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Saturday, 7 March 2026

Alien Encounter Books -Truth over Fakery

    Although there are some classic cases in these books the majority involve cases that are very rare, have never appeared in English before and unlike most "clump everything together to fill a book" efforts these look at aspects of cases as well as some very common but not reported on before entity and scenario types.

Someone who has been involved in Ufology since the 1980s noted: "Over half these cases I have never heard of before!"

 

530 pages
illustrated with maps, photographs and more
A4 format
B&W

Since 1947 it has been claimed that UFOs/flying saucers are evidence of aliens visiting the Earth.  Since the 1950s claims of encounters with landed craft and alien beings were talked about but not taken seriously.

In the 1960s the subject of UFO abduction was a "slow-burner" until the whole "Grey" abduction phenomenon and claims made by researchers such as Budd Hopkins, Prof. John Mack and Dr David Jacobs and Whitley Streiber.

But is there evidence to back up any of the claims -and what about those encountering Alien Entities but who were not abducted?

Are these people all hoaxers, psychotic or suffering from some other mental illness as some claim?

Are those people who were exposed by Ufologists against their wishes, people who wanted to report what happened and then just get back to their everyday lives -thrust into the media glare against their will?

And if US authorities were so interested that in one case at least they broke into the home of two abductees and this was later proven -why?

Why did a hard core of these people never want publicity or to make money from what happened to them?

Above all, why did a major UFO landing incident take place on a US Inbterstate road in front of a large number of observers (all willing to talk to investigators) never get investigated? If it were not for a radio presenter interviewing and taking notes we would know nothing of the case -it would be labelled "insubstantial".

James and Coral Lorenzen -the Scopolamine Kids; using a very notorious "truth drug" on alleged UFO witnesses and selling stories to newspapers.  An investigator (a veteran) showing a witness images of "aliens" encountered in other cases before any memories were retrieved.  Worst of all, the constant "pissing competition" and breaches of trust between UFO investigators.

Fully illustrated with drawings, maps and photographs some very rare or previously unpublished.

Praised by Dr Mark Rodheiger of the Centre for UFO Studies and, below, John Hanson of the Haunted Skies Project and Colonel Charles Halt the officer involved in the Rendlesham incident. 






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220 pages
A4
perfect bound
paperback
Fully illustrated with photographs and illustrations
£20.00 (excl. VAT)

The follow up to the comprehensive book "UFO Contact?" The Author spent 1974 to 2018 specializing in the investigation and research of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K) and alien entity cases; the former involving an Unidentified Flying Object and the latter, apparently, involving none. Previously unreported cases as well as 'lost' cases are looked at as well as the possibility that some percients suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome after their encounters

A must read for those with a serious interest in UFOs Some of the contents:

 The Nottinghamshire UFO Crash of 1987…or 1988                                     
 The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ and Berwyn Mountains ‘UFO’ Crash Retrieval   
 Strange Pennsylvania Entity Encounter                                                         
 UFO Abductees and Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome                               
 The UFO That Landed On A US Highway                                                     
 My Encounters With The Men In Black                                                         
 A Previously Un-noted Alien Entity Type                                               
       
 Early 20th Century UK Close Encounters of the Third Kind                       
 Close Encounter with a Boggart                                                                      
 Some Odd and Unusual Cases                                                                         
 Rosa Lotti and the Happy Entities                                                                  
 The Strange Case of the Woollaton Gnomes and the Mince-pie Martians 
 What Happened on the Isle of Wight and at Felixstowe?                             
 The ‘Lost’ Belgian UFO Landing Case                                                        
  
 Strange Aliens from Outer Space?                                                              
 Encounter with Black Aliens and Landed UFO                                 
 Preliminary UK CE3K/Alien Entity Catalogue        

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A4
Paperback
370pp
Profusely illustrated with photos and maps
£25.00


The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) says that we may have to wait many thousands of years before any signals sent gets a response if they are detected.

The real SETI may already have established the there is alien life –and it has been visiting Earth for at least 70 years.

Once the mass of reports of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and entity encounters are sifted there remains a strong core of cases that defy logical explanation and suggest that these encounters have resulted in physiological effects and post traumatic stress.

Terry Hooper-Scharf of the CE3K/AE Project has led research into these reports for over 40 years and in this work takes a look at rare or obscure reports as well as cataloguing encounters from Germany and Portugal and focuses in on correlations in the reports and how the Dandenong (Kelly Cahill) encounter could be the best case ever reported.

