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Missing Time: A Documented Study of UFO Abductions Paperback – April 20, 2021

by Budd Hopkins (Author)
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Originally published in 1981, this pioneering work by Budd Hopkins was the first focused study of an enigma that would come to captivate the world and challenge our understanding of the universe. The influence of Missing Time was such that its title is now deeply embedded into the lexicon of UFO studies-synonymous with that most controversial

and troubling of topics: alien abduction.


At the time of its writing, Hopkins could not have predicted the impact of Missing Time, not only within UFOlogy, but in popular culture worldwide. The facts, stories, and theories presented herein laid the foundation for the first mainstream debates surrounding reports of human encounters with small, grey-skinned entities-non-human beings with hypnotic black eyes who came silently in the night for their own mysterious purposes. These vivid descriptions as documented by Hopkins would trigger buried memories worldwide in people from all walks of life-to the extent that the so-called "Greys" now represent the dominant cultural imagining of an alien lifeform.


Missing Time is a comparative study of individuals distinct from one another in their life circumstances, separated by geography, but connected by their shared experience of a disturbing mystery with profound implications. An essential addition to the library of any serious scholar of the anomalous, and of all who dare to explore the physical, psychological, and spiritual extremities of human experience.


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Budd Hopkins (June 15, 1931 - August 21, 2011) was a pioneering author whose work laid the foundations for UFO abduction and experiencer research. He spoke around the world on his topic and appeared on numerous television and radio shows throughout his career. Outside of UFOlogy, Hopkins was a celebrated expressionist artist whose paintings and sculptures are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, and the British Museum, among others.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ August Night Press (April 20, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1786771519
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1786771513
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
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Gary A. Kenney
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2023
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Very interesting book.
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Jonathan Kendall
5.0 out of 5 stars Harrowing Accounts of Alleged UFO Abduction
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2023
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At the time of this review being written,
this is a dated book regarding a dated phenomenon. For those interested in exploring the mystery, it still remans relevant.
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Mary Jo
4.0 out of 5 stars documented evidence
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2021
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This book has detailed documented evidence. It was worth reading. I recommend it to people instead of reading the hyped up trash that’s out there now.
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J Thomas Stroud Jr
5.0 out of 5 stars Unusal Revelations
Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2022
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Hearing of this great work for many years now, finally I got a chance to read it, and was NOT disappointed.
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Tara Reece
5.0 out of 5 stars Read in the daylight
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2021
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This is a chilling book. The people who's stories are told are average Americans with truly tramatic experiences. Buds Hopkins does an excellent job bringing their truth to light.
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Dr. Dillner
5.0 out of 5 stars Intreging
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2022
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There appears to be some credible insights here to moments in people's lives worth considering. Do give it a sample.
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david k from ohio again
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2021
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This is the second book I have read from Budd Hopkins and totally impressed concerning his detailed information...a great read.....
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Ron Edwards
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2017
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The book was as I expected and enjoyable.
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JFAN
5.0 out of 5 stars Definitivamente un excelente libro sobre este tema tan espinoso como son las abducciones.
Reviewed in Mexico on August 31, 2021
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Me parecer un libro bien llevado en su narrativa lo cual hace que uno muestre cada vez más interés por seguir leyéndolo.
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Jay P
4.0 out of 5 stars Still very interesting in 2021. Must Read!
Reviewed in Sweden on October 12, 2021
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Anyone interested in UFOs, or perhaps not interested at all, should read this book. Very interesting.
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Arthur Robey
5.0 out of 5 stars A textbook of abduction research
Reviewed in Australia on July 4, 2022
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I bought this book as a follow-up to Dr. David Jacob's book, Walking Among Us, in order to understand Dr Jacob's work in context and sequence.
It is an ideal prequel.
It is Not an exciting page-turner, but rather a text book of knowledge.
Regardless, I did enjoy reading it.
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Anglian Traveller
5.0 out of 5 stars This pioneering work revealed a new paradigm
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 5, 2010
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This was one of the earliest works published in modern times investigating the bizarre and outlandish subject of alien abductions. The 1957 Villas Boas case had been publicised, and Fuller's `The Interrupted Journey' on the Hill case published as early as 1966. The MA MUFON team had investigated the 1967 Betty Andreasson case and the 1975 case of the Allagash Four, and these case studies were subsequently written up and published by Raymond Fowler. There were books on the Hickson-Parker abduction in Mississippi (the Pascagoula case) and the abduction work of Leo Sprinkle and Ann Druffel had also been published.

`Missing Time' however, published in 1982, was groundbreaking in that Hopkins revealed the persistent and repeat-nature of this phenomenon (first seen in the Andreasson case, but the significance was missed by Fowler and the other investigators) and its seeming prevalence in certain family lines, the result of rigorous application of scientific methodology to this terrifying and extraordinary phenomenon.

The seven cases investigated in MT seem rather 'tame' when laid alongside later revelations uncovered by other investigators, but the reader needs to constantly remind him/herself how revolutionary this material was in 1982, and how it revealed the scale of a `hidden epidemic.' Hopkins was not the first to grapple with the subject, but was the first to uncover the repeat and intergenerational nature of this phenomenon and to document the persistence of scoop-mark and straight-line scarring on abductees, many photographs of which are printed in the book. The recovery of suppressed memories in all seven cases was undertaken by qualified psychiatrists utilising hypnosis, and not by Hopkins himself, who took no part in the proceedings. These practicing psychiatrists like Dr. Aphrodite Clamar, did not initially believe in the reality of the abduction phenomenon as a physical happening, but the abductees were most insistent of their memories and the sceptical psychiatrists were eventually forced to confront the issue and honest enough to report what they found.

That Hopkins 'hit the nail on the head' with this work is evidenced by the thousands of letters received from other suspected abductees following publication, opening the floodgates and eventually interesting other serious investigators such as Professor David Jacobs of Temple University, PA & Professor John Mack at Harvard University Medical School, MA; Yvonne Smith in CA, John Carpenter in MO and many others also took up the investigative work.

The writing style is literary, good humoured, intelligent and highly readable. You can't fail to be persuaded by the cool, scientific and skeptical attitude, and the investigative rigour - never allowing opinion to cloud the evidence, always following the facts no matter if they lead outside the 'comfort zone' of accepted paradigms. I mean, we know abductions can't be real, right? Just as we 'knew' powered flight was impossible, and we 'knew' the Earth was flat.

Hopkins for the first time placed this important subject on the map, brought it to a large public audience and made its scientific study respectable. The public recognition he received from all this was unlooked-for and not welcomed. He was and has always been a best-selling professional artist, and neither sought nor made money from his abduction research.

If you know something about the abduction issue but have never read this book, you are strongly recommended to do so. It's a classic, highly readable and engrossing, and you'll read it in a day. If you have no acquaintance with the subject, this is where you should start.

Budd Hopkins died on 21st August 2011, aged 80. RIP Budd: your legacy is a great one.
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Donna
5.0 out of 5 stars Brill read.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 10, 2022
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Had this book in hardback about 20 years ago. Couldn't put it down. Lost it bit nostalgia persuaded me to buy it again.
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