Like a drooling chimera locked away in the cellar, alien abduction has been thumping against the floorboards of the UFO controversy for nearly 60 years. John Fuller’s seminal The Interrupted Journey broke the ice in 1966, with notable additions by Travis Walton (The Walton Experience) in 1978, Budd Hopkins in 1981 (Missing Time), Whitley Strieber’s Communion in 1987, and John Mack’s Abduction in 1994. Simultaneously horrific and the object of standup comedy ridicule, voluminous first-person accounts of getting snatched for medical and breeding experiments by spindly little lightbulb-headed grey extraterrestrials may have done more to deter scientific inquiry than anything the CIA’s debunking panel recommended in 1953. Abduction is pure kryptonite — it leaps light years beyond upside down physics and dares us to reimagine ourselves as lab rats.
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