Have the serious investigators and researchers looking into UFOs been unearthing better evidence of extra terrestrial life and contact with humans than established SETI ?
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A4

B&W

350 pp

Fully illustrated containing photographs and maps

£20.00

https://www.lulu.com/en/en/shop/terry-hooper/beyond-ufo-contact-aliens-from-mind-time-space/paperback/product-qw8wjm.html?page=1&pageSize=4


Beyond UFO Contact i the fourth book in the groundbreaking series looking at reports of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Alien-Entity reports from around the world and reassessing these. In addition there is a look at the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligences (SETI) and its relevance to the UFO phenomenon. 

contents list: 

Introduction: The Path of Counter-Actuality 

1. Dionisio Llanca: Truck Driver, UFO Abductee and Human Guinea Pig 

2. Aliens -What Can We Expect? 

3. The Moreland Incident 

4. It Is All Fake: Ufology Needs To Be Reassessed 

5. Warminster UFOs and Entity Reports 

6. Have Things Changed Since 1977? 

7. The Beausoleil Cas -Even Aliens Like Theatre 

8. The Pwca 

9. Contact...with the Vegetable Alien 

10. The Casitas Dam UFO Photograph and Entity 

11. The Crystal Lake Encounter 

12. The Humanoids at South Riverand the Luczkowich Encounter 

13. Harrison Bailey 

14. Sonny DesVerger 

15. The UFO "Borderline"-The Imjarvi Skiers 

16. Some Interesting Reports to Note 

17. Dead Aliens in Photographs 

18. Ufology, Government Cover Ups and Disclosure 

19. The Reports That You Might Not Want To Look Into 

20. Conil de la Frontera -a Credible Report? 

21. Eighteenth Century Aliens? 

22. Clearview Ranch 

23. The Pat McGuire Case 

24. Piero Fortunato Franzetta 

25. The Silbury Hill Encounter 

26. The Bridge Abduction 

27. The Bagshot Heath UFO Incident 

28. Lurkers and Alien Disinterest 

29. What If YOU See Aliens Land? 

30. So What Would YOU Do If You Encountered A Landed UFO?

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Pages
414
Binding Type
Paperback Perfect Bound
Interior Color
Color
Dimensions
A4 (8.27 x 11.69 in / 210 x 297 mm)
£30.00
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There have been many claims of UFO landings and encounters with alien entities since 1947 and while some such as that of Betty and Barney Hill and Travis Walton may be well known they were not the first and certainly not the best incidents. Encounter claims are a world wide phenomenon and not confined to the United States. After 50 years of the CE3K/Alien Entity Study, For this fifth book looking at CE3K/AE reports Terry Hooper has chosen some of the best and least known reports as well as some that might be known but adding much detail; Aveley, Ewloe, Kingfield and others deserve to be better known as does the case of Elsie Oakensen, Bronte Lloyd, Chapters include:

The Buckfastleigh Mystery

The Jose C. Higgins Close Encounter 1947

The 1973 Onilson Patero UFO encounter/Abduction Case

Villa Santina 1947

Pontejos Santander Spain -6th January, 1969

The Näslund and Nilsson Encounters

Mrs. Church and the Green ‘Japanese’

Never Trust Child Witnesses?

Starry, Starry Night -The Silbury Hill Encounter

The 1977 Lindley, New York UFO Incidents

The Boy Who Encountered Creatures At Vilhelmina

Just The Daily Drive Home From Work

The “Is That It Then?” Reports

The Bronte Lloyd Lost Encounter

The Puchetta Encounter

Ronald Wildman: A Man “Muddled Up About Time”

The Kingfield Enigma

The Lorry Driver

What Was At The Window?

The Multi-Witness Abduction That Did Not Happen -But It Did

The Shamrock Cafe Abduction -The Best UK Case?
Lynda Jones: The Abduction Ufology Knew About -Sort Of

What Happened At Black Brook Farm?
The “Mince Pies” Martians

There Was Missing Time and more

If you want to read factual, researched accounts rather than fiction then this book will educate you on these contacts -many ignored by Ufology, mishandled or plain ignored.

Saturday, 7 February 2026

The 1954 "French UFO flap" -which may not have been a flap at all

 I would like to offer this page from Patrick Gross' Ufologie page.  It shows the results for an incident during the 1954 "French UFO flap" -which may not have been a flap at all (see Unidentified-Identified):



The 1954 French flap:
The index page for the 1954 French flap section of this site is here.

October 3, 1954, Marcoing, Nord:

Reference number for this case: 3-oct-54-Marcoing. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.

