UFO Abductions Through The Ages
The abduction stories form a continuum with old legends and beliefs ...They do contain a message ...given to us by the hidden parts of our being.
-- John Rimmer - (The Evidence for Alien Abductions - 1984)Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore - While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
-- Edgar Allan Poe - (The Raven)
"We stepped into the fringe of reality," Karla Turner
replied to a questioner -- after relating her incredible story to an immense
group at the 1992 Ozark UFO Conference. "Our book comes from my journal that I
kept (about these events)."
Karla [now deceased; a victim of the insidious cancer
many "abductees" mysteriously succumb to -B:.B:.], who holds a
Ph.D. in English, hypnotized her husband Casey in the mid-1980s to
attempt to find the source of Casey's anxiety and tension. Casey, a computer
software consultant, had been seeing a therapist at the time and was suffering
with a variety of nervous problems. What they found in the hypnosis was not what
they expected.
Casey had numerous memories of alien contact -- sexual
contact. One of his earliest memories was a white-haired, old woman
appearing in his bedroom when he was 13 years old. She had a deeply wrinkled
face and deep, piercing eyes. Unable to resist, he had sexual intercourse with
her. Casey also recalled other times that creatures entered his bedroom and
forced him to have sex. One such experience left him with claw marks on his
back, while another incident in 1987 resulted in a painful scar on the back of
his leg.
Interaction with the abductors wasn't limited to Casey.
Karla told of walking into her home at night when a being grabbed hold of her
arm. The creature told her it was her mother, but Karla stated that it looked
like a giant grasshopper. Another time, Karla was coming home through her
back yard when she felt like she "had hit an electric fence. I wasn't feeling
right...wasn't moving right ...there was a glow everywhere ...I stopped...and
saw four gray beings standing side by side in my backyard."
"I assumed I was having a hallucination (but) I'm awake -- why? I felt I
could see through them and they talked to me telepathically."
"Greetings, we are your ancestors," they said. "We are a part of you, but we
are real."
"I couldn't move as I normally do," Karla continued. "Then two females behind
me came up close -- they started buzzing."
"They are giving you some instructions," they told me.
Karla and Casey have become involved with a variety of MUFON
investigators since the uncovering of their memories as well as conducting a
variety of their own investigations. They have somewhat specialized in sexual
abductions and been influenced by the popular books Intruders, Missing Time, and
others. Karla told a story about a grandmother with her young grandson. The
grandmother had been a widow for several years when she was forced to drink a
liquid handed to her by an alien who appeared in her bedroom late one night.
At the 1992 Ozark UFO Convention, cattle
mutilation expert Linda Moulton Howe also focused on sexual abduction
stories. She told a story about one man who had become so plagued by a
particular female alien coming to him each night that he repeatedly
masturbated before sleeping so that he would have trouble getting an
erection when the aliens appeared. This so disturbed the female alien and her
mantis-like "keepers" that they made an agreement with the man. Howe stated that
the aliens are probably collecting genetic material from cattle and humans.
In discussing how the beings appear, Howe said that "the air itself is like a
curtain they can go behind." They come out of "tears in the air."
Aileen Garoutte, director of the
abductee support organization UFOCCI, has interviewed and used regression
hypnosis on numerous abductees who have claimed sexual contact with the aliens.
One couple was abducted during a drive between Princeton and Penticton in
British Columbia, Canada. Two hours of missing time occurred during their trip
that was later "remembered" as a "classic" abduction. Both were given a special
drink, medical exams, and had sexual encounters with the aliens. The woman
became pregnant as a result of the abduction though she had been using two
different types of birth control. After their abduction she had spots on her
body over her ovaries and her husband had a ring of spots across his groin.
Literally dozens of similar stories have been uncovered by UFOCCI.
After she drank the thick fluid, she became young again. A
reptilian-like alien then attempted to have intercourse with her
but she resisted. Then the alien brought in her dead husband who began making
sexual advances to her. The grandmother had intercourse with the creature that
appeared as her husband, but eventually saw that it was a reptilian. After
finishing with the grandmother, the reptilians had anal and oral intercourse
with her young grandson.
