Alien Abductions at the Movies
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Alien Abductions at the Movies

Blinding lights, UFOs, probes... Which alien encounter is most riveting?

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1 Barry Guiler (Cary Guffey) in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Little Barry is just the latest to be grabbed by human-hoarding aliens, who soon bond with mankind and restore the peace. 33 53
2 Travis Walton (D.B. Sweeney) in Fire in the Sky (1993)
This logger gets snatched by a spaceship and returns five days later with terrifying tales involving shrink wrapping and bolts. 19 41
3 David Freeman (Joey Cramer) in Flight of the Navigator (1986)
This Disney character flies around a comfy silver clamshell overseen by aliens who turn out to be curious about the human brain. 10 32
4 John (Rufus Sewell) and Emma Murdoch (Jennifer Connelly) in Dark City (1998)
Connelly and Sewell are just two members of a society in which humans are taken into space to serve as guinea pigs. 5 31
5 Whitley Strieber (Christopher Walken) in Communion (1989)
As real-life author Strieber, Walken strips naked and gets jiggy with his abductors before they whip out the probes. 5 29
6 Alex Rogan (Lance Guest) in The Last Starfighter (1984)
A “Centauri” shows up at Alex's trailer park, praises his arcade skills and whisks him to outer space where he has the time of his life. 2 32
7 Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks) in Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
Pilgrim is seized by a giant orb of white light, and wakes up on a planet where the aliens seduce him with their worldview. -8 26
8 Everyone's Parents in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)
Every parent in Jimmy's town has been snatched up by aliens, and it falls to the kids to get them back. -10 38
9 Spencer Armacost (Johnny Depp) in The Astronaut's Wife (1999)
Aliens pull a switcharoo on Charlize Theron by abducting her astronaut husband (Depp) and replacing him with a clone. -11 31
10 Sam Phillips (Philip Sayer), Xtro (1982)
This kindly father gets sucked up by a beam of white light and returns to Earth three years later as a scary half-alien. -12 26