Case · UFO Afrinews No 8, Sept. 1993
Special Report: the Linda C. abduction, New York
1989 ยท Lower Manhattan, New York, Hudson River, United States
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Hind summarises Budd Hopkins' MUFON Journal account of Linda C., a New York housewife who wrote to him about an abduction. Two security 'policemen', Dan and Richard, later sent an anonymous tape claiming that in the early hours of a November 1989 morning in Lower Manhattan they saw a woman in a white nightdress float out of a twelfth-storey window in a foetal position with three small beings into a craft that dived into the Hudson River. They afterwards harassed Linda; Dan made sexual suggestions and tried to drown her on Long Island before an unknown force knocked him over. Motorists on a nearby bridge reportedly had engines stall and headlights fade under a red-lit hovering object, and the two men now say a very important person was in their car. Hind finds it reads like science-fiction horror but asks what purpose a hoax would serve.
What Hind made of it
Hind says the story reads like science-fiction horror and has been likened to a novel, yet sees no motive for a hoax since the men remain anonymous and Linda gained nothing; she suspects the whole subject may be too big or horrific for the public.
Explanation offered
Hoax or plot borrowed from a well-known American novel raised and questioned
In their words
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The whole story reads like some SF horror tale and in fact, it has been allied to the plot of a well-known American novel.
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The big UFO 'unions' are not talking: they claim there is too much of world politics involved and they're probably right.
Cross references
- MUFON Journal Sept 1992 No 293
- Budd Hopkins forthcoming book