first-person bloggers share their abduction experiences

There is something happening, there are a LOT of people who claim the abduction phenomenon, or UFO contact, who are sharing their first person experiences in an on-line blog, or on a youtube page.

This is fascinating to me, and I see it as a big shift. A decade ago, an abductee with a story to tell would have needed to publish a book. And that would mean time and money - an editor and a publisher. It might take several years to write it and eventually get it on a shelf. And if it doesn't end up in a book store near me, I might never hear of it, let alone read it.

present day experiential blogging

I have read posts where people will tell of abduction experiences THE NIGHT BEFORE! Do you realize how extraordinary that is? Technology has streamlined this kind of communication and it has the potential to revise our collective understanding of these elusive experiences. The list below is in alphabetical order.

Some of these sites will focus exclusivly on documenting their personal experiences, and other’s will just occasionally add a story that indicates some sort of strange contact events. Others will just have a lone link where they share of curious UFO sightings. 47 such sites are listed below.

Adventures in Garner NC

Alien Abduction LA

Alien Abduction - The Blog --- (interviewed here)
Alien Agenda - blogtalk audio series
The Alien Jigsaw
Aliens and Soul Abductions - Andrew from Australia 

Anya is a Channel - Anya Briggs --- (interviewed here)
ArcturianStar (a pseudonym) youtube

At Spirals End - Lucretia Heart --- (interviewed here)
Awake and Become - husband and wife contactees

Brigitte Barclay

Blue Star Prophesy - Miriam Delicado --- (interviewed here)
Butterfly Trails - Charis Melina Brown --- (interviewed here)

The Caviness Report - Alan Caviness --- (interviewed here)

Chris Holly's Paranormal World
Erica Goetsch youtube 

ET Sculptor - Cynthia Crawford --- (interviewed here)
Extraterrestrials
Hybrid Children Community - a group of people sharing experiences
In 2 Worlds - Carissa Conti
Integalactic-Mission - Marc Brinkerhoff

Inter- Intelligence Communication
Jay Vay - Jeremy Vaeni
John Foster UFOs
Jason Moss - youtube pag
Life after Alien Disclosure

Montalk - Tom 
Numinous Intrusions

Otherworldly Encounters

Paranormal Musing
Peter Slattery --- (interviewed here)
Pleiades Adventures
Reptilians - Ken Bakeman

Post Reason

Random Alien Brain Droppings - Suzanne Cancellor

Searching for Truth
Starseed Bob - Prophesy
Steven Jones - YouTube channel
Taken by the Greys

The Teachers - Jimmy Bach

The Turgid Miasma of Existence
UFO Chick
UFO Realities and Other Stuff - Radio Jack
Unknown Country - Whitley Strieber --- (interviewed here)
Veils Afire - podcast series hosted by Tom Montalk and Kerrie Reynalds
Zeta-Talk - Nancy Lieder shares her messages

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Over the last few years, I've been amazed at these on-line blogs and web-sites, and I've tried to document them. If anyone out there can direct me to more of them, please let me know! They are all listed with the label fellow bloggers. I've also included a link to anyone I've interviewed on this list.

Here's another similar LINK.

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reassuring dreams, two nights in a row

For a while I was keeping a sort of diary of my experiences, I would just sort of dump them into a document on my computer. This document is now 111 pages long. I haven’t added anything in a long time, but I remembered about two dreams that seemed curious, and I searched them out. Here’s what I wrote: 

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June 5th 2008

I am in Alaska working for an outdoor school. I just got done teaching a mountaineering course, and now I am at the base camp, a lovely farm north of Anchorage. I sleep in a little wall tent off in the woods near the farm. There is no nighttime, it's always daylight this time of year. 

I have had two weirdly vivid dreams, two nights in a row. 

The first was a full-blow abduction dream. Interior of an alien craft, a cold table, telepathy, weird alien hybrids (they looked like tiny shrunken old men) and people (yup, normal people) on the craft too. 

