13 Alien Encounters That Will Make You Believe
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The Abduction of Barney and Betty Hill
In September 1961, married couple Barney and Betty Hill of Franconia Notch, New Hampshire, experienced something totally out of the ordinary — a three hour lapse of memory before awaking in a seemingly "magnetized" car. After both undergoing therapy, they seemed to recall similar visions of being abducted and probed by little grey men. Under hypnosis, Betty drew a map of the constellation from where the aliens claimed to be from, which first appeared as nonsense, until some statisticians noticed its resemblance to the Zeta Reticuli system in the southern constellation of Reticulum — a system largely unknown in the 1960s.
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The Bermuda Triangle
Also known as The Devil's Triangle, this notorious spot of roughly 500,000 square miles off the southern tip of Florida is where dozens of ships and aircraft have mysteriously disappeared, leading some to believe that the location may be some form of a portal to another world. When sailing through the region, Christopher Columbus wrote of strange lights off in distance, as well as erratic compass readings. But perhaps no tale is more unexplainably eerie as the mystery of Flight 19, when a group of five war-hardened U.S. Navy torpedo bombers suddenly disappeared to never be heard from again.
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The Roswell Crash
In July 1947, a rancher by the name of W.W. “Mack” Brazel set out on horseback to check on his sheep after a major lightning storm. What Mack supposedly encountered was the wreckage of a crashed flying saucer, along with the bodies of its alien pilots (note: not actually pictured above). His story would become legend and solidified Roswell, New Mexico, as ground zero for extra-terrestrial contact. Today, Roswell wholeheartedly embraces the E.T. lore and hosts an annual UFO festival that draws hundreds of curious humans longing for alien contact.
The Bytktha Mountain Gateway
For years, UFO watchers have claimed Sochi, Russia, to be a galactic hub from which alien spacecraft can be regularly observed with the naked eye. Some enthusiasts have even suggested that the nearby summit of Bytkha Mountain functions as a sort of gateway between worlds. True or not, Sochi has built a reputation as major UFO destination for E.T. enthusiasts.