ALIEN ABDUCTION CASES
1951-1999
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October 16, 1957
Antonio Vilas-Boas Alien Abduction
Source: Antonio Vilas-Boas
On October 16, 1957, while working at night on his family farm in São Francisco de Sales, Brazil, 23-year-old Antônio Vilas-Boas claimed to have been abducted by aliens. He said he saw a large egg-shaped craft with a cupola on top containing a rotating red light.
The craft landed by extending three legs, after which several 5-foot-tall beings exited the spacecraft. Antônio Vilas-Bonas tried to escape on his tractor, but the engine died, and he continued on foot. He was eventually captured by these beings, who wore gray overalls and helmets. He was taken aboard their ship, and the aliens then took their helmets off. Antonio Vilas-Bonas said they had small blue eyes and communicated with a series of animal-like grunts.
Once aboard the alien ship, Antônio Vilas-Bonas was stripped naked and covered in a gel substance. He was led into a large semi-circular room through a doorway adorned with red symbols. Antônio Vilas-Bonas was apparently later able to recall these symbols with perfect clarity.
The beings then took blood samples from his chin before moving him to a third room where he was left alone for half an hour. A gas of some kind was pumped into the room, which made Antônio Vilas-Bonas feel nauseated. After the nausea finally ended, the doors to the room opened, and a naked female alien of the same alien species joined him. Antônio Vilas-Bonas recalled that she was very attractive, and had platinum blonde hair and red pubic hair. She had a pointed chin and large cat-like eyes. Antônio Vilas-Bonas felt a powerful attraction to this alien woman, and they engaged in intercourse wherein instead of kissing him, she nipped him on the chin.
Afterwards, the woman smiled, patted her belly, and pointed upwards before leaving.
Antônio Vilas-Bonas was given back his clothes and shown around the ship before leaving the alien ship. When Antônio Vilas-Bonas got home, he realized 4 hours had passed.
A medical examination was conducted after Antônio Vilas-Bonas made these alien claims, showed that he was suffering from a mild dose of radiation sickness.​​​​​​
September 19, 1961
Betty and Barney Hill Alien Abduction
Source: Betty and Barney Hill
According to Betty and Barney Hill, the alleged UFO encounter happened about 10:30 p.m. on September 19, 1961 in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Betty and Barney were driving back to Portsmouth from a vacation in Niagara Falls and Montreal.
Just south of Lancaster, New Hampshire, Betty Hill claimed to have observed a bright point of light in the sky that moved from below the Moon and the planet Jupiter, upward to the west of the Moon. While Barney Hill drove down U.S. Route 3, Betty Hill thought that she was observing a falling star, only it moved upward. Because it moved erratically and grew bigger and brighter, Betty Hill urged Barney Hill to stop the car for a closer look, as well as to walk their dog, Delsey. Barney Hill stopped at a scenic picnic area just south of Twin Mountain.
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Betty Hill, looking through binoculars, observed an "odd-shaped" craft flashing multicolored lights travel across the face of the Moon. Since Betty Hills' sister had told her she had seen a flying saucer years earlier, Betty Hill thought it might be what she was observing.
Through binoculars, Barney Hill observed what he thought was a commercial airliner traveling toward Vermont on its way to Montreal. However, he soon changed his mind, because without looking as if it had turned, the craft rapidly descended in his direction. This observation caused Barney Hill to realize, "this object that was a plane was not a plane."
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The Hills said they continued driving on the quiet and isolated road, moving very slowly through Franconia Notch in order to observe the object as it came even closer. At one point, the object passed above a restaurant and signal tower on top of Cannon Mountain and came out near the Old Man of the Mountain. Betty Hill testified that it was at least one and a half times the length of the granite cliff profile, which was 40 feet long, and that it seemed to be rotating.
Betty and Barney Hill watched as the silent, illuminated craft moved erratically and bounced back and forth in the night sky.
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About one mile south of Indian Head, they said, the object rapidly descended toward their vehicle, causing Barney Hill to stop in the middle of the highway. The huge, silent craft hovered about 80 to 100 feet above their 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air vehicle, and filled the entire field of view in the windshield. It reminded Barney of a huge pancake.
Carrying his pistol in his pocket, Barney Hill stepped away from the vehicle and moved closer to the object. Using the binoculars, Barney Hill claimed to have seen 8 to 11 humanoid figures, who were peering out of the craft's windows, looking at him. In unison, all but one humanoid figure moved to what appeared to be a panel on the rear wall of the hallway that encircled the front portion of the craft. The one remaining figure continued to look at Barney Hill and communicated a message telling him to "stay where you are and keep looking."
