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Alien Abductions: Military Manipulation?

Pretty much everyone, I’m sure, who is acquainted with conspiracy theories will also be aware of at least some of the controversies pertaining to accounts of so-called alien abduction. And, for the most part at least, it all began on the night of September 19, 1961. On that night, Betty and Barney Hill, a married couple from New Hampshire, were driving home from Canada when they were subjected to a terrifying experience. Until their arrival home, there was little to indicate that anything untoward had happened during the course of the journey, however.

After some months of unexplained emotional distress, the couple could take no more, and they sought assistance from Benjamin Simon, a Boston-based psychiatrist and neurologist. Subjected to rigorous time-regression hypnosis, both Betty and Barney recalled what had taken place during that missing two hours. Astonishingly, they provided very close account of encounters with seemingly alien beings who had taken the pair on-board some form of craft, and who had subjected them to a variety of distressing physical examinations.

Since that day, hundreds – perhaps even thousands – of similar accounts have surfaced throughout the world. A turning point came in 1981 with the publication of the late Budd Hopkins’ book Missing Time. Detailing a number of such accounts, Hopkins put forward a theory suggesting that at least one extraterrestrial species was involved in the routine abduction of human beings. Hopkins’ later work revealed a potentially far more sinister link to the abductions: namely, that the aliens were kidnapping people as part of some genetic operation, the goal of which was the production of a half-alien, half-human hybrid race.

There is, however, another aspect to the alien abduction mystery – one that is, in some ways, even more controversial than the extraterrestrial hypothesis. There are those researchers and eye-witnesses (or perhaps “victims” would be a much better term) who believe that alien abductions have nothing to do with the activities of real-life extraterrestrials, but are, in reality, the result of clandestine work undertaken by the U.S. military.

So the theory goes, the military uses the alien abduction motif as a carefully-camouflaged cover to allow for the continued testing of new technologies, such as mind-altering and mind-controlling drugs, and sophisticated hypnotic techniques on unwitting and innocent citizens.

An example of a case of alleged alien abduction that appears to have been part of a sophisticated mind-control operation is described by Alison, a now-forty-year-old woman from Arizona, who lives on a ranch not too far from the town of Sedona. From the age of twenty-seven to thirty-one, Alison was subjected to at least five kidnappings that bore all the hallmarks of the classic alien abduction scenario.

On each occasion, she was in her living-room, either reading or watching TV, when her two pet dogs – Lucy and Summer – began to act in a distressed fashion – pacing around the room and whimpering. At that point, things always became a blur, and Alison would later find herself in a different part of the house with several hours of time having passed. She would always awake feel groggy, and with a pounding headache and dry mouth.

For days after the weird experiences, she would dream of the moment when things would begin to go awry – which always resulted in a complete loss of electricity inside the house, a deep humming noise emanating from outside the large living-room window, and powerful and intensely bright lights enveloping the room.

In her semi-conscious state, Alison would see small shadowy figures scuttling around the room. They would then carry her outside onto a small craft where she was subjected to a gynecological examination and some form of nasal probing. She would then be returned to another part of the house and the aliens would leave. It was only after the aliens had departed that the intense humming noise would cease.

On what Alison believes to have been the fifth abduction, however, the mysterious humming sound abruptly came to a sudden halt, only a few seconds after her cosmic visitors had entered the room. At that point, Alison recalled – significantly, not in a later dream on this occasion but in real time – she began to slowly regain her senses. And, very surprisingly, so did the aliens. In their place was not a group of frail-looking bald-headed, black-eyed “Grays,” but a number of large and burly men wearing what looked like suspiciously like black military fatigues.

According to Alison, one of the men screamed into a small microphone something like: “What’s happened?” The men then suddenly started to back away slowly. And, as Alison began to regain her senses, one of them held his hand up “as if to say ‘stay where you are.’” Alison did as she was told, that is until the man was out of sight and out of the house.

Alison then made her still-slightly-groggy way to the living-room window – just in time to see the group men jump climb aboard not a state-of-the-art extra-terrestrial spacecraft, but instead a very terrestrial-looking black helicopter. At a height of several hundred feet, a powerful lamp was suddenly turned on by someone aboard the helicopter that lit up the dark sky around her property.

Today, Alison has cast aside her ufological beliefs, and firmly believes that as a result of a combination of subliminal hypnosis, mind-altering technologies, and perhaps even non-lethal weaponry designed to temporary disable her nervous system and bodily movement, she was ingeniously made to think she was an alien abductee. But that in reality, she was merely the guinea-pig for the testing of sophisticated weaponry designed to affect and manipulate both mind and body.

There’s no doubt that an alien abduction phenomenon exists. But, the big question is: does it originate up there, down here, or – incredibly – is it a combination of both…?

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  • Jeff N.

    If the account she told is true, the fact that her pets reacted scared before her ‘abductions’ suggests this isn’t a series of hallucinations. The animals could be sensing a medical condition she doesn’t realize she has, but it seems more likely it is an encounter with someone or something. 

