Abduction

By Kevin Jones

The following is J.Allen Hynek's scale for close encounters with unidentifiable sightings or scenarios:

1. Close encounters of the first kind- sighting of an unidentifiable object
2. Close encounters of the second kind-evidence that some form of U.F.O was in the area
3. Close encounters of the third kind- seeing an "animate being" near a U.F.O sighting
4. Close encounters of the fourth kind- abduction
   

The first alleged alien abduction case took place on the night of October 16, 1957, in São Francisco de Sales Brazil. A local farmer named Antonio Villas Boas was ploughing his fields when he saw a large red star. In a short time he saw the star get closer and closer and closer, seeming less and less like a star. Boas describes that up close it looked like an egg with a red light in the front and a rotating cupola top.

As it began to land in his field Boas began to run. His attempt failed when he was grabbed by a 5 foot-tall human-like creature wearing grey coveralls and a helmet. When he looked into the small blue eyes of the creature it didn't speak but instead made a bizarre bark. Three other similar looking creatures soon appeared and aided the first in dragging Boas into the craft where he was stripped of his clothes and covered in a strange gel. He was then lead into a semicircular room with strange red symbols on the doorway. They took blood from his chin and then threw him into a third room while a strange gas filled the room and made him vomit repeatedly. A half an hour later, a female version of the creatures entered the room. She had a small pointed chin with with large, blue, cat-like eyes and long, platinum blond hair.

The next hour was a blur but he claims that after his amnesia, he found himself on the floor of the room with the woman standing above him holding her stomach. He was given his clothes and then a tour of the ship. He was then escorted off of the ship. Then the ship took off and left just as mysteriously as it had came.

In the weeks that followed, Boas started to suffer from pains throughout his body, nausea, headaches, loss of appetite, ceaselessly burning sensations in the eyes, cutaneous lesions at the slightest of light bruising that looked like small reddish nodules that were harder then his own skin and were painful even when touched by light. Boas did a little research and came across a doctor named Olavo Fontes. Fontes concluded that Boas was suffering from mild radiation sickness. The only problem was that Fontes couldn't possibly imagine how a young farm boy could have been exposed to radiation powerful enough to cause a reaction. Then Boas told him about his abduction.

The case wasn't made public until early February '58. Nowadays, we see people who claim to be abducted by extra-terrestrial beings as either having a screw loose or just wanting attention but there some things in the Boas case that separates it from most of today's reports. The first thing is that Boas never profited from his story, only sharing it with the media on two occasions. Since this abduction happened before people really even conceived the idea of entities from another world taking people and doing unspeakable things, this would later become the most famous invasion case of all time.

On September 9, 1960, Betty and Barney Hill were driving on Route 3 from a trip to Niagara Falls, Canada. It was a dark starry night when Betty Hill noticed a bright light in the sky. A little later the two stopped their car and got out to get a closer look at what they thought was a communication satellite,. They couldn't have been more wrong about what they saw. When they got back into their car and continued to drive, they noticed that the craft started coming closer and was moving in unison with their Chevrolet. The craft then landed on the ground and was so large that they couldn't see anything else out of their windshield. Barney grabbed a pistol that he kept in the glove box and the couple exited the car.

He claimed to have seen 8 or 11 "human-like things" watching them from the craft's windows. Another entity walked out of the craft and stood approximately 80 feet away. It raised its hand and said in perfect English, "Stay where you are and keep looking." Then red lights, on what appeared to be bat-wings, began to telescope out of the sides of the craft and a long mechanical structure came down from the bottom, creeping closer to them like a cat to a mouse. When the craft was about 50 feet away, Barney ran back to Betty, who had stayed by the car, yelling, "They're going to capture us."

When the Hills arrived home the next morning, they new that something was wrong. The first thing they noticed was that the pair of binoculars that they had used to witness the craft was missing its leather strap. They had an unknown desire to examine their bodies but couldn't find anything out of order. They even took two very long showers to "remove any contamination". They both drew pictures of what they had seen and found their renderings almost exactly the same. They then tried to recall the events of the previous night but after hearing a buzzing noise during their get away, all they could remember was getting home and nothing in between. They thought hard but all that they could get was Barney saying, "Oh no. Not again."

The next morning Betty noticed tears on her dress and a pink powder that would later be tested by five different laboratories over the years. Not one gave a conclusive answer to what the powder was or how it had gotten there. A few weeks past and the Hills stayed quiet until they could not hold their silence any longer. They contacted Dr. Benjamin Simon, a Boston Hypnotist. January 4, 1964 till June 6, 1964, the Hills experienced hypnosis in order to reclaim their lost memories. When these sessions finally ended, a new story emerged from the couple.

The strap from the binoculars had been lost when it fell as the couple attempted to make their escape. They made it several miles before Barney felt a strong desire to drive into the woods. When he stopped the car, the humanoids forced the couple onto the ship and took them into two different rooms. The Hills were both undressed and had a number of medical exams performed on them, which included tests on the nervous system, counting of the number of vertebrae they both contained, pulling of teeth and many others. One humanoid even claimed that they were doing this for research on differences between their species and humans. The Hills were then given their clothes back and were escorted back to their car which was now back on the road. When they started to drive Barney said, "Oh no. Not again," to what he thought was the ship returning. It turned out to be the rising sun revealing that five hours had passed. Five hours in which the couple had no recollection of until after hypnosis.

Over the years many more cases of alien abduction have occurred. Some present evidence as proof, others that were done by people in poor mental health and some that were made up by someone for their 15 minutes of fame. One of the most common ideas brought up by sceptics is that these people are suffering from False Memory Syndrome - a condition in which the brain takes a person's dreams or fantasies and places them into the long term memory instead of subconscious, for reasons we are still unsure of. If all these accounts are indeed false, then what is the explanation for, radiation sickness in people who couldn't possibly had been exposed to nearly enough, bizarre objects found in peoples bodies, or those unknown flying objects that man has seen in the sky for as long as we have been able to look up?