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  An interesting change has come about in RE: abductions prior to 1994

 ABDUCTIONS

 If extraterrestrials have come to our planet, it is not unreasonable to
 suppose that they may have captured a few samples of our species. This
 is only speculation, of course, but it would clarify certain mysterious
 disappearances that have been reported in the United States. They are
 particularly striking because they involve whole families and have so
 far defied all efforts to explain them.

 At 11:40 on the night of August 14, 1952, a butcher named Tom Brooke,
 his wife and their eleven year old son took leave of some friends near
 a bar forty miles from Miami, Florida, got into their car and drove
 away.

 At 7:14 the next morning, the police found their abandoned car eleven
 miles from the bar. The headlights were still on, one door was open,
 and Mrs. Brook's handbag, containing a large sum of money, was on the
 back seat. There were footprints leading into a field beside the road.
 The family seemed to have taken about a dozen steps, then vanished into
 thin air, because the footprints stopped abruptly.

 Seven miles away, a waitress named Mabel Twin disappeared that same
 night, in the same way.

 A policeman remarked jokingly that all four people seemed to have been
 kidnapped by Martians.

 This was at a time when reports of flying saucers were particularly
 numerous in the United States and several people claimed to have seen
 their occupants.

 Other notable cases:

 December 7, 1959: Kenneth Martin, his wife and their three daughters
 disappeared from Portland, Oregon, after having said that they were
 going out to get a Christmas tree.

 December 29, 1959: Earl Zrust, his wife and their four children
 disappeared from Silver Lake, Minnesota.

 January 11, 1960: D. Carrol Jackson, his wife and their children, from
 Louisa County, Virginia, disappeared while driving to visit some
 friends.

 In each of these cases, the disappearance took place in the open
 countryside, and the victims' car was found abandoned on the road.

 No explanation seems possible, unless one accepts the hypothesis of
 abduction by extraterrestrials. On that assumption, flying saucers
 might not be mere hallucinations.

from: One Hundred Thousand Years of Man's Unknown HIstory
  by: Robert Charroux

note: abductions of the 90's have made considerable change. any
comments?

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