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These People All Claim to Have Had an Alien Encounter — Read Their Stories Here

Like any artist, Steven Hirsch, 63, doesn’t want preconceived notions to be formed about his subject before his audience sees the product. Attending the 2012 International UFO Conference, Wired reports Hirsch set out to photograph and record the stories of those who claim to have had experiences with extraterrestrials.

Here‘s a bit of background from Wired on Hirch’s alien encounter project:

“I don’t want my audience to have any preconceptions about these people before they see my images and read their words,” says Hirsch of his Little Sticky Legs project. “My interviews barely break the surface of what is going on in their lives … or in their minds.”

Hirsch, who has freelanced for the New York Post for 18 years, makes a habit of shooting fringe members of society and gleaning their thoughts. Past subjects have included those leaving the Manhattan Criminal Court Building and Crustypunks in the parks of NYC.

For his profile photos and interviews, the fast-talking New Yorker actually shuts up and listens.

“I’m not an analyst, my questions are not intended to find answers but to allow people to tell us their stories. Courthouse Confessions, Crustypunks and Little Sticky Legs are all about storytelling. Their stories, not mine,” says Hirsch. “We’ve become desensitized to the TV sound bite. With these projects we can stare at the picture. Stare into their eyes. Feel their angst. It’s a very simple approach. There’s no distractions.”

Wired reports the New York photographer years ago had photographed a UFO convention while on assignment and the experience “was mind-boggling and stuck with me for decades.” Following up on this feeling, he attended this year’s conference in Arizona for his own project.

In addition to taking down their stories and photographing their haunted faces, Hirsch adds another element to his project by including some drawings by some of the subjects, showing their perception of the aliens.

Here are some of the intriguing stories, in each subject’s own words, taken by Hirsch (excerpts via Wired):

Cynthia:

“I‘ve met Salamander beings and I’ve met various different types of Greys. I’ve also met the Blue Arcturians which are incredible. They all have their own personalities and their own purposes. I’ve met Andromedans, the Assyrian Warriors of Light. I’ve met the Sirius Nephrons. I’ve also met the Cat People that are from Sirius. I’ve actually seen people that can shape shift from human looking to Reptilians. [...] Part of my mission is to help people get to the ships that need to be on the ships. […] Many of the Starseeds that are here on Earth on special missions are taken to the ships where they are then informed of the changes in the strategies. I’ve never yet ever met a being that was malevolent. I’ve always meet the benevolent ones. I‘d never experienced unconditional love til I’ve met them face to face and had conscious contact with them.”

Vivian:

“They said they had been coming to me ever since I was a child and they were not doing anything against my will and I used to be one of them and I had agreed to be this bridge between the pleiades. They had been teaching me things that I was supposed to bring through and teach to others here on Earth and I hadn’t been doing a very good job of it. So they were giving me a review of what they’d taught me. They were telling me things about cleaning up the environment, being nicer to each other and having more brotherly love. And also the big thing that was important to them was getting rid of nuclear power plants. They said it was contaminating the earth. And it also had the potential for harming them too.”

Stephen:

“It was an auditorium and with stadium seating. There was a podium down at the bottom and he led me to a seat. All around me were some humans here and there but there was a lot of all different types of alien beings. Next thing I’m leaving, bringing me down the aisle again. I’m telling them, ‘I want to stay, I don’t want to go.’ I start crying. I say, ‘I like it here, I belong.’ And they said, ‘No it’s not your time. You have to help save this planet Earth.‘ That’s all I remember.”

Heather:

“I did not know what had happened all I knew is something had happened. And about a month later out of nowhere I experienced what I later called a data dump or a download of information into my mind which I also couldn’t explain. I believe I have implants. Up my nose. Because I’ve had nose bleeds since a particular date in time. Every time I get one of those I feel as if I’ve been upgraded. And I become a little more clairvoyant and aware of whats going on around me.”

Travis:

“November 5, 1975, me and six other men were leaving work in a remote forest and we encountered an unidentified flying object and I was taken aboard. My co-workers were accused of murdering me and making up a story to cover up for why I was missing. The state police gave them a lie detector test, but even though they passed ever since then it’s been one sort of attempt to explain it away anyway they could. If you’re going to pass judgement on it, get the facts first. When I regained consciousness on board, I encountered some definitely non-human entities and also some beings that resembled humans to a high degree. It was a very traumatic experience.”