    Whether our government is plucking it’s citizens out of their homes for experimentation in the guise of an alien race is debatable, but not the fact that they have done so before. Many cases have been revealed of the U.S. government experimenting on it’s people and I’m sure many more will come to light.

  • Nick_redfern

    Jeff
    I did wonder about that re the dogs’ reaction – and how some dogs seem to anticipate the onset of certain things like epileptic attacks etc. We can’t rule such things out, but her experience – when it was related to me – came across like she was describing a real event, rather than some brain-borne event caused by a medical condition. But, I do think such conditions may sometimes explain a few things.

    For example, as I note in my The Real Men in Black book, somne of Albert Bender’s symptoms during his MIB experiences mirrored Jacksonian Epilepsy.

  • Rosebuddd

    my thinking is that the 5th and final encounter could have been a deliberate action by the US military to obfuscate the actual earlier alien encounters.  it seems to me that it is a pretty common military tactic…to confuse the situation and cast doubt.

  • Nick_redfern

    On the abduction issue, I saw this morning that Charles Hickson (Pascagoula case) has just died, at 80.

  • http://twitter.com/humpjones Humpasaur Jones

    That was definitely the case in France — Franck Fontaine is a fascinating study in the higher Synthesis.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SQROOWZBPDYOKRHWK2M6JDZELE TruthRevealed

    This reminds me of an unofficially published book, i think called ‘Dreamland’, where the writer is basically claiming the exact same thing, except his adventures occurred at a military base, or ‘Dreamland’. When you really think about some of the ‘abductee’s’ experiences, it often has a feel of a dream. I don’t believe in aliens anyway, I think the whole thing is a deception. I do believe we’ve had anti-grav technology since the 50′s, and there is certainly human experiments that have occurred since then.

  • Glorfindel

    I have never bought into the whole alien abduction phenomena as something ‘real’ – in the sense that sentient beings from elsewhere in the universe are abducting and experimenting on humans. 

    If there really are aliens who have advanced technologies wouldn’t it be simpler to take some somatic cells and clone and entire human being for their benign or nefarious activity, without leaving memories in their victims – their ‘mind wiping’ technologies aren’t all that good since hypnosis seemingly is able to retrieve these ‘lost’ memories.

    Also it could just be another type of phenomena inside of the human mind that we don’t understand, not to long ago, when human imagination hadn’t chanced upon the idea of other creatures living elsewhere in the universe, people were taken by fairies, angels, djinn and all manner of other creatures who were decidedly not from the stars but from here – albeit from another plane of existence.

    I think that there is a more complex idea behind the whole alien-ufo-abduction phenomena then we realise and we are just using contemporary language to describe a phenomena that has been with us since we learned to think.

  • http://youtube.com/drkenhildebrandt Ken Hildebrandt

    Thanks for posting about Mr. Hickson’s death. He was a real likable guy, who held his own on the Dick Cavett Show even against smart-alek Carl Sagan. Hickson and Parker were secretly tape recorded shorty after the abduction, and these two men were clearly scared. Hickson, who was conscious through the ordeal, thought of the creatures as machines, not biological entities, putting a major damper on the limitation of space travel due to distances. I mean, our primitive society has already sent a probe into space. There was more balanced coverage on this topic back in 1973 than there is now it seems. These two passed polygraphs, and the person administering the tests reportedly did the test over and over with Charlie, finally coming to the point where he stated, “I’m afraid this son’bitch is tellin’ the truth!” There’s an excellent out of print book which can still be acquired via e-bay or Amazon entitled, BEYOND EARTH: MAN’S CONTACT WITH UFOs, by Ralph Blum with Judy Blum, that mostly focuses on the Pascagoula, Mississippi events and aftermath. RIP, Charles Hickson.

  • http://www.ufotrail.blogspot.com Jack Brewer

    Thanks for the article. While there are a number of possible explanations for reports of alien abduction, including, of course, some type of legitimately anomalous experience, I think covert research projects deserve their fair share of reasonable attention. 

  • Anonymous

    John Alexander has a no-nonsense rebuttal to MILABS in “UFOs: Myths,
    Conspiracies, and Realities.” Some of his arguments are familiar from
    conspiracy discussions, but he’s more detailed and convincing when
    discussing the severe logistical impracticalities of the claims when compared to the meagre benefits..

  • QuickandPainful

    Trust me it’s real, I wasn’t sleeping nor having a lucid dream and throughout my life have maintained what some friends have called a freakish memory. I can’t speak of others and I do dismiss many stories as fantasy being what I saw were living breathing creatures that even as a 10 year old boy were failable and in no way supernatural beings. Maybe like our best scientists they like to study their specimens in the wild.

  • http://twitter.com/Aquilagrande Knut Holt

    Here is an alternative explanation of alien abduction memories. The explanation takes the view that much of the experience is phyically real, but others than aliens are the perpetrators: This explanation can be combined with the military manipulation theory too,.

    http://www.panteraconsulting.com/salg2m.htm

  • http://twitter.com/Aquilagrande Knut Holt

    Yes, I think authorities in all countries manipulate people, and mostly children and teens this way. It is often done in medical institutions, schools kindergartens, etc. Also many strange child sexual abuse histories have this explanation,