On Tuesday 24 June 1947 a man flying a plane had earlier heard a conversation about a five thousand dollar reward relating to the dissapearence of a US Marine Corps C-46 transport which had crashed near to Mount Rainier and if anyone could locate it then the reward would be theirs.

He decided to take a detour and head for Mount Rainier to see if he could spot any wreckage. As he was doing so, a flash of light caught his eye but he thought it was another plane looking for the same one as himself, looking around for the other plane he saw something weird. There were nine aircraft, he thought they were some new jet aircraft that had just been assembled but they were in the shape of a cresent, and there were no tail surface on any of them. As they flew nearer he noticed that they weren't cresent shaped but round! The aircraft were about the size of a DC-4 airliner which were fliying at 1,700 mph (his estimates).

Flying back to base he went straight to the FBI but found the building closed, so he went to the papers instead! They had a field day, the story went around the world and people were claiming to have seen the same. After being besieged by reporters he went home to Boise but it was too late, the damage had been done! The newspapaers now had UFO stories and were exploiting them. A reporter called Bill Begrette gave a name to these unidentified flying objects, 'Flying Saucers'

You're maybe wondering who this man who caused a wave of UFO hysteria after his experience in the 1950's is, it was a man named Kenneth Arnold. The first person to make the sighting that started it all.

Abductions

Budd Hopkins, a UFO Reasearcher from America belives he knows why alien abductions occour. He believes the alien race cannot reproduce itself so they go and look for and scan other galaxies for a source of genetic material so they will be able to continue. When they found earth they found what they had been looking for.

His theory seems to be the answer to some of the experiences abductees have enjured whilst they were abducted. A few of them reported that they had undergone a medical examination whilst on board an alien craft, female abductees said that these examinations were similar to a His theory seems to be the answer to some of the experiences abductees have enjured whilst they were abducted. A few of them reported that they had undergone a medical examination whilst on board an alien craft, female abductees said that these examinations were similar to a gynaecological one. Hopkins says that the aliens are harvesting the ova from the females reproductive system and sperm from the males. A number of female abductees spoke about being shown their half- breed children on board the craft. Genetic-testing theorists belive this to be evidence that their ova had been used to create an alien hybrid race. There seems to be a small percentage of female abductees mostly from the USA who claimed to have been pregnant at the time they were abducted, but then afterwards all the signs of being pregnant disapeared. This is known as 'missing foetus syndrome'. The genetic testing freternity points to missing foetus syndrome as an example of how Alien visitors are determind to go ahead with the harvesting for genetic materials for themselves.

The first abduction case brought to the publics attention was back in 1964. Betty and Barney Hill reported seeing a UFO and a period of missing time while on a car journey. When they both started suffering from terrible nightmares they sought help from a psychiatrist, Dr Benjamin Simon who hypnotised them to find out what the root of the cause of the nightmares.

Under hypnosis they both described how they were abducted by Aliens and shown around their spaceship before undergoing a medical examination. Afterwards they both went public and told their story and it was then Alien Abductions were born.