Here's a sneak peek at the first of the "op-ed" articles:
Ten
Ways to Tell if You’ve Been Abducted by Aliens
If
you go by sensational stories on UFO websites and claims on UFO-themed cable TV
shows, more people than ever before are claiming to have been abducted by
aliens and taken aboard UFOs. The abductions are taking place around the world,
and involve people of all ages and all walks of life.
And
those are just the people who have reported such experiences. The late UFO
researcher Dr. J. Allen Hynek estimated that for each UFO experience that is
reported there could be as many as ten more that go unreported. Why the
imbalance? Because many people who have had UFO experiences—especially extreme
experienced such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind involving possible
interaction with intelligent beings—are terrified to tell their stories. Some are
afraid of being ridiculed by family, friends, co-workers, and the media, of
course, but others live in genuine fear of reprisal by their abductors.
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| Famed UFO abductee Charles Hickson |
Then
there are those who are convinced for various reasons—chief among them an
inexplicable incident of “missing time”—that they’ve had an abduction
experience, but have no conscious memories of the event.
Are
you one of these amnesiac abductees?
Exotic
tales of alien abduction have been in circulation since the early 1960s, when
New Hampshire couple Barney and Betty Hill claimed to have been taken aboard a
glowing craft and examined by strange men from a distant star system. The Hills
were, in fact, the first UFO witnesses to experience “missing time;” they were
allegedly abducted along a highway while driving home from their honeymoon, and
didn’t realize at first that they had returned home from their trip two hours
later that they should have arrived.
Abduction
cases took on an added element of menace in the 1980s after the publication of
best-selling books like Whitley Strieber’s Communion
and Budd Hopkins’s Missing Time and Intruders, all of which presented haunting
first-hand accounts of abductions by alien beings. But, where the Hills’
alleged abduction took place on a deserted mountain highway, the stories told
by Strieber and Hopkins, and soon studied by Harvard psychiatry professor John
Mack, often involved terrifying home invasions by entities who stole children,
adults, and sometimes whole families from their beds as they slept.
And
the strange stories continue, like an endless succession of X-Files episodes that keep creeping into
our consciousness and forcing us to reexamine what is real. In my experience as
a writer and investigator of all things UFO-related, I have consistently come
across tell-tale indicators of potential interaction with alien entities. Based
on my own research, and on the evidence in some classic alien abduction cases, I
have assembled a list of ten prominent traits present in alien abduction
narratives. If any of these apply to you or someone you know, you might have
been one of those unique souls to have been abducted by aliens.
1. 1) You have had more than one UFO
sighting in your life
A
great many UFO witnesses have had more than one such experience in their lives,
and my five years of investigating UFO reports leads me to believe that those
who have had multiple UFO sightings are at greater risk of being abducted. But,
how do we account for this? Is it a case of the witness always watching the
skies and waiting for them to come back, or of the aliens keeping watch on the
“subject”?
2. 2) One or both of your parents have had
abduction experiences
Alien
abduction researcher and author David M. Jacobs has researched over 1,000 abduction
incidents, by his count, and has found the phenomenon to be intergenerational.
“The children of abductees often themselves report being abductees, as do their
children,” Jacobs wrote in his 2015 book Walking
Among Us. What’s more, Jacobs finds, there are typically at least one
grandparent and at least one great-grandparent in the same families with the
same abduction histories. This familial aspect of the phenomenon involves
speculation that aliens regularly mate with us earthlings and give birth to
hybrids, who live among us as regular humans.
That's two. The other eight will be revealed in time...
