UFO Abductions Through The Ages
by Dr. Gregory L. Little
1994

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

Sexual Abduction Experiences Aren't New

Space Alien Sex Maniacs in Training

Baby Space Aliens hone their Tantric Skills from young infancy by
isolating a nubile young earth woman and looking up her dress. As
teenagers they perform house-calls 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.

In the month that followed his encounter, Boas became ill with symptoms
similar to radiation sickness. In addition, small purplish wounds
developed on his hands.

In his book The Ufonauts, Hans Holzer related the May 2,1968 abduction
of teenager Shane Kurz. Under regression hypnosis Ms. Kurz told of
being abducted while walking through a field and being levitated into a
saucer. Inside the saucer several gray aliens placed her on a table,
stripped her, and rubbed a thick liquid on her. She was told that the
liquid was a stimulant and that she was being tested for pregnancy with
a device that was lowered on her. Then the leader told her that they
wanted to make a "half" with her. One of the beings quickly sexually
penetrated her. He made animal sounds and a humming noise during the
act. Kurz was then released. Shortly after this incident (which she did
not remember at the time) her menstrual period stopped for a year. She
had a sudden, unexplained weight loss exactly 9 months after her
abduction. It was the weight loss that led her to a doctor and
eventually uncover the memory of the abduction.

Budd Hopkins' Intruders (1987) and Missing Time (1981) are filled with
distinctively sexual abductions. And if you don't look at the long-term
perspective of the phenomenon, it is easy to be misled into thinking
the sexual abductions are a recent happening:

"Intruders makes what appears to be happening in UFO abductions more
clear. Genetic experimentation is being conducted on unwilling human
subjects by an extraterrestrial civilization far different from our
own....Through the process of interbreeding, the technology involved in
producing test tube babies, and cloning, they are producing a hybrid
race." (Little, 1990)

But appearances can be deceiving

Abductions Through The Ages

Mothman-like Appearances and Witches

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). UFO-like abductions and alien sexual
encounters are nothing new. Witches supposedly were taken into the air
for meetings with the devil. People who had been abducted by fairies
were left with distinctive body scars similar to those in UFO
abductees. And the incubus and succubus of medieval times did the exact
same things to their abductees as today's sexually-inclined aliens do
to their abductees.

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:

If lustie Doll, maide of the Dairie, Chance to be blew-nipt by the
fairie. Marston's Mountebanks Masque

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.

Fairy lore has a tradition of thousands of years. Fairies have been
said to be abducting humans, human babies, flying in lighted globes,
striking paralysis and amnesia on their victims, forcing strange drink
on their victims, and having sexual relations with humans for all time.
If we could remove the mythological aspect from fairy abductions and
dress them a little differently, the folklore reports of a thousand
years ago would be virtually indistinguishable from present UFO
abduction reports. The same thing could be said for the reports of
demons.

An Relatively Holy Correspondence Table: Old vs. New

On the left are artist renderings of the creatures associated with the
famous 1955 Kelley-Hopkinsville, Kentucky UFO goblin case (reprinted
from People of the Web). The two figures on the right are from Collin
de Plancy's Dictionnaire infernal (1863). The figure on the left is
Ronwe, a demon with language knowledge. The figure on the right is
Urobach, a demon from the lower order.

As my eyes fell on the demon drawings in Plancy's Dictionaire infernal
(1863), I was struck by their similarity to the famous 1955
Kelly-Hopkinsville UFO case. Imagine the demons as gray in color, and
they would also fit the description of the ubiquitous grays in recent
abductions.

There are many in the UFO field (as well as various religious leaders)
who believe that the creatures associated with UFOs are demons. The
similarity of some demons to the grays of UFO reports are probably no
coincidence.

"UFO" Abductee?

One of the first known illustrations of a demon appearing in physical
form to "make love" to a witch. Note the feet and hands of the demon.
It was said that the demons could assume any shape to make themselves
more pleasing to their victims. From Ulrich Molitor's De Laniis et
phitonicis mulieribus (1489). Note that the book contains numerous
illustrations of demons taking different shapes and forms for sexual
purposes.