Read Wired’s full story here. Check out all of Hirsch’s Little Sticky Legs project here.

[H/T Daily Mail]

This story has been updated.

Comments (87)

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  • Tickdog
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:47pm

    oh my god.. if that woman says, “This one time… at band camp…” run for your life!!!!

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    • Razlord
      Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:57pm

      lol …dam funny.

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    • TexasHunter
      Posted on May 1, 2012 at 5:46pm

      Aliens must be racist from what I can tell. Why do they have to just pick on
      Whites? Or White-Hispanics.

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    • Marine 1
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 1:30am

      When I was doing a certain type of work at an OpSec facility at Ft. Lewis, Washington back in the 80′s we tracked UFOs all the time.

      We even had a UFO/USO come out of the water off the starboard side of a sub that was being moved from Seattle to Pearl while the sub was surfaced. Multiple witnesses including the CO, Chief of the Boat, and watch personnel. Log entry made — log confiscated at Pearl — and all personnel debriefed.

      The UFO was elongated, metal as far as they could tell, and looked like chrome. The reflection of the sub could be seen on it. Paced the sub for an hour or more then took off in a flash leaving a small cloud in a cloudless sky. It came out of the ocean about a mile away from the sub. Zipped right up to it and stayed there until it left. The crew never saw it again.

      How do I know? I was one of the folks that read the report hot off the press.

      Also had UFOs out of Alaska hit our zone in minutes from there to here. Usually tracked by Elmendorf first.

      Are they real – yep. Do we know what they are for sure? Possibly. Are they faster than anything we have? yep! They are not from here folks.

      Even had a retired General (USAF) friend of mine “explain” a few interesting things to me.

      Big universe out there. We are but one very, very small rock in a huge pile of rocks floating in an massive space. Oh, there is other life out there.

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    • MittensKittens
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 12:54pm

      and one time at BAND CAMP, I stuck an alien probe in my *******Y

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  • Razlord
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:47pm

    Huge Sphere in Sun’s Corona!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ7RaOMHb5I

    NASA UFOs: STS-75 The Tether Incident
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuFBUS0kiSA
    STS-75 Tether Incident

    On Sunday, February 25, 1996, the Space Shuttle Columbia deployed an experimental tether into orbit. The experiment was called the Tethered Satellite System (TSS- 1R) and it‘s purpose of this was to attempt to generate electricity by utilizing Earth’s magnetic field.

    Unfortunately the tether broke so the experiment was not a success, although approximately five hours of data were recorded.

    What really made “The Tether Incident” famous was the appearance of many unidentified flying objects (UFOs) clearly visible in the NASA footage. Conspiracy theorists rejected NASA’s explanation of space debris and ice particles…

    tired of the dam ignorance…
    open your dam eyes.

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    • Razlord
      Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:53pm

      the tether is @ 16miles long…

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on May 1, 2012 at 3:07pm

      I’m kind of thinking if aliens want us to quit using nuclear technology that they can just come down here and tell us plainly to our face with all sneakiness aside. I‘m not saying there aren’t aliens, but if they were concerned about nuclear power I’m sure they would abduct a Power Company President to scare the crap out of them.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on May 1, 2012 at 3:14pm

      Razlord
      Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:47pm

      …tired of the dam ignorance…
      ——————————————————–
      ROTFLMAO

      Classic….

      Na-nu na-nu…

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    • Razlord
      Posted on May 1, 2012 at 4:13pm

      tim,
      i do not believe all the people that have said they have been abducted, but many have evidence and medical ,scientific facts…some are just looking for the 15mins of fame…

      am sure there are good and bad aliens…good/evil is universal.

      NPC Press Conference UFOs And Nukes Sept 27 2010
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCICMXUlO4o

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on May 1, 2012 at 4:31pm

      Razlord,
      No, see I will tell you how it works. Every so often life from one planet moves to another planet in the form of spirit, like dandelion seeds move from one field to the next. As Isaiah calls them: getting refreshed from out of “The East.” And we are to not do as those who refresh us from out of the east. People who do have visions are having visions of the life they once had before, because everyone at one point were alive on another planet far far away, and they too came to refresh this field.

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    • Razlord
      Posted on May 1, 2012 at 5:40pm

      aaah the repeating energy …could be , might just be dam aliens?

      believe what you will…we are not alone.

