Abduction
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137 records tagged theme
Incidents
26 incidents
Betty and Barney Hill AbductionEvidence rated ContestedAn interracial couple returning from a Canadian vacation reported a close encounter on a deserted New Hampshire highway that produced two hours of missing time — and, under hypnosis eighteen months later, a detailed account of medical examination aboard a craft that became the template for all subsequent alien-abduction narratives.Travis Walton AbductionEvidence rated ContestedOn November 5, 1975, a seven-man logging crew in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest witnessed a luminous disc; Travis Walton approached the craft, was knocked down by a beam of light, and vanished for five days before reappearing disoriented near Heber, Arizona, claiming to have been taken aboard the craft by small humanoid beings.Pascagoula AbductionEvidence rated ContestedTwo shipyard workers fishing on the Pascagoula River claimed they were paralyzed and taken aboard a glowing oval craft by robotic creatures, in one of the most investigated abduction cases in UFO history.Allagash Wilderness AbductionsEvidence rated ContestedFour young men on a canoe trip in Maine's remote Allagash Wilderness reported UFO encounter and missing time; twelve years later underwent hypnotic regression revealing detailed abduction memories, though one witness recanted in 2016.Brooklyn Bridge AbductionEvidence rated ContestedManhattan resident Linda Napolitano alleges being abducted from her 12th-floor apartment by three gray aliens via blue light beam; claimed to have been witnessed by 23+ people including NYPD officers and a UN diplomat.Buff Ledge UFO AbductionEvidence rated ContestedTwo teenage camp workers reported a close encounter with a saucer-shaped craft, occupant contact, and missing time over Lake Champlain in Vermont.Todmorden UFO IncidentEvidence rated DocumentedBritish police constable Alan Godfrey reports UFO encounter with missing time, physical evidence, and hypnotic regression recall of humanoid beings.Travis Walton AbductionEvidence rated ContestedA logging crew's account of a 22-year-old worker abducted by a glowing disc-shaped craft for five days in Arizona's White Mountains, featuring multiple witness testimony but contested polygraph evidence.Tujunga Canyon AbductionEvidence rated ContestedOne of the earliest documented modern UFO abduction cases: two women reported bright light, abduction by slender beings, and medical examination aboard a craft.Piero Zanfretta AbductionsEvidence rated ContestedItalian security guard Piero Zanfretta reported eleven UFO abductions between 1978 and 1981, marked by physical traces, official investigation, and controversial hypnotic regression testimony.Todmorden UFO IncidentEvidence rated ContestedA West Yorkshire police constable reported encountering a rotating diamond-shaped UFO, missing 25–30 minutes of time, and under hypnotic regression claimed abduction by small humanoid beings.Pascagoula AbductionEvidence rated ContestedTwo Mississippi fishermen claim they were taken aboard a UFO and medically examined by alien beings on the Pascagoula River in what became one of the most credible and widely-reported abduction cases of the early 1970s.Herbert Schirmer Encounter, Ashland, Nebraska (1967)Evidence rated ContestedA Nebraska police officer reported a close-range craft sighting on patrol in December 1967; later hypnotic-regression sessions produced claims of paralysis, small humanoids and an abduction aboard a craft.Emilcin Abduction (1978)Evidence rated ContestedIn May 1978 Polish farmer Jan Wolski reported being taken aboard a bus-sized craft by two green-faced humanoids near the village of Emilcin, the best-known UFO story in Poland.Cergy-Pontoise Disappearance (1979)Evidence rated DebunkedA 19-year-old Frenchman claimed a glowing UFO stopped his car and took him for about a week; French investigators, including the national space agency's UFO unit, concluded the account was fabricated, and one of the two friends later admitted it was invented.Villas-Boas Abduction (Brazil, 1957)Evidence rated ContestedA Brazilian farmer, Antônio Villas-Boas, claimed that a red craft landed while he was ploughing at night and that he was taken aboard and sexually involved with a humanoid, in what became one of the earliest widely publicized abduction narratives.Stanford, Kentucky Abduction (1976)Evidence rated ContestedThree