Editorial Review Product Description In New York City, on 30 November 1989, at approximately 3:00 am, Linda Cortile, a married mother of two, was seen emerging from an apartment building window 12 storeys above the ground accompanied by three small alien figures. Suspended within a blue beam of light, Linda and her captors were lifted into a large reddish-orange glowing UFO, which then moved off in the direction of the Brooklyn Bridge. Several witnesses, including a world political leader, saw - and later independently corroborated - this event. It is the evidence of numerous and influential eyewitnesses to this abduction that shatters all previous patterns of UFO encounters. But when Linda Cortile first reported her abduction, Budd Hopkins, an authority in the field of UFO research, conducted a thorough investigation, including a hypnosis session, and concluded that there was nothing unique about the incident among the hundreds of abductees he studied.That assessment changed dramatically when Hopkins later received a letter in which two men, identified as New York City police officers, described sitting helplessly in a car under the FDR Drive and watching three "creatures" escort a woman into a reddish-organge glowing oval hovering in the sky. Hopkins sensed he was now on the verge of a major breakthrough in providing evidence of the reality of UFO abductions. Whatever the aliens' motives, the details of this case - from an inexplicable metallic object implanted in Linda's body to the independent witnesses and their verified accounts of the abduction - challenge all preconceptions about UFOs and alien abductions. Budd Hopkins is the author of "Missing Time" and "Intruders". ... Read more Customer Reviews (36)
Read at your own risk: Boring!
I've read a few Budd Hopkins books and thought they were pretty good.....until I read this one. I'm sorry; but I didn't believe a word of this book. Where other Hopkin's books are analytical and slightly scientific, this book has an air of a fictional novel, and it's as long as one too. For me, I'd say somewhere about 1/4 the way into the book I started to feel like I was reading a fictional novel, it just had that "feeling" or "effect" to me, the feeling you have when you know your reading a good or bad fictional novel. I found many annoying areas in the book as well, usually with two characters named "Dan" & "Richard." In the book they submit letters to Hopkins from time to time releasing more and more info, it just seemed all fake and the letters content were usually predictable, at least for me, I was on many occasions able to predict what these two characters were going to say before I even read the letters. The letters are released one at a time, over I believe; a few years, which is another way to just say "filler" material, giving length to this book, of course, then Hopkin's has to give you his analysis of each letter (which is fine) but he usually ends up quoting each letter, repeating again what you've already read. Space waster! Another annoying thing was that this "Dan" and "Richard" character kidnap the main character Linda, then say they are sorry for doing it and they won't do it again, then they kidnap Linda again, then apologize saying they wont do it again, repeat, repeat, repeat, ad nauseum! Some of the stuff that happened also I was not able to validate with news papers and etc, like cars mysteriously stalled on the brooklyn bridge, though this doesn't really mean much.
I won't give anymore of the story out, I felt what I have revealed to be necessary to explain the annoyances of this story.
Unless you are easy to please, I'd say the 1st half of the book is "just ok." After this it gets boring and repetitive. Around the time I was at 3/4 the way through I really wanted to stop reading it, and BADLY! However, I dislike starting a book to only not finish it, so I endured, reluctantly. All said and done, I found it over-all boring, seems like a well executed hoax to me, but then again; I don't know. Unless you just HAVE to have this type of material, I'd not recommend you buy it, but check it out free at your local library (like I did). Read at your own risk.
Unforgettable!
I was hypnotized for abduction experiences years ago by a colleague of (and trained by) Budd Hopkins.It's very scary to realize that something of this magnitude that you had buried in your subconscious is actually true. The media and skeptics imply that some people who claim to have had abduction experiences are doing it for the attention, that it's a hoax, etc., but that could never be because no one wants to have gone through what I - or others I know who have had these experiences - went through. I could write here about the "proof" I had of my experience that goes beyond mere hypnosis, but I don't want to get too far from Budd's book.It's brilliant - terrifying - a page-turner.People have mentioned that Budd's book is scarier than any by Stephen King or Dean Koontz. Of course. Truth is always stranger than fiction. My question for Budd: you said you were going to present a sequel to "Witnessed," revealing, among other things, the name of the well-known world leader who was depicted as having viewed these events from his stalled limo on the Brooklyn Bridge.Where is it? I've been looking forward to it.
Stunning and exciting
Though I've bought literally hundreds of books from Amazon, I've never felt compelled to review a book like I do this one.This is my first book review.As a skeptic, I left my mind open as I read, as you must on this subject.The book reads easily like fiction, and soon felt like a thriller.So if you are interested in learning about UFO's without wading through government documents and lots of names, this is the perfect read.You may remain skeptical and still enjoy this book.No one is asking you to believe.Even those involved in this encounter don't want to believe, so no one expects you to.This is much better than Steven King or Dean Koontz because there must be elements of truth.What's more scary than that?Enjoy, and don't try to hard to figure out the truth.
entertaining,out there..........
I really don't know how to review this book.Bud seems like a good man to help Linda they way he does.This book is out there, but if you are an abductee, you know how strange reality really is.It is worth a reading.It will keep you wanting more.
Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge Abductions
Book Review
Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge Abductions
Bud Hopkins
ISBN 0-671-57031-5
"I'm standing on nothing. My nightgown is above my head. I can see it..."
Linda Cortile, "under hypnotic regression"
On 30 November 1989 in the wee-hours of the morning, "Linda Cortile" was abducted form her 12 floor New York apartment.Transported by a blue beam of light, "Linda" and her three alien abductors exited through the closed window and safety screen into a hovering UFO outside.
What starts as a text-book UFO abduction takes an unexpected twist as details emerge indicating that "Linda" was not the only one abducted that morning.As Investigator and Author Bud Hopkins attempts to work this puzzle new leads evolve: the abduction of a political figure and the security detail, an attempt by unidentifiable men to abduct "Linda" and the near tragic result of her kidnapping.
Although several incidents depicted in the book sparked the skeptic in me, this book is consistent with the investigation techniques and proof-providing style of Bud Hopkins.
This story definitely adds a new twist to the alien agenda as well as the degree of impact our childhood imaginary friends may actually have on our lives.
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