The
"modern" aliens associated with sexual abductions now appear to fall into three
broad categories. The traditional grays are nearly always present. Male grays
seldom engage in intercourse, but some female grays do. The grays often connect
bizarre devices to the sex organs of abductees and insert needles in an apparent
attempt to collect sperm and ovum samples. Then there are the more sinister
creatures described as reptilian, grasshopper-like, or mantis-like. These
creatures, whose sexual organs are described as ice cold, often have intercourse
with humans. Finally, there are creatures that, except for their dress, would be
indistinguishable from humans. They are sometimes described as Nordic in
appearance -- tall blondes with blue eyes. These abductors have, at times, had
intercourse with abductees. All of the appearances taken on by abductors
appear to be fluid and plastic; that is, they can easily change their shape to
whatever they wish.
Sexual Abduction Experiences Aren't New
| Space Alien Sex Maniacs in Training | |
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| Baby Space Aliens hone
their Tantric Skills from young infancy (left) by isolating a nubile young earth woman and looking up her dress. As teenagers they perform house-calls (right) in order to take turns nailing their brainwashed and subservient squeeze. "Earth women are easy," they remark. | |
Given the current intense interest in alien sexual encounters,
many people seem to feel that such reports are relatively recent. They aren't.
Sexual encounters with alien abductors are not new to ufology. On October 15,
1957, 23-year old farmer Antonio Boas was plowing a field at his farm
near Minas Gerais in Brazil. It was night as Boas was trying to catch up on the
plowing. Looking up into the sky, Boas saw a brightly lit red object descending
from the sky. It was his third UFO sighting that week. This time, however, the
object landed in his field. Out of the egg-shaped object came four aliens fitted
in metallic space suits with helmets.
As the creatures glided toward him, Boas tried to escape on the tractor, but
it stalled. Boas jumped off and started running. A few moments later he was
captured and dragged into the spaceship. There he was taken into a circular room
where he was restrained while one of the creatures took a blood and skin sample
from his chin. Then he was stripped and moved to another room where only a
white, plastic couch sat in the center of the room. His body was sponged with a
clear, oily liquid and then the four creatures left.
A few moments later clouds of gray smoke filled the room causing Boas to
vomit. Then a hidden slit opened in the wall through which a beautiful, naked,
alien woman walked. She had blond- white hair parted in the middle, large blue
eyes, thin lips, high, prominent cheekbones, and a pointed chin. She was under
five feet tall. Boas clearly remembered her blood-red pubic hair and her
well-separated, pointy breasts.
The female began rubbing her body against Boas and he quickly embraced her.
According to Boas they had intercourse two times during which the alien barked
and growled like an animal. After the second time she got off the couch and
walked to the hidden door. She pointed to her stomach and then to the sky. Then
she walked out.
Moments later two of the space suited aliens returned with his clothes. He
dressed and was given a tour of the ship after which he was released.
| Mothman-like Appearances and Witches | |
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| A renaissance woodcut
depicting a woman beating off the advances of a demon (left) and an interesting illustration (right) from Glanvill's Saducismus Triumphatus (1863). | |
According to fairy lore, fairies create a circular
cluster of small bruises as their mark. The phenomenon is known as "fairy
bruising" and is a sign of either favor or disfavor. The ring of bruises is
often found around the genitals. They did this, according to various 17th
century accounts, by pinching their victims:
An Encyclopedia of Fairies (Briggs,
1976) gives numerous ancient examples of fairy abductions. Almost always
a special drink was given to the abductee. This drink, usually described as a
thick liquid, was an essential part of the fairy abduction. Women are abducted
much more often than men and some fairies take special delight, in repeatedly
capturing women for amorous motives. In short, some fairies simply liked
having sexual relations with mortals.
Fairies abduct their victims through paralysis; then they simply
carry (levitate and fly) the abductee away into "fairyland." Fairyland is always
nearby; under normal conditions we can't see or perceive it. The paralysis
induced on the victim is how fairies get their abductee to enter fairyland. The
modem word "stroke" (meaning paralysis) is derived from the ancient terms
"elf-stroke" and "fairy-stroke." Fairies travel in circular globes of
light, sometimes called "will-o-the-wisp."
