This Man, who served in the U.S. Air Force, has one of the most convincing UFO encounter stories. He had a terrifying experience at Devil’s Den State Park, claiming to have been repeatedly abducted by aliens, fitted with a tracking device, and experimented on.
Terry Lovelace found something strange in his leg during a doctor’s visit in 2012. He had felt a sharp pain, lost his balance, and fallen. When the doctor took an X-ray, he discovered a small square object deep inside Terry’s leg. The doctor was confused because Terry had never had surgery or an accident that could explain it. Then, Terry remembered something he had tried to forget for 40 years—a terrifying experience at Devil’s Den State Park. The object in his leg was not man-made.
In 1973, Mr. Lovelace joined the U.S. Air Force immediately after graduating from high school. He received training as a medic/EMT and was stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, which was previously called Sedalia Air Force Base. The base served as a B-2 bomber base and missile base and was home to the 351st Strategic Missile Wing, with many Minuteman II nuclear-armed ICBM silos scattered across the rural area.
Lovelace worked as a medic at an Air Force base and drove an ambulance at night with his partner, Toby. One night in June 1977, while taking a break, they looked at the stars. Toby, who loved astronomy, pointed out planets and constellations. Their night shifts were usually quiet, but this night changed their lives forever.
Later, Lovelace and Toby went camping at Devil’s Den State Park in Arkansas. As they sat by the fire, the sounds of crickets and frogs suddenly stopped, making everything eerily silent. Then, they saw three bright lights moving toward them. As the lights got closer, they realized they were coming from a huge, black, triangular-shaped UFO.
A blue laser beam quickly scanned over them, and the next thing they knew, they had lost consciousness. When Lovelace woke up, Toby was staring outside the tent. Lovelace looked too and saw the UFO floating above a group of about twelve children standing in a field. Confused, he asked, “Why are those kids out here at this time of night?”
Toby responded, “They aren’t kids. Don’t you remember? They took us and hurt us.”
Hearing this triggered Lovelace’s memory. Over the years, he used hypnosis to recover more details about what happened that night. He remembered being taken inside the UFO, where strange-looking beings performed medical experiments on him.
These beings looked somewhat human but were also very different. They didn’t speak but communicated using thoughts (telepathy). Lovelace recalled lying on an examination table, trying to scream, but no sound came out. Through telepathy, he could hear the beings telling him not to be afraid and that they would return him safely.
Lovelace worked as a medic at an Air Force base and drove an ambulance at night with his partner, Toby. One night in June 1977, while taking a break, they looked at the stars. Toby, who loved astronomy, pointed out planets and constellations. Their night shifts were usually… pic.twitter.com/mhjG4LeZpJ
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As the UFO hovered over them, Lovelace felt an overwhelming sense of calm, almost like he was sedated. A bright white light shone down from the craft for about 30 seconds, lighting up the whole campsite. Then, a thin blue laser scanned the entire area, sweeping over them, their tent, and the fire. After a few minutes, everything went dark again. Toby casually said, “Show’s over,” and the two men went back to their tent and fell asleep—something that seems impossible given the situation. But they were still being affected by the ship’s technology, which kept them calm and made them tired.
Lovelace later woke up in a terrifying place. He wasn’t in the tent anymore. He was naked, lying on a cold rubber floor with his clothes folded on his chest. The air smelled like chemicals, and a low humming sound filled the space. Panic set in when he realized he couldn’t move—his body was paralyzed, but his mind was racing. He could only watch. Somewhere in the distance, he heard a woman scream in terror. As his eyes adjusted, he saw he was in an enormous room, much larger than the spacecraft above their camp should have been able to hold.
To his right, at least ten other people—men, women, even children—lay paralyzed like him, their eyes darting in fear or staring blankly at the ceiling. Small, floating vehicles carried children around the space. Then, he saw them—small, gray-skinned beings with large black eyes, wearing gray flight suits. They moved quickly and mechanically. But what shocked him even more was that there were humans among them—people wearing beige uniforms with orange insignias, seemingly part of the crew. They ignored the abductees and went about their tasks.
Then, Lovelace locked eyes with a strange, pink-skinned being that stood about six feet tall. Unlike the smaller Grays, this one had an intense presence. As it stared at him, Lovelace felt it reading his mind, downloading his thoughts and memories. He felt completely exposed and violated. Before he could process what was happening, several Gray beings lifted him and carried him down a hallway.
Along the way, he saw glass tanks lining the right side of the corridor. Some were empty, but others contained strange creatures—some familiar, others completely alien. In one tank, he noticed pink water and what looked like a newborn puppy. But when the tiny creature opened its eyes, Terry realized it wasn’t a puppy at all, and he panicked.
At the end of the hallway, the Grays took him into a dome-shaped medical examination room. The entire room was white, gray, or stainless steel, resembling a hospital. They placed him on a table that, oddly, felt warm. But then he realized—it wasn’t heated for his comfort. It was warm from the bodies that had been there before him.
Then, two new aliens entered—9-foot-tall beings resembling praying mantises. The smaller Grays turned Lovelace onto his side, and the Mantis-like beings began operating on his lower back. The pain was unbearable. He screamed, but no sound came out. One of the Mantis aliens seemed annoyed and telepathically told him, “Why are you screaming? Stop screaming. You know we don’t hurt you. You know we take you back.” Then, with a tap on his forehead, everything went black.
