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UFO abductology under attack the first

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shots fired by Charles Lear throughout

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the 1990s the foremost authorities on

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UFO Abduction research were Bud Hopkins

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an artist who brought the subject to

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mainstream attention with the

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publication of his 1981 book missing

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time David Jacobs an associate professor

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of history at Temple University who

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published secret life in 1992 and John

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Mack head of Psychiatry at Harvard

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Medical School who published abduction

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in 1994. their book sold well and they

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all spoke openly to the press and were

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largely responsible for getting the

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alien abduction phenomenon a good deal

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of media coverage even some in the

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scientific Community probably due to Max

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efforts and tenure at Harvard were

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willing to look at the Phenomenon with

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an open mind and an abduction study

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Conference was held in 1992 at the

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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sponsored by a physics Professor there

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heard David Pritchard with the help of

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financial backing from Robert Bigelow

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Hopkins Mack and Jacobs were featured

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speakers and Hopkins faced some public

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criticism during the conference

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regarding his methods it wouldn't be

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long before he faced even harsher

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criticism from within the UFO Community

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author and journalist CBD Bryan attended

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the abduction study conference and wrote

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a book published in 1995 titled Close

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Encounters of the Fourth Kind about its

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experiences there he describes an

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abductee panel on day two of the

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conference during which a psychologist

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is described showing a child a set of

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images designed by Hopkins called the

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Hopkins image recognition test for

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children these showed Santa Claus Batman

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a clown a policeman a little girl a

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Ninja Turtle a little boy a witch and a

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skeleton according to Brian a 10th image

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showed a typical small gray the child

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was said to have responded you know my

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friends according to Brian Hopkins Rose

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to say that his cards were used with

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great success by mental health

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professionals and UFO researchers he

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described one case he was working on

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where a young boy responded to the image

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of the gray by saying mommy that's the

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man who comes into my room and beams me

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up into the spacecraft I saw you there

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too and you were naked on the table

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according to Brian several psychologists

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complained during the question and

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answer period that the cards were

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neither standardized nor scientific

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Brian describes three Omnibus Roper

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poles conducted in the summer of 1991

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involving

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arrangements to have 11 questions

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created by Hopkins and Jacobs included

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and paid to have the results published

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the questions were designed with the

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idea that they would indicate the

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likelihood that a person had had an

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abduction experience the poll take Acres

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ask the subjects if certain things that

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occurred more than twice once or twice

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or never including seeing a ghost seeing

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a UFO waking up paralyzed with missing

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time finding puzzling scars and having

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vivid dreams about UFOs according to

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Brian Hopkins talked about the poll at

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the conference and said that two percent

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of those surveyed responded Yes to four

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out of five indicator questions

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indicating that 3.7 million American

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adults might be abductees Brian

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describes the lecture hall being in an

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uproar after the presentation according

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to him complaints included your whole

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findings are based on the assumption

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that your key indicators will strongly

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predict who might be abductees and these

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indicators do not have any scientific

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basis to suggest they are sound and that

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no systematic pretests were carefully

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done to find out how the respondents

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interpret what they've been

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according to Brian Mack responded how

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can we get our colleagues to validate

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the poll when they totally reject the

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concept the next round of criticism

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Hopkins was to face would come from

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within the UFO Community according to

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Brian on day three Hopkins was the first

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Speaker after lunch and he gave a

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presentation titled A doubly witnessed

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abduction this was about a case he was

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involved in that has become known as the

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Brooklyn Bridge Abduction the case

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involved a woman he referred to as Linda

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courteel now known to be Linda

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Napolitano who claimed she was abducted

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by aliens who floated her out a window

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of her 12th floor downtown Manhattan

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apartment and up into their craft at 3

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15 a.m in late November 1989. what made

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this case unusual was that there were

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supposedly Witnesses on the ground two

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men Richard and Dan who came forward and

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identified themselves by letter and on

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tape over 14 months later year in

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February of 1991 as policemen they later

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wrote that they were part of a security

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detail transporting U.N Secretary

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General Javier Perez tequilar from a

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heliport in the area five months later

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in July of 1991 a woman contacted

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Hopkins and said she'd witnessed the

