I was watching a documentary about UFO sightings and they said a fairly large percentage of the population believes they've been adbucted by aliens, so I figure we must have a few here. Raise your hand if you've had a close encounter of the third kind...
I know a lot of people are going to want to say stupid things in this thread, but please keep it to a minimum, because I'm genuinely curious about this.
Serious things I can do; not posting stupid things... that may take some effort. lol
I would probably have posted in this thread at the time it was started, had I noticed it. I was actually looking for another thread on the same subject I posted in a couple or three years back and found this one listed in the search.
Yes, I am an abductee. I have been for most of my life and have known consciously about it since roughly the age of 12. I have been actively involved in trying to learn more about what’s happened since I was 19, which is when I managed to convince my parents that what I was telling them about was true. (When I told them at age 12, they told me they thought I was dreaming.)
I had encounters as a very young child (pre-school) and occasionally up to the age of 12. Around 13 things got progressively worse and more frequent, including some very stressful incidents that were somewhere around the age of 15. I had depression for years of which this was the underlying cause. Of course, it could also be suggested that I had depression and externalised the condition onto a psychological fantasy. I imagine that would be something that more logically minded people would suggest. I have had physical marks and scars left on me after abductions though, including one permanent one, a triangle on the base of my left thumb.
I was always aware of unusual things happening to me on certain nights as a kid, but didn’t know what to make of them. As someone said earlier, you do have memory blockages to a large extent too, so recall is unreliable usually. Why this blockage occurs isn’t certain: the mind can automatically create amnesia when the conscious has difficulty dealing with something traumatic, and I’ve heard someone suggest it’s caused by the beings themselves. I have no idea which, if either, is true.
Anyway, at 12 I realised what exactly it was when I saw a program on TV. A woman with an incredibly thick “New Yoiker” accent was talking about her incidents and a drawing of the beings she saw flashed up on screen. It was of course, a picture of a “grey”; a being that has since saturated the mass consciousness of the western world. In my defence though, this was only 1989 or 1990 and it had yet to do so.
Now I couldn’t remember the main details of what had been happening to me, I could only remember being taken away places I couldn’t remember in detail and having things done to me that left marks (bruises, red wheals and the aforementioned triangular scar) on my body. Some deep part of me did recognise that grey face however, and the shock was extremely powerful and physical. I felt physically sick.
That little incident started the trickle of memories coming back that have continued for the past eighteen years or so. They usually surface within a few weeks of something happening.
These days I run a small and private web community that acts as a kind of support group for people who’s been abducted. The diverse range of opinions on our shared experience is quite surprising actually. Some feel positive, most feel overwhelmingly negative. Myself, I’m somewhere in the middle.
In the past few years I’ve seen a few depictions on TV of alien abduction. Most of them are complete bullshit. The depiction of it in
Independence Day (alien flick with Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith) makes me cringe. Seriously, it’s right up there with being caught masturbating in the back of the church by the local reverend, it’s that bad. It’s stereotypes like this that have painted us as a gang of deluded weirdoes to most people who don’t know anything about the subject or the evidence behind it.
Fire In The Sky is total crap also. The inside of the craft looks more like a dumpster than a piece of sophisticated engineering.
There is however a film that is mostly spot on. It’s quite old now, so the biggest errors in it are the ones caused by the limited budget stretching to only cheapo special effects. It’s called
Intruders and I think it was originally a miniseries. It’s now out on DVD as a full length movie however, and very accurately depicts the experience, although only really superficially. Some of the small detail it understates, but gets spot on. That makes it all the more powerful when watching it from a position of knowing what the real thing is like. The abductees react to the coldness of the table when laid on it, a good detail. The whole place is usually very cool, but the table especially. (Imagine being laid on a block of ice wearing nothing but a grimace and you’ll understand.) The table isn’t shaped like a coffin like it is in the movie however, but I guess that could be symbolism on the part of the writers. In the “operating theater” you can see stuff going on in the background, with other beings working behind windows or at other tables. Not mentioned directly in the script, but accurate. There are also differences in the physical appearance of the beings, but this may be because of the cheap latex they’re made out of. For something done in the early 90’s it’s pretty good though.
