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Wednesday, September 23,2009

Utahns Abducted by Aliens Page 1

Touched by an Alien: Some Utahns claim their encounters with extraterrestrials are too close for comfort.

By Carolyn Campbell
They first came for Don Anderson’s son in 1984. It was 11 p.m. on a June evening in Mapleton, Utah, when 25-year-old Anderson shut off the TV in the bedroom of his mother’s basement where he was staying. He glanced down at his 4-year-old son who sat on the edge of a mattress on the floor playing with a truck.

Suddenly, he noticed a gray alien floating in the middle of the room. “We looked at each other. He pointed to my son, as if he were asking to take him,” Anderson recalls. He returned the alien’s gaze and telepathically communicated, “OK, let me go with him. If I go with him, he won’t be afraid.”

He says a ray of blue iridescent light shot through the room. He took his son by the hand. They jumped into the light ray and followed the gray alien across the basement, through the wall and upward through the ground to the grass outside.

Interview 1: Ron Johnson
Anderson says they moved toward a huge, saucer-shaped spacecraft across the street that hovered 60 feet in the air. “It was 30 feet across with red and blue lights that strobed through the neighborhood, flashing off houses in the area,” he recalls. He wondered why no one in the neighborhood was waking up to notice the ship. “It was deadly quiet. There were no dogs barking or crickets chirping,” he says. “All I could hear was the hum of the ship.”

He says that as he, his son and the gray alien traveled upward to the bottom of the ship, they felt a tingling sensation as they passed through telephone wires. He then remembers walking around the polished interior of the ship. “Everything was metal and really shiny, like it was made from stainless steel. I was walking on a cushy black catwalk.”

Anderson and a tall blond woman who seemed somehow familiar to him walked and telepathically communicated with each other. After he asked her if she could heal a serious stomach disorder he was currently experiencing, he heard her laugh. “The moment her eyes caught mine, it was like she said, ‘Don’t worry, you will be OK.’”

Interview 2: Don Anderson
Anderson then saw his son and another boy through an arched doorway. They stood beneath a metal column, holding what looked like a hand-held shower massager. “My son grabbed it from the kid he just met and put it above his own head. Blue volts of what looked like electricity shot over his body. He cracked up and thought that was really funny. I watched them each use that about three times. I think the aliens took me there so that my son would know I was around and not be frightened, and I would know he was safe.”

Before long, Anderson was back in the front room of his mother’s house. “The screen door was open, and I could look through and see the ship hovering and whirring outside.” He says the room was also filled with elderly strangers he had never seen before. “They stood motionless, like they were in a coma. We were all sitting there watching and listening to the sound of this flying saucer across the street.”

He looked at the clock, and it was 6 a.m. “I sprang out of bed and thought, ‘Whoa.’”

Ron Johnson was 14 years old in 1968 when he spent a month helping his aunt and uncle on their California horse ranch. One night, he woke about midnight. “I remember seeing the clock on the wall,” he recalls. “All of the blankets were on the floor at the foot of the bed. There was a very scary feeling, and I knew someone was there.”

Leaning his head back, he caught sight of a tall, thin alien bathed in a greenish glow. “He almost reminded me of an anorexic person with hollow cheeks, a pointed chin, and long bony arms and hands. He didn’t say anything—just stood there and looked at me. "

Terrified, Johnson, now 55, remembers closing his eyes and wishing the entity would leave. Though it was gone 10 minutes later, he kept his eyes closed and lay awake in fear until morning. Then he went to the living room and lay on the couch. Whenever he stayed at his relative’s house after that, he slept in the car.

In 1993, at sunset in mid-June in Oklahoma, Glenys Moore glanced across the treeless acres outside her home where cattle usually grazed among the sage and cedar. Coming from the north, Moore saw a light close to the ground shining outward. She noticed tall creatures that she first thought were cows walking toward and away from this light. “There were at least a dozen of them. They looked like ants, coming and going from their anthill. They were examining something. One would bend down, pick something up, show it to another creature, and seemingly discuss it.” She noticed the time was 6:30 p.m. She realized that two large dogs who usually “barked at everything” were completely silent.