Reports:

[Ref. la1] "L'ALSACE" NEWSPAPER:
The newspaper reports on October 6, 1954, with no other information, that there was a sighting in Marcoing. The date is not given but the sighting is mentioned among others that took place on October 2 and 3, 1954.
See the article here.
[Ref. li1:] "LIFE" MAGAZINE:
Scan
MARTIAN MEN'S HEIGHT is shown by two bakers. Pierre Lucas (left) of Loctudy was going to well when, he said, orange ball fell from the sky. Suddenly a small bearded figure with one eye in the middle of his forehead tapped him on the shoulder. Serge Pochet (right) of Marcoing was approached by two small shadows.
[Ref. ar1:] ALBERT ROSALES:
103.
Location. Marcoing France
Date: October 3 1954 Time: night
Bakers apprentice Serge Pochet was approached by 2 small shadowy entities, about 3-feet tall. No other information.
Humcat 1954-67
Source: Humcat quoting Newspaper reports
Type: E?
[Ref. dj2:] DONALD JONHSON:
Donald Johnson says that on October 3, 1954, a humanoid report occurred later than 6:45 p.m., in the night and did not involve a UFO sighting: young baker's apprentice S. Pouchet, was approached by two small shadowy beings, about three feet tall, in Marcoing, Nord, France.
The sources are noted as "Webb, David F. & Bloecher, Ted. HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0271, citing Life Magazine, November 1, 1954" and "Life Magazine, November 1, 1954".
[Ref. gn1:] "GNEOVNI" UFOLOGY GROUP:
In "Special notes" of their catalogue, the GNEOVNI group indicates that there exists in several books, such as Aimé Michel's "M.O.C.", Planète publishers in 1966, in which there is a number of observation cases in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais which are not included in their catalogue because there "remains much doubts as to their credibility." One of them is noted "3-10-54 Marcoing nord".
[Ref. ta1:] "THINK ABOUT IT" WEBSITE:
Location: Marcoing France
Date: October 3 1954
Time: night
Bakers apprentice Serge Pochet was approached by 2 small shadowy entities, about 3-feet tall. No other information.
Source: Humcat quoting Newspaper reports
[Ref. ub1:] "UFO-DATENBANK":
This database recorded this case 9 times:
Case Nr.New case Nr.InvestigatorDate of observationZipPlace of observationCountry of observationHour of observationClassificationCommentsIdentification
1954100303.10.1954MarcoingFranceNightCE III
1954100303.10.1954MarcoingFrance20.00NL
1954100303.10.1954MarcoingFrance20.00NL
1954100303.10.1954MarcoingFrance20.00NL
1954100303.10.1954MarcoingFrance20.00NL
1954100303.10.1954MarcoingFrance20.30NL
1954100303.10.1954MarcoingFrance20.30NL
1954100303.10.1954MarcoingFrance20.00NL
1954100303.10.1954MarcoingFranceNightCE III

Explanations:

Not looked for yet.

Keywords:

(These keywords are only to help queries and are not implying anything.)
Marcoing, Nord, Serge Pochet, entity, entities, dark, small, two

Sources:

[---] indicates sources which I have not yet checked.
  • [la1] Article in the regional newspaper L'Alsace, Mulhouse, France, October 6, 1954.
  • [li1] Part of the article "Astral Adventurers - Frenchmen report meetings with unlikely creatures", in LIFE Magazine, USA, page 28, November 1, 1954.
  • [---] "HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports", compiled by David Webb and Ted Bloecher, Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), USA, circa 1978.
  • [ar1] "1954 Humanoid Reports", compiled by Albert Rosales, circa 2001, at www.ufoinfo.com/humanoid/humanoid1954.shtml
  • [dj2] "The Worldwide UFO Wave of 1954", electronic article by Donald Johnson, Ph.D., USA, page 5, 2009, at www.ufoinfo.com/onthisday/papers/Worldwide%20UFO%20Wave%20of%201954.pdf
  • [gn1] "Catalogue Régional d'observations", by the Groupement Nordiste d'Etudes des Observations d'Objets Volants Non Identifiés (GNEOVNI), France, undated, circa 2009, at www.geru.fr/fr/catalogue-regional-observation-ovni-nord
  • [ta1] "1954: October Sightings", catalog on the UFO website Think About It, USA, not dated, found 2014, at http://www.thinkaboutitdocs.com/8-1954-october-sightings
  • [ub1] Online database UFO-Datenbank, Germany, found in 2016, at ufodatenbank.de


So what do you notice? Perhaps that someone notes that someone referred to this case...appearing in newspapers?  I am hoping that this sticks out like a ten feet (3m) high glowing red thumb. We have a case, once again, of 'investigation' by news-clippings.