women reported a close encounter with a disc-shaped object and a period of missing time on a rural Kentucky road, then recalled a medical-style examination under hypnosis; the case is among the best-known early 1970s-era abduction reports in the US.Sheffield, Massachusetts Mass Sighting (1969)Evidence rated FringeOn the evening of 1 September 1969, a family driving near Sheffield's covered bridge reported a glowing object and a period of missing time, the start of a claimed regional sighting wave in the Berkshires that the community later formally recognized as a UFO case.Carl Higdon Abduction (1974)Evidence rated ContestedA Wyoming oil-rig foreman reported a missed-time humanoid encounter during an elk hunt in October 1974, a case investigated by psychologist R. Leo Sprinkle through regressive hypnosis and still debated for its single-witness physical evidence.The Montauk Project (Camp Hero, 1983)Evidence rated FringeA 1992 self-published book by Preston Nichols and Peter Moon describes secret time-travel, mind-control and alien experiments under the decommissioned Camp Hero radar station in Montauk, New York, allegedly culminating in an August 1983 event; the story has no independent evidence and is generally treated as fiction.Monte Musinè Hikers Encounter (1978)Evidence rated ContestedTwo young hikers on Monte Musinè reportedly saw a light; one vanished toward it and was later found in shock with a burn, claiming beings had lifted him aboard an oblong craft.Zanfretta Abduction Case (Torriglia, 1978)Evidence rated ContestedA 26-year-old night watchman in the Genoese hills reported a humanoid encounter on 6-7 December 1978, then claimed to have been abducted eleven times through 1981 in a case that became Italy's most publicised abduction story.Todmorden (Alan Godfrey) UFO Abduction, 1980Evidence rated ContestedIn the early hours of 28 November 1980, West Yorkshire police constable Alan Godfrey reported a glowing object across a Todmorden road, lost several minutes of time, and later claimed under hypnosis to have been taken aboard a craft. It is one of the UK's most cited close-encounter cases.A70 incident (1992)Evidence rated ContestedTwo Scottish men reported a disc-shaped object hovering over the A70 in August 1992, lost about two hours, and later under hypnosis described being taken aboard and examined. The MoD opened a file on it.Kelly Cahill abduction (Dandenong Ranges, 1993)Evidence rated ContestedA Victorian woman's 1993 claim that she and her husband saw a hovering craft and were later abducted by tall beings became one of Australia's best-known abduction cases, supported by a few corroborating witnesses and disputed by skeptics.Dionisio Llanca Abduction (1973)Evidence rated ContestedA 25-year-old truck driver, Dionisio Llanca, reported a light, three beings and lost time after stopping to change a tire on a highway south of Bahía Blanca in October 1973; his later hypnosis-assisted recollections made it one of Argentina's best-known abduction claims.
Personalities
111 people
Dr. Deirdre BarrettEvidence rated DocumentedHarvard psychologist applying dream analysis and hypnosis methodology to UFO abduction narratives and altered consciousness studies.Philip J. KlassEvidence rated DocumentedAviation journalist and electrical engineer who spent four decades as America's foremost UFO skeptic, systematically investigating hundreds of cases and founding CSICOP's UFO subcommittee.Elaine DouglassEvidence rated DocumentedMIT-educated military policy analyst who bridged DoD expertise with grassroots UFO secrecy activism and abduction research.Kenneth RingEvidence rated DocumentedPsychology professor who pioneered academic research linking near-death experiences with UFO encounters and proposed the 'encounter-prone personality' theory.Joshua CutchinEvidence rated DocumentedParanormal researcher and author who explores the convergence of UFO phenomena, folklore, mythology, and faerie contact.Walter N. WebbEvidence rated DocumentedAstronomer and pioneering UFO investigator who documented the Betty and Barney Hill abduction and championed rigorous case methodology for four decades.Stuart AppelleEvidence rated DocumentedExperimental psychologist who spent two decades critically evaluating alien-abduction research and argued that conventional explanations were insufficient.Maureen PuddyEvidence rated DocumentedAustralian abductee and UFO researcher whose 1972 encounters featured vehicle interference, telepathic contact, and official police investigation.Martin CannonEvidence rated ContestedFortean writer whose 1989 essay "The Controllers" proposed that alien abduction reports may be an artifact of covert government mind-control research.Tony DoddEvidence rated DocumentedPioneering British UFO investigator and police sergeant who specialized in alien abduction and military-alien interaction cases.