Intruders Foundation

An Introduction to IF

Budd Hopkins

Over a decade ago Budd Hopkins founded the Intruders Foundation as a nonprofit organization with four basic goals:

To provide sympathetic help, understanding and personal investigation for those reporting UFO abduction experiences.
To carry out systematic research into the abduction phenomenon through a careful study of its patterns and resulting physical and psychological evidence.
To mount an extensive program of public education about the phenomenon.
To develop a cadre of trained professionals in various fields to carry out all of these projects.

Budd Hopkins first became interested in the UFO phenomenon when he and two others had a daylight UFO sighting near Truro, Massachusetts, in 1964. In 1975 he carried out his first major investigation, which involved a UFO landing and occupant incident in North Hudson Park, N.J. Shortly thereafter he began to concentrate on the investigation of the UFO abduction phenomenon which led to the eventual publication of his findings.

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*IF Announcements*

IF Seminar Series

Col. Charles Halt

Col. Charles Haltto speak about the famous Rendlesham Forest UFO incident at our next IF Seminar

December 5, 2009

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**New Book by Budd Hopkins **
ART, LIFE AND UFOs
A memoir by Budd Hopkins

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THE FOURTH KIND
A MOVIE TO AVOID

By Budd Hopkins

On Tuesday, Nov. 3, as I sat in a theater being bombarded with soundtrack noise - screams – many screams – and melodramatic, over-the-top music, I was watching the new, self-described UFO abuction film, The Fourth Kind, and wondering how the screenwriters could get so many things wrong. Ostensibly set in Nome, Alaska – which, by the way, looks ravishingly pretty in the film’s many elaborate aerial views - the plot is focused on a therapist and her clients who have apparently suffered UFO abductions, and at least one of these “abductees,” the therapist’s little daughter, seems to have been taken for good. The film moves along, more or less propelled by fake hypnosis sessions in which virtually every subject screams bloody murder.

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***Spoiler Alert***

From IF Special Report No. 7:

PAUL HELLYER and THE PHILIP CORSO PROBLEM
By Budd Hopkins

Officially, the Intruders Foundation is dedicated to the study of the UFO abduction phenomenon. Occasionally, however, the UFO field in general is roiled by dramatic new developments which threaten to affect all of us, thus requiring IF’s attention. The Paul Hellyer affair is such a development - one which many hoped might start a chain of events that could end in the unraveling of the official UFO cover-up. In the fall and winter of 2005, Paul Hellyer, a former Minister of Defense in the Canadian government, announced his belief that the UFO phenomenon is extraterrestrial in nature, and that it demonstrates the interest of intelligent, non-human beings in our planet and its population.
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JOHN MACK, UFO ABDUCTIONS AND TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCES
By Budd Hopkins

(NOTE: the following special report includes an excerpt from the manuscript of an ongoing memoir, which, upon completion, I hope to publish in book form. A previous section, dealing with the late Carl Sagan, appeared in IF bulletin, Vol. 5, No.1)

In a recent posting, Will Bueche of PEER raised some questions about my views on the transformative nature of UFO abduction experiences. I present this report as a fuller explanation of my position, as well as an opportunity to add a few more personal thoughts about my friend and colleague, the late John Mack.

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THE FAITH-BASED SCIENCE OF SUSAN CLANCY
By Budd Hopkins

The literate world is well aware that a controversy about the reality of the UFO phenomenon has raged for decades. Arrayed on one side are the enthusiasts - the casual, the serious and the bizarre - along with thousands of highly qualified pilot-witnesses, high-ranking military personnel, intensely interested scientists, and even an astronaut or two. All regard the hundreds of thousands of global sighting reports as a scientific problem of major significance, and all demand that science finally conducts a thorough, objective investigation.

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