The Allagash abductions occurred August 20, 1976 when four men in their mid-twenties ventured on a camping trip into the Allagash wilderness of Maine. Jim and Jack Weiner were born and grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Their friend Charlie Foltz was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania then grew up in northeastern Ohio in the town of Brookfield. Their other friend, Chuck Rak, was raised in Waban, Massachusetts. This well-documented report has become legendary in the alien abduction field. It highlights typical scenarios experienced by many other people.

As darkness settled that August night, the men built a blazing campfire which they expected to burn all night long. Then they headed out in the canoe across the lake for a short trip. The next thing they remembered was rowing back to shore and and finding the campfire burned out!

They thought they were gone only a few minutes, but strangely, did not discuss how the campfire could be burned out so soon. Instead, they promptly went to sleep without any discussion.

After several years of night terrors and sleep disturbances, the brothers began asking each other if something terrifying had happened to them on the camping trip which they couldn't remember.

Under separately conducted hypnotic regressions, the men recalled being abducted from the canoe in the middle of the lake. Despite their attempt to escape by rowing to shore, a blue beam of light overhead pulled them up into a hovering UFO.

The men were probed and subjected to many physical and medical procedures. Jack and Jim Weiner, the brothers, were also identical twins which intrigued their Alien captors.