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Unsolved!
Mysteries of
Alien Visitors
and Abductions
Kathryn Walker
based on original text by Brian Innes
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Mysteries of alien visitors and abductions / Kathryn Walker ; Mysteries of alien visitors and abductions / Kathryn Walker ; based on original text
based on original text by Brian Innes. by Brian Innes.
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Contents
A Strange Meeting 4
Alien Landings 6
Taken by Aliens 10
Aliens Worldwide 16
Weird Aliens 20
What is the Truth? 24
Glossary 31
Index 32
Further Reading 32
A Strange
Meeting
...Betty and Barney Hill said
they were kidnapped by aliens.
I
t was September 19, 1961. The Hills were
driving to their home in New Hampshire when
they saw a huge aircraft in the sky. Barney said
that the aircraft was “like a big pancake.”
The Hills were frightened and drove home.
But their journey seemed to have taken
too long. It was as if two hours had gone
missing. Betty started to have nightmares
and Barney could not sleep. A doctor
used hypnosis to try to find out what
was causing their problems.
Under hypnosis, Betty and Barney Hill
This picture
described what had happened in the missing
shows the aircraft
two hours. Their stories matched. Both
that Betty and
Barney and Betty said that aliens had taken Barney Hill saw
them into their aircraft. Then the aliens had in 1961. Barney
carried out medical tests on them. stopped the car
and got out to
take a look at it.
4 >> hypnosis — When a person is put into a sleep-like state to help them remember things
How Strange...
The doctor who
hypnotized the Hills
said that the couple
believed they were
telling the truth.
The same doctor
did not think that the
Hills really had been
kidnapped by aliens.
He thought they had
imagined the events.
Betty later reported
seeing many other
UFOs (Unidentified
Flying Objects).
“Barney said that the aircraft was ‘like a big pancake.’”
>> unidentified — When you do not know what something is 5
Alien Landings
...In 1947, hundreds of people
reported seeing flying disks.
A
t first, people named these disks
How Strange...
“flying saucers.” Later, they became
known as UFOs. Some people thought
that these were alien spaceships. In 1994, the Air
Force said that
the wreckage
In 1947, there were two strange events
found at Roswell
in New Mexico. Together, they became
had come from
known as the Roswell Incident. Some
a high-flying
people believed the incident was proof
balloon. They
that aliens had landed.
said that the
balloon had
First, Mac Brazel found strange wreckage been used in
on his land. It looked like tinfoil, but it was a secret project.
very tough. Soon afterward, Grady Barnett
The Air Force
found more wreckage in the desert. He
had been using
said it was a metallic, disk-shaped object.
test dummies in
He thought it looked like an alien aircraft
their experiments.
that had crashed.
Grady could have
mistaken these
Grady said he saw bodies lying beside the
for dead aliens.
wreckage. The bodies were not human.
6 >> wreckage — Fragments of something that has been damaged or destroyed
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In 1947, Grady
Barnett said he
found a crashed
UFO in the desert
of New Mexico.
This is an artist’s
idea of what the
crash scene may
have looked like.
>> test dummies — Models of people used in experiments 7
Over the next few years, there were “...(George Adamski)
many UFO sightings. But there was
said he had visited
little heard about the creatures inside
Venus and Mars.
the UFOs. Then George Adamski
He said that he had
reported a meeting.
gone to the far side
Meeting Aliens
of Earth’s Moon...”
George Adamski was a restaurant
worker from California. On November
20, 1952, George took a trip into
the desert. He said that he saw a
UFO and met with an alien from
the planet Venus.
George claimed that at other
times he had traveled in alien
spacecraft. He said he had
visited Venus and Mars. He
said that he had gone to the
far side of Earth’s Moon.
George Adamski wrote
this book in 1954. In it, he
described his first meeting
with aliens in May 1952.
8 >> CIA — Central Intelligence Agency. This U.S. organization gathers information
