Landmark Abduction Cases and the Making of Modern UFO Lore
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Barney and Betty Hill’s 1961 case and a string of later incidents—Lonnie Zamora, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker Jr., Travis Walton, the Allagash four, and Frederick Valentich—helped forge enduring UFO lore by showing how memory, belief and media shape abduction claims, while skeptics warn of hypnotic influence and misperception, and thousands of sightings keep curiosity alive.
