Are there abductions in nome alaska

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Email This Link. Share on Twitter. Share on Pinterest. Share on LinkedIn. Most Read. He said they continue to receive analyzed cellphone data provided by the FBI field office in Anchorage.

As that continues to come in, Weaver hopes the Nome police can better direct their investigation. The year-old, Alaska Native mother was last seen leaving a tent on Aug.

Numerous search and rescue efforts, including large community searches and trained cadaver dogs, have yielded no major breakthroughs thus far. Community-organized search efforts have brought volunteers and funding from across the state, including from regional communities like Brevig Mission, Teller, Wales and Savoonga. So without the help of search and rescue efforts, and all the volunteers in town and the family members, we would have been at a loss, you know, it was a big help.

Kawerak Inc. But Weaver also realizes that winter is no longer on their side. The movie is portraying something like the 'Blair Witch Project,' and we're just hoping the message gets out that this is supposed to be for entertainment. In real life, there was a string of disappearances in the small town on the west coast of Alaska , not far from the Bering Strait. In , the FBI was brought in to investigate.

The victims were largely native men traveling to the town from smaller villages, according to the Anchorage Daily News. The FBI looked into about 20 cases, finding alcohol and frigid temperatures to be causes.

Nine bodies were never found. It's not a new idea; "The Blair Witch Project" pulled off the concept effectively, and the recent "Paranormal Activity" uses handheld cameras for a cinema verite look. But unlike "Paranormal," "The Fourth Kind" literally announces its validity, taking Nome's documented unexplained disappearances and making the case for alien abductions.

The film does rely very heavily on the tagline "What do you believe? For example, the title itself is derived from a "scale of measurement" that was "developed in " to categorize alien encounters, best known through its use in Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind. However, Paul Halpern, a physics professor at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who has studied the possibility of extraterrestrial life, doubts its validity.

The "fourth kind" is alien abduction , the hardest encounter to prove until now, said NBC Universal, parent company of distributor Universal Studios, in a press release.