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SUBJECT: MISSING TIME FILE: UFO2743
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The Sysop's Bookshelf
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TITLE: Missing Time: A Documented Study of UFO Abductions
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AUTHOR: Budd Hopkins
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PUBLISHED BY: Marek
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AT: New York, 1981
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VIEWPOINT: Zetetic
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258 Pages
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Budd Hopkins is an artist of no little repute, who has maintained an
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interest. in the UFO phenomenon for 20 years. While writing a UFO
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column for the Village Voice, he became involved in a particularly
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fascinating aspect of the field,. the abduction cases. Starting with
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the famed Betty and Barney Hill case, many. people claim to have been
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actually taken aboard UFOs and examined by their humanoid occupants. In
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most of these cases, the actual abduction is erased from the victim's
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memory, leaving only a vague fearfulness and an unexplained lapse of
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several hours -- missing time. The encounter with, and abduction by,
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aliens is brought out only through the use of regressive hypnosis
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In this riveting book, Hopkins documents several abduction cases with
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the transcripts of the actual hypnotic sessions. The basic accounts by
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the various subjects so nearly match each other that there can be
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almost no question of hallucination or fantasizing. Unless Hopkins has
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written a work of total fiction, the reader is confronted with
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inescapable evidence of alien encounters
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The most important contribution the book makes is to reinforce the
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rather sketchy image we have of our visitors. The race we are dealing
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with seems to be humanoid,.about 4-5 feet in height, with slender
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bodies, bulbous, hairless heads, small mouths, nose and ears, and large
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almond-shaped eyes. Their skin is grey, with a leathery quality,
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alternately described as like "putty" or "marshmallowy". They almost
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invariably communicate via a form of telepathy
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The presentation of this knowledge counteracts yet another of the many
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insidious claims by arch-skeptic Phil Klass. In a letter to myself,
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Klass maintained that "one of the characteristic fingerprints of
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'pseudo-science' that distinguishes it from true science is that the
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passage of time and effort adds no increased knowledge, or
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understanding, for pseudo-sciencetoday, 20 years after I entered the
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field of UFOlogy, we do. not know an iota more about what UFOs 'really
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are' than was 'known' two decades ago." It would seem, with the
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publication of this book, that Klass himself has redefined UFOlogy as a
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true science
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Now I'll offer a generalization of my own. One of the surest signs of
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the truthfulness of a paranormal phenomenon is when the "explanation"
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offered by. its would-be debunkers is more extraordinary than the claim
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itself. Just what. do the skeptics make of the incredible tales told
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under hypnosis in Missing Time? "A subconscious reliving of the birth
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trauma." Besides being patently ludicrous on its face, this explanation
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ignores the palpable physical evidence presented in the book -- scars
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from wounds inflicted by the alien examiners Scars that appear, in many
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cases, on the exact same place from victim to victim, and correlate
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perfectly with the description of the "operation."
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SUMMARY: This is not a book I would recommend for those who prefer not
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to believe that we are under surveillance. For the rest of us, it may
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be the most important book written since the days of Donald Keyhoe
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