Many of us view the Betty and Barney Hill abduction as the beginning of alien abduction accounts. That may not be true.
According to a recent report on a British news site, there was a bizarre UFO sighting and abduction in 1940, which is now the subject of a TV special. The story involves several young boys who encountered a UFO and alien beings in Gateshead.
Robert Hall is the main character of the program, and claims to have been held for some twenty minutes by these alien beings.
Check out Was Alien Killed with a Coal Shovel?, and see the details of this quite compelling account. Comment as you wish.

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If you listen to the elderly mans account of what he saw when he was 5 yrs old it is indeed very strange and you either believe him or not. It was 1940 and Britain was in the middle of the war. He describes the beings as like a bigfoot alien greys and a tall blond man. What description of them was ‘creatures’ but now he uses todays terminology. He lived in a poor area with back to back streets where children played so why would any aliens want to choose that area and what did they want if true. This by rights should be in newspaper headlines today but nobody would publish this because like all things they want absolute proof.
Alien abuctions have been going on for over three thousand years. It’s only recently with the newspapers and television media that records were being kept. Look in the Bible and read about the man who was taken up (and he was not dead either)..
PhilB – I agree with you. See my comment on Billy’s other story about the family in Australia who can’t get away from the Aliens in their lives.