Alien Abductions
Michael Sturma finds parallels in contemporary accounts of abductions by space aliens with European narratives of captivity by Indians and Aboriginals in early America and Australia.
In 1976 four students went on a camping trip in a wilderness area of northern Maine. One night they spotted a curious bright object in the night sky. Later they witnessed an oval object of brightly coloured light hovering above them. They then experienced a period of ‘missing time’ in their conscious memory. It was not until years later in hypnosis sessions that they relived traumatic alien abductions during that ‘missing’ period. They reported being transported aboard a UFO, where strange humanoid creatures examined them.
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