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Abduction
Encounters, contacts & abductions
An account in which a person claims to have been taken against their will by non-human beings, examined and returned, often with “missing time”. The case of Betty and Barney Hill (1961) set the template of the genre. Scientists mostly see memory, sleep and suggestion phenomena; proponents of a real phenomenon point to the consistency of the accounts.
In the major cases
- Betty & Barney Hill Abduction (1961)
- Travis Walton Abduction (1975)
- Pascagoula Abduction (1973)
- The Antônio Vilas-Boas Abduction (1957)
- The Carl Higdon Abduction (1974)
- The Dionisio Llanca Abduction (1973)
- The Meng Zhaoguo Incident (1994)
See also
- Close encounter of the fourth kind (CE4)
- Missing time
- Regression hypnosis
- Sleep paralysis
- Alien implants
- The “Greys”
- Screen memory
- Contactees
- Hybridization program
- Betty Hill’s star map
- The Interrupted Journey (1966)
- Travis Walton
- Antônio Vilas-Boas (1934-1992)
- “Mantis” or insectoid beings
- Susan Clancy
- Thomas E. Bullard
- David Jacobs
- Autumn 1973 wave
- “Fire in the Sky” (1993)
- The Andreasson affair (1967)
- Allagash abductions (1976)
- Brooklyn Bridge case (1989)
- False memories
- Hypnagogic hallucinations
- Budd Hopkins (1931-2011)
- John E. Mack (1929-2004)
- Betty and Barney Hill
- Whitley Strieber (born 1945)