Paranormal
40 True Alien Abduction Stories From The People Who Survived Them
These are all really, really freaky.
Many of the world’s most famous cases of UFO sightings and abductions are well-known, but what about the everyday occurrences that happen to totally normal people?
Some of these people have broken their silence by posting their stories online, and we’ve compiled the most thought-provoking ones here.
1. Where had all the time gone?
“I had a year-long experience of strange events that I’ve never been able to explain or have a full memory of.
It started in winter working up north on a project. Our crew was put up in a Motel 10 minutes outside of the largest town in the area. I somehow got upgraded to a king size bed with couches, nice room. Our days were long so I used the couches to stack my clothes in piles(Jeans, hoodies, etc).
I had brought my entire desktop computer with me and was in the middle of a massive argument with my ex over Facebook messenger at 1am during the 2nd week up there. At some point, I opened my eyes and I was sitting on top of a pile of hoodies on the couch. The time was now 4am.
I rushed over to the computer. At some point, after 1am I had stopped typing a sentence midway through. My ex had left a ton of messages throughout the night demanding I answer her back. She also left missed calls and texts on my phone that was still sitting beside the mouse. I figured I had somehow passed out but wasn’t sure how I ended up on top of my hoodies on the couch and not just fall into bed. Went to sleep normally for the remaining couple hours before work.
A couple of days later a stranger scenario happened. My routine was we’d finish work, I’d come back to the motel around 9pm, shower, change, and drive into town for late night dinner at Boston Pizza (the only restaurant open late other than McDonald’s). So this particular night I went through my routine, took a shower, changed, headed for the door. I got to my car and when I turned it on something felt really wrong.
I looked at the time, it was now 2am. I had no idea how I had lost around 4 hours between showering and getting into my car. It felt weird. My whole body felt weird. I felt violated like a rape victim would describe waking up from being assaulted while passed out. You feel violated but you have no idea what happened. Not a single memory or explanation. I stayed up all night scared shitless trying to figure out what happened. Why was I missing 4 hours, if I had passed out why didn’t I wake up on the floor, why did I feel violated, etc.
The rest of the project nothing else happened, but once I got back home things started happening that were just as weird. There’s more to my experiences if people want to know (it only lasted for about a year), but those two events were the starting catalysts.
I’ve never actually figured out what happened but most people I’ve asked all seem to agree it had to be abduction events.”
2. They were outside my tent…
“Was camping in a campground in north Georgia with some friends. It was starting to downpour so everyone left their tents in the woods and decided to rent one of the on-site cabins for everyone to sleep in. I decided I’d just sleep in my car because they wanted to stay up late and I was tired from kayaking all day.
I woke up to the rain stopping and it was kind of cold in the car and I had forgotten my sleeping bag in my tent. I checked the cabin to see if there was any room left and the light was on and everyone was fast asleep (3am). I didn’t want to squeeze in so I decided to trek my way to my tent in the dark with a small penlight. In order to get to my tent, I had to pass by everyone’s that they left. Mine was the last one and even then was 50 ft at least from the previous tent before it.
I got in my tent, covered up with my sleeping bag and prepared to catch the last few hours of sleep before sunrise. No more than 10-15 min from me getting in my tent I began to hear light whispers right outside the tent door. They weren’t in English and to my recollection indecipherable (not any language I had heard at all). Just as the voices started, two orbs appeared together outside the tent. They weren’t the same glare as a flashlight would make and both were of two different colors that to the best of my ability had no real distinct color. Just colorful.
The whispers outside the tent began arguing louder between each other, but still in a hushed tone. And as the whispers grew louder, the lights began swirling around the tent. Behind me, to the side to the front. Not in the movement that one could make with flashlights and at this point I realized no footsteps could be heard.
I uncovered myself and knelt on the tent floor preparing for the zipper to come undone like in a horror movie and I was flipping through my mind on what option to take. I was the most terrified I had ever been. Fight or flight.
The lights swirled faster and the voices grew louder but still breathy and whispery. My mind raced and I was sweating despite the cold. And then, just like that the lights shut off like a switch and the whispers stopped and nothing but the silence of an empty wood.
I stood there as still as I could and I didn’t dare go outside that tent until the sun came up. It was and still is the scariest moment of my life. I hope this makes sense. I’ve never written it out before. If I need to answer anything I can try in-between moments at work. Interesting enough I went to a horror movie premiere recently and there was a scene that had the voices in it and goosebumps ran up my arm. It was identical.”
3. Dogs were going absolutely crazy
“I was home alone in this little house I lived in in the middle of nowhere. It was probably around 2 AM and I was just listening to music enjoying having the place to myself for a change when all of a sudden my dogs started going CRAZY. Normally, when someone pulls in the driveway or comes up to the back door, they go to the door they heard the noise beyond and peek through the blinds to see who it is, but this night they are running all around the house from door to door barking louder than they ever do.
When I stood up to go see what the hell they were on about, I noticed that the whole house seemed to be lit up with a deep blue light. Turning into the living room, it became obvious that it was emanating in from each window. I put on my shoes to go outside and see who was out there, but by the time I got out there, the light had faded away. There was no sound of a car engine or really anything, and where I lived you could hear a car coming from a mile away.
I felt a chill run down my spine but I had the weirdest sense of fight or flight where neither option seemed viable like I was frozen to the spot. I wanted to turn around and get back inside, and then…I just was. Right back in the chair, I was listening to music in. As if I just blinked and there I was.
Don’t really like telling people about it because it skeeves me out so bad.”
4. How did we lose 45 minutes?
“About 20 years ago I was walking home from the shops with my dad and we stopped to watch some really odd lights in the sky.
There were 2 lights, slightly bigger than the stars zooming around and orbiting each other, making figure-8s etc. And then they stopped moving, got bigger and bigger until bright light filled the sky and then they were gone, we carried on our journey home. We hadn’t stopped for more than 5 mins. The whole journey should have been 20 mins.
When we got home, my mum was freaking out, we had been gone for 65 mins, our watches were both still working but were 45 mins behind every clock in the house. She had neighbors/friends bout looking for us. I don’t know what happened to us or what we saw, maybe nothing.”
