Contactees and Abductees: Narratives, Beliefs, and Debates in Extraterrestrial Encounters

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Two main categories describe experiences with non-human beings: contactees, like George Adamski, Billy Meier, and Whitley Strieber, who report peaceful, telepathic, spiritually uplifting encounters with benevolent beings, and abductees, like Betty and Barney Hill, Travis Walton, and the Pascagoula incident, who report involuntary, often traumatic encounters involving medical procedures and missing time; the explanations range from scientific and psychological to esoteric and multidimensional, and some people may blend or shift between the two over time.