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.

Taken together, his three books, Missing Time, 1981, Intruders, 1987, and Witnessed, 1996, are widely regarded by researchers and skeptics alike as comprising the most influential series of books yet published on the abduction phenomenon. These works and Hopkins' lectures and other presentations have been responsible for bringing a number of other noted researchers - David Jacobs, John Carpenter, Yvonne Smith and John Mack, among others - into this extraordinary area of specialization. From screen memories to the all-important alien reproductive focus and apparent production of hybrid beings, Hopkins' documented discoveries have become the basis of most later abduction investigations and research. IF, the Intruders Foundation, was founded in 1989 to further facilitate this important work. At present, with a dedicated team of fellow researchers and volunteers, IF is flourishing.

The IF Website is our latest public venue. It will present frequently updated, cutting-edge material on the subject of the UFO abduction phenomenon by Hopkins and many other writers.

We invite you to join us on an intellectual journey provided by carefully selected, thought-provoking articles, news items, photographs and drawings dealing with what we consider to be the most significant ongoing event in human history - the arrival on earth of a technologically advanced, non-human intelligence. We intend to make sure that your journey on the IF Website will be challenging and always stimulating. We look forward with pleasure to your company.