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abduction turned into a science   
1- The chronology of a standard abduction (deduced from interviews carried out with many abducted people)

-Capture humans are forcefully taken from the earth in a space ship.
-Those abducted are medically and scientifically examined. There are often sexual relations carried out against their will.
-Talking. The abductors talk to the people they have abducted and often give them a message.
-Demonstration. Those abducted are taken into the space ship and shown advanced technology.
-Loss of memory. Almost everybody abducted suffers a loss of memory.
-The return journey. Those abducted are returned to Earth. Sometimes to different places, sometimes wounded or naked.

2- Geolinguistic abduction.
Abductions take place all over the world, but they also have a close relationship to language. 4 out of 5 abductions take place in English-speaking countries, most of all in the US.

3- A short history of abductions.
They're called paleo abductions, little is known about them and they took place before the 60's. The first news about a paleo abduction appeared in the Stockton Daily Mail, in California. In 1897 Colonel H. G. Shaw said that 3 adult humanoids, with fire coming out of their bodies, had tried to kidnap him.
4- Abduction as a social phenomenon.
The Harvard University psychiatrist John Edward Mack Harvard wrote over 150 articles about science and won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of T.E. Lawrence. In the 80's he was attracted by the subject and carried out 800 interviews and published two books about it. In 1992 the prestigious MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) organized a conference about abductions, bringing together professional people's, abducted people's and sceptics' different points of view. The only absences, at least officially, were the extraterrestrial beings.

5.But contemporary abductions began in the 50's. Along with the start of the cold war. The first two famous cases took place in 1957, the Brazilian farmer Antonio Villas Boas' and, most notoriously, the US married couple Betty and Barney Hill's cases. After these two cases dozens of new cases started to come up.