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Intruders

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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.

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.

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.

I have read this book (actually the hardcover) several times and even cited it as resource material for a college paper (back in the day). Powerfully written. Each reader has to make up their own mind about the subject matter, but there is no denying the talent which Hopkins possesses when he puts pen to paper. Not as "edge of your seat" as Missing Time, but a very close second. You will not be disappointed.

Budd Hopkins, has spent many years working with people who feel that they may have been abducted by "aliens". During that time he has come to the theory that the "aliens" are using humanity for a cross-breeding program. He bases this on similar accounts involving procedures taking sperm and ova samples from many people in quite different sections of the country (U.S.A.)

I feel that Mr. Hopkins truly wants to help these people, many of which seem to be suffering from some sort of anxiety disorder. I do however, question his strong reliance on hypnosis to recover these memories. Many studies recently have shown how easy it is for someone asking leading questions to a hypnotized person to inadvertantly imprint false memories.

Not the best written book, but interesting. I do wish a little more scientific rigor had been followed by Mr. Hopkins in his investigations.

I read this book several years ago after seeing what I would have to describe as "strange aerial phenomenon" near my home. I was disturbed at this sighting and wanted to know what others have been claiming for the past 50 years. Reading this book I felt a real dread quality over everything. It was one of the more interesting books I've read in the field of alien abduction/UFO syndrome (along with Communion, by Whitley Strieber). Ever since that event and reading these books, I've been kind of studious in these fields and think there's a wealth of questions out there to be asked, and this book is probably one of the best places to start asking.

I picked up Intruders recently in a used bookstore, and while the subject matter was interesting, the book was ultimately pretty disappointing.

I'm not a "believer" in any sense of the word, but I try to keep an open mind, and Kathie Davis' story is pretty fascinating. Hopkins' does a pretty decent job of introducing you to her family and friends, and by the end, you certainly don't get the sense that anyone is out for publicity, nor do you get any hints of mental illness. And seeing a light in a pool house that shouldn't be there is pretty creepy!

The problem with the book is not so much the subject matter, but how Hopkins' presents it, and honestly, it reads like a beginner investigator's first book (even though it was his second). Rather than present the subject matter like a researcher - describing the story in chronological detail, perhaps opening with recalled memories and then hypnotic recovery - Hopkins instead makes it a documentary about his pursuit of the truth. There are dozens of "I" and "me" on every page as he details phone calls he has to make, having people come to stay at his apartment, etc., and though somewhat interesting at first, it gets really, really tedious.

The big problem though is that the information does not come to him chronologically, and thus, is presented all out of order to the reader. Kathy, the subject of the book, recalls events spanning decades at completely random times; Hopkins' later hypnotizes her about these events, but not in order - and in the end, you're left with an incredibly confusing jumble of history.

The only book I can think to compare it to is Abduction, by Harvard psychologist John Mack. Mack's book is incredibly well-written, examining each subject's remembered incidents and then delving into hypnosis, finally followed by Mack's opinion (but leaving conclusions to the reader). Each is chronological, and strips the author from it, and you can focus on the event, its possible authenticity, and what it could mean.

Hopkins' is sadly VERY quick to jump to ridiculously extreme possibilities. Just because you've ruled out a lightening storm for a strange light, or childhood trauma for a leg scar, doesn't mean the next option on the list is extra-terrestrial abduction. It's not that it isn't a possibility - but at the very least, I wish he left it open-ended, for the reader to judge.

Finally, Hopkins' mentions that a lot of material was left out of the book regarding Kathy's memories, as it seemed impertinent. I for one wish I could have seen a bit of that. While I don't think Kathy was necessarily lying, a major mistake in research is to ignore data that doesn't support your central argument. And while it's nice to have all of Kathy's bizarre memories fit nicely in a UFO box, it almost fit too perfectly.

I've read a lot of abduction books in my time but this has to be one of the best. This is a must read for all UFO enthusiasts.

The book I read was "Intruders" and the writer was Budd Hopkins. The characters in the story are Kathy Davis and Joyce Lloyd and they were victims of the abduction by aliens from outer space. Budd Hopkins is also a main character but he wasn't abducted his just a Hypnotized. When he finished his book called "Missing Time" and a lot of people read his book and then he had a phone call by this woman named Kathy Davis. And she told Budd Hopkins what had happened to her. Budd Hopkins was interested by this case and he investigated. Two years later Budd Hopkins still is in the same case but then he gets another phone call by this woman and her name is Joyce Lloyd. Joyce Lloyd was also abducted and the way that Budd Hopkins treats this case is he investigates hard and he talks to Kathy Davis and Joyce Lloyd the victims of the abduction. But if Kathy or Joyce don't remember or for get to tell Budd Hopkins about the alien abduction. What Budd Hopkins doe's is he hypnotizes these two victims and finds out what the missing part of the memory they forgot to tell him? I find this book Very interested because it's about aliens that abduct people. But the mystery questions are why do the aliens abduct people? The theme of this book is that aliens abduct people to experiment on them and Budd Hopkins thinks that alien abduct people to see if people are harmful or peaceful to anything. I recommend this book to people that are interested in alien abduction cases. If readers want to know why aliens abduct people I would recommend this book to them.

By Anthony