5. How did I end up on the ground?
“I live in a pretty secluded part of Washington state. I was in my late teens and my parents had gone to Seattle for something, so I was put in charge of the property. I was closing everything up (i.e. the barn we own and some other small utility buildings) when I look up and see three reddish-orange lights in a triangular formation. They were just floating there as if they were magnified stars. So magnified, in fact, that everything was slightly illuminated by their warm hue.
I’m mesmerized, standing there, and suddenly lose my sense of balance, as if the ground in front of me has begun rising, and I pass out. Next thing I know I’m on the ground in the barn I had locked up (according to my watch) half an hour before. Needless to say, I was petrified. I scurried to the house with my tail between my legs scared and confused. I slept not at all that night and any sense of security I had was gone. Even though I was locked safely in my house, I felt hopelessly exposed.”
— Trewdub
6. I woke up down the road from where I was
“I was living out in the boonies with my mom, I was 15 years old. I had been talking with this girl on and off for weeks and I was on the phone with her, it was just before dark when this chick was telling me that if I come over to her house she will sneak outside to hang out with me as soon as her parents go to bed. Luckily she only lived 2 miles away and I had a bike. Horny teenage me didn’t take long to decide right then and there I was gonna make that trip. Luckily my mom always went to bed super early as well.
She texts me sometime after 10pm that her parents went to bed. It’s on. I leave for her house.
As I’m riding my bike down these dark country roads I see almost exactly what you described you saw. Orange glowy lights in a triangular formation. They were just hanging there still. I stopped for a second to get a better look because there were some trees obstructing my view and they started looking bigger the more I looked at them. I started to feel this really weird sensation that I can only describe as similar to vertigo. I completely black out.
I wake up and I’m still on the side of the road but not where I was before. I got super confused and couldn’t quite figure out where I was for a minute. I pull out my phone to look at the time. It’s dead. My bike is nowhere to be found. I start heading down the road in what I thought was the direction I came and suddenly realized where I was. I was in the opposite direction of my house from where I started. Like, I was on the same road, just on the other end of it. I turn around when I realize this and run home. I get home and plug in my phone. It’s like 2am and I have a bunch of missed calls and texts from that chick asking where I’m at. I go to bed and sleep like shit the rest of the night.
The next day I call that girl and I tell her what happened. She sounds skeptical. I ask her what time she called me the first time last night after I left. She said she called me at around 11:00 and it wouldn’t go through. I left sometime after 10… I know my phone was at nearly full battery because it was on the charger before I left the house. I do find my bike later that day in the same place I remember stopping. It was just laying there on the side of the road. I remember having really crazy dreams and a bad headache for a couple weeks after this happened. You know, after the first couple weeks I never really had dreams much anymore. Still, don’t. Not sure if it’s related at all though.”
7. We were having sex, and what happened?
“Not entirely sure if we were abducted, but my wife (who was a non-believer) and I both have missing time. We were having sex on our bed when we suddenly both came to and were in totally different places in the room. Not sure how much time had past, but she looked at me and said: ‘what the fuck just happened?’ I said I wasn’t sure. Neither of us were scared, and we were both incredibly tired. We decided we would just go to bed and talk about it in the morning.
I looked up instances of missing time and a lot of them said the same thing. When they came to they were just very tired, knew something was totally weird, but just wanted to go to sleep.”
8. Was it a dream?
“When I was about seven, my parents and I briefly lived in an apartment in Chicago next door to my dad’s old house. For whatever reason, on this night we all slept on the living room floor, me in-between my parents. Sometime in the middle of the night I woke up and was entranced by an orange glow out one of the windows (we were on the second floor). I wandered the five or ten feet over to it and looked out to see what I believed to be the house next door completely gone, and a spacecraft in its place over an empty lot. I remember just standing there staring at it in disbelief, feeling as though I couldn’t move an inch. And it must have felt like I was there for ages, and then bam I woke up, back between my parents. So it was a dream…
You’d think, except immediately after waking up I rolled over and puked my brains out. I wasn’t sick and I don’t throw up unless there’s a serious stomach virus going on, so it was for an undetermined reason. I won’t sit here and claim I was actually abducted, as I got older I started to rationalize that I was probably just scared shitless by the dream, but I always do kind of wonder.”
9. My security footage was totally wiped
“I was home alone one evening and had gone to sleep for the night. I live with my S/O and two indoor cats but she was out of state traveling for business. I woke up in the middle of the night (wasn’t sure of the time but it was completely dark) because my body was freezing cold. I actually like it cool when I sleep and usually have the temperature around 70 degrees or colder since I live in central Texas. But this was different, I was ice cold but wrapped in blankets (it was middle of summer so evenings aren’t cold).
When I grabbed my phone to look at the time, it seemed to be off and I pressed the ON button but it didn’t turn it on. Since I was half-asleep, I shrugged this off. I walked out of my bedroom to go adjust the thermostat and noticed that the cats weren’t around. This was weird because these furballs are always hanging out on the bed or around the bed. Anyhow, I walked to the thermostat and tried to adjust it but the power to the thermostat (I have a Nest) was nil and the power to the house seemed to be off. I peeked out of the upstairs window to see if any of my neighbors were having power-issues and notice that all of their outdoor lights were working just fine.
From the time I woke to this moment was probably 1-2 minutes maximum. I decide to wander downstairs to grab some water but am startled when I realize there is a glow of light coming from the first floor. The way my house is situated, I couldn’t see the light until I had approached the stairs. I found this odd because the power seemed to be out just upstairs (which didn’t make a lot of sense). I started walking down the stairs and began to hear a faint humming noise. The noise had a high pitch to it with arbitrary pulses of low sounds; almost like a muffled weedwacker that someone is throttling at random.
As I continue to walk down the stairs, I spot a dark, slowly-moving figure in the room with light at the bottom of the stairs. The next step that I take feels like I walked off the side of a cliff or was sucked into the floor. That is really the best way I can explain it because I don’t remember what happened after that moment, I just lost all feeling from my body. My next memory is waking up again to the sound of my phone’s alarm. Everything seemed back to normal. I sat there in bed (cats back to being lazy in bed next to me) and tried to think about the 2-minute incident that happened in the middle of the night. I am not a sleepwalker and I was definitely not dreaming.
