No one can hear you scream in space, but when aliens come for you on Earth you'll definitely shriek! Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most famous, creepiest, and most convincing alien abductions throughout history.
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00:00As they looked at it, it flew in a zig-zag pattern.
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo,
00:06and today we're counting down our picks for the most famous,
00:09creepiest,
00:10and most convincing alien abductions throughout history.
00:14What the hell is he doing out there?
00:16Get back to the truck!
00:17What the hell is that?
00:18Number 20.
00:19The Meng Jiao-Guo Incident.
00:21Can you describe its form?
00:28No.
00:28China doesn't have many abduction stories,
00:31but what they do have is quite interesting.
00:34The Meng Jiao-Guo Incident occurred back in 1994,
00:38when a man named Meng noticed a metallic glimmer
00:41coming from the nearby Dragon's Mountains.
00:43When he arrived to investigate,
00:45he was hit and knocked out by an unseen force.
00:48He later woke in his bed with no memory of what happened after that.
00:52But that's not all.
00:54Meng says he was subsequently visited by alien entities
00:57and, in at least one instance,
01:00made to copulate with them.
01:02As one of the stories go,
01:03Meng awoke one night to find himself floating in mid-air above his bed,
01:07joined by a female alien.
01:10Later, he would discover a jagged scar on his body.
01:13Where did you get that scar on your chin?
01:17Chartered accident.
01:18Number 19.
01:20The Pascagoula Abduction.
01:22Calvin Parker is always interested when UFO sightings
01:25or talk of aliens make national headlines.
01:27It was the evening of October 11, 1973,
01:31and both Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker
01:34were fishing in Mississippi's Pascagoula River.
01:37Hickson was preparing some bait when they both heard a kind of zipping sound
01:41and observed blue flashing lights in the sky.
01:45And that's when they saw the UFO,
01:47described by Hickson as a 30-foot-long object
01:50with a little dome on top.
01:52Three creatures emerged and took both men aboard the craft,
01:55subjecting them to some kind of physical exam.
01:58After being dropped off,
02:00Hickson and Parker frantically ran to the sheriff's office,
02:03both with an observable puncture wound on their arms.
02:07Both men passed a polygraph and, in 2019,
02:10a historical marker was placed on the riverbank
02:13to honor the story's legacy.
02:15The two men were questioned under hypnosis and lie detectors,
02:18but their story remained intact.
02:20Number 18.
02:21The Abduction of Amy Rylance.
02:24Frank Taylor,
02:25Lieutenant, J.G. United States,
02:27Navy Reserve 06-4199.
02:30Lieutenant, welcome home.
02:32On the night of October 4, 2001,
02:35Keith and Amy Rylance,
02:36as well as their business partner, Petra Heller,
02:39were staying at their Australian winery.
02:42Around 11.15,
02:43Heller awoke to Amy Rylance levitating inside a rectangular beam of light,
02:48which was emanating from a disc-shaped object outside.
02:52She lost consciousness,
02:54and when she awoke,
02:55Amy was gone.
02:57Later the next day,
02:58Keith received a phone call informing him
03:00that Amy was found dehydrated and disoriented
03:03almost 500 miles away.
03:05She explained that she had been taken to a mysterious bright room,
03:08and people observed strange triangular arrangements over her legs.
03:13Natural roots were also growing in her recently dyed hair,
03:17suggesting that a significant amount of time had passed for Amy
03:20aboard the craft.
03:30Number 17.
03:31The UFO on Ilkley Moor
03:34Go.
03:36Stay on the road.
03:38Keep clear of the moors.
03:39Found in West Yorkshire, England,
03:42is Ilkley Moor.
03:43And it was here,
03:44on December 1, 1987,
03:46that a man known by the pseudonym Philip Spencer
03:49was taking a walk.
03:51While strolling on the moor,
03:52Spencer observed a short, green creature
03:55that had a large head and rather long arms.
03:58As recalled by Spencer,
03:59under hypnotherapy,
04:01he was pulled into a craft immediately after seeing the creature,
04:04where he was subjected to various medical experiments by other green aliens.
04:09He was then taken back to the moor.
04:11Spencer did manage to get photo evidence,
04:14which eventually spread through national newspapers
04:17and became one of the most iconic images of ufology.
04:20And here's a copy of the photograph.
04:22Oh my gosh.
04:23Does this photo prove that aliens really do visit Earth?
04:27Number 16.
04:28Kirsan Illuminajinov
04:30I am an extraterrestrial from the planet Vulcan.
04:34Are UFO stories more credible if they come from someone with power or spotlight?
04:39You tell us.
04:40Kirsan Illuminajinov is a Russian head of state
04:44and ex-president of the World Chess Federation,
04:46a position he held from 1995 to 2018.
