{"id":6387,"date":"2025-03-25T15:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/the-first-alien-abduction-4\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T15:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:17:17","slug":"the-first-alien-abduction-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/the-first-alien-abduction-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Alien Abduction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The First Alien Abduction?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Long before tales of alien abductions became widely known, <em>The Cleveland Daily Plaindealer<\/em> in Ohio published an intriguing story. <\/p>\n<p>On November 1, 1851, the newspaper featured an account that resembles contemporary close encounter reports. Titled \u201c<strong>Aerial Excursion<\/strong>,\u201d it details a journey in a balloon powered by a \u201cnew motive power,\u201d encountering \u201cglobes of golden light,\u201d and being enveloped in a glowing \u201cmolten silver\u201d cloud. The narrator describes communicating with radiant, intelligent beings and experiencing a mysterious <strong>missing time<\/strong> phenomenon, only to awaken several hours later. <\/p>\n<p>Discover the full 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? Long before tales of alien abductions became widely known, The Cleveland Daily Plaindealer in Ohio published an intriguing story. On November 1, 1851, the newspaper featured an account that resembles contemporary close encounter reports. Titled \u201cAerial Excursion,\u201d it details a journey in a balloon powered by a \u201cnew motive power,\u201d encountering&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/the-first-alien-abduction-4\/\" 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":829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6387","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\/6387","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=6387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}