Barney Hill had a recollection of observing the humanoid forms wearing glossy black uniforms and black caps. Red lights on what appeared to be bat-wing fins began to telescope out of the sides of the craft, and a long structure descended from the bottom of the craft. The silent craft approached to what Barney Hill estimated was within 50 to 80 feet overhead and 300 feet away from him. On Oct. 21, 1961, Barney Hill reported to National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena investigator Walter Webb that the "beings were somehow not human."
It was also alleged that Betty and Barney Hill were forced them to undergo medical examinations while inside the UFO after being abducted, and they reported missing time.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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October 11, 1973
Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson Alien Abduction
Source: Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson
On October 11, 1973, Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson were fishing on the banks of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi, when Calvin Parker was distracted by blue lights reflecting off the water’s surface. Originally thinking it was the lights of a police car, the two men would instead be the subject of an alien abduction.
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The two fishermen looked up to see a large football-shaped craft descending from the clouds. It made no noise except for a strange hissing sound. The craft hovered above them, and 3 creatures appeared, floating in the air and moving toward Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson. Calvin Parker described the beings as having pincers for hands and robotic-looking slits for mouths. One was neckless and gray, while the other two seemed to have more feminine shapes.
The creatures wrapped their pincers around the two fishermen’s necks, but the two men did not fight back. Calvin Parker recounts a sensation of numbness and no fear whatsoever. He was in a trance-like state, and the two men were taken aboard the spaceship, where they were experimented on.
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Charles Hickson recalled a large machine resembling a giant eye moving over his body and that he was surrounded by 5 foot-tall beings.
The two fishermen later found themselves back on the riverbank as if nothing had happened. They went to the police and told their story. Captain Ryder did not believe them, and after the interview, left them in the interrogation room with a hidden recording device in the hopes of hearing one of them give evidence that the whole story was a hoax, but the conversation that happened between the two men gave credence to their claim.
Charles Hickson said to Calvin Parker, “Jesus Christ, God have mercy, I thought I’d been through enough of hell on this Earth, and now I’ve got to go through something like this, but they could have, you know, I guess they, well, they could have harmed us, son. They had us. They could have done anything to us.”
Calvin Parker responded, “I just want to cry right now, what’s so damn bad about it is nobody’s going to believe us.”
For decades, the two didn’t speak of the event, but after Charles Hickson died in 2011, Calvin Parker wrote a book that was published in 2018. Since then, other people who lived in the area have come forward saying that they, too, saw a UFO that night.
November 5, 1975
Travis Walton Alien Abduction
Source: Travis Walton and Logging Crew
Travis Walton was allegedly abducted by aliens on November 5, 1975 in the Apache–Sitgreaves National Forests near Heber, Arizona. His abduction is widely regarded as a possible hoax.
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Travis Walton was employed by future brother-in-law Mike Rogers on a federal contract. On October 20, Rogers acknowledged in writing that the job had fallen seriously behind schedule and might not be completed by the deadline.
That particular night, Travis Walton and Mike Rogers watched The UFO Incident, a movie about the alleged abduction of Barney and Betty Hill. After the broadcast, Walton reportedly discussed the possibility of being taken aboard a flying saucer.
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On November 5, the crew reported Walton missing. They recalled driving back after sunset when Mike Rogers stopped the truck and Travis Walton walked into the forest towards an overhead light. Travis Walton was illuminated by a beam of light, and Mike Rogers drove away with the other forest crew.
Police organized search parties that were called off at the insistence of Travis Walton's mother. After five days and six hours, Travis Walton called his sister from a phone booth in Heber, Arizona.
Travis Walton sold his story to tabloid The National Enquirer, which published the account and awarded the forest crew a $5,000 prize. In 1978, Travis Walton wrote The Walton Experience, which was adapted into the 1993 film Fire in the Sky.
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November 1, 1977
Mario Woods and Michael Jones Alien Abduction
Source: Mario Woods and Michael Jones
On the night of November 18, 1977, Mario Woods was a security officer for a nuclear missile silo near the Ellsworth Air Force Military Base near Newell, South Dakota. Him and his fellow officer saw a strange light in the distance, that Mario would eventually signal towards. The object eventually disappeared.
Later that night, an alarm went off at another nuclear missile silo, and Mario and the other security officer, Michael Jones, went to investigate. As they approached the silo in their truck and came to a stop to investigate the alarm, they saw a huge UFO sphere the size of a Walmart building, hovering hover the silo, and Mario described the outside of the sphere as broiling like the surface of the Sun.
Suddenly the UFO shines intensely bright lights on the truck, almost blinding the two officers, and time feels like its slowing down, and the dust particles in the air appear to glitter inside the truck. A strong ammonia smell begins to permeate the truck. He looks over at Michael, and he is frozen in place at the steering wheel, not moving and not responsive at all.
