VIDEO: Alien Abductions?!

Out of the curiosity of humans, dozens of stories about alleged sightings, abductions and experiments regarding aliens have emerged over the years.

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People have always been fascinated with extraterrestrial life. Some would find comfort in knowing that we are not alone in the universe, while others are actually terrified by the idea. There is one thing, though, I think we can all agree on. It would be horrifying to be abducted by aliens and experimented on.

According to Wikipedia, the term alien abduction describes “subjectively real memories of being taken secretly against one’s will by apparently nonhuman entities and subjected to complex physical and psychological procedures”.

Such abductions have sometimes been classified as close encounters of the fourth kind. People claiming to have been abducted are usually called “abductees” or “experiencers”.

Due to a lack of objective physical evidence, most scientists and mental health professionals dismiss the phenomenon as “deception, suggestibility (fantasy-proneness, hypnotizability, false memory syndrome), personality, sleep paralysis, psychopathology, psychodynamics and environmental factors”.

Skeptic Robert Sheaffer sees similarity between the aliens depicted in early science fiction films, in particular, Invaders From Mars, and some of those reported to have actually abducted people.

Typical claims involve being subjected to forced medical examinations that emphasize abductee reproductive systems. Abductees sometimes claim to have been warned against environmental abuse and the dangers of nuclear weapons. While many of these claimed encounters are described as terrifying, some have been viewed as pleasurable or transformative.

The first alleged alien abduction claim to be widely publicized was the Betty and Barney Hill abduction in 1961. Reports of the abduction phenomenon have been made around the world, but are most common in English speaking countries, especially the United States. The contents of the abduction narrative often seem to vary with the home culture of the alleged abductee.

Alien abductions have been the subject of conspiracy theories and science fiction storylines (notably The X-Files) that have speculated on stealth technology required if the phenomenon were real, the motivations for secrecy, and that alien implants could be a possible form of physical evidence.

The Antonio Vilas Boas case (1957) and the Hill abduction (1961) were the first cases of UFO abduction to earn widespread attention.

Though these two cases are sometimes viewed as the earliest abductions, skeptic Peter Rogerson notes they were only the first “canonical” abduction cases, establishing a template that later abductees and researchers would refine but rarely deviate from.

Additionally, Rogerson notes purported abductions were cited contemporaneously at least as early as 1954, and that “the growth of the abduction stories is a far more tangled affair than the ‘entirely unpredisposed’ official history would have us believe.”

(The phrase “entirely unpredisposed” appeared in folklorist Thomas E. Bullard’s study of alien abduction; he argued that alien abductions as reported in the 1970s and 1980s had little precedent in folklore or fiction.)

The UFO contactees of the 1950s claimed to have contacted aliens, and the substance of contactee narratives – in which the beings express the intent to help mankind stop nuclear testing and prevent the otherwise inevitable destruction of the human race.