AudioBlog: Floated into a UFO

In the 1970s, New York artist and UFO investigator Budd Hopkins
began to specialize in abduction research after being confronted by
multiple reports. He wrote about his research in the 1981 book
“Missing Time” and it wasn’t long after the book was published that
people started to be featured in the press and on television with
claims of their own abduction experiences. In an interview for
the PBS series “Nova,” Hopkins stated that his “best case” was one
that involved witnesses who claimed to have seen a woman
accompanied by three small humanoids float out of a 12th story
apartment in Manhattan and into a waiting craft close to the
Brooklyn Bridge. The woman who was reportedly seen was originally
identified by Hopkins as “Linda Cortile” (now known to be Linda
Napolitano) and the case has become known as the “Linda Case” or
the “Brooklyn Bridge Abduction Case.” Hopkins described the “Linda
Case” in his 1996 book, “Witnessed.” According to him, Linda had
written him a letter in spring of 1989 after reading his 1987 book,
“Intruders.” In the letter she described seeing strange nighttime
visitors while lying paralyzed in bed as a child. She also wrote
that she was asked by a doctor about what looked like evidence of
surgery inside her nose as he was dealing with some built up
cartilage that caused a lump that had concerned her. She wrote that
she had never had surgery in her nose and that this was confirmed
by her mother. Read more