What Do We Know About Alien Abduction? - Softcover

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9780593387559: What Do We Know About Alien Abduction?
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0593387554 ISBN 13: 9780593387559
Verlag: Penguin Young Readers Group, 2023

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The What Do We Know About? series explores the mysterious, the unknown, and the unexplained. Are there really aliens visiting Earth to observe and interact with humans?

In 1961, Betty and Barney Hill claimed to have experienced a bizarre night that included extraterrestrials, flying saucers, and a few lost hours during which they could recall very little until they underwent hypnosis. Their mysterious story was just the first of many that have been told by people who have since come forward with their own similar experiences. Although there are thousands of people who claim to have experienced alien abduction, much of the world remains skeptical. Is alien abduction a real phenomenon that has affected people worldwide or just an imagined shared experience? Could the US government be working to cover up these stories? Here are the the facts about what we really know about Alien Abduction.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kirsten Mayer has written several books for children, including Game of Gnomes, Go BIG or Go Gnome!, and a New York Times bestseller.

Tim Foley's clients have included national and international magazines, book publishers and advertising agencies, such as The Wall Street Journal, Cricket Magazine, Barrons, New York Newsday, LA Weekly, Penguin Books, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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What Do We Know About Alien Abduction?

 
Betty and Barney Hill had already been married for over a year when they went on their first vacation to Niagara Falls, New York. Late in the evening of September 19, 1961, they were driving home to New Hampshire, expecting to arrive around 2:30 or 3:00 a.m. Looking out the car window, Betty watched a light in the clear, dark sky. It appeared to be moving, tracking their path closely. Was it a plane? Or something more mysterious?
 
When the light passed over their vehicle, just one hundred feet above the road, they stopped the car in shock. The brightly lit object appeared to be a large disk shaped like a pancake, with small, fin-­shaped wings on each side and large windows across the front edge. As Barney Hill got out of the car with his binoculars, the disk floated over to a field next to the road. He approached and looked closer. He could see figures moving in the windows. One of them turned to look at him. It wasn’t a human face.
 
Suddenly very afraid, Barney ran back to the car. But as they drove off, Betty and Barney heard unusual noises, similar to electronic beeps. When they finally got home, both of the Hills felt strange. It was 5:00 a.m., much later than they had expected it to be. They hadn’t encountered any traffic or other delays. So what happened during those missing hours?
 
Betty and Barney sat down and drew what they could remember of the ship they had seen. Although they worked separately, their drawings of the flying disk were eerily similar. It was unlike anything they had ever encountered before, and they were not sure what to think. What happened to the Hills that night? Would Betty and Barney ever really know?
 
  
Chapter 1: When Did We First See Alien Life-Forms?


Alien creatures are considered by many people to be simply myths and stories, yet they are very real to those who claim to have seen and communicated with them. These beings from another world are most often called “aliens” or sometimes even “little green men.” A more accurate term is “extraterrestrial.” This word means they are not from this planet.
 
There is a long history of humans telling stories of seeing gods, angels, and other creatures, which some have interpreted to be about extraterrestrials. Theories about ancient aliens, also called ancient astronauts, claim that these extraterrestrials came to Earth thousands of years ago and shared advanced technology with humans. People who believe these theories point to certain images in ancient art that resemble unknown ships and machinery as proof that the planet was visited by alien beings long ago.
 
Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), now also sometimes referred to as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), have been reported in the United States since the late 1800s, with reports of “mystery airships” spotted in the skies. Sometimes occupants were spotted as well. Most famously, in 1896 a man named Colonel H. G. Shaw of Stockton, California, claimed that his horse and buggy came across a landed spacecraft. Three tall, slender beings emerged from the metallic craft and tried to force him and his traveling companion aboard. The newspaper article detailing his story is  considered the first published account of a possible alien abduction.
 
While UFO sightings report craft in different shapes, from tubes to triangles, perhaps the most well known is the disk-­shaped craft often called a flying saucer. This term was first used in June 1947 by a newspaper reporting a story about a private pilot named Kenneth Arnold, who saw nine disk-­shaped objects flying at high speeds near Mount Rainier, Washington.
 
Just a month later, the famous Roswell incident occurred, when strange debris found in a New Mexico field prompted one of the biggest controversies in American history. The United States government said it was a weather balloon that had crashed. But early news reports and later eyewitness stories claimed it was a flying saucer and its extraterrestrial crew of alien beings.
 
Modern reports of UFOs and alien life-­forms come from all over the world. One of the first documented claims of an alien abduction was in South America. Antônio Villas Boas said he was taken from his farm in Brazil on October 15, 1957. That night, a bright light in the sky flew toward him. When it got closer, it looked like an egg-­shaped craft spinning in the air. Strange beings came out and carried him into the ship. He described them as five feet tall, wearing gray uniforms and helmets.
 
After he was let off the ship and it flew away, Mr. Villas Boas realized he had been gone for over four hours. He suffered from various medical issues afterward, and a doctor convinced him to tell his story to the public in February 1958.
 
It was difficult to believe his strange encounter, but Antônio Villas Boas wouldn’t be the only person claiming to be an alien abductee for long.
 
 
Chapter 2: The Betty and Barney Hill Case

 
Betty and Barney Hill are considered the model example for modern alien abduction cases. Barney Hill was an army veteran, a postal service worker, and a Boy Scout leader. His wife, Betty, was a social worker. They lived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. When they took their dog, Delsey, along with them in the car for a family vacation to Niagara Falls in 1961, the Hills had no idea how much their lives were about to change.
 
Late in the evening on September 19, the Hills were driving home under a bright moon. Both Jupiter and Saturn were visible in the clear sky as Betty Hill looked out the car window. She noticed a light in the sky that appeared to be moving. She pointed it out to her husband, and he guessed it could be a satellite—­a machine that is launched into space to collect information or to transmit communications.
 
When they pulled over to let the dog out, they looked at the object through binoculars. It appeared to be some sort of craft with flashing lights. Back in the car, the Hills thought it was following them. They wondered if it was a plane, but they couldn’t hear an engine. The mysterious craft suddenly flew over their car, about one hundred feet above the road. The Hills stopped again, and it moved over to a field.
 
It was round, with two rows of large, rectangular windows. Barney could see several figures through his binoculars. They were wearing black and moving around inside. One of them turned and appeared to be looking right at him! Suddenly scared, Barney ran back to the car, and the couple sped off toward their home in Portsmouth. From inside their vehicle, the Hills heard two sets of strange noises, which they later described as a series of electronic beeps. They felt strange and disoriented.
 
The Hills pulled into their driveway just after 5:00 a.m. It had taken them hours longer to reach home than it should have. They were unsettled. They looked at their car and found shiny, polished-­looking circles on the trunk. When they held a compass over the marks, the needle spun wildly. There was other physical evidence that something had happened to them. The strap on their binoculars was broken. The zipper on Betty’s dress was broken, too. Barney had unexplained scratches on the tops of his shoes. Both wore wristwatches that had stopped working (and never worked again). All these things suggested something had happened to them . . . but what?
 
Betty Hill called her sister to talk about the experience. Her sister suggested they report it to the local...

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2023
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