My security system’s app shows the time whenever a door is opened or closed. I realized that my security system was disarmed on the app and that the front door had been opened and closed several times throughout the night. I pulled up my security footage from the exterior cameras and was surprised to learn that there was ZERO footage from the night. Like the motion sensors reacted to a random car driving-by around 10pm and then the next thing is another random car in the morning. So someone/something walked in and out of my front door but the cameras did not capture any footage. My neighbor across the street has a good security system that points at my house so I asked if he can review the footage from his cameras. I told him some made-up story about how I thought someone had broken into my truck. Anyway, he said it was weird because when he pulled up the footage from that night, his cameras did not record anything. Just a time gap once again.
My first thought was that I was sleepwalking and that the memory was a dream but it just couldn’t have been. When I looked out of the window in the middle of the night, I distinctly recall a red pickup truck parked the wrong direction in front of the neighbor’s house. I always notice when cars are parked left-wheel to curb because I’ve gotten a ticket for this in the past. Anyhow, the truck was not there before I went to sleep (based on footage) but was there in the morning (based on footage). So the truck was there when I saw it in the middle of the night. I definitely woke up in the middle of the night, cold as ice, no cats, no working phone or thermostat, saw the truck out of the window and then got warped by something on the stairs.
A couple additional things were different in the house. The security system was disarmed and I definitely armed it before going to bed. The light was still on downstairs and that was absolutely off before I went to bed. My whole body smelled like burnt marshmallows. I know this is weird but it’s really how it smelled. And lastly, my 55-gallon fish tank that sits at the bottom of the stairs in the entryway was missing 2/3 of the water! Seriously, where the fuck did 40+ gallons of water go? The whole area around the tank was bone-dry and the fish were fine. I think I was mind-fucked by some thirsty aliens.”
10. Maybe it was an alien?
“When I was 13 I was a chubby curly haired goof and I was excited about my birthday coming up in the next week. I had been getting very little sleep due to a mixture of excitement for the giant cookie I requested as my birthday cake and school stress rubbish (bullies, really) kept me up at night for a few nights – so this experience might be caused by a mix of sleep deprivation / night terrors (I have had night terrors semi-frequently my entire life).
Anyway, I was getting ready to sleep and snuggled into bed when I realized the lights were still on, so I sit up in bed and peak at my window (my view was obstructed mostly by a blanket covering the window, and my bed was in the corner of the room, so I only had a small view of the window) and I lock eyes with a grey head covering my entire view and beyond the window. Next thing I know it was morning and I was tucked back into bed with my lights still on but my window was cracked open slightly.
I told my parents about what happened at breakfast and they told me to stop lying for attention. I lost a little bit more sleep from the experience and got over it pretty quickly, it never happened again.
Not too fascinating, I am a believer in aliens due to the size of the universe. However, I don’t fully believe it was an alien I saw. A little bit of me wants to believe that it was an extraterrestrial. We had a big playground with a giant field not even 200 yards from our house we could walk to through the woods, so maybe it was an alien who parked his car and was just snooping around real quick?”
— Wilffic
11. I heard a humming, then I saw him
“This happened when I was 10.
I looked out my window, as I always did before bed to make sure nothing is outside since my window faced the street, and suddenly, I started hearing a massive mechanical hum and the light outside became bright like a spotlight was on the home.
I then locked eyes with a grey head, freaked the fuck out, jumped in my bed and pulled the covers up close and stared at the window waiting to die and wondering what is going on. I saw the grey figure pacing in front of my window, stopping to stare through the bent corner in my blinds with its black eyes.
I remember it very vividly from the sound to the sensations. It was like a vibrating at a high frequency.
I couldn’t muster the courage to call for my parents, or even yell. Not like I would hear my own voice anyway. Another one showed up on the other side of the window just staring while the first continued pacing. Just as I was gathering the courage to run, everything stopped.
Next thing I knew, it was a few hours later, everything was dark and night again. I never told anybody till now.”
12. What he described was an alien
“I will tell you my son’s experience.
He was 5 years old and we had just redecorated his bedroom. He was sleeping in a new bed. And had a nightlight so the room wasn’t dark. He had chosen a green apple colored paint so with the night light everything had a green sorta glow.
I was one room away sleeping when my son let out a blood-curdling howl of. ‘Mooooomy!’ I was out of bed like a shot and flew into his room. The minute I appeared at the end of his bed he launched himself into my arms and buried his face in my neck as he trembled.
I brought him to my room where my husband was much much slower to wake sat up and we put our arms around my son to calm him. He told us there were three, green, bald men with big black eyes in his room. It took most of the night to get him back to sleep and he would not set foot in his room for a long time.
The next morning I googled a picture of a gray alien with black eyes and he freaked out and said that’s what they looked like. It took three years to get him to sleep alone in his room again.”
13. Maybe Aliens? But Definitely Creepy.
“I really don’t know if I was abducted or not but I witnessed something pretty unexplainable.
My ex and I were driving out of my suburban neighborhood super late one night on the way to go eat Waffle House or something. As we’re nearing the exit to my neighborhood I look up into the sky and we both notice these three really strange orange lights in a triangle formation. We then stopped the car in the middle of the road to figure out wtf we’re looking at.
These lights didn’t have the quality of lights you see emitting from a plane or a star. When you look at stars, they are so far away that they almost seem 2D. But these lights FELT 3D somehow. These lights were much bigger and seemed closer? Like high enough into the sky to be well above the trees but not above the clouds. And they were just floating there not moving up, down, left, or right but eerily still. I really don’t know how to explain how still these things were but it was unnatural and I know that sounds stupid but that’s how it felt when I saw them and I wish I could explain it better.
But when I saw this, I was both mesmerized and sort of in shock. I’ve always been a UFO enthusiast and I’ve always wanted to see something bizarre like this and finally it was happening. I couldn’t take my eyes off of what I was looking at and… I feel like I didn’t for like an hour? I really don’t know how much time passed but it really did feel like an unnatural amount of time.
Finally, these globes of light just abruptly dissolved away. Kind of like they were sucked into a black hole or something.
We break our gaze and look at each other and my ex asks me if I just saw what she saw. And yeah, we couldn’t come up with an explanation at all. To this day, no one believes me and I don’t care. I saw what I saw and I’m now fully confident we’re not alone.
— Slarxy
14. We were all on a nice drive, and then we saw THIS
“In 1997 three of my friends and I were driving down a long winding route to my house, at around 10:00 pm. I was in the back seat. It was very cold, February or early March in New Hampshire.
