The Manhattan Alien Abduction

So I watched The Manhattan Alien Abduction doco yesterday and really enjoyed it, had great production value and they showed a lot of old case footage which probably hasn't been shown before. I think it's more important now more than ever for us to archive old footage like that to ensure it wont be lost to time, especially footage of regression sessions, because a lot of the good stuff I have seen can no longer be found on the internet. I bet there's so much already lost to time.

Ultimately, I think Linda was telling the truth about being abducted, because her case fits the known patterns, and because there were so many witnesses, and her son seems very sincere about having experienced something as a child. However, I think Linda also embellished the story and outright fabricated events that never occurred, like being kidnapped by government agents. She just realized that she could keep getting attention and keep the story going, and keep Budd happy.

It's pretty clear to me Linda had a thing for Budd, and Budd clearly liked her, and Carol didn't seem to like that very much. Apparently Linda is now trying to sue Netflix because she thinks the doco is defamatory. I didn't really see it that way, if anything Carol comes off as being more unstable, even though she's supposed to be the skeptic. More importantly, having them both in the doco with opposing points of view is what makes it so dramatic and entertaining, plus it adds balance.

I also find it pretty amazing I hadn't heard of this case before now, considering I've seen hundreds of cases. Then again, I never really looked into the research of Budd Hopkins. However, I am a big fan of John Mack, and I believe Budd had a very similar interpretation of the abduction phenomena. They both concluded there was some sort of genetic engineering program which seemed to have a goal of creating human-alien hybrids, as did many other ufo and abduction researchers.

Mack had a fairly positive and spiritual outlook towards the abductors, he believed they wanted to help enlighten us, but Budd probably had a more skeptical and negative outlook, because he was seeing how much pain and trauma these beings would inflict. Personally I think Budd probably had a much more realistic and appropriate attitude on the subject, which is why I disliked how Carol tried to dismiss the work of Budd as rantings of a crazy man about a doomsday alien invasion.

I can see why that would upset Linda, but the doco does point out that we may one day see Budd as a pioneer in his field, because we are seeing a lot of new revelations and whistleblowers coming forward in recent times. There was one point in the doco where I think Linda described the abduction phenomena similar to the way humans go around placing tracking devices on wild animals so we can observe their behavior and study them, and that description just felt so right to me.

It's only a small fraction of people who are tracked, and no one else will believe them. Imagine a tracked animal trying to explain what had happened to it. It also seems like abductions have dramatically reduced, maybe all our cameras make it hard, or maybe they've just gotten better at hiding. There is an old conspiracy theory about the US government making a deal with an alien race, allowing them to abduct a certain amount of people in return for technology, and you have to wonder if that deal expired or was voided.