Robert Matthews Abduction: The Phenomenon of Missing Time

Many people have claimed they had been abducted by strange beings. Not so many of these cases involve military members, so they attract more attention because of the perception that they may be mentally stronger and withstand a lot of pressure.

The following case happened with a 19-year-old First Class Airman Robert Matthews in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He was preparing for his first tour of duty and arrived in town to be transferred to a nearby base.

After he got off near a small market, he found that no one came to pick him up. To let the base know that he was waiting for them on the spot, he called them using the phone located near the market’s building. The base said that the truck was going to pick him up in a matter of minutes.

After he made the call, Matthews noticed bright lights in the sky. Here’s what he had to say in an interview about the incident:

While I was standing there, I saw these lights you know, moving from right to left across the sky.  Thats when I felt this fear.”

The man rushed to the phone to call the base once again to let them know that something strange was happening in the night sky above him. At that point, the feeling of fear became very intense.

To his complete surprise, the base answered by asking him where he was. According to them, they sent a truck to pick him up at the spot immediately after he called the first time but…

He wasn’t there.

Matthews was astonished. He knew that he was near the supermarket the whole time. However, the driver that sent down there said that Matthews was nowhere in sight.

How could Matthews disappear if he always was near the phone?

The evidence of the strange event began to appear when the time between the two calls made by Matthews was analyzed. As it turned out, the first call was made 8:45 pm, and the truck arrived at the spot at 8:50, just five minutes later.

Mathews called the base for the second time at 9:45 to report seeing lights in the sky. Obviously, he was missing for almost an hour but in his mind those two calls happened less than four minutes apart.

Bob Matthews gives an interview to Unexplained Mysteries TV series

Hypnosis Helps to Uncover the Truth

After the incident, Matthews wanted to know the truth because the fact that he was missing caused him a lot of trouble at the base. However, he could not remember anything strange and told him exactly what he saw. Of course, no one from the command believed him.

Matthews finally got an explanation after Budd Hopkins, a well-known UFO researcher and author, contacted him. After a series of interviews, he put Matthews under hypnosis to retrieve the lost memories.

The technique helped. Matthews was able to recall that one of the lights that he saw outside the market on that day came at him very fast and he walked inside using a ramp. There, he saw four beings in a room that looked like a doctor’s office.

According to Hopkins, Mathews’ abduction was a case of the missing time phenomenon. He believes that the phenomenon is linked to UFO activity and scientific investigations should be conducted to reveal the truth for all people who claim to be victims, including Matthews.

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