Alien Abduction Part 1a

Introduction, hypnosis and famous cases

The 1993 film based on Travis Walton’s abduction experience.

The alien abduction phenomenon arose in the mid-1960s from three cases, all reported independently: the abduction of a man in Austria in the early 1950s, the October 1957 abduction of Antônio Villas-Boas in Brazil, and the September 19, 1961, abduction of Betty and Barney Hill in the United States. A local Canadian newspaper reported the first case in December 1957, the second remained unpublished until 1965, and the third was first publicized in depth in 1966. With these cases the following elements were established: missing time, induced paralysis, reproductive procedures, and a sexual component.

Folklorist Thomas E. Bullard published what is still the most comprehensive analysis of abduction cases in 1987: UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery (vol. 1 and vol. 2). He defined abduction as meaning that “a witness is captured and held in unwilling temporary detention by extraordinary and apparently alien beings, usually aboard a flying craft of unconventional design and usually for purposes that include something like a medical examination.” Systematically studying the hundreds of cases on record by 1985, he found that “Abduction stories in fact show a great many similarities, far too many for any assumption of independent hoax or random fantasy to explain.”

Among his conclusions, we find a few interesting highlights:

• “The Hill case set the style for hidden abduction memories released by hypnosis. In fact spontaneous recall or no memory blockage at all characterizes most cases, though the majority of high-quality cases in the catalogue include use of this technique. A comparison of cases with and cases without hypnotic probes shows little evidence for significant differences in form and content.”

• “Inner structure consists of eight possible episodes—capture, examination, conference, tour, otherworldly journey [‘often has a subterranean character with an underground or underwater location’], theophany, return, and aftermath. These eight categories exhaust the possible episodes in the abduction story, though episodes differ greatly in how frequently they occur with the first two common, tour and theophany rare. Capture, examination and return have a complex inner structure of their own.”

• “Overall story order and the sequence of events within the structured episodes hold constant to a remarkable degree from case to case, with few violations of prescribed order.”

A typical sequence: the subject witnesses a UFO, experiences strange environmental effects (like unnatural silence), and then is debilitated, impairing his consciousness in some way. After this “capture” comes “procurement”: often a light beam is perceived to draw or float the victim into the UFO. Then follows the “examination,” featuring preparation, general external examination, scanning or sample-taking with instruments, and special reproductive or neurological procedures (including sperm/ova/fetus removal, implant insertions). Sometimes telepathic communications follow: “Five topics of conversation turn up during these conferences—interrogation of the witness, explanations to satisfy his curiosity, assignment of some task beneficial to the beings, warnings against certain human behaviors or cultural trends, and prophecies of things to come.”

The beings often deliver apocalyptic messages cautioning of disasters and difficulties ahead for humankind, but the beings also promise hope and salvation. The witness may have a role in saving humanity, or the beings may assure him that they will help. These prophecies have invariably proven false.

The aftermath includes a range of physiological and psychological effects in the short and long term, e.g. “eye inflammation, skin burns, gastrointestinal upset and cuts or puncture wounds,” followed by “anxiety, bad dreams and memories [surfacing].” In the long term, abductees may acquire new interests, abilities, and values, such as lifestyle and dietary changes. Paranormal experiences also commonly occur.

On the abductors, Bullard concludes:

• “Humans or monsters sometimes man the ship, but most occupants are humanoids with large heads, enormous eyes, tiny noses, small mouths, vestigial ears, and gray hairless skin. Most humanoids are shorter than average and may be either frail or robust. Standard-issue clothing is a one-piece uniform and usually fits tightly.

• “One being acts as a leader or liaison officer attending to the witness while he is in custody. This leader seems to have limited authority, or else the alien society is highly democratic. The larger the crew, the more likely each being to specialize in one task.

• “The beings are ostensibly polite and courteous in their manner and speech, but their friendliness cloaks a coldness and indifference toward the feelings of the witness. Requests simply disguise control techniques and the beings betray an anxiety to complete their mission with speed and efficiency. They show surprise and excitement over new discoveries, but seem to lack understanding of human emotions.

• “Evasiveness pervades the relationship of the beings with the witness. They may have him keep his eyes closed or averted and dislike being watched. The answers given to questions and explanations offered are deceitful rather than informative, and the beings reveal as little about themselves as possible.”

