Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about the alien abduction of
Robert Matthews. That's correct, the alien
abduction of Robert Matthews. This is a strange one.
It goes back a ways. I found this first article over
at unsolved.com. The title of the article says
UFO Abduction, Missing Time and it begins by saying hundreds of
people claimed they have had a bizarre experience called
Missing time. You are about to meet one of
them, a member of the Air Force who disappeared for an entire
hour under hypnosis. He described his abduction,
believing it or not, by aliens. At 8:45 PM on October 1st, 1966,
a bus pulled up in front of Deuter's Market in a small Cape
Cod village of North Truro. Only one man got off the bus, 19
year old Airman First class Robert Matthews.
He was reporting for his first tour of duty at a nearby Air
Force Base and noticed that the area was deserted.
Quote I got off where the bus driver told me to, where I was
supposed to get off and he told me to phone the base and they
would send a truck down to pick me up.
I told him that I was in front of Dutra's market and he told me
to stay there and that there would be a truck there to pick
me up in a minute. While I was standing there, I
saw these lights, you know, moving from right to left across
the sky. That's when I felt this fear.
Matthews called the base again and informed them that something
strange was happening. When I called the base again,
they asked me where I'd been and he told me.
He says we want, we sent a truck down there already.
And I says, well, I've been standing here waiting and no
one's been by here. The Air Force told Bob Matthews
that a driver had arrived to pick him up at 8:50 PM, just 5
minutes after his first phone call.
The driver claimed that Matthews was nowhere.
Insight. Almost an hour later, at 9:45,
the base had received the second call from Matthews.
Yet in Bob Matthews mind, those two phone calls had been made
less than 4 minutes apart. According to what Bob Hopkins
and author of several books on the phenomena that is of missing
time, Bob Matthews experienced a mini period of amnesia.
It is not perceived as a break in which something happens and
then a resumption. It is remembered as continuous
and the half hour trip turns out to be a 2 1/2 hour trip or
whatever. And this is sometimes
experienced in conjunction with a UFO sighting or something like
a light, but not always. In 1964, Hopkins experienced a
UFO sighting himself. He has since delved into the
field and become an expert on the subject of missing time and
alien abduction. I began by getting phone calls
from people in letters and many of their sightings reports had
pieces of missing time in them, he says.
They could not account for what they they could not account for
what? Why?
Something that should have taken 15 minutes took 2 1/2 hours of
driving a car, which involved the sighting of a UFO.
And we began looking into those cases and discovered one after
another of these abduction cases.
Bob Matthews was one of the people who contacted Budd
Hopkins. I was on vacation looking for
something to read. And on the shelf there is in
front of me I saw this book with this creature on it.
You know, I read the book and I thought someone had stepped into
my head and taken my innermost fears and put them in a book.
It brought tears to my eyes. You know, I couldn't believe
that this was actually happening to someone else.
After weeks of intensive interviews, Budd Hopkins put Bob
Matthews under hypnosis to explore the details about what
happened to him outside of Deuter's Market.
According to Budd, hypnosis is a very useful tool in retrieving
lost memories. So I connected myself with a
psychiatrist and a couple of psychologists who were doing the
hypnosis and we began looking into a number of cases.
Bob Matthews case is a very good at missing time case because of
the fact that there is an indirect witness to his having
been missing. Bob's recollections were so
vivid that he was able to return to Cape Cod and reconstruct what
he believed took place outside Deuter's market.
Under hypnosis. I observed in the sky 3 lights
moving in this direction. They hovered over there and the
red one came at me so fast. I walked up to the ramp and I
looked inside and I saw 4 beings setting and the place reminded
me of a doctor's office. There's no question that Bob
Matthew's story of alien abduction stretches the
imagination. The idea seems unbelievable even
to those who claimed it happened to them.
But some take their stories even one step further than Bob's.
They say they've been victims of experiments, and they claim to
have physical evidence to prove it.
But Hopkins has organized support groups for these people
so they can compare their distributed experiences of
missing time and alien abduction.
Christina Florence, a New York choreographer, believe that she
has had multiple experiences of missing time and alien
abduction. In 1974, Christina was 17 years
old when she, her mother and her older sister crossed the Mojave
Desert on their way to San Francisco.
According to Christina, their car overheated near Barstow, CA,
and they took the first exit off the highway.
Somewhere along the line we got to this park, my sister got out
of the car and I heard her running around the back and all
of a sudden she said Oh my, come out of here quick.
And the next thing I remember consciously was that we were
lying on this blanket in the middle of the park as if we had
a little nap just lying there. Our mom was still not around and
we woke up and we were like, whoa, what happened?
And then the next thing I remember, the three of us were
just driving like heck. We never talked about it until
my sister just called me up one day.