Suddenly my friend, driving, says, ‘What the fuck?’ My friend in the passenger seat starts saying ‘Oh my god, oh my god.’ The two of us in the back seat are craning our necks trying to see, and then directly in front of the car a bright light dilates, then gets smaller.
The car is at a crawl now, and we are all looking up astonished as 4-5 other lights dilate and recede. They grow to about the size and brightness of a police searchlight, but then get so small that they disappear.
This part is going to sound insane, but we were all there, and we all saw the same thing. We pulled over on a shared driveway that has a good view because it’s on a snowy hill, overlooking a reservoir. The reservoir is frozen solid with enough ice to ride a truck on, for all you ‘swamp gas’ nay-sayers.
But now there is nobody else around, just the four of us in the freezing cold. We get out of the car and look up, hoping to see the lights. We saw lights all right, but they were acting very differently.
High above us were large elongated lights, shaped like lozenges. There were about a dozen of these, and they just kind of hung in the air, milling about slowly in various directions. These occasionally got brighter and dimmer. And what really freaked us out were the smaller lights, the size of bright stars, which exited from the “sides” of the larger lozenges. These would emerge, four or six at a time, and then they would start moving quickly back and forth, and side to side, very quickly and changing direction instantly. Then they would start ‘squiggling’ about very erratically before stopping, moving alone or in tandem with others, before retreating to the lozenges. Meanwhile, others were emerging from other lozenges, so there was a constant busy display of these little ships zooming about, almost as though they were dancing with each other.
It was insane, and thinking about it now it is so vivid in my mind that it seems like yesterday.
We stayed outside for an hour before we couldn’t take the cold anymore.
My friends dropped me off at the bottom of my 1/2-mile-long driveway so as not to get stuck on the ice (my driveway was poorly maintained, and I was embarrassed to have friends at my house anyway because my dad was an alcoholic and we lived ‘off the grid’).
After they pulled away I looked up but saw nothing. No sign of any UFOs, but there were trees here so I couldn’t see as well. Then I had a sudden twinge of panic. It was a deep panic, overwhelmingly horrified but also still in shock about what we had seen. I was suddenly afraid to be out there alone. I ran up the driveway, ice be damned, and snuck into my room, where I probably didn’t even sleep. I don’t recall.
We have all spoken of this since. For the first few days we were all still in awe, but we never really seemed to be telling anyone else at school about it—at least I didn’t. I don’t know how the others were dealing with it. We slowly stopped talking about it.
About seven or eight years later I met up with a couple of them, and I asked if they remembered. I was afraid I had made the whole thing up, and that it was a dream or maybe I was going crazy or had been crazy at the time. They both remembered in the same detail as I did, although we were all a little embarrassed to discuss it again.”
15. Where is the light coming from?
“When I was twelve, I was playing RuneScape on the computer while my mom and stepdad were out for the night. This was special for me, as I always had to get off the computer when they went to bed. I remember seeing a light through out thin, white curtains and thinking that they had come home when they were supposed to be gone all night. I went outside and our driveway was empty.
Turned out the light was coming from a huge, black triangle with three points of light that was hanging in the sky right above my house. I went inside to grab my parents’ digital camera, but by the time I got back outside, it wasn’t there. I know that night happened but has felt like a dream since the day after. Made me believe.”
16. They were in my room
“When I was four Aliens came in through my bedroom window. I was terrified but I couldn’t move. My sister was asleep in the bed next to me. The aliens had big heads and big black eyes. It was as if I was in a dream but I was very much awake. I tried to cry out but I couldn’t make a sound. The aliens left and eventually I was able to crawl into my parent’s room. Completely freaked out I didn’t talk for 24 hours. My mom was very protective and patient for which I’m still extremely grateful.”
17. We all felt violated
Wouldn’t say I was abducted by aliens specifically, but I was definitely taken somewhere. It was more of an abduction of consciousness if that makes sense? I don’t know, it might have been my body too, it was a weird feeling I can’t really explain.
I was sitting at the park one day in broad daylight with 4 or 5 friends. I lived in a small community in the Midwest so the park was empty except for us. We were talking and smoking (just cigarettes for me, nothing that would alter my consciousness) when suddenly everyone just kind of slowed down and eventually froze completely, myself included. I couldn’t move or talk, I couldn’t blink, I had to focus really hard on just breathing, and then I blacked out. I woke up alone in a dark, nearly pitch black room with 3 large illuminated screens around me. On the screens, I saw the park from above, the exact spot where my friends and I were sitting. It felt like I was in that room for hours until I blacked out again.
I finally came to and realized I’d been crying hysterically on the ground. The rest of my friends seemed pretty wrecked too, like they all just experienced something equally terrifying. I was the first one of us to speak, I said ‘I think I met God,’ and they all responded with similar brief statements. I remember one girl saying ‘We’re on TV somewhere,’ which expressed the feeling of being watched, unsafe, and violated really well. I can’t remember what anyone else said, just the general idea of ‘We just got taken somewhere.’ We didn’t talk about it besides one weird, short sentence each. That was the strangest part for me, that we didn’t talk about it but we all understood that we’d seen the same thing. It felt like we couldn’t talk about it where ‘it/they’ could see us.
We left immediately and haven’t spoken about it since. I don’t keep in touch with those friends anymore but it would be interesting to know if they felt like it was an abduction of some kind too.
— doofwars
18. What happened in that bathroom?
I’m hesitant to say I was abducted… but something happened.
I was about 15 at the time. I was at my grandparent’s house with my parents and sister. We were about to eat dinner that my grandma had made before I left to use the bathroom. My grandma is an immigrant from the Caribbean and she always leaves her bathroom window open. It’s a mix of being really frugal and just the island custom of leaving windows open for a breeze. I found it very uncomfortable to pee in there with the window open so I was always on high alert looking through it when I had to. I was peeing when I heard a noise that I honestly could never explain with words. I guess you’d call it like a high pitched grating? Either way, it was a strange sound, and the strangest thing about it is that it sounded like it was coming from my own head. It must have been a second later that I saw a blinding light, then everything went black, like an instant sleep.
What felt like a moment later I was back in the dining room with my family. They were sitting around at the table, dirty plates in front of them. There was a dirty plate in front of me. I was sitting with them. I had eaten? They were talking casually, in that transition between dinner and saying goodbye to go. They were talking to me about my soccer team, and the conversation felt like we had been talking about it for a while.
