In the last two posts I discussed the general nature and history of alien abduction reports as well as a number of issues related to conceptualizing how to think about them. I now want to address ...

One night in 1957, Antônio Vilas Boas was plowing his field in rural Brazil when he saw mysterious red lights flying through the sky. What he presumed was a spacecraft landed in a nearby field.

More recently, McNally and Clancy introduced alien abductees to the laboratory to study trauma and recovered memory in an experimental setting. They believe their subsequent findings explain the ...

In the docuseries, the story is presented both from the point of view of people who believe Napolitano’s tale and from the point of view of people who don’t—notably Carol Rainey, the ex-wife of Budd ...

The Netflix documentary The Manhattan Alien Abduction focuses on the abduction of Linda Napolitano, a woman whose claims sparked a lot of debate in the UFO community. Napolitano claims that in ...

The story of Linda Napolitano, a New York City woman who says she was abducted from her bedroom and beamed onto a spaceship by extraterrestrial beings in 1989, has fascinated UFO enthusiasts for ...

As the famous Arthur C. Clarke quote goes, "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." Netflix's new documentary The Manhattan Alien ...

Here’s how a report on alien abductions in the United States begins: “Most alien abduction stories begin quietly — a strange light, a missing moment, something that feels off.” Sounds like something ...

Since the days of classic movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers and War of the Worlds, aliens have been a cornerstone of the science fiction genre. Covering everything from humanity making first ...

The Manhattan Alien Abduction docuseries is now on Netflix, and with it, there's been a renewed interest in the story of Linda Napolitano. Napolitano claims that in 1989 she was abducted out of her ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica is an entertainment reporter covering TV, film, and music. Linda Napolitano continues to stand by her story that she was ...