while going through the sites i came acorss this article. what u pepole think about it.

In the modern era, there are literally thousands of people who claim to have been abducted by UFOs. They replaced the "contactees" of previous years, who were usually happy to talk to their alien friends. It was from the late 1960s onward that UFOs began to take on a more sinister air. Though they would have you believe otherwise, it is easy to pinpoint the beginning of the abductee craze: Betty Hill. She and her husband were driving down a long, dark road and were "abducted". They described small, gray aliens with heads shaped like light bulbs, the now common staple of pop culture. Later, it was learned that Betty Hill had a previous interest in UFOs and that the whole thing was a product of her overactive imagination. Yet as soon as word of her "spacenapping" by "the grays" got out, they became a common theme in American UFO stories. I say American because of an interesting division: In America, the aliens that abduct people are usually the small, evil gray folks. In Europe and elsewhere, they are almost universally reported as tall, blond and benign. Evidence of two alien races vying for our attention or subtle indicator of cultural bias of made-up stories? If you guessed #1, you guessed wrong.

I would love nothing more than to describe in detail the hundreds of cases I've read about and debunk them one by one as the products of hoaxes, practical jokes, hallucinations or cries for attention; however, it may be better to speak of them generally. Let me be absolutely clear about this: UFOs exist. They exist as strange atmospheric phenomena, classified aircraft, weather balloons or rare weather patters. A person who sees a UFO is probably telling the truth, and the event might have occurred. A person who claims to have been abducted by aliens is lying, hallucinating, or on the receiving end of a bad joke. There are no other options.

Generally, it starts like this: When alone somewhere, be it driving down a dark and lonely road or sleeping alone in a backwoods home, the abductee senses something is wrong. This is called the Oz Factor. Animals act irregularly, senses are dulled or sharpened, people do things they wouldn't do otherwise, time slips by. Things just take on a dream-like quality.

Then something bizarre happens. If at home, bright lights shine in through the windows and the house begins to shake. If in a car, the radio fails and the engine dies just as a huge, glowing craft appears overhead. Then the abductee either walks to the UFO as if mesmerized, floats up to it by magic, is carried in physically by aliens, or blacks out. When they get inside the ship (or wake up in there), they are strapped to a table, and creatures perform a series of medical tests on them.

They eventually black out and wake up wherever they had been when they started (although sometimes their cars are many miles away from where the abduction began), confused and frightened. A lot of times they have had their memories of the experience "erased".

The next day, they have the nagging feeling something is wrong, and often they find strange marks, bruises or rashes on their bodies. Strange things occur around their house, such as poltergeists, strange noises in the night, animals acting oddly, and so on and so forth. If they remember the abduction, they're too afraid to tell anyone until a few days later. If they don't remember it, usually it only comes out during hypnosis sessions.

It's interesting to note that the abductee may have a long record of reporting ghosts, levitating, being a psychic or other paranormal phenomena. UFO enthusiasts claim this to be a sign that strange occurrences happen to these people throughout their lives for some special reason. I say it's evidence that their insanity is not a recent thing, but a lifelong malady. Other than physical marks, evidence of such abductions is extremely rare, and although I'm no prizefighter, I'm sure it's easy to rough yourself up enough to leave some evidence of your own.

These "cases" all hinge on one basic thing: the credibility of the abductee. If you read books on UFOs, you'll notice that every story begins with "a credible witness said that..." or "there's no reason not to believe this person." I know you expect a certain objectivity from me, but allow me a moment to editorialize. When I was in high school, I had a friend who was a pretty good guy. Got good grades, went to church, the whole nine yards. Anyone would describe him as a credible witness. However, he claims that he can open and close doors with the power of his mind (which is impossible). I have a friend at Drexel who is an all around decent person. Good grades, very attractive, intelligent, sociable; everything you'd want in a witness. When she gets bored, she goes to the emergency room of the hospital and complains of various illnesses. The first three times, her friends rushed to her bedside and stayed with her for a day or two until she got better. The fourth time, we knew something was up and didn't go. Instead of a couple of days, it took her only an hour or so to recuperate, about the amount of time she needed to figure out that we weren't going to pay her any attention.

I don't tell these stories to illustrate my poor choice of companions. I tell it to make this clear: These two people are perfectly normal in every possible way and under any circumstances would be considered "credible" or "honest" witnesses. If they were to report a UFO tomorrow, surely the UFO community would be delighted that such upstanding members of the community had made a sighting.

However, once you get to know them, these two people are clearly insane. I've never taken so much as a single psychology course, yet I can easily identify that they are suffering from some pretty advanced mental diseases. You don't need to be the next Freud; this is common sense.

I tell this story to illustrate a point: Almost all tales of abduction hinge on how credible the witness is. They have little evidence if any, so it's basically their word. Since I personally know several people that appear perfectly credible at first glance but that I know to be stark raving mad, I hope the UFO community will forgive me for not believing their analysis of what is and is not "credible". Think about it. You probably know a lot of people just like the ones I know. When you see the phrase "credible witness" sneer. There's no such thing when fantastic claims of extraterrestrial skullduggery are being made.

I don't mean to say that all alien abductees are liars. Perhaps someone slipped a pound of LSD into their coffee. Perhaps they're schizophrenic and haven't been diagnosed. Perhaps they were the victim of an elaborate prank. Perfectly normal, decent people can make these claims and not be filthy liars. While I want to make clear that alien abductions never, ever happen, those that make such claims should not be mistreated. They may believe what they say happened did, and through no fault of their own are buying into this pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.

For instance, this is a case that's not quite rare but not common either: A woman stumbles into her home several hours later than expected. She's shaking, terrified, as if something horrible has happened. She's covered in bruises, cuts, and the like. Eventually she tells a tale of being abducted by aliens and undergoing bizarre and painful medical experiments. Doctor visits confirm that she has been roughly mistreated and sexually assaulted.

Does this mean that she was abducted by aliens? Absolutely not. Was she sexually assaulted? Yes. The mental and psychological damage during a sexual assault is so great that, as a defense mechanism, it's not unheard of for a person's subconscious to alter the experience into something more palatable to the victim. This doesn't happen all the time, and it's not any black mark against the victim. It is, however, several billion times more likely to occur than being kidnapped by aliens.

This is just an example. If their story really is a fabricated defense mechanism against trauma, this fabrication must be uncovered to get to the true event, otherwise the person can never be properly treated by psychologists. If the person was the victim of a terrifying prank, this deception must be uncovered or else real threats, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, can arise from a false threat.

There is absolutely no hard evidence that these events occur. While the stories make good ghost stories with which to spook the young, and even myself sometimes, to accept them at face value as so many do is both foolish and possibly dangerous for the mental health of the "abductee". There is no reason, absolutely no reason, to think that all alien abductions cannot be explained as a combination of lies, hoaxes, creepy practical jokes, exaggerations of mundane occurrences, psychological issues or cries for attention.