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.Herbert SchirmerEvidence rated ContestedNebraska police officer who reported a credible UFO abduction with missing time and hypnotically recovered alien contact memories.Budd HopkinsEvidence rated DocumentedPioneer of alien abduction research; founded the Intruders Foundation and authored influential books on UFO abductions.Thomas Eddie BullardEvidence rated ContestedFolklorist whose 1987 two-volume study of UFO abduction reports remains one of the most comprehensive comparative analyses of the phenomenonKatharina WilsonEvidence rated ContestedUFO abductee and researcher whose 32-year chronicle of 119+ encounters in *The Alien Jigsaw* documents systematic reproductive trauma and contact.Karla TurnerEvidence rated ContestedAcademic researcher who pioneered the Dark Agenda Hypothesis, arguing aliens use deception and psychological manipulation in abductions.Peter KhouryEvidence rated DocumentedAustralian abductee whose 1992 encounter produced the first forensic DNA analysis of alleged alien contact physical evidence.Rauni-Leena Luukanen-KildeEvidence rated ContestedFinnish physician and UFO researcher known for claims about alien implants and government mind controlNiara IsleyEvidence rated ContestedUSAF radar operator who claims multiple military-facilitated alien abductions including a moon base assignment.Kathleen MardenEvidence rated DocumentedLeading abduction researcher, trustee of Betty and Barney Hill estate, MUFON directorDavid PaulidesEvidence rated ContestedFormer law enforcement investigator pioneering the Missing 411 phenomenon and connecting disappearances to UFO/paranormal activity.Derrel W. SimsEvidence rated ContestedFormer CIA officer and pioneer of alien implant research, leading investigator of physical evidence in UFO abductions.Terry LovelaceEvidence rated ContestedAttorney and former Vermont Assistant Attorney General who publicly disclosed a 1977 UFO abduction experience with documented physical evidence.Philip MantleEvidence rated DocumentedProlific British UFO researcher, media liaison, and publisher who shaped UK ufology through organizational leadership, scholarly publications, and archival work.Barbara LambEvidence rated ContestedClinical psychotherapist and pioneering regression therapist who has worked with thousands of UFO abductees since 1991.Ann DruffelEvidence rated DocumentedPioneering UFO researcher and abduction investigator who documented systematic case studies and defense techniques against alleged alien encounters.R. Leo SprinkleEvidence rated DocumentedCounseling psychologist who pioneered large-scale clinical work with UFO abductees using hypnotic regression therapy.Dr. Roger LeirEvidence rated ContestedPodiatric surgeon who claimed to have surgically removed more than a dozen alleged alien implants from self-described abductees, making him one of the most controversial figures in UFO research.Mark RodeghierEvidence rated DocumentedAstrophysicist and sociologist; scientific director of CUFOS since 1986, specializing in abduction psychology and vehicle interference phenomena.James Albert HarderEvidence rated ContestedUC Berkeley engineer who pioneered hypnotic regression techniques for investigating UFO abduction claims.Raymond E. FowlerEvidence rated DocumentedPioneering UFO researcher and author who introduced alien implants to modern ufology through rigorous investigation of the Andreasson Affair.Preston E. DennettEvidence rated DocumentedProlific UFO author and field investigator with 53+ published books and hundreds of documented witness interviews since 1986.George C. AndrewsEvidence rated DocumentedUFO researcher and author who systematically documented extraterrestrial contact evidence and entity taxonomy.Stan RomanekEvidence rated ContestedColorado abductee whose extensively promoted extraterrestrial contact claims were undermined by fabricated evidence and legal conviction.Raymond E. "Ray" FowlerEvidence rated ContestedNew England UFO investigator and author whose 1979 book The Andreasson Affair helped introduce