Five UFO abduction cases that could FINALLY be solved – as a new study examines 30 years of evidence
About a hundred cases of alien abduction, spanning the past thirty years, will be investigated by scientists in the hope of unraveling the mysterious experiences.
Researchers at Rice University in Texas plan to analyze a trove of archives consisting of thousands of documents in the form of books, magazines, photographs, slides, reports, meeting minutes and letters.
The cases include the famous story of Betty and Barney Hill, a New Hampshire couple who say they were kidnapped while driving up a mountain in 1961.
Other cases include one that inspired a new Netflix show: the Pascagoula kidnapping.
About 100 alien abductions over the past 30 years will be investigated by scientists in the hope of unraveling the mysterious experiences.
Rice University’s Archive of the Impossible is home to material by Jacques Vallee (whose work inspired Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind) and author Whitley Streiber, who claimed in his 1987 book Communion to have been abducted by aliens. among hundreds of other kidnapping stories.
The kidnapping of Pascagoula
The kidnapping of Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker in Mississippi, featured in the new Netflix series “Files of the Unexplained,” took place in 1973.
The two men reported to the sheriff that they had been abducted by aliens while fishing – and each showed up with a stab wound in their arm.
Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker claimed to have been kidnapped in 1973
Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker claimed to have been kidnapped in 1973
As the UFO’s blue lights flashed and it descended closer to the swampland below, three-and-a-half-foot-long gray “creatures with wrinkled skin” and “pincer-like” claws (pictured above) grabbed the two men — and subjected them to examination, according to Parker, ‘just like any doctor would do’
Both men passed polygraph tests when they were interviewed about their experiences – and it seemed their stories matched.
The two men reported being manipulated by aliens with pincer-like claws and experimenting with them.
Hickson told The Washington Post, “I was just getting ready to get some more bait when I heard some sort of rustling noise. I looked up and saw a blue flashing light. Calvin also turned around.
“We saw a 30-foot object with a small dome on top.”
Detectives secretly ran a tape recorder to catch the men, but they didn’t drop the act as police left the room.
Another witness, Maria Blair, recently provided video testimony obtained by DailyMail.com that appeared to corroborate the men’s story.
Whitley Strieber
Science fiction and horror writer Whitley Strieber’s abduction story in his 1987 nonfiction book Communion has become one of the iconic alien abduction stories.
The book’s cover image, which shows a slender alien with almond eyes, is an iconic image of what UFO fans call “grey” aliens.
Science fiction and horror writer Whitley Strieber
Christopher Walken in the film Communion, based on Strieber’s experience
The alleged kidnapping occurred on Boxing Day in 1986, after Strieber and his wife went to bed after eating Christmas leftovers.
Strieber describes the creatures he encountered as ‘visitors’, but makes no conclusions about their origins.
Strieber wrote: ‘In 1985 I had an experience of a close encounter that frightened and confused me. I was hurt by it, but still couldn’t believe it was a physical experience. It was just too strange.
“Still, I was very curious and started going out into the woods at night from our little house in upstate New York to try to reconnect somehow.”
Since then he has written several books about alien encounters.
Betty and Barney Hill
Betty and Barney Hill’s 1961 experience became one of the iconic alien abduction stories, with the couple encountering a strange light on a road in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.
The couple couldn’t remember part of the ride and their watches stopped working.
Betty and Barney Hill’s 1961 experience became one of the iconic alien abduction stories
Betty and Barney Hill’s 1961 experience became one of the iconic alien abduction stories
Psychiatrist and hypnotist Benjamin Simon helped the couple recall their experience of being walked into a flying saucer by gray-skinned aliens.
Under hypnosis, they remembered being attached to needles tied with long threads while aliens took samples of their hair and skin.
The couple’s story became a book and a film starring James Earl Jones – and both stuck to their story until their deaths.
Travis Walton
The 1975 kidnapping of Travis Walton received national attention because of the presence of six witnesses: fellow forestry workers.
On November 5, 1975, 22-year-old UFO enthusiast Walton saw a light in a forest, ignored the warnings and ran toward it.
The 1975 kidnapping of Travis Walton attracted national attention
His experiences formed the basis of a 1993 film
Struck by a blue light, Travis disappeared and the other forest workers fled the scene.
It was the first UFO abduction reported while the victim was still missing.
Seven days later, Walton reappeared – revealing that he woke up being observed by three small aliens, and found himself walking along a highway five days later.
He described his experiences in a book, which became the 1993 film Fire in the Sky: in 2021 he appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast.
Dr. Leo Sprinkle
Many experiences with UFO abductions are frightening and disturbing, but some who claim to have encountered aliens have a more positive view of their abductee.
Dr. Leo Sprinkle, a psychologist at the University of Wyoming, used a hypnotic approach to alleged abductees in the 1960s after Betty and Barney Hill’s meeting.
Dr. Leo Sprinkle, a psychologist at the University of Wyoming, became involved in the hypnotic return of alien abductees
Sprinkle eventually self-identified as an abductee, believing the aliens to be helpful “cosmic citizens” who help humans deal with their problems.
Sprinkle went on to hold an annual Rocky Mountain UFO conference on the more positive aspects of UFO encounters before retiring from college in 1989.
Sprinkle claims that UFO encounters are part of “cosmic consciousness conditioning” designed to increase human consciousness.
Nigel Watson, author of Captured by aliens? A history and analysis of American kidnapping claimstold DailyMail.com: ‘I think it’s great that they are doing intensive analysis of the data in these files, and it will be fascinating to see what they do with this material.
‘The biggest problem with alien abductions is that we have to consider how they happen. Psychological concepts such as sleep paralysis, fantasy proneness, and false memory syndrome have all been used to “explain” alien abduction experiences.
“Even the methods by which we use psychology to investigate these processes in pursuit of alien abduction research may be determined by our culture.
‘There has been much greater use of polygraph testing and hypnotic regression in the US compared to other countries.’
‘In addition to looking at those areas of ‘normal’ psychology and sociology, this new research project might uncover rarer factors involved in the abduction experience.
“Will it even support the popular idea that real aliens have come here to take people against their will and study them?”