ELECTRONIC UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS NEWS
(EUFON)

Vol. 1 No. 2 (1 February 1993)


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Table of Contents

1. EDITORIAL ..................................................... 1
Editorial: Fact or Fiction? ................................... 1
2. ARTICLES ...................................................... 2
The Politics Of Torquemada; Or, Earth
Calling Hansen's Planet .................................. 2
Update On The South Haven Park UFO Incident ................... 5
Final Report On The Linda Napolitano
Abduction (Part 1 of 3) .................................. 7
3. BOOK REVIEW ................................................... 8
UFO Crash Secrets At Wright/Patterson Air
Force Base ............................................... 16
4. ANNOUNCEMENTS/WANTED .......................................... 17
5. EUFON INFORMATION ............................................. 21

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Editorial: Fact or Fiction?

by Carlos A. Steffens (88:4202/19)

A great debate has been sparked by the controversial allegations made by
Linda Napolitano, who tells a tale of UFO abductions and government involvement. In our previous issue, we published an open letter written
by George P. Hansen to the UFO community where he criticized the people
in charge of the investigation and the way it was being conducted. This
issue features the answer to Hansen's letter. Hansen has also released
a critique of the case where he and other investigators attempt to
analyze the evidence and information involved to then opine about the
case's validity. Since the report is long, part of it is published in
this issue, the remaining to be published in upcoming issues.

The UFO community does not sit still while the Linda Napolitano
controversy rages on. In Long Island, the Long Island UFO Network
(LIUFON) has been hard at work investigating an alleged UFO crash that
occurred in South Haven Park on November 24, 1992. Various independent witnesses have come forward and their stories are very similar when not identical. This issue features the latest report of the situation by
John Ford, Chairman of LIUFON. The article comes to us courtesy of John
Komar and Mike Christol.

Finally, this month's book report is on James W. Moseley's UFO CRASH
SECRETS AT WRIGHT/PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE. The report was written by
Duncan M. Roads, Editor of Nexus New Times and obtained from the MUFON-
NET BBS. If you would like to submit a book review/article for
publishing in EUFON, please refer to end of this publication.
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The Politics of Torquemada; or, Earth Calling Hansen's Planet


George Hansen, who is short on ufological experience but
long on self-righteous blather, is distributing a document
entitled "Attempted Murder vs. the Politics of Ufology: A
question of Priorities in the Linda Napolitano Case." In an
October 13 memo addressed to Budd Hopkins, Walt Andrus, John
Mack, David Jacobs, and me, Hansen grandiosely announces, "I plan
to publish this in periodicals devoted to UFOs and mail copies to
leading ufologists, boards of directors of MUFON, CUFOS, and the
Intruders Foundation, and funders of UFO research. I also expect
to post this on electronic bulletin boards and send copies to
reporter for Omni, the New York Times, Paris Match, and the Wall
Street Journal."

In the extremely unlikely event that Hansen's communication
does not end up in the CP file of these latter publications and I
receive a call or visit from a reporter from the same, I will
inform him or her of the following:

Hansen claims that when he expressed a desire to "make a
formal request for a federal investigation of Linda, "Hopkins,
Andrus, and I "strongly urged me not to do so. They said that
such action would be politically damaging to ufology." I cannot
speak for Budd and Walt, though I know them to be men of
integrity. I can, however, state flatly that Hansen's characterization of my remarks is, in its first half, misleading
and, in its second, blatantly false.

Hansen called me late on the evening of October 6, two days
after my return from New York City and the meeting with
proponents and critics of the Linda case. As I have told Budd
and others, I have serious problems with the story. I told Budd
that at this stage too many links in the chain of evidence are
missing to sustain a suspension of unbelief. Moreover, some
aspects of it seem to me to be impossible. At the same time I
have problems with the charge that Linda hoaxed the entire event,
an allegation that -- in view of the extraordinary complexity of
this episode, not to mention what I observed of and learned about
Linda's personality -- strikes me as simplistic and unconvincing.
Two mental-health professionals (not counting John Mack here) who
know Linda far better that Hansen does concur, emphatically.

