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The 4 Most Plausible Alien Encounters
Although most of the UFO stories we hear about are glue induced visions of the mentally unstable, there are a number of genuinely plausible accounts with actual evidence that should be taken more seriously...
When the late Phil Schneider – an ex-US government engineer – toured America to tell people his story about being shot in the chest by a seven foot alien that was held against its will in an underground base at Area 51, it’s safe to say that a lot of people quite rightly doubted his testament. Schneider held up his half melted off fingers and pieces of dubious “alien metal” as proof. He was of course discredited, and to be fair if aliens have technology so advanced that they can travel light-years from their planet to ours, it’s unlikely our primitive weaponry would keep them under lock and key, even behind the mysterious boundaries of Area 51.
Due to extravagant E.T. tales like that of Phil Schneider and Meng Zhaoguo (the Chinese farmer who swears blind a 10 foot alien with braided leg hair landed in his field and shagged him), some of the most plausible alien encounter stories slip within the folds of obscurity. But actually a lot of them aren’t just LSD induced visions of the schizophrenic, and are in fact cases with hard evidence that deserve our attention.
Here are some of the most plausible alien encounters to date.
Christopher Columbus UFO Sighting
In 1492, as Christopher Columbus sailed across the sea on the Santa Maria in search of America, he witnessed an unidentified flying object zooming around the night’s sky. As he stood on deck, he saw “a light glimmering at a great distance”. He recorded in his captain’s log that it vanished and reappeared throughout the night, flying up, down, east and west “in sudden and passing gleams”. Columbus was around before the idea of UFOs even existed – it’s unlikely he decided to make this up. But could he have just seen a shooting star? Perhaps, but what kind of shooting star moves all around the night’s sky at high speed, vanishes, reappears and then disappears again into the sea?
The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill
Generally considered the first ever abduction story, Betty and Barney Hill’s encounter was taken so seriously that scientists and investigators interrogated the couple under hypnosis on more than one occasion.
As Betty and Barney drove home to New Hampshire in 1961 from a holiday in Canada, they noticed a UFO in the sky that eventually got so close to them that Barney stopped the car and got out. The UFO began to move erratically around the sky. Barney got scared and ran back to his car and the couple sped off away from the lights which seemed to vanish behind them.
Strangely though, as if they’d been teleported without realising it, Barney noticed they’d travelled around 35 miles from where they were, in just two minutes. A few days later Betty began having bizarre nightmares of tall alien beings performing horrible operations on her and her husband inside the craft. Eventually, at the request of an Airforce Intelligence Officer, the Hills sought out a professional psychiatrist. After six months of repressive hypnosis, Dr Benjamin Simon stated that he believed the Hills most definitely were abducted by aliens.
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Betty had by now also drawn up a star map which she claimed the aliens had shown to her. Scientists couldn’t match it to any existing constellations at the time. But sure enough, eight years later and with more powerful telescopes, scientists claimed to have found a constellation that matched Betty’s map. There’s no way she could’ve known about the constellation before hand.
With psychiatrist reports stating they were telling the truth, intense interest from the US Airforce and a star map of a far away constellation drawn from memory, it seems that maybe the Hills actually were beamed up by little green men that night.
The Battle of Los Angeles
Less than three months after America joined World War II, an aircraft was detected above Los Angeles in February 1942. The military was immediately scrambled, firing hundreds of rounds of ammunition from ground to air anti-aircraft guns. The US feared it was the Japanese invading to drop bombs on the City of Angels.
Bullets fired all night but the air raid turned out to be a case of “war nerves” according to Navy Secretary Frank Knox in a statement to the press the following day. Knox even said it could’ve been a weather balloon that they’d spent all night firing rounds of hot lead into. (The weather balloon would later become an iconic UFO debunking tool following the Roswell incident.) But later that day a second statement from a Californian official said: “The aircraft which caused the blackout in the Los Angeles area for several hours this a.m. have not been identified” proving, along with a photograph of the air raid that shows several static unexplained lights in the sky that the ground artillery were firing at, that there was in fact something unidentified flying around up there.
The Chicago O’Hare UFO Sighting
November 7th 2006. It’s 4.40 in the morning and the federal authority at Chicago’s O’Hare airport receive word that 12 employees are seeing a metallic disc shaped aircraft hovering over gate C-17. It’s rare for UFO sightings to have even two witnesses, let alone 12. It soon became apparent that even a pilot and his co-pilot had witnessed the UFO, along with several other witnesses on the ground. It apparently shot off through the air at such speed that a hole was left in the clouds above.
