Swedish UFO researcher Sven Schalin (1925-2017) was adamant that reports of UFO associated alien entities or what became known as CE3K reports should not be ignored or swept under the carpet by those in Ufology. He realised that objects flying around the skies and landing must have someone controlling or operating them and that meant some biological(?) form of life. I use the question mark as some speculate that what are encountered may be robots, androids, etc., rather than biological beings. In some cases the descriptions given are of obvious (to our conceptions) robotic types.
Below: Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, GCB, GCVO, CMG (24 April 1882 – 15 February 1970) (c)2024 Paul Crickmore
Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding also felt that the accounts needed to be looked into.
In fact, one of the first things I asked when I joined the British Flying Saucer Bureau c1975 was "Who is thought to pilot these objects?" and that got a chuckle as I was told "Well, Mr Adamski tells us that...." yeah -Venusians, Martians and the usual crowd of "space brothers". You see, Adamski was a good con artist and people were willing to believe anything in the early days of the flying saucers.
When I asked about the Hill case and others there were "tuts" and head nodding because -obviously- those were all hoaxes and delusional people. Again, because Mr. Adamski had made it very clear that the entities were our space brothers. It took me a week of research to realise Adamski was a fraud but most of the original BFSB members took faith in his 'truthful' accounts to their graves.,
According to Wikipedia: Elliot Budd Hopkins (June 15, 1931 – August 21, 2011) was an American artist, author, and ufologist. He was a prominent figure in alien abduction phenomena and related UFO research. It does not mention that he outrightly lied and tampered with the 'evidence' to make it fit with what he was pushing or that he knew for a fact that the main subject of one of his books (Witnessed) Linda Cortille was lying and evidence proved this. In fact Witnessed I had to double check on as I thought it was a novel based on alien abduction accounts because only the outright gullible could fall for the trash Hopkins wrote.
But here is my question, that I doubt I will ever get an answer to; 1975 and the North Hudson Park UFO landing and repair case was one that got Hopkins his name as a Ufologist while many forget the involvement of the Grandfather of CE3K reports, Ted Bloecher. Bloecher has a solid reputation for honesty and straight forward reporting and I do look into Ufologists to see if they are trustworthy or not. Bloecher avoided fame and money and wanted to get to the truth and that was it. It is clear that had Bloecher found any hint of things being "off" in Hopkins' report he would have said so. Which leads to my question; at what point did Hopkins "turn to the dark side"?
We have choices here; Hopkins was always morally corrupt and saw UFOs as a way to make money and get fame. Which is slightly unlikely because he was a noted artist and that earned him money and recognition so at the outset corrupt? No.
Did he truly believe that he could break through the mental blocks in a person claiming missing time? He undoubtedly looked at the Hill case and saw how Dr Leo Sprinkle was using hypnosis to recover missing memory (although later Dr Sprinkle felt that there might be some form of telepathy between subject and himself that put ideas into their minds). Certainly he would have been aware of the leading researchers in the field of "Occupant" reports -James and Coral Lorenzen and their use of hypnosis as well as ...scopolamine which, in my opinion was a major mistake. Therefore he probably thought that he could recover hidden memory.
In fact, his early work seemed to be making some progress even if you have to be careful with hypnosis recovered memory. Then he decided that a deer seen was a screen memory to deceive the percipient's memory and he dug his heels in and...it was a screen image.Then he dug deeper into that and found what would eventually morph into the "Greys" (take your pick on which type). From there he dug into what he thought were other percipients' "screen memories".
I can recall listening to tapes of his talks and lectures sent to me by Travis Whitehurst and thinking it was all very interesting. Privately (because anonymity was requested) some people sent him money to carry out tests he needed to have done -there were alien probe devices in some abductees. We waited and others who put up money waited. Well, wouldn't you know it; the aliens "must have" removed the devices the night before X-rays/cat-scans. Every time. That beggared the logical question of how, without their probe inside the abductee these Greys were able to still track them down even to basements of buildings they had never visited before? "Their technology is so far ahead of our understanding-"
At this point I decided to stop publicly supporting Hopkins because it smelt almost as though a huge heap of bovine excreta had been dumped nearby.
However, as with Dr Jacobs, I kept Hopkins up-to-date on things from the UK and all seemed settled. The late British Ufologist Eric Morris at one point provided symbols from alleged abduction cases he was looking into and asked that I forward them to Hopkins and Dr Jacobs. Of course, Morris was a hoaxer and even declared openly that he faked reports (but was still welcome to UFO events). Jacobs told me none of the symbols matched those he had which was good because that would have raised questions. Peter Robbins fielded calls to Hopkins and as soon as he did any sort of conversation with Hopkins was gone. He promised to make sure Hopkins saw the symbols I had sent over but that was it. After a month I tried emailing only to find that was a pointless exercise as there was never a response. Nor were there responses to letters.
Above: Hopkins and Cortille screenshot taken from a video by (c)2024 Carol Rainey
To me this all signified that things had taken a very wrong term somewhere and pretty soon I heard about Hopkins holding abductee get togethers and creating the Intruders Foundation and I was also told symbols allegedly seen were discussed and some drew these at group meetings. I sat up and literally asked out loud "What the hell are you doing?" as Hopkins was breaching every research and investigation safeguard and was contaminating evidence.
Did Hopkins develop, or have, such a big ego that he thought he could sort out anything that cropped up while getting to what he perceived as the truth? And his claims got wilder and he would shrug off criticism with what I call a "I know it all and you just do not know what I do" chuckle or smile. Had the money and fame from his abduction books and all the interviews and bowing acolytes warped his sense of reality and he believed everything he was spouting?
There are video clips -you will find them on this blog- of Hopkins tampering and altering alleged alien symbols to make them match. There is a clip in which he openly states that the phone call he just received from Cortille's relative who witnessed an event is Cortille pretending to be that relative. Even material sent was analysed and proven to be from Cortille under another name. None of this revealed at events or in books -some of the events with Cortille at his side.
There are glimpses in Carol Rainey's videos where Hopkins almost looks at what he claims to be evidence such as symbols, etc., as if he is trying to justify what he is doing and yet he openly explains how he traces over alleged alien symbols and makes them look like they match.
All of this was known before his death and yet he was still lauded, after over thirty years of deception, as the man who discovered the v"UFO truth" rather than a fraud. There are also the discussions at events where he and his colleague Dr Jacobs discussed abductions and what they had found out and basically came up with ludicrous claims including how "many millions" have been abducted by aliens -pre birth and in previous lives. It all gets very murky and quite honestly when I found out that "peer review" of Hopkins material was him chatting to Jacobs and Jacobs peer review was the same it sealed everything.
There very well could have been genuine CE3K cases that became so distorted and corrupted by Hopkins who has not a professional psychologist and was dabbling in hypnosis.
Was it the world-wide fame and financial rewards of the whole abduction -I will not call it research- mess that corrupted Hopkins? Or was he really that self deluded in believing what he thought he had discovered that he was willing to "pick-and-mix" to even deceive himself -how else could he stand up in front of rooms full of people and state what he did?
We will never know but a great many people have been led to believe that things happened to them that did not and Ufology quite literally dropped its collective pants because Hopkins drew TV attention and brought in paying members or attendees at events. Ufology was thrown into over three decades of promoting one man's self deception or confidence trick and took the money so that really does make it genuine "Ufology" as it began and became corrupted by money making, con men and...
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