Suddenly, one of the creatures turned to look straight at her. She says the alien appeared to be slender, with a large head, huge oval eyes and long, thin extremities. “I first felt fear, thinking, ‘I hope they don’t see me.’” The entity walked toward her, into her back yard and near the bathroom window where she stood watching. “I felt like running but could not. I seemed to be locked in its gaze. Then, as it drew nearer, my world disappeared.”

The next thing she knew, it was pitch dark. “I remember physically shaking myself back to reality. I walked in the bedroom and screamed when I saw that the clock read 10:30 p.m.” Moore still wonders where the four hours went.

ANIMAL HOUSE
Elaine Douglass, Utah state director of Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, a national organization dedicated to the study of UFOs for the benefit of humanity, says that the above three stories are far from rare and fit a typical pattern of alien abduction. “These UFOs are not being reported out of nowhere. On the National UFO Reporting Website, there are hundreds and hundreds of reports of UFO sightings, from every state in the Union since the 1930s. They are always flying around. What are they doing? They are picking people up,” says Douglass.

MarLee Spendlove has heard stories like those of Anderson, Johnson and Moore again and again. A former employee for a high-risk maternal clinic for the Utah Department of Health, Spendlove pursued hypnotherapy training after a decades-long interest in UFO-related topics. While she also addresses matters such as smoking cessation, she prefers to help clients who wish to explore their extraterrestrial experiences.

Both Anderson and Johnson had conscious memories of extraterrestrial encounters. But after undergoing hypnotherapy sessions with Spendlove, they each retrieved numerous previously unconscious memories of extraterrestrial encounters.

don_anderson.jpgJohnson believes that hypnotherapy took him back to a time when he was a year old in a room with small gray aliens. “There were clear cubicles that looked like incubators with girls and boys in them, all naked. The grays grabbed me, and I was screaming at them. They slammed me down face first under this table and told me not to move. I started screaming, ‘It hurts, it hurts.’” He recalls Spendlove saying, “We’re not going back there at this time.”

Before undergoing hypnotherapy, Spendlove’s patients usually have a partial memory of an extraterrestrial experience. “It’s almost like an unread book that they are opening pages to explore,” she says. “Often, it takes a lot of courage for people to get here because of the trauma involved. They are finally ready to open a door that has been closed, locked and boarded up. Hypnosis expands their information and is almost like a view into a drama they didn’t know they were part of.”

Spendlove says that extraterrestrials are able to block portions of memories, so that the human who interacts with them carries screened memories where the actual alien encounter is replaced with elements that are more typical of everyday human life. After his initial experience, Anderson says that memories of other experiences made more sense to him. “When I was a kid, the 9-foot man in the back yard was one of those beings coming to get me. On other times, they would send these little 3-foot black troll-looking guys to get me, and I called them my gorillas. Thinking back, it made sense, because I had a little black stuffed animal that was a gorilla.”

Eager to validate his first extraterrestrial experience, Don Anderson hoped his young son would corroborate it. “I thought, ‘My son has got to prove to me that this really happened.’” When he arrived home from work the day after his first alien encounter, he met his son, who told Anderson he’d had a dream about being attacked by wild bears that were in the house. Anderson had recently read that “in screened memories, aliens mask themselves as animals, because people are comfortable with that.”

Anderson’s son said, “It was really, really weird because it felt so real. And I reached down to scratch my leg, and it’s all bloody.” Anderson says he wiped some of his son’s blood away and “there was a little crescent mark on his leg, which is what extraterrestrials do to take DNA samples.”

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Man. So much material to comment on here. So, these aliens can, like, fly their awesome spaceships, maybe bending time to do it, and maybe even visiting different dimentions, and stuff, but they can't remember which house they took somebody from and just pop people into whatever convenient bed they happen upon? They can't remember which clothes belong to which silly human? That's odd, considering they apparently have the capability to locate these repeat-abductors no matter where they move - probably a beeper located in their spleen, or something.