I could hardly speak but no one noticed. We drove home and I went directly to sleep. I was so tired. The next morning I thought about it. I tried to figure out what it was but it felt so overwhelming to do so that I just decided it was best not to. Something happened, I just have no idea what it was. I guess I honestly don’t even want to know what it was at this point because it never happened again, and I’m ok with that.
19. I finally investigated, and I’m still not sure
“Ok, so on March 24, 2015, I walked out of my backyard, around 11pm and I live in boring Oregon. So honestly, where I lived it was isolated. I felt like many times there is supposed to be something waiting for me in the backwoods every day. I felt like somebody wanted me to go in the woods and kept sending signals. Whether it was random sounds at night or small glares of light. I kept questioning what the heck could it be that is so obnoxious. I always go there during the day and there is nothing, but branches and trees.
So around 11:25pm that night I wanted to yell into the woods and asked to stop messing around but it was difficult to. I was honestly frozen and I felt paralyzed, I tried to scream for help but no words. I kept walking towards the woods and I felt something grabbed me by the arm, and shoved me through the woods. Then I woke up and I thought it was a dream, I went outside of course and went where I was shoved and for the first time in my life I see branches broken and all the leaves on the ground were swept away from each other.
I left around that month, and the house is still on sale at Century 21, and I plan to go see it this summer and set up a paranormal crew and wait out at night. I honestly think aliens took me and put me back to bed as an experiment.”
— Juan6025
20. We still don’t know what to make of this
“In the 90s, my family lived in a coastal city in Saudi Arabia.
My parents were doing up the flat we lived in so my brother and I had to sleep on the same king-sized bed for a week or so. I was probably around 10 years old and my brother was 13 years old.
One night my brother started shaking my shoulder trying to wake me up, saying ‘iamiq, iamiq, do you see this too?’.
I don’t know what the time was but it was dark. I was under my duvet and had no idea what he was talking about, I opened my eyes and saw this featureless, lanky, tall person made of dim light. It was standing by my brother’s side of the bed.
Before I could process what was happening, it extended its neck over to the middle of the bed between my brother and I and disintegrated into tiny lights across the room with a massive static sound.
My brother and I screamed and hid under our duvets.
Next thing I know, I wake up in the morning at the exact same time as my brother, and we just look at each other and run out of the room.
We have talked about this incident a few times over the years and we still don’t understand what happened. A mutually shared episode sleep paralysis? Carbon monoxide? We had our windows open, the flat was ventilated properly. My parents don’t remember hearing any unusual sounds, they slept soundly in their room.
I asked my brother when he noticed this ‘thing’ as he woke me up. He remembers waking up to a glow in the room, opened his eyes and saw this ‘thing’ of light walk up to his side of the bed and just stand there with a soft humming sound coming out of it. He thought he was dreaming so he tried to ignore it and turned to his other side, he looked back after a while and it was still there so he decided to wake me up.
No idea what to make of this incident. I’m over 35 years old now, I’ve had a few incidents over the years that I can’t explain but I’m healthy so all good.”
— iamiq
21. He told me it would be just a dream
As a kid, I lived in a tiny mountain town in Central Oregon. We were very poor and instead of having a bedroom I would sleep on a futon in the living room with my younger sisters in our double wide.
One night around the age of 10, I was woken up by the room flooded with a bright white light. At first, I thought a semi must have overturned on 97 and was shining on the curtains. I decided to get up and see what it was, but to my surprise, I wasn’t able to move at all, much like sleep paralysis. I tried to yell out to my sisters so they could help me, but just as I couldn’t move, I found myself unable to speak.
At this point, I was in a full-on panic attack. Then one of your stereotypical grey aliens passed through the wall and floated me out through the wall to a flight of the navigation shaped craft. The intense light that bathed me made it impossible to see. Suddenly an oxygen mask was put over my face and I blacked out as if on anesthesia.
Some undetermined amount of time passed and my vision started to become unblurred. I was back on my futon, light still filling the room as the alien looked down at me. Using some sort of telepathic communication they said to me, “I’m going to inject this into your neck. It won’t hurt, won’t leave a mark, and it will make you think this was all a dream.”
They progressed to inject my neck and then float off through the wall. The light faded away in an upward direction leaving me to stare into the darkness. Slowly my eyes adjusted to the dark, restoring my night vision. Without ever opening my eyes (must have been sleeping with my eyes open) I woke up from this dream, looked over at my sleeping sisters, climbed out of the futon, walked into the kitchen and ate a sweet cherry pepper. I followed that with a glass of water and went back to bed.
Today I’m still sure it was just a dream, and I have great dream recall. I don’t know if I think this because it keeps me from looking crazy or if it is exactly what the alien in my dream said that the shot would do.
22. We don’t know what we saw
Well, we weren’t abducted, but my husband and I had a UFO encounter that still boggles my mind to this day. We live in an apartment complex, in a highly populated “nicer” urban area. We arrived back at home late on a Saturday night around 1AM. Walking from the parking garage back to our apartment building, I happen to look up at the sky. I immediately noticed this HUGE triangle-like object, slowly gliding above us and we watch as it disappears behind another building.
Meanwhile, both of us are arguing over what the fuck this thing was. It was silent. I mean zero noise, with 2 rows of lights on either side. We walk around the side of the building looking into the sky, and about 10 minutes later, we see it again. It was closer and clearer this time, I could even see minor details on the body, lights and all. We are both almost screaming at this point, ‘WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS THAT???’ As we watch, this thing pulls straight up into the air, and slowly disappears right in front of our eyes. Not kidding. We watched this thing slowly become transparent until we couldn’t see it anymore. We kept looking for it for about another hour. Cellphone cameras pointed to the sky from the top of the tallest apartment building.
We finally gave up, and did enough research to compare what we saw to a stealth bomber plane. The shape is similar, but this thing was completely silent, and could disappear…Where we live is home to tons of tech company headquarters, literally across the street from us. We are next to two major highways and its generally a super busy area. I’m only mentioning this because it seems most UFO encounters happen in rural and not so populated areas. I’m still freaked out, and I’m always checking the skies at night.
23. They both assumed it was a dream
“This technically didn’t happen to me but I’ll share anyway.. My mom and gramma were driving in my old suburban neighborhood in the middle of the day. As they came out from passing under a large tree that hung over the road they heard a really loud noise and looked up and saw what they believed to be a plane about to crash into them. They started screaming and don’t remember what happened. They didn’t talk about it until months later and thought it was a dream.”
