Budd Hopkins publishes 'Witnessed', on the Brooklyn Bridge abduction claim

Name: Budd Hopkins publishes 'Witnessed', on the Brooklyn Bridge abduction claim
Start: 1996
Location: New York, NY

When: 1996
Where: New York, NY
Sources: 3 public sources

Budd Hopkins, author of Witnessed, in 1997 Carol Rainey, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Pocket Books published Budd Hopkins' 'Witnessed', which presents a woman's claimed November 1989 abduction from a Manhattan apartment as seen by diplomats in a stalled motorcade. Hopkins called it the most-witnessed abduction; reviewers noted the changed names left little that could be checked.

Sources

PressWitnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions (review) (opens in a new tab)Publishers Weekly
OtherWitnessed: the true story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO abductions (catalog record, LCCN 96027856) (opens in a new tab)Library of Congress / 1996
OtherHopkins, Budd (1931-) (opens in a new tab)Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology (Gale), via Encyclopedia.com

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How the story came out

This reports on Linda Napolitano 'Manhattan' abduction claim (30 Nov 1989).

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Where it fits

Earlier in Close encountersHarvard Medical School ends its review of John Mack's abduction researchAug 1995 Later in Close encountersPBS NOVA airs 'Kidnapped by UFOs?'27 Feb 1996

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