{"id":3591,"date":"2025-03-11T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/the-first-alien-abduction-3\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:00:22","slug":"the-first-alien-abduction-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/the-first-alien-abduction-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Alien Abduction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The First Alien Abduction?<\/h3>\n<p>Nearly a century before the concept of alien abduction became widely known, <em>The Cleveland Daily Plaindealer<\/em> from Ohio published an astonishing story.<\/p>\n<p>On November 1, 1851, the newspaper shared an account that closely resembles contemporary reports of close encounters. The article titled \u201c<strong>Aerial Excursion<\/strong>\u201d details a journey in a balloon powered by an \u201cinnovative motive force.\u201d It describes an experience with \u201cglobes of golden light,\u201d being enveloped in a luminous \u201cmolten silver\u201d cloud, communicating with radiant, intelligent beings, and experiencing <strong>missing time<\/strong>\u2014awakening several hours later.<\/p>\n<p>Discover more about this intriguing story here: <a href=\"https:\/\/gideonreid.co.uk\/the-first-alien-abduction\/\">https:\/\/gideonreid.co.uk\/the-first-alien-abduction\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThe First Alien Abduction? Nearly a century before the concept of alien abduction became widely known, The Cleveland Daily Plaindealer from Ohio published an astonishing story. On November 1, 1851, the newspaper shared an account that closely resembles contemporary reports of close encounters. The article titled \u201cAerial Excursion\u201d details a journey in a balloon powered&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/the-first-alien-abduction-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The First Alien Abduction?&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}