My thoughts about all this are complicated, and I could
devote many pages to them. I shall not do so here, however. At
the meeting in which the case was discussed, I kept an open mind;
in fact, I may have been the only individual there who had not
come to a firm and unshakable conclusion. Finally I suggested
what I thought would be a compromise acceptable to all whose
motive was to find the truth.

I urged the critics to refrain, over the next six months,
form pursuing the investigation, which they had indicated now
consisted, or would soon consist, of knocking on the doors of
government agencies looking for evidence of the elusive Richard
and Dan. I stated that, if this story is true, it is no just a
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UFO case but a "politically sensitive" event because it
supposedly involves a political figure of international stature
and therefore has consequences far outside the tiny world of
ufology. If that is indeed the case, we would never find Richard
and Dan (if they exist as who they say they are) because banging
on the wrong doors could alert the relevant agency that two of
its agents were leaking a huge secret. They would then be
effectively silenced, and we would never learn the truth.

If, on the other hand, the story is a hoax, I went on, a
six-month delay will have no effect on that fact, and the
evidence will be just as retrievable then as now. I assumed we
were all in this a truth-seeker, I said, and I thought my idea of
a compromise best served that end.

Rich Butler and Joe Stefula, critics and honorable men,
immediately saw my point and agreed. George "Torquemada" Hansen,
however, proceeded to shout that "science doesn't work that way,"
to which I rejoined that , if the story was true, this is not
just a scientific matter but a political one as well. Nothing I
said could have led anyone to think I meant the "politics of
ufology." The context made it clear to everyone that the
"politics" to which I referred was the national and international
political realm of which the Third Man is allegedly a resident
and in which (again if they are who they claim to be) Richard and
Dan operate.

To anyone who has read my voluminous writings on ufology's
problems and concerns, the notion that I would urge the
concealment of truth for any reason -- least of all "political
damage" to ufology -- is laughable.

My printed record shows just the opposite: a fierce
commitment to the truth above and beyond anything else. No one
has been so consistently, even obsessively, outspoken on the
subject of ufologists' need for radical objectivity, vigorous
debate, and fearless scrutiny of all issues, regardless of their
potential effect on someone's misguided vision of ufology's institutional interests. Anyone who doubts any of this is
invited to read a few IUR editorials.

Therefore I am forced to conclude that Hansen deliberately misrepresented my remarks. In all the conversations I had with
the principals of this case, I recall no one's saying that
Hansen's proposed "action would be politically damaging to
ufology." If anyone had used that as an excuse for inaction, I
would have spoken up, bluntly, to state precisely what I thought
of that.

At any rate, what the proponents did talk about, in my
hearing, was their concern about Linda's well being. Budd, who
is a profoundly decent man, feels strongly that the attacks on
Linda are unfair, unfounded and injurious to a woman who already
has suffered enough. Valid or invalid, this concern -- not
damage to the "politics of ufology" (whatever that's supposed to
mean) -- dominated Budd's conversations with me.

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Still, since our exchanges in New York had been entirely
cordial, I was unprepared for Hansen's behavior when he called me
on October 6. I thought he wanted to continue our discussion of
the case, but as I started to explain my thoroughly ambivalent
feelings, he cut me off, said curtly that he would be brief, and
asked if I thought Linda was lying. I said I doubted it, for
many reasons, which Hansen, who by now had thoroughly demonized
the poor woman, did not want to hear. He informed me that by not
sanctioning his plan to go to federal authorities, I was doing
effectively aiding and abetting gross misuse of police power. I
said that if such action were to be taken, it is Linda's
decision, not mine or his, to make, and I could not see how
anyone could think otherwise. Knowing more about this than
Hansen does, I added that the story contains elements which, if
Linda is telling the truth, seem to explain her what otherwise
looks like a puzzling reluctance to act. In any case, I added,
it was clear enough that Hansen, his pious assertion to the
contrary (see the hilariously hypocritical concluding paragraph
of his article), sought not to help Linda but to destroy her.

