by Brent Raynes

The Abduction Case of Sgt. Charles L. Moody

Back in August 1975, Sgt. Charles L. Moody was assigned to the Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico, when a most incredible incident happened. It was on August 13th, around 1 a.m., that he drove out into the desert by himself to watch a meteor shower he had read about in the newspaper. Locating an isolated area away from the lights of Alamogordo, Sgt. Moody climbed onto the front left fender of his car, lit up a cigarette, and then began to watch for meteors. But in addition to meteors, a faintly luminous, dull metallic disc-shaped object, approx. 50 feet across and 18-20 feet thick at the center, dropped from out of the sky and appeared within some 100 feet of him. It stopped its descent about 15-20 feet from the desert floor, and then began to slowly move toward Moody’s position.

A former UFO skeptic, it took a few moments for it to sink in as to what was going on. Once it dawned on Moody that this was something very unconventional, he got back into his car and tried to start the engine. However, the engine was dead, even though he had just gotten a new battery the month before. Looking back toward the mysterious object, he noticed that it was then hovering some 70 feet away and had an oblong window, approx. 5 feet long and 3 feet wide, in which he could see shadowy human looking forms. He also noticed for a time a high-pitched sound comparable to a dental drill. A numbness came over him, and then the next thing he knew the object was ascending into the sky and within seconds had disappeared from sight. To his relief, the car engine now started. Getting back home in Alamogordo, he was shocked to note that it was 3 a.m. when he walked into his kitchen. He had checked his wristwatch just a minute or two before seeing the UFO and recalled the time then was around 1:15 a.m. An estimated hour and a half was unaccounted for.

Sgt. Moody, on the advice of a friend, used meditation to try and recover his lost fragments of memory associated with his UFO experience. Over the months that followed, many new apparent memories came into his consciousness. He remembered how a light engulfed his car and two humanoid beings glided over to him. He resisted, striking one of the beings with his car door, and slugging the other with his fist. Suddenly he was paralyzed and then lost consciousness. When he came to he was inside a craft, laying on a kind of examination table. A being that identified itself as the leader got Moody to agree to no further acts of violence, at which time his mobility was restored. Then Moody was taken on a tour of the ship. He communicated with the beings in a telepathic manner. He described them as about four feet eight inches tall, with large, domed hairless heads, and unusually large eyes, but with small ears, noses, and small slit-like mouths. He was told that a number of different alien races were visiting the earth and that in no more than three years they would make their presence known to mankind.

Jim Lorenzen of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization did a check into Moody’s background and found no evidence of mental illness or dishonesty, and his immediate supervisor stated that he was reliable and trustworthy.

Sources:

The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the beginning, by Jerome Clark. Vol. 2: L-Z, 2nd

Edition. Omnigraphics, Inc., Penobscot Building, Detroit, MI 48226. 1998. ISBN: 0-7808-0097-4.

The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, edited by Ronald D. Story. New American Library, 375 Hudson Street, New York, N.Y. 10014. 2001. ISBN: 0-451-20424-7.

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