Two reported incidents of alleged actual landings and entities and who turns up after -the press. There were people claiming to be flying saucer investigators but that amounted to noting down a news item on the radio or adding a newspaper clipping to the scrapbook. From the news clipping these people could pontificate and waffle on over pages.

I understand that there was no funding for flying saucer research but most of these people involved in the subject knew each other one way or another. There was a very real attitude, not just in France, that even if a report came from a mile or two away -why go investigate when the newspapers had all the information?

I actually almost choked on a swig of coffee when I read Italian investigators, who had not once even attempted to go and investigate Rosa Lotti's encounter in 1954 until the early 2000's, complaining and criticising newspapers and journalists for leaving out information and not doing a thorough job. Well, at least the reporters got off of their arses and went to see her.  There are literally hundreds of cases like the one above.

Writers -'ufologists'- are making money out of including these cases in their books and worst of all in their "data" or "sightings breakdowns" that make them look so good.  The truth is that they are producing nonsense: they have no data other that he wrote what so-and-so wrote who got it from whatshisname who found it mentioned in a newspaper clipping. That is then the solid data used by people like Jacques Vallee who does not actually check anything himself. 

The period 1947-2018 has literally achieved nothing when it comes to ufology other than over-hyped hysteria, bunko-men and...literally, huge volumes of trash.  Graham F. N. Knewstub's British Flying Saucer Bureau Technical Report No. 1 was in the 1950s, we all thought that we were seeing real science (I was fooled, too) when Vallee published his work on UFO Waves, Flaps and so on.  He included well known hoaxes, misidentifications of aircraft, meteors, weather balloons and much more in amongst the not investigated UFO cases. The data was useless.

Then we saw Ted Bloecher Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, published in 1967. This was an actual attempt at analysis and to piece events from that year together.  Published work that could be peer reviewed. It was as early as 1956 that Bloecher became intrigued by the growing number of “UFO occupant” reports and along with researcher David Webb, started to work on what would become the Humanoid Catalogue –HUMCAT: a collection of early “humanoid” sightings. I prefer not to use the term “Humanoids” as an all-encompassing term but the important thing is that the work began.

   Ted Bloecher’s major interest was always in occupant reports or Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K), as they would be called after J. Allen Hynek set out his categorisation of UFO sighting reports.  Bloecher had been one of the top thinkers in the Civilian Saucer Investigation group and after that became active with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) and when  NICAP became “moribund”, Bloecher moved on to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS).  He was still concentrating his efforts on investigation of CE3K reports with David Webb. In 1978, CUFOS published his and Davis's Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955, based on the investigation of the Kelly-Hopkinsville case.

   Bloecher could well be called the top authority on these cases in the United States by the 1970s and though he did everything he possibly could (see UFO Contact?) to get the Euporia, Mississippi landing/entity case prioritised and investigated it never was –presumably due to the prejudices of the two investigators.

   But being the top man does not come with a university grant or even financial funding and to keep records complete Bloecher filed away press reports.  This should have been the data base used for thorough investigation of the cases. Instead, ufologists just quoted Bloecher and that he, himself, was referencing newspaper reports.

   Then came the big excuse of the “Grey Abduction Paranoia” –if a case did not involve Greys then it was a fake or misidentification.  No need to bother. Or to use the much criticised US Air Force ‘excuse’ used so well by MUFON today: the amount of time that has passed negates any fruitful investigation.

Ufology does not “get the respect deserved”?  You earn respect.

Two cases from recent years I have tried to get more information on so I went to the site owners who reported on the cases.  In each I was told “I picked that up from (website) –best you contact him” and so I did: “I read that on (name of website) because it seemed interesting” and then I was advised to contact the “original source”. This original source turned out to have copied the item from some newspaper item and he could not remember which or the date. This is the most common response I get when following up old reports and today I more or less expect it.

Ufology is basing all of its claims on cases –including plain old “UFO” sightings- that were never investigated because it is much easier to sit in a chair and say “The evidence is all there” –it is not.

In the United StatesFrance and Belgium I think there are enough ufologists with some credibility who can open cold case investigations on old CE3K/Alien Entity cases.  Once the witnesses, now in their 60’s, 70’s and 80’s are gone then so are all of the facts that they can tell us and to ascertain which, if any, of the CE3K/AE reports is genuine could provide us with the valuable data we need.


