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2 Urban Legends

Many people report seeing blinding lights right

before they are beamed up into a ship in the sky.

[Abductions]

Introduction

A woman lies in her bed at night.

An eerie feeling comes over her.

Suddenly, there are creatures in

the room. They walk on two legs

like humans, but their heads are

large. Their skin is gray or green.

They take her onto a ship and

perform tests on her as if she were

a science experiment. The tests

seem to go on for hours. But when

she nds herself back in bed, only

a few minutes have passed.

A man is out driving. He sees an

odd light in the sky. A beam shoots

down to earth. It sucks him up

into an alien ship, where he goes

through the same ordeal as the

woman. Millions of people say they

have been abducted by aliens, and

most of their stories are similar. The

stories began to be reported in the late

1800s. Is this when aliens began to arrive?

Did you know?

In 2014, a British talk show

conducted a survey. They

found that in people

believed that they had

been abducted by aliens.

Do aliens sneak into houses at night

and steal people away while they are

half-asleep?

ordeal: a dicult or

unpleasant experience

abducted: to be taken

somewhere against your will

Close Encounters

Best Recorded Sighting

In November of 1975, Arizona logger Travis Walton was heading

home with his crew. It had been a long day out in the Apache-

Sitgreaves National Forest. The men say that all of a sudden, a

glowing yellow disk appeared in the sky. They followed it down

a dirt road. When they were close, they saw that the light was

a spaceship. Walton got out of the truck. The ship made some

beeps and rumbles. He got closer, and it began to move. Then

a blue-green ray threw him or feet (3 or meters) into the

air. Sure he was dead, the other loggers ed in terror. They later

returned to help him. But when they got there, Walton was gone.

4 Urban Legends

Were aliens looking for

people to study, deep

in the woods of Arizona?

Walton was missing for ve days.

The police suspected foul play . They

questioned his friends. Then Walton turned

up several miles (kilometers) away. He said

that after the blast, he woke up on a table

on the alien ship. Small beings with big

brown eyes were leaning over him. They

wore orange surgical gowns. Waltons shirt

had been pulled up, exposing his chest

and stomach. Terried, he batted at the aliens

with his hands. Their bodies felt soft and

spongy. Finally, they left him. Walton blacked

out. Later, he woke up in a gas station. He

did not know how much time had passed.

foul play: criminal

violence or dishonest acts

UFO: an Unidentied

Flying Object

Did You Know?

In 2015, Arizona

had 3,212 UFO

sightings, one of the

highest numbers

in the nation.

Travis Walton says his logging

buddies yelled at him to come

back to the truck right before he

was hit by a beam from a UFO.

Close Encounters

Ti m e l i n e

Alien abductions have been reported all

over the world throughout modern history.

1896

In Lodi, California, Colonel

H.G. Shaw says he and a

friend fought o three tall

aliens. He claims that the

aliens ew o in a ship.

1946

Planet Comics

runs a strip in which

aliens beam up a

young woman.

1957

A young man in Brazil says

that he met a pretty female

alien onboard a UFO.

1961

Betty and Barney Hill claim

that while driving in rural

New Hampshire, they were

taken by aliens in dark jackets.

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1971

Israeli illusionist Uri

Geller says that, at the

age of three, he met alien

beings. He says they gave

him psychic powers.

1976

Four shermen

in Maine claim

a UFO beamed

them up with

their canoe.

1993

The movie Fire in the

Sky is based on Travis

Waltons experience

in Arizona.

2010

Russian politician Kirsan

Ilyumzhinov says aliens told

him that the game of chess was

brought to Earth from outer space.

Close Encounters

Evidence For and Against

Why did stories of abductions begin in the late 1800s? Why did the

number of stories hit a peak in the 1950s and 60s? Right before

1900, people ew the rst airships and airplanes. Rockets were

soon to follow. In 1961, the rst human went into space. Writers and

artists began to wonder if beings from other planets were going

into space, too. They drew ying saucers in books and comic strips.

They wrote about lights that beamed people up. These details then

showed up in stories of real alien encounters. Is this why peoples

stories are similar? Did comic strips

prompt dreams that seemed real?

In the 1960s, American President John F. Kennedy (right) pushed

for the nation to become the rst to send a person to the moon.

peak: the highest point

saucer: a small plate

8 Urban Legends

Like Travis Walton, some people have written

books about their alien stories. They sell the

stories to magazines. They sell the movie rights.

Did Walton make up his story for money? Walton

says no. He also says he has a way to prove his

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