And we sort of began to talk about it further and realized
that we've been, that we both had this very bizarre memory of
this missing time thing. And she knew about Bud, and she
suggested I get in touch with Bud.
Christina took her sister's advice and contacted Bud
Hopkins. She agreed to undergo hypnosis,
hoping she could recall some details about what had happened
that afternoon in Barstow under hypnosis.
I started having this picture that my sister is getting out of
the car and that then I get out of the car and I looked up and
there was something above the car and I was so scared.
I didn't know what it was and I was trying to start the car and
it wouldn't start. Then the next memory that I had
under the hypnosis was that I was on a table and there were
some people around. There was a screen.
It was about as wide as a large television screen, but it was
paper thin and it was just moving around the table and it
wasn't attached to anything. And I could see 3 dimensional
shapes of my skull and my whole body.
It was just taking pictures and it was just this huge spherical
room that was just covered with dials.
There wasn't space, it was just dials.
And I feel like they put these rubber pants on me or something
with things attached, and then they left the room and I lay
there and I was asking for my sister and somebody was telling
me she's OK, she's all right. That's the last thing I
remember. Then we were back on the grass.
If Christina's abduction actually happened, then the
question is why? Bob Matthews may have the
answer. Ultimately, the focus becomes
reproductive and the interest seems to have to do with taking
sperm and over samples. And the whole central focus of
the physical part of it seems to deal with the idea of ongoing
genetic experimentation. And these abductees are
involuntary victims or specimens in this ongoing genetic
experiment. The idea of abduction by aliens
may seem outrageous, yet those who experienced missing time
episodes believe that this is exactly what happened to them.
Of course, there is no proof either way.
Perhaps someday science will discover a reason for missing
time. Until then, the rest of us
should just be glad that all of our minutes have been accounted
for. A pretty good article overall.
I think it overlooks the whole concept of people having
implants put in them. And I wouldn't know if that
would be proof, but it's certainly evidence something
going on. Very strange case.
And especially here with this Bob Matthews, because, you know,
it's of course, this is about clear back to 1964 or whatever.
But the fact is it's documented because he's called the military
office. They're yet they're, they're
telling me, yeah, sure, we're going to send out a vehicle to
pick you up. And then it doesn't show up.
He doesn't think. And what he realizes is he's
been missing all this time. No, I did find another article
on this Matthew's abduction case.
I'll take a look at it real quick.
I found this over on the website calledoddthingsiveseen.com,
oddthingsiveseen.com and then this on the subtitle it says the
Johns and the Jots of JW Ocker. So I'm assuming this is the guy
that wrote the article. It's got a cool picture of this
Dutra market, I guess where this Matthews fellow was abducted
from. Very cool looking kind of East
Coast vibe to it. There it says the Cape Odd
Dutra's market UFO abduction. October 29th, 2020 is the date
of this article. I was sitting one night in a
cottage on the shore of Wellfleet Harbor on Cape Cod
after a week of vacation, trying to squeeze every bit of
weirdness out of that ridiculously quaint peninsula.
On a sudden tip from an OT an Otis reader, I started
researching a nearby site. I hadn't come across to my
original planning. It was the easiest research I've
ever done. I just had to watch an episode
of the original Unsolved Mysteries.
Now of course, that's the article that we're just reading
from for this story. I need you to imagine me in an
overcoat, banks of fake fog swirling around me, the night
granny and dark. My eyebrows don't move as I
stare at you. My voice deadpan as I speak.
That it was October 1st, 1966. The time 8:45 PM.
So this is in the fall matching this guy sitting, a young man
just standing out there in this chilly evening in Cape Cod
waiting for his ride. 19 year old Airman First Class Rob
Matthews arrives by bus in the outer Cape Town of North Trio.
He was assigned to North Trio Air Force Station, 2 miles from
the bus stop. Across the street was a
two-story 19th century home that had been converted into a
general store called Dutra's Market.
It was an extremely New England situation for the Philadelphia
native. No one was around during that
part of the season and at that time of the night.
So he went to the pay phone, barnacled to the exterior of the
market and called the base for a pickup.
Now, that's kind of picturesque almost, if you think about it in
a way. This is called back in 1966.
No cell phones, of course. And here this young man is stuck
there in this, you know, East Coast town.
Nobody around doesn't know anybody.
He's calling the Air Force Base to get a ride over to the base
that arranged. Matthews hung up to wait the few
minutes it would take for a truck to arrive.
But the lights he saw weren't the headlights of a Jeep.
They hung in the sky, strangely, a trio of them doing things he
didn't think were possible despite his nascent Air Force
career. The lights freaked him out
enough that he immediately fished a dime from his pocket
and called the base back to let them know.
Where were you? Asked the voice on the other
end. What do you mean?
Asked Matthews. We sent a truck for you an hour
ago and you weren't there. To Matthews, the time between
these two pay phone calls was less than 4 minutes.
