On occasion I’ve spoken of my friend who works in a sleep study lab and related some of the claims of participants. He’s had people swear they were visited by Aliens, Ghosts, Demons, etc…Others have been positive they left the room or were abducted and returned to their beds. All of these people have the common denominators of 1. Being in bed, 2. A certainty that they were awake and 3. All were positive that what happened to them were real.

Before you draw an assumption that these patients were chosen because they had mental issues, that wasn’t the case. These were normal people who came in because they had sleep apnea or insomnia or some other sleep disorder.

I often start my questioning to those who claim abduction with asking if the person was in bed before the experience. This is to me an indicator of the episode being sleep related either via sleep paralysis, night terrors, realistic dreaming or some other associated natural occurrence.

Regarding the main subject of this article, A recent study was done at UCLA on alien abduction and OOBE at the OOBE Research Center.

During the OCtober 7 study, over half of the 20 volunteers claimed they had an out of body experience of some sort and 7 of them further claim to have had some interaction with UFOs and/or Aliens.

Alien Abduction Experiment

It has long been theorized that encounters with extraterrestrials are nearly always the result of spontaneous out-of-body experience. The OOBE Research Center has proven this by means of an experiment. FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER!

The experiment was developed and conducted by Michael Raduga, founder and head of the OOBE Research Center. Place and time of the experiment: October 7-9, 2011; UCLA Covel Commons, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Aim of the Experiment

Test the theory that most “encounters” with UFOs or extraterrestrials arise from hyper-realistic experiences when in subwaking states of consciousness, and out-of-body experiences or lucid dreams in particular. Method for collecting evidence: induce controllable contact with UFOs or “extraterrestrial beings” using techniques for achieving out-of-body experiences.
Test Subjects

20 volunteers were recruited from both the general population and those who have had experience in out-of-body travel or lucid dreaming. Preference was given to those who fall asleep quickly and enjoy sound sleep. Male/female ratio: 70/30 (%).

Methods

The method of cycling indirect techniques developed by the OOBE Research Center over 2007-2011 was employed in order for test subjects to achieve an out-of-body experience within the shortest frame of time. The method consists in attempting to separate from the body immediately upon awakening. If unsuccessful, the subject then alternates special techniques for 3 to 5 seconds over the course of a minute. If some technique begins to yield results, then the subject should keep with it, intensify the sensations, and once again try to separate from the body. The method is described in detail in the book School of Out-of-Body Travel. A Practical Guidebook (free).

After exiting the body, subjects were instructed to find “extraterrestrials” or UFOs in their room, in neighboring rooms, beyond the window, or outside.

Artist Depiction - Luca Oleastri

Outcome

The majority of subjects underwent at least one full or partial out-of-body experience, while some experienced several. Subjects who became conscious while dreaming were instructed to transform the “lucid dream” into an out-of-body experience by returning to the physical body in order to separate from it.

Visual contact with UFOs or “extraterrestrials”: 10 cases for 7 volunteers (35%)

(Some other volunteers were close to achieve the same result, but were unable due to overwhelming fear in the right moment)

The fact that UFOs and extraterrestrials may be deliberately encountered in a controlled manner and within a few days proves that such experiences are a product of the human brain. It was the first experiment to ever prove that close encounters with UFOs and extraterrestrials are a product of the human mind. The experiment also demonstrated that alien contact is not indicative of the existence of otherworldly civilizations, but rather of a poorly studied state of consciousness that people occasionally fall into inadvertently (the Phase).

Comparison of ET Encounter Descriptions

The experiment results differ from typical cases of “alien abduction” only in that here, both entrance into the necessary state and contact were intentional. The resultant range sensations and experiences was identical in all other aspects: sleep paralysis, fear, vibrations, flight, etc.

Alexander N.

After getting myself ready and going to sleep, I woke up and made an attempt – and it worked!
I got up from my body in my own room. However, my physical body was no longer to be found in my bed. I tried to employ “deepening” and scrutinized everything around. I lost my bearing and everything naturally became somewhat awkward.

Not wanting to waste any more time, I tried to find aliens. Three of them materialized right before my eyes. They seemed more like creatures from the movie “The Thing” than tadpoles with eyes like Princess Jasmine. They wanted to scare me, not to “make contact”. As a result, I was extremely frightened and regained awareness in my own body.

Craig P.

I took a nap from 10:40 am to 11:20 am. I tried to fall asleep so I could practice upon awakening. I was having difficulties in falling asleep so I thought nothing was going to happen. After awhile I must have fallen asleep as I noticed a floating type of sensation. I then decided to separate however I felt like nothing was happening. Then I noticed I was looking down at some drinking glasses that are on the top shelf. I realized I was out of the body.

Things were not very clear so I tried to start looking at objects and feeling them. I told myself to go see aliens. The next scene I was near a mountain in a clearing with trees around it. There was a space ship. There were two aliens with helmets on. They also had a type of robot with them. It was about 7 ft tall and was silver in color. The aliens did not appear to be friendly. When the alarm went off I felt like I was 100 miles away and it was difficult to come back to the physical body.

The following week, I fell asleep again, but became aware of my body being asleep. I decided to separate from my body in the first five seconds. I felt my inner body leave and go to the corner of my room near the ceiling.

I decided to look for aliens. I found myself in the same place as the week before in a forest clearing. There was a flying saucer in the clearing. Two aliens were near the flying saucer. The next thing I remember was lying on the grass near the flying saucer and that there were people that looked like children in a circle around me. They were circling around me. The circling motion caused me to leave my body. I was then flying though the sky and over mountains.