Mario says it feels like the air in the truck gets sucked out, and says that he can't breath, begins to get really sleepy and he feels like he is going to pass out. Right before he passes out, he looks out the window to his right and sees 4 classic looking Gray aliens floating over to his truck door. Three of the Gray aliens are short and look identical and are all wearing suits. One of the short Gray aliens has a wand with a glowing yellow tip inside its belt. The fourth Gray alien, is a head taller than the other three aliens, and it has a yellow light coming from its chest on its suit.
Mario then blacks out. When he awakens, he is inside the truck with no sight of the UFO. The truck has somehow been transported 8 miles positioned behind the Newell Dam Reservoir. The Air Force Base was making frantic radio calls to the them in the truck, which Mario answered confused. The base sent out marines to rescue them and debriefed them.
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Mario reported that during the whole episode that his partner Michael was in a catatonic state and would not respond.
Later on in his life, Mario had hypnotic regression to help him remember what happened after he blacked out.
Mario said that he had been taken by the Gray beings inside the craft, and that the inside of the craft looked like a beehive of sorts with several layers and multiple short Gray aliens going back and forth. Everything inside the UFO craft emanated energy and power. The aliens took him to a separate room where he was lying down inside a triangular shaped force field, floating in the air as they took tissue samples of his hand and forehead.
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May 1978
Jan Wolksi Alien Abduction
Source: Jan Wolski
In May 1978, Polish farmer Jan Wolski reported being abducted by two "short, green-faced humanoid entities" in the village of Emilcin while driving a horse-drawn cart. The alien beings jumped onto his cart, sat beside him, and spoke in a strange language.
Jan Wolski drove with the aliens for a while, who then took him aboard a hovering white UFO craft via an elevator-like platform in a clearing. These aliens also had dark, slanted eyes and prominent cheekbones.
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The UFO craft was a white, bus-sized craft that hovered above the ground, producing a humming sound from four drill-like protrusions.
Inside the UFO craft, he was instructed to undress and was scanned with a strange device and witnessed paralyzed crows. After the examination, Jan Wolski was allowed to redress and was taken back to the clearing where he was found.
His sons and neighbors, who found strange footprints and depressions at the site where the craft had been, confirmed his story, though media attention was minimal at the time. A memorial was later erected at the site to commemorate the alleged abduction.
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A memorial cube on a rock was erected at the site by the Nautilus Foundation to commemorate the alien incident. ​
December 6, 1978
Pier Zanfretta Alien Abduction
Source: Pier Zanfretta
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Pier Zanfretta was a night police watchman in the mountains near Genoa, Italy. The location of the initial events was Marzano, a hamlet in the municipality of Torriglia, in the province of Genoa. The first alien abduction incident occurred on the night of December 6, 1978.
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While patrolling, Pier Zanfretta saw four unusual UFO lights in the garden of a villa called “Casa Nostra.” He thought burglars might be involved and approached with his flashlight and his gun. Pier allegedly saw a large, red oval UFO object, which was more than 10 meters in diameter.
Pier then claims to have encountered alien beings about 3 meters tall, with mottled or wrinkled or reptilian-like skin, yellow triangular eyes, and clawed feet. He screamed over the radio something like “No, they are not men…” and contact was lost.
He claims to have been taken up by a blinding bright light emanated from the UFO craft and then found later in shock. His clothes were warm despite the cold weather. Evidence of a semicircular flattened imprint in the grass in a horseshoe-shaped ring was reported.
Pier also alleges that there were large footprints that were 50 centimeters long, near his patrol car and around the scene.
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​After the initial alien abduction event, Pier Zanfretta underwent a regressive hypnosis session on December 23, 1978, under Dr. Mauro Moretti. While he was under hypnosis, Pier Zanfretta claimed he was abducted by aliens, taken inside their UFO craft, and subjected to experiments.
Pier also claimed the alien beings gave him messages, which were communicated telepathically, and sometimes through other devices. He claimed the alien beings were from a planet or place called "Teetonia" or "Titania" in a “third galaxy.”
Pier Zanfretta also claims multiple alien abduction encounters between 1978 and 1981.
On December 27, 1978, Pier claims he disappears after frantic radio communication; found later near a mountain road in deep shock.
On July 30, 1979, Pier is found disoriented away from his motorcycle. Under hypnosis he described again being taken by a green beam of light aboard a UFO craft.
On December 2, 1979, Pier claims another incident involving a UFO sighting by other guards too, with lights and vehicles failing.​
November 9, 1979
Robert Taylor Alien Abduction
Source: Robert Taylor
On the morning of November 9, 1979, Robert Taylor was inspecting fences in Dechmont Woods near Livingston, Scotland, when he saw a large, metallic, dome-shaped UFO object hovering silently in a clearing. He estimated the craft was about 20 feet in diameter and had a rough, sandpaper-like texture.
