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The [[alien abduction]] phenomenon has resulted in a lengthy list of entities purported to have abducted humans.

==Alleged motivations==
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(contracted; show full) beings, folklorist and abduction researcher Thomas E. Bullard says "The small showing for monstrous types and the fact that they concentrate in less reliable cases should disappoint skeptics who look for the origin of abductions in the influence of Hollywood. Nothing like the profusion of imaginative screen aliens appears in the abduction literature."<ref name="varietyofabductionbeings" />

Bullard, in something of a concession to skeptics, has noted that the presence or absence 
of hypnosis as a method for memory retrieval in abduction claimants seems to effect descriptions of the abductors themselves.<ref name="varietyofabductionbeings" /> Hypnotically assisted recall is more likely to produce descriptions of the "standard" Grey humanoid while cases where hypnosis was ''not'' used "include more variety."<ref name="varietyofabductionbeings" /> However, rather than take a firmly skeptical position based on this obs(contracted; show full)<ref name="varietyofabductionbeings" /> In an essay, Bullard writes that "The small showing for monstrous types and the fact that they concentrate in less reliable cases should disappoint skeptics who look for the origin of abductions in the influence of Hollywood. Nothing like the profusion of imaginative screen aliens appears in the abduction literature."<ref name="varietyofabductionbeings" />

==References==
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[[Category:Alien abduction phenomenon]]