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.

According to this ancient witch lore, Satan and demons had their
favorite humans for sex. Both women and men were abducted for sex, but
women were favored. Most victims were unwillingly abducted in their
bedrooms at night. Many victims described several demons (of different
types) being present at the time of their abduction. Some of the demons
"stood by" just watching during the act.

The first written mention of Satan himself forcing sex on a victim was
probably at the trials of Artois. The writer Vignate (1468) chronicled
the trial. Here too, was the first mention of Satan's sexual organ as
being cold as ice. This statement is similar to what some UFO abductees
have said about their abductors who forced sex on them -- particularly
the insects or grasshopper-like creatures.

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:

...if sometimes children are born from intercourse with demons, this is
not because of the semen emitted by them, or from the bodies they have
assumed, but through the semen taken from some man for this purpose,
seeing that the same demon who acts as a succubus for a man becomes an
incubus for a woman.

It was believed even then that a crossbreeding of sorts was occurring
between the demons (fairies) and humans. Tradition has it that the
magician Merlin was the result of crossbreeding between Satan and a
human female. And most readers are familiar with the many matings of
the Greek and Roman "gods" with humans. Their offspring spurred many of
the great legends and myths of old.

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:

De Trinitate: "Devils do indeed collect human semen... therefore devils
can transfer the semen which they have collected and inject it into the
bodies of others."

Bonaventura wrote: "Devils in the form of women yield to males and
receive their semen; by cunning skill, the demons preserve its potency,
and afterwards,...they become incubi and pour it into female
repositories."

Just as in modern UFO reports, the incubus desiring to have sex with a
human will adjust its shape to one that lowers resistance of its
victim. In 1698 Johann Klein reported on a court case where a woman
claimed to have been impregnated by her long-gone husband. A creature
taking his form appeared to her at night in her bedroom where she
simply couldn't resist. Many other victims of an incubus claimed that
the incubus appeared to them as a person (deceased) they knew and
loved.

Some of the most interesting reports about the incubus come from nuns.
During the mid-1400s, many nuns in certain sites were victims of
incubus attacks with the nuns often displaying amnesia over the event.
The copious amounts of semen present left no doubt that something
physical actually happened.

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.

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."

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.

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:

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:

?87% had repeating psychic experiences
?72% had telepathic experiences
?70% had more than one UFO experience
?70% reported some precognitive experiences
?63% reported "out-of-body" experiences
?59% reported experiences with poltergeists

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:

? 4% admitted to drug abuse
? 7% had been institutionalized at some point for mental problems
? 9% admitted to alcohol abuse
? 17% had asthma
? 20% admitted to suicidal impulses >br> ? 22% were sleepwalkers
? 26% engaged in compulsive behaviors
? 28% experienced amnesia
? 28% experienced severe depression
? 35% had insomnia
? 37% had anxiety attacks

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.

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.

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
by Dr. Gregory L. Little
ISBN 0-940829-10-X
White Buffalo Books, POB 9972, Memphis, TN 38190

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.



noahdove7@lightspeed.ca wrote:

Answer:

- they can take on different forms (shapeshift}, appear solid or
transparent, appear and dematerialize or be invisible.
- Some of these entities can harm, abduct  or sicken and kill humans
and animals,
- they are masters of deception and lies
- they can create false religions and cults.
- they can move and levitate objects, people and animals,
- They are scared of God and Jesus.
- they hate the metal iron because it reminds them of the future
judgement and fate in the lake of fire which contains molten metal
iron.
- they are involved with paranormal phenomena, real magic and can
deceive mystics and people
that are involved with the occult or spiritism, animism, or the worship

of false gods and idols.
- they can possess people and drive them insane or use them as
channelers and mediums.
- they can create lying signs and wonders.
- they can disguise themselves as beings or angels of light or can
manifest in hideous forms.
- they can destroy people's faith in God and create apostasy.
- they can seduce people to follow them into hell and ruin