Abduction Phenomenon

Thousands of strangers, one script: lights, lost time, the small gray room.

The pattern is the puzzle: thousands of strangers, no profit motive, reporting the same sequence — light, paralysis, the small gray room, the examination, the missing hour. Sleep paralysis plus culture explains many. It struggles with the multiple-witness cases, the physical traces, and Travis Walton's six polygraphed loggers. Harvard's John Mack staked his career on the observation that these people were not lying and not insane. Harvard investigated him for it.