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Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods Hardcover – March 12, 1987

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"One comes to a tender regard for Hopkins's subjects. Their uniform similarities of description of their UFO abductions and of the aliens bear a faithful fact that could sway many an ironclad skeptic."
THE KIRKUS REVIEWS
There have been tens of thousands of verified UFO sightings and landings. But it is the actual temporary abductions that are the most controversial and dramatic stories behind this phenomenon. In the summer of 1983, Kathie Davis was floated out of her room in rural Indianapolis, while she slept, then subjected to a physical examination inside a UFO. The story she told the world afterwards, and corroborated by specialists and hundreds of other victims all over the country, is not to be missed or dismissed lightly.


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Hopkins, who uses hypnotism in interviewing UFO abduction claimants, argued in his first book, Missing Time, that UFO aliens had inserted implant devices in several children. Here, after researching 125 supposed abductions, he reports on "the apparent interbreeding of an alien species with our own." During hypnotic sessions, men have told of being raped by alien females and women have related experiences interpreted by Hopkins as ova-retrieval and artificial insemination. The book's key case involves Kathie Davis, a 28-year-old Indianapolis mother who described under hypnosis multiple abductions and gynecological operations, and the investigation here extends to the UFO experiences of her children, relatives and friends. Hopkins's disarming manner as he leads the reader through the steps of his research adds credibility to the science-fictional aspects of this account. True or not, the author's speculations equal the excitement generated by his earlier book. Illustrations not seen by PW. 62,500 first printing; major ad/promo; Preferred Choice Bookplan dual main selection; Troll Book Club selection; author tour
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mes to a tender regard for Hopkins's subjects. Their uniform similarities of description of their UFO abductions and of the aliens bear a faithful fact that could sway many an ironclad skeptic."
THE KIRKUS REVIEWS
There have been tens of thousands of verified UFO sightings and landings. But it is the actual temporary abductions that are the most controversial and dramatic stories behind this phenomenon. In the summer of 1983, Kathie Davis was floated out of her room in rural Indianapolis, while she slept, then subjected to a physical examination inside a UFO. The story she told the world afterwards, and corroborated by specialists and hundreds of other victims all over the country, is not to be missed or dismissed lightly.


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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House; 1st edition (March 12, 1987)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 223 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0394560760
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0394560762
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.09 pounds
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  • Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2022
    I sort of feel sorry for these UFO beings as they seem to have absolutely no emotions. I then think of the people on earth who have this transhumanist agenda that they want to enforce on the now human population. Humans will then become void of our emotions and only intellect will exist. Maybe we really are descendants of this future race that has come back to retrieve some of our emotions through breeding with us, their ancient ancestors, as emotions such as loving and kindness has been totally lost in the future. Be very wary of the transhumanist agenda as it could be our fate one day.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2023
    I devoured this book by Budd Hopkins and plan to read more of his works into Abduction experiences. For anyone interested in the subject matter, this was a really in-depth study. It deffnitly leaves you wondering a lot, but in a good way. I feel more knowledgeable in the subject matter and w highly recommend this book.

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    Scribe Award Nominated Author Julian Michael Carver
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2013
    With millions, including myself in my own book Missing Time on the 6 line: Case File 37914 Aliens are part of our every days lives. Question is why are they here, what do they want.......maybe nothing....maybe everything!!! a must read for the novice.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2023
    This book is certainly not for the incredulous. Budd Hopkins spent many years interviewing many that had UFO and ostensible abduction experiences. I’m very open to the paranormal world yet it is difficult for me to accept the abduction experiences at face value. That said I do not doubt the sincerity of the interviewees nor that many of them had objective experiences. The question for me is whether or not to accept the phenomena as involving extraterrestrials physically experimenting on abductees or whether these are spiritual experiences (akin to say near-death experiences or shamanic journeys) whose meaning is unclear, or a purely psychological explanation such as dissociation is to be preferred. I favor the latter two possible explanations as I write this. Nevertheless, Hopkins’ material is thought-provoking regardless of which camp one finds one’s’ self.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2023
    This case study and other cases that back up data build a very good record for the UFO problem
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2021
    By reading about the hypnotic sessions, one can practically feel the feelings described by the abductees. It’s strange to learn that many abductees’ family members were also abductees as well. It is absorbing, but also very difficult to believe. After reading about so many different abductees’ cases, it gets a tiny bit more believable as each one is described. It wouldn’t be so unsettling if the abductees had been asked to cooperate and gave their consent. I personally feel that people who describe their experiences are very likely not fabricating the details. Especially when their descriptions are so close — in some cases nearly identical — to many other abductees’ descriptions. This book is definitely worth reading, especially with an open mind.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2021
    After reading this book I feel awakened and am beginning to understand our reality. I highly recommend this to any who is curious about this phenomena.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2018
    Who can resist an extraterrestrial mystery? This was an intriquing book because the auther very persuasively and convincingly tells a story that is stranger than fiction and perplexing if actual fact. I’d love to hear the story from the family actually involved.
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  • Jean Robert Reif
    5.0 out of 5 stars Se você se diz ufólogo e não possui estes livros em sua biblioteca você não é um ufólogo!
    Reviewed in Brazil on November 27, 2024
    Se você se diz ufólogo e não possui estes livros em sua biblioteca você não é um ufólogo!
  • Fernando
    5.0 out of 5 stars Pruebas de que no estamos solos ni nunca lo hemos estado
    Reviewed in Spain on September 27, 2023
    Un libro clásico ya con muchos testimonios muy interesantes de algo que puede resultar dificil de creer para una mayoría, pero que las incontrovertibles evidencias y los múltiples testimonios de gente muy seria ha demostrado ya. Solo que se ha querido ocultar desde instancias gubernamentales por miedo a la incertidumbre sobre la reacción de los habitantes de este planeta. Libro muy interesante y facil de leer. El único "pero" es que determinados testimonios resultan un poco repetitivos
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    Reviewed in Germany on October 12, 2021
    Leider sind Illustrationen und Fotos nicht auf der Kindle Version zu sehen. Das Buch selbst ist sehr interessant und kann ich nur weiter empfehlen.
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  • Anglian Traveller
    5.0 out of 5 stars An indispensable, groundbreaking classic which redefined the research landscape
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 16, 2013
    Following the publication of "Missing Time" in 1982 Budd Hopkins received many hundreds of letters from people disturbed by reading the accounts described in that landmark book. The letter writers were from all over the world and many exhibited a deep anxiety disproportionate to any apparent cause: a partial memory of strangeness accompanied by an episode of "missing time," or just something odd and half-remembered happening to them.