04:50According to him,
04:52he was visited by aliens wearing yellow spacesuits in September of 1997.
04:57Illuminajinov was allegedly abducted from his Moscow flat
05:00and taken aboard a craft,
05:02which travelled to a distant star.
05:05He asked to be brought back quickly since he had business to attend to on Earth,
05:08and the beings complied.
05:10Interestingly,
05:11it's been said that Illuminajinov believes in a connection between space
05:15and the game of chess.
05:17I don't want to be with the others.
05:19I want to know what that is you're playing.
05:25It's called chess.
05:26Number 15.
05:28Obsessed with Tracey Jones
05:30Stay here.
05:34What's wrong?
05:35He's gone!
05:36If her stories are to be believed,
05:38then aliens have taken quite the liking to Tracey Jones.
05:42Jones repeatedly experienced something more akin to ghost activity,
05:47like objects being moved around the house
05:49and electronics failing without reason.
05:52But a big change came in 1997,
05:55when Jones miraculously healed from a surgery overnight.
05:59The next morning,
06:00Jones saw the bandage had been removed
06:02and the incision was completely healed.
06:05She then underwent hypnotic regression,
06:07revealing that she had been continuously abducted by aliens
06:11and subjected to medical experiments,
06:13including having her ova harvested.
06:16Jones continued to describe how these abductions had started when she was young
06:20and claimed her children had also become abductees.
06:24Barry!
06:26Barry!
06:30Number 14.
06:31The Allagash Abductees
06:33The next memory any of the men had was being back on shore,
06:37staring up at the bright object as though posing for a portrait.
06:41Anyone who has watched Unsolved Mysteries
06:44might remember the Allagash Abductees.
06:47In August of 1976,
06:49four men were on an extended camping trip inside Maine's Allagash Wilderness.
06:54One night, while doing some fishing,
06:56the men were accosted by what was described as a floating white light
07:00that looked like a miniature sun.
07:02The light followed the men as they paddled across the water in fright.
07:06And when they returned to their campsite,
07:07they found only coals,
07:09indicating that they had been gone for a very long time
07:12despite agreeing that it only felt like 20 minutes.
07:16Back home, all four underwent hypnosis
07:19and recalled being abducted and facing invasive medical procedures.
07:23All four passed polygraphs,
07:25and all four recalled eerily similar experiences independent of each other.
07:30Jack would say something about how he remembered the light,
07:32or Chuck Rack would say something that he remembered,
07:35or Charlie would say,
07:36and we'd sit there,
07:37my God, that's exactly what we remember.
07:40Number 13.
07:41Antonio Villas-Boas.
07:43God, you don't know what we're dealing with here.
07:46She can have a dozen babies.
07:48She can lay a thousand eggs.
07:50Considered one of the first cases of alien abduction,
07:53the tale of Antonio Villas-Boas has endured in UFO circles
07:57since it occurred in 1957.
08:00Boas was farming one night in October
08:02when he saw a red circular object descend from the sky and land nearby.
08:07Boas attempted to flee,
08:08but was caught by five-foot-tall humanoids
08:11who dragged him into the craft.
08:13They proceeded to take his blood,
08:15and he supposedly had intercourse with a female alien
08:18who would afterward make a gesture to indicate pregnancy.
08:22The story reached Olavo Fontes of Brazil's National School of Medicine,
08:26who tested Boas and found that he had absorbed a large amount of radiation.
08:30We've gotten a steady dose, but not as much of it.
08:35Not strong enough to kill the cells,
08:37but consistent enough to damage our DNA.
08:39Boas later became a respectable lawyer
08:42and maintained his story until his death in 1991.
08:46Number 12.
08:48The Deckmont Woods Encounter.
08:50To this day, what's become known as the Deckmont Woods Incident
08:53is still the only reported UFO sighting
08:57to be formally investigated by the police.
08:59Robert Taylor's incredible story is distinguished by the fact
09:03that it was officially investigated by the police,
09:06a very rare occurrence within UFO abduction stories.
09:10The forestry worker was in Livingston, Scotland
09:12when he saw a dome-shaped object with small propellers
09:15in the clearing of a forest.
09:17Two spheres then emerged from the craft and seized Taylor,
09:21causing him to lose consciousness.
09:23He later awoke in the clearing by himself
09:25with tattered clothes and injuries to his chin and thighs.
09:29Police investigated the incident as a criminal assault
09:32and saw what they described as ladder-shaped marks
09:36at the site of Taylor's abduction.
09:38A forensics team also studied the ripped trousers,
09:41finding that they were torn by a hooking and dragging motion.
09:44What do you think happened?
09:45I have no doubt that something landed there.
09:48What it was, I have no idea.
09:50Forty years on, it's still an unsolved crime.
09:53Number 11.
09:54The Frederic Valentich Disappearance.