I am undertaking this work in the UK (though some prominent ufologists appear to not want this –I wonder why?) and I just hope and pray that someone out there will do likewise in their own country.  PLEASE!

You Tube and UFO False Info The Venezuelan UFO Wave of 1954: Invasion of the Hairy Humanoids


 The observer drew a picture of the UFO....not shown therefor NOT a piece of evidence.

 Photograph was taken of the UFO in two or three cases. "Never published" or they did not exist?  All of the American and South American Ufologists who copied and reprinted the news stories but not one got a copy of any of the photos?  Oh it was an "official cover up" not down to the fact Ufologists founded it less work to just reprint news items -standard from 1940-2000s.

Hundreds of observers (if we take just one case) so where are the gathered statements as evidence?  Surely APRO had as many gathered as possible? No.

One man identified as the translator of the items and we do not even have his real name.

The French 1954 UFO wave was no such thing. Assessing all of the material, including from French language sources, we see that meteorites, aircraft, helicopters and even a man repairing a broken down bus were all mixed into the pot. 95% at least of the "Wave" was false. People like Jacques Vallee know this but ...

We are NOT being presented with "irrefutable proof" in these videos just stories. Some of the entity cases I have dealt with in my books  (Contact) and they are impressive because something obviously DID happen.

I, personally, observed a 7 feet tall carrot-like  entity and UFO in my back garden. 20 other people saw it all. Prove that statement false. Only my confession to a false statement would be evidence.

The use of some outright stupid AI images/clips only helps take away any credibility because  they are so laughable and "if he resorts to this AI trash how far can he be trusted?"

I've spent over five decades looking at the subject of AE/CE3K encounters and assessing the evidence and reporting on them. People will ignore that because some hack has posted utter rot on You Tube with really awful AI.

Friday, 30 January 2026

Witness to Aliens Repair of Craft — Revisited: New Scientific Models Cas...


Unfortunately, video producers tend to ignore the actual facts in favour of 'proof' from science that 'adds' to the cases. The cases then become accepted as genuine. Add something "similar" between the case and another" -more 'proof'.  "Multiple witness case"....no. An alleged double witness observation of a UFO at best. But two do not become "multiple witnesses".

This is a 2004 statement from Anders Liljegren, who investigated the case thoroughly:

"I most certainly have further info on the classic Swedish Gideon Johansson case!

"I wrote an article on the case for Britain's Flying Saucer Review in 1970 (Nov/Dec 1970 pp.14-17). Today I must admit that the case was much overrated at that time.

"My own evaluation today is that this case should (must) be labeled as 'psychological'. Gideon Johansson was a man who saw many things in his lifetime (ghosts, revenants, 'UFOs' (five or six times), etc). He even reported seeing a small Santa Claus-like figure in the industry area where he worked prior to the saucer landing. And he heard voices speaking in Russian from large tanks at the industry area where he was working. No one else heard the voices.

"Following up on the case, I have read local newspapers of the time, interviewed about fifty of Mr. Gideon Johansson's workmates, neighbours, relatives and inhabitants of Mariannelund. I have also talked with Gideon's son Rolf, who was a witness together with Gideon, but who only confirms the FIRST phase of the sighting: a brilliant light over the nearby three-storied building. The supposed two other witnesses except for Gideon and Rolf have never been found and interviewed by anyone.

"I have been able to prove beyond any doubt that Gideon was and overenthusiastic UFO believer before the claimed landing (with EM effect) in 1959. The case was 'the master case' of Swedish ufology in the 1970's. Big shame on us!

"Gideon had had a 'UFO' sighting in the summer of 1958 which can very certainly be traced to a bright bolide seen over half of Sweden. Most other witnesses saw two streaks of light going towards the northwest while Gideon saw a 'flying telephone receiver' and sent detailed and colourful accounts of this sighting to anyone interested. Despite the great distance (8000 meters of more) Gideon was able to see details no one else saw. He first reported this first (meteor) case to Mr. Sven Schalin, NICAP representative for Sweden, in a letter to Schalin in January 1959, nine-ten months prior to the landing.

"Mr. Schalin visited Gideon at his home in August 1959, just six weeks prior to the 'landing'. Mark Rodeghier kindly digged out Schalin's orignal report on the meteor from the NICAP archives at CUFOS for me. In spite of Schalin's visit -- Schalin's interest in UFOs was widely published by Swedish media after the Domsten affair (now known as a outright hoax) -- Gideon did not contact Schalin to report the landing just six weeks later. This is extremely curious to me! In fact he waited until 1967 to send his detailed report to K. Gosta Rehn (APRO representative).

