Alien Abduction Reports Overview

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👽 Alien Abduction Reports

The alien abduction phenomenon is a problematic area in the already controversial field that is ufology.

Stories date back to antiquity of strange creatures snatching innocent human beings. Stories that continued well into the middle of the twentieth century. With some then re-framed in a modern light as ‘alien abductions. Although what constitutes an ‘alien abduction’ also seems to be a grey area . Evidence is almost purely anecdotal and to date, no one has produced proof aliens exist, never mind aliens visiting Earth and capturing human beings. 

Publicly available UFO reports from Blue Book, MUFON, NICAP, NUFORC and others and the U* UFO database were searched for references to the word ‘abduct, abduction’ and similar between 1896 to the first half of 2022 (with one exception from 1593). Resulting in just short of 4000 reports spanning 125 years. 

The most glaring revelation is that almost 80% of abductions are reported to occur in the United States.

US nationals also frequently reported being abducted abroad. Four of the cases reported in Germany can be confirmed as Americans living there. With similar reports from Japan & Korea.

Canada, Australia and the UK all appear in the top 5. Meaning 90% of all global reports occurred in just four countries.

If we compare reports with current population sizes, America leads again. Almost 10 per every million (0.000001%) Americans having reported an alien abduction spanning 120 years. Across its northern border almost 6 in every million Canadians reported an alien abduction. The rest of the world lags way behind.

The figures are far lower than the Roper Survey estimated in the 90s. Somewhere close to 1000 times lower!!! But still significant in illustrating the large proportion of reports coming from North America. 

👽 Distribution of alien abduction reports per nation.

(1896-2022)