To his colleagues at North True Air Force Station, it had been
an entire hour. The mystery went unsolved.
Now that's just imagine how spooky that would be.
You're, you're just this 19 year old kid.
You're waiting on this card that can get you no cell phones.
You're stuck out there. You can't communicate with
anybody other than this pay phone.
Call them back. You're like, what the heck's
going on around here? I see these lights in the sky
and they say, oh, yeah, we were there, you know, 45 minutes ago.
Where were you at? Very strange.
We hear a lot of this, this talk about time slips or missing time
when we read these UFO sightings, people who think that
they may have been abducted and this is what this sounds like to
me, goes on and says 2 decades later.
Matthew's run across the work of Budd Hopkins, an artist turned
at UFO researcher who specialized in the phenomena of
missing time, in which UFO abductees would experience
contractions of time similar to Matthew's experience.
Hopkins himself had seen a UFO in True in 1964, two years
before Matthew's experience. And that kind of puts a little
bit of more light on it, doesn't it?
This is a place where these UFOSI guess have been repeatedly
seen by people. Matthews contacted Hopkins, who
used hypnosis to tease out Matthew's memory of the night in
1966. Under hypnosis, the missing time
was filled in when Matthew saw the lights.
One of them, a red light, zoomed in, manifesting into a ship that
landed in the sandy flat space that was the parking lot of
Dutra's Market. A ramp extended and Matthew
found himself in what felt like a doctor's office, cold,
antiseptic and surrounded by 6 beings.
That doesn't say what these beings look like, obviously not
human, but this description of this clinical atmosphere, this
is something we hear over and over again.
It wasn't Matthew's first strange contact with the other
worldly When he was 5, an immunity of being that glowed
green entered his room and performed some unknown action on
his chest. He'd always thought of it as a
ghost, but after Deuter's Market, he wondered if it was
from beyond the stars instead of from beyond the grave.
Maybe beyond another dimension. This is another thing we see
frequently in this case, where these victims seem to be tracked
from childhood on. We were talking about Sammy
Hagar the other day, had the sighting when he's a kid, then
he has another sighting when he's a teenager.
Feels like they've been, you know, communicating with him,
telling, telling that they were, you know, going to come back to
Earth and what I think you said 2027 or something.
Really strange stuff goes on and says personally all I really
need to be interested in is a weird story and somewhere to
aim. A camera and a general store
with the UFO landing pad inside is perfect, but the deuteris
site gets even better than the UFO landing.
The unsolved mysteries episode season 1 episode 10 originally
airing December 21st, 1988. Use the actual location to film
one of its signature spooky reenactments.
And then they brought Matthews himself back to Dutra's walk
through what happened on the spot where it happened.
It was like the site was thrice blessed.
And all that led me to standing in the rain the next morning
after detouring our exit from Cape Cod to take photos of a
convenience store and a strip of parking and a bus stop, all
while people watched me from their cars.
The site hasn't really changed except in two details. 1st, it's
not called Deuter's Market anymore.
It's Salty Market now. Second, the pay phone is long
gone. Well, you can imagine that looks
like it's got a spot here maybe where the pay phone used to be.
I can't say for sure. Nothing replaced it on the bare
white sighting of the market, say for an ironic sign, although
the space really needs historical plaque.
And then it says, and you need to watch this episode of
Unsolved Mysteries. Yeah, it's got a pretty good,
pretty good link here to the Unsolved Mystery Show.
Isn't that really cool? We'll take a look at one last
story about this and wrap this up.
I found this last article over at
newenglandfolklore.blogspot.comsnewenglandfolklore.blogspot.com. It's written by a fellow named
Peter Muse MUISE at. It's got kind of a neat little
blog here and the date on this is August 12th, 2019.
So I did this a few years ago. It says abducted by aliens on
Cape Cod, Robert Matthews. Then it goes on down and says I
just came back from spending some time in Truro on Cape Cod.
Truro is on the outer Cape and there are a lot of woods and
undeveloped beaches out there. I'm a city person and I am
always impressed by how dark it gets at night when you're away
from the urban light pollution. On a Truro we could see hundreds
of stars after sunset. It was amazing.
Of course, as a city person, I also get a little freaked out by
how dark it gets. I won't deny it, driving down a
road with no St. lights or walking down an unlit path at
night can be scary. Who knows what you might
encounter? There are lots of coyotes and
foxes on the Cape and those are just things you might be on the
island. Who knows what works beneath the
dark water or even in the dark skies.
Lots of strange things going to happen at night on the Outer
Cape. Now I'm just thinking back to
1966, how dark that place would have been at night.
For example, take the case of Robert Matthews.
In 1966, Matthews was 19 years old and newly inducted into the
United States Air Force. His first assignment as an
airman was to the North Truro Air Force Station.