And they have the need to continuously collect DNA from live specimens when our own stupid earth scientists, who don't have awesome spaceships, can permanently store and even propagate the stuff? I mean, how much human DNA does an incredibly intelligent being need?

And like, why would these aliens fuck humans when humans must be as ugly to them as they are to us? Too much beer, I suspect - I've been there, dudes. And if they are fucking humans, and their spaceships are so brilliantly clean and spotless, why don't they have the sense to wipe up their green goo, afterwards? So rude to send that guy to bed with green karo in his shorts!

And like, if these aliens are, sort of, assholes, that aren't very nice or anything, that cut shit out of your body when they feel like it and dump you in somebody else's PJ's in somebody else's bed, why are these silly humans walking around with a profound sense of eternal life? WTF?

Okay. Somebody else's turn...

 

 

Shit man. Just too good to stop! Like, has anybody here ever known a talking one year old? One that's capable of screaming, "Don't hurt me, don't hurt me!" I ate my children upon birth and never had a chance to find out. Man, after reading all these accounts of extreme lights and dying trucks and cars, I can't help but think of Richard Dreyfuss sitting there in his dead truck with half his face sun, I mean, spaceship burned. Close Encounters...now that was a killer fucking show!

 

you guys are all IDIOTS!! quit being so judgemental on other peoples beliefs,not everybody believes in the same thing,but i guess we will all find out the hard way when we all die. but until then shut the hell up and keep your judgements to yourselfs because some people in life have experienced things they can never explain. off that subject...hipocrits also its like people that believe in GOD but dont believe in outter dimensions and civilizations. if there wasnt any then why would god exist. why do you think god just sits and picks his ass in the clouds watching us. dont think so.. its goes far beyond our minds can even comprehend,i mean damn just look at the sky that should tell you that we are so small compared to the rest of the universe.

 

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Thats kinda weird since I live in Mapleton.

 

Ohmygod! Who's pajamas are you wearing?!

 

This is kinda wierd even if you DON'T live in Mapleton. . If the abductions had lasted for days and someone else in the world had been involved, etc, this might be interesting. As it is, it seems way too much like a reaction to too much pizza, since the guy woke up in bed. . Doesn't anyone ever think they MIGHT be dreaming? Oh, and what about plain old drug-induced hallucinations? Happened to Joseph when he was out in the woods and the Salamander told him to eat these really nice mushrooms. . Why not you?

 

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I admit to having no patience with these stories. It reminds me of people who chase ghosts with gadgets. "The needle jumped, indicating a spiritual presence!" Or a passing fire engine.

If humans had the technology to visit other planets where there just happened to be life similar to our own, would we spend so much time and treasure seeking out the fringe elements of an alien society to begin such monumental communications?

Wouldn't we ask to be taken "to their leaders?" I would.

A stand up comic said it best years ago about the infamous Roswell UFO crash, and subsequent conspiracy industry it birthed:"You mean to tell me that aliens traveled light years across the universe only to be knocked down by a cross-wind on Highway 40?"

 

No doubt Mamba, no doubt. I wonder how many of these family related repeat-abductor claims are actually weird ass cover-ups for abuse? Disgusting people molest their children all the time; who's to say they wouldn't dress up in an alien mask to do it? (Creepy) What if the child continued the charade, saying that their abuse occurred at the hands of an alien instead of their father or mother to protect themselves emotionally? Just throwing it out there... This hypnotist woman is a hack.

 

Yeah, what he said. I remember back in the 80's when it was all the rage to hypnotically "remember" being sodomized by your favorite teacher, etc. The hypnoquacks were feeding off this craze and cueing responses and making megabucks! At least no one's lives are being destroyed wrongfully with this. Aliens are immune from prosecution... just like Bush.