alien implants and abduction-as-hypnosis narratives into ufology.Piero Fortunato ZanfrettaEvidence rated ContestedItalian security guard who reported 11 abductions by reptilian humanoids between 1978–1981Yvonne SmithEvidence rated ContestedCertified hypnotherapist and founder of CERO (1991) who has spent three decades conducting hypnotic regression sessions with hundreds of alleged alien abductees and documenting their accounts with clinical rigor.Barbara BartholicEvidence rated ContestedPioneer UFO abduction researcher who documented reptilian contact and the crystal meth connectionKelly CahillEvidence rated ContestedAustralian abductee and author, documented witness to 1993 Dandenong foothills multi-witness UFO encounterCorrado MalangaEvidence rated ContestedItalian organic chemistry professor and veteran UFO abduction researcher who developed breakthrough therapeutic methods for liberation from alien contact.Rosemary Ellen GuileyEvidence rated ContestedProlific paranormal researcher who investigated UFO abductions, interdimensional contact, and connections between alien encounters and folkloric entities.Jim SparksEvidence rated ContestedAmerican contactee with claimed 95% conscious recall of 19 years of contact with non-human beings, author of 'The Keepers'Bill ChalkerEvidence rated ContestedAustralia's foremost scientific UFO researcher, who gained unprecedented access to classified RAAF files and pioneered forensic DNA analysis of alleged abduction physical evidence.Credo Vusamazulu MutwaEvidence rated ContestedZulu sangoma and author who integrated alien abduction accounts into African oral tradition, linking UFO encounters to ancestral spiritual knowledge.Bob PrattEvidence rated DocumentedProlific UFO investigator and National Enquirer journalist who conducted 2,000+ witness interviews and extensively documented the Brazilian UFO phenomenon.Dr. Shirley WrightEvidence rated ContestedEinstein's assistant who claimed she and the physicist examined extraterrestrial crash debris and beings at Roswell in 1947, documented via 1993 taped testimony.Steve ColbernEvidence rated FringeChemist and materials scientist specializing in nanotechnology analysis of alleged alien implants extracted from abductees.Marcus LowthEvidence rated DocumentedContemporary UFO researcher, podcaster, and editor-in-chief of UFO Insight platform covering contactee accounts and paranormal connections.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.John G. FullerEvidence rated DocumentedPioneering investigative journalist who legitimized UFO research by breaking the Betty and Barney Hill abduction story and investigating the 1965 Exeter incident.Rob MacGregorEvidence rated DocumentedAmerican journalist, author, and UFO researcher; co-authored definitive Bermuda Triangle electronic fog studies with witness Bruce Gernon.Mary RodwellEvidence rated ContestedBritish-born Australian nurse turned hypnotherapist who built one of the world's largest experiencer databases and argues that contact with non-human intelligence is quietly reshaping human evolution.David E. PritchardEvidence rated DocumentedMIT physicist and organizer of the landmark 1992 Abduction Study Conference—the largest scientific meeting on alien abductions ever convened.Joseph StefulaEvidence rated ContestedFormer U.S. Army CID agent and MUFON New Jersey State Director who co-wrote a 1993 critique of the Linda Napolitano abduction case, interviewed a Roswell witness in 1995, and promoted the military "Fast Walker" tracking thesis.Maurizio BaiataEvidence rated FringeRome-born journalist and entrepreneur who built Italy's UFO media industry from the ground up, then went on to claim his own alien contact experience.Steven SpielbergEvidence rated DocumentedIconic filmmaker with seven decades of UFO fascination; director of Close Encounters and Disclosure Day; recent public advocate for extraterrestrial contact reality.Mike ClellandEvidence rated DocumentedAuthor and UFO researcher who bridges wilderness expertise with systematic investigation of owls, UFO contact, and synchronicityLeah HaleyEvidence rated ContestedAmerican CPA and abductee researcher who documented alleged childhood UFO encounters and later reinterpreted them as military mind-control programs.Myrna HansenEvidence rated ContestedNew Mexico abductee whose 1980 regression testimony became foundational to the Dulce Base mythos.Jeff RenseEvidence rated FringeAmerican talk-radio host and founder of Rense.com