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- BUDD HOPKINS RESPONDS!
-
- In early December, abductions researcher Budd Hopkins visited the
- Tucson, AZ, area for an artist's convention. I originally planned
- to drive to Tucson to meet briefly with Budd, and ParaNet users
- were encouraged to supply me, via the message board, with some
- pressing questions to pass on to him.
-
- My trip never took place; however, Marge Christensen was kind
- enough to download the questions and provide them to Budd in
- hardcopy form for his answers and comments. Below I have
- transcribed the handwritten notes from Budd, which Marge has just
- forwarded to ParaNet.
-
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-
- From: Marc Dantonio #16506 "UFOlogy"
- To: Jim Speiser Authored at 07:41 on 11-30-88
- Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins
-
- I would REALLY like to know what ever happened to the story about
- implants found in pituitary glands on four alleged abductees...it seems
- the story faded fast and I know Budd started it from what you said.
- --- QuickBBS v2.03
- * Origin: -=<ParaNet Alpha>=- 602-837-9838 Fountain Hills, AZ (1:114/37)
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- BUDD HOPKINS RESPONDS:
-
- "First, no one mentioned pituitary glands. (I wonder how that got
- started?) I have heard by phone conversation and letter from 4 probable
- abductees of small, BB-like objects showing up on magnetic resonance
- imaging (MRI) scans; in two cases (the women are sisters) they are
- ostensibly located on or very close to the optic nerves. Dr. Paul
- Cooper, a neurosurgeon consultant, says that if they are on or near the
- optic nerves, attempts to remove them would be extremely dangerous. I am
- trying now to gather the printouts (or whatever they are called) from
- all 4 people, to present to Dr. Cooper for study. All four cases are
- extremely intriguing, and are pending."
-
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-
- From: Clark Matthews #16522 "UFOlogy"
- To: Jim Speiser Authored at 20:00 on 11-30-88
- Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins
-
- Interesting, Jim! A Hopkins interview will be very interesting for all of
- us. As to questions for him:
-
- I wonder if Budd would care to hypothesize on alien communications. In
- particular, I'm wondering if he has any opinions on how they communicate:
- Is it verbal? Telepathic? Or something else? Also -- and I spoke with
- him about this briefly in Washington long ago -- has he made any progress
- in decyphering alien writing?
-
- Best,
- Clark
- --- QuickBBS v2.03
- * Origin: ALPHA - Where it all began [30032/100] (1:114/37)
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- BUDD HOPKINS RESPONDS:
-
- "Communication with aliens is virtually always reported as telepathic
- (however THAT works!)
-
- "I have a number of very short samples of what seem to be alien
- notational characters. No attempt to decipher has been made because
- there are only a few "characters" seen in any one place. (From
- equipment, possibly - `on', `off',`high',`low'...who knows?) But the
- characters are extremely similar from perhaps 8 or 10 different
- abductees."
-
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-
- From: Marc Dantonio #16614 "UFOlogy"
- To: Jim Speiser Authored at 10:02 on 12-01-88
- Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins
-
- I read a message here about that, but maybe I was incorrect about the 4
- abductees. Oh well, any more about that anywhere?
- By the way, I also saw Budd on Unsolved Mysteries yesterday out here.
- He re-hashed the abductee business, and promoted his books, Missing
- Time in particular.
- --- QuickBBS v2.03
- * Origin: ALPHA - Where it all began [30032/100] (1:114/37)
-
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- BUDD HOPKINS RESPONDS:
-
- "A comment to this suspicious gentleman: I don't believe I even
- MENTIONED my books, let alone `promoted' them on `Unsolved Mysteries.'
- The director asked for copies to include in a shot of letters I'd
- received, in order to show how these cases came to me, and the Chiron
- identifying me - which was the director's decision - also mentioned me
- as author of `Missing Time.' I assume from the tone of this man's
- question on ParaNet that only a NON-writer in a particular research
- field is clean, so any CSICOP author, by definition, is also sullied by
- the fact of having written about the subject, and having that fact
- mentioned by the media. Your objections are silly. One writes to
- disseminate crucial information."
-
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-
- From: Jim Delton #16617 "UFOlogy"
- To: Jim Speiser Authored at 12:44 on 12-01-88
- Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins
-
- Ask for the specifics of the implants supposedly recovered.
- Ask were the implant is now resideing.
- Ask what percent of the people who claim to have been abducted he
- follows up on and on what basis he makes his determination to continue
- or not.
- Ask when he thinks things are "going to pop".
- Ask for his comments on why previous predictions of "popping" have not
- panned out.
- Ask how long he thinks these proprogamed abductees are going to stay
- preprogrammed. Some of these preprogrammed abductees have been waiting
- around waiting for their programming to go off for many years now.
- Ask what he (we) know now that we didn't know before that has moved us
- any closer to solving the riddle of where the UFO;s come from. (Aside
- from his speculations, i.e. what do we have that can be considered the
- equivalent of UFO photos)
- --- QuickBBS v2.03
- * Origin: ALPHA - Where it all began [30032/100] (1:114/37)
-
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- BUDD HOPKINS RESPONDS:
-
- "See Answer #1."
-
- "People generally do not CLAIM they've been abducted; they SUSPECT it:
- Missing time experience, connected with sightings, scards from childhood
- missing time experiences, vivid `dreams' of abductions, examinations,
- resulting marks, physical evidence - such as dirty feet, dry leaves,
- grass in their bed afterwards, etc.) I've heard from thousands, and have
- personally worked with over 200; many have been referred to our
- investigatory network of therapists, hypnotists, investigators, etc.