Hansen was at least honest enough not to deny that. Instead
he chose to try to intimidate me. He warned that he intended to
turn my name, address, and phone number, along with Hopkins', et
al, into the FBI. He then launched into a diatribe in which he
accused my colleagues and me of "living in a delusional world."
On Hansen's planet, apparently, those who disagree with him are
not just wrong but deluded and, perhaps, as his paper implies, intellectually corrupt and, moreover, deserving of the attention
of police agencies. I said, "George, you're full of shit," and
hung up on him. His subsequent pronouncements have only served
to confirm the cogency of that analysis.

So what is the significance of the Linda case? I don't
know. Let me repeat: I don't know. Does anybody? It is
staggeringly complex, and the available evidence can be read in
several ways, though certainly in none. I admire Budd Hopkins
for his dogged, courageous pursuit of the evidence, and I respect
those who, like Butler, Stefula, and Don Johnson, honestly
dissent from Budd's interpretation. As an unbeliever (in other
words, neither believer nor disbeliever), I support all rational
debate on the issue.

In my opinion, at this stage of an incomplete and ongoing investigation, the only conclusion with which I feel comfortable
is this one: Time will tell. Then again, maybe it won't. Am
I the only one out there with a tolerance for ambiguity?

Jerome Clark

October 24, 1992


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Update On The South Haven Park UFO Incident

by John Ford

The following is the latest information release from John Ford, Chairman
of Long Island UFO Network, i.e. LIUFON, regarding the reported crash of
an unidentified object in South Haven Park, adjoining North Shirley,
Long Island. Just to recap, the object allegedly went down on Nov. 24,
1992 at 7:15 pm. It was witnessed by a gentleman who saw the object fly
along side of his car at about 50 ft. above the ground. The object
suddenly sped up, and made a right angle turn in front of him, crossing
Sunrise Highway and impacting in the park. Now for the update which I
received from John on Saturday, Jan. 9, 1993 at 10:30 PM CST.

"The Long Island UFO Network conducted an investigation along the area
known as Gerard Rd., in Yaphank (L.I.), NY. This area borders the
western side of South Haven Park. The Long Island UFO Network
ascertained from several residents in the area:

(1) A female witness whose identity is confidential and known to our
board of directors, that informed us that on the night of the
UFO crash on November 24, 1992, that she was stopped at the inter-
section of Gerard and Victory Blvds.. While proceeding along in an
easterly direction on Victory Blvd, due to the presence of a Suffolk
County Police roadblock, was offered the explanation that there had
been an accident in the park and the park was closed. She
subsequently came back from her shopping trip and attempted to
travel north on William Ford Parkway and make a left hand turn onto
Victory Blvd., and found that Victory Blvd. was blocked at the
intersection of William Ford Parkway. She had to travel North and
take the Long Island Expressway over to exit 66 and then come down
Gerard Rd. to get back to her house, over 20 minute delay in her
course of travel.

(2) LIUFON has ascertained from a teenage witness that on the day
after the UFO crash he and a group of friends were denied access to
the park by Suffolk County Police, prohibiting them from riding
their bicycles in the park due to the presence of a so called
accident on the park grounds. No further explanation was offered
by the police officers at the gate, the park was closed.

(3) The Long Island UFO Network has ascertained from another 16 yr
old witness, living on Gerard Ave., that he knows of two close
personal friends he goes to school with, who were traveling west
bound on Sunrise Hwy. the night of the incident and saw the object
impact in the park! We are now conducting an attempt to contact
those two additional witnesses.

(4) LIUFON has ascertained from additional witnesses in the area of
Gerard Ave., bizarre electromagnetic pulse effects to wit digital
clock readouts losing control as to the exact time and having to be
reset constantly two to three days after the incident. VCRs, wiping
out video tapes. Power surges in the power lines. There was also a
black out for one hour in the area of Gerard Ave. the night of the
occurrence. Telephones ringing with nobody at the other end, and
also ringing with the receivers off the hook.