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    • Razlord
      Posted on May 1, 2012 at 5:43pm

      what?

      any proof ?

      what?

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:41pm

    Pic 1 YOU are the alien
    Pic2 Did I poop my depends?
    Pic3. Bad rug
    Pic4. Lights on nobody’s home.
    Pic5.See pic 4

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:41pm

    Funny how all of these ‘aliens’ all have our welfare in mind. They are always warning something about ‘global warming’ or ‘radiation’, or world war. These subjects are usually the issue that is bothering the ones who see them. What a bunch of crap! Aliens and UFO’s…(if really seen) are part of a demonic conspiracy involving the last days scenario.

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    • staggerlee32
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 12:28am

      Ding ding ding…. now some sense…. hence the name thegreatcarnac

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    • railgrinder57
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 1:13am

      Agreed. UFO sightings, abductions, probes. Every one of you that actually saw SOMETHING, actually saw demons masquerading as angels of light to deceive you into thinking they were GOOD aliens. Interestingly, they all tell you the same useless garbage that any other progressive liberal feeds you. That would be because they all get their running orders from the same source. Eventually these aliens, which are naturally assumed to be of a much higher intelligence than man, will begin to teach us things about our past. Right now they tell us how to destroy ourselves thru the fallacies of man-made global warming. Overpopulation, another favorite of the extreme left, will be a big one too, but the critical one, the thing that will get the whole worlds attention will be when they are telling us about earths history, they will eventually tell us…”You know that whole GOD thing? Well none of that is really true, people just made that stuff up so they could control you. You needed that back then, but now we are here to teach you the real truth. WE ARE GOD. WE WILL SAVE YOU. JESUS was just a really good guy.” People will buy into this by the truckload, many people already believe this lie from the pit of hell, so it won’t be a huge leap for them, but many others will fall for it hook line and sinker…all the way to hell. Hunting Christians and Jews will be legal sport.

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    • railgrinder57
      Posted on May 2, 2012 at 1:18am

      UFO sightings, abductions, probes. Every one of you that actually saw SOMETHING, actually saw demons masquerading as angels of light to deceive you into thinking they were GOOD aliens. Interestingly, they all tell you the same useless garbage that any other progressive liberal feeds you. That would be because they all get their running orders from the same source. Eventually these aliens, which are naturally assumed to be of a much higher intelligence than man, will begin to teach us things about our past. Right now they tell us how to destroy ourselves thru the fallacies of man-made global warming. Overpopulation, another favorite of the extreme left, will be a big one too, but the critical one, the thing that will get the whole worlds attention will be when they are telling us about earths history, they will eventually tell us…”You know that whole GOD thing? Well none of that is really true, people just made that stuff up so they could control you. You needed that back then, but now we are here to teach you the real truth. WE ARE GOD. WE WILL SAVE YOU. JESUS was just a really good guy.” People will buy into this by the truckload, many people already believe this lie from the pit of hell, so it won’t be a huge leap for them, but many others will fall for it hook line and sinker…all the way to hell. Hunting Christians and Jews will be legal sport.

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  • mitchrx7
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:40pm

    I see them many times outside the buildings in New York when I’m outside for a smoke. They all seem to be top executives at major businesses, walking around with their swirling tapestry of colored veils as a head. Like someone put the clouds of Jupiter on a London Fog overcoat.
    We have seen them.
    We are the Ten O’Clock People.
    ;-) SK

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  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:40pm

    You know what I think? I think people don’t like Nuclear Power, because it makes it much more difficult to slaughter people by the millions and millions with out wrecking the entire homestead.

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  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:38pm

    To me they look more like they have haunting faces rather than ‘Haunted’ faces.

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  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:35pm

    If I were an alien, and I wanted people to stop using nuclear power, I would think it would be far more effective to abduct the lead person of one of the power companies, and scare the bat-crap out of them. But that’s just me I guess.

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  • Fubared
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:32pm

    My experience with aliens came after a near head on collision. Both driver’s side mirrors were broken and when the trooper arrived on scene he cursed a blue streak because the aliens purpordedly could not hable, but had Walmart cell phones and cheap insurance that would neccessitate some habla English at some point in order to acquire said phones and cheap insurance. Never heard a trooper go off like that, haven’t since. Bless every one of them and the aliens are a safety issue to be considered and pointed south again. Que?