whose long-running program mixed UFO and abduction reporting with conspiracy theories and was condemned by the ADL and SPLC for antisemitic content.Dolores CannonEvidence rated FringePioneering hypnotherapist and author who used past-life regression to investigate UFO abductions and extraterrestrial contact claims.Len KastenEvidence rated FringeUFO researcher and author who documented 30+ years of extraterrestrial contact evidence and classified military programsDr. Edith FioreEvidence rated DocumentedClinical psychologist and regression therapist who pioneered hypnotherapy treatment for alleged UFO abductees.Dr. Tyler KokjohnEvidence rated DocumentedMicrobiology professor bridging scientific rigor and UFO/abduction research through critical analysis and education.John E. MackEvidence rated ContestedHarvard psychiatrist who brought academic rigor to alien abduction research despite institutional resistanceAlan SteinfeldEvidence rated DocumentedHost of 'New Realities' for 30+ years and longest-running emcee of Contact in the Desert, the world's largest UFO conference; author of the bestselling anthology 'Making Contact.'Dr. Benjamin SimonEvidence rated DocumentedPsychiatrist who pioneered regressive hypnotherapy in UFO abduction investigation through the landmark Betty & Barney Hill case.Rodrigo FuenzalidaEvidence rated DocumentedChilean ufologist and founder of AION, the media-facing figure who took Chilean UFO research onto the international stageJerome ClarkEvidence rated DocumentedUfology's foremost historian, whose multi-volume UFO Encyclopedia became the field's standard reference work.Dr. Olavo T. FontesEvidence rated DocumentedBrazilian physician and pioneering UFO investigator who brought medical rigor to South American UAP documentation (1957–1968).Pat EudyEvidence rated ContestedNorth Carolina abductee who reported a three-hour missing-time encounter with a humanoid being in March 1979Helmut LammerEvidence rated ContestedSpace scientist and ufologist who pioneered the MILAB hypothesis linking UFO abductions to covert military mind control operations.Calvin Parker Jr.Evidence rated ContestedAmerican abductee and co-witness to the legendary 1973 Pascagoula UFO incident; later authored memoir and produced UFO documentaries.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.João MartinsEvidence rated ContestedPioneering Brazilian journalist who brought early abduction cases and UFO sightings to international attention through O Cruzeiro magazine.Dana RedfieldEvidence rated FringeAmerican contactee and author who documented alleged alien abduction experiences through visionary fictionJim SchnabelEvidence rated DocumentedScience writer and investigative journalist renowned for exposing America's secret psychic espionage program and skeptical analysis of UFO abduction phenomena.Dr. James E. HouranEvidence rated DocumentedClinical psychologist and parapsychologist whose research examines the psychological and perceptual mechanisms underlying UFO sightings and paranormal encounters.Charles HicksonEvidence rated DocumentedPascagoula abductee and 40-year public advocate for the legitimacy of the 1973 encounterDr. Robert E. BartholomewEvidence rated DocumentedMedical sociologist and researcher of mass delusions, social panics, and UFO phenomena from a skeptical academic perspective.Andy MarcialEvidence rated DocumentedPuerto Rican UAP researcher and documentarian who leaked DHS videos and co-created Transmedium documentary series investigating Caribbean anomalies.Travis WaltonEvidence rated ContestedForestry worker at center of one of UFO history's most famous abduction cases, marked by multiple eyewitnesses and controversial polygraph evidenceSusan SwiatekEvidence rated DocumentedMUFON Virginia State Director and systematic abduction case investigator with 30+ years of documented UFO research and institutional leadership.Ellen CrystallEvidence rated ContestedNew Jersey-based UFO researcher and author who put the Pine Bush, New York sightings on the national mapRichard BoylanEvidence rated FringeAmerican self-described psychologist and abduction researcher who moved from clinical practice into 'star kids' and star-visitor contact claims.Bill HerrmannEvidence rated ContestedSouth Carolina diesel mechanic and abductee who claimed contact with extraterrestrials from Zeta Reticuli in 1977–1979.John E. MackEvidence rated DocumentedHarvard psychiatrist who legitimized alien abduction research as a credible