RIP Budd Hopkins and John Mack

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The news of the deaths of John Mack in 2004 and, more recently, of Budd Hopkins were sadly received by many, especially "victims" of the abduction experience.  The pair can be seen in the picture (Mack on the left).




John E. Mack MD

Mack was a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.  Mack's interest in the abduction experience led to the formation of a peer committee to investigate his clinical care and investigation of alleged abductees.
[ex]After fourteen months of inquiry, amid growing concerns from the academic community (including Harvard Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz) about the validity of an open-ended investigation of a fulltime professor who was not subject to any claim of ethics violation or professional misconduct, Harvard issued a statement stating that the Dean had "reaffirmed Dr. Mack's academic freedom to study what he wishes and to state his opinions without impediment," concluding "Dr. Mack remains a member in good standing of the Harvard Faculty of Medicine."[/ex]SOURCE: Biography of John E. Mack, M.D.

Some of John's work and a list of his books can be found at the website of the John E. Mack Institute.

Budd Hopkins

Budd has been for many years one of UFOlogy's most visible figures.  Nobody has done more to bring the UFO abduction experience to the attention of the world.  He first became interested in UFOs when he along with two other witnesses had a UFO sighting.  This encounter prompted Budd to join the now defunct civilian UFO organisation NICAP (National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena).

[Shortly after joining NICAP] he began to concentrate on the investigation of the UFO abduction phenomenon, which led to the eventual publication of his findings. Taken together, his three books, Missing Time, 1981, Intruders, 1987, and Witnessed, 1996, are widely regarded by researchers and skeptics alike as comprising the most influential series of books yet published on the abduction phenomenon. These works, Hopkins' lectures, and his other presentations have been responsible for bringing a number of other noted researchers-David Jacobs, John Carpenter, Yvonne Smith, and John Mack, among others-into this extraordinary area of specialization. His documented discoveries have become the basis of most later abduction investigations and research.

SOURCE: http://www.intrudersfoundation.org/budd_hopkins.html

Hopkins founded the not for profit Intruders Foundation.  The aims of the organisation are.[list=1]

• To provide sympathetic help, understanding and personal investigation for those reporting UFO abduction experiences.
  
• To carry out systematic research into the abduction phenomenon through a careful study of its patterns and resulting physical and psychological evidence.
  
• To mount an extensive program of public education about the phenomenon.
  
• To develop a cadre of trained professionals in various fields to carry out all of these projects.
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  VIDEO:  Exploring the Alien Abduction Experience - Budd Hopkins and John Mack M.D.
  Here is a video where you can see the two of them come together to discuss the alien abduction phenomenon.