Moments later, Lovelace and Toby found themselves lying near their car. Terry wasn’t scared at first—he was annoyed that they hadn’t been put back in their tent. But then, a group of six Grays appeared, dragging them across the grass and tossing them into the tent. Everything was still unnaturally silent. Terry wanted to speak but was too exhausted. His vision blurred, and he passed out.
He woke up again to blinding flashes of green light piercing through the tent, making his body ache. Toby peeked through the tent flap, mumbling something. Lovelace’s watch had stopped at midnight, but the tent’s clock showed 3:00 a.m.—three hours had passed, but they had no memory of what happened during that time.
Terry Lovelace reached for his flashlight, but Toby stopped him, whispering for him to stay quiet. Terry then noticed that Toby was crying. They heard footsteps and movement around their campsite. When they finally dared to look outside, they saw a huge craft hovering nearby, the size of a tall office building. It had small windows, and Terry saw figures moving inside. Below the craft, he saw what looked like children walking around—but Toby whispered that they weren’t children. They weren’t human.
Toby then started crying again, saying, “They took us. They hurt us.” Suddenly, memories hit Lovelace—bright lights, small creatures, a giant insect, medical instruments, and terrible pain. He tried to push the images away. Then, a white beam of light came from the craft, and the strange figures walked into it and disappeared. The ship then rose, rotated, and silently flew away at high speed.
Lovelace said that they had a terrible experience that left their skin red and sore like a bad sunburn all over their body, even the soles of their feet. They had to go to the hospital at the base for two days because they were very dehydrated.
Back at the Air Force base, Lovelace dropped Toby off and went home, where his wife saw his condition and took him to the medical clinic. He told the doctors about his burns but left out what happened between 9 PM and 3 AM, fearing they’d think he was crazy. The doctors confirmed that his burns were from radiation, and his clothes were taken away as biohazard material.
Then, on the third night, two men in black suits from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) showed up at Terry’s hospital room. They questioned him, acting as if they already knew what had happened. One of them read him his military rights, making it clear he was in serious trouble. They pressured him to tell them everything, but he only admitted to seeing lights. The men accused him of hiding the truth, then made him sign documents he wasn’t allowed to read. They warned him never to speak of the incident and forbade him from ever contacting Toby again.
Soon after, Toby was transferred to Japan, and they never spoke again. The whole experience traumatized Terry, so he kept quiet, trying to forget everything. Over time, the memories faded, though he continued to suffer from PTSD. Despite this, he built a successful career, became a lawyer, and led a seemingly normal life.
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Terry Lovelace was profoundly disturbed by his encounter and left with numerous unanswered queries. Subsequently, he authored a book titled “Incident at Devils Den: A True Story,” with the intention of uncovering the facts about extraterrestrial abductions and inspiring others to share their experiences.
In 2012, during a routine X-ray of his leg, doctors found a strange object above his knee. It was about the size of a fingernail and had two wires attached. The radiologist thought it looked like a small tracking device.
They also found a group of other foreign objects in his calf muscle but were shocked that there were no scars—meaning there was no sign of surgery or injury.
This discovery made Lovelace remember a disturbing event from 1977 that he had never planned to talk about. The most shocking part was that since there were no scars, the radiologist suggested that Lovelace might have had this object in his leg since birth.
On his personal blog, Lovelace writes:
“September of 2017, I was a guest speaker at a UFO event in Houston. It was my first public appearance and opportunity to speak candidly on the topic of alien abduction. This was the time when I decided to write a book. It’s an important topic. We deserve to be informed and not mislead.
I fear we’ve been desensitized about the UFO phenomena by the media, especially the motion picture industry. Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released in November 1977. my experience happened in June that same year. Now, YouTube provides a flood of valid information mixed with confabulation and deception. Know the truth. Aliens really exist and some live and walk among us without so much as a second look. There are probably many species from different worlds or different dimensions here on Earth today.
Some aliens may actually be our ‘benign space brothers’ as some have claimed. Here to join hands and walk mankind into a new era of peace and higher consciousness. Maybe so, but not the ones we met. The beings we met were monsters. They kidnap people and subject them to terror and brutality in pursuit of their agenda. They are 100% purpose-driven and void of empathy for human or animal suffering. We are their lab rats. Once you’re tagged as their specimen you’re tagged for a lifetime. Like a wild animal on the Serengeti Plane.”
Six years ago, Terry Lovelace wrote a book that caused trouble for him. For a whole year, strange things happened around his home near Dallas. He noticed military planes, including small two- and four-person aircraft and large Airbus 350s, flying over his house. These planes had no visible registration numbers and were painted dark green. They flew over his home at least twice a week, sometimes every day. Lovelace took many pictures, and in one of them, a UFO appears in the same shot as one of these planes.
After his book was published, Tom DeLonge (founder of To The Stars Academy), General Neil McCasland, and Lue Elizondo contacted him. They were interested in X-rays of Lovelace’s leg, which had been injured during his UFO encounter.