While the three cases above are the first on record, earlier cases were eventually published in the following decades, some going back to as early as the 1920s,¹ though “abductions begin to roll only in 1949.” The frequency leapt up again during the 1973 UFO flap and continued to hold after that. While new elements emerged with time (e.g. the first repeat abduction cases in the mid-1970s), the key features of abductions have remained remarkably consistent over time.

Bullard wrote a follow-up report 1999 in which he compared samples of reports from three periods to see if and how certain features changed over time: 52 cases from 1966 to 1977 (the year Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released, introducing the image of the spindly alien into popular consciousness), 131 from 1978 to 1986 (the year before Whitley Strieber’s Communion was published, further reinforcing the image of the big-eyed Gray), and 254 from 1987 to 1996. So what changed?

Abductees and researchers introduced specific new elements to the narratives: squat blue beings and anal probes (Strieber), missing fetuses and baby presentations (Hopkins), “Mindscan” and emotional tests (Jacobs). Despite these new elements, Bullard found that while around one third of the features showed some change over time (either in one period, or all three), only a handful changed significantly: “The headline story behind these tallies is not that a few instances of cultural influence turn up, but rather the changes are so few and so mild.”

For instance, of those features that were stable in two periods but not the third, “Only the rising elements—insectoids [0% to 5%], staring [15% to 24%], reproductive procedures [26% to 41%], tasks [25% to 45%], and telepathy [around 70% to 91%]—testify in favor of a genuine change in the story.” The only change correlated with the release of Close Encounters was the reported darkness of the aliens’ eyes, a trend that continued (17% to 48% to 71%). The release of Communion and Budd Hopkins’s Intruders was followed by a slight crystallization of typical “Gray” features, but in these cases the percentage increases were small and often continued already existing trends. The only features that showed a significant increase were vestigial ears (74% to 85% to 95%) and hairlessness (82% to 84% to 94%). The instance of “standard humanoids” (e.g. Grays) only increased from 65% in the first period to around 70% in the third (tall and short humanoids remained stable).

David Jacobs noticed a new trend that began in the 2000s, after Bullard’s last period of study: “hubrids.” This supports a development of the abduction story over the decades. While reproductive procedures and suggestions of hybridization were present from the beginning, reproductive procedures increased in frequency, with the resulting hybrids becoming more human over time, culminating in the fully human-looking “hubrid.” If the abduction phenomenon represented a program, it may have reached its final stages.

Current UFO/UAP discourse largely neglects the abduction phenomenon, at least publicly. However, religious studies professor Diana Walsh Pasulka has turned her attention to “encounters” of various kinds, and journalist Ross Coulthart says he has been told by his insider sources that he should look into the subject more deeply.

Hypnosis

A significant number of details come from hypnotic regression performed on abductees, either to recover missing time (as in the case of the Hills) or to clarify conscious memories of abductions or “screen memories.” While its usage has been criticized, advocates argue the technique is useful despite its problems, e.g. the potential to create false memories. Tony Dodd, in Alien Investigator (1999), wrote:

Although it has been proven that it is possible to lie or fantasize under hypnosis, there are significant differences between those who report real abduction experiences and those who make up a version based on what they have read or heard, as an experiment in California in 1977 proved. A group of abductees and a group of non-abductees were put under hypnosis and asked to tell the story of an abduction. Although the imaginary stories contained some of the essential elements of a classic abduction, there were fundamental differences between the two groups. Those who were recalling an actual experience became agitated and distressed, and when they were brought out of hypnosis they were overwhelmed by their memories. Those who were making it up treated it lightly, and when they came round they had no feeling that it had been real in any way.

In Walking Among Us (2015), David Jacobs admits the potential problems of confabulation but echoes Bullard’s point from above:

In spite of these problems, the consistency of detail and narrative over time has generated an authenticity that cannot be matched by idiosyncratic imaginations. When researchers retrieve abductees’ memories competently, they can give us a realistic glimpse into the extraordinary world of alien abductions.

He warns that memories unaided by hypnosis “are most often untrustworthy, no matter how much abductees are invested in their memories’ truthfulness and accuracy.” Such memories are often marred by confabulation (often unintentional) and screen memories used to block the true nature of what occurred. As for leading questions, Jacobs claims that he often attempts to lead new subjects in order to test their suggestibility, but finds that people can rarely be convinced to alter their accounts.

October 19, 1994

Q: (L) Is it true that when we ask an individual under hypnosis about an alien abduction scenario to try to tune in to aliens… can we do that?

