{"id":90,"date":"2025-03-09T13:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T13:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/the-first-alien-abduction\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T13:27:09","slug":"the-first-alien-abduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/the-first-alien-abduction\/","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> of Ohio shared an intriguing story. <\/p>\n<p>On November 1, 1851, they published an account that resembles a contemporary close encounter. Titled &#8220;<strong>Aerial Excursion,<\/strong>&#8221; the article details a journey in a balloon powered by a &#8220;new motive power.&#8221; It describes the experience of soaring among &#8220;globes of golden light&#8221; and being caught within a radiant, &#8220;molten silver&#8221; cloud, along with communication with luminous, intelligent beings. The narrator also experienced <strong>missing time<\/strong>, awakening hours later.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about this fascinating account, click 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 of Ohio shared an intriguing story. On November 1, 1851, they published an account that resembles a contemporary close encounter. Titled &#8220;Aerial Excursion,&#8221; the article details a journey in a balloon powered by a &#8220;new motive power.&#8221; It&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/the-first-alien-abduction\/\" 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":713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","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\/90","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=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}