's seen in these particular cases.”

“Then they'll start having dreams about what happened in between. They'll have flashbacks while they're doing dishes.”

“If they get to the right people under hypnosis, they relive a typical abduction experience and physical examination and being told that they will not be able to remember the incident.”

“There are several hundred of these now that we've investigated fairly thoroughly and by some usually investigated by people who have very good credentials, psychiatrists, psychologists.”

“They pass lie detector tests. They passed a rigid character reference check. Things that they report are similar to other cases in this country and abroad.”

“Whether they actually really happened, we don't know, but we know that they aren't hoaxes. We know that they really believe that they experienced something like this.”

“I am no stranger to extraordinary claims in the bizarre world of alien abduction stories, having quietly investigated abduction claims since the seventies.”

“In my own research into Australian abduction events, from my earliest work in the seventies until the early nineties, I basically came to hold the position that most abduction cases probably told us more about the human condition than they did about UFOs themselves.”

“I found the majority of abduction cases conspicuously devoid of compelling physical evidence.”

“But similar evidence to support the reality of abduction events has been lacking or is relatively unconvincing. And yet such events have come to dominate the entire UFO scene.”

“One of the best ways to obtain physical evidence is to treat the scene of an alleged alien abduction as a “crime scene.” This approach has now been advocated for about a decade”

“In 1993 researcher Victoria Alexander issued a call to arms for a “new protocol for abduction research” using the techniques of criminal investigations.”

“It can continue to languish in the uncertainty of unverified accounts and unsubstantiated theories, or it can attempt to anchor these strange events with the focused attention of forensic and scientific investigations and research, in order to yield verifiable evidence on the reality of alien abductions, whatever that turns out to be.”

“Peter was unaware of any similar encounter in the wider UFO experience, although he stressed that he was relatively unaware of the extent of the phenomenon or the literature.”

“While our findings will continue to be subjected to review and debate, they still represent potent evidence for a forensic and scientific approach to alien abduction cases that will help illuminate the possible strange reality that may be at the heart of such claims.”

“Mullis has a further unique claim to fame. He is the only Nobel Prize laureate to admit to a possible alien abduction experience.”

“This stuff about grabbing people or subjecting them to all kinds of experiments, it's just anthropology at a level we don't understand quite yet.”

“He feels that the idea of an alien culture needing our DNA to survive is very unlikely and finds implausible the existence of an alien presence on the scale suggested by some of the bleaker alien abduction tales.”

“I felt that while the prospects for a breakthrough would be very small, the utility and potential of the biochemical and forensic approaches to alien abductions would come as a breath of scientific fresh air.”

“To do this, abduction researchers should cooperate in a testing program focused on DNA profiling.”

“Testing a significant number of legitimate samples would provide an opportunity for validation of the unusual anomalies found to date.”

“The APEG was formed to focus attention on biological strategies in abduction investigations.”

“One of the few compelling exceptions to the ambiguity and uncertainty that pervade the alien abduction experience is the 1993 Kelly Cahill case.”

“During 2002 and 2003 research conducted at Harvard University reignited the idea of psychological mechanisms as a possible explanation for alien abduction reports.”

“"False memory creation was examined in people who reported having recovered memories of traumatic events that are unlikely to have occurred: abduction by space aliens," states the abstract to their paper, which was published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.”

“The researchers examined false recall and false recognition in three groups: "people reporting recovered memories of alien abduction, people who believe they were abducted by aliens but have no memories, and people who deny having been abducted by aliens."”

“"Those reporting recovered and repressed memories of alien abduction were more prone than control participants to exhibit false recall and recognition.”

“Hypnotic suggestibility, depressive symptoms, and schizotypic features were significant predictors of false recall and false recognition."”

“"None of the participants interviewed reported continuous memories of alien abduction (i.e., memories of alien abduction that were never forgotten)… .”

“Memories were recovered both in therapy with the help of certain therapeutic techniques (e.g., hypnosis) and spontaneously, after reading books, watching movies, or seeing television shows depicting such episodes."”

“In fact, there are a significant number of people reporting abductions who do not rely on hypnosis and other therapeutic techniques. Their memories are based on clearly recollected incidents for which they have no memory loss or delayed recall.”

“Like most scientists, Shapiro rejects stories of UFOs and alien abductions as credible evidence for extraterrestrial life”

“these people were describing figures again who roughly the descriptions run from very small three feet or so to maybe up to almost five feet”

“this is part of the vagaries of recollection of these cases it's as if the wiping out of the memory is an imperfect science as far as they're concerned they seem to be able to block the memory but not always exactly”

“one man had an abduction experience which involved a missing time period of about two hours but subsequently he forgot all the events of the whole week...he went to work he came home his family were in touch with him”

“there's a straight line cut to one side and the scoop mark down at the end of it. This occurred...on the leg of a woman who is now about 32 years old. And this occurred when she was about four living in France.”

