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Alien Abduction: The most visible and pressing signs of alien activity are their abduction attempts. In the past, recorded events of abductions were isolated rural and wilderness areas. However, since the Lenox incident, the aliens have been targeting larger urban regions.

Based on witnessed activity, abductions run in three phases..

Phase One: A ship in orbit fires down what we have called abduction pods. They impact the site, and unleash a combination of gas and something that resembles green vines, that immobilize and paralyze anybody caught near them. This typically lasts five minutes and incapacitates most of the civilians present..

Phase Two: Additional pods are shot down. These ones contain aliens, who then round up the captured civilians. If anybody attempts to interfere, they engage with lethal force. They’ll move the paralyzed abductees to a central location in the site. This takes thirty minutes to an hour..

Phase Three: The UFO drops out of orbit and hovers above the site, deploying some form of tractor beam, that brings the aliens and their prisoners aboard. It then rapidly exits our atmosphere again. This phase usually takes ten minutes.

It is presently unknown why the aliens are conducting mass abductions. The chief hypothesis is for research into humanity. Finding where the abductees are taken, why they’re taken and rescuing them is a high priority for X-COM.