Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge Abduction

I've enjoyed other books by Budd Hopkins and this one met my expectations. I feel for the people who have lost their reality, and that's why I say their "reality rug" is gone. Budd has written about how certain people are repeatidly abducted throughout their life. Through hypnosis the main events concern Linda. Linda finds out she's been abducted numerous times starting when she was very young. How does one's brain process these tramatic events? How can she protect her children? How does a marriage survive inconceivable events like this? Then Linda is abducted by two men that witnessed a particular event. They want to find out if she's a human or a "half-breed". She is fighting for her life on an earthly plane and with her alien abductors...and then it gets even more strange. I won't tell you everything, but let's just say, "the butler didn't do it". :-)I started reading this genre, because I saw a white cigar shaped object floating over a lake one night with my parents and siblings. We were out watching the bats fly around. Never found out what it So very glad for that!

If this book is true (half of me hopes it is as I don't want to be conned, and half of me hopes it isn't as it's extremely worrying!)it is truly an amazing story, well worth reading if you have an interest in UFOs. It makes you lie awake at night hoping you're not going to be the next abductee. I feel sorry for what Linda Cortile went through (and is still going through?) but the worst thing is that it seems to be happening to her son too. Congratulations, Budd Hopkins on a remarkable book.

I read this book about a year ago and have to agree with the other reviewers: it is absolutely tops, though Whitley paved the way with "Communion" and Hopkins followed with more gems. I am a fan of some (not all) of these tales, having had some UFO-related experiences of my own and being a writer/novelist I like the vivid, well-written ones like Witnessed. This one was a true consciousness-raiser, which isn't an easy thing re. the subject matter. I think one of the reason people want this stuff "proven" beyond a reasonable doubt is that it is simply too scary to accept. I have had moments when it came crashing in on me - the fact, the truth of it - and after a time I had to back away because it was too overwhelming. Remember those cartoons you saw about Hiroshima? The ones where people were enjoying their lovely day in their lovely home or nice job, playing with their cat or feeding their cute baby or just daydreaming about what they wanted to do next...and the bomb dropped out of the beautiful sky, totally unexpected? I remember how that little scenario seared my soul for several weeks - months - afterward. In fact, years later I still catch glimpses of those scenes and shudder. Well, that's what it's like to realize, down to your toes, that alien life does, in fact, exist, and yes, it has been here and can do whatever the hell it wants to and with us. Not that it's evil or anything. Just that something far huge-er than us comes, now and then, among us. That's what Bud Hopkins' books do - they kind of "goose" us with this knowledge. Bud - please give us the follow-up soon. (I'm an "experience" junkie!)

I read the book three times, strolled near the apartment complex where it happened, and even spoke to some people in the building.Most didnt know anything about it although one lady told me that people told her that the street was lit up. She however,slept through the night without incident. My question to Mr. Hopkins: How come you did not make a greater effort to track down witnesses in this neighborhood where thousands LIVE? You wrote in your book that you d9id not know how. Also- Did any new witnesses come forward since the book came out? Why dont you have a website where people can ask these questions? One more- How was your witness able to sketch the area so well after seeing the object only a few minutes on the bridge? If you will not answer these and other questions people will always doubt your story. Otherwise the book is a great read.