09:57Melbourne, this strange aircraft is just hovering on top of me again.
10:02It's hovering and it's not an aircraft.
10:05Budding pilot Frederic Valentich was flying over the Bass Strait
10:08on October 21st, 1978,
10:11when something peculiar caught his eye.
10:14While piloting a small Cessna,
10:16Valentich radioed Melbourne Flight Service
10:18and told them that he was being pursued by a shiny metal aircraft
10:22with four bright landing lights.
10:24Flight Service responded curiously
10:26that there was no known aircraft in the vicinity of Valentich.
10:29The pilot insisted that the object was moving at high speeds,
10:32describing it as orbiting before going on to state it's not an aircraft.
10:37A metallic scraping sound was then heard over the radio,
10:40and that was the last anyone heard from Valentich.
10:43He's never been seen since,
10:45and despite extensive search and rescue,
10:47his plane was never found.
10:49UFOlogists believe that he was attacked
10:52and ultimately abducted by a spacecraft.
10:55After the clicking sound,
10:56I called him numerous times and got no response.
11:02Number 10.
11:03The A-70 Incident.
11:04Not, not...
11:07Not kidnappings, but abduction as in...
11:13Oh, you don't mean alien abductions, do you?
11:15Gary Wood and his friend Colin Wright
11:17were out driving around 10pm on August 17th, 1992,
11:21when they noticed an unidentified black object in the sky
11:24and a bright wall of light in front of their car.
11:27After driving toward the light,
11:29the two men were startled to find their car facing in the opposite direction,
11:33having suddenly lost an hour according to the clock in the car.
11:37Wood and Wright would later claim under hypnotic suggestion
11:40that the drive towards the light gave them shocking pain,
11:43and that aliens brought them onto their ship for a mysterious examination.
11:48Grant these pilgrims, we pray,
11:50a happy journey and peaceful days.
11:53Number 9.
11:54The John Day Family Abduction.
11:56David, there's nothing out there.
12:00Nothing in the mist.
12:01On a seemingly normal evening in 1974,
12:04John Day and his family were returning to their Essex home by car after an outing.
12:09Upon arriving, however,
12:11Day noticed that the trip had taken hours longer than it should have.
12:15Although odd,
12:16it wasn't until Day's entire family began complaining of nightmares
12:20that he would eventually volunteer for a hypnosis session in search of answers.
12:25Day, under suggestion,
12:27later claimed that he recalled driving into a strange mist
12:30in which a bright light drew the family car upwards into a spaceship.
12:35Other than this and a few other fuzzy memories, however,
12:38Day had absolutely no recollection of the missing time.
12:42What if you're wrong?
12:45Then I guess...
12:48The joke would be on me.
12:50Number 8.
12:51Whitley Strieber's Communion.
12:53I don't know what I'm doing, you know, talking about this.
12:58Uh...
12:59I saw something, they saw something.
13:01The story behind author Whitley Strieber's encounter with the unknown
13:05is the first on our list to receive the major motion picture treatments.
13:09But it won't be the last.
13:11Strieber was arguably best known for his horror classic, The Wolfen,
13:16when he published this much-discussed non-fiction book, Communion, in 1987.
13:21In the book, Strieber describes an experience he had while at his cabin on December 26th, 1985.
13:28Strieber's description of losing time, lack of sleep,
13:31and repeated dealings with tall, pale, black-eyed beings
13:34fit the bill of what most perceive as the archetypal alien appearance.
13:39Although Strieber prefers to refer to them simply as the visitors.
13:43Can we talk this over?
13:45Yeah, it looks like you're going to send White Christmas.
13:48Number 7.
13:49The Clayton and Donna Lee Abductions.
13:52What are you doing?
13:53Ah!
13:54What?
13:55What are you doing, man?
13:58What's going on?
13:59It's the middle of the night, what are you doing with the baby?
14:01Both members of this Texas couple claim to have been abducted multiple times throughout their lives.
14:07With Clayton Lee stating his former encounter occurred when he was just a kid.
14:11To make matters more serious,
14:13Donna Lee even purported to have an unborn fetus stolen from her against her will.
14:18The couple state that they live in an atmosphere of constant fear that they'll be abducted again,
14:23and have appeared on shows like Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor
14:26to describe their experience with these alleged alien invaders.
14:30Attention, attention, this is a red alert.
14:33Alien spacecraft are invading the city.
14:36Board the subway trains for immediate evacuation.
14:39Number 6.
14:40The Strange Tale of Mrs. G.
14:42I could get used to this.
14:43What, me doing laundry?
14:45Some stories of alien abductions are told by individuals clearly seeking fame, fortune, or simple attention.
14:52This doesn't seem to be so with the anonymous Mrs. G, however,
14:56who claims that she was visited by aliens while washing clothes in her backyard.
