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Best Abduction Book To This Date, April 2, 2009
Let me just start off by mentioning that I read Budd Hopkin's book Sight Unseen and was somewhat disappointed in it. Although it did pick up at the end. So altogether I was not too prospective about this book, but I was totally wrong. The way he writes in Intruders and the way he writes in Sight Unseen are completely different. The characters and their stories are so much more believable and just better written than in Unseen. At certain points in the book I really felt compassion and sadness for these people and their experiences. I mean like the author says, abduction accounts are one of two things. One, it's some new psychological disorder that a mass of people from cultures throughout the world are developing, in which people have almost identical experiences involving very serious, intimate actions. Or, second, Extraterrestrials are real. They are here. And they're taking people and conducting experiments involving very serious, invasive things. Either way, these two scenarios, whichever it might be need to be looked at and studied extensively, and these people "Victims" should not be ridiculed or shunned anymore than an abused or raped person should receive.
Saying all of that, this book strongly supports the E.T. involvement scenario and goes into extreme detail about the experiences of these people. These people deserve help either way. This book is a great read and will surely be at the top of your alien abduction book list.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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A classic UFO book that belongs in every enthusiasts library, August 31, 1996
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This review is from: Intruders (Mass Market Paperback)
Hopkins whose "Missing Time" caused a sensation in the UFO
community and general public alike with its claim that humans
were being whisked away by aliens for experimental purposes,
in this follow up work focuses on the abduction experiences of a young woman and her
family members. The author presents the evidence, suggests possible conventional
explanation for the bizarre events, and deftly eliminates all
of them in favor of the only rational one: that what is being
described is exactly what happened.
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A new paradigm revealed by the greatest investigator in the field, February 23, 2010
Following the publication of "Missing Time" in 1982 Budd Hopkins received many hundreds of letters from people disturbed by reading the accounts described in that landmark book. The letter writers were from all over the world and many exhibited a deep anxiety disproportionate to any apparent cause: a partial memory of strangeness accompanied by an episode of "missing time," or just something odd and half-remembered happening to them.
The floodgates were opened. Budd gradually came to recognise the most telling pointers to genuine abduction experiences. The writer would frequently exhibit anxiety, almost apologetic, using phrases like "I know you are a busy man and I really hope I am not wasting your time" ..."there's probably nothing to it, but..." invariably insistent that anonymity be maintained and fearful of confiding even in close family members details of the half-remembered trauma.
One such letter was from Debbie Jordan, a young divorced mother of two small boys living in a large family house with her parents in Indiana. Together with her letter were photographs of a large circular burned patch of ground in their garden where the soil had been baked hard, discovered the morning following mysterious lights accompanied by an episode of missing time and her dog behaving in an uncharacteristically frightened manner. Debbie is disguised in the book as "Kathy Davis" and the Indianapolis location as "Copley Woods." So began a landmark two-and-a-half year investigation which took the study and understanding of the UFO abduction phenomenon into new and hitherto uncharted areas and led to the publication of this most profound, highly readable and truly classic book which deservedly became a New York Times best seller.
This investigation evolved into a complex case with some twenty different people closely involved in or witness to a long series of events spanning decades. Simultaneously Budd had been approached by many other abductees from other parts of the country whose experiences were found to confirm and reinforce many of the new revelations being uncovered in the Copley Woods case.
The story as it unfolds is a step-by-step lesson in how to approach a superficially outlandish and extraordinary subject by the application of rigorous scientific method and to follow the evidence where it leads. It is a more complete narrative than "Missing Time'" and takes our understanding of this most improbable phenomenon much deeper. You'll need to read the book to find out why and how. The subject matter is possibly the most profound you'll ever read, but stretches credulity beyond the comfort zone. The revelation of all the evidence and the conclusions drawn had profound effects on the entire field of study of the extraterrestrial issue and its subsequent direction, and brought many new researchers into the field.
Hopkins is revealed as genuinely humanitarian and warm: the reader sympathises with and cares about these people. He again proves to be as superb a writer as he is an investigator: the book is engrossing, intelligent and mind-expanding; the author never allows personal opinion or prejudice to intervene, but rather follows the facts to tentative and quite disturbing conclusions.
The main subject of the book, "Kathy Davis" decided following publication to "come out," revealed her true identity and eventually co-wrote (with her sister, also involved in the phenomenon as is so often the case) her own book on the history of the case whilst retaining a life-long friendship with Budd.
If you have read either "Missing Time" or Professor David Jacobs' "Secret Life" and are intrigued to investigate the extraordinary alien abduction phenomenon more deeply, read "Intruders" next. Paperback reader copies are cheap and plentiful but a good original hardcover copy is best for your collection if you have shelf space.
The book was also re-scripted into a most excellent feature film of the same title, starring Richard Crenna (who actually plays an amalgam character of Hopkins and John Mack), Steven Berkoff and Mare Winningham. The "Intruders" film is not a literal transcript of the book's narrative but a re-written screenplay exploring the main themes and with some changes to the characters (who nevertheless remain largely recognisable) to better fit the needs of a 120-minute film.
Five stars again, Mr. Hopkins.
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