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As he approached the UFO craft, two smaller, spiked spheres emerged from the main object and rolled toward him. They attached to his legs and began dragging him toward the larger craft. Robert Taylor reported smelling a foul, acrid odor, similar to burning brakes.
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Robert lost consciousness during the struggle. When he awoke about 20 minutes later, the objects were gone. Robert Taylor found his clothes were torn and he had grazes on his chin and thighs. Disoriented and unable to speak clearly, he eventually made his way home, where his wife found him in a distressed state.
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The police took Robert Taylor's account seriously enough to launch an investigation, treating it as a case of common assault. An officer visited the site with Robert Taylor and discovered unusual marks on the ground, including ladder-shaped tracks where the main UFO craft was said to be and smaller holes consistent with the spiked spheres.
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The police were unable to identify any conventional cause for the ground markings or for Robert Taylor's injuries. Forensic analysis of his ripped trousers failed to provide any clues.
The police investigators noted that Robert Taylor was a respected war veteran and a teetotaler with no history of mental illness. They believed he was sincere and never deviated from his story.
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While Robert Taylor maintained his story until his death in 2007, skeptics have proposed alternative explanations for the incident:
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Medical episode: One theory suggests Robert Taylor may have suffered a temporal lobe epileptic fit, which can cause hallucinations. Taylor had suffered from meningitis years earlier, which some proposed could have been a factor.
Mistaken identity: Other suggestions included a misinterpretation of stored industrial materials or a meteorological phenomenon like ball lightning.
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Chemical exposure: A 2013 report speculated that Robert Taylor might have experienced a mini-stroke and been exposed to chemicals that caused disorientation, with the supposed UFO being a nearby water tower.
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However, despite the lack of a definitive explanation, the Robert Taylor Incident remains a significant case in ufology. The site is now part of a UFO trail, marked by a plaque, attracting UFO enthusiasts and adding to the mystique of the "Falkirk Triangle," a nearby area known for a high number of reported UFO sightings.
December 26, 1985
Whitley Strieber Alien Abduction
Source: Whitley Strieber
Whitley Strieber states that he was abducted from his cabin in upstate New York on the evening of December 26, 1985, by non-human beings. He wrote about his alien abduction experience and related experiences in Communion in 1987, his first non-fiction book.
Although the Communion is perceived generally as an account of alien abduction, Whitley Strieber draws no conclusions about the identity of the alleged abductors. He refers to the beings as "the visitors", a name chosen to be as neutral as possible to entertain the possibility that they are not aliens.
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On the night of December 26, 1985, Whitley Strieber was abruptly awakened by noises and found himself paralyzed, and he was terrified. He saw a small, non-human figure enter his room. He was carried, naked and unable to move, from his bedroom. He had a memory blackout during this time.
Aboard what he perceived as a spacecraft, he was subjected to invasive medical procedures by the "visitors" in a small, round room. He recounted an experience involving a needle and a machine that caused a sexual response, from which semen was extracted. A gray, scaly, triangular object was inserted into his rectum, which Whitley Strieber felt was for taking biological samples. Whitley later describes that this abduction experience was initially masked by a screen memory of seeing a barn owl with large eyes.
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Whitley Strieber and others reported encountering several types of entities. He described small, gray or dun-colored beings with large, dark, slanted, and expressionless eyes. He referred to them as "a fourth human".
Whitley also described the "female" visitor. He felt a strong connection to one taller, thinner being with piercing eyes, whom he perceived as female. She delivered intense, emotional communications and once conveyed the message, "You are our chosen one."
He also spoke about the "little doctors." Whitley's son had a dream of "little doctors" taking him onto the porch, which Whitley Strieber linked to the visitors.
Whitley also talked about his encounters included small, stocky beings in dark blue coveralls and a robot-like figure.
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Following Whitley Strieber's alleged abduction experience, he experienced physical anomalies, including an infection on his finger, similar to a splinter wound, rectal pain with a tiny scab in that area, and extreme fatigue and chills.
Whitley Strieber's wife provided corroboration of some of the strange events, though her conscious memories were also fragmented. Under hypnosis, both she and Whitley Strieber's son recalled more details.
Through hypnosis, Whitley Strieber discovered that his 1985 abductions were part of a lifelong pattern of hidden encounters. He found that many of his "screen memories" throughout life, such as seeing a wolf or being present at a shooting, were likely masking traumatic interactions with the visitors.
Whitley Strieber sought professional help, passed polygraph tests, and engaged with UFO researchers and other alien abductees. He ultimately concluded that the "visitors" were real but remained uncertain of their origin, suggesting they could be aliens, time travelers, or manifestations from another dimension.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
