Top 10 Real Life Alien Encounters Stories

An encounter with the aliens from other planets is something that doesn’t happen too frequently with earthlings. However, out of whatever little count of such alien encounters are reported, some of the encounters are really hair-raising and would bring anyone to the edge of their seats. Here are such top 10 real life alien encounters collected from firsthand accounts of the abductees themselves.

No. 10 – Disappearing of Sonia

disappearing of sonia alien encounters

A British woman called Sonia had the feeling that she was abducted. As she also feared that the aliens would return to take her back with them, her husband had installed CCTV cameras in the room. One night, the camera captured her vanishing on her bed, just to return back after 13 minutes the exact same way as she had disappeared.

No. 9 – The Stanford abduction story

Stanford alien abduction story


Mona Stafford, Elaine Thomas and Louise Smith, three friends got abducted by an alien spaceship on 6th January, 1976 while they were returning from Lancaster to their hometown in Liberty, Kentucky. The alien spaceship was a massive, metallic, disc shaped object with ring of red lights around the midsection and a dome at the top. The ladies were later subjected to lie detector tests which they passed with flying colors.

No. 8 – Kirsan Llyumzhinov’s alien encounter story

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov

Russian politician Kirsan Llyumzhinov had an encounter with aliens on 17th September when he was being abducted by yellow suited aliens. After being taken aboard a transparent spaceship, Llyumzhinov was initially facing issues understanding the speech of the aliens, which later on became easy as telepathic communication began to happen between the earthling and the alien

No. 7 – Buff Ledge abduction story

Buff Ledge abduction story

While working in a summer camp at Buff Ledge in 1968, two teenagers claimed to have been abducted by aliens whom they had spotted earlier in a UFO. The aliens, as per the abductees, did not have lips or ears and had webbed fingers and slits for noses. Various samples were taken from the abductees before they were returned back. People who were not aware of the abductions in the camp and nearby sights had also reported sighting of strange lights the same night.

No. 6 – Pascagoula abduction story

Pascagoula abduction story

Co-workers Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson had reported of being abducted by aliens in October 1973 when they were out fishing on the west back of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi. The men, after being abducted were subjected to a series of examinations which they could not resist as they were temporarily paralyzed, although they were fully conscious. The aliens were three in number.

No. 5 – Travis Walton’s alien abduction story

Travis Walton's alien abduction story

While returning from work on 5th November 1975, Travis Walton and his friends spotted a bright orb in the woods. When Travis got down to investigate, he was shot by a wide beam of bright light and was taken aboard the spaceship. He was found after five days and he could not recall anything that happened in between. After many days, Walton could slowly recollect about his encounter with the aliens.

No. 4 – Hair of the alien

Peter Khoury alien encounter

In July 1992, Australia based Lebanese Peter Khoury had an encounter with two aliens who looked like women but one of them had a pretty long face with protruding chin. This woman, who was more than 6 feet tall, pressed Khoury’s head in her breasts and in a desperate attempt to free him, when Khoury bit a part of the nipples to tear off a part of it, it did not bleed, neither did the woman show any signs of pain. Later, Khoury discovered some blonde hair wrapped tightly under his foreskin. This was second encounter of Khoury with aliens, the first one happening in July 1988.

No. 3 – Allagash Waterway abduction story

Allagash Waterway abduction story

Four artists who were out on a trekking trip in the wilderness of Maine in 1976 were being abducted by an alien spaceship. The event had occurred in the Allagash waterway which is why the abduction case is known better as the Allagash abduction case. After being abducted these men were carried on to a spaceship where they were subjected to a number of examinations by the aliens. Like many other abduction cases, the men do not remember anything about this and could only recall when they underwent hypnosis sessions.

No. 2 – Betty and Barney Hill incident

Betty and Barney Hill The UFO Incident (1975)

While returning from a vacation trip in 1961, US postal clerk Barney Hill and his wife Betty had an encounter with aliens. They were being abducted by the extraterrestrials and were being taken into an alien spaceship where all sorts of medical examinations were being carried out on them.

No. 1 – Dr. Herbert Hopkins incident

Dr. Herbert Hopkins alien encounters incident

Dr. Herbert Hopkins, an eminent doctor and hypnotist got a phone call from a man who claimed to be calling from a UFO organization and wanted to discuss matters about an UFO sighting investigation that Hopkins was carrying out then. The man was at his doors at the very next instant after the doctor hung up his call and the appearance of the man was strange too. He was a complete bald guy with no eyelids and was dressed completely in black. His speech was a complete monotonous one and he asked the doctor to destroy all evidences that he had gathered during his investigation. After some discussions, the ‘man’ suddenly commented that he is running low on battery and needed to push off.