Thomas ‘Eddie’ Bullard received a PhD in folklore from Indiana University and has written on UFO abductions, pre-1947 aerial phenomena and the relationship between UFOs and folklore.

To name some cases that seem worthy to me – the strange, well-supported, tried-and-tested survivors – I will add a few that I have studied at some length:

1) The Father Gill case from 1959, when he and several dozen New Guinean parishioners waved to entities aboard a hovering craft and the entities waved back. Here is a case with many corroborating witnesses. Gill has stuck by his story over the years without embellishment and has left none of the many investigators in doubt of his sincerity.