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abduction while driving across the

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Brooklyn Bridge the case turned into a

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UFO soap opera that involved Richard and

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Dan supposedly becoming obsessed with

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Linda to the point where they spied on

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her kidnapped her Dan tried to rape her

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and Richard rescued her Richard then

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claimed that he and Linda had been

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abducted since childhood had a

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relationship that existed only on the

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alien ships and that he was the actual

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father Linda was married of her first

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child this was all reported by mail and

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on tape Hopkins never actually met

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Richard or Dan Patrick Huey wrote an

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article with a good summation of the

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case titled the great high-rise

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abduction published an omni magazine

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volume 16 issue 7. there is a 1993 paper

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about this case titled A critique of Bud

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Hopkins case of the UFO Abduction of

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Linda Napolitano written by Joseph Chase

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stefila Richard D Butler and George P

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Hansen according to the authors the

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first of them to become acquainted with

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the case was Butler who learned about it

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during meetings he'd been attending held

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by Hopkins that included both

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researchers and abductees he invited

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stephula to a meeting and they both

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talked to Linda gave her their phone

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numbers and offered their help stephula

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in particular set his contacts in law

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enforcement could be of use to her

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according to the authors they also gave

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Hopkins this information a January 28

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stefilas described where she gave them

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details about her case then according to

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the authors at a July 1992 Mutual UFO

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Mexico stefila heard Hopkins and

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Napolitano speak and noted that some of

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the statements contradicted the

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information Napolitano had given during

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the meeting a meeting with Hopkins at

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his home is said to have been arranged

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for October 3rd 1992 after he initially

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declined saying he didn't want to talk

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about the case until his book was

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published the authors present the

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initial problems with the case on page

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10 of the paper and they include Hopkins

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Richard Dan or peresta quilar the lack

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of any sort of background check on the

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female witness on the bridge and

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napolitano's refusal to file any sort of

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police report despite claiming she'd

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been in the author's words kidnapped

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twice nearly drowned and further

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harassed the authors detail their

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investigation on page 11 and report that

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they found no Witnesses at napolitano's

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building despite there being a guard

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booth there that was manned 24 hours a

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day they also found that the only

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previously the heliport authorities had

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white hair who had made a similar

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inquiry that man had asked about a UFO

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that had crashed into the East River the

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authors report that at the July mufon

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convention International director of

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mufon Walt Andrus had told stefila that

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mufon had no interest in publishing

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anything critical of the case they also

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report that on September 14 1992 Hopkins

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faxed Butler a letter where he has a

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long-standing member of mufon issued an

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order his word according to the authors

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to stefila and Butler to stop their

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investigation in the description of the

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vice president of the center for UFO

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studies Jerome Clark are said to have

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been present according to the authors

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question which is a basic procedure

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according to them when they suggested

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Napolitano file a police report Hopkins

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andris and Clark appeared to literally

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panic at the suggestion they also

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reported that Clark strenuously urged

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that Outsiders cease investigations in

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their discussion the authors state that

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the case appears beset by an

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overwhelming number of problems they

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describe having taken on their

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investigation reluctantly not wanting to

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discredit UFO research but note that

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more damage would be done if their

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misgivings were not brought up for

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discussion they note that they were

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unprepared for their reactions of Andrus

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and Clark who aggressively tried to

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dissuade us from continuing our

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investigation and so far they have

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failed to publish any material critical

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of the case they circulated their paper

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among the UF foe community and it was

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February 1993 issue of electronic

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unidentified flying objects news also in

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that issue is a reply to a document

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Hanson circulated among the community

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titled attempted murder versus the

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politics of ufology a question of

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priorities in the Linda Napolitano case

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the reply is titled the politics of

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torquamata or Earth calling Hansen's

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planet in the reply Hanson is described

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as short a newfological experience but

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long on self-righteous blather it seems

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Hopkins was propped up by the UFO

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witness received harsh treatment from

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critics and didn't get a lot of press

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the man making the news in abduction

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research at this time was John Mack and

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by the time witness was published he had

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been under scrutiny as well next week

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UFO abductology under attack John Mack

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under inquiry at Harvard Charles Lear is

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the author of The Flying Saucer

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