Why Aren’t Alien Abductions Taken Seriously?

Article by Pritha Paul                                                February 3, 2021                                                    (meaww.com)

• The existence of extraterrestrial beings is considered a deeply guarded government secret. As a result, the debate has raged about whether or not UFOs are real, and whether people have truly experienced alien abductions as many claim. One source estimates that 3.7 million people in the U.S. alone have experienced an alien abduction.

• A significant number of people stay in constant fear of aliens visiting their bedroom at night, being taken aboard a spaceship and subjected to medical experimentation including the removal of eggs or sperm. Abductees have told tales about sexually producing hybrid offspring with their alien abductor, and receiving important information about the fate of the Earth.

• One of the most famous alien abduction cases occurred on a September night in 1961. Betty and Barney Hill were driving down a winding country road in New Hampshire’s White Mountains when they noticed a strange light that seemed to be following them. When they finally got home at dawn, they did not feel clean and their watches had stopped working. Barney’s shoes were strangely scuffed and Betty’s dress was ripped. And they could not recall two hours of their drive.

• With the aid of a psychiatrist, the Hills were able to regain flashes of their memory. According to whatever they could remember, Gray beings with large eyes had walked them into a metallic disc where the beings examined the couple and erased their memories. Their account set a precedent for how alien abductees would be scrutinized. Betty and Barney Hill would be accused of being liars, fantasists, crazy or simply sleep-deprived people. Not many in the media seem to take extraterrestrial abductions seriously.

• In Episode 6 of the Discovery+ series ‘UFO Witness’, Ben Hansen notes that while people who claim to have experienced such abductions have no history of mental instability, they often have a proclivity for fantasy. Other psychological explanations include dissociation – where mental processes detach from reality, often in response to extreme or stressful life events. Childhood trauma and hypnotic suggestibility can play a part in this.

• Sleep Paralysis and temporal lobe sensitivity could also explain claims of alien abduction, when the mind is awake but the body is unable to move, just as a person passes between stages of sleep and waking. This rare condition is often accompanies by a feeling of fear or dread and the sense of another presence. Also common are a feeling of pressure on the chest, difficulty breathing and the feeling of being held or restricted to a lying position. When Michael Shermer collapsed from sleep deprivation following an 83-hour bike race, Shermer perceived medical personnel as aliens from the 1960s television series ‘The Invaders.’

While the existence of extraterrestrial beings has been considered to be a deeply guarded government secret, an age-old debate has raged

over the same not just because of UFOs being spotted in the sky, but also due to accounts of people experiencing alien abductions. However, non-believers have often clubbed such people with the recent rise of the anti-vaccination movement and the prominence of the Flat Earth movement – diminishing the seriousness of such accounts.

Nevertheless, a significant number of people stay in constant fear of aliens visiting their bedroom at night, being abducted, taken aboard a spaceship, and being subjected to medical experimentation including the removal of eggs or sperm. There have been abductees who have also told tales about forming sexual relationships with their alien abductors and subsequently producing hybrid offsprings with their same as well as having received important information about the fate of the Earth.

Although the exact tally of such accounts varies, they have been put at over 3.7 million in the United States alone to “at least several thousand worldwide.” The idea that the US government might be hiding aliens in a secret military base led to the mission, “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us” on September 20, 2019. Although more than 2 million people responded “going” and 1.5 million “interested” on the event’s page on Facebook, only about 150 people were reported to have shown up at the entrance to Area 51, with none succeeding in entering the site.

First alien abduction claim

On a September night in 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were driving down the empty winding country road in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. They had not seen a car for miles and a strange light seemed to be following them. When they finally got home to Portsmouth at dawn, they did not feel clean and their watches stopped working. Also, Barney’s shoes were strangely scuffed and Betty’s dress was ripped. There was also a loss of time and memory. They could not recall two hours from their drive.

With the aid of a psychiatrist, they were able to regain flashes of their memory. According to whatever they could remember, gray beings with large eyes had walked them into a metallic disc. After entering the disc, the beings examined the couple and erased their memories. Their account not only started an Air Force inquiry, part of the secretive initiative Project Blue Book that investigated UFO sightings across the nation. It also set the precedent for how alien abduction stories got told from then on.

The husband and wife became forever embroiled in the debate of whether they were liars, fantasists, crazy or simply sleep-deprived people who relied heavily on their scrambled memories. Despite the widespread interest in seeking proof of the alien life form, not many seem to take extraterrestrial abductions seriously. In Episode 6 of Discovery+ series ‘UFO Witness,’ Ben Hansen sets out to discover exactly why these claims are swept under the rug.

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