A: Yes. The individual is aware on every level and the information you seek was known at the time. The questions you ask are merely an accessing of information that is already in awareness at some level. Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs are too regimented.

Dodd describes something like this, interpreting it as a live telepathic contact:

As I question the abductees under hypnosis, on several occasions a truly remarkable event occurs: I find myself talking not to them, but to their abductors. Through their mouths come the words and messages of the aliens who are monitoring them and who are, obviously, able to be present at any time. […] It does not happen often.

Jacobs, in contrast, writes: “Usually, these accounts [of messages received from aliens] are born from leading questions and/or the bizarre practice of asking abductees to question aliens—as if the abduction were taking place at the moment. This directly calls for confabulation, and subjects unwittingly cooperate. Information from this type of questioning is useless and undermines rigorous abduction research.”

In this presentation, Karla Turner states that Jacobs admits to leaving out 17 cases from his first abduction book because they did not “fit the pattern” (Hopkins also “holds back data”). Jacobs’s regimentation is clear in his books, which are nonetheless still valuable resources. For instance, he writes: “Once in a while, I hear something new, something that potentially can advance my knowledge. I am usually skeptical of these accounts and do not elevate that information to evidence until other abductees without knowledge of the previous testimony report the same thing. I wait for a pattern to emerge.”

Jacobs’s most recent summary of the typical abduction includes the following details (note the lack of rarer episodes like otherwordly journey and theophany): before abduction, abductees are neurologically “pacified” and bystanders “switched off”; they are typically alone or in a relatively secluded area; for the duration, they are “under total mental control”; they are transported aboard UFOs by a light source; physical, mental and reproductive procedures follow; inspection of abductees’ nervous systems and body functions; implants inserted (most often through the upper nasal area, tear duct or eardrum); neural engagement to “look” at what the abductee has done recently; sperm and ova removal (after stimulating orgasm mechanically or through rape); implantation of fertilized ova; fetus extraction and emplacement in gestation tanks; hybrid presentation and interaction; tasks for the coming “Change”; return with missing time.

July 8, 1995

Q: (L) There is a phenomenon going on today where a lot of people have accused their parents of childhood abuse which is later proven to be false, and it causes a lot of problems. This has led to a lot of problems about the practice of hypnosis...

A: Preconceived notions by biased therapists, i.e. the improperly used power of suggestion.

Q: (L) This has led to much speculation that all UFO abduction memories are false memories, and that hypnosis itself, in general, is a useless or flawed technique. […] Is there any possibility that certain people think they have been abducted and they have not?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) Is it possible for a therapist to suggest these ideas into someone’s mind through hypnosis and have them…?

A: Yes.

Q: […] (L) Are there some people who have been abducted who think they have been abused?

A: All combinations exist.

Q: […] (T) It depends on the therapist and what the therapist believes as to the results of the therapy […]

A: No. Depends upon actions of therapist, not beliefs.

August 28, 1999

Q: Is the methodology used by Barbara Bartholic in stripping away screen memories a valid method, or is it possible that she creates memories that do not exist by her approach?

A: Both.

Turner and Rice quote Bartholic as saying:

“Working with so many people, I’ve discovered that most abductees have been given screen memories. These programs are installed so that if the abductee begins to remember anything, it will not be something disturbing. The person might recall being taken on board a craft and physically examined. He may feel that he was probed but not injured and that whatever was done was for the good of all concerned. […] But very often I find there is another story underneath. And once you get past the screen, you then find out what really occurred. When people break past the screen and see the truth, they are usually in shock and terrified.”

She notes that Rice was remarkably adept at breaking past the screens; what is usually a long and tedious process came quickly and naturally for Rice. She did this by instructing him, during a regression, simply to “Tell me the truth about what is taking place. Remove all the blinders, all the veils of deception.”

The Abductors

The vast majority of abductions are perpetrated by the group called the “Orion Union” in the transcripts, primarily by Grays and Reptilians (1994-10-20), and much less often by Nordics (1994-11-4). Mantids also participate as specialists (2024-4-27). The nature of the abduction is different depending on who is carrying it out (1995-9-9). (Alien races will be covered in a future series.)

Bullard lists the following types reported during abductions, with a rough percentage of their frequency: standard humanoids/Grays (70%), humans/Nordics (20%), “robots” (5%), insectoids (5%), reptilians (2%). Around 20% of reports include a “mixed crew,” including also “hybrids, Bigfoot-like creatures, and monstrous forms.” Some reports suggest that Nordics and Grays may sometimes be screen memories masking other beings, such as Reptilians.