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(5) On the night of Tuesday, Nov. 29, 1992, the Reverend K.S
(address and telephone number given. It can be obtained from me
directly at (502) 683-6811). reported at 7:38 PM that evening, his
Mercury Marqui, a 1990 Mercury Marqui sedan, burst into flames in
his driveway while the car was trying to start itself. Yaphank fire
department was called and so was the Suffolk County Police. The
Reverend was under the impression that it was arson. The Suffolk
County Police and the Yaphank fire Marshall took it down as an
electrical fire. We are rather suspicious of this report since it
indicates that there may have been latent electromagnetic pulse
effect damage to the electronic ignition or car's computer, causing
it to short out and also to try and start itself. We've also gotten
reports too in that area of frequent helicopter overflights of
unmarked helicopters, days after the UFO incident in the park. We
are also getting reports in, we have talked to a gentleman tonight,
a 17 year old gentleman, by the name of Mike P., of Yaphank,
(address and phone number given. I have both), who has agreed to
come forward with full public disclosure. At 7:00 PM on the
night of Nov. 23, 1992, 24 hours before the UFO incident over South
Haven Park, the witness reports a formation of four very bright
white lights doing a triangular movement over the park at a high
altitude. No visible structure behind the lights, no engine sounds
as the objects passed the witness while parked in his car on Gerard
Road. Subject will talk to news media, identity not confidential,
going for full public disclosure. At 2:15 PM this afternoon
(Saturday, Jan 9), the Long Island UFO Investigative team, composed
of John Ford, LIUFON members, Brian Levins, and Andrew Cerceoni
(sp?), were stopped and detained by the Suffolk County Police,
police car # 522; Police officers refused to identify themselves.
We were detained for questioning concerning the distribution of
fliers in the area of Gerard Ave., concerning the UFO incident in
South Haven Park on Nov. 24, 1992. Today's incident involved
intimidation and threats made by the Suffolk County Police in an
effort to stop us from distributing literature concerning the
incident. The officer told us point blank, he said, `I'm here
because you people are handing out this garbage. Because you're
scaring people and causing a panic.' The police said if we continued
to do so they would be back to harass us. The incident is reported
on Suffolk County Police blotter number 93-13373 at the Suffolk
County Police Headquarters at Yaphank New York. One police officers
shield number is 3453, of the Suffolk County police, fifth precinct.
The Officer refused to identify himself, but he was in car number
522. The incident was photographed by LIUFON investigators.
Government intimidation and threats, as of now we do plan to
continue our investigations. We do intend to continue it, we do
intend to take legal action. We will be in contact with the ACLU in
the next 24 hours and we do intend a letter going to the police
Commissioner and also notification to the news media concerning this
threat. I would like letters of protest from
investigators/researchers all across the country to be sent to the:

Police Commissioner
% the Suffolk County Police Dept,
Yaphank Ave.
Yaphank, New York 11980

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to investigate the incident in South Haven Park. Refer to:

Police Report Number 93-13373
Jan. 9, 1993 involving car number 522
and police officer shield number 3453.

As of Jan. 9, 1993, LIUFON has marked its investigative folder on
the South Haven Park case, no longer as a suspected UFO Crash, but
as a confirmed UFO incident!

After this incident, LIUFON was informed by the mother of Mike P.,
that after they harassed us, they were going back, stopping and
questioning the people that we had talked to."

John Ford, Chairman - LIUFON
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We consider this a most URGENT request and ask each of you reading
this message to pen a letter to the above address and voice your
displeasure with the treatment of fellow investigators. We feel the
public has a right to know. This may be the opportunity we have all
been looking for. Don't let this opportunity to let your voice be
heard pass you by.

Mike


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Final Report On The Linda Napolitano Abduction (Part 1 of 3)

by Joseph Stefula
Richard Butler
George Hansen

Enclosed is our report on the much acclaimed case of the UFO
abduction of Linda Napolitano. We invite your comments.

Hopkins' claims have generated enormous publicity and have
been mentioned in the New York Times, Omni, the Wall Street Journal,
and Paris Match, among others. As such, this case is likely to have a substantial impact on the field of ufology.

Leadership in both the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and the J. Allen
Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) aggressively opposed our
investigation, and both previously refused to publish our criticisms.
This raises grave questions about the scientific and journalistic
integrity of MUFON and CUFOS.

