r/StrangeEarth

For decades, UFO researcher Joe Jordan investigated hundreds of alleged alien abduction cases expecting to find evidence of extraterrestrial encounters.

Instead, he says he found something completely different.

Jordan, who claims to have examined more than 700 cases over a 32-year period, said many people reported that their experiences ended immediately after calling out to "God" or "Jesus." Others allegedly said that praying or singing a hymn had the same effect.

According to Jordan, the pattern was so consistent that it eventually changed his own beliefs, leading him to become a Christian. He now argues that many so-called alien abduction experiences may not be extraterrestrial at all, but could instead have a spiritual or even demonic explanation.

One example he cites involved a man who claimed he was being abducted before shouting, "Jesus, Jesus, help me!" and instantly waking up safely in his bed.

Of course, skeptics would argue there are more mundane explanations, including sleep paralysis, religious expectation, psychological phenomena, or the power of belief.

What do you think?

• If alien abductions were real, why would religious words stop them?
• Does this point to a spiritual explanation rather than an extraterrestrial one?
• Or is it simply evidence of how the human brain responds under extreme stress?

Interested to hear opinions from both believers and skeptics.

Something unnatural is silently moving through American rivers, blurring the line between water and land. It looks like a common fish at first glance, but its terrifying biology resembles a horror movie monster. The northern snakehead possesses a primitive lung system that allows it to breathe atmospheric air directly. Moist conditions enable this creature to survive out of water for several days without any difficulty. Even worse, this predator can literally slither across wet grass and land to colonize nearby isolated lakes.

I used to be so firmly persuaded that there was at least something substantial to these stories of extraterrestrials, abductions, experiences, government alliances, cover-ups... I loved it all ever since I was a really little kid. I've learned so much about it beginning in the earliest parts of my life. It is so extremely special to me. The X-Files is one of my favorite shows; I have also come to love The Why Files. But it's all slipping from my fingers now.

I am becoming increasingly persuaded that alien folklore (ufology) is a psy-op from the government bureaucracy and capitalist upper-class. By attaching the phenomenon of UFOs (likely classified government aircraft) to extraterrestrials, the government has effectively attached a stigma to the phenomenon, and thus ensured anyone who speaks up about it is not taken seriously.

The phenomenon of abductions could even be government-related. During the illegal MK Ultra program, the CIA experimented on civilians using psychedelic drugs in an attempt to achieve mind-control. It wouldn't surprise me if something similar has happened with so-called alien abductions. It is possible that the government is experimenting on these people (who, by the way, are objectively documented to exhibit symptoms of trauma that indicate their experiences are very real and damaging), and then by convincing these people (through drugs, hypnosis, or some other means) that they were contacted by extraterrestrials, they ensure that those people end up ostracized and labelled as crazy by the rest of the society. It's really such an awful and heartbreaking thing that these hurting people are so ostracized; I believe their experiences are valid, whether they happened exactly in the way they recollect or not.

The biggest clue for me, though, is how the UFO phenomenon and extraterrestrial hypothesis have been promoted recently by the far-right in America. The release of the UFO Files was an obvious political move/distraction. Even worse than this: now I am noticing all of the weird, uncomfortable, neo-Nazi white supremacist undertones in Ufology-thought, and the parallels between modern alien folklore and Nazi occultism. We are told there are these tall, white-skinned, angelic humanoids, called "Nordics", who are so amazing compared to us that upon the sight of them we are ensnared by their radiant benevolence and glory. We are told that these same extraterrestrials which visit us in the present day, are also those responsible for our creation, having inserted their genetic traits into our primordial ancestors in order to invent a superior species. Look closer at these sentiments, and you can see the glaring problem of eugenics.

I can't shake off these convictions. I want to go back to believing in the mystery, but I don't know if I can.

I'm losing faith in aliens, guys :(

What's strange to me is that the human tissue didn't just survive inside the mice, but was able to grow and integrate with the mouse's nervous system too.

The ability of human cells to grow in this way is quite impressive.

I'm wondering what people's opinions are on the ethics of this kind of research, especially if the development progresses further.

On May 2026 me and my wife were hiking, I'd say that we were about 1600 meters above sea level, but we decided to stop and make our way back.

We were the only 2 people on the mountain, a few meters after, while we were going down, my wife and I, at pretty much the same time, just noticed the whole sky going white, like a big flash surrounding every visible area that you could see through the trees.

Each one of us initially thought that it was something that happened just to each individual, but a few seconds after we tried to process what had just happened, we asked each other if we saw that big flash. The other person said that 'yes' so at least we knew that it was a real thing.

I've been thinking and trying to look for an explanation of that incident, but haven't found any, nor have no one else with a similar experience. Has anyone else experienced something like that? Any possible explanations?

Edit: I forgot to say that the light flash was horizontal and not vertical nor diagonal nor there was any sound. So I guess that rules out the possibility of it being a lightning.

argues that naturalism cannot explain how we know subjective experience exists.