15:00Her story deals with a brilliant blue light that hovered above her
15:04and lifted her up into an alien craft in 1965.
15:08She reported encountering three strange figures wearing reflective metallic suits.
15:12Then, Mrs. G felt as if she was hit sharply in the back of her neck,
15:16whereupon she found herself back at home, hours later with laundry still in her basket.
15:23You know what? From now on, you're going to do some chores.
15:25You're going to wash the laundry, you're going to fold it.
15:27Number 5.
15:28The Manhattan Transfer Abduction.
15:30Monsieur Léry, what do you want?
15:33I just want to know that it's really happening.
15:40Linda Corteel Napolitano was living in a New York City high-rise
15:44when she claimed to have been visited and abducted by aliens
15:47who whisked her right from an open apartment window in 1989.
15:51Napolitano pointed to a nasal surgery of which she had no recollection as proof,
15:56offering up a new bump next to her nose as evidence.
16:00Her story of abduction was reportedly witnessed by two bodyguards
16:04supposedly working a United Nations security detail.
16:07In the aftermath of the event, both men allegedly suffered psychotic breakdowns.
16:12Despite scrutiny, Napolitano remained adamant about her story,
16:16which included being let inside a clam-shaped UFO
16:19filled with oddly-shaped metallic furniture.
16:22I have my orders and the license to execute them as I see fit.
16:27I suggest you forget what you saw or what you think you saw.
16:30Number 4.
16:31The Alleyway Abduction of Carol and Helen Thomas.
16:35Got some kind of wicked rush.
16:37It was during their daily walk to work when mother and daughter Carol and Helen Thomas
16:42reportedly made contact with extraterrestrials in 1988.
16:46The pair stopped walking upon noticing a strange humming sound
16:49and bright white light, which left them dizzy and disoriented.
16:54Carol and Helen both arrived at work hours late,
16:57even though they had no recollection of the missing time.
17:00The pair also complained of severe skin conditions
17:04as well as feelings of constant anxiety.
17:07Carol and Helen would later state, under hypnosis,
17:10that they were brought onto an alien craft for experiments
17:13and had eggs removed from their bodies via an invasive tube stuck into their stomachs.
17:18But each one of these things comes from an egg, right?
17:25So who's laying these eggs?
17:28I'm not sure.
17:29Number 3.
17:30The Bob Rylance Abductions.
17:32Good, good, good.
17:34Hey, mental telepathy, astral projection, you know.
17:37Here you are.
17:37Many on this list revealed their alien abduction tales while under hypnosis.
17:42Military veteran Bob Rylance was another one of these cases.
17:46Although when Rylance underwent treatment,
17:48he discovered it wasn't one specific instance,
17:51but rather a series of them that had occurred over the course of his 20-year military service.
17:57He claimed that he'd always been sensitive to the paranormal
18:00and after hypnosis,
18:01claimed that his abductors would speak to him telepathically during these times
18:05and even used their technology to cure undiagnosed diseases within his body.
18:10It's not going to be an easy road back, but he's going to be okay.
18:15Number 2.
18:16A Fire in the Sky.
18:17So what did the craft itself look like?
18:20It was a classic disc-shaped craft.
18:26Travis Walton was missing for days
18:29after he and six other men on a logging site spied a mysterious light on their way home.
18:34Walton's co-workers corroborated that the light was in fact an alien ship,
18:39which took Walton via some sort of tractor beam.
18:42It wasn't until Walton finally appeared,
18:44with no idea of how much time had passed,
18:46that details began to emerge about his time away.
18:50Travis claimed that he was held on the ship,
18:52interrogated and experimented on by three bald creatures with huge eyes.
18:57His experience was so spectacular,
18:59it was later dramatized in the frightening 1993 film, Fire in the Sky.
19:04Get out of there!
19:06What is that?
19:07I don't know what that is!
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19:24Number 1. Betty and Barney Hill
19:27But UFO enthusiasts think the Hill case is a classic example of a
19:32close encounter of the third kind.
19:35In 1961, Betty and Barney Hill noticed a bright moving light in the sky while driving home.
19:41The Hills followed the light some distance,
19:43eventually stopping to peer at it through binoculars.
19:46Barney claimed he saw figures inside a disc-shaped craft
19:50and hastily got back in his car and drove away.
19:53Unbeknownst to them, the Hills had lost two hours,
19:56arriving home to find their shoes mysteriously scuffed and wristwatches broken.
20:01They would later claim vivid dreams about being taken on board the ship
20:05and being experimented on by two mysterious beings that spoke difficult, broken English.
20:11What's more, Betty was even able to draw a crude star map of a distant and little-known system.
20:24What story do you find the most convincing? Let us know in the comments below.
20:28I can't say for sure what the policeman caught on film here.
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