Those organizations have many members, and we are unable to provide
more than a few copies of this paper to others. We ask you to help us
with the distribution. Please feel free to make copies of this article,
post it on electronic bulletin boards, and print it in periodicals.


A Critique of Budd Hopkins' Case of the UFO Abduction

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of

Linda Napolitano


by Joseph J. Stefula, Richard D. Butler, and George P. Hansen


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ABSTRACT: Budd Hopkins has made a number of public presentations
of a purported UFO abduction case with multiple witnesses. The primary abductee is Linda Napolitano, who lives in an apartment building on the
lower east side of Manhattan (New York City). She claims to have been abducted by extraterrestrial aliens from her 12th floor apartment in
November 1989. It is claimed that three witnesses in a car two blocks
away observed Linda and alien beings float out of a window and ascend
into a craft. One alleged witness was United Nations Secretary General
Javier Perez de Cuellar. It is also claimed that a woman on the
Brooklyn Bridge observed the abduction. Linda has reported nose bleeds,
and one X-ray displays an implant in her nose.

To date, Hopkins has provided no full, detailed written report,
but he did publish a couple five page articles in the September and
December 1992 issues of the Mufon UFO Journal and made a presentation at
the 1992 MUFON symposium. We have made use of that information as well
as records from other presentations, and we have interviewed the
abductee. A number of serious questions arose from our examination.
The case has many exotic aspects, and we have identified a science
fiction novel that may have served as the basis for elements of the
story.

Several prominent leaders in ufology have become involved, and
their behavior and statements have been quite curious. Some have
aggressively attempted to suppress evidence of a purported attempted
murder. The implications for the understanding of ufology are
discussed.

Budd Hopkins is the person most responsible for drawing attention to
the problem of the extraterrestrial (ET) abduction experience. His
efforts have been instrumental in stimulating both media attention and scientific research devoted to the problem. He has written two popular
books (Missing Time, 1981, and Intruders, 1987), established the
Intruders Foundation, and has made innumerable appearances at
conferences and in the media.

Although Hopkins is neither a trained therapist, an academic, nor
a scientist, he has involved such people in his work. John E. Mack,
M.D., a Pulitzer Prize winner and former head of the psychiatry
department at Harvard Medical School, has praised Hopkins' work and acknowledged his indebtedness to him (Mack, 1992a, 1992b). Hopkins has collaborated with university professors in co-authoring an article in
the book Unusual Personal Experiences (1992), which was sent to 100,000
mental health professionals. He has testified as an expert witness at
a hearing regarding the medical competence of a physician who claims to
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and impressive affiliations, and because of his untiring work on behalf
of abductees, Hopkins has become the single most visible figure in the
UFO abduction field. His contributions, positive or negative, will be
quickly noticed by those inside and outside ufology.

Last year, Hopkins made a number of public presentations about a spectacular UFO abduction case occurring in November 1989 and having
multiple witnesses. The primary abductee was Linda Napolitano, a woman
living on the 12th floor of a high-rise apartment building in lower
Manhattan (New York City) [Hopkins has previously used the pseudonym
"Linda Cortile" in this case]. It is claimed that three witnesses in a
car two blocks away observed Linda and three ET aliens emerge from a
window and ascend into a craft. Further it is claimed that a woman who
was driving across the Brooklyn Bridge also saw the event.

The case has generated enormous interest and drawn international attention. It has been discussed in the Wall Street Journal (Jefferson,
1992), Omni (Baskin, 1992), Paris Match (De Brosses, 1992), the New York
Times (Sontag, 1992), and Hopkins and Napolitano have appeared on the television show Inside Edition. The Mufon UFO Journal labeled it "The Abduction Case of the Century" (Stacy, 1992, p. 9). Even the technical magazine ADVANCE for Radiologic Science Professionals carried a
discussion of Linda's nasal implant (Hatfield, 1992). We should expect continuing coverage of the affair not only in the UFO press but also in
the major media.

