Missing in America's Wilds: UFO Theorists Claim National Parks Are Hunting Grounds for Aliens

UFO theorists are reviving chilling claims that America’s national parks may be linked to unexplained disappearances, with strange canine failures, missing case files and alleged alien encounters fuelling fresh fears. (Credit: George Stockderivative work: thumperward, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

America's vast national parks have long been sold as places of beauty, solitude and adventure. But for some UFO researchers, they may also be something far darker.

Fresh debate erupted this week after former investigator and author David Paulides appeared on a podcast discussing mysterious disappearances in wilderness areas, reviving chilling claims that aliens, unexplained forces and secretive government investigations could be linked to people vanishing without a trace in parks like Yosemite.