Abductions

Mack, John E. (1929–2004) Dr. John E. Mack was one of the leading experts on alien abduction experiences, in which people claim to have been temporarily held captive by extraterrestrials. In the

Strieber, Whitley (1945– ) In 1985 novelist Whitley Strieber claimed to have been abducted by aliens in a supposedly nonfiction book titled Communion, which quickly became a best seller and helped spread

Allagash abductions This was a multiple-witness abduction that involved four art students, whose encounter occurred while on a camping trip in the state of Maine. The case involved identical twins, Jim and

Myra Hansen,under hypnosis,reported that in the spring of 1980 in rural New Mexico, west of Las Cruces, she, along with her six-year-old son, saw five UFOs descending into a cow pasture. Two

Betty and Barney Hill’s close encounter began with a late-night drive at the end of a vacation.On September 19–20, 1961, they were returning to their home in Portsmouth,New Hampshire,from Quebec,when in the

Schirmer Abduction In Ashland, Nebraska, on December 3, 1967, at 2:30 A.M. police Sergeant Herbert Schirmer noticed red lights on the highway.When he went to investigate he saw a metallic disk hovering

Pascagoula Abduction : After the Betty and Barney Hill case,the most famous alien abduction took place on the Pascagoula River in Mississippi on October 11, 1973. Although less dramatic than other abductions,