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As he later said, “These individuals reported being taken against their wills sometimes through the walls of their houses, and subjected to elaborate intrusive procedures which appeared to have a reproductive purpose. In a few cases they were actually observed by independent witnesses to be physically absent during the time of the abduction. These people suffered from no obvious psychiatric disorder, except the effects of traumatic experience, and were reporting with powerful emotion what to them were utterly real experiences. Furthermore these experiences were sometimes associated with UFO sightings by friends, family members, or others in the community, including media reporters and journalists, and frequently left physical traces on the individuals’ bodies, such as cuts and small ulcers that would tend to heal rapidly and followed no apparent psychodynamically identifiable pattern as do, for example, religious stigmata. In short, I was dealing with a phenomenon that I felt could not be explained psychiatrically, yet was simply not possible within the framework of the Western scientific worldview."

“Nothing in my nearly 40 years of familiarity with psychiatry prepared me,” Mack later wrote in his 1994 best-seller, Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens. He had always assumed that anyone claiming to have been abducted by aliens was crazy, along with those who took them seriously. But here were people—students, homemakers, secretaries, writers, businesspeople, computer technicians, musicians, psychologists, a prison guard, an acupuncturist, a social worker, a gas-station attendant—reporting experiences that Mack could not begin to fathom, things, he reflected, that by all notions of reality “simply could not be.”

Mack’s entire world view changed after meeting Budd Hopkins in 1990. Hopkins gave Mack a box of letters from people reacting to aliens. “I think most of these people are perfectly sane, with real experiences,” Hopkins told.

‘I was raised as the strictest of materialists,” Mack told the writer C. D. B. Bryan. “I believed we were kind of alone in this meaningless universe, on this sometimes verdant rock with these animals and plants around, and we were here to make the best of it, and when we’re dead, we’re dead.”

Many credit Edward Teller for being the inspiration behind Peter Sellers’ classic character in Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. "The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist’s job to find the ways in which these laws can serve the human will. However, it is not the scientists job to determine whether a hydrogen bomb should be constructed, whether it should be used, or how it should be used." Edward Teller

Teller denounced peacenik physicians and told Mack: “If you are not in the pay of the Kremlin, you’re even more of a fool.”

He traveled in the Middle East, lecturing on the Arab-Israeli conflict and going on “bomb runs,” traveling from city to city warning what would happen if a one-mega-ton bomb exploded overhead, and getting arrested with his family at nuclear-test sites. He cornered Dr. Edward Teller, the father of the H-bomb then pressing President Reagan for a Star Wars nuclear-weapons shield in space.

His second book, a groundbreaking psychological study of Lawrence of Arabia, A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence, won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1977.

He took his social-worker bride, Sally, to an Air Force posting in Japan and, once home, introduced psychiatric services to incarcerated youths and impoverished nursery schoolers. He started the first psychiatric department at Cambridge hospital, winning a prize for a study of childhood nightmares, a field he would explore further in his first book, Nightmares and Human Conflict.

John Edward Mack served in the US Air Force from 1959 to 1961 and rose to the rank of captain. In 1964, he joined the Harvard Medical School faculty, and, while only a resident, founded one of the nation’s first outpatient hospitals.becoming professor of psychiatry in 1972.

John Mack “They put a hole in my psyche, and the U.F.O.’s flew in.”

And is it now more precious than before?

Nice cape, nice codpiece.

"Presumably the ETs will have learned from the Linda incident. Instead of demonstrating their "beam-me-up-Scotty” abduction technique at 3 a.m. when most people are asleep, they will conduct their next demonstration in broad daylight before many thousands of people—such as at the next Superbowl game." Philip J Klass The Skeptics UFO Newsletter

More bizarre were the emergence of shared dream-like memories.These centered around a beach, presumably remembered from the actual abduction, where the three men were witness to Linda’s co-operation with the Greys.

In Hopkins book the hypothesis was aired that the whole incident was for the former Secretary General’s benefit, to perhaps raise the exposure of the Greys’ presence on Earth within the corridors of power.

The case became even more remarkable when Hopkins established the identity of the ‘Third Man’ as none other than Javier Perez de Cuellar, the former Secretary General of the United Nations. Hopkins even approached him and engaged him in conversation at one point, but was unable to acquire the testimony he sought.

To add to Hopkins' burgeoning file on the case, further witnesses came forward. They described the same incredible scene that they, too, had witnessed from the Brooklyn Bridge that night, some of whom had been convinced that it was the filming of a Hollywood movie.

Hopkins started to receive letters from two men who claimed to have witnessed the abduction. They claimed to be bodyguards escorting a senior UN statesman through Manhattan when the three of them were confronted with the sight of a woman and several entities floating in mid-air up to a UFO.

She was then questioned about her family before being allowed to leave the examining table. She headed for the door of the craft and suddenly found herself back in bed at home.

Apparently, the creatures had somehow floated Cortile through the window of her 12th-floor apartment, despite it being locked and covered with a metal child-guard fence. The aliens then levitated the helpless Cortile up into the belly of the waiting craft, where they began examining her back and her right nostril.

Cortile then recounted being moved by the creatures. 'They lift me up and they bring me to the living room... They took me to the window. And there was a bright light. Blue-white. (inaudible) right outside. I'm outside. I'm outside the window. It's weird.'

Hopkins then asked her to describe the entities in the room. ' They're short. They're white and dark... Their eyes, very intense eyes... Black. They shine.'

During the tape-recorded session, Cortile provided a full account of her experience. 'Behind the drapes. There's something there,' she began. 'There's something in the room... Ooh, I can't move my arms anymore. Now one, two, three, there's four and five. They're taking me outta bed. I won't let them. I won't let them take me outta bed.'

On December 2nd 1989, Hopkins attempted to obtain as much detail as possible from Linda with the help of hypnotic regression.