Jon Hilkevitch, a writer for the Chicago Tribune later said in an interview on FOX news, that “the disc was visible for approximately two minutes and was seen by close to a dozen United Airlines employees, ranging from pilots to supervisors, who heard chatter on the radio and raced out to view it.”
The footage ends with a man off screen saying “It would’ve landed but uh…” Mysterious.
United Airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) first claimed to have no knowledge of the O’Hare UFO, but a freedom of information act request showed that a United Airlines manager called the FAA from the tower about the UFO.
There are many twists and turns concerning this encounter. For example, leaked off-air news footage hears the FOX news anchor and Hilkevitch saying things like, “there really is this universal feeling that the government knows more than it’s willing to tell,” and “the FAA’s weather phenomenon explanation just doesn’t wash”. The footage ends with a man off screen saying “It would’ve landed but uh…” Mysterious.
The O’Hare UFO case has so much potential evidence to it that the Ghostbusters actor Dan Aykroyd is investigating it in full detail for an upcoming documentary he’s making.
It’s safe to say that probably 70% of the reported alien encounter cases are either the misidentification of something like a Chinese lantern or simply made up. But if you dig deep enough, with not only a tinfoil hat but also a sceptical one on, you’ll find pieces of UFO gold amongst the dirt.
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Columbus was looking for a passage to India, and in fact he continued to assert that he had in fact found said passage long after it was clear that he had actually found the Americas.
leave off the stupid invective about LSD and the mentally unstable; you make yourself look like a narrow minded cretin. Many intelligent people will validate that LSD, et.al, can expand intelligence. You might try it yourself, but it is initially refreshing to see that you are expanding your horizons. Look into the world of ayahuasca for example to find out that this is a time honored methodology to contact other or "alien" intelligences. In breaking out of your culturally imposed paradigm consider some of the classic tools of initiation.
"LSD visions of a schizophrenic" ? More like the shitty ramblings of a hack twat. This must be the poorest piece of writing I have seen on this site in a while.
The Rendlesham Forest Incident (1980) should be right up there aswell..
Gibberish.
Lool cheers Stephen. What's wrong with it? I value your critique highly...
Do all UFO sightings occur in the US
Nice article. Don't agree about the battle of Los Angeles. It looks like the lights are searchlights and shell explosions, and the object is just illuminated cloud/smoke cloud. I've seen suggestions the photo is doctored, also. The Chicago Airport one is just chilling though. @johnnyw No, see Rendlesham Forest for a good one in the UK.
Agree that I should've included Rendlesham, that case is very odd. And I never said there was anything wrong with LSD, there's just a lot of hippies out there with bullshit UFO stories. Put 2 and 2 together. The LSD line really is not the be all and end all of the article.
The Betty and Barney Hill case has been thoroughly debunked. What they saw was an aircraft warning light on Cannon mountain. Google it. The Travis Walton story would have been a far better choice.
Forgot about the incident at the dome of the rock! Captured by multiple cameras, tons of witnesses, high quality video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTQVtyh4XkI
There are many credible sightings that are pre 1900 of which Columbus is just one. For a file with photos and a few short videos check out http://www.educatinghumanity.com/2012/07/ufo-sightings-pre-1900-case-files.html
@killinghall1 No he didn't. Columbus caught on to the fact that he discovered something new after a couple trips. During the third voyage (1498) he wrote this in his journal: "I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of this great river, and by this sea which is fresh."
"most of the UFO stories we hear about are LSD induced visions of the mentally unstable" That's just unfair and silly. "Christopher Columbus sailed across the sea on the Santa Maria in search of America" Columbus was not searching for America. About the O'Hare airport situation, I find it mildly depressing that there is a photo of the cloud, but not the craft itself.
Jesus what is it with all these, I think the correct phrase is "internet asshats". This is an interesting article, if you think you can do better just write something interesting and submit it for consideration. Complaining abouit somethign someone has spent time and effort putting together says much more about the complainer than it does the author. You are not the teacher, it's not been submitted to you for grading. Jake is an excellent storyteller providing entertainment for FREE. I highly recommend his autobiographical series "Confessions of an Unlicensed Boxer".
