Please correct me if you have better data. I'm painting with broad strokes here. A mini-look at abductee data sizes (individuals, not how many times they were abducted) USA Budd Hopkins: 200 cases David Jacobs: 150 cases John Mack: 200 cases Karla Turner: 300 cases John Carpenter: 200 cases Barbara Lamb: 560 cases MUFON Germany: 6 cases Australian investigators — Basterfield, Chalker et al: 36 cases Jenny Randles, UK, 19 cases. Some of these are higher, I just took the lower figure to be cons...

I've spent the past month digitizing Thomas Bullard's 1987 UFO abduction taxonomy — 550 motif codes across 270 cases — into a queryable relational database. Bullard himself has been corresponding with me about the methodology. The original work catalogued narrative elements across abduction accounts: what beings look like, what examinations involve, what messages are delivered, what aftereffects persist. Bullard found remarkable consistency across cases that had no contact with each other. Bu...