There are so many different types of fairies that going
through them would be tedious. Some of them, however, are virtually
indistinguishable from what have been described as demons. One particular type,
the "bogie," looks a lot like the traditional bigfoot. Virtually every society
has some lore of these "little people" and myths of them forcing their
sexual attentions on human victims.
If lustie Doll, maide of the Dairie,
Chance to be blew-nipt by
the fairie.
Marston's Mountebanks Masque
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| Illustration depicting a devil
stealing a "witch" for sex. One of numerous illustrations from Olaus Magnus' 1555 Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus |
The resemblance between modern UFO abduction
reports and ancient accounts of demonic visitations are striking, indeed.
Ulrich Molitor's De Laniis et phitonicis mulieribus (1489) shows the first known
engravings of demons who abduct and then have sexual relations with humans.
Olaus Magnus' Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (1555) contained engravings
of the devil and demons carrying women (witches) away for sex. The early
accounts of these are similar to UFO abductions; however, in that era it was not
seen as a good thing to happen to you (as contrasted to many UFO abductees who
view it as a positive and special experience).
In the early days of
the church, people who told of having visitations by "demons" were tolerated.
Somewhat later, they were fined or removed from the church. It was in the 15th
century that the church was no longer content to simply throw the "witches" and
"sorcerers" out of the church. From that point onward they sought to wring
confessions out of suspected witches and then burn or hang the accused. To have
sex with a demon meant you were a witch or a sorcerer. Witches almost
always had sexual relations with the demons or Satan himself and they were said
to have some power over elemental demons. It is the lower orders of the demons
that supposedly take on the appearance of UFO-like beings and fairies. In fact,
in many of the witch trials in the 15th and 16th centuries, the "lower orders"
of demons were described as leprechauns, gnomes, and other fairies.
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| A renaissance wood cut of
"incubi and succubi invading" a home and seducing two victims | |
Far more frequent was mention of sexual intercourse forced
on victims by demons known as incubus or succubus. "Essentially the
incubus is a lewd demon or goblin which seeks sexual intercourse with women
...the corresponding devil which appears to man is the succubus" (Dictionary of
Witchcraft & Demonology). Guazzo's (1608) Compendium Maleficarum stated:
"(The demon) can assume either a male or female shape; sometimes he appears as a
full-grown man, sometimes as a satyr." St. Augustine firmly believed that demons
abducted people and forced sexual relations on them: "(Demons) have often
injured women, desiring and acting carnally with them."
Virtually no one disputed the existence of these sex-seeking demons. Martin
Del Rio (1599) wrote of the reality of incubus in the Disquisitionum Magicarum,
"...to disagree (with their existence) is only obstinacy and foolhardiness; for
it is the universal opinion of the fathers, theologians, and writers on
philosophy, the truth of which is generally acknowledged by all ages and
peoples." Peter Binsfeld's De Confessione Maleficarum (1589) stated, "(The
incubus) is an indisputable truth which is not only proved most certain by
experience, but also is confirmed by history.."
Ancient Crossbreeding & Genetic Experimentation
Just like modern UFO abductors do, demons have long been
collecting sperm samples from male victims. According to the ancient reports,
the succubus gathers semen from the male victims so that the demon can
fully perform the sex act and sometimes impregnate its female victim when acting
as an incubus. In Thomas Aquinas' 13th century book Summa Theologica he wrote:
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| Depiction of a "frivolous woman" and
the devil who appears in a human-body form for sex. The devil shows his disrespect for her prior to the act. From Augsburg's Der Ritter vom Turn (1489). |
For several thousand years there have been reports of alien abduction for sexual purposes. Because of the number of reports coming from early church members, much attention was given the phenomenon during the 1200s and 1300s. Here are a few summaries by the church from this time period:
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| Illustration from a 14th
century French manuscript in the Paris Bibliotheque nationale. It depicts the devil in bed with a woman. |
Other accounts of incubus attacks leave one with the definite impression that something physical was happening rather than the experience being a purely psychological event. One impressive account had numerous witnesses. The writer Sinistrari wrote of a nun that was locked into a small, nearly barren cell after dinner. She was alone when they closed the door; shortly thereafter, however, sounds of passion (between two people) came from the cell. When the cell was immediately opened for inspection, no one but the nun was in it. Another nun then bored a small hole through the wall and was astonished to see a youth "appear" on the bed with the nun. Quietly, the nun gathered other sisters to view the scene in the cell between the locked-up nun and the "youth." When they went back into the cell, the youth again disappeared. However, the nun confessed that she had been intimate with an incubus for some time and that he appeared as the youth that they had seen. None of the nuns recognized the youth, nor was he seen again. In addition, that report indicated that there was no way that anyone could escape the cell holding the nun. He simply appeared and then vanished.
