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SUBJECT: BUDD HOPKINS RESPONDS TO UFO LETTER FILE: UFO2323
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In early December, abductions researcher Budd Hopkins visited the
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Tucson, AZ, area for an artist's convention. I originally planned
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to drive to Tucson to meet briefly with Budd, and ParaNet users
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were encouraged to supply me, via the message board, with some
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pressing questions to pass on to him.
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My trip never took place; however, Marge Christensen was kind
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enough to download the questions and provide them to Budd in
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hardcopy form for his answers and comments. Below I have
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transcribed the handwritten notes from Budd, which Marge has just
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forwarded to ParaNet.
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From: Marc Dantonio #16506 "UFOlogy"
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To: Jim Speiser Authored at 07:41 on 11-30-88
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Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins
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I would REALLY like to know what ever happened to the story about
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implants found in pituitary glands on four alleged abductees...it seems
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the story faded fast and I know Budd started it from what you said.
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BUDD HOPKINS RESPONDS:
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"First, no one mentioned pituitary glands. (I wonder how that got
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started?) I have heard by phone conversation and letter from 4 probable
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abductees of small, BB-like objects showing up on magnetic resonance
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imaging (MRI) scans; in two cases (the women are sisters) they are
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ostensibly located on or very close to the optic nerves. Dr. Paul
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Cooper, a neurosurgeon consultant, says that if they are on or near the
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optic nerves, attempts to remove them would be extremely dangerous. I am
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trying now to gather the printouts (or whatever they are called) from
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all 4 people, to present to Dr. Cooper for study. All four cases are
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extremely intriguing, and are pending."
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From: Clark Matthews #16522 "UFOlogy"
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To: Jim Speiser Authored at 20:00 on 11-30-88
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Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins
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Interesting, Jim! A Hopkins interview will be very interesting for all of
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us. As to questions for him:
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I wonder if Budd would care to hypothesize on alien communications. In
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particular, I'm wondering if he has any opinions on how they communicate:
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Is it verbal? Telepathic? Or something else? Also -- and I spoke with
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him about this briefly in Washington long ago -- has he made any progress
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in decyphering alien writing?
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Best,
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Clark
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BUDD HOPKINS RESPONDS:
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"Communication with aliens is virtually always reported as telepathic
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(however THAT works!)
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"I have a number of very short samples of what seem to be alien
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notational characters. No attempt to decipher has been made because
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there are only a few "characters" seen in any one place. (From
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equipment, possibly - `on', `off',`high',`low'...who knows?) But the
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characters are extremely similar from perhaps 8 or 10 different
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abductees."
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From: Marc Dantonio #16614 "UFOlogy"
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To: Jim Speiser Authored at 10:02 on 12-01-88
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Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins
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I read a message here about that, but maybe I was incorrect about the 4
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abductees. Oh well, any more about that anywhere?
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By the way, I also saw Budd on Unsolved Mysteries yesterday out here.
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He re-hashed the abductee business, and promoted his books, Missing
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Time in particular.
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BUDD HOPKINS RESPONDS:
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"A comment to this suspicious gentleman: I don't believe I even
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MENTIONED my books, let alone `promoted' them on `Unsolved Mysteries.'
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The director asked for copies to include in a shot of letters I'd
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received, in order to show how these cases came to me, and the Chiron
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identifying me - which was the director's decision - also mentioned me
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as author of `Missing Time.' I assume from the tone of this man's
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question on ParaNet that only a NON-writer in a particular research
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field is clean, so any CSICOP author, by definition, is also sullied by
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the fact of having written about the subject, and having that fact
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mentioned by the media. Your objections are silly. One writes to
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disseminate crucial information."
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From: Jim Delton #16617 "UFOlogy"
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To: Jim Speiser Authored at 12:44 on 12-01-88
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Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins
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Ask for the specifics of the implants supposedly recovered.
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Ask were the implant is now resideing.
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Ask what percent of the people who claim to have been abducted he
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follows up on and on what basis he makes his determination to continue
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or not.
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Ask when he thinks things are "going to pop".
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Ask for his comments on why previous predictions of "popping" have not
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panned out.
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Ask how long he thinks these proprogamed abductees are going to stay
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preprogrammed. Some of these preprogrammed abductees have been waiting
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around waiting for their programming to go off for many years now.
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Ask what he (we) know now that we didn't know before that has moved us
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any closer to solving the riddle of where the UFO;s come from. (Aside
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from his speculations, i.e. what do we have that can be considered the
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equivalent of UFO photos)
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BUDD HOPKINS RESPONDS:
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"See Answer #1."
