1369 ALIEN ABDUCTIONS: INSIDE THE RESPONSE TEAM

**Richard Syrett** (0:00)
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**SPEAKER_2** (1:01)
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**SPEAKER_3** (1:35)
I sold my car in Carvana last night.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:37)
Well, that's cool.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:37)
No, you don't understand. It went perfectly. Real offer, down to the penny.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:41)
They're picking it up tomorrow.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:43)
Nothing went wrong. So what's the problem?

**Richard Syrett** (1:45)
That is the problem.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:46)
Nothing in my life goes as smoothly.

**Richard Syrett** (1:48)
I'm waiting for the catch.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:49)
Maybe there's no catch.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:50)
That's exactly what a catch would want me to think.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:53)
Wow, you need to relax.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:54)
I need to knock on wood. Do we have wood? Is this table wood?

**SPEAKER_2** (1:56)
I think it's laminate.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:57)
Okay, yeah, that's good. That's close enough.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:59)
Car Selling Without a Catch.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:01)
Sell Your Car Today on Caravana.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:03)
Pick Up These May Apply.

**Les Velez** (2:04)
They tell about their experiences, but then you ask them, well, did your mother or father have an experience? And the next thing you know, I'm going to ask. And they come back, oh, yeah, they did. They had very similar things, but they didn't want to talk about it. They didn't want to talk about it, you know, or didn't want me to talk about it. And so it's very generational.
And I think what they're doing is, you know, they're following their experiment, you know, how they did with all of this manipulation that started, you know, eons ago.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:37)
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**Richard Syrett** (3:03)
Welcome to Strange Planet. There are support groups for just about everything. Support groups for addiction, grief, trauma, cancer survivors, veterans coping with the scars of war.
But what if you needed a support group because you believed you'd been taken? Not arrested, not kidnapped by another human being, taken by something else. For decades, thousands of people around the world have reported eerily similar experiences. Missing time, strange lights outside bedroom windows, unexplained scars, mysterious implants, encounters with non-human beings, and memories of medical procedures carried out aboard impossible craft. Most never tell a soul. Some fear ridicule. Others fear something far worse. What if the thing that happened to them wasn't over? What if it was still happening?
Tonight's guest has spent more than 30 years listening to these stories, stories so disturbing, so bizarre, and yet so remarkably consistent that they forced him to confront a question most people would rather avoid.
What if these people are telling the truth? Les Velez is a former chairman of Mufon's Abduction Experiencer Research Committee and co-founder of OPUS, the Organization for Paranormal Understanding and Support, a network created specifically for people who believe they've experienced contact with a non-human intelligence. For Les, this isn't about lights in the sky. It's about what happens after the encounter, the fear, the trauma, the missing memories, the alleged hybrids, the implants, and the unsettling possibility that whatever is interacting with humanity may have been doing so for a very long time. So tonight, we'll explore one of the most controversial and frightening mysteries in the UFO phenomenon. What if the abductees are the evidence? Les, welcome to Strange Planet. How are you?