    The floodgates were opened. Budd gradually came to recognise the most telling pointers to genuine abduction experiences. The writer would frequently exhibit anxiety, almost apologetic, using phrases like "I know you are a busy man and I really hope I am not wasting your time" ..."there's probably nothing to it, but..." invariably insistent that anonymity be maintained and fearful of confiding even in close family members details of the half-remembered trauma.

    One such letter was from Debbie Jordan-Kauble, a young divorced mother of two small boys living in a large family house with her parents in Indiana. Together with her letter were photographs of a large circular burned patch of ground in their garden where the soil had been baked hard, discovered the morning following mysterious lights accompanied by an episode of missing time and her dog behaving in an uncharacteristically frightened manner. Debbie is disguised in the book as `Kathy Davis' and the Indianapolis location as `Copley Woods.' So began a landmark two-and-a-half year investigation which took the study and understanding of the UFO abduction phenomenon into new and hitherto uncharted areas and led to the publication of this most profound, highly readable and truly classic book which deservedly became a New York Times best seller.

    This investigation evolved into a complex case with some 20 different people closely involved in or witness to a long series of events spanning decades. Simultaneously Budd had been approached by many other abductees from other parts of the country whose experiences were found to confirm and reinforce many of the new revelations being uncovered in the Copley Woods case.

    The story as it unfolds is a step-by-step lesson in how to approach a superficially outlandish and extraordinary subject by the application of rigorous scientific method and to follow the evidence where it leads. It is a more complete narrative than `Missing Time' and takes our understanding of this most improbable phenomenon much deeper. You'll need to read the book to find out why and how. The subject matter is possibly the most profound you'll ever read, but stretches credulity beyond the comfort zone. The revelation of all the evidence and the conclusions drawn had profound effects on the entire field of study and its subsequent direction, and brought many new researchers into the field.

    Hopkins is revealed as genuinely humanitarian and warm: the reader sympathises with and cares about these people. He again proves to be as superb a writer as he is an investigator: the book is engrossing, intelligent and mind-expanding; the author never allows personal opinion or prejudice to intervene, but rather follows the facts to tentative and quite disturbing conclusions.

    The main subject of the book decided following publication to `come out,' revealed her true identity and eventually co-wrote (with her sister, also involved in the phenomenon as is so often the case) her own book on the history of the case whilst retaining a life-long friendship with Budd.

    If you have read either `Missing Time' or Dr. David Jacobs' `Secret Life' and are intrigued to investigate the extraordinary alien abduction phenomenon more deeply, read `Intruders' next. Paperback reader copies are cheap and plentiful but a good original hardcover copy is best for your collection if you have shelf space.

    The book was also re-scripted into a TV mini-series by Tracy Torme and eventually edited into a feature film of the same title, starring Richard Crenna (who actually plays an amalgam character of Hopkins and John Mack), Steven Berkoff and Mare Winningham. The `Intruders' mini-series/film is not a literal transcript of the book's narrative but a re-written screenplay exploring the main themes and with some changes to the characters - who nevertheless remain largely recognisable - to better fit the needs of film drama. Hopkins always said he "gave it a B+" for its accuracy in dramatising the phenomenon.

    The author, whom I knew well personally, died on Sunday 21st August 2011 at his home in Chelsea, NYC from the fatal combination of cancer and pneumonia which dominated his later years. His place in history as a fearless pioneer in revealing this phenomenon to a largely ignorant and initially skeptical global community is unparalleled, and his unique status in history widely acknowledged.