— bex238
24. Aliens stole my math skills
“When I was in 6th grade, I woke up one day with 4 very small holes on my upper right thigh. It looked like the skin had been cut out in perfect tiny circles, yet there was no blood. The circles were in a straight line and across my thigh horizontally, no more than 6 inches wide completely. I also felt very tired and couldn’t remember what I had dreamt, which is weird for me since I pretty much remember every dream I have every night. I put band-aids on them and went to school as usual.
The next morning, I wake up and there are three new holes, right above the previous four. I woke up once again very tired and drowsy, and was now weirded out by how symmetrical everything was that I showed my mom, who said it was most likely ant or spider bites. Next morning, two more holes above the previous three, and the morning after that, one. This is when I was seriously scared since the holes now formed a triangle that pointed to my knee and they weren’t scabbing over. I was so tired and confused and was scared to go to bed, so I stayed up really late but woke up the next morning, not even knowing when I had fallen to sleep, only dark and then morning.
When I did wake up, I was suddenly very alert, and when I threw my blanket off my legs I found all the holes completely gone. No scabbing or scarring or any trace of the circles on my thigh. I showed my mom and she just brushed it off as if they had healed like any other cut.
I’m honestly not sure if this is related, but I do feel like there is a correlation. After this, I couldn’t really comprehend math anymore. I had excelled at math all my life but after this incident, it was like numbers had no meaning to me and I couldn’t figure out simple equations. I went to an advanced school and had been learning algebra and geometry and was doing great but then it was like POOF all my math knowledge and comprehension was gone. To this day I can’t even do simple addition problems without double checking them.”
25. “As if I was dragged on the ground”
“This happened to me when I was 10 years old, in Calgary Alberta, in 1970. I was walking home from school, cutting across the school sports field. Our house wasn’t far — we lived across the street from the school. There weren’t any other kids around, since I had stayed late for a volleyball practice, and the rest of the students had gone home 45 minutes earlier when school let out for the day. It is about 4:30 in the afternoon.
Something caught my attention from the corner of my eye, and I stopped and turned to the right to look at it. Floating directly above a house facing schoolyard, was a large UFO. I was in the middle of the football field, so this is about 60-70 yards distant from where I stood. The ufo is big, and almost touching the roof of the house. It is completely centered on the house, but it is so big, it also is above the house on the left and right. The lots there are 50 feet wide, which puts the ufo at about 150 feet across and perhaps 25-30 feet tall. It is very bright, giving off a harsh white light which is difficult to look at since it hurts my eyes.
I look away back towards my house and see a car and a motorcycle on the side street which intersects the street with the UFO. That street is about half a block away, and I remember being surprised and confused that the drivers are not reacting to the UFO, which clearly must be visible to them, and so obvious, since it is so bright, but the traffic continues as normal.
At that point, I become aware that ‘something’ is forcing me to turn my head back toward the UFO. I’m turning, and my field of view is changing, but I’m not the one doing it. I struggle to turn away, but I simply can’t control any of my body. I remember a feeling of panic, then the next thing that I can remember, I’m walking into my house. It is about 9:30 at night, and dark outside. I can’t recall anything of the last 5 hours.
My parents were furious with me for being so late. Apparently, my parents and my 2 brothers had been trying to find me for hours. A ‘voice/thought’ in my head tells me to tell them that I’m not feeling well and I need to go to bed. I have no idea where that ‘voice/thought’ came from, but I do exactly as it suggests and run upstairs to my room and go to bed.
The next day, I still can’t seem to explain what happened, and my mother is even more angry with me since my new school shoes are ruined, since the tops of them are all scuffed and dirty, like I was dragged face down across the ground with my feet still dragging on the ground.
I told my older brothers what happened, and they suggested I keep quiet about it since nobody would believe me. Good advice, as it turns out, since in the many years since, most of the people I have shared the story with, don’t really know what to say afterward.
Many years later, I was looking at my old school workbooks from that time, and they are full of drawings of ufos, all of the same design, and with more detail than I can recall from memory. For example, in my memory, I can’t remember seeing any windows in the ufo, since the light was too bright to make out details, but in my drawings, there were large round windows all around the ufo, some with faces looking out.”
— danara
26. Literally nobody remembers what happened after dinner
“Not my story, but my Father in law swears he was abducted on a camping trip in the Northern Appalachians with about 4 other people.
They hiked up near a lake and set up a camp site, and set up camp. He says they all remember swimming, then eating dinner but no one remembers cleaning up camp or going into their tents. They woke up about 10 yards away from their original site, in the exact formation that they had set up the camp, but all of the little stuff was in the same spot and there was no fire in the middle of the original area but not in the new one. They pulled out a measuring tape my FIL had in his backpack from work and measured the distance between the stakes of the tent poles and it was the EXACT distance between all of the tent poles from where they originally were and the new area.
And before anyone says anything, my FIL is a super light sleeper(according to my MIL) and doesn’t drink or do drugs, has no history or symptoms of mental illness and was the first one awake. He still refuses to go hiking on that trail to this day, it’s an easy hike so he isn’t trying to be lazy and get out of it.”
27. Knew something was coming
I am not sure what happened. But I’ve always joked that an alien abduction could explain it. I was a young kid, grade school age. It was a hot summer night and I was headed to bed.
I remember sitting in bed and having this bad feeling. More than just a feeling. I knew something was coming. Coming to get me. Like a horrifying reoccurrence was about t happen again, that my body remembered but my mind did not. I knew it was close. Possibly I was within eyesight. I was terrified beyond my wits and had no idea of what. But it was going to get me no matter what I did.
I hadn’t sat down on my bed for more than a few seconds so it wasn’t sleep paralysis.
I turned around slowly to scan my room and it was the next morning. Just. Like. That. I was still dressed and everything, still in mid-turn, except it was the next day. One second I was terrified at night and as I turned around it was the next morning. I felt well rested yet only a second (which I was awake for) had passed. I went downstairs and got on with my day. I told people what happened and they just acted like I told them there was grass in the yard. Like it was the most mundane thing ever. So I dropped it.
