There's at least two, Robert99.
In fact, there may be more shortly. My alien abductee support group is based in Vancouver, WA and they went NUTS last week when I told them I had written a book on DB Cooper. Now they want me to come on down and talk to the group about Danny Boy!
Bruce, if you were abducted by aliens, what were they interested in? And why did they release you?
Ostensibly, the aliens known as "Grays" wanted to have sex with me for their hybridization program. Like most predators, when they were done with me they just threw me back in the pond.
But the bigger question is: Is any of this real? Sex with aliens? Hybridization? Etc.? Are the aliens themselves real? The short answer is: I don't know.
The longer answer involves the historical record of the Sumerians and all the theories that the History Channel presents in their Ancient Aliens series. There are a number of convincing moments in human history that suggest a dynamic intervention by ETs in human affairs, such as the evolution from
Homo erectus to
Home sapiens about 250,000 years ago, or the expansion of the frontal lobes about 50,000 years ago. My first paid gig as a freelance journalist was interviewing Zecharia Sitchin thirty years ago to discuss his work in his "Twelfth Planet" series that discusses all of the above dynamics. Zech clearly states that human evolution has been engineered by aliens.
To what purpose, though, is unclear. Sitchin says that initially a group of aliens known as the Nephalim wanted to transform
erectus into smarter and tougher creatures so they could act as laborers and mine important minerals in Africa for the off-shoot ET group known as the Annunaki.
Currently, the emerging perspective is that ET interventions continue today, especially in the form of raising the consciousness in humans to a transformative state where telekinesis, telepathy, and teleportation are commonplace. A channeled entity by the name of Bashar says that he and his fellow ETs are preparing humanity to become
Homo galacticus. This new degree of speciation will not only involve all the abovementioned "tele" stuff, but the ability to interact with interdimensional beings. As I understands Bashar, those humans who chose to go galactic will in about 100-300 years be able to double our life span, heal ourselves, live without sleep or food, and function as equal partners across the universe. In effect, we will become the New ETs.
I have posted much of my writings on alien abduction at the Mountain News, for those who are interested.
Lastly, the guy known as the "Alien Hunter," Derrel Sims, says that the folks who are being abducted by aliens are chosen because the abductees can "think outside the box." I think there is a high degree of truth to that perspective.