Abductees
People who say they have been taken by non-human beings. Filed here as claims, and interesting cultural objects regardless of literal truth. Each carries its own credibility rating.
28 people
- Harold DahlEvidence rated ContestedHarbor patrolman and primary witness of the Maury Island UFO incident (1947), which introduced the 'Men in Black' phenomenon to UFO lore.- Witnessed six doughnut-shaped UFOs hovering over Puget Sound on June 21, 1947 - Reported one craft malfunction and release molten debris onto his salvage boat - Claimed physical evidence was collected from fallen debris - Reported encounter with 'man in black' the morning after the incident - Later admitted the incident was a hoax, then recanted that admission - Maintained until death that Maury Island was a fabrication
- Betty and Barney HillEvidence rated ContestedAn interracial couple from New Hampshire whose 1961 close encounter became the first widely publicized alien abduction case in the United States, defining the abduction narrative for decades to come.- Claimed abduction by humanoid beings on September 19–20, 1961, while driving through the White Mountains of New Hampshire - Described approximately two hours of "missing time" with no conscious memory of events - Under hypnosis, both independently recalled being taken aboard a disc-shaped craft and subjected to medical examinations by small grey-skinned beings - Betty recalled being shown a three-dimensional star map depicting the beings' home system - Physical evidence included torn clothing, broken binocular strap, stopped watches, and anomalous magnetic spots on their car - Betty drew the star map from memory, later tentatively matched to the Zeta Reticuli system by amateur astronomer Marjorie Fish (subsequently retracted)
- Credo Vusamazulu MutwaEvidence rated ContestedZulu sangoma and author who integrated alien abduction accounts into African oral tradition, linking UFO encounters to ancestral spiritual knowledge.- 1958 abduction by *mantindane* (Zulu term for 'the tormentors') in Inyangani Mountains, Rhodesia - Claims of personal captivity inside metallic structures with grey-skinned hybrid beings - Integration of *Chitauri* (reptilian) narratives from ancestral Zulu oral tradition into modern UFO framework - Assertion that shape-shifting reptilians have controlled human bloodlines for millennia
- Charles HicksonEvidence rated DocumentedPascagoula abductee and 40-year public advocate for the legitimacy of the 1973 encounter- Alleged abduction aboard a craft on October 11, 1973, with co-witness Calvin Parker Jr. - Claimed to remain conscious during a medical examination by alien beings - Reported receiving peaceful communications from the aliens regarding Earth's welfare - Documented three additional encounters in 1974
- Antônio Vilas-BoasEvidence rated ContestedBrazilian farmer who reported one of the world's first detailed alien abduction accounts in 1957, predating the Hill case by four years and establishing the template for the modern abduction narrative.- Reported forcible abduction aboard a landed craft on the night of October 15–16, 1957, near São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais — among the earliest abduction accounts on record. - Described sexual intercourse with an attractive female humanoid aboard the craft; the female subsequently pointed skyward, which he interpreted as implying she would gestate and raise any offspring away from Earth. - Experienced post-event physical symptoms — nausea, skin lesions, weakness, eye burning — documented by Dr. Olavo T. Fontes in a multi-hour medical examination and assessed as consistent with radiation exposure. - Recalled the entire experience consciously, without hypnotic regression, from the outset. - Maintained the account without retraction or material embellishment from 1957 until his death in 1991.
- Betty Andreasson LucaEvidence rated DocumentedMost extensively investigated abductee; claims of alien contact, medical procedures, and mysterious 'blue book' documented through lie detection and psychiatric evaluation.- Encountered four-foot tall gray beings with telepathic communication - Received a 'blue book' with glowing pages from aliens; book vanished shortly after - Underwent alien medical procedures including needle extraction from nasal cavity - Spoke in unknown language during hypnotic regression sessions - Multiple family members reported simultaneous experience and corroborated details
- Herbert SchirmerEvidence rated ContestedNebraska police officer who reported a credible UFO abduction with missing time and hypnotically recovered alien contact memories.