Famous Cases and Personalities

October 9, 1994

Q: (L) The individual in the Karla Turner book [Taken (1994)] who had an experience similar to virtual reality, inside a blue bubble, who did this?

A: Grays [as proxies for Reptilians].

The individual was a friend of Ted Rice (also the subject of Turner’s third book). Turner described these virtual reality experiences:

To complicate matters, many reports show that some interactions occur on a mental rather than a physical level. One type is an artificially induced virtual-reality scenario (VRS), an externally introduced event, that to the witness is practically indistinguishable from objective reality. The person may experience a situation with full sensory input and react with genuine physical and emotional responses, although in “reality” the person may be lying immobile on an exam table, or sitting attached to some alien apparatus, or even asleep in bed with no outward sign of disturbance.

Turner describes how Rice, while visiting a friend, was awakened one night after hearing her shout for him to “come quickly!”

Heading down the hall, Ted saw a pervasive blue glow emanating from the other bedroom doorway. Entering, he found Marie pressed against the far wall, staring at the twin beds in shock. And he saw where the blue light was coming from. Amelia lay immobile in one bed, surrounded by a huge, blue, glowing, “electrical” sphere of light. Her eyes were open, and she didn’t seem to be in any distress as she carried on a conversation with someone Ted and Marie couldn’t see. Terrified, they tried to talk to her, but they could hardly hear one another even when shouting. Amelia continued to speak within the sphere for several minutes, until the blue light suddenly disappeared, at which point she was finally free of the paralysis that had kept her in the bed.

Amelia told Ted and Marie that the experience started with the loud sound of a helicopter low over the house. When she opened her eyes she could see through the ceiling and roof, as if they’d disappeared, to where the helicopter was hovering just above the house. She described two entities in the craft, whom she said also appeared at the foot of the bed before the blue light vanished. One being was tall, with greenish skin, an egg-shaped head, and slanted eyes as the only visible facial features. The other, shorter, entity, Amelia said, was blue-black in color.

Ted and Marie had seen absolutely nothing of these creatures, nor had they heard a helicopter at any time. But they had seen the sphere of light, with brighter, darting lights shooting through it, and Amelia frozen in a slightly raised position inside it, for she had been starting to sit up when the light coalesced and paralyzed her.

Turner notes that from Amelia’s perspective, the experience felt totally real, and she was conscious throughout. According to Turner, such experiences may occur during waking consciousness or within dreams.

Q: (L) Who are the beings that have been abducting Karla Turner and her family?

A: Lizards.

The Turners experienced a selection of beings, including Grays, Reptilians, humans, and at least one mantid. Karla describes an experience of her husband “Casey”:

Casey recalled being wakened as several aliens were trying to turn him over, facedown, in our bed. When he saw them, he tried to resist their manipulations, but they proceeded to turn him over, pulling hard at his side and back in the process. The result was the pattern of claw marks we’d found the next morning, for these aliens, unlike the small Grays, were the reptilian type, with webbed, clawed hands and vertically slit eyes.

A 1995 interview expands on Turner’s thoughts on reptilians and her own experiences:

CF: People have told us that they can break through screen memory after screen memory until they get to a scenario involving reptilians, and that is as far as they can go. Have you found that to be the case?

KT: In the few cases that I am very familiar with, when the “base line” was reached, reptilians were involved.

CF: Are the greys always involved in the top level?

KT: Sometimes the first level involves greys, sometimes humans, sometimes Pleiadians, sometimes strange animals. […] In one case that I recount in Into the Fringe, James had mostly conscious recollections and almost no hypnosis. He remembered being drawn into the proximity of a beautiful “Pleiadian” woman, who was very alluring and tender, and almost seductive. She wanted him to come into her embrace. When he got into the embrace, and thought she was going to kiss him, she disappeared entirely, and what was left in her place was a purplish-black, bumpy, almost slimy-looking character with fairly asymmetrical features. […] The entity was very strong. […] Whatever the entity was, there was something claw-like about it (which, of course, matches reptilians). Maybe, as close as he was to it, he could not perceive the whole figure. But he could see a bumpy covering, which could equate to the rough, scaly exterior sometimes reported to be reptilian. It is described as bumpy, ridged, bony, strong, clawed.