 

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I'm quoted in this article as one of the two skeptics. If you're interested, here's my response to the story:

http://saltcityskeptics.blogspot.com/2009/09/city-weekly-alien-abduction-story.html

 

Dude, no offense, but this story is more fun to poke fun at than it is interesting. Due to its laughable nature, it probably isn’t necessary to provide an official skeptic’s critique. People claiming to have been abducted by aliens only to be sexually molested or tortured are either attention-seeking whack-jobs, bored, lonely and just needing somebody to pay attention to them, or are literally sick and need professional medical attention. Unfortunately for them, instead of receiving professional help, they find themselves suffering at the hands of a so-called hypnotist, like the loser mentioned in this story. This person likely recognizes that many of the people she deals with are mentally ill but instead of directing them to an appropriate doctor, she prefers to mess them up further by implanting false memories with leading questions using junk like hypnosis, guided imagery and literal dream interpretation. Regardless of why these people make their claims, I feel bad for them. The hypnotist mentioned in this story is an amoral, selfish jerk preying on sick people for cash and attention.

 

Dude, as I run a skeptical organization, it IS kind of important to me that some of the claims made by people pushing pseudoscience ARE addressed. I agree with the heart of your take on this: I think the three people who recount their "abduction" experiences are doing so earnestly. I just think they're likely mistaken about what happened... And I agree that Spendlove is taking advantage of their vulnerability (whether she's conscious of the fact or not, I don't care to speculate). But I find it strange that you agree that she is taking advantage of them and "messing them up further by implanting them with false memories" and still think it's just a funny ha-ha story. I thinks what she's doing is abominable.

 

You actually “run” a skeptical organization? WTF? What is that? What do you hope to gain by doing that? I mean, anybody anywhere can be skeptical of anything and usually are – why the need to organize? Do you feel that you’re able to change a person’s mind as far as their beliefs go? No? Then no point in doing what you do except that it gives you some purpose. Good enough. Yes, I do think that this hypnotist woman is a hack and probably harming nutters with her practices but you’ve assumed that I care about the nutters. At the most basic level, I do. I like people and wish them all well. But this world is filled with nuts and people that prey on them and there’s nothing I can do but laugh or cry – I choose laugh.

 

Hmmm... I am skeptical of your claims to run a skeptical organization. I think you are so eager to prove your whacko theories, that you would gladly prompt witnesses into altering their stories. At least provide them with sane, credible ones.

 

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Excellent cover and cover story. However, the comments so far are sad examples of the blind bias and snide attempts at humor this subject usually brings out of dank minds where fear and bigotry rule.

 

Fear and bigotry? In which comment was fear or bigotry demonstrated? Or are you just regurgitating words born of a practiced, knee-jerk reaction to people that don't believe aliens would come all this way just to mess with people? I don't believe that a god would create humans, give them weakness and then punish them when they falter to due those god-given weaknesses, either. To me, this is the same as believing that an advanced race would travel millions of miles to our little planet just to collect skin and sperm samples because they've advanced beyond the need to procreate. I guess I'm just weird. I'll probably end up in hell to be eternally whipped by some gangly, grey humanoid thing with bug eyes. And that would be funny.

 

AnasaziAl, aren't you supposed to be finishing up a Vision Quest near the County Landfill? I understand Earth Mother's vibrations are particularly strong there. Or maybe it's just the trash/compactor bulldozer and you're high. The reason that this subject draws barbs and snide attempts at humor is because it's stupid and laughable and only the most childish, desperate individuals who lurk on the edges of life are susceptible. Ever wonder why aliens need to "abduct" farmers and trailer court residents rather than just fucking land at Walter Reed or the CDC in Georgia and ask questions? Because, like the Easter Bunny and Superman, they don't exist. porlob and Hayduke- Check this out: http://forums.randi.org/ This is the Amazing Randi's foundation and forum that fights and exposes this kind of childish superstition and the so-called professionals who prey upon the unstable. And along those lines, he's a marvelous atheist.

 

WHHAAATTT????? You have destroyed my childlike confidence in the existance of things never seen outside of a sale promotion. Fie on you. I'll send the Mad Hatter after you, Heyduke!