— Pun-Chi
28. A mother’s instinct
“Still to this day can’t explain this but it seems similar to some people’s experiences. I was around 14 or 15ish and was asleep in my room. I woke up in the middle of the night, sat up, turned around and looked at my phone to see the time which was around 1 am. I turned back around and just sat there staring at my wall. I remember at the time I wasn’t really thinking about anything I was just staring blankly at my bedroom wall. It was like my brain was asleep but my body was awake and aware.
For what seemed about 2 minutes of me sitting up and staring at the wall my mom burst into my room. Her coming in so abruptly in the middle of the night startled me and broke whatever trance I seemed to be in. She said she had a funny feeling that she needed to come in and check on me to make sure I was okay. I told her everything was fine and that I had just woken up randomly. When she finally left I looked at my phone again and it was 4:37 am. 4 freaking 37 AM!! I had been sitting up staring at my wall for over 3 hours! Still to this day I don’t know what it was or why I did that OR what woke my mom up out of a dead sleep to come check on me. Still gives me the spooks 6 years later.”
29. Shouldn’t have tried to get its attention…
“9 years ago I was camping in northern BC with a group of friends. It was around 10pm and we were in the middle of nowhere (roughly 50km from any town/store etc. so it was super dark out. We were sitting around our fire and just listening to tunes and drinking beers etc.
At one point we saw a light upon the mountain across the lake from us. This was a decent-sized lake, I’d say roughly 5 km across, surrounded by mountains. So as we notice the light, assuming that it’s other campers that we could visit with, we flashed our flashlight at them attempting to get their attention. First, we flashed our light twice, and they flashed back at us twice. Then three times. We were brainstorming going for a hike to go meet them when the light seemed to increase in intensity, then proceed to fly from one side of the massive mountain to a mountain on the other side of the lake.
It then sat there and flashed at us a few times, but we turned off our light and at this point were shitting bricks. I remember just going into my tent and putting my sleeping bag over my head out of fear. I fell asleep and woke up and everything was fine, but for some reason, there were roughly half a dozen dead really big toads outside my tent. What the FUCK. Still, wonder to this day what the heck happened.”
30. Was suddenly 25 miles away
Not sure if I believe I was abducted, but I don’t know how to explain what actually happened.
I was out at night in the outer-city, having a few drinks at a bar, watching my friend’s band play. It was their first live show, and I went along by myself to give a bit of support. After the set, and after a while of post-set drinking, I decided that I’d head out and catch a train home, as the station was about a 5 minute walk away.
I remember stepping out of the pub holding my jacket. The street was reasonably busy, but not crowded, and it was a nice night. But I was feeling a little cold, so I stopped and pulled my jacket on. The instant I looked up after pulling up my zip everything just changed. I was suddenly standing in the middle of an open grass park, in the absolute pouring rain, about 25 miles (40km) from where I was outside that pub. I’m not sure how much time had passed because my phone was completely dead, and I didn’t manage to get home for a long time. I ended up having to walk for a while to find the nearest main road and wave down an empty taxi – which was a bit of a miracle luck-wise.
I still had all my possessions, no money used or taken, felt completely fine.
Still don’t know what happened. This happened around 5 years ago.
— Shrim
31. I get abducted every two or three years
I believe I have been abducted multiple times. Probably about once ever two or three years since I was eight. I have been examined, but nothing invasive was ever done and the extraterrestrials seemed genuinely curious about humans. More often it is just an interview via telepathy about how I am feeling and how things are going.
The last abduction was about six months ago. I remember waking up, seeing figures through my bedroom window make their way into my home, never waking my girlfriend or dogs, and leading me out to their craft. One even seemed fascinated with one of my dogs, but I sort of thought how angry and hurt I would be if anything happened to that dog and he backed away.
— Termi89
32. Backyard camping gone wrong
“Not my story, it’s my dad’s, he gets a little shaky and doesn’t like talking about it when it’s brought up. When he was about 15 he and his friend did the childhood tradition of camping in the backyard. Everything seemed pretty much normal and they went to bed at around midnight. Shortly after falling asleep they both woke up in a state of extreme disorientation and mental fog 2.5 miles away from his house in an empty grass field.
When he checked his watch it was 4AM with no recollection of what happened in those 4 hours. There was no alcohol or drugs involved. He never let me camp in our backyard growing up so I have a slight distaste for our extraterrestrial neighbors.”
33. Alien doctor?
“I remember when I was 9 I was paralyzed in my bed. All of a sudden this blue light shines through the bedroom window. I see my covers fall off to the floor as I get lifted through the window. I remember bits and pieces of being on a table in a room as other children are being examined too. There was a tall creature that looked like a praying mantis in a robe over me that put these needles in my legs.
It didn’t hurt and it was talking to me telepathically about the procedure “helping me walk” (during that time I had issues with my legs and had a difficult time walking.) I black out and wake back up on my bed minus the covers that were now on the floor. I had 3 needle marks on each leg where I remember the creature putting them. Ever since I was able to walk a lot better and had no more problems.”
34. We can’t have been the only people to see this
“First time I ever tried to write this down, first time telling anyone outside the family. I’m leaving out time and location and some other details because I’m still scared of what might happen with it publicly I guess.
Summer before 8th grade, me and two of my friends snuck out at midnight to go walk around the neighborhood and go see these girls on the next block who were having a sleepover. We turn a corner in our neighborhood and there’s this huge black blimp shaped thing in the sky. Like the pictures of the Hindenburg but bigger than that and as close if not closer. Completely silent and the size of at least four to five football fields across, no exaggeration, even though I was young. We stare at it entranced, asking each other over and over again if we see it, which we all agree that we do, standing there, frozen in one place. It’s like black polished gunmetal, no lights, no sound, no anything. It’s just hovering there. And then I don’t know what happened but time clearly jumps.
Next thing I remember is the craft/ship/government experiment/whatever the hell it is has gone and there’s a tiny glowing white barbell thing in the sky, seemingly slowly falling to earth with wisps of smoke coming off it. Then two brand new black trucks with silver gearboxes on the back, like f150s or s10’s but nicer came speeding down the street, going about seventy in a residential 25mph neighborhood. Then after that I remember walking home to one of my friend’s houses and going to bed. At that point, it was like 5 or 6 am and the sun was coming up.