Q: (L) Why have they been abducting that group of people?

A: Same reasons they have been abducting you and Frank.

Q: (L) They have been abducting Karla Turner and her family because they perceive them as a threat?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) In one abduction where her son was involved, what was the black shadowy thing that seemed like a moving “nothing” on the ground?

A: Blocked Grays. Son not as in tune as Karla. Careful driving alone to lectures and meetings.

Q: (L) Should she make sure there is always someone with her in the car?

A: At night and on lonely roads. Nephew must pay attention. Also son’s friend.

In Into the Fringe (1992), Turner recounts a hypnotic regression performed on her son “David”:

Something was obviously missing in David’s recollection of events, so Barbara asked him more about what he had seen by the fir tree.

“I’m looking at a shadow,” he replied. “Maybe it’s the cat, he likes that tree. Rustling, pomegranate tree. At the bottom? But how? This, there’s something moving, but I can’t see it. It’s a dark spot, a black spot, moving around the tree. And it’s gone.”

Barbara asked him to expand his description, so David continued.

“I saw, it looks irregular. Is it a shadow? It’s black. It’s on the ground. It’s moving around and away, quickly, rustling. Like walking on leaves. And it’s very faint with a whisper, snwww, snwww, a snake sound, real faint. But it’s gone quick, quick. Around the tree.” His speech, throughout the regression, slurred and stumbled a bit, as if he still felt the effects of the alcohol he’d drunk at the bar that night.

He also described an “upside-down satellite dish,” which couldn’t have been a satellite dish. As Turner put it, “it seemed that David had seen something unusual and had tried to make sense of it in terms of the familiar satellite dish.”

October 25, 1994

Q: (L) How do aliens create the virtual reality scenarios as described in Karla Turner’s second book [Taken]?

A: Mental image restructuring.

Q: (L) Why does this phenomenon involve the use of the “blue bubble” or light?

A: Hypnotic suggestion trigger.

November 19, 1994

Q: (L) Why are there such marked similarities between those two cases [the Smurl family and Ann Haywood poltergeist cases] and the case described by Karla Turner [perhaps “Fred” in Into the Fringe, or “Polly” in Taken] and other alien abductions?

A: Similarities are open to interpretation. Turner household was opened to multiple types of phenomena due to interaction with Grays and others.

Q: (L) Does that occur frequently in interactions with Grays?

A: When there is excessive activity of this sort it leaves open channels or “windows” which allows all sorts of things to come through.

Bullard writes: “Paranormal aftereffects divide into categories of Men in Black, apparitions, poltergeist phenomena and extrasensory experiences. These events may be all of a piece rather than separate manifestations, and in any case the phenomena overlap to some degree.” Dodd expands: “One of the most striking aspects of repeated abduction cases is that they are so often surrounded by bursts of other paranormal activity, the sort of events that are normally put down to poltergeists. Things go missing and then turn up again; electricity surges and cuts out; there are strange noises like footsteps and water running. Often there are peculiar smells, sometimes pleasant and sometimes unpleasant.” In Thieves in the Night (2018), Cutchin adds: “Aspects of eyewitness testimony regularly shatter precepts of scientific materialism, including reports of telepathy, psi effects, poltergeist phenomena, profoundly improbable synchronicities, and spiritual revelations.”

October 23, 1994

Q: (L) Was Jeffrey Dahmer abducted by the Lizzies at an early age?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) Did he get his perversions from the Lizzies?

A: Yes.

Dahmer’s mother, Joyce, had a UFO sighting outside their home in 1973, when Jeffrey was 13. During this time, she was battling severe depression.

January 9, 1996

Q: (L) Was there something about Ted Bundy and the fact that his life seemed to disintegrate at the same time a lot of UFOs were sighted [i.e. the mid-1970s]?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) Was Ted Bundy abducted?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) Was Ted Bundy programmed to do what he did?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) What was the purpose behind that programming?

A: We must withhold answer for the present.

October 28, 1994

Q: (L) What about Dr. Richard Boylan whose book I just read [Close Extraterrestrial Encounters: Positive Experiences with Mysterious Visitors (1994)]? This guy says he had an experience where he was abducted and overnight his attitude about aliens changed. Who was responsible for that abduction that changed his attitude?

A: The Grays changed Boylan’s attitude.

Q: (L) What was the motivation in doing so?

A: Get him to dispense selective info.

Q: (L) What is the intent of this selective information?