The exact details are extremely foggy, but the overwhelming impression was a sort of relief. There was NOTHING scary about this dream. The alien hybrids were small and nonthreatening. The people on-board seemed to have a purpose and a job, and it was somehow for the collective good. 

And the little aliens seemed so normal, I wasn't intimidated in the least. I literally thought to myself, "This is them? Why am I afraid of these dinky little things?" 

And, the most vivid memory from this dream was the telepathy and how it sounded in my own head. It was EXTREMELY clear and free of any "static." I was impressed, I thought: "Wow, this is working super well, there's no need to worry about communicating, because it's SO clear." 

The next morning I tried hard to remember what was told to me during the finely tuned telepathy, but I couldn't remember. 

Now, lemme say, this was a dream. Not some foggy memory of anything real. But I woke up feeling relived and at peace. There was something deeply reassuring about this dream, I was confronted with something that should have been scary, but it wasn’t, instead it just felt so normal. 

And then the following nights dream: 

This was filled with very moody and frightening images. Huge air-force jets chasing things in the sky, and people on the ground (myself included) watching helplessly. Eventually there was a terrifying nuclear explosion on the distant horizon, then bunches of them. I took shelter in a sort of children's puppet theater. And there was a reoccurring image of a boy "emerging" from a stage prop over and over. 

How do I interpreter this? The overtly theatrical ending, literally on a stage makes me wonder. And the weird repeating emergence of a little boy out of an obvious stage prop. It was a sort of jack-in-the-box thing, and the claustrophobic little stage reminded me of that theater in Disneyland with the mechanical Lincoln.

Anyway - both dreams were JUST dreams, and they were extremely vivid, colorful, cinematic and weirdly 3D. 

This weird imagery in both of these dreams is probably nothing - I want to convince myself of this - these are JUST dreams. It's probably nothing but my poor tortured psyche dealing with the 24 hour sunlight. But it feels weirder than that.

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These are what I’ve been calling reassuring dreams, and I went through a period where I was having a bunch of them. And by reassuring, I mean the dream has a scary element of the UFO abduction phenomenon, but it isn’t scary at all. What I experience in the dream is sort of bland and normal. I've created a label for these dreams, click HERE for all of them.

Here's a good example of a (funny) reassuring dream.

There is a follow-up post below, another reassuring dream report, and this one seems even stranger.

All these reassuring dreams feel like a sort of projection from outside of myself. They FEEL like an implanted dream experience that is meant to calm me down - to REASSURE me. I haven't had an experience like this in a few years, these dreams all seemed to cluster around that summer. I think I know what I am implying. I have no other way to describe these dreams other than the way it feels.

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Please note: 

The excerpt above has been edited slightly from the form I found it in the diary. I cleaned up some grammatical stuff and added a few extra sentences for clarity.

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a forgotten reassuring dream

In the summer of 2008 Dr. Leo Sprinkle called me and said I should contact a woman who lived near me, he said she had some interesting experiences. The next call I made was to this woman, who I’ll call Tracy (a pseudonym). After hearing some of her story we both decided that I should drive to her home so I could play the role of investigator and sketch artist. She and her husband lived over three hours dive from my home, so she invited me to spend the night in their guest cabin.

When I got to her house we spent the afternoon talking about her experiences. She had a fascinating set of vivid sightings and events that seemed to indicate a lifetime of contact with the UFO phenomenon.

I took notes and I did a sketch of a craft with her guidance. I'll often admit that I am a crummy investigator, because all I ever seem to do is have a heart to heart conversation with a witness. I am NOT objective in the slightest, I get all emotionally wrapped up in their stories. I liked Tracy, and I thought she had a great outlook. I never did anything with the sketches or my notes.

Here's where it gets strange, I found something in my dairy. I do NOT remember ever writing this. I found it when I was digging through some old notes for the post above about two dreams in Alaska. This is another reassuring dream. I think I typed this into my lap-top computer the morning I woke up in Tracy's guest cabin.