When I was at school a boy from my class was abducted by aliens, His name was Malcolm and he sat at the back of the class in English. One day he didn't come to school and we never saw him again. To avoid it getting into the papers the teachers covered up by telling us that he had moved to Leicester with his parents.
Although most stories we read about stuff like this are written by amateur hacks wanting to be real journalists but who haven't the brains or guts to write about interesting shit, there are a number of genuinely interesting writers with actual things to say who should be taken more seriously...unfortunately, few of these write for Sabotage Times
amateur hack? Jog on mate have a look at other stuff I've written. Nothing wrong with this piece.
Did you write the words "most of the UFO stories we hear about are LSD induced visions of the mentally unstable"? If so, this piece is built on a very shaky premise. I've read other articles you've written and respectfully retract "amateur".
No 1 most plausible alien encounter is a 500 year old eye witness account? Well then case closed it must be true.
the aliens will be here in 2012
maybe the author should know what he is writing about?
Yes, flying spaceships will arrive using "Free Energy Technology" already in use. Out will come FBI/CIA agents dressed as aliens. The coltroled media will be on hand and will immediatly broadcast the entirely prefabricated event. This will frighten the fast asleep so much they will be only too pleased to lose more of their liberties.
If these aliens are so intelligent that they can cross the vastness of space, why, when they abduct someone on Earth, do they seem only to want to poke things up their bottoms?
what is weird, is that this article was posted on 8th November 2012 according to the headline, yet comments start in July! Is this some kind of alien conspiracy? abducting people, traveling back in time in order to comment on articles about UFOs that haven't been written yet? are they trying to hide their true intentions by discrediting stories in this way? I wonder!
I'm being done up the wrong'un by an alien as I type....
I honestly believe that I'm being abducted by aliens on a regular basis, perhaps as often as three or four times a week. However instead of any of the 'fun stuff' of being anally probed or being a participant in some human/alien hybrid breeding programme my alien overlords have me working in an intergalatic warehouse humping boxes they are too puny to lift. After a nightshift (and this is a Venusian night I may add) packing 'Hello Klaatu' toys and answering phone calls from irate Predators complaining that their I-Phone X* hasn't turned up' I get my memory wiped, a meal (in pill form) and I'm dumped back in my bed just in time for the alarm clock to go off. No wonder I look so rough. *yes that's how far in front of us the Aliens are. Three years.
On average there are 1000s sightings a day, every day in countries around the world. Sensible accounts of unidentified objects in pretty astonishing numbers. So what are they? The only official response is that they don't constitute a threat...so that's it then?
@carl. That Rendlesham Forest UFO scared the crap out of me as a kid, as did Jeff Wayne's WotW (the bit where the cylinder unscrews still sends shivers up my spine today - I am 41). I do recall seeing a ufo crash captured on TV once. They showed it on ITV. I can remember it vividly. The ship landed in some womans back garden, the police and fire engines were there but she very bravely stepped forward to comminicate with the crafts occupants. She was very convivial and even offered the alien a cup of tea (ehh-tea?). The whole thing must have been swept under the carpet because I only ever saw it the once. Spooky!
A boy called Malcolm, who I used to sit next to in history at school was abducted by aliens. To cover up and prevent it getting into the papers the teachers told us that he had moved to Leicester with his parents.
@Tony, the woman offering the alien a 'cup of tea' on ITV was a skit from Beadle's About, I assume you actually knew this but were joking
Lol, oh Lord. It just kills me. How closed-minded can some people be, I mean honestly? So many different stories of alien abductions and how bizarre each and every one is, and yet you people still continue to question them? Think about it. Just look at the evidence. There's cold hard evidence of these abductions, but people still have a difficult time believing in them. If it had been a snake, it would've bitten you right between the eyes. Just goes to show that people will only believe whatever they physically perceive.
The US goverment know all about the aliens. Notice most of the abductions are in the USA where the goverment there has made a deal with them for technologly and in return they let them use their voters for experements. Im quite sure that it will all be disclosed soon and we will loose our freedom
Were can i find more information on factual encounters? should i simply look more into the roswell new mexico incedent? Or there alternatives? and were can i find a lot of information on the roswell case?