A: Confuse investigators.

Q: (L) Was his mind taken over when the Grays abducted him?

A: In a sense.

Boylan calls his approach the “expanded consciousness” school of thought, in contrast to that of researchers like Hopkins, Jacobs, and Turner. You can watch a 1993 panel where Boylan and Turner (and others) share their conflicting views on the phenomenon below:

Throughout the presentation and exchanges, particularly with Turner, Boylan’s demeanor reeks of egotism and condescension. Like Steven Greer after him, he was of the opinion that the most negative (“lurid”) abduction accounts are either the products of deranged minds, or staged by government black ops to frame the aliens as evil. Since then, Boylan has continued in this direction, also claiming to receive telepathic messages from the “Star Nations” and describing his current job as “Councillor of Earth helping human-Star Nations good relations.” The content on his website is vastly different in character from his self-presentation 30 years ago as a rigorous, data-driven researcher.

Several hypnotherapist-researchers are either agnostic as to the good or evil nature of the abductors, or lean in the direction Boylan took, including early abduction pioneer Dr. Leo Sprinkle and later Dr. John Mack.

November 4, 1994

Q: (L) What about the Villas-Boas case? Who were these beings and what was the purpose for this interaction?

A: Aryans’ breeding experiment.

Bullard briefly summarizes the case: “Antonio Villas Boas was plowing a field at night when a UFO descended and several beings in space suits hauled him aboard, undressed him, took a blood sample and left him alone in a room inside the ship. A naked woman of unusual but human appearance entered the room and seduced him, then he was given a tour of the ship before the beings departed.” The full details of the case weren’t published until 10 years after the fact, in Coral and Jim Lorenzen’s Flying Saucer Occupants (1967).

Separated by 30 years, the Cassiopaeans gave somewhat divergent accounts on the nature of these “Aryans”:

Q: (L) Where do these Aryans live?

A: In transit.

Q: (L) When they get to where they are going, where do they live?

A: They don’t. There are many who do not live specifically anywhere. They are perpetually in transit.

Q: (L) Why is this?

A: There is no need to be grounded; it is only your perception because that is your familiarity. A planet is a vehicle too.

March 9, 2024

Q: (Approaching Infinity) Were the Aryans that were involved in the Villa-Boas abduction related to the undergrounders?

A: No.

Q: (L) It says the abductors were Aryans in transit. What do you mean by Aryans “in transit”?

A: On their way back.

Q: (L) On their way back to their home planet?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) Were those 3D-type aliens?

A: Bi-density.

November 4, 1994

Q: (L) This fellow, Eddie Page, who claims that he was abducted and taken by the aliens and altered in physical ways, was any of this true?

A: No.

Q: (L) Was he abducted, in fact?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) What was done to him?

A: Same routine as other abductees.

Q: (L) Does E.P. know that he is deceiving other people?

A: Yes. He is a fraud. Misguided by delusions.

For more on Page, who claims to be a half-Pleiadian hybrid, see Vicky Verma’s article on How and Why. In 2017 Page published a book called Project Aquarius: The True Story of the Extraterrestrial Star Seed Unit Within the CIA. Since Page, several other such “whistleblowers” have appeared on the UFO scene, often with fantastic tales of their heroic involvement in “the secret space program” (e.g. Corey Goode).

December 17, 1994

Q: (L) Well, I am really confused about Eddie. You say he is being abducted by Orion STS guys. […]

A: Has been.

Q: (L) Has he been abducted by other groups?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) What other groups?

A: Grays. […]

Q: (L) Was Eddie Page killed in battle [in Vietnam]? [His claim to fame was that he died and was saved by aliens.]

A: Yes.

Q: (L) Was he revived by aliens?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) Who revived him?

A: Orion STS.

December 23, 1994

Q: (L) On the day that we saw Eddie, I guess it was last Saturday, he told us that he had been abducted three days before. Was this a physical abduction or was it a virtual reality abduction [see above]?

A: It was the latter.

Q: (L) Of the many abductions he claims to have experienced, how many are of the VR type?

A: Half or thereabouts. […]

Q: And the other half are actual physical abductions?

A: Yes.

