Less Common Elements
Folklorist Dr. Thomas E. Bullard conducted a study of 300 reports of alien abduction in an attempt to observe the less prominent aspects of the claims. He notes the emergence of four general categories of events which recur regularly, although not as frequently as stereotypical happenings like the medical examination. These four types of events are:
- The conference
- The tour
- The journey
- Theophany
Chronologically within abduction reports these rarer episodes tend to happen in the order listed, between the medical examination and the return.
Read more about this topic: Narrative Of The Abduction Phenomenon
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