July 14th 2008 

I had a dream last night at Tracy’s house. 

I remember I had a clear vision of several gray aliens. I was NOT subjected to any kind of fear. I was instead coming to terms with a sort of “normal” feeling, like they weren't so bad. Seeing them wasn’t out of the ordinary. It left me with the distinct impression that this was extremely calming, and in a way, reassuring. 

I do NOT think there was any kind of abduction experience. Just a dream. But it fits the pattern of the two dreams in Alaska. Extremely vivid, and strangely orchestrated to be reassuring.

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wisdom from owls

Great Gray Owl in full camo.

This post was taken from a comment from one of my readers (Brizdaz). He is reading a book, The Healing Wisdom of Birds by Lesley Morrison. This is a book about all kinds of birds, but the author confesses that owls are her favorite.

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(from the forward)

When I undertook this project, many people asked me why I felt compelled to write a whole book about birds. My answer? I was haunted day and night, until I did. The universe has a funny way of making its advice known, and after challenging encounters and rescues with feathered creatures I finally got the message. I became alerted to the silent mission before me, and was compelled by an unyielding insistence to pay closer attention to birds and their world. So I remained haunted until the final manuscript was complete.

(an excerpt about owls)

The owl will always be the dearest bird species to me, and I have had many sad and spiritual encounters with this magnificent bird of prey. The owl has traditionally been very close to the spirit worlds, and associations between the owl, death, and magic are quite prominent and widespread.

If owl chooses you as a student, you are to become aware of all that moves in the dark. These could be hidden motives, thoughts, or emotions within you or others that have been kept from the light of awareness. Or there may be a hidden gift of clairvoyance and magic that needs nurturing when owl appears. Owl is the guardian spirit of many magicians and shamans, and often portends a time of deep learning or training in the ways of magical sight and manifestation.

Owl people can pierce the normal boundaries of space and time, and are quite adept at traveling back and forth between worlds. Having the owl as a totem is not always an easy experience. In fact, I consider owl's medicine to be among the most challenging. Owl people are usually solitary and must sometimes take hits from those without a firm spiritual understanding.

Owl spirit guides will often visit their human companions in the dream-time. This is where the owl imparts wisdom through dream symbolism and imagery. The owl person must learn about archetypes -  universal symbolic images - in order to decipher owl's hidden messages. Symbolism is the crux of magic, and must be studied carefully by the owl person.

Owl people are often troubled by an innate wisdom of the universe that finds no expression or validation in the affairs of humans. They disdain many social structures,  and find it difficult to maintain close relationships with people in general. Many people aligned with owl find that retreat from the disenchanted world is the greatest path to understanding, and owl will often guide those with it's medicine away from their normal preoccupation with everyday activities by instilling a sense of disappointment in the owl soul person.

This sense of discontent eventually leads the owl person into deep exploration of the hidden worlds. The spirit of owl seems to haunt their very souls, as if a constant reminder of the illusory nature of life on earth.

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Please note: I edited this excerpt slightly.

Colin Andrews, Dr. Steven Greer and a mosquito

Colin Andrews in his element

While at the recent Open Minds UFO conference in Arizona, I was delighted to spend some time with Colin Andrews. He is a crop circle researcher who I respect enormously. I had exchanged a few emails with him in the previous weeks asking if he would be open to doing an audio interview. He said yes, but his schedule was too full to find a date, but we both agreed it will happen at some point in the near future.

At the conference I asked Colin if we could talk, he heartily agreed and we went outside and sat in a small garden area on a bench. I shared a set of experiences of my own while Colin ate his lunch. There were parts of my experience that seemed to resonate strongly with him, and he was a wonderful listener.

As I neared the end of my story, I saw a glimpse of a tiny bug near my mouth, and then I felt it tickling the back of my throat. I turned and coughed towards the tall plants near the bench.

