Alien Abductions (Or: Budd Hopkins, the Last Important Ufologist)

By Richie Cooley

Alien abduction phenomena are becoming cultural obsessions. This booklet explores the origins of the genre by reviewing writings by Budd Hopkins and Jacques Vallee. This is written from a fundamental Christian perspective.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richie Cooley
• Release date: Feb 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005379780

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Alien Abductions

(Or: Budd Hopkins, the Last Important Ufologist)

by Richie Cooley

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Richie Cooley (February, 2022; edited: May, 2022)

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Table of Contents

I. The New Dawn

II. Kathie and Clocks

III. Neo-Translucence

Citations

Works by Me

Before getting started, let’s review a few notes…

*New Testament Scripture is taken from the English Majority Text Version. Translated by Paul Esposito. Copyright © 2011.

*British spelling is often used, except for the quoted material, which normally employs U.S. spelling.

*Divine pronouns are normally not capitalized, unless they appear that way in Bible versions or other quotes.

*As a general rule, words that appear in brackets within quotes are not found in the original texts, and were added by the translators or are my personal comments, etc.

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The Machine goes somewhere, she thought. It was a means of conveyance, an aperture to elsewhere…or elsewhen. It was a freight train barrelling and wailing into the night. If you had climbed aboard, it could carry you out of the stifling provincial towns of your childhood, to the great crystal cities. It was discovery and escape and an end to loneliness…It was not glory she was seeking…not mainly, not much…but instead a kind of liberation.¹ -- Contact by Carl Sagan

I. The New Dawn

I was born in 1979. Carl Sagan used to be a fairly controversial figure. By today’s standards however, Contact could be considered somewhat friendly to evangelical Christianity. In the midst of a group a scientists trying to build an alien-machine to elsewhere, Sagan found plenty of time to thoughtfully wrestle with the biggest questions regarding science and Judeo-Christianity. The attitudes of our present ignorant atheists and unhinged spiritists have definitely evolved over the years (or devolved, rather).

Indeed, more generally, if you belong to my generation, then obviously society by-and-large has changed in ways that were simply unfathomable while growing up in the 80s. Contrariwise, if you are a child of the last few decades, it probably isn’t fully possible to comprehend how radically different modernity is in comparison to the rest of world history. There is one pertinent aspect of this popular-culture-mushroom-cloud that greatly affects both UFO research and also the public response to the same: objective insularity is a thing of the past.

Simply put, throughout world history, information about anything transpiring beyond your immediate neighbourhood was very slow and sporadic. Even in the 80s, the average family had one small television that boasted a few channels which worked properly (you could watch one or two more channels if you were willing to get up and adjust the antenna every thirty seconds). There were a few newspapers in boxes in the town centre, a few radio stations, and the public library. If you wanted to get a book that wasn’t in the library, you would have to plan a day out to a shopping mall in order to browse through a few, paltry, brick-and-mortar shops. Stand-alone bookstores like Barnes and Noble weren’t even around in most places. With kids especially, the backs of cereal boxes were one of the most popular forms of literature.

Going to a movie theatre was a big event, a rare treat. Also, there were only a few hours a day on a few T.V. channels dedicated to specific programming (i.e., news, sports, cartoons, and soap operas, etc.). For example, Saturday morning in particular was the golden time for kids.

Information in general was very staid and controlled, for there simply wasn’t much of a platform. In general, there were few