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n. The abduction of a person by extraterrestrials.
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The terms '''alien abduction ''' or abduction phenomenon describe "subjectively real memories of being taken secretly against one's will by apparently nonhuman entities and subjected to complex physical and psychological procedures". Such abductions have sometimes been classified as close encounters of the fourth kind. People claiming to have been abducted are usually called "abductees" or "experiencers".
Due to a lack of objective physical evidence, most scientists and mental health professionals dismiss the phenomenon as "deception, suggestibility (fantasy-proneness, hypnotizability, false memory syndrome), personality, sleep paralysis, psychopathology, psychodynamics [and] environmental factors". Skeptic Robert Sheaffer sees similarity between the aliens depicted in early science fiction films, in particular, Invaders From Mars, and some of those reported to have actually abducted people.
Typical claims involve being subjected to a forced medical examination that Abductees sometimes claim to have been warned against environmental abuse and the dangers of nuclear weapons. While many of these claimed encounters are described as terrifying, some have been viewed as pleasurable or transformative.
The first alleged alien abduction claim to be widely publicized was the Betty and Barney Hill abduction in 1961. Reports of the abduction phenomenon have been made around the world, but are most common in English speaking countries, especially the United States. The contents of the abduction narrative often seem to vary with the home culture of the alleged abductee.
Alien abductions have been the subject of conspiracy theories and science fiction storylines (notably The X-Files) that have speculated on stealth technology required if the phenomenon were real, the motivations for secrecy, and that alien implants could be a possible form of physical evidence.
Alien Abduction is a 2005 science-fiction horror film produced by The Asylum, and one of few by the same studio not produced to capitalize on the release of another film. It was released with the tagline: "The war of the worlds has just begun!", referencing the 1898 novel The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, which would be adapted to film by The Asylum two months later.
Alien Abduction (also known under the working title of The Morris Family Abduction) is a 2014 found footage science fiction horror film and the directorial debut of Matty Beckerman. The movie was released to VOD on April 4, 2014, and also had a limited theatrical run. The film stars Riley Polanski as an autistic 11-year-old boy who records his ordeal as an alien abductee.
Alien abduction can refer to the purported abductions of human beings by non-human entities.
Alien Abduction or alien abduction may also refer to:
Usage examples of "alien abduction".
While alien abduction stories have much more the flavour of profane, demonic apparitions, insight into the UFO myth can also be gained from visions described as sacred.
The connection between the content of spontaneous temporal lobe hallucinations and the alien abduction paradigm is consistent with such a hypothesis.
The standard of evidence in most of the alien abduction cases is roughly what is found in cases of the apparition of the Virgin Mary in medieval Spain.
Also similar to the alien abduction paradigm, satanic cult abuse is said to pass down from generation to generation in certain families.
Without Ann's understanding and deep insight, Daniel was sure neither he or Sara would have emotionally survived the many alien abduction experiences they had suffered through.
In general, those scientists who have taken UFOs seriously have tended to keep the alien abduction accounts at arm’.
And the basic reading program idea of the alien abduction, the paradigm, they seem strangely backward in biology for all their advances in physics, if you take it seriously.
People always returned after an alien abduction, so the popular wisdom went, and so those who followed Marella's theory were ready.
My own feeling is that the alien abduction phenomena is little more than a dreamlike sequence vicariously retrieved from memory storage.
In a 1992 Roper opinion poll of nearly 6,000 American adults -especially commissioned by those who accept the alien abduction story at face value - 18 per cent reported sometimes waking up paralysed, aware of one or more strange beings in the room.
He quickly found the more arcane sites: alien abduction, UFO sightings and the supernatural.
He also believed in ghosts, poltergeists, demonic possession, Satanic possession, flying saucers, alien abduction, Roswell, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, the Bermuda Triangle, telepathy, telekinesis, pyrokinesis, spontaneous combustion, levitation, reincarnation, out-of-body consciousness and the rapture.
For the first time in my life, I seriously wondered if the alien abduction stories were true.
An alien abduction, like everything else, is often so much a matter of perspective.
This is especially true of the more recent flurry of alien abduction reports.