EXTRATERRESTRIAL:
Book examines UFO invisibility, hybrid humans
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Budd Hopkins could be considered the one who first introduced the subject of UFO abductions to the world's attention. His three books, Missing Time, 1981, Intruders, 1987, and Witnessed, 1996, are widely regarded as the most influential books yet published on the phenomenon.
Hopkins breaks new ground again with his most recent book, Sight Unseen: Science, Invisibility and Transgenic Beings, co-written with filmmaker Carol Rainey. This book examines two new or rarely mentioned aspects of the UFO phenomenon: The aliens' use of "cloaking" or invisibility technology, and the presence of "transgenic" people, or human-alien hybrids, living with abductees and their families and working for the aliens to facilitate their hosts' abductions.
Rainey, a writer and filmmaker who has produced and directed many documentaries on medical and scientific subjects, contributes her scientific expertise in the book to show that many of the "magical" abilities shown by the aliens have a basis in scientific fact. In the past, some abduction experiences seemed so bizarre as to be outside the realm of known science, making researchers hesitant to publicize them. Rainey shows that new advances in genetic engineering and discoveries in quantum theory, as well as the development of "stealth" technology, provides a scientific context for these erstwhile "impossible" stories.
As the world's premier expert on this issue, Hopkins has worked with more than a thousand people who have reported abduction experiences over the past 20 years. These individuals include physicians, psychiatrists, attorneys, police officers, military personnel, political figures, personalities from the entertainment world, and even a NASA scientist. His groundbreaking first book, Missing Time, was the first work to compare a number of UFO abduction cases to isolate the patterns they revealed. His second book, Intruders-The Incredible Visitation at Copley Woods, was a New York Times bestseller and the basis of a popular TV miniseries starring Richard Crenna. A world-renowned artist living in Manhattan, Hopkins also heads the Intruders Foundation, a non-profit research group fostering research into the abduction phenomenon.
Sight Unseen now provides evidence that other-worldly beings are a real and growing part of people's everyday lives. Not just confined to remote rural areas, Hopkins details daylight abductions in the middle of crowded urban settings, apparently achieved through an invisibility technology.
In one case, two Air Force non-coms are snatched from the tarmac of a busy military airfield. After experiencing missing time and disorientation, they return to their barracks to find they are wearing each others' shirts, as if their abductors inadvertently switched them when putting their clothes back on.
In another case, an abductee arrived at the busy Chicago airport to speak at a conference when she experiences missing time upon landing. Going into the ladies' bathroom at the airport, she finds that she has become "invisible" - her hands don't activate the automatic spigots in the sink and others in the bathroom react as if she wasn't there. Those who are anxiously awaiting her delayed arrival are startled when she appears behind them, somehow bypassing the only route she could have taken on foot. Apparently, her abductors snatched her in plain view of thousands of people, rendered her temporarily invisible, and transported her to a spot behind her hosts without detection.
In another case, an Australian family enjoying the day on a crowded beach is levitated up into a hovering craft while the father remains paralyzed on the ground with a camera to his eye. The resulting film shows the family in tones of red, as if through a filter. This evidence is discussed in terms of recent scientific advances.
In the transgenic cases, abductees report encounters with people who appear human but possess seemingly paranormal abilities, like knowing every detail of their lives and thoughts, but are oddly stunted in their emotions. Hopkins suggests these "transgenic humans" are genetically human, at least in part, but raised by the aliens to help carry out abductions.
There are three separate cases of young women summoned to "job interviews" in ordinary office settings, but they encounter human-looking beings who behave oddly and lead them into UFO abduction experiences. In one case, a girl asks the "receptionist" where the ladies' room is and receives only a "stricken" look, as if the woman did not expect or know how to handle such an ordinary question.
There is the tragic story of a Wisconsin farmer who meets "Damoe," a man with odd behavior who closely resembles his own son. Damoe eventually reveals himself as an accomplice in the terrifying abduction of the farmer and his wife. Tragically, the wife suffers permanent mental damage from her traumatic experience.
In another case, five-year-old Jen is abducted at night and taken to a nearby playground. There she is instructed to teach 12 listless, seemingly identical quasi-human children how to play.
Then there is the strange case of Anne-Marie and Mr. Paige, a gentle eccentric who roomed with Anne-Marie's family for almost a decade. Paige was a thin, middle-aged man with white hair and a large head in proportion to his body. His odd behavior included eating only soft-boiled eggs and water, disappearing for months at a time without explanation, and writing rambling letters and even a self-published book that made no sense, even though he could speak clearly with perfect diction.
The sinister side of Mr. Paige is that he often led Anne-Marie into long hikes into the nearby woods, where she experiences odd blackouts. It appears Mr. Paige befriended Ann-Marie only to hand her over to alien abductors. Hopkins considers her luckier than most abductees, however, because her childish love and trust for Mr. Paige shielded her from the trauma of abduction.
Woven in between these bizarre stories are Rainey's examination of cloaking devices for aircraft, mind-control technologies, teleportation achieved in the lab and the controversial new science of genetic engineering, all of which support the reality of these cases. The book helps us deal with the unknown by expanding our view of what has become known in recent years. Hopkins thus establishes himself once again as one of the premier figures in UFO research.
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