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Alien abductions cases are more widespread than many people realize. Many of the claims are clearly fraudulent, but some stick out as being more credible. According to some surveys, as many as 5% of the population might have been abducted during their life. More conservative estimates say that close to 2000 people have been successfully abducted by extraterrestrials - or at least claim to have been.
Why would extraterrestrials bother to abduct humans?
Anyone who has contemplated the chances of possible alien abductions has probably asked themselves why they would bother? After all, any species that could successfully achieve intergalactic travel would be far more advanced than we are. We would seem primitive in comparison.
I guess the most obvious answer would be to study us. We're more advanced than the Great White Shark who inhabits the oceans of this world, yet very little is known about them. Scientists tag and study the Great White and presumably, an extra terrestrial race might be as fascinated by us as we are of the 'lesser' species on our planet.
Some claim that abductees show peculiar traits that the alien visitors wish to study further or that they are implanting information subconsciously that the visitors can activate at a later date.
Also, some Ufologists believe that extraterrestrials have been around a very long time and that they've helped guide and shape our history - perhaps religiously, culturally and technologically.
Abduction procedure
Many of the stories differ in varying degrees, but most are eerily similar in nature. Many abductees report that they felt a strong urge to be in a specific place at a specific time. Some report higher anxiety and a sense of foreboding even though nothing has happened yet to make them feel this way.
In many cases, abductees report strange lights and sometimes a mist that accompanies it. They are then transported(or levitated sometimes through solid objects) to the awaiting ship.
In most abduction cases, abductees report being experimented on. The extra terrestrials seem to be most interested in the human reproductive system, the brain or cranium, the nervous system, our skin and our emotional responses. Some abductees report being subjected to tests after the medical procedures, such as being forced to watch images on a screen or images that are somehow projected directly into the abductees mind.
After the tests are completed, abductees are usually returned to the same spot that they originally were abducted from. Sometimes (most times, really) abductees have no immediate knowledge of what has happened to them and realize that they're missing time after checking a time piece.
There are several cases of children who have reported being abducted. Some say they have been abducted twice - once when they were between the ages of 5 and 10 and then later, usually when they're reaching puberty. This has led some UFO buffs to conclude that the main focus of abductions is indeed to study our reproductive process.
After the abduction
Most abductees say they suffer from various things. Some say they suffer from post traumatic stress disorder, while others say they experience headaches and bad dreams where they remember more and more of their experiences while aboard the space craft.
Quite a few have undergone hypnosis as a form of therapy and to presumably try and remember the abduction events.
Here is a very interesting video I found. It's a radio broadcast of an interview of an alleged abductee.
Broadcast Date: Oct. 8, 1986
"Charlotte Brown" claims to have been abducted twice. Once when she was almost nine and again when she was 15. She tells CBC's Peter Gzowski how four-foot-six-inch extraterrestrials inserted a needle-like probe into her abdomen and a burr-shaped tracking device up her nostril. Charlotte Brown is not her real name. It all sounds totally off the wall admits Budd Hopkins, a well-known expert on alien abductions.
But having collected over 120 abduction cases, Hopkins says Charlotte's story follows a common and credible pattern. Physicist Stanton Friedman, one the world's leading ufologists, supports Hopkins and says experiences like Charlotte's are much more frequent than people may think. Gzowski sounds unconvinced.
Skeptics
Of course, there are a lot of skeptics that doubt alien abduction stories. They say that hypnosis is not a reliable method of recovering lost memories and that abductees could be recalling false memories. They also say that UFO culture may have an influence on the consistency between the different reports. Many skeptics try and are sometimes wildly successful in poking holes in an abductees story.
Dr. David Jacobs explains what his decades of research have uncovered about alien abductions and what the goal may be.
. "Alien Planet " is a cosmic expedition along side Stephen Hawking, Michio Kaku, Jack Horner, Craig Venter, and George Lucas...
Whether you believe in alien abductions, life on other planets is pretty much a statistical certainty. The real question is whether they are close enough to abduct anything or whether we're just too far away. Until the answer is known for sure, alien abduction theories and mans quest to find intelligent life out there in the cosmos will continue.