We all made a promise to tell my dad in the morning because he worked for the city but we never did. I don’t know what happened later in life to one of my friends who was there but the other was my best friend and we sort of made an unspoken pact never to talk about it, don’t know how or why we did that. We all grew up and I sort of lost touch with him too. We did reconnect over Facebook and such over the years but it was like there was something between us neither of us wanted to touch or talk about. Looking back on it now, there’s no way we could have been the only ones to see it. It wasn’t that late at night and it was over a heavily populated suburb of a major city. The idea of this has always scared me more than any sort of possible abduction scenario. That there were others and we’re all voluntarily suffering a sort of collective amnesia, except in how we’re not.
I’ve thought about hypnosis but that scares me too plus I’m not sure if I’d trust the results, I was just a kid then and I’m not sure if I could trust the hypnotist. What I do know, again, is that there’s no way it was just the three of us who saw it. We’re talking a huge thing hovering in the sky directly above hundreds of houses just after midnight on a summer weekend night. But nothing on the news, nothing in the paper, nothing on tv, no words spoken about it again ever by anyone.
This is a true story. I’m a little older than the average around here I think, but I know what creepypasta and stuff like that is. This happened. And there’s no way I’m the only one who remembers. No way.”
35. I saw an alien
“I was visiting friends and I stayed late. I was single back then, so had visited them while alone.
I went out to my car, started it and then apparently, dozed off for a second.
I woke up to see a gray alien looking in my driver’s side window at me for just a second or two. A realization then hit me… ‘Holy Crap! This stuff is real… it’s not just people’s imaginations running wild…”
Then I blacked out and don’t remember anything else.
My sister and entire family had seen UFOs and reported experiences, but then due to ridicule, they all shut up about it. My sister claimed being abducted, while my younger brother stated that he saw a UFO over our house while he was playing in the neighborhood.
Years later, I would have very vivid dreams with an ex sharing those dreams – these dreams would involve abductions and on more than one occasion, we would wake with unexplainable marks on our bodies. She once woke with tiny fingerprints on her inner thighs – like three per hand as if they had forced her legs apart.
Anyway, I don’t know what to think about this stuff, but it does make me seriously wonder.”
36. Could’ve been military but…
I used to go for blunt rides out in the boonies at night. Would always go to this one township cause their PD didn’t have a night shift.
Saw some seriously weird shit out there. Objects that would seemed to hover low over fields while making a weird humming/suction sound kind of like a jet engine played on speakers at low volume. Strange moving lights. More, even stranger things I don’t feel like typing.
That county has the highest rate if UFO sightings on the east coast. There is also Mcguire AF base nearby. All my blunt rides were around ’06 which was a few years before the reveal of the stealth chopper used to kill Bin Laden. I’m thinking I saw those doing training exercises.
37. I’ve never been able to figure it out
I’ve got an experience like these, not gonna be seen by many but I don’t talk about it much so I’d like to get it out there. When I had just started middle school I broke my arm badly enough where surgery was required to reset it so I ended up sleeping on the couch in our library which had a TV and a bunch of windows from the ceiling to the floor.
Anyways, I began to doze off on the couch then woke up to go to the bathroom. I distinctly remember being awake and not in a dream because the show I had fallen asleep to had switched to the next episode. What I saw next was something around a half mile away in the sky flying by in a very strange way. At first, I figured I was seeing a helicopter due to the hovering movement of it, but after looking away and back I noticed it was hovering in place.
My memory is fuzzy but I vaguely recall it being outlined with orange lights which only glowed a steady light. The best way I can describe it is that it should’ve been too dim to see from that distance but I could anyways. The shape specifically I cant remember but it could be because it didn’t have a specific shape, almost as if it was amorphous. Next thing I can recall hours had passed and I was sat in the same position. Nothing had been disturbed in the house and I had swells of the beginnings of tears in my eyes. It’s also worth noting there was a minor “earthquake” earlier that night which is very uncommon for Kentucky. Needless to say, I booked it up to my parent’s room and eventually passed out in my own bed from exhaustion, propped up to protect my arm. It’s an experience I can never figure out from my past.
38. I was gone for two days. Maybe I don’t want to know why…
This is probably going to get buried, but in the summer of 2015, I was in my room, about to go to bed. I heard this huge rumbling sound and I thought there was an earthquake. I looked out my window and suddenly this huge black unidentified flying object was sweeping upwards towards our house. I had no idea what it was but wondered if it was some military craft, but it looked so different then anything I had ever seen before. I could not stop staring at it, I tried to look away but just couldn’t.
It was like I was trapped there, staring at it, and my eyes started tearing up and crying even though I felt nothing. The next thing I remember is two days later standing on the inside of my house in front of the front door and my mom running up to me yelling and crying and asking me where I’ve been. I didn’t have an answer for her. To this day I don’t know if she thinks I ran off or got kidnapped or repressed my memories but I don’t know what happened either. I don’t really believe in aliens, so I’m scared something really bad happened to me and my brain just couldn’t deal with it so it covered it up with this story.
39. The “stereotypical UFO”
“My mother was driving in the mid-90s with someone from her work whom she was giving her a ride. On the highway, my mother noticed something up in the sky, according to her, the size of a car, not as high as an airplane, but not very close to the ground, but still VERY visible.
She said it was a round object floating in the sky, with many bright lights around it. This was during the day, there was nothing that could be sustaining that up in the sky, and she had never seen anything like that, nor her colleague. She was like “hey, look at that up there! What is that?”
To this day, she remembers this experience like it happened now. As many have experienced here, it’s something so astonishing, that it’s hard to not keep looking to it. It wasn’t a very long moment, she didn’t see how it vanished or anything like that, still very spooky. And curious, since she described the stereotypical UFO.”
40. Apparently, it’s a sign
When I was little, we lived in an apartment on the second floor, and my bedroom overlooked the parking lot. I remember one night, there was sort of an orange glow outside the window and I’m not sure if the next part was a dream, but I had a vivid image of a grey alien in my room. I can’t remember anything else from that night, although I want to say that was the same night my mom’s car exploded in the parking lot, but my memory is pretty foggy.
I also had some weird experiences as I got older. Like waking up completely sideways at the foot of my bed (I roll around a lot, but I never move like that when I’m sleeping, nor have I done it a second time), or waking up with small amounts of blood on my pillow or blanket. I did some research on alien abduction and apparently, the blood thing is a sign according to a few websites.
Unsettling Reality 
IT WAS AN ALIEN ATTACK?
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