When one considers the disparity in the ages of Stars and planets versus the fantastic pace of technological evolution as demonstrated by Humanity it is farm morel likley that any intellegent aliens we encounter would be more in the range of tens on Millions of years ahead of us as opposed to a few thousand years.The implications of this are both mind boggling and frightening as well, contact would be less like the Europeans and the Native peoples of the Americas and more like Humans encountering a group of primates for the first time with us being the primates , I am highly skeptical of any claimed encounters for a number of reasons the least of which as Carl Sagan put it the complete lack of physical evidence , however one cannot completly dismiss the possiblity that we might be under some type of observation ( intellegence and curisotiy seem to go toghter at least with humans . However when human scientist wish to observe animals in thier natural enviroment they try to avoid making thier presence known and thereby altering the behaviore of those they are studying. I believe this aproach of logical enough to conclude that is there are any intellegent aliens obsering humanity thenv its likley they would posses both the technlogy and the desire to do so discreetly
I have had 2 sightings in my life. The first one was on a camping trip in New Hampshire back in the mid 80s. I didnt figure it to be a UFO at the time but thought it was a satellite making sharp 90 degree turns as it traveled across the sky. I did not realize that satellites could not be re tasked that quickly. Now I figure it was a genuine non human craft. The second was last year. From the first sighting to the second I flat out did not believe in ETs and thought UFO people were all Nuckin Futz...but when my daughter and I...looking for Polaris saw a "star" moving erratically across the sky making sharp 90 degree turns, zig zaging and making very erratic movements I decided to research to see if and what kind of aircraft can move like that. Now I believe that I have had 2 genuine sightings. I constantly scan the night sky for such phenomena and keep and ear to the ground so to speak to figure if there are other people who really see stuff like this. It is plausible that another race from another world or dimension do transverse our sky. I am open to more "natural" "normal" explanations such as quadro copters and remote control model air craft with LEDs. If I can sight the same thing in the southern skies then I will me even more convinced. We are not alone.
Ever since I was a little girl I can remember constantly looking up to the sky. Something was always calling me, but I was too young to understand what it was. I heard it constantly, clearly and vividly. My first memory of a visit was when I was 3 years old and woke up in my crib to a gentle voice and a hand caressing my short black hair, telling me, "it is time to go". It was sometime in February of 1981. I was a tiny little girl dressed in a full, red, furry, zip up pajama that had white plastic feet and a little yellow duck embroidered on the front left corner. It had to be late because my house was quiet and my sister was asleep below when I looked through the wooden bars of my crib. There was always an eerie silence when they were near me. It was like time stopped and if you dropped a feather from above, you'd hear it hit the ground with a bang. This wasn't anything like the loud silence we speak of today. This silence was not loud at all. There was nothing but peace and calm. When I felt the hand against my head, I looked up and at first I was blinded by this light, that wasn't really a light. There was an inexplicable energy surrounding him that felt like it was coming through me with every stroke of my hair. If I looked closely enough, I could always see a somewhat silver glittery substance swirling around my room. I wasn't making a sound. I was amazed by what was before me. In an instant I was holding his hand and flying above the Earth at a speed that I can not define with words. It seems as if we were circling the Earth in a matter of seconds. I was not afraid at all. In fact, I was giggling and felt more protected than I did when my mother held me in her arms. I felt as if a fatherly presence was with me and I was where I wanted to be and should be. And in an instant I was back in my crib and he was gone. There was never an agreement made that I would not say anything, I just somehow knew that I wouldn't and shouldn't talk about it until many years had passed. I wasn't supposed to talk about it until April of 2013. It was stamped in my memory. April of 2013 is now and now I am ready to tell my story. My story of 32 continuous years of encounters and travels with people who are not so much alien, not so scary and not so much different than you and I. Travel with me through my 32 years and I promise you will have a better understanding of who they are, what they are and why they are. What you do with the information is up to you...............
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am a belever of: big foot , ghosts, , and aleins
Pretty reasionable. Their are a LOT of acid using burnt out morons it's true and a lot of wacked out new age kooks as well but some of these stories don't come from peoplevlike that, and have the ring of truth to them.
whoever wrote this acts like a dick, trying to talk about stuff you don't know- lol.
Of course extraterrestrials are real! It only takes common sense to believe. With literally billions of galaxies in the universe, of course there are countless habitable planets out there and civilizations we haven't heard about. We are still in the process of discovering the right technology, heck, if you try to look at the picture, we're still using fuel; Who knows, maybe in the future we can have nuclear powered cars using a small nuclear reactor, think about Iron Man). There are still amazing things left just waiting to be discovered, I'm sure in the future whether it may be in a thousand years or so, we humans will be cruising the stars.
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