“the patterns that we've gotten psychologically are very similar according to psychologists of the sorts of deficits that turn up in tests done with rape victims”

“a sense of lowered self-esteem, a sense of great fear about the outer world, and a sense of not trusting their own bodies, their own physicality.”

“the big thing is that we're dealing with people who are being tracked because of their genetic position...they are the daughter or son of somebody who has already been abducted so we're going across generations it doesn't seem to be random that way...they definitely seem to lock on to people who are in a certain bloodline”

“This slide we have here is from a drawing made by a woman who was shown evidently at the nursery where these little fetuses are developed. The figure at the left was her idea of the more adult figure and the little fetus in the foreground fetus-like thing...the little tank is the object in which the thing was floated”

“I have at least three cases where I'm absolutely convinced that a person was tipped over the edge into suicide because of their UFO experiences.”

“the abduction situation may involve hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people maybe larger numbers than that”

“While the device is in her home, the abductee keeps a daily journal of experiences related to the abduction phenomenon. Then, when the data collection period is over, the journal will be matched up to the physical data to see what was recorded at those times when a person thinks that she may have been abducted”

“his personal accounts of his own paranormal abduction experiences from his remote cabin in upstate New York in December 1985”

“Instead of seeing people in masks and being able to identify things I could take to the police, I appeared to have been abducted by aliens, just like Budd thought.”

“It was one of the most shocking moments of my life. And that opened me up to the fact that this had been in my life when I was a child. I did not know that until after the abduction experience.”

“have made him a controversial and leading figure in the study of alleged experiencer close encounters”

“I find the whole idea of a non-human being coming to somebody's home, planting implants in them, as we'll get into abducting your son, doing, I think, terrible invasive things to you, you know, when you're in a cart, stealing your sperm, you've suffered wounds, you've suffered, I think, mental injuries as a result, trauma, severe trauma. By any definition, this is bloody unfriendly.”

“No, they're not. And he doesn't remember anything about his childhood of this stuff.”

“The word abduction itself doesn't encompass the loss of agency, you know, and to be shown children I can never touch or love or hold or know. That just makes me shake with anger. You know, I hate these people. I hate them.”

“it was only after watching an episode of ancient aliens where they... showed the cast live on stage at an alien con and somebody was talking about orbs and they were, they also had abduction encounters. So they saw orbs”

“They seem to follow family lines. And they have a schedule and they seem to, every 20 years, they'll come for a four-year rotation and they'll come every four to six weeks for four years. So you'll have a rash... like 48 encounters over a four-year period... And then 20 years off and then it happens again.”

“it seems to have dissipated in some way compared to... But I speak to a lot of people who are abductees and they, they tend to disagree. They're like, no, this is ongoing. This is still happening today.”

“no i had physical symptoms afterwards... no they were always physical”

“like in other encounters where i was paralyzed i could move my head but not my body”

“one time one time uh i was forced to have intercourse and i didn't talk about this in the book it bothered me but uh you you felt everything but you had no control over your actions”

“in terms of humans abducting humans, you don't have somebody controlling another person's neurology. Robbing them of the ability to think clearly, robbing them of of their agency... The greys don't allow you even that much. They take everything from you.”

“And I think has an experiencer there who she claims that like she was, you know, there was part of some alien hybrid program or whatever. And her fetus went missing three months in.”

“which is a common thing if you talk to people who are, you know, interested in the abduction thread.”

“that speaks to alien visitations where people just have these things potentially inserted into their mind that didn't actually physically happen but they're insertions because if you understand the informational substrate you can do those insertions”

“There's clearly telepathy going on with every person who talks about abduction experiences.”

“whether you're talking about like the, the sort of blonde, you know, uh, blue-eyed, blajaran, Nordic ... George Adamski spoke about ... whether they're these insect mantis looking creatures or whether it's the greys or whatever, but they always feel flooded with this sense of a familiarity, but then the sense of love and compassion, like they mean you no harm.”

“there are similarities to draw lines between sleep paralysis, especially with it's at night, you're up, you're paralyzed, it feels real. Like all of these are symptoms of sleep paralysis”

“for every person who's had experiences who's selling a book there are a thousand other people who are not selling a book who are telling the exact same story and so you know that argument for me isn't valid at all”

“who suggested that the ET perspective plays into the vanities of the evolutionary worldview of the Western world”

“Lawlor suggests that the rash of modern UFO abduction experiences may in part be due to the effects of an increase of industrial energies or electromagnetic pollution on our neural perception modalities”

“I think this argues well for revisiting the validity of the links between the Tuatha legends, fairy folklore, and modern-day alien abduction lore.”