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| Illustration depicting the "Devil's
mark" being scratched onto the forehead of a victim. The mark was a small, straight scar inflicted with razor-sharp talons in one of several spots: on the forehead, on the back of the leg above the knee, or in another secret spot. From Guazzo's Compendium Maleficarum (1608). |
Another interesting feature of medieval witch reports that parallels modern UFO reports is the so-called Devil's mark. This is not the same thing as a witch's mark, but is rather a mark conferred upon victims by the devil himself. According to ancient beliefs, the devil marks his victims for identification. The mark is scratched on the victim with a talon. The marks are usually a straight scar in an odd spot, typically not seen without some difficulty, or some sort of a tattoo. Daneau (1564) stated in Les Sorciers that, "(Not a witch exists) upon whom (the devil or a demon) doth not set some note or token of his power and prerogative over them." Sinistrari's De Demonialitate stated that the mark of the devil..."is imprinted on the most secret parts of the body."
Were we not in "modern" times, the marks seen on
many UFO abductees would be seen as the marks of the devil. Cuts on the back of
the leg, purplish circular spots, bruises, circles of warts and spots
surrounding the abdomen and genitals, facial holes, and nasal cavity holes all
would have qualified. These were the exact same marks and areas of the body used
for the Devil's mark. These are also similar to the "fairy bruises."
Many, many people want to believe that UFOs are crafts from other worlds
carrying advanced extraterrestrial beings. Many want to believe that the sexual
abductions represent genetic experimentation and crossbreeding by
extraterrestrials. The simple fact is that believing that is far more comforting
than accepting the possible reality of what has been described in the prior few
pages. Most of us don't want to really believe that there are actual beings that
exist that have been called "demons" or "fairies" or a "devil." Contemplation of
such possibilities is deeply disturbing. It touches the darkest and most remote
areas of our psyche. It energizes the most fearsome and powerful psychological
processes of our minds.
"Nuts and bolts" ufologists avoid studying or even acknowledging abductions
by stating that these aren't "true" UFO reports. I have heard numerous
urologists state over and over, 'We know these (UFOs) are physical craft, they
are spaceships. The psychic and parapsychological stuff doesn't have anything to
do with these craft. Anything but what I'm studying is 'new age' bunk." It's as
if they stick their noses down and look at the little piece of the gigantic
puzzle before them, refusing to open their eyes to the fact that they are
ignoring the big picture.
It is important to understand that I am not saying that UFOs are piloted by
demons. I am not saying that fairies and demons are the rapists who force
themselves on their abducted victims. There is a real problem with terminology
here -- most of us have a preconceived idea of what a fairy or a demon is, and I
really don't want to conjure up that image.
What I am saying is that there is a process that
has been ongoing -- probably for all of humanity's history -- that manifests
itself through the appearance of archetypal creatures and beings. John
Keel was one of the first to recognize this. Others, including Vallee,
Clark, and many British ufologists have long pointed out the resemblance between
modern UFO reports and the ancient traditions. It doesn't really matter what we
call the process underlying UFOs, abductions, and all of the related phenomena,
but it is important to see that they all tie together. Even the dreaded and
paranoia-producing "government" has long-recognized this connection in their
earliest reports (although changes in policy precluded too much future mention
of it). John Keel's UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse cites the preface from a 1960s
publication by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research called
UFOs and Related Subjects: An Annotated Bibliography. In that report it was
stated:
In addition, Raynes conducted a survey of his UFO percipients'
medical and psychological histories. Most of his medical findings were within
normal expectations of a sample of adults randomly drawn from the population.