Following instructions, Matthews took a bus on October 1st to
Deuter's Market and Truro and then used a pay phone to call
the station. He told him he had arrived in
Trio. The airman on the other end told
Matthews a truck would come pick him up.
The time was 8:45 PM N Trio Air Force Station was only a couple
miles from Dutra's Market, so Matthews didn't think it would
take long for a truck to arrive. But as he waited by the side of
the road, he noticed something unusual above him.
There were lights moving back and forth across the night sky.
They weren't like anything he had seen before in his life.
They certainly didn't look like they belong to an airplane.
As he watched them, he was filled with a strange fear.
Only a few minutes had passed, but he called the station again
and told them something weird was happening.
Could they please hurry and pick him up?
Matthews was surprised when the airmen on the other end said
they had already dispatched the truck for him nearly an hour
ago. When it arrived at Dutra's
market, the driver couldn't find Matthews and had returned to the
station. Matthews was confused.
Only a few minutes had passed, not an hour, and he hadn't moved
from in front of the market. There was no way he could have
missed the bus. But when he looked at his watch,
he saw it was 9:45 PM. Somehow, he'd missed an hour of
his life. This was not the first unusual
occurrence in Matthews life. When he was 5 or 6 years old, he
woke up one night to see a glowing green figure standing
next to his bed. He tried to scream but was
unable to make a sound or move. The luminous green entity pulled
up his pajama top and proceeded to do something, Matthews wasn't
sure what, to his chest. In the morning, he told his
mother that he had seen a ghost in his room.
She reassured him that he had just had a nightmare, but
Matthews remembered the experience for years afterwards,
unsure if it had been real or just a dream.
Was this sounds to me like a really good candidate to be
checked out for implants. It wasn't until 1984, when he
was an adult, that he received confirmation of his experience.
Might have been real, but this time Matthews was out of the Air
Force and no longer on Cape Cod. While on vacation and looking
for some light reading, he saw the cover of.
Bud Hopkins book Missing Time. The creature on the book's cover
looked just like the entity which had appeared in his room
when he was a child. I'm looking at this thing.
I'm thinking grey, alien, but you know, he called it green.
Matthews contacted Bud Hopkins, who quickly answered his letter.
They had something in common. They had both seen strange
things in the sky over Truro. Before writing about UFOs,
Hopkins was best known as a painter and sculptor and had a
studio on Cape Cod. His interest in UFOs had first
been kindled by seeing an object in the sky off the coast of Trio
in 1964. Only later did he come to write
about alien abductions and missing time, the phenomena
where abductees forget their experience at the hands of alien
abductors. When Matthews met Hopkins in
person, Hopkins facilitated A hypnotic regression session for
him. Matthews was brought back to
that hour in Trio he couldn't remember well.
In a trance, he described how the lights he had seen that
night came down from the sky and landed near the market.
They belong to a flying craft of some kind.
Matthews entered the craft and encountered 4 alien beings, much
as they did when he was a child. The creatures examined his chest
before putting him back on the street.
The creatures had been studying him for years.
Robert Matthews was the subject of an episode of Unsolved
Mysteries and that says he has a link to it.
Did he really encounter alien creatures outside a convenience
store on Cape Cod? It sounds bizarre and
unbelievable, but I think lots of strange things happen on our
outer Cape at night. As I researched Matthew's story,
I was reminded of 2 old stories from Trio and 1.
Captain Sylvanus Rich is abducted every night by a witch
who rides him like a horse, leaving him exhausted until the
spell is broken. In another tale, a sailor who
steals doughnuts from a witch is haunted and ridden each night.
While these stories aren't identical to Matthew's account,
they do have similarities. Strange entities who come at
night, men who are powerless to resist them.
And true, I don't think the explanation is as easy as either
witches or extraterrestrials. Maybe these stories are all just
attempts to explain the phenomena called sleep
paralysis, but maybe there's something else going on here.
Either way, a lot of strange things happen on the outer Cape
at night. Pretty good story actually.
I did a a fairly decent job of documenting everything.
And interesting to point out that Matthews had this
experience there, that Hopkins had this experience there.
And as he's doing the research, he finds that other people have
had experiences back in and maybe 102 hundred, 300 years
ago. But they didn't attribute them
to aliens. They called them witches, which
would make sense. I mean, what would you think in
the 1750s or something if you woke up with one of these things
in your bedroom exhausted, probably being taken on board
ship and having who knows what kind of experience run on you.
And like I said with this Matthews fellow, it would really
be interesting to know if he's ever been examined for any kind
of implant because that's the sort of behavior we see in
people who have been implanted with these things, whatever they
are, almost like tracking devices to keep an eye on them.
Really weird stuff. Well, if you like the program, I
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