"Of all Gideon's workmates -- and I have interviewed all of his closest mates at the electrical department of the factory as well as many others who knew him well -- no one had heard about the landing until after K.Gosta Rehn wrote about it in his 1969 book. The local newspaper reporter (who moved from the town in 1964) had never heard of the story when I phoned him in 1996. Gideon's story grew in size as the years went by. In fact, most people I have talked to regard Gideon as a storyteller, not just because of his UFO reports.

"In the contemporary autumn 1959 local newspapers I found several interesting things:

"There was a large military exercise -- involving more than 900 infantry soldiers close to Mariannelund alone -- at almost the exact reported time of the landing. In fact the exercise was all over eastern Sweden and involved hundreds of Swedish Air Force planes swarming also over Mariannelund. It is reported that a council meeting in the town had to be postponed, the day before the reported landing, because of the repeated noice of air force jets. None of the soldiers saw anything, no 'UFO' reports. There are no reports of a saucer at this time in the military archives we have copied. This makes me suspect that what Gideon and his son really saw was a military parachuted light or some other light connected to the exercise which was going on right in the direction where the light was seen. In fact Gideon's son today says that Gideon's landing and humanoids was an effect of his great immagination.

"The William Gill sighting was published, as a short notice, by the newspaper Gideon was reading daily (a newspaper called Smalandstidningen), just about one week before Gideon should have seen his saucer.

"The Gill sighting - as reported then in Sweden - has many elements common to the Gideon sighting: humanoids, the witness waving to the humanoids, UFO vehicle being 'repaired', etc. To me the Gill sighting was one source of inspiration, as was the contemporary Swedish UFO literature (Adamski, etc) and, possibly, Schalin's visit to Gideon's home just six weeks prior to document the meteor case for NICAP.

"There is no documentation at all of an electric blackout at the factory. The local newspaper reported about the lack of water in the local river, which almost prevented pulp production at the factory where Gideon was working, but said not a word about an electric blackout, or for that matter damages to power lines.

"Archives for UFO research [www.afu.info] has saved many correspondence files (early ufologists like K.Gosta Rehn, Sven Schalin and Lars Andersson) which give unique insights into the case and Gideon's personality. This spring I prepared a 30-page document on the Gideon case for the upcoming UFO-Sweden CD on ufology. We have used the case as an instructive example at the regular two-day training courses for the chain of UFO-Sweden field investigators.

"It was originally my intention to let 'The Gideon saucer' become my contribution to the Hilary Evans-Denis Stacy collection published this year by John Brown (Fortean Times) but lack of time prevented this. I hope to make a special issue of the AFU Newsletter some time in the future but I don't know when this can happen. Anyway, the case is most instructive as an example of a psychological explanation.

"The Gideon saucer case should be regarded with very great caution. I repeatedly see it here and there, but it would take a lot of effort to stop that tide. It only makes one suspicious of so many other similar cases reported from near and far.

"Best regards to you all, Anders Liljegren, Archives for UFO research (AFU), "


Tuesday, 27 January 2026

The Brooklyn Bridge UFO | The Weirdest Story You'll Ever Hear


Sadly, it has to be said that no one (however sceptical they might want to appear) is willing to just outright state this case was a hoax and Linda may have pulled friends or family intro it -her husband being one of them.

When I first read Witnessed I thought Hopkins had decided to write a novel! Hopkins has been exposed for ignoring facts but stacking the deck -and his weekly Intruder Foundation meetings allowed alleged abductees to share stories so that each one picked up on things that eventually appeared in their next sessions. If Hopkins was being unbiased and logical he would KNOW that would happen/  In fact it all strengthened his stories to try to silence critics because "how can so many unrelated people report the same thing?"

Because Budd Hopkins made sure they all talked freely and he guided them in hypnotic sessions and even in cases not his own; once he used hypnosis out popped similarities to his creation.

Ufology still considers Hopkins and Neapolitano and the case as genuine.  But, then, Ufology is basically made up of fakers, grifters and people generally out to sell somethingso noi one gets out of this clean.

Agent Provocateur

A Key Witness in the Linda Cortile UFO Abduction Case rev 022214

Budd Hopkins on the Brooklyn Bridge - The Linda Case..mov

The Two Major Players of Budd Hopkins' Witnessed Case