The universe is vast and mysterious, which makes it hard to believe that Earth is the only planet containing living creatures. The following stories relate the experiences of people who either claim they saw an unidentified flying object (UFO) or believe that they were abducted by aliens.
Here at Factinate, we don’t claim these testimonies should be believed as fact. This article captures human reporting of alien encounters, and the fact is that people did make these freaky reports. That said, to err is human, and it’s also pretty darn human to exaggerate. With that in mind, the validity of these reports should be viewed with a degree of skepticism.
Nonetheless, even NASA believes in extraterrestrial life: chief NASA scientist Ellen Stofan argues that humans will find “strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade.”
10. Budd Hopkins
In 1964, Budd Hopkins believed he saw a UFO in Cape Cod. After he arrived home to New York City, he began to seek out other people who had also claimed to see UFOs. Like Tony Dodds, Hopkins began interviewing them, which included putting them under hypnosis to extract memories. He published several books about these stories and often called the “father of the abduction movement.”
9. The Gundiah-Mackay Abduction
In 2001, Petra Heller was staying over at her friend Amy Rylance’s house in a Gundiah property near Tiaro, Australia. When she got up in the middle of the night, Heller witnessed Rylance being carried away in a beam of light through a window. Whatever really happened, there was solid evidence of a disturbance: the window was broken, the curtain were torn, and a bush outside the window was burned at the edges. Three hours later, Amy was found 790 kilometers (about 500 miles) away in Mackay, Australia. She could remember little of the intervening hours, except being in a strange rectangular room.
8. The Kecksburg UFO Incident
In 1965, an unidentified object fell from the sky and landed in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. Witnesses say that it was shaped like an acorn and had strange hieroglyphs written on the side. The police arrived, NASA showed up to take the object away, and the authorities told the public that it was a meteor. One theory argues that the object was Kosmos 96, a Soviet satellite.
This is a replica !
7. Claude Vorilhon AKA “Raël”
Claude Vorilhon was originally a sports-car journalist before he was visited by alien life in 1973. Vorilhon encountered the alien while visiting a volcanic crater in France. The alien descended from a spaceship and charged him with a message to give to all humanity. After the incident, Vorilhon changed his name to “Raël” and founded the Raëlian Movement in order to disseminate the ideology of the Elohim, or “those who came from the sky.”
6. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
A politician named Kirsan Ilyumzhinov claimed that aliens abducted him one night while he was standing on the balcony of his apartment. He claimed that the aliens arrived in a “semi-transparent half tube” and looked like human beings wearing yellow spacesuits. The politician said he was able to communicate with these beings very easily, “on a level of the exchange of the ideas.”
Yes , I have seen them !
In 1957, a farmer in Brazil named Antonio Vilas Boas was out in the field at night avoiding the soaring Brazilian temperatures. He claims to have seen a red star in the sky that got closer and closer, until he realized it was a spaceship. He claims to have had sex with a female alien who was tasked with bearing hybrid children. After the abduction, Vilas Boas suffered from nausea, headaches, and multiple lesions on his body. A doctor later diagnosed him with radiation poisoning, but Vilas Boas stuck to his own abduction story for the rest of his life.
4. Hilary Porter
Hilary Porter is a former employee of the Ministry of Defense in Wales. She claimed to have been abducted by aliens multiple times in her life, starting at 5 years old. She describes the aliens as being reptilian and absolutely horrifying. She claims that the aliens wanted people with Celtic DNA, because it is their preferred hybrid mix.
3. Maddy Pattillo
Ever since she was a young girl, little Maddy Pattillo would ask her mom, Nikki, if they could go visit Maddy’s “home in the sky.” According to her mother Nikki, Maddy actually began to show strange abilities as she got older, and even displayed telepathic and psychic powers. Nikki Pattillo is convinced that her daughter is the product of some sort of alien hybrid experiment that she must not remember, she calls her daughter a “Star Child.” Critics of Nikki–and the many others who claim to be Star Children (also referred to as Indigo Children by the New Age Movement), have pointed out that no child has ever been able to provide any evidence of supernatural abilities, and that the supporting evidence provided by believers often points to generalized personality traits, such as having a strong capacity for empathy.
Research psychologist Russell Barkley said that the New Age movement has never produced empirical evidence of the existence of indigo children. He believes the traits most commonly attributed to them are closely aligned with the Forer effect: the tendencies for human beings to see generalized, broad descriptions of (often positive) personality traits as specifically descriptive of themselves.
2. Betty and Barney Hill
In 1961, married couple Betty and Barney Hill were driving home to the United States from Canada on Route 3. It was the middle of the night, and no other cars were on the road. Betty noticed a bright, speeding light in the sky. When the light grew bigger and began to move erratically, the couple pulled their car over.
Betty looked through binoculars and saw what she thought was a UFO. Barney initially though it was an airplane before changing his mind when the craft suddenly began to descend. The Hills got back in the car but the object sped towards and then hovered over their car. Barney got out of the vehicle to get a closer look. He claimed the UFO looked like a huge, silent pancake and that there were eight to eleven humanoid creatures peering through the flying saucer’s windows.
The Hills’ memories are hazy after this point and both Betty and Barney are missing large chunks of time. Betty later dreamt of aliens with abnormally large eyes, small noses, and no hair on their heads. Betty also remembered the aliens showing her a star map she would later recreate, which explained where they came from. In 1968, amateur astronomer Marjorie Fish examined Betty’s star map and identified it as the “Zeta Reticuli” double star system, a real system in the universe.
1. Travis Walton
Possibly one of the most detailed alien abduction stories comes from Travis Walton. In 1975, he was working as a logger out in the woods of Arizona with six of his co-workers. Suddenly, a UFO started to hover over them. Walton walked towards the object to get a closer look while his co-workers piled in a truck and yelled at him to stay back. According to the testimony of Walton’s co-workers, the men witnessed a beam of light hitting Walton before his body went limp. His body then floated up into the aircraft. The co-workers drove off, afraid that they would be taken too.
Walton explained that meanwhile, inside the spacecraft, three bald aliens conducted experiments on him in a hospital-like room. Walton’s friends didn’t know what to do. Once they calmed down, they turned the truck back around to look for Walton. They also went to the police to report him as a missing person. Of course, no one believed their story about aliens. Travis never did go home, and the police began to suspect that these men had murdered him.
Five days later, Travis Walton was found by the side of a highway, where he says the aliens dropped him off. All of the men working that day were given a polygraph test by the police, and so was Travis. All of them have passed their test every single time. Travis welcomes new and improved lie detector tests every year, and has never wavered from the details of his story.
According to polygraph experts, the odds of these seven men all lying about their experience and somehow manipulating the test results of the are a million to one.
