Case file · Non-fiction & research literature
Hopkins, 'Missing Time'
New York artist Budd Hopkins's study of several people who, under hypnosis, recalled being taken by alien beings during gaps in memory.
1981 CE · 40.71, -74.01 · status: disputed
The account
Hopkins argued that abductions were common, hidden by amnesia, and recoverable through hypnosis, and that scars and 'missing time' were clues. The book turned abduction from a handful of famous cases into a mass phenomenon and shaped the investigations of Jacobs, Mack and Strieber.
The sceptical view
Hopkins was not a trained therapist; psychologists warn that hypnosis readily creates confident false memories, especially when the hypnotist expects a particular story.
Connections in the atlas
- Budd Hopkins
- Missing Time