Budd Hopkins
When Linda Cortile first reported her abduction, Budd Hopkins conducted a thorough investigation, including a hypnosis session, and concluded that there was nothing unique about the incident among the hundreds he has studied. That assessment changed dramatically when Hopkins later received a letter in which two men, identified as New York City police officers, described sitting helplessly in a car under the FDR Drive and watching three “creatures” escort a woman into a reddish-orange glowing oval hovering in the sky.
The presence of numerous and influential eyewitnesses to this abduction shatters all previous patterns of UFO encounters. Hopkins sensed he was now on the verge of a major breakthrough in providing evidence of the reality of UFO abductions. But the men’s true identifies remained a mystery. Unwilling to meet with Hopkins, they continued to contact him through letters and on audiocassette recording. The startling connections eventually revealed between Linda and one of these men are perhaps the most remarkable aspects of this case.
In the following months, three more witnesses came forward. Two gave vivid descriptions of a bright red object in the sky, seen near the Brooklyn Bridge—but from two different locations in the city. The third witness told in dramatic detail the events that occurred as she saw the UFO and the floating figures from the bridge itself. Her haunting drawings, which independently corroborate descriptions related by other participants, plus Linda’s memories, retrieved under hypnosis, appear for the first time in Witnessed.
While certain facts reported here suggest that the aliens’ motives may be altruistic, others point toward a systematic program of genetic study and experimentation on human beings. Whatever the aliens’ motives, the details of this case—from an inexplicable metallic object implanted in Linda’s body to the independent witnesses and their verified accounts of the abduction—challenge all preconceptions about UFOs and alien abductions. The evidence in Witnessed is too credible, too comprehensive, and too powerful for any individual—or government—to ignore.