"military abduction" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: military abductions [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} military abduction (plural military abductions)
  1. A deceitful military operation performed to convince the targets of the operation that they have had an encounter with extraterrestrial beings which is actually a staged ploy Categories (topical): Ufology Synonyms: milab
    Sense id: en-military_abduction-en-noun-YotN~nRD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

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          "text": "1999 A letter from Dr. Helmut Lammer of the Austrian Space Agency to Dr. Steven Greer of the Disclosure Project, published in Greer, Steven M. Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications. Crossing Point Inc, →ISBN, page 8.\nI will send you today a copy of the MILAB (Military Abductions) manuscript for review."
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          "ref": "2003, Brenda Denzler, The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 62:",
          "text": "Whatever the answer might be, the idea of military involvement in abductions became a standard feature of the abduction scenario by the mid-1990s and, like the subject of implants, became a specialized focus for an on-going study by a small group of ufologists who formed Project MILAB.",
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