Hopkins and Jacobs (and related cases and researchers)

• Budd Hopkins: Missing Time (1981, 2021)

• Budd Hopkins: Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods (1987, 2021)

• David M. Jacobs: Secret Life: Firsthand, Documented Accounts of UFO Abductions (1992)

• Katharina Wilson: The Alien Jigsaw (1994)

• Debbie Jordan and Kathy Mitchell: Abducted! The Story of the Intruders Continues... (1995)

• Beth Collings and Anna Jamerson: Connections: Solving Our Alien Abduction Mystery (1996)

• Budd Hopkins: Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions (1996)

• David M. Jacobs: The Threat: The Secret Agenda What the Aliens Really Want and How They Plan to Get It (1998)

• Budd Hopkins and Carol Rainey: Sight Unseen: Science, UFO Invisibility & Transgenic Beings (2003)

• Katharina Wilson: I Forgot What I Wasn’t Supposed To Remember: An Expanded View of the Alien Abduction Phenomenon (2007, 2009)

• Yvonne Smith: Chosen: Recollections of UFO Abductions Through Hypnotherapy (2008, 2023)

• Yvonne Smith: Coronado: The President, the Secret Service and Alien Abductions (2014)

• David M. Jacobs: Walking Among Us: The Alien Plan to Control Humanity (2015)

Turner and Bartholic (and related cases and researchers)

• Karla Turner: Into the Fringe (1992, 2014)

• Leah A. Haley: Lost Was the Key (1993)

• Karla Turner: Taken: Inside the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda (1994, 2013)

• Karla Turner and Ted Rice: Masquerade of Angels (1994)

• James L. Walden: The Ultimate Alien Agenda: The Re-engineering of Humankind (1998)

• Eve Lorgen: The Love Bite: Alien Interference in Human Love Relationships (2000)

• Barbara Bartholic and Peggy Fielding: Barbara: The Story of a UFO Investigator (2003)

• Leah A. Haley: Unlocking Alien Closets (2003)

• Leah A. Haley: The Dark Side of Cupid: Love Affairs, the Supernatural, and Energy Vampirism (2013)

• Karla Turner lectures

More early cases (1960s and 70s)

• John Fuller: The Interrupted Journey: Two Lost Hours Aboard a UFO: The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill (1966, 2022)

• Coral and Jim Lorenzen: Encounters with UFO Occupants (1976)

• Coral and Jim Lorenzen: Abducted! Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space (1977)

• Charles Bowen (editor): Encounter Cases from Flying Saucer Review (1977)

• Ann Druffel and D. Scott Rogo: The Tujunga Canyon Contacts (1980, 1989)

• Judith M. Gansberg and Alan L. Gansberg: Direct Encounters: Personal Histories of UFO Abductees (1980)

• D. Scott Rogo (editor): UFO Abductions: True Cases of Alien Kidnappings (1980)

• Ra on the Pascagoula Abduction (1981)

• Charles Hickson and William Mendez: UFO Contact at Pascagoula (1983)

• Jenny Randles: The Pennine UFO Mystery (1983)

• Brad Steiger: The UFO Abductors (1988, 2022)

• Jenny Randles: Abduction: Over 200 Documented UFO Kidnappings Investigated (1989)

• Raymond E. Fowler: The Allagash Abductions: Undeniable Evidence of Alien Intervention (1993, 2005)

• Stanton Friedman and Kathleen Marden: Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience (2007)

• Margery Higdon: Alien Abduction of the Wyoming Hunter: First Person Account of Carl Higdon: October 25, 1974 (2017)

• Calvin Parker: Pascagoula – The Closest Encounter: My Story (2018)

• Calvin Parker: Pascagoula – The Story Continues: New Evidence & New Witnesses (2019)

• Irena McCammon Scott: Beyond Pascagoula: The Rest of the Amazing Story (2021)

• Philip Mantle and Irena Scott: Beyond Reasonable Doubt: The Pascagoula Alien Abduction (2023)
  

Next: Part 1b – More famous cases

1. Moira McGhee cites a possible missing time case from 1924 in The Alien Gene (2017). Karla Turner cites cases as early as the turn of the century: “We know from some of our own research that the abduction phenomenon has affected families going back four generations and that would be around the turn of the century (1900). In my husband’s family, his grandmother had an encounter with a non-human entity that led her off into a swampy area where there was a period of missing before she was returned, when she was only five years old. That was 1903. So if you think it’s new and you think it’s something the media has spread, you start looking into the cases and find out how far back it goes in some of these families’ generations. I know of an African American family in East Texas that has had it going on since the early 1900s and it’s still going on today with that same family. Three to four generations is fairly typical.”