Whitley Strieber cabin experience (26 December 1985)
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Whitley Strieber · 0:19:57
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedAuthor Whitley Strieber reported that on the night of 26 December 1985 at his cabin in upstate New York he was taken from his bedroom by small beings and subjected to procedures, recovered under hypnosis and told in his 1987 book "Communion". In the corpus he recounts contact experiences and a 1989 implant event.
The event
| Date | |
|---|---|
| Place | 41.7000, -74.4000 approximate · United States |
| Official response | No official body is known to have issued a finding on this report. |
Reported by
- Whitley Strieber witness novelist
Investigated by
- donald klein medical
Who spoke about it later
- Whitley Strieber 0:19:57 "Aliens Live Among Us...I've Met Them!" -Whitley Strieber Tells All ▶ 2025
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"Aliens Live Among Us...I've Met Them!" -Whitley Strieber Tells All 7 February 2025
- 0:19:57 ▶ Whitley Strieber
there some of them are very small that some of them are bigger, but that was that night when I woke up in that room. My immediate thought was, my god, bugs. Huge bugs. And I that's why I thought I
- 0:19:57 ▶ interview
- 1:30:47 ▶ Whitley Strieber
windows are open. It's a May night. It's a very pleasant night, so there's no air conditioning is on. The windows are open and just going to sleep. And suddenly, I hear the crunching of gravel in the
- 0:19:57 ▶ Whitley Strieber
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Whitley Strieber cabin experience (26 December 1985), Betty and Barney Hill abduction report. Open the full map filtered to this record.
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- 0:19:57 "Aliens Live Among Us...I've Met Them!" -Whitley Strieber Tells All · Whitley Strieber ▶
there some of them are very small that some of them are bigger, but that was that night when I woke up in that room. My immediate thought was, my god, bugs. Huge bugs. And I that's why I thought I
- 1:30:47 "Aliens Live Among Us...I've Met Them!" -Whitley Strieber Tells All · Whitley Strieber ▶
windows are open. It's a May night. It's a very pleasant night, so there's no air conditioning is on. The windows are open and just going to sleep. And suddenly, I hear the crunching of gravel in the
- Communion (book)
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