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His third book, Witnessed, written in 1996 was the outcome of his investigation of the so-called Brooklyn Bridge U.F.O. abduction of the woman he called Linda Cortile.

 

 

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It would involve two security guards for an international figure Hopkins never named but believed to be U.N. secretary-general Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, who, Hopkins would conclude, appeared to have been abducted with her.

 

 

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Linda Cortile claimed that she was abducted from her apartment by aliens of the ‘grey’ variety. She vividly recalled being floated through the closed window of her apartment, accompanied by her abductors, towards a waiting UFO hanging in the air above the building at 3 a.m. The description of her conscious travel into a UFO is actually a rarity in abduction cases, most of which have an apparent memory lapse between abduction scene and the room where the subsequent examination takes place. Generally, the transit to the UFO is inferred rather than recalled.

 

 

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

 

 

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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.'

 

 

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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.'

 

 

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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.'

 

 

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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.

 

 

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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.

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

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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.

 

 

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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.

 

 

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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.

 

 

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"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

 

 

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John Mack

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

 

 

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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.

 

 

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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.

 

 

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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.

 

 

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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.