36 Facts About Budd Hopkins

Elliot Budd Hopkins was an American artist, author, and ufologist.

Budd Hopkins was a prominent figure in alien abduction phenomena and related UFO research.

Budd Hopkins lived with his parents, Elliot B Hopkins and Eleanor A Hopkins, brother, Stuart, and sister, Eleanor.

From Oberlin, Budd Hopkins moved to New York City, where he met Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and other abstract expressionists.

In 1963, Budd Hopkins' work was included in American Painters, a film documentary of American artists and styles with commentary from Alfred Barr of the Museum of Modern Art, Thomas Hess of Art News Magazine, Sidney Janis, gallery director, and Harold Rosenberg, art critic.

In 1976, Budd Hopkins was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for painting.

Budd Hopkins had a major retrospective exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in mid-2017.

Budd Hopkins viewed collage as an artistic technique and a philosophical, aesthetic means of unifying a disjointed and fragmented world.

Budd Hopkins saw collage, the assemblage of fragments and varying points of view, in the poetry, painting, sculpture, music, architecture, and, especially, motion pictures of his day:.

Budd Hopkins worked to achieve harmony, clarity and precision while maintaining a sense of mystery:.

Budd Hopkins viewed his sculpted guardians not as human per se, but as magical, fierce, noble robots of the unconscious.

Budd Hopkins considered the radio play a dramatic, theatrical hoax and, because of his childhood scare, felt it added to his skepticism about alien invasions rather than enamor him to the idea of it.

Dissatisfied with the response Budd Hopkins received when he reported the incident to nearby Otis Air National Guard Base, he suspected a possible government cover-up.

Budd Hopkins began reading about UFOs and collecting stories of people who claimed to have experienced contact with alien beings.

In 1975, Budd Hopkins was approached by George O'Barski who, purportedly, witnessed alien figures step out of a spacecraft and take soil samples at North Hudson Park in North Bergen, New Jersey.

Budd Hopkins, Ted Bloecher, then director of New York State's Mutual UFO Network, and Jerry Stoehrer, of MUFON, investigated the incident, interviewing the witness and taking soil samples.

Budd Hopkins, using data from his investigations with Bloecher and psychologist Aphrodite Clamar, expanded this idea in his book Missing Time.

Behavioral patterns extrapolated from abductee letters led Budd Hopkins to identify core emotional responses based on their experiences: fear, awe or wonderment at alien technological abilities, affection toward their captors, anger, and helplessness.

In 1989, Budd Hopkins organized the Intruders Foundation in Manhattan to provide support for alleged victims of alien abduction, conduct research and investigations, and promote public awareness of the phenomenon.

In 1996, Budd Hopkins' book Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions was published.

Budd Hopkins is often credited with popularizing the idea of alien abductions as genetic experimentation through the publication of his book Intruders.

Budd Hopkins has been dubbed "father of the abduction movement" by some.

Budd Hopkins was inclined to dismiss his clients' conscious memory of abuse for more alien explanations.

Budd Hopkins was an alarmist, rather than a spiritualist, in his approach to the alien visitations, believing the visitations to be apocalyptic and that no good could come of these encounters.

Budd Hopkins rejected the idea of sleep paralysis, calling it "the big explanation du jour", and an inadequate explanation for those who experience abductions outside the bedroom.

Budd Hopkins met and encouraged self-proclaimed abductees to discuss their experiences by holding free monthly group therapy sessions.

Budd Hopkins, trained as an artist not as a psychotherapist or social worker, described the people who attended these groups as veterans of trauma.

Many of his attendees contacted Budd Hopkins after reading his books or newspaper advertisements that included his books as reference material, seeing him on television programs such as Will Shriner, Sally Jessy Raphael, the Marsha Warfield Show, Charles Grodin and others.

Still other support group members attended the many UFO conferences held within the United States and internationally at which Budd Hopkins was a speaker.

Budd Hopkins believed aliens were capable of blocking or submerging memories in the people they abducted.

Budd Hopkins's belief was that Hopkins pressured his subjects into believing UFOs exist.

Budd Hopkins cautioned that someone convinced of a false memory, can react emotionally to it and elaborate on the story as if it were real.

Physical proof of alien abduction for Budd Hopkins, came in the form of scoop marks, or indentations of the skin, scars or cuts on the mouth, nose, ears or genital, or unexplained bruises that might clear up in a day, and abductee claims of implants interpreted as control or monitoring devices similar to those used by scientists to track and tag animals in the wild.

Budd Hopkins believed the alien spacecraft left marks on the ground where they landed and that the aliens could be photographed.

Budd Hopkins believed in his data collection techniques, as outlined in Missing Time, and insisted, despite questions from other researchers and skeptics, that his findings were solidly based in evidence that, cumulatively, was overwhelming.

In 1994, Budd Hopkins met writer, filmmaker Carol Rainey, who became his third wife in 1996.