Yury Isakov's abduction account
Yury Isakov, a 62-year-old retired cook from Nazareth Illit, said he went to check his mail at 19:55, saw a light above him and was taken into a craft where he underwent examinations. He awoke at 23:00 on a football field hundreds of metres from home, with burn marks and a strange yellowish powder containing aluminium on his body.
Yury Isakov's abduction account
The video presents the testimony and footage connected with the story.
Yury said he left for the post office at 19:55 and awoke at 23:00 hundreds of metres from the place where he disappeared.
In the embedded video, Yury describes the abduction, the examinations aboard the craft, the burn marks and the yellowish powder found on his body.
The light overhead and the craft
Yury Isakov was a 62-year-old retired cook living in Nazareth Illit. One evening in the autumn of 1996, at 19:55, he left home to check a mailbox only a short distance away. He said a light appeared above his head before he was grabbed by the hair, neck and left arm and pulled into a flying craft. Inside, he saw creatures examining his body and speaking in a language he compared to the sound of a phonograph needle scratching a record. In his memory, the experience lasted about twenty minutes, but when he opened his eyes much more time had passed.
The football field and the missing hours
Yury awoke on a football field hundreds of metres from where he had begun. It was already 23:00, more than three hours after he left home. Marks described as burns appeared on his arm and neck, and a strange yellowish powder reportedly containing aluminium was found on his body. He went directly to a police station and later repeated the story to a doctor and a psychiatrist. Published accounts said Emek Medical Center had no explanation for the powder and that he continued to experience skin problems. Soon afterwards, he gave a detailed television interview to Rafi Reshef. The embedded recording preserves his account of the light, the creatures, the examinations and the moment he awoke far from home.