ALIEN ABDUCTIONS: Why "The Greys" are here and what they want with us… (An investigative article in 7 parts) -- Part II: The Basic Questions

Yesterday, in the first part of this article, I published an introduction to this subject. If you have not already read it, I request that you please click on the following link and do so before continuing: Part I, Alien Abductions: Why are "The Greys" here and what do they want with us?

Now, on to Part II: The Basic Questions

Boiled down to its most basic state, the pivotal question around which the entire issue revolves is:

Have alien abductions ever really taken place at all?

Of course, this is a huge, nebulous area which requires that we first ask more specific questions such as:

1) How many people claim to have been abducted?

2) Do we have any reason(s) to suspect that this is an inaccurate number? (Why or why not?)

3) Do the people who are actually making these claims appear to be credible? (Why or why not?)

First, let's look at pure statistics: Reported cases average 10,000 people per year over the last 7 years, so, this statistic alone amounts to 70,000 people who claim to have experienced alien abductions.

We must next ask if there might be any reason to suspect the accuracy of this number and, since so little is known about the subject of "alien abductions", we must look for parallels in areas with which we are more familiar. 

The majority of abductee reports contain a common theme of painful, intrusive (and even what we might term "sexually violent") pseudo-medical "procedures" ostensibly perpetrated upon them by creatures which are commonly called "greys" ("Close Encounters of a Third Kind" types) or what have lately been called "preying mantis" types (because they are described as having overly-large eyes and excessively long, thin arms or hands).

For our purposes, other than the fact that abductees find their abductor's appearance frightening in a general sort of way, the exact nature of their physical appearance is relatively unimportant. We can find, however, parallels in the statistics of the experiences of people who have been the victims of kidnapping, physical (including sexual) assault and other acts of violence.

Those statistics tell us we must assume that the number of actual cases is far greater than the number of reported cases because there is much evidence to suggest that violent (especially sexually violent) crimes are highly under-reported. This begs the question:

Why might such experiences go unreported?

Failure to report these experiences could be due to the subjects' fears of:

*** Being doubted, ridiculed and/or ostracized by their families, friends, workmates or the general public.

*** Being fired by their employers.

*** The possibility that a spouse, parent or off-spring might commit them into intensive psychiatric care or, even long-term care in a mental institution.

*** Being pitied by others.

*** Losing his/her housing opportunity, government pension, family financial aid, subsidies or retirement benefits.

*** Feeling alone and unable to share their experiences with other people who might relate to those experiences.

*** The publicity and media attention that could follow which has the potential of causing egregious violations of their privacy.

Certainly, the reasons for not reporting such an experience outweigh, by far, any justification for doing so -- even on the barest of moral and ethical grounds.

The Math:

We can point to a group of people that very nearly number the population the size of a small city (70,000) who braved a daunting list of the very real drawbacks that are associated with such an admission but who reported their bizarre-sounding experiences anyway.

I believe we can conservatively double that 70,000 number since some statistics experts put instances of unreported violent, invasive crimes such as rapes, muggings, etc. at 300% of the reported number (while others in the field estimate that factor at 700% or more).

This brings the number of people who believe that they have been victims of "alien abductions"  (whether they have reported it or not) to the size of quite a large city -- an astounding 140,000 people!

Remember, too, that this number only reflects the abductions of the last seven years. The first instances of "alien abductions" that we know of were recorded in the early 1960s!

Making an ultra-conservative estimation of the numbers for the 40 years between 1960 and the year 2000, I believe we can safely round off the minimum number of people who have been affected to the 200,000 mark -- with a median range of some one-half million people and a maximum somewhere in the neighborhood of two and one-quarter million people!

In 1995, however, a man named Robert Durant compiled statistics which suggested that as many as FIVE MILLION PEOPLE may have been abducted over the last fifty years!

The sheer number of abductees alone tends to lend a great deal of weight to an argument in favor of the reality of alien abductions.

Further, recent statistics point to a trend which suggests that the reported instances of alien abductions are increasing. From a total of approximately 50 cases per year in the early 1970s, the number of reported cases has steadily increased to the present 10,000 per year. However, it must be made clear that this increase could be entirely due to the present social climate which has steadily become more tolerant of victims in general and may have facilitated many of these people feeling comfortable enough to report these instances who might not have otherwise.

With the aspect of the quantity of reported cases satisfied, next, we must ask:

Who are the people who claim to have been abducted?

End of Part II -- Tomorrow Part III: Who are these abductees?