Colin laughed, and in his beautiful English accent he said, "I saw that little fellow go in, it was a mosquito." The tiny tickle remained, but I finished my story as Colin finished his lunch.

Suddenly, Colin looked past me and said, "Well Hello Steven!"

Dr. Steven Greer

I turned and looked behind me and saw Dr. Steven Greer approach us, and we both stood up. Dr. Greer had a body guard along side him, decked out in dark sunglasses and a black military looking flack jacket. Dr. Greer and Colin knew each other from a previous set of conferences where they were speakers; they both smiled and shook hands.

Colin said, "Steven, I want you to meet Mike here, we've just been sharing some interesting stories."

I shook his hand and he said, "Hello, I'm Steven Greer."

I replied with a raspy voice, "Yes, I know who you are." At that point I felt that tiny mosquito in my throat position itself so I was absolutely incapable of speech. I was suddenly struck mute. So, all I could do is stand there in silence as Colin and Dr. Greer exchanged some pleasant small talk.

Now, let me add here that Dr. Greer is on of the very few people in this small pool of researchers that I find extremely challenging. He says things that I find very difficult to believe, and he will make conclusions that I simply find impossible to accept. I worry that his presence is having a negative impact on the direction of the UFO community, such as it is.

But, during the 5 minutes or so that I stood with him in that garden all I could do was listen. The chit-chat between him and Colin was entirely commonplace, and they both seemed genuinely happy to see each other.

Then Dr. Greer said, "Well, I should check into the hotel room." They said their good-byes, and I smiled politely and he and his bodyguard walked away.

As he left, I turned and faced the bushes and coughed. I saw a tiny speck shoot out, and I instantly knew I had liberated that mosquito from my throat. At that point my voice returned.

So, I had met a nemesis of sorts, and the universe had coerced me into silence.

Let me also add that in 2011 both Dr. Greer and Colin had been at a conference together and both of them, for the first time publicly, stood on a stage and shared their own UFO contact experiences. The term abduction might be used here interchangeably. Colin and I spoke about what it meant to speak one's truth, and what it might imply all of humanity. I found this both fascinating and emotional.

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  my interveiw with Colin Andrews HERE  

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tube girls

Pulp art from a by-gone era.

More weird imagery form SCI-FI WOMEN IN TUBES. This is a resource with a resounding hat-tip to Mac Tonnies. If you click on the link (above), be prepared to get lost in some nutty visuals, with an overtly weird fetish throughout.
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Whitley Strieber talks with Randy Maugans

Whitley Strieber gets interviewed by Randy Maugans for a full hour on Off-Planet Radio.

This conversation reframes the entire spectrum of the paranormal. Whitley, as always, is profoundly eloquent as he addresses the big-picture from a deep personal persepctive. Humanity is being stretched, pushed, and pulled to evolve beyond our present concepts, outside of our traditional models, and forward towards something that he defines as divine.
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tube girls

art.

I have started yet another blog, titled SCI-FI WOMEN IN TUBES. This new blog features ONLY images of curvy women encased in glass tubes, and there are a LOT of 'em. All these images are from the Golden Age of the pulp magazine illustration. This was a favorite theme of the late Mac Tonnies. He seemed absolutely delighted that such a pattern even existed in these long ago images.

For best results, view in MOSAIC (a new blogger setting).

I am eager to find more, if anyone out there can add to this list of nutty imagery, please lemme know!

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I have Rh Negative blood

Me and my 12 dollar home blood test card

I just did a home test to determine my blood type. I am A Negative. That means I am Rh Negative.

If anyone has been following what's going on the UFO abduction research circles, you'll know that blood type is now one of the questions that gets asked when interviewing a potential abductee. I just went to a UFO conference and everybody was asking each other about their blood type. The internet is a bottomless pit of confusing information, so I actual have no idea what it might actually mean.

