At the 1992 MIT Conference on abductions, Mark Rodeghier proposed the following definition of abductees:

To qualify as an abductee, a person must be

  • taken against his or her will,
  • from terrestrial surroundings,
  • by non-human beings.

These beings must take a person to

  • an enclosed place,
  • non-terrestrial in appearance,
  • that is assumed or known to be a spacecraft by the witness.

In this place, the person must either be

  • subjected to a physical examination,
  • engaged in communication, verbal or telepathic,
  • or both.

These experiences may be remembered

  • consciously or
  • through methods of focused concentration, such as hypnosis.

Source: C.D.B. Bryan, Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.

See also  2006: Are Alien Abductions Real?

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