The 1976 Allagash Abductions

On the night of August 26, 1976, four art students had been camping and were together in a canoe on Maine’s Allagash Waterway when they encountered a UFO. In their 20's, it was Chuck Rak who first saw it. Responding to a feeling of being “watched,” he turned around and was startled to observe a large bright object hovering silently perhaps some 200-300 feet in the air. He yelled to the others and they all came to watch as the huge glowing object, looking to be oval in shape, rose higher into the air. It took a little while for the men’s eyes to adjust to the intense brightness of the UFO, but once they did they soon noticed that it exhibited a gyroscopic movement and that it seemed to be divided into four oscillating quadrants of bright colored light.

Then Charlie Folz took a flashlight and blinked it on and off toward the object. Suddenly, a tube-shaped shaft of light shone down into the water. The light began moving towards them, at which point the men began to frantically paddle toward their campsite, still visible because of a bonfire they had left burning. Then the light beam caught up with them, and after this the memories of the four men differ and are a little foggy. Charlie suddenly realized he was ashore at the campsite with the others, and they were watching the UFO fly away. Chuck recalled staying in the canoe after the others had jumped out onto shore. He remembers sitting there transfixed, unable to take his eyes off the UFO. Jack and Jim Weiner, identical twins, recalled how the beam was overtaking them and then the next thing they knew that were on shore, getting out of the canoe, and looking at the object, which was estimated at 20-30 feet above the water. There it hovered silently for 4-5 minutes, until suddenly the beam pointed upwards and then the object began moving into the air and towards the southwestern sky. Then it shot up into the stars and was gone “in just a second.”(Jack Weiner)

After the UFO had left the men were soon puzzled to note that their bonfire, which had been fueled with very large logs and was expected to burn for a good 2 to 3 hours while they were off fishing, was now reduced to mere red coals. The experience seemed only to have lasted 15 or 20 minutes.

Several years later, Jim suffered a head injury, and came to develop tempero-limbic epilepsy. As he was undergoing treatments, Jim began to suffer from nightmares wherein he and his brother and the other two campers from that Maine trip were in a strange place, nude, and there were bug-eyed humanoids. He began to awaken and see strange creatures around his bed, sometimes experienced paralysis, and other times he felt as if he had levitated out of his bed. He even felt as though something was being done to his genitals.

Jim’s doctor noticed he was overtired and questioned him about this. Reluctant, at first refusing to talk about it, Jim came around when the doctor expressed concern that it was affecting his medical treatment. After Jim explained the situation, and told him about the 1976 “missing time” incident in Maine, the physician urged Jim to contact a UFO researcher, as the doctor was familiar with the abduction phenomenon. Jim was reluctant to pursue his doctor’s suggestion, but later when the physician read a newspaper story in May 1988 of how ufologist Ray Fowler would be giving a lecture in the area on UFOs, he phoned Jim and convinced him to attend the event and to talk with Mr. Fowler about his experience.

Mr. Fowler became very interested and in January 1989 he launched an investigation into the case, along with physicist David Webb and hypnotic consultant Anthony Constantino. The investigation was a thorough one, taking over two years to conduct, resulting in a 10-volume, 702 page report, as well as a book on the case written by Mr. Fowler entitled The Allagash Abductions (1993).

Hypnotic exploration of their memories revealed that all four men had been abducted during their missing time. They all described being transported by the beam into the UFO where humanoid beings, who exerted a kind of mind control over them, had them remove their clothing and subjected them to medical sounding examinations, along with the removal of saliva, skin scrapings, blood, feces, urine and sperm samples from each of them.

From the hypnosis sessions, it was learned that the twin brothers had been experiencing bedtime visitations by alien beings since early childhood, as well as having had a number of adult abductions.

Reference:

The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, edited by Ronald D. Story. New American Library, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014. 2001. ISBN: 0-451-20424-7.