- Maureen PuddyEvidence rated DocumentedAustralian abductee and UFO researcher whose 1972 encounters featured vehicle interference, telepathic contact, and official police investigation.- Vehicle power loss and steering control interference during second July 1972 encounter - Telepathic messages received during UFO contact - Official documentation from RAAF and Victoria Police - Attended subsequent UFO-directed meetings with researchers Paul Norman and Judith Magee - Spoke at VUFORS meeting in 1995, decades after initial encounters
- Karla TurnerEvidence rated ContestedAcademic researcher who pioneered the Dark Agenda Hypothesis, arguing aliens use deception and psychological manipulation in abductions.- Aliens conduct multi-layered manipulation programs targeting human biology, consciousness, and reproduction - Non-human intelligence deliberately creates hybrid offspring through forced breeding programs - Entities use screen memories and false narratives to prevent conscious awareness of abduction - Abduction represents a violation of human autonomy and bodily integrity, not benevolent contact - Aliens engaged in a propaganda campaign to make humans perceive them as benevolent
- Linda NapolitanoEvidence rated ContestedNew York housewife at the center of the most heavily witnessed alleged UFO abduction on record — and, decades later, of a bitter public dispute over whether the whole affair was real.- Claimed three extraterrestrial beings entered her 12th-floor Manhattan apartment on the night of November 30, 1989 - Alleged she was floated out of a closed bedroom window, encased in a blue beam of light, and drawn into a hovering reddish-orange craft - Investigator Budd Hopkins claimed more than twenty people, including two security officers guarding an unnamed "world leader," independently witnessed the event near the Brooklyn Bridge - Reported an unexplained bump on her nose she and Hopkins interpreted as a possible alien implant, which reportedly could not be located during a later medical examination - Underwent repeated hypnotic regression sessions with Hopkins over several years to recover additional detail - Maintained the core account consistently across decades of interviews and, since 2024, in litigation against Netflix
- Bill HerrmannEvidence rated ContestedSouth Carolina diesel mechanic and abductee who claimed contact with extraterrestrials from Zeta Reticuli in 1977–1979.- First contact with Zeta Reticulian beings occurred via light beam abduction on March 18, 1978 - Lost three hours of time during abduction experience - Recalled detailed onboard experiences under hypnotic regression - Received physical artifact (metal bar with lead-antimony composition) in April 1979 - Second voluntary contact in May 1979 where aliens gave him the metal bar as a gift - Aliens identified themselves as 50-year observers of Earth concerned about nuclear war - Underwent polygraph tests and psychological evaluation confirming sincerity but not event reality - Experienced government harassment and intimidation following public disclosure
- Piero Fortunato ZanfrettaEvidence rated ContestedItalian security guard who reported 11 abductions by reptilian humanoids between 1978–1981- Claimed 11 abductions between 1978 and 1981 - Reported being taken aboard spacecraft to examination chambers - Described beings as 10+ feet tall with reptilian features - Entities allegedly communicated they were from a distant galaxy and would return to Earth - Experienced consistent missing time and rapid physical displacement
- Myrna HansenEvidence rated ContestedNew Mexico abductee whose 1980 regression testimony became foundational to the Dulce Base mythos.
- Travis WaltonEvidence rated ContestedForestry worker at center of one of UFO history's most famous abduction cases, marked by multiple eyewitnesses and controversial polygraph evidence- Was struck by a blue-green beam of energy from a hovering disc-shaped craft and rendered unconscious before his crew's eyes on 5 November 1975. - Spent five days (by external clocks) aboard a craft where he encountered both small, large-eyed gray-type beings and taller, human-like figures. - All six of the co-workers who witnessed the initial encounter passed polygraph examinations, making this one of the most multiply-witnessed abduction claims on record. - Asserts that the entities' intention was medical — that he was rescued and treated rather than taken against his will.
- Niara IsleyEvidence rated ContestedUSAF radar operator who claims multiple military-facilitated alien abductions including a moon base assignment.- Three-month missing time gap during 1980 Tonopah deployment - Multiple abductions by grey and reptilian entities - Forced labor assignment on moon base facility - Sexual assault by non-human intelligences - Military involvement and oversight in abduction events - Knowledge of advanced aerospace vehicles tracked on radar - Unauthorized medical experiments and drug injections
- Katharina WilsonEvidence rated ContestedUFO abductee and researcher whose 32-year chronicle of 119+ encounters in *The Alien Jigsaw* documents systematic reproductive trauma and contact.- 119 documented abduction episodes over 26 years, beginning at age 6 - Reproductive trauma and alleged implantation by gray aliens - Encounters with deceased relatives during abductions - Time-travel and psychic phenomena during contact - Possible military or government observation/involvement in some encounters
- Calvin Parker Jr.Evidence rated ContestedAmerican abductee and co-witness to the legendary 1973 Pascagoula UFO incident; later authored memoir and produced UFO documentaries.- Abducted aboard a UFO near Pascagoula, Mississippi on October 11, 1973, at age 17 - Reported loss of consciousness upon boarding, limiting direct recall of the alleged examination - Maintained consistent account of the incident for five decades - Co-witnessed the encounter with Charles Hickson, though played a less public role than his companion
- Bettina Rodriguez AguileraEvidence rated ContestedCuban-American diplomat, lawyer, and 2018 Congressional candidate who publicly claimed lifelong alien contact and abduction since age 7- First alien abduction at age 7 by three tall blonde beings - Ongoing telepathic contact with extraterrestrials (5–6 occasions across lifetime) - Africa is the energetic center of the planet - 30,000 nonhuman skulls exist in an underground cave in Malta - Coral Castle, Florida is an ancient pyramid - Ran for U.S. House as Republican candidate (2018) despite publicly known abduction claims
- Stan RomanekEvidence rated ContestedColorado abductee whose extensively promoted extraterrestrial contact claims were undermined by fabricated evidence and legal conviction.- Multiple alien abductions in Colorado Springs area beginning December 2000 - Implantation with extraterrestrial device (evidence subsequently disappeared) - Telepathic communications with non-human entities - Fathering of hybrid offspring - Documentation of alien phenomena via video and photography - Alleged placement in Betty Hill's dress by aliens
- Kirsan IlyumzhinovEvidence rated FringeBuddhist oligarch who governed the Russian republic of Kalmykia for seventeen years and ran world chess for twenty-three, and who says a September 1997 encounter with extraterrestrials in his Moscow apartment taught him that chess itself was a gift from another galaxy.Says that on 17–18 September 1997 he was taken from his Moscow apartment aboard an alien spacecraft by beings in yellow spacesuits, communicated with them telepathically, and was told that chess was an extraterrestrial gift to humanity and that the visitors had come from another galaxy to warn Earth away from self-destruction. Also claims grandmaster Vassily Smyslov privately confided a similar 1974 contact experience.
