The Antonio Vilas Boas case from Brazil (1957) and the Hill Abduction in the US(1961) were the first cases of alien abduction.
Rationalism is the view that reason is the chief source and test of
knowledge, it is a methodology in which the criterion of the truth is
not sensory but intellectual and deductive.
During the scientific
revolution, changing perceptions about the role of the scientist in
respect to nature, the value of evidence, experimental or observed, led
towards a scientific methodology in which rationalism<span> played a large role.</span>
Germany was sinking American merchant ships.
I believe it is the Albany Plan of Union