Eugenie S.

After 6 hours my alarm went off; I did something for 15 minutes and went back to sleep. Upon awakening I didn’t move. I aggressively performed the visualizing the hands technique and immediately found myself standing in my bedroom. I realized I was in the phase (an out-of-body experience).

I went to the hallway and looked at myself in the mirror. I was dark and the shape of my face was slightly distorted. I didn’t concentrate on this, and looked at the wall.

There was a creature the size of a human head, it looked like a huge weird insect and was doing nothing but changing colors constantly. Then I thought, “How will I be able to return back to my body?” and immediately woke up in my body.

Sasha M.

On Saturday October the 8th, I went to bed at 10:45pm and set my alarm clock for 7am. I spontaneously woke up in the middle of the night, presumably at around 4am. Upon waking up I felt intense heat in my body, and used that sensation to try to separate from it. I was immediately successful. I then sat up in bed, stood up, and turned around to watch myself lying there.

Realizing that I had separated from my body, I left my bedroom and went to the window, beyond which was an unusual sight. As I observed the scene, I gradually began to see aliens lurking in the bushes or going about some business. There were at least three different kinds of them, all of which I was familiar with beforehand from movies. They all looked extremely realistic and I was able to see everything in fine detail. After some time, I feel back asleep.

Half an hour after that separation experience, I was able to make another successful attempt. However, this time I didn’t feel any heat or anything unusual. After separating, I left my room and went through the hall to the balcony and back again. As soon as I stopped and pondered what I was doing there, I feel back asleep.

Michael R.

I awoke in the middle of the night and recalled that I needed to try to leave my body and see aliens. Mortal terror suddenly arose within me. I was now in the fetters of sleep paralysis, with high-frequency vibrations coursing through my body and a loud hissing sound filling my ears. I began having second thoughts about going through with the experiment, but was then able to force myself to attempt separation from my body. After that was unsuccessful, I began employing the technique of rotation. Despite the feeling of terror, I was able to spin around and then sit up in bed.

At that moment, I already somehow felt that THEY were in my room. I made myself open my eyes and I saw a typical-looking extraterrestrial at the other end of my bed: it had a huge head with large eyes, a small body with thin arms, and dark-green skin. Meanwhile, everything was even more realistic in terms of sensation than in my normal waking state. Once I understood that there was no turning back, the fear fell away. Moreover, I understood that there was nothing to be afraid of – there was no danger at all.

The creature turned out to be good-natured. After greeting one another, a white screen appeared in front of my eyes, suspended in the air. Some important information was flickering across it, but it was encoded and I couldn’t understand it. I began to peer into the screen, and my awareness gradually faded out, after which I don’t remember anything else.

Lydia M.

I get up in the middle of the night and walk around. Everything is misty, and I see in the corner a large object that looks like a person with a large head and a huge hunch-back. It is hardly moving, yet present. Then I wake up, shocked back into my body.

Tatyana K.

I woke up a bit disappointed because it was time to get ready for our second session and none of the techniques worked. I was in my LA hotel room. I went to the shower and noticed that the water drops on the shower walls were dark in color. I decided to stop showering and then when I was back in the room, getting ready, everything felt so real that I don’t even know why I decided to check if it was the phase (out-of-body experience).

Imagine it yourself: yesterday you went to bed, then you woke up this morning, showered, got ready, did this, did that and then decided to check if it was the phase – and it turned out that IT IS (!)
So I decided just for the heck of it to test if it might be the phase by “breathing with the nose pinched” technique and of course it did not work at first, because I had been doing it with the “how can it be the phase, everything is so real” thought. But I kept trying and after a third attempt air got out from somewhere behind my ears and I happily confirmed for myself that I was totally in the phase.

I felt very happy. I started rising in the air and flew in a couple of circles under the ceiling. Then, I felt the need to deepen and I really focused on that. I looked a few times at my palms. Then I started touching everything in the room. Since perception was back to 100%, it was time to go look for aliens. They were not in the room. I looked outside of the hotel window. Aliens were not there either. So I decided to get into the corridor, I opened the door, it was really dark inside, even the light from the room could not penetrate it. I thought, aliens must be there, so I stepped into the darkness… At least 3 tiny hands touched my shoulder… I totally freaked and woke up…

Validity of Results

Over its extensive didactic and analytical experience, the OOBE Research Center has developed indicators and procedures for distinguishing real out-of-body experiences from fabrication and fantasy. No dubious responses were included in the statistics, and the probability of a subject fabricating or exaggerating an account is estimated at less than 10 percent. This experiment’s data is thus vastly more reliable than that of typical alien encounter “eyewitness accounts” that never undergo verification.

Michael Raduga
OOBE Research Center
October 25, 2011

Source: OOBE Research Center

For the record, There are less than five alleged abductees who I personally believe had an experience beyond my understanding.

However, to understand those who truly believe they have been abducted is important. Therefore, we should never assume to know exactly what they’ve experienced. In my opinion it’s always best to suggest scenarios from most likely to least.

Frankly speaking, my estimate is right around 98% that an experience can be explained to not include anything outside the norm. The other 2% (which is a high number) is where unknown possibilities enter the scene.

Could people have been abducted by aliens or the military establishment (another story), I honestly don’t know for sure.

Will people continue to think they have been abducted? Of course! No matter what this study or that experiment shows there will always be those who are convinced that an abduction occurred.