Alien abduction
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The abduction phenomenon is an umbrella term used to describe a number of hypotheses, claims, or assertions stating that non-human creatures (usually aliens) kidnap individuals—sometimes called "abductees"—usually for medical testing or for sexual reproduction procedures. Many such encounters are described as terrifying or humiliating, but others describe them as transformative or even pleasant. Reports of the abduction phenomenon have been made from around the world, but have perhaps seen most mainstream attention in the United States.
Skeptics tend to doubt that the phenomenon occurs literally as reported, and a wide variety of alternate explanations have been proposed (see below). Rather, such skeptics often argue that the phenomenon might be characterised as a type of modern-day folk myth (like the historic belief in vampires).
See also
- Alien abduction claimants
- Alien abduction entities
- Alien abduction insurance
- Alien language
- Anal probing
- Anterograde amnesia
- Astral projection
- Confabulation
- Delirium
- Template:Section link
- Grey alien
- Hallucination
- Hypnotherapy
- Incubus
- Inferno (Dante)
- List of reported UFO sightings
- Mare (folklore)
- Recovered-memory therapy
- Sexuality in Christian demonology
- Sleep paralysis
- Temporal lobe epilepsy
- The Myth of Repressed Memory
- Witchcraft – similarities include the involvement of sexual contact with non-human creatures in historical accusations of witchcraft.
