Case · UFO Afrinews No 10, August 1994
An Observation: the view from Brooklyn Bridge (Linda Cortile)
1989 ยท Brooklyn Bridge, New York, 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
A postscript to the Budd Hopkins account of the Linda Cortile abduction that Afrinews printed in No 8. Skeptics have argued that the event could not have been witnessed from Brooklyn Bridge, where an unidentified woman motorist and several other people say they watched Linda being taken after their cars stalled on the span. Hind reports that during a visit to New York in July 1993 she made a special daylight crossing of the bridge, having first found out where Linda's apartment building stood. From the spot the woman described, the 12th-floor window of the apartment was plainly visible. Hind offers this small piece of fieldwork as an answer to the line-of-sight objection, while noting herself that her check was made by day.
What Hind made of it
Hind found the apartment window clearly visible from the bridge, undermining the skeptics' line-of-sight objection.
Explanation offered
Skeptics claimed the event could not have been seen from the bridge
In their words
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the 12th floor window (her apartment) could be clearly seen from where the woman reported her viewing.
Cross references
- AFRINEWS No 8, Sept 1993, pp 16-18