Alien Abduction Theories: A Scientific Search for Evidence

People who claim to have been abducted by aliens typically describe their abductors as little, gray humanoids with oversize heads, slanted eyes, two holes for a nose and a slit for a mouth. David Wall / Getty Images

Alien abduction stories have spread widely over the last hundred years, though a large proportion did not truly hit their stride until the 1961 Barney and Betty Hill abduction. After the Hill abduction, investigators collected more and more accounts, usually, though not always, elicited through hypnosis.

Some abductees report their abductions as warm, pleasant experiences with intense psychic contact. Other abductees have reported that aliens conducted scientific experiments or operations on their unwilling patients. How can these vastly different experiences be explained?

Contents

1. Long-term Tracking in Alien Abduction Stories
2. The Hypnosis Theory
3. Investigating Abduction Claims
4. Trauma Responses and Alien Abductions

In most cases, witnesses told of seeing a UFO (now called UAPs) or even humanoid beings, then experienced either an altered state of consciousness or amnesia for a period of anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours. Some witnesses claimed repeated experiences that started when they were children.

The clear implication was that UFO beings (typically described in these instances as little, gray humanoids with oversize heads, slanted eyes, two holes for a nose and a slit for a mouth) had a long-term interest in certain human beings. Some abductees even reported that the abductors had put small implants — usually said to be tiny balls inserted through the nose and (apparently) into the brain via a long needle — inside their bodies.

In time, new and even more unsettling dimensions to the abduction experience came to light. Some female abductees reported sexual experiences followed by pregnancies that would be terminated in a follow-up abduction some months later. During later abductions, the UFO entities would show the women strange-looking children, apparently human-alien hybrids, whom they would sense were their own.

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