However, the psychological findings appear to strongly suggest a Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder (PTSD) cluster of findings. Here are a few findings from
Raynes' extensive statistical list:
In recent years, PTSD has become one of the favorite diagnoses of
recovery-oriented mental health professionals. When the symptoms are seen,
childhood abuse (sexual, physical, and emotional) are often immediately
suspected. Many professionals (myself included) view this quick diagnosis
tendency as a temporary fad; however, there is no denying the trauma that
childhood abuse inflicts upon its many victims.
Over a decade ago, Rick Rotter, a former MUFON Section Director, suggested to
me that all UFO abductees are reliving a form of post-traumatic stress syndrome.
This is not really a new idea. But what was rather unique about Rick's idea was
that he felt abductees were experiencing the abduction because of long- standing
trauma due to childhood sexual abuse. That is, the memory of a UFO abduction
(and the sex that occurs during the abduction) represents a reliving of a
childhood memory of an adult human who perpetrated sex abuse on the young child.
Because the memory of the person perpetrating the abuse (usually the child's
father, mother, grandparents, or other relative) is so traumatic, their memory
is twisted and adjusted so that a "monster" or otherworldly creature is believed
to have performed the act on them. "Inner Child" theory and other pop psychology
beliefs relate to this idea.
A review of classic abduction cases can certainly lend some support to this
view. Just reading the sexual abductions in the beginning of this chapter can
support this belief. The problem is that perhaps somewhere between 10% to 25% of
the entire population has had some form of childhood sexual abuse. (There is
great disagreement as to the reliability of childhood sex abuse statistics --
virtually all should be seen as unreliable guesstimates.) Thus, statistically
speaking, 10% to 25% of abductees should show childhood sexual abuse. Most
abductees are screened for childhood sexual abuse and the results seem to show
that between 10% to 25% were victims -- not the much higher numbers expected
with the sexual abuse trauma hypothesis.
I have more than a passing interest in childhood sexual abuse. I co-authored
a chapter in a medical text, Sexology (Bianco & Serrano, 1990), on treating
sexual abuse disorders and co-authored another paper in a hypnosis journal on
it. Alcoholism, drug abuse, and various relationship and personal problems are
quite frequently seen in victims of childhood sexual abuse -- therein lies my
professional interest in the issue. But are UFO abductions related to it? Not in
my experience or my colleagues' experience. Because childhood sexual abuse is a
hot topic right now in recovery circles, it is invoked for virtually every
single problem seen in adults. Victims' groups (sometimes called survivor's
groups) believe that almost every physical and medical problem, relationship
difficulty, psychological problem, and career problem is caused by childhood
sexual abuse. When someone is seen with any kind of problem, they say that it
must be as a result of childhood sexual abuse. What this boils down to is this:
Ufologists investigating abductees should almost always see the symptoms of PTSD
if the abduction was experienced as traumatic by the abductee. But PTSD symptoms
only indicate that some sort of trauma occurred -- not what the trauma was.
Because an undetermined percentage of people (probably between 10% to 25%) were
victims of childhood sexual abuse, that same percentage should show in people
who claim UFO abductions.
Today, most ufologists investigating abductees screen out the abductees who
have experienced childhood sexual abuse. Most professionals who have
investigated ufology to any depth agree that the childhood sexual abuse problem
has next to nothing to do with UFO abductions. I agree with most professionals
on this.
Rotter's Sexual Trauma Hypothesis bears a striking resemblance to another
abduction explanation. In the early 1980s, an English professor, Dr. Alvin
Lawson, suggested that abductees are reliving the trauma of birth. Here, "the
fetus is unwillingly taken from a place of security (the womb) to an
uncontrollably unknown world (the outside)" (Little, 1984). Lawson explains the
humanoid abductor's appearance as symbolically representing a fetus. Of course,
when you are born you can't see your appearance (as a fetus). And all of us were
born -- so we might expect many more people to have abduction experiences. Few
people today take Lawson's hypothesis seriously.