In a short article previewing his 1992 MUFON symposium presentation,
he wrote: "I will be presenting what I believe to be the most important
case for establishing the objective reality of UFO abductions that I
have yet encountered" (Hopkins, 1992, p. 20). During his lecture at the symposium he stated: "This is probably the most important case I've
ever run into in my life" (tape recorded, July 1992). In his abstract
for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Abduction Study Conference
held in June 1992 he wrote: "The importance of this case is virtually immeasurable, as it powerfully supports both the objective reality of
UFO abductions and the accuracy of regressive hypnosis as employed with
this abductee." Because of Hopkins' renown, and because of his
evaluation, this case warrants our careful scrutiny.


THE AUTHORS' INVOLVEMENT

The first two authors had learned of the case before Hopkins had
spoken publicly of it, and they decided to monitor its progress. They regularly briefed the third author as their investigation progressed.
As the affair became publicized, all three became concerned about the
long term effect it might have on abduction research.

For several years Richard Butler attended Hopkins' informal meetings organized for abductees and abduction researchers. Butler became
familiar with the case during those meetings, and he invited Stefula to
a gathering in early October 1991. At the meeting, Hopkins outlined the
case, and afterward, Stefula had a chance to chat with Linda about her experiences. Butler and Stefula gave Linda their telephone numbers.
She was advised that if she needed any assistance she could contact
them.
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enforcement agencies that could be of aid to her. The same information
was provided to Hopkins.

On January 28, 1992, Linda requested a meeting with Richard Butler,
and on February 1, 1992, Linda, Stefula and Butler met in New York City,
and Linda provided additional details about her experiences (described
below). During that meeting, she asked them not to inform Hopkins of
their discussions. At the 1992 MUFON convention in Albuquerque, New
Mexico in July, both Hopkins and Linda appeared on the podium and
presented the case. Stefula attended the convention and heard the talk,
and disturbing questions arose. Some of the statements directly
contradicted what Linda had earlier told Stefula and Butler. We
contacted Hopkins in an attempt to resolve these matters, but he
declined to meet with us, saying that he didn't want to discuss the case
until his book manuscript was submitted. Despite his initial
reluctance, eventually a meeting was arranged on October 3, 1992 at
Hopkins' home, and a few more details then emerged.


SUMMARY OF CASE

In order to compile this summary of alleged events, we have relied
upon Hopkins' and Linda's talks from the podium of the 1992 MUFON
symposium, on our interviews with Linda, on Hopkins' talk at the
Portsmouth, New Hampshire UFO conference, September 13, 1992, and
Hopkins' two five-page articles in the September and December issues of
the Mufon UFO Journal.

In April 1989 Hopkins received a letter from Linda Napolitano, a
resident of New York City. Linda wrote that she had begun reading his
book Intruders and had remembered that 13 years earlier she had detected
a bump next to her nose. It was examined by a physician who insisted
that she had undergone nasal surgery. Linda claimed that she never had
such surgery, and she even checked with her mother, who confirmed that impression.

Hopkins took an interest in the case because there was a potential
for medical evidence and because Linda lived relatively close to
Hopkins, which facilitated their meeting. Linda visited Hopkins and
discussed her past experiences with him. She recalled some pertinent
earlier events in her life but believed that she was no longer directly involved with any abduction phenomena. Linda then began attending
meetings of Hopkins' support group for abductees.

On November 30, 1989, Linda called Hopkins and reported that she
had been abducted during the early morning hours of that day, and she
provided some details. A few days later, she underwent regressive
hypnosis, and Linda remembered floating out of her apartment window, 12
stories above the ground. She recalled ascending in a bluish-white beam
of light into a craft which was hovering over the building.


Richard and Dan

Over a year later (February 1991), Hopkins received a letter signed
with the first names, Richard and Dan. (We have no hard evidence that "Richard" and "Dan" actually exist. In order to avoid overburdening the EUFONews 1 - 1 Page 11 01 Feb 1993


reader, we will typically omit the word "alleged" when mentioning them.)

