missing time

A time period of amnesia or a gap in conscious memory reported by individuals who have experienced alien abduction.

Noun

  1. A time period of amnesia or a gap in conscious memory reported by individuals who have experienced alien abduction.
    • The report of abduction, the memory loss, the missing time, and the shape of the UFO are all familiar to UFO investigators, for this is not an isolated episode. - 1978, Brad Steiger, Alien Meetings, page 168:
    • We have already seen how the victims of UFO abductions seem to have 'missing time' - sometimes they have no memories of several hours of their lives. - 1984, John Rimmer, The Evidence for Alien Abductions, page 45:
    • There were two to three hours of missing time in their return trip for which neither of them could account. - 1991, David Allen Lewis, UFO: End-Time Delusion:
  2. An operational metric which measures the total amount of time on a timeclock that is unassigned to any task, whether productive or not.

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