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Budd Hopkins publishes 'Intruders'

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Portrait of Budd Hopkins taken in Rome in 1997
Budd Hopkins, author of 'Intruders' (1987) Carol Rainey, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Random House published Budd Hopkins' Intruders, built on hypnosis sessions with an Indianapolis woman called 'Kathie Davis' and describing claims of alien-human interbreeding. Skeptic Philip Klass argued in the Skeptical Inquirer that leading questions under hypnosis shaped the accounts.

Sources

  1. PressIntruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods (review)Kirkus Reviews / 1987
  2. PressIntruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods (review)Publishers Weekly / 1987-03-01
  3. PressIntruders of the Mind (review of Intruders by Philip J. Klass)Skeptical Inquirer / 1987

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How the story came out

Happened 6 Apr 1987. First made public 5 years later (17 May 1992).

  1. 6 Apr 1987It happened (this event)
  2. 17 May 1992CBS airs abduction miniseries Intruders - first made public

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