The letter claimed that the two were police officers who were under
cover in a car beneath the elevated FDR Drive between 3:00 and 3:30 a.m.
in late November 1989. Above a high-rise apartment building, they
observed a large, bright reddish-orange object with green lights around
its side. They wrote that they saw a woman and several strange figures
float out a window and up into the object. Richard and Dan said that
they had come across Hopkins' name and decided to write to him. They
went on to say that they were extremely concerned about her well being,
wanted to locate the woman, talk to her, and be assured that she was
alive and safe. The two also mentioned that they could identify the
building and window from which she emerged.

After receiving the letter, Hopkins promptly called Linda and told
her that she might expect a visit from two policemen. A few days
later, Linda telephoned Hopkins to tell him that she had been visited by Richard and Dan. When they had knocked on her door, introducing
themselves as police officers, she was not too surprised because she
reports that police frequently canvass her apartment complex looking for witnesses to crimes. Even with Hopkins' prior call, she did not expect
Richard and Dan to actually appear. After they arrived and entered her
home, there was an emotional greeting, and they expressed relief that
she was alive. However, Richard and Dan were disinclined to meet with
or talk to Hopkins, despite the fact that they had written him earlier
and despite Linda's entreaties to do so. Richard asked Linda if it was acceptable for them to write out an account of their experience and then
read it into a tape recorder. She agreed, and a couple weeks later
Hopkins received a tape recording from Richard describing their
experience.

Some time thereafter, Hopkins received a letter from Dan giving a
bit more information. The letter reported that Richard had taken a
leave of absence because the close encounter had been so emotionally traumatic. Dan also mentioned that Richard secretly watched Linda.
(This information is from Hopkins' oral presentation at the 1992 MUFON symposium in Albuquerque. At the Portsmouth, New Hampshire conference,
Hopkins said that he had received a letter from Richard saying that Dan
was forced to take of leave of absence. It is not clear if Hopkins
misspoke at some point, or whether both individuals took leaves of
absence.)

Hopkins received another letter from Dan which said that he and
Richard were not really police officers but actually security officers
who had been driving a very important person (VIP) to a helicopter pad
in lower Manhattan when the sighting occurred. The letter claimed that
their car stalled, and Richard had pushed it, parking it beneath the FDR Drive. According to Dan, the VIP had also witnessed the abduction event
and had me hysterical.


The Kidnappings

Linda claimed that in April of 1991 she encountered Richard on the
street near her apartment. She was asked to get into a car that Dan was driving, but she refused. Richard picked her up and, with some
struggle, forced her into the vehicle. Linda reported that she was
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driven around for 3 1/2 hours, interrogated about the aliens, and asked
whether she worked for the government. She also said that she was
forced to remove her shoes so they could examine her feet to determine
whether she was an ET alien (they later claimed that aliens lack toes).
Linda did remember another car being involved with the kidnapping, and
under hypnotic regression she recalled the license plate number of that
car, as well a part of the number of the car in which she rode. Hopkins reports that the numbers have been traced to particular "agencies" (he
gave no further details).

At the MUFON symposium, Linda was asked if she had reported the
kidnapping to the police. She said that she had not and went on to say
that the kidnapping was legal because it had to do with national
security.

In conversations with Butler in early 1992, Linda had expressed
concerns about her personal safety. A meeting was arranged with Stefula because of his background in law enforcement. During the afternoon and
early evening of February 1, the three met in New York City, and Linda described further details of the kidnappings.

She reported that on the morning of October 15, 1991, Dan accosted
her on the street and pulled her into a red Jaguar sports car. Linda
happened to be carrying a tape recorder and was able to surreptitiously
record a few minutes of Dan's questioning, but he soon discovered and confiscated it. Dan drove to a beach house on the shore of Long Island.
There he demanded that Linda remove her clothes and put on a white
nightgown, similar to the one she wore the night of the abduction. He
said he wanted to have sex with her. She refused but then agreed to put
on the nightgown over her clothes. Once she did, Dan dropped to his
knees and started to talk incoherently about her being the "Lady of the
Sands." She fled the beach house, but Dan caught her on the beach and
bent her arm behind her. He placed two fingers on the back of her neck, leading Linda to believe that it was a gun. He then forced her into the
water and pushed her head under twice. He continued to rave
incoherently, and as her head was being pushed under for the third time,
she believed that she would not come up again. Then, a "force" hit Dan
and knocked him back onto the beach. She started to run but heard a
sound like a gun being cocked. She looked back and saw Dan taking a
picture of her (Linda mentioned that pictures from the beach were
eventually sent to Hopkins). She continued running, but Richard
appeared beside her, seemingly out of nowhere. He stopped her and
convinced her to return to the beach house and told her that he would
control Dan by giving him a Mickey Finn. She agreed. Once inside,
Richard put Dan in the shower to wash off the mud and sand from the
beach. This gave Linda a chance to search the premises; she recovered
her cassette tape and discovered stationery bearing a Central
Intelligence Agency letterhead.

