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the allagash

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abductions by michael locke

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four friends studying at massachusetts

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college of art

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chuck rack charlie fultz and the twins

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jim and jack weiner set out from boston

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for a wilderness vacation

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in late august of 1976.

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they were dropped off in northern maine

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by a pontoon plane

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and canoed through the allagash waterway

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on the night of thursday august 26

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the men all art students were night

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fishing on eagle lake

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in order to easily find their way back

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to their campsite in the dark

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they had prepared a large bonfire as a

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beacon to mark their camp

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shortly after they began trout fishing a

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glowing oval-shaped object was spotted

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rising above the forest

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charlie fault signaled to the object

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with a flashlight

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which apparently caused it to stop its

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ascent and

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slowly move towards the student's canoe

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the object was very bright with four

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sections of light

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it was obviously not a conventional

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aircraft

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and any notion of a natural phenomenon

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was dispelled

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when a blue ray which created an

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illuminated circle

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on the ground or water it hit was

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projected

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toward the startled men they frantically

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paddled back to their camp they were

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relieved to find

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once they had landed that the

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unidentified flying object

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was drifting away from them puzzling

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though

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was the fact that their bonfire was now

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reduced to coals

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it had only been a few minutes since

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they had set out and the bonfire had

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been expected to burn for hours

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the men were stunned by what they had

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seen later recollecting

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that they had just stood silently as if

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they were in shock

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the next morning they broke camp and

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headed home

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the story picks up after several years

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later when jim weiner

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suffered a head injury in a fall

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resulting

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in a form of epilepsy the doctors

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treating his new condition wanted to

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know of any possible symptoms including

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any possible previously undiagnosed

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symptoms

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he told him of waking up to the feeling

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that he was levitating over his bed

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and that other times he woke up

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surrounded by strange beings with large

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eyes

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according to raymond e fowler in his

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book the allagash abductions

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jim's doctor suggested that he contact

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ufo researchers after hearing

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of his symptoms and his 1976 encounter

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although some maintain that it was

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weiner who brought up

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the work of john e mack on the induction

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experience to his doctor's attention

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either way jim contacted ufo researcher

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raymond fowler after a lecture fowler a

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mufon investigator

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initiated an inquiry into the men's

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experience with assistance

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of physicist david webb and hypnotist

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anthony

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constantino finding answers with

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hypnosis

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the four men discovered that each

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unbeknownst to the others

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had been plagued with nightmares since

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their 1976 ufo sighting soon the

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investigation included all four

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each was convinced to undergo hypnosis

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sessions

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with anthony constantino through these

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sessions a new

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narrative of the sighting emerged each

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man had been struck by a blue tube

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of light emitted by the craft which

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transferred them

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into the ufo they were unable to resist

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the will of the occupants of the craft

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as if they were under some sort of mind

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control each undressed and was given a

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physical examination

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which included taking samples of body

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fluids and tissue

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after the examinations were over they

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were marched

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to a portal which returned them via the

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blue tube

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of light to their canoe it also came

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into light that during the hypnosis

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sessions

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that the twins jim and jack weiner had

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experienced alien interactions

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since childhood they had also been

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abducted since their camping trip

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the more recent abductions also included

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jim weiner's wife mary an

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abduction experience in the late 1980s

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left jim weiner with at least one scoop

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and scar mark in a sudden tumor or mass

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on

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had literally

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appeared overnight sent to the center's

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disease control and prevention for

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analysis

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raymond fowler's attempt to find the

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result of the analysis resulted in the

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discovery that the mass had

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actually been sent to an air force

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colonel in washington dc

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not atlanta georgia where the cdc is

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he was unable to obtain any information

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about where the sample was sent

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or stored after that or even any test

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results

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criticism of the allagash abduction

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after raymond fowler's book allagash

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abductions

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the case grew in prominence the case was

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also studied by

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dr john e mack who spoke in favor of the

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men's story when it was featured on the

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nbc

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television show unsolved mysteries in

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1994

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it would later be featured in an episode

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of the history channel's show

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ufo files critics have suggested the

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men's sightings was

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actually a result of an area searchlight

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the explanation was given by a park

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ranger the day after the encounter

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it has further been suggested that the

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abduction experience was actually drawn

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from memories of television shows or

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movies

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and created perhaps unintentionally by

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anthony constantino's hypnosis session

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it has been pointed out

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that their alleged experience did occur

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in the wake of

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the travis walton abduction and the

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media attention it received

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may have been a factor in creating the

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memories

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there have also been charges that the

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story was simply a hoax

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created to attract attention and to sell

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the ufo abduction related art

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all four men continued to maintain the

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truth of their story

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for further information raymond e fowler

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theology abductions

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is available as a book on amazon