Abduction

Abduction examines more than 200 documented reports of alleged UFO kidnappings, treating them as claims requiring investigation rather than established encounters. Jenny Randles considers how such accounts have been recorded, interpreted and debated within UFO research.

The book brings together reports from Britain, the United States and elsewhere, while also considering older accounts and the possible influence of science fiction and imagination on abduction narratives. Its approach places individual testimony alongside questions about evidence, interpretation and the ways extraordinary experiences become part of a wider cultural story. The result is a focused study of alien-abduction claims as they stood within late 20th-century UFO investigation.