Have you been abducted by aliens? The question sounds absurd. Surely it could only be meant as a joke. Yet, there are those who believe that a vast number of us - millions of people across the world - have been abducted by aliens without knowing it. What’s more, there is some serious research data to back up their claim.
The notion that some of us are being abducted by aliens has come to dominate modern ufology. It all started with Betty and Barney Hill – the first high-profile alien abduction case of the modern era. Its characteristics have since been reproduced in numerous other accounts from fellow “experiencers,” to adopt a phrase favoured by John Mack, one of the most thoughtful researchers ever to have looked at the phenomenon. The key ingredients of the typical abduction account are:
Being transported elsewhere – onto what appears to be an alien vessel
Being experimented on by aliens corresponding to the description of “Greys” – small, bulbous-headed humanoids with thin-limbs, large, slanting eyes, and a complete absence of body hair
At first, having little to no conscious memory of the experience – perhaps realising only that something strange has happened or that time has elapsed without any recollection of what happened during it, a phenomenon known as “Missing Time”
The memory loss is crucial. Typically, memories are only recovered during hypnosis, although sometimes fragmentary recollections occur during nightmares – which many abductees experience with unusual frequency.
For a time, there were some in the UFO research community who argued that some kind of alien experimentation programme was taking place on a large scale – that perhaps thousands or even millions of people were involved. Even in a community which is not averse to conspiracy theories, this sounded like a conspiracy theory too far. Then came Robert Bigelow.
Robert Bigelow is an American billionaire. If you want to get a picture of just how rich he is, think of this – he owns his own spaceship: Genesis I. It’s the only private spaceship in space. Bigelow had a long-standing interest in UFOs and, after making his money in property investment, he began to throw some of it into some unusual fields of research.
The Roper Report
One project Bigelow financed was an attempt to find out just how many people may have been the victims of alien abduction. Questions were inserted into market research surveys designed to elicit this information. People were not asked directly whether they had been abducted by aliens. Instead, the questions were subtle and asked about more limited things which were consistent with the alien abduction experience.
The key questions were:
Have you ever woken up paralyzed with a sense of a strange person or presence in the room?
Have you ever found puzzling scars on your body and not remembered how you got them?
Have you ever experienced a period of an hour or more in which you couldn’t remember how or where you had been?
Have you ever felt as though you were actually flying through the air?
Have you ever seen unusual lights or balls of light in a room?
When respondents answered positively to 4 of these 5 questions, they were deemed to have been the likely victims of alien abduction. In the 1991 survey, 1.7% of the population sampled answered positively to four of these questions.
It should be pointed out that the questions themselves were developed in close consultation with Budd Hopkins, one of the leading researchers of the alien abduction phenomenon and that the actual polling was conducted by the Roper Organisation, a highly respected market research company.
If the methodology of the survey was sound and the questions chosen were accurately reflective of an underlying experience, it would appear that almost 2% of the U.S. population – around 5 million people – had been the victims of alien abduction.
Critics retort that the questions were too oblique to be indicative of anything. Supporters insist that direct questions would have been less useful because of the “missing memory” problem and because some respondents might have been too embarrassed to say directly that they had been abducted by aliens.
No similar surveys have been undertaken for the UK, but if the numbers were comparable, it would mean that around 1 million Britons had been kidnapped by aliens. Could this possibly be true?
When i was three i woke up in my room shadows were looking into my window i got out of bed and walked to my parents room in the end of the trailer as i walked i seen shadows behind curtains of the hallway living room but when i got to my parents room i seen them staring at me through the huge glass window like they wanted me i crawled into bed thinking it was a dream i woke up in my parents bed it wasnt a dream.....i move alot always changing locations like im running away i was in manitoba jan 2011 and i woke up feeling like i had been murdered and raped repeatedly i had a cut on my right index finger that i didnt have before i fell asleep i cant explain it but i feel a connection to them to the sky to the stars when i look up into the night im frightened but also intrigued i cant explain it
Bee - 1 September 2011 @ 10:38 PM
Whenever I dream its either I feel like im falling at some point or someones being disected. The first dream I remember was when I was 4 or so i was at a huge house and children were lined up the stairs so for some reason i walked to the front of the line just to see what the line was for and an old lady was taking their eyeballs out. The children werent scared at all but I was so I ran down the stairs and every child was focused on me as I ran by. I ran outside to the pool where the adults were and then I woke up. The other dream I had was of driving really fast on the highway with my mom and all of a sudden the road was gone I fell toward a river and felt the sensation of falling all the way down and then i woke up. The last dreamI had there were beings that took me from my room to the front door of my house where theres a bench. they set up a contraption that was basically an upside down needle. They carried me over the needle and lowered the bottom my spine to the needle until my weight pushed down on itcausing it to inject me with whatever was in it. And the last weird feeling I had was falling right as i woke up. I often feel like im falling when i go to sleep too. I don't know about aliens but I feel like something is here and its not anything we can control.
Ant - 13 July 2011 @ 4:53 AM
i think something has been put in my footit was found on xray by accident its a small piece metal the doctor was baffeled he said its in a place of alot of nerves that if its not causing pain to leave it there im really worried about it what should i do
tera - 11 July 2011 @ 8:25 PM
Ever since i was eight i have experienced wierd paralysed moments. when i was eight for the first time i woke up out of sleep and in the doorway to my room stood a man that wasnt really a man his eyes they was the only thing i could remember to this day they seemed to glow. since then i would be awake and fall asleep my eyes would move rapidly i would try to move and cant and have the feeling that someone is there with me. infact this happened last week the feeling of floating and the voices of something talking to me thats all i can remember i cant remember anything else except fighting them with really no known reason to fight.
lagtima - 20 June 2011 @ 12:57 AM
i experienced some hours of missing time and gained consciousness in another place with some bruises on my right wrist. this happened 4 years back and i still have the marks. i don't have any memory of being taken on a spacecraft though. since then i have encountered strange transparent beings and a flying transparent car one day during the night. other from that i lead a perfectly normal life free of paranormal things. i once felt as if i am walking on air when i was in the woods at night. another time, i stared at my friend's chest and suddenly a scar appeared (like a sort of cut) i believe i have gained some sort of psychic abilities through my experience, but i doubt it is positive
strawberry - 17 June 2011 @ 10:39 AM
When I feel like I am paralysed when I wake up, I see a man astride me...and at the same point is when I get the images of flying balls in my face. The images are usually only short and scraps of memory come back-which makes me feel like it must be due to some sort of abduction. Charlie
grouchy2011 - 27 April 2011 @ 11:40 AM
The feeling of being paralysed really scares me in the middle of the night, and then the presence in my room is terrifying. I wake up and find bruises on areas of my body that I cannot explain, and I do not sleepwalk as my friends have told me. Sometimes, strange balls come near my face but I never have any recollection of the events which caused this. I think these balls and the bruises may be connected and would like to find out more. Charlie
grouchy2011 - 25 April 2011 @ 9:37 PM
It has happened a few times during my life that I will suddenly wake up with the sense somebody is in my room and that I am completly unable to move, this has happened even with people in the house during day times. What does this mean?