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"People generally do not CLAIM they've been abducted; they SUSPECT it:
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Missing time experience, connected with sightings, scards from childhood
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missing time experiences, vivid `dreams' of abductions, examinations,
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resulting marks, physical evidence - such as dirty feet, dry leaves,
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grass in their bed afterwards, etc.) I've heard from thousands, and have
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personally worked with over 200; many have been referred to our
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investigatory network of therapists, hypnotists, investigators, etc.
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Proximity, desperation, availability of time and many other factors
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affect who gets help and who doesn't. Its an ad hoc, part-time activity,
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which we give our own time, energy and money to. My wife says that
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everytime I sell a book it costs me a dollar in phone calls, postage,
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secretarial help, etc. To say nothing of my time. I'm an artist by
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profession, and a father and a husband. I do what I can."
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"Since I've never made a prediction about when things are going to
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`pop' - whatever that means - I cannot answer."
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"I have absolutely no way to answer a question like that, and I'm not a
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speculator."
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"I won't speculate as to origins of UFOs, and I haven't so far. I
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concentrate on what is happening to humans. The Aztecs knew what was
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happening to them, and had no way of understanding where Spain was, even
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if they had been told."
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"Again, I don't get involved in speculation - I only attend to what is
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REPORTED to me by the abductees. (See `Intruders', pg. 178, hardcover
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version). PHYSICAL evidence - ground traces, scars, power outages, etc.
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- can be gone over in `Intruders', Chapter 2. Ground traces in an
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abduction are like dented fenders, etc. in a hit-run accident case -
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physical evidence presentable in court. For speculations by the
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pocketful, read Strieber, not Hopkins."
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From: Jim Delton #16714 "UFOlogy"
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To: Mark Owens Authored at 22:57 on 12-02-88
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Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins
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Ego and Money.
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BUDD HOPKINS RESPONDS:
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"I don't know whether these words apply to the aliens, to Jim Delton, to
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ParaNet, or whether someone is just suggesting a trite title for a
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Sidney Sheldon novel."
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From: Jim Speiser #16744 "UFOlogy"
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To: Mark Owens Authored at 21:59 on 12-03-88
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Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins
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Mark, Budd is not withholding abduction data because its
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"earth-shattering" (as far as I know, anyway). He's withholding some
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minor details in order to see if there are any correlations between
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stories that cannot be passed off as being public knowledge. I asked
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Budd at the Brewster Conference last year if he was going to eventually
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publish that data, and he assured us he would.
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As to the implants, I understand they are a very recent discovery, and
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Unsolved Mysteries might have been filmed some time ago.
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Jim
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BUDD HOPKINS RESPONDS:
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"Comment - `Unsolved Mysteries' was filmed this past summer, and later
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in Sept. at several locations. Roughly 9 hours of film, I am told, were
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distilled to roughly 20 minutes."
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From: Mark Owens #16801 "UFOlogy"
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To: Jim Speiser Authored at 21:19 on 12-04-88
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Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins
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Jim,
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I see. My point was that if there is physical evidence of abductions
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then would not the physical evidence stand for itself? I really would
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like Mr. Hopkins response to what types of physical evidence there is.
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I have also heard, I don't recall off hand now, that there was
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something recovered from one of the victims. Very curious.
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Mark
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BUDD HOPKINS RESPONDS:
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"See above answers."
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From: Steve Gresser #17184 "UFOlogy"
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To: Jim Speiser Authored at 12:16 on 12-08-88
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Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins
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I have a question for Budd;
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"Is that your real hair?"
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BUDD HOPKINS RESPONDS:
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"No. It's Bruce Maccabee's hair."
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From: Al Pinto #17646 "UFOlogy"
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To: Jim Speiser Authored at 22:46 on 12-09-88
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Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins
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I have a few questions for Budd Hopkins.
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1. Have any electrodes or implants been actually found or verified that
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they are implanted in the abductees?
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2. How many abductees have seen humans instead of the "little greys" as
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the occupants of the UFO?
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3. Have you any additional information on the North Hudson Park
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incident which occured in the 70's besides what was written in your
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book, "Missing Time"?
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-Al
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BUDD HOPKINS RESPONDS:
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"Again, see above answers."
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"In my experience none have seen normal humans INSTEAD OF "little
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greys" in UFOs. But dozens have seen humans or `near humans' ALONG WITH
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LGs."
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"The only new information is a pretty solid 2nd hand report - someone's
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piano teacher who lived in the affected apartment building - of another
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witness to the landing. Otherwise, that's it, apart from other reports
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of UFO activity in the area around that time."
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Our extreme gratitude to Budd for taking the time from an EXTREMELY
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hectic schedule to write four pages - legibly! - of much-needed
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answers. This file will be a real treasure in our library. Also our
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thanks to Marge and Dave Christensen for directing our questions to
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Budd and for forwarding his responses.
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