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“UNDERSIZED CREATURES SIMILAR TO MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN RACE”
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lthough the FBI has declassified thousands of pages on the contactee movement of the 1950s and later, they have released just one document pertaining to the alien abduction issue. It dates from 1967 and describes—albeit briefly—what sounds like a classic abduction experience. Notably, the FBI shared the data and the document with an agency whose name has been deliberately blacked out in the relevant papers. The specific date is January 18, 1967, and is captioned as follows: “Unidentified Flying Object Allegedly Sighting [sic], January 17, 1967.” It reads thus: At 4:10 a.m., January 18, 1967, [deleted] advised that he desired to report that he had observed a large oblong-shaped object which alighted in the street in front of him when he was on his way home from his television repair shop, the [deleted], Chesapeake, Virginia. He believes that he was taken into this craft which he recalls as being made of a glass-like substance and being transparent. It was manned by several individuals who appeared to be undersized creatures similar to members