The Rh Negative factor makes up approximately 15% of the worlds population. And, according to some researchers, 54% of UFO abductees have the Rh Negative factor. But, (according to ICAR) A Negative blood makes up 6% of the world population, yet A Negative is only 4.5% of the UFO abductees. This was from a pool of 1,400 that gave their information in the study. To me, this isn't a very large study and I don't know about the details.

My conclusion is (after minimal research) that there is a lot of buzz in among the UFO community, but I can't make out much from the on-line data.

Also, my father has O Negative blood, the universal donor.

Text added in 2018:

Since the publication of this post there has been some new data. Rey Hernandez was part of a team of academics that organized a research project to study Experiencers. The conclusion of his organization is that the Rh factor among experiencers is essentially the same as the general public, roughly around 15%. Their findings would seem to make this post irrelevant.

Also — this has been an extremely popular post.

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upcoming post

I plan on writing a post on how certain abductees will take on the role of communicator. They will share their experiences as if they simply don't have a choice, or perhaps as if they are impelled to do so from some outside force. And by outside force, I mean them.

I post this here as a reminder to myself. And by reminder I mean kick-in-the-pants.

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Joe Montaldo gets interviewed

Joe is one intense dude!

I am going to recommend an audio interview with Joe Montaldo. He shares the microphone with host Robert Gutwrench Bradbury. Joe is a sort of a wild-card, and I suspect that side of him might drive some listeners crazy. I was in that boat for a while, but the more I follow him, the more I'm impressed.

[ interview linked HERE ]

Heads up, you can fast forward to the 10 minute mark and skip the interview.

Joe shares some of his own experiences in this interview, and they are extremely strange. He also talks about the Ancient Astronaut Theory and how it's all part of what's going on now.

I liked the way the host would need to chime in: "Woah, hold on Joe, you need to explain what you mean..." This helped clarify some of Joe's claims. This was something I tried to do last year when I interviewed Joe , that two-part show is linked HERE.

Just so y'know, this dialog is diametrically opposite from the one I did with Jason Horsley! To me, both Jason and Joe have a lot to add to this mystery.

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audio conversation with Jason Horsley

Author and thinker.

Jason Horsley is a writer, scholar, former podcaster and misadventurer. You might know him by his pseudonym Aeolus Kephas, or Jason Kephas, or just Jake. Who and what he might be is difficult to pin down. He wrote a book that I very much liked titled THE LUCID VIEW. And he wrote another that I've yet to read, but I suspect will be right up my alley titled THE SECRET LIFE OF MOVIES.

one-click audio download HERE

one hour / 53 minutes

There is a LONG intro, you can fast forward to the 9:40 time count,

where the interview starts.

Jason's preferred title for this episode is: "What the UFO wants from YOU!"

He hosted a podcast series known lovingly as STORMY WEATHER, linked HERE and HERE. I return to this amazing series again and again and I am continually struck by the depth of Jason’s thinking and bold ideas.

I do my best to keep up with Jason's mind, and hopefully there is plenty to chew on in this interview. We also talk about God, UFO abductions, unconscious filters, Jesus, Dr. Steven Greer, the ego and the metaphoric map. You might wanna follow this podcast up with the one he recently did with DIET SOAP.

Along with all that, her recently wrote a 39-page essay titled: Through a Fractured Glass, Darkly. It’s sub-titled: The Facts in the Strange Case of Whitley Strieber. This was penned under the name Aeolus Kephas. We spend some time on this essay during our conversation. You can read the two part essay at Realty Sandwich, here are Part ONE and Part TWO.

Jason also has a blog; ARKANA ARKADIA.

During our almost two hour discussion, Jason doodled this exquisite work (pen on paper) and it seems to accurately reflect the depth of our existential conversation.

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all audio interviews [linked]

I just created a tidy series of direct links to all of my audio interview, the long list is in the right-hand side-bar. Now it's a lot easier to see 'em ALL in one swoop. There are 52 podcasts as of this posting, and it really surprised me that there were that many.