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  • miketype1each
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:28pm

    Morphing into and out of reptilian forms is nothing new.

    As for “entities”, I have seen them: A cloaked being, ala The Predator, walking into a municipal building downtown; and what can only be described as dark holes in space, like shadows — or more specifically, nothingness — walking across busy roads.

    Are some people crazy? Sure — but others who have seen what they’ve seen are as reasonably sane as can be.

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  • cookcountypatriot
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:28pm

    yes children time for your naps now….

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  • MNYukon
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:24pm

    Aliens? More like demons have taken over their mind and body – satan is behind demons.

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  • THX-1138
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 1:17pm

    Mental Illness is nothing to make fun of.

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  • rockwallmimi
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 1:09pm

    I will not juuge what these people say they experienced. The world can be a wacky place. I wasn’t there with them when these incidents occurred.

    But, I have seen the videos that astronauts shot when they were orbiting earth and they are evidence that there is intelligent life out there. It seems that the World Governments don’t want us social masses to start panicing?

    Weird & Wacky Times.

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  • code green
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 1:06pm

    Is it just me, or does Cynthia just look like an old drunk on the morning after, that can’t find the Visine?

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  • MrSunshine
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 1:05pm

    I would bet a bazillion Arcturian grezalniks that Cynthia is a Sirius Nephron. You can just tell….they all look alike!

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 1:00pm

    So we can tell the aliens pictured above, pretending to be humans, by their bad fake looking hair?

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    • jzs
      Posted on May 1, 2012 at 1:09pm

      I think we should build a massive fence in space to keep the illegal aliens out.

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    • Fubared
      Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:27pm

      JZS
      I think all that money would be better invested in rubber bullets for your comrades, flex cuffs, and one way tickets to Venezuala. Have a super day.

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  • KickinBack
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 12:59pm

    These people look like they need to be in a clear eyes commercial. Either that or lay off the weed.

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  • SREGN
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 12:58pm

    Well, there you are. No more discussion is needed. We can drop this and proceed to Sasquatch and Elvis now.

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    • Fubared
      Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:40pm

      You dissing the Chupacabra esse? Mothman, Pelosi, so many freaks to check out, tag and bag.

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  • qpwillie
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 12:51pm

    I had an alien encounter last week. It was abut 25 Mexicans living in a house down the street. The story is pretty boring so I won’t give you the details.

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 12:50pm

    Where oh where is Dennis Kucinich’s photo?? Or screwy Louie Fairykahn?? I’m not saying they might not exist ,but until they take Barry away for dissection on the Sci-Fi channel, who knows.

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  • Minonkman
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 12:48pm

    Anyone who thinks we are the only being’s out in this vast darkness. You are the minority.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on May 1, 2012 at 1:01pm

      Golly, I sure wouldn’t want to have a minority opinion, it’s always best to go along with the crowd.

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    • Fubared
      Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:44pm

      Pretty light on the E coast right now and I have yet to hold hands and swap spit with an alien-that didn’t speak english as a second language any way. Surely Shirley, Elvis and Jim Morrison and Hendrix are all on the mother F-er ship with JZS, Steelhead and Encinomom, and RoseEllen. Clearly. Perhaps ItsJustTim is the pilot in charge after all.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on May 1, 2012 at 4:21pm

      Fubared
      Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:44pm

      Pretty light on the E coast right now and I have yet to hold hands and swap spit with an alien-that didn’t speak english as a second language any way. Surely Shirley, Elvis and Jim Morrison and Hendrix are all on the mother F-er ship with JZS, Steelhead and Encinomom, and RoseEllen. Clearly. Perhaps ItsJustTim is the pilot in charge after all.
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      Damn, that sums things up better than anything else could have…

      I personally do not believe in life forms MORE advanced than us…The Bible would seem to suggest otherwise. Other life in space? Don’t know…Don’t care…

      But what gets me is most of the people that believe in these little green men are the first ones to ridicule a belief in God, whose fingerprints are on everything.

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  • MiCurmudgeon
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 12:47pm

    Where‘e Biden’s story and picture? He certainly is spacey enough to qualify.

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  • jgary
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 12:46pm

    Scotty, beam me up…there’s no intelligent life on this planet…

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on May 1, 2012 at 12:38pm

    Aliens obviously don’t have very good taste in humans.

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