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Budd Hopkins
June 15, 1931 - August 21, 2011 |
I’m very sad to announce that Budd Hopkins died today, August 21, at 1:35 pm. Budd had been under hospice care for about three weeks, at his home in New York. The combination of liver cancer and pneumonia led to his death. His daughter Grace Hopkins-Lisle and I were with him almost continuously during these past weeks. He was not in any pain throughout any of the process, and he received the best possible care and loving support from those closest to him. Today he gradually slipped away, and simply quietly stopped breathing. He died peacefully and without any struggle, with Grace, Grace’s husband Andrew, and me by his side.
Thanks to all of you for being such strong supporters of this extraordinary man, who has contributed so much to our lives, in so many different ways.
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An Introduction to IF
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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Comparison of handwriting and drawing samples by two different witnesses in the “Linda case”
By Budd Hopkins |
In her latest YouTube offering, Carol Rainey has made the claim that the handwriting on an envelope sent to me by witness Janet Kimball and the handwriting of Linda Cortile are one and the same. In fact, there are many dissimilarities among several letters and numbers in the two meager samples Rainey presents in her latest attempt to discredit Linda and debunk the case. A more in-depth examination by experienced researchers, and an email from graphologist Roger Rubin whom Rainey interviewed on camera, shows that it cannot possibly be established that the writers are the same person based
on her weak presentation.
The well-known, reliable investigator Don Ledger posted the following on UFO Updates on March 7:
“What I saw did not convince me, Carol. In fact if anything I question your expert. You have the two different Budd Hopkins written in each case and not only in my estimation did the 'Hs" or 2s not match but identical letters in the names - either before or after - didn't come close to matching. BTW - a recent forensic case here in Canada involving a doctor's expert testimony - basically he lied - resulted in seeing some 30 people wrongly convicted over a period of some 20 years. some of whom spent a decade of more in
prison for something they did not do. He was no expert and has since lost his license to practice however for some reason has not been charged with giving false testimony. My advice, find three or four more experts to come up with the same opinion.”
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Deconstructing the Debunkers: A Response
By Budd Hopkins
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Probably no one seriously involved in investigating UFO reports has escaped the hydra-headed debunking machine and its many busy attendants. It’s long been understood that debunking and skepticism are two very different things, the former, an artifact of rigid ideology and the latter an objective, scientifically-inclined position. At the outset of any investigation of a UFO incident, the skeptic can accept the case as possibly legitimate or reject it as possibly a hoax or a misunderstanding or whatever, but the debunker has only one fixed option; he/she knows that the incident, whatever it was, could not have involved a genuine UFO. This rigid stance is akin to a kind of quasi-religious fundamentalism, and in my paper I intend to examine the various tenets of such true-believer negativity.
The reason I’m writing this article at this point in my life has to do with both health and age. I am about to celebrate (?) my 80th birthday and currently suffer from two almost certainly fatal diseases, so I’ve decided, while I still have the time and energy, to do a bit of deconstruction of the nature and habits of the debunking mindset. Also, along the way I hope that my piece will provide a little helpful information for those who, like me, are involved in the serious investigation of the UFO abduction phenomenon. As an armature on which to hang my comments, I have selected a debunking article which appeared recently, written, surprisingly, by my ex-wife, Carol Rainey. Though readers may find her authorship either irrelevant or curiously suggestive, the debunking piece she produced admirably illustrates many of my points.
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PROGNOSTICATIONS
All of us are used to hearing exactly when the UFOs will land, or when the world will come to an end, or when the so-called ”disclosure” will take place, or even when time will end. We’ve endured Hale-Bopp and the ship full of reptilians just behind it, the fears of Y2K chaos, and last year’s prediction by an actual Ph.D. of the government’s imminent announcement of UFO reality, none of which, of course, actually occurred. And now the fashionable worry-date is 2012, “the end of time.”
Take my word for it: don’t worry and don’t gather on the hilltops. But if you are planning to give away your earthly possessions, give them to me. See all of you in 2013, but in the meantime give a read of the quote below.
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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 abduction 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***
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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: 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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