In a brief conversation on October 3, 1992, Hopkins told Hansen
that Linda came to him shortly after she arrived back in Manhattan after
the kidnapping. She was disheveled, had sand in her hair, and was
traumatized by the experience.


Further Contacts with Richard and Dan

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During the February 1 meeting with Butler and Stefula, Linda
reported that she had met Richard outside a Manhattan bank on November
21, 1991. He told her of Dan's deteriorating mental condition. During
the Christmas season, Linda received a card and a three page letter from
Dan (dated 12/14/91). The letter bore a United Nations stamp and
postmark (the UN building in New York has a post office which anyone can
use). Dan wrote that he was in a mental institution and was kept
sedated. He expressed a strong romantic interest in Linda. Some of his remarks suggested that he wanted to kidnap her, take her out of the
country, and marry her; Linda seemed alarmed by this (she gave a copy
of the letter to Stefula and Butler).

Linda also asserted that on December 15 and December 16, 1991, one
of the men had tried to make contact with her near the shopping area of
the South Street Seaport. He was driving a large black sedan with
Saudi Arabian United Nations license plates. During the first incident,
to avoid him, Linda reported that she went into a shop. The second day a similar thing happened, and she stood next to some businessmen until he
left the area.


The Third Man

At the February 1 meeting, Linda mentioned that Hopkins had received
a letter from "the third man" (the VIP), and she was able to repeat
entire sentences from this letter, seemingly verbatim. It discussed
ecological danger to the planet, and Linda indicated that aliens were
involved in ending the Cold War. The letter ended with a warning to
Hopkins to stop searching for "the third man" because it could
potentially do harm to world peace.

Linda also related a few more details of her November 1989
abduction. She said that the men in the car had felt a strong vibration
at the time of the sighting. Linda also claimed that in subsequent
hypnotic regressions she recalled being on a beach with Dan, Richard,
and the third man, and she thought somehow she was being used by the
aliens to control the men. She communicated with the men telepathically
and said that she felt that she had known Richard prior to the November
1989 abduction, and she suggested that they possibly had been abducted
together previously. We also learned that the third man was actually
Javier Perez de Cuellar, at that time Secretary General of the United
Nations. Linda claimed that the various vehicles used in her
kidnappings had been traced to several countries' missions at the UN.

At the Portsmouth, New Hampshire conference, Hopkins spoke of the
third man saying: "I am trying to do what I can to shame this person to
come forward."


Witness on the Brooklyn Bridge

In the summer of 1991, a year and a half after the UFO abduction,
Hopkins received a letter from a woman who is a retired telephone
operator from Putnam County, New York (Hopkins has given this woman the pseudonym of Janet Kimble). Hopkins did not bother to open the letter,
and in November 1991, he received another one from her marked on the
outside "CONFIDENTIAL, RE: BROOKLYN BRIDGE." The odd outside marking
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and the fact that she had written two letters, seem to have raised no suspicions in Hopkins' mind. The woman, a widow of about sixty, claimed
to have been driving on the Brooklyn Bridge at 3:16 a.m., November 30,
1989. She reported that her car stopped and the lights went out. She
too saw a large, brightly lit object over a building; in fact, the light
was so bright that she was forced to shield her eyes, though she was
over a quarter mile away. Nevertheless, she claimed to have observed
four figures in fetal positions emerge from a window. The figures
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