Marcia Jedd

About the author: Marcia Jedd is a journalist and researcher whose work has appeared in newspapers and trade journals.

Poll findings indicate that two percent of the U.S. population— five million people—claim to have been abducted by aliens. Researchers have investigated many abduction accounts using hypnosis and other techniques and have concluded that the alien abduction phenomenon is real, although they disagree on what the agenda of the aliens could be. The experiences of Kate that are described in this article are typical. She has memories of alien encounters since childhood, has been taken on extraterrestrial spaceships and subjected to medical experiments, and has experienced mysterious healings and heightened psychic powers.

Kate first remembers the small, gray creatures visiting her when she was four years old. A female being entered her bedroom and told...