Before the modern era of UFOs, those who claimed contact with non-human
entities were placed in occult, spiritualistic, apparitional, hallucinatory,
psychotic, or pixilated categories. Some ufologists -- again, those who adhere
to the extraterrestrial hypothesis -- argue that abductions aren't part of the
UFO phenomenon. They are wrong. For abductions are an integral part of the UFO
myth. Abductions are almost always cited as evidence of alien contact, and
ufologists will use cases that fit their theory while discarding the rest as
unrelated, purely psychological, or hoaxes. This is another example of selective
perception and confirmation bias -- attending to only those facts or tidbits of
information that already confirm your beliefs. It's time that we began fitting
all of the pieces of the gigantic ufology puzzle together. It's time we
recognize that we are interacting with something that is very real, but it's not
alien extraterrestrials.
Excerpt from:
Grand Illusions: The Spectral Reality Underlying Sexual UFO Abductions,
Crashed Saucers, Afterlife Experiences, Sacred Ancient Sites, and Other
Enigmas About the author:
Dr. Gregory L. Little holds a Master of Science Degree in Psychology and a
Doctor of Education Degree in Counseling from Memphis State University. He works
in criminal justice as a trainer, publications editor, and researcher. He has
published and presented over 200 papers and reports in numerous professional
journals and publications on the topics of psychopharmacology, mental health,
substance abuse treatment, antisocial personality treatments, and criminal
justice. In addition, he has published articles on archaeology, UFO abductions,
and other paranormal phenomena. He is also a licensed private pilot and part
Seneca Indian.
Musings On Abductions
For a number of reasons, most people studying UFO
abductions are deeply disturbed by the parallels between ancient and modern UFO
abduction reports. They are so disturbed that they refuse to even see that any
relationships exist. I am astonished at how many contemporary investigators --
professionals who should know better -- simply refuse to see the historical
perspective of this phenomenon. It is easy to be smug and say, "This is
different, we aren't superstitious anymore, these are modern times." But in 500
years a lot of what we deeply believe will be laughed at and ridiculed.
A large part of the available UFO literature is closely linked
with mysticism and the metaphysical. It deals with subjects like mental
telepathy, automatic writing, and invisible entities, as well as phenomena
like poltergeist manifestations and possession....Many of the UFO reports now
being published in the popular press recount alleged incidents that are
strikingly similar to demonic possession and psychic phenomena which
has long been known to theologians and parapsychologists.
Abductees and the Paranormal
In July 1990, ufologist
Brent Raynes published the results of a statistical survey he conducted
on 46 people who reported contact with or sightings of UFOs in the publication
UFO Perceptions. A little over a quarter of them were abductees, with the rest
having some close contact with UFOs. Raynes' survey clearly showed that people
who have any sort of UFO experiences also have a variety of other "paranormal"
experiences. Here are some of the results:
Abductions: Separating Wheat From Chaff
There is no
doubt that a lot of abductions have occurred. The 1992 Roper Survey
suggested that at least 2% of the population has been abducted. Thus, over 5
million Americans alone may have had the experience. Are there really that many
visitors from other worlds here? If 2% of the world's population has been
abducted over the last 40 years (as has been suggested by ufologists), then at
least 90 million people have been abducted in the world. This means the clever
aliens are grabbing 2.25 million of us each year (assuming we each get to have
only one abduction). Over 6,000 abductions are then occurring each day with
about 257 abductions occurring each and every hour. Are all of these abductions
caused by extraterrestrial beings flying around in craft -- or do they represent
something else? Are modern UFO abductions just a modern version of a phenomenon
that has occurred and been documented over thousands of years? I am certain this
is what they are.
-1994 by Dr. Gregory L. Little
ISBN 0-940829-10-X
White Buffalo
Books, POB 9972, Memphis, TN 38190