phenomenon deserving rigorous clinical investigation.David M. JacobsEvidence rated DocumentedPioneering academic historian of UFO abduction phenomena; conducted 1,200+ hypnotic regressions establishing methodology still debated in ufology.Whitley StrieberEvidence rated ContestedHorror novelist turned abduction advocate whose 1987 bestseller *Communion* defined the modern alien-encounter narrative.Dennis AndersonEvidence rated ContestedStaten Island astronomy educator and longtime UFO investigator, Intruders Foundation board member, who organized Budd Hopkins's 2003 Wagner College abduction conference and in 2026 called official UFO disclosure "smoke and mirror stuff."Susan A. ClancyEvidence rated DocumentedHarvard psychologist who conducted rigorous scientific research on alien abduction claims, attributing experiences to sleep paralysis and false memory formation.Diane TessmanEvidence rated FringeAmerican contactee, former APRO/MUFON field investigator, and self-described psychic channel who says a being named Tibus — part of a crew she believes to be time-traveling humans from Earth's own future — has communicated with her since a childhood abduction in November 1952.Michael A. PersingerEvidence rated ContestedNeuroscientist who proposed that UFO abductions and paranormal experiences originate in temporal lobe activity triggered by electromagnetic fields.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.Melinda LeslieEvidence rated ContestedUFO abductee and leading researcher of military abductions (MILABs), and longtime Sedona UFO tour operatorDerral SimsEvidence rated ContestedPioneering abduction researcher and founder of SABER who shifted the field toward physical evidence collection and forensic methodology.Keith BasterfieldEvidence rated DocumentedAustralian ufologist whose FOI-driven archival digging turned Westall and other cold cases into tests of what government paperwork can and cannot proveMario WoodsEvidence rated ContestedRetired USAF security officer who reported a close encounter with a massive craft and humanoid beings at Ellsworth Air Force Base in 1977.Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr.Evidence rated DocumentedCofounder and leader of Heaven's Gate, who taught that human bodies were vessels for consciousness that could ascend aboard alien spacecraft, leading 39 followers in a coordinated mass suicide in 1997.Donald L. WorleyEvidence rated ContestedIndiana UFO investigator who conducted 150+ abduction case interviews and developed a Christian theological interpretation of extraterrestrial contact as spiritual warfare.Walter N. WebbEvidence rated ContestedAstronomer and NICAP field investigator whose 1961 interview and 1965 report on the Betty and Barney Hill case helped establish it as a landmark abduction account.Susan BlackmoreEvidence rated DocumentedBritish psychologist and former parapsychologist who became one of alien-abduction research's most prominent academic critics, testing the Roper poll claim and arguing that sleep paralysis explains many reports.D. Scott RogoEvidence rated ContestedLos Angeles parapsychology writer who edited one of the first book-length anthologies of alien abduction cases, UFO Abductions (1980), before he was murdered in 1990.Chris Bledsoe Sr.Evidence rated ContestedNorth Carolina contractor and contactee whose 2007 UFO encounter sparked NASA and CIA interest and claimed healing from chronic illness.Art BellEvidence rated DocumentedLegendary broadcaster who built Coast to Coast AM into America's highest-rated late-night radio program, giving 15 million nightly listeners a forum for UFO research, paranormal testimony, and government secrecy.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.Brad SteigerEvidence rated ContestedProlific paranormal and UFO author whose syndicated investigations documented extraterrestrial encounters and contactee phenomena across 170+ books and decades of field research.Berthold Eric SchwarzEvidence rated DocumentedPsychiatrist who brought clinical psychiatric analysis to UFO and paranormal investigations.Bettina Rodriguez AguileraEvidence rated ContestedCuban-American diplomat, lawyer, and 2018 Congressional candidate who publicly claimed lifelong alien contact and abduction since age 7Anne StrieberEvidence rated DocumentedAbduction researcher and co-founder of Unknown Country; curated 200,000+ first-person accounts of close encounters.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.