- Peter KhouryEvidence rated DocumentedAustralian abductee whose 1992 encounter produced the first forensic DNA analysis of alleged alien contact physical evidence.- First documented abduction case with forensic DNA analysis - Hair sample contains genetically anomalous mitochondrial DNA (Asian markers in blonde Caucasian hair) - Passed polygraph examination in 1993 - Described encounters with humanoid entities of Nordic appearance (tall, blonde, black eyes) - Multiple abduction experiences spanning from infancy to adulthood
- Kelly CahillEvidence rated ContestedAustralian abductee and author, documented witness to 1993 Dandenong foothills multi-witness UFO encounter
- Tony RodriguesEvidence rated FringeAmerican SSP experiencer, remote viewing instructor, and author of covert consciousness research programs involving extraterrestrial contact.
- Denise StonerEvidence rated FringeAmerican abductee-turned-investigator who parlayed a family missing-time incident in Colorado into two decades of leadership within MUFON's abduction and experiencer-support programs.Reports a missing-time incident with her husband, teenage daughter, and family dog while driving through South Park Valley, Colorado, on August 13, 1982, which under later regressive hypnosis she says resolved into an abduction memory. Claims more than fifty separate abduction episodes across her lifetime and describes the phenomenon as intergenerational within her family. Case was directly investigated and co-published by Kathleen Marden, niece of Betty and Barney Hill.
- Terry LovelaceEvidence rated ContestedAttorney and former Vermont Assistant Attorney General who publicly disclosed a 1977 UFO abduction experience with documented physical evidence.- Abduction by humanoid entities aboard a black triangular craft in Arkansas (1977) - Invasive medical examination during abduction experience - Discovery of anomalous fingernail-sized implant with wires in leg, found 35 years later - Physical implant analyzed for rare earth elements and isotopic composition inconsistent with terrestrial origin
- Leah HaleyEvidence rated ContestedAmerican CPA and abductee researcher who documented alleged childhood UFO encounters and later reinterpreted them as military mind-control programs.
- Pat EudyEvidence rated ContestedNorth Carolina abductee who reported a three-hour missing-time encounter with a humanoid being in March 1979- Observed an anomalous bright light in the sky near Locust, North Carolina in March 1979 - Experienced approximately three hours of unexplained missing time - Regained consciousness eight miles from the initial encounter location - Reported immediate physical aftereffects: burning eyes, tingling skin, sharp pain in extremities - Under hypnotic regression, recalled being inside a metallic spacecraft with reflective interior - Described interaction with a five-foot humanoid being in a light-colored metallic suit with dark visor - Recalled being restrained and subjected to procedures possibly involving sample extraction - Case was professionally investigated by UFO researcher Henry Morton and psychologist Dr. Richard Pinneau - Chose to make case public to help other abductees feel less isolated
- Dana RedfieldEvidence rated FringeAmerican contactee and author who documented alleged alien abduction experiences through visionary fiction- Recalled detailed alien abduction via hypnotic regression: boarding a spacecraft with a high-domed ceiling, medical examination by grey entities and a praying-mantis-like being - Woke with unexplained physical scarring and a small round implant on back of hand that apparently dissolved into her body - Mormon background influenced interpretation of extraterrestrial contact as aligned with religious mysticism - Approached her experiences with psychological self-awareness, acknowledging possibility of delusion while maintaining confidence in core memories after therapy