Everyone has heard about people claiming to have been abducted by extraterrestrial beings. The common format of these stories are bright lights, vague memories of operations and/or implants, then reawakening at wherever they started with unexplainable loss of time.

Sometimes not all of these things are experienced; in many cases there is just an inexplicable loss of time, maybe with lights, maybe not. This leads me to the big question, are these made up? Many people will know of Nick Pope's claims of abduction and his reported responses to questions about the subject - some people would say that there are always going to be people who falsify claims just to share a piece of the limelight.

However, the stories, even though on the surface can seem fanciful, are in fact quite plausible. Consider this approach: A race of EBEs have discovered our planet and have been observing human activity. To broaden their knowledge of our species they decide they need to bring one of us aboard their ship to do some tests. They use a general aesthetic or similar drug to put the subject 'to sleep' while they transport him or her to the ship with bright lights so it is easier to see what they are doing. While on board the ship, they take a sample of human DNA, and maybe some human cells, possibly doing such things as monitoring brain activity. They may even do experiments and tests we have not even invented yet - they have shown an exceptional intelligence by travelling from their own planet to our own. Next they insert a small tagging device so they can track their subject, a possible explanation for the people who claim to have been abducted or had close encounters many times.

This is all hypothesising, we do not know why or even if people have been abducted. They could be dreams but even some respected scientists claim that they are not just hallucinations of the mind and that they are real.

I believe that extraterrestrial beings have visited this planet, maybe even landed [intentionally]. It seems only sensible that they would want to study our planet, its atmosphere and obviously life here. They may not be able to deduce that humans are the dominant species due to bacteria having a higher population than us, but since we are the most advanced they would study us. This is a primitive idea, but there is not that much studying that can be done without actually being able to run tests on humans. It is primitive to think that because I do not know what these beings are capable of, maybe they can get our DNA without actually being in contact with us. Assuming the fact that they would need to have a human on board their ship to run tests, it is only sensible for someone with my beliefs to think that people have been abducted.

There are many good arguments against abductions however; one of them is to do with the atmospheric conditions inside an alien craft. They would surly be identical to the composition of gases on their home planet. Now I am going to sidetrack for a moment to talk about the likelihood of this atmosphere being the same as ours. If we were capable of interstellar travel and looking at planets which are possibly to visit, we would select those which had a similar atmosphere to Earth so we could possible inhabit the planet. It is reasonable to think that beings from other planets would do the same. This would make their craft bearable for humans, so abduction without death would be possible. If the conditions were not the same, I would think that these advanced beings would think to give their subject a steady supply of oxygen, after all this would not just be a simple and quick operation. It would have to be thought out and would possibly be a volatile situation, even if they need not be scared of our galactic battle capacity, getting a whole planet off side doesn't seem like the wisest of moves.