The layout needed some tweaking for visual clarity, so I added another sidebar to the left and moved a few things over to that side.

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Jack Kirby and personal memories

Click on either image for a HI-rez view.

On the first day of spring I found that Christopher Knowles posted something that seemed odd to me. The SECRET SUN featured a series of Jack Kirby frames from Captian America comic books. These images were curiously similar to something I saw with a boyhood friend out a window in 1974. I was probably 11 years old at the time, and it still remains unexplained.

Jack Kirby was a driving force in comic book illustrations and super-hero themes. Christopher Knowles has worked tirelessly to peer into Kirby's mythic powers.

The number 74 as 1974?

This was listed on The Secret Sun site as the number of posts about Jack Kirby. I realized this when I linked to to his site. The number 74 seems particularly resonant.

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Arthur C. Clarke said that he's seen lots of UFOs

Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick during the production of 2001: A Space Odyssey

This post is accompanied by a very short audio clip (only 6 minutes) that features both Arthur C.Clarke and Dr. Leo Sprinkle. What does it mean that Clarke claims to have seen lots of UFOs?

6 minutes long / DOWNLOAD MP3

The video store on my main street is going out of business, and they are selling their entire inventory. That said, I now own a copy of 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the special features there is an interview with Arthur C. Clarke who wrote the short story that was the basis for the film and he also worked closely with Kubrick throughout the production as co-screenwriter.

The 16mm movie footage shows Clarke giving a short talk in a bland looking banquet room with a small gathering of people. Then he answers questions from the attendees. This took place in the months before the release of 2001, and Clarke admits he hasn't yet seen the finished film.

One question and answer near the end caught my attention.

Question: Can I be pedestrian and ask about the unidentified flying objects?

Clarke: Well can I be pedestrian and give a brief reply?

One, if you've never seen an unidentified flying object you are very unobservant.

Two, if you've seen as many as I have you won' t believe in them. (awkward laughter from the room)

Three, they have nothing to do with visitors from space.

Four, it is impossible to prove three. (hearty laughter from the room)

When he says: "...if you've seen as many as I have you won' t believe in them," I think he is trying to say he has moved beyond believing and into knowing. To me, this is very interesting.

He is admitting he's seen a lot of UFOs. This is highly unusual, and if someone like Budd Hopkins heard him say this, I am quite certain his eyebrows would raise. Most abduction researchers will jump to the conclusion that anyone with more than a few UFO sightings is quite probably an abductee. Personally, I'm not sure what to think.

The interesting thing is that people who have experienced a UFO abduction will quite often be totally focused on the subject of UFOs and the contact experience, and this seems to neatly define Arthur C. Clarke.

The audio download (linked HERE) also includes Dr. Leo Sprinkle sharing a story about meeting Clarke and having him tell about seeing a flying saucer the very night he and Kubrick agreed to do the movie 2001.

All this said, I actually don't know too much about Clarke (except that I read Rendezvous with Rama in high school) so if anyone can help me out here, I'd be grateful.
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Text and video added March 19th 2012:

I found a documentary I remember seeing in 1980. In the opening sequence, Clarke states that he has seen six very clear UFOs in the sky, he adds that he has seen others that weren't as impactful. This film looks into the mysteries surrounding witness reports. He was quite a rational skeptic, being cautious not to jump to extraordinary conclusions. The transcript below starts at the 15:15 time count.

Clarke: (after discussing the challenges of sighting reports) And that of course is the trouble with long range sightings, we can never be absolutely sure what they were, and even if it was a visitor form outer-space, we couldn't prove it.

For this reason I am no longer interested in UFO sightings.

But what does intrigue me, what is very mysterious, are the so called close encounters.

The documentary then goes on to dig into a series of entity experiences. I posted one of the witness reports previously because I was impressed by Mrs. Jesse Roestenburg's credibility (linked HERE), although it's a different interview. And the other story is deeply impressive if only for the witnesses beautiful Scottish accent.