- Proximity, desperation, availability of time and many other factors
- affect who gets help and who doesn't. Its an ad hoc, part-time activity,
- which we give our own time, energy and money to. My wife says that
- everytime I sell a book it costs me a dollar in phone calls, postage,
- secretarial help, etc. To say nothing of my time. I'm an artist by
- profession, and a father and a husband. I do what I can."
-
- "Since I've never made a prediction about when things are going to
- `pop' - whatever that means - I cannot answer."
-
- "I have absolutely no way to answer a question like that, and I'm not a
- speculator."
-
- "I won't speculate as to origins of UFOs, and I haven't so far. I
- concentrate on what is happening to humans. The Aztecs knew what was
- happening to them, and had no way of understanding where Spain was, even
- if they had been told."
-
- "Again, I don't get involved in speculation - I only attend to what is
- REPORTED to me by the abductees. (See `Intruders', pg. 178, hardcover
- version). PHYSICAL evidence - ground traces, scars, power outages, etc.
- - can be gone over in `Intruders', Chapter 2. Ground traces in an
- abduction are like dented fenders, etc. in a hit-run accident case -
- physical evidence presentable in court. For speculations by the
- pocketful, read Strieber, not Hopkins."
-
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-
- From: Jim Delton #16714 "UFOlogy"
- To: Mark Owens Authored at 22:57 on 12-02-88
- Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins
-
- Ego and Money.
- --- QuickBBS v2.03
- * Origin: ALPHA - Where it all began [30032/100] (1:114/37)
-
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- BUDD HOPKINS RESPONDS:
-
- "I don't know whether these words apply to the aliens, to Jim Delton, to
- ParaNet, or whether someone is just suggesting a trite title for a
- Sidney Sheldon novel."
-
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-
- From: Jim Speiser #16744 "UFOlogy"
- To: Mark Owens Authored at 21:59 on 12-03-88
- Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins
-
- Mark, Budd is not withholding abduction data because its
- "earth-shattering" (as far as I know, anyway). He's withholding some
- minor details in order to see if there are any correlations between
- stories that cannot be passed off as being public knowledge. I asked
- Budd at the Brewster Conference last year if he was going to eventually
- publish that data, and he assured us he would.
-
- As to the implants, I understand they are a very recent discovery, and
- Unsolved Mysteries might have been filmed some time ago.
-
- Jim
- --- QuickBBS v2.03
- * Origin: ALPHA - Where it all began [30032/100] (1:114/37)
-
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- BUDD HOPKINS RESPONDS:
-
- "Comment - `Unsolved Mysteries' was filmed this past summer, and later
- in Sept. at several locations. Roughly 9 hours of film, I am told, were
- distilled to roughly 20 minutes."
-
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-
- From: Mark Owens #16801 "UFOlogy"
- To: Jim Speiser Authored at 21:19 on 12-04-88
- Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins
-
- Jim,
- I see. My point was that if there is physical evidence of abductions
- then would not the physical evidence stand for itself? I really would
- like Mr. Hopkins response to what types of physical evidence there is.
- I have also heard, I don't recall off hand now, that there was
- something recovered from one of the victims. Very curious.
- Mark
- --- QuickBBS v2.03
- * Origin: ALPHA - Where it all began [30032/100] (1:114/37)
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- BUDD HOPKINS RESPONDS:
-
- "See above answers."
-
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-
- From: Steve Gresser #17184 "UFOlogy"
- To: Jim Speiser Authored at 12:16 on 12-08-88
- Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins
-
- I have a question for Budd;
- "Is that your real hair?"
- --- QuickBBS v2.03
- * Origin: ALPHA - Where it all began [30032/100] (1:114/37)
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-
- BUDD HOPKINS RESPONDS:
-
- "No. It's Bruce Maccabee's hair."
-
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-
- From: Al Pinto #17646 "UFOlogy"
- To: Jim Speiser Authored at 22:46 on 12-09-88
- Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins
-
- I have a few questions for Budd Hopkins.
-
- 1. Have any electrodes or implants been actually found or verified that
- they are implanted in the abductees?
- 2. How many abductees have seen humans instead of the "little greys" as
- the occupants of the UFO?
- 3. Have you any additional information on the North Hudson Park
- incident which occured in the 70's besides what was written in your
- book, "Missing Time"?
-
- -Al
- --- QuickBBS v2.03
- * Origin: ALPHA - Where it all began [30032/100] (1:114/37)
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-
- BUDD HOPKINS RESPONDS:
-
- "Again, see above answers."
-
- "In my experience none have seen normal humans INSTEAD OF "little
- greys" in UFOs. But dozens have seen humans or `near humans' ALONG WITH
- LGs."
-
- "The only new information is a pretty solid 2nd hand report - someone's
- piano teacher who lived in the affected apartment building - of another
- witness to the landing. Otherwise, that's it, apart from other reports
- of UFO activity in the area around that time."
-
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-
- Our extreme gratitude to Budd for taking the time from an EXTREMELY
- hectic schedule to write four pages - legibly! - of much-needed
- answers. This file will be a real treasure in our library. Also our
- thanks to Marge and Dave Christensen for directing our questions to
- Budd and for forwarding his responses.
-
-