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Sight Unseen: Science, UFO Invisibility & Transgenic Beings
The New York Times bestselling author of Witnessed, Intruders, and Missing Time -- three groundbreaking books on the UFO phenomenon -- returns with astonishing evidence that other-worldly beings are a very real -- and growing -- part of our lives.
In Sight Unseen, Budd Hopkins and coauthor Carol Rainey show how fascinating discoveries in modern science support the plausibility of the UFO phenomenon.
Featuring sixteen never-before-published cases, Sight Unseen probes two newly uncovered patterns in alien abduction: cases of UFO "invisibility" and reports of genetically altered alien beings who interact with humans during their routine lives.
The "invisibility" accounts detailed by Hopkins include numerous daylight abductions in densely populated urban areas -- all apparently unseen and accomplished through a technology of invisibility.
Two air force non-coms are snatched from the tarmac of a busy military airfield.
An Australian family is levitated up into a hovering craft while the father remains paralyzed on the ground with a camera to his eye. The resulting evidence on film is discussed in terms of our own scientific advances.
In the second series of cases, abductees report encounters with beings who appear human but apparently possess paranormal powers and stunted emotional ranges.
Three young women, unknown to each other, are mysteriously summoned to "job interviews." In ordinary office settings, they encounter human-looking beings who lead them into baffling UFO abduction experiences.
A Wisconsin farmer meets "Damoe," a man with odd behavior who closely resembles his son. Damoe eventually reveals himself as an accomplice of UFO occupants in a startling abduction of the farmer and his wife.
Five-year-old Jen is abducted at night to a nearby playground. There she must teach the techniques and skills of "play" to twelve seemingly identical, quasi-human children.
Along with these bizarre, first-person stories told by credible people, Hopkins and Rainey explore cutting-edge advances in our own technologies and scientific theories that show how these new UFO patterns could have a concrete basis in contemporary science.
Included are an examination of cloaking devices for aircraft, mind-control technologies, and teleportation achieved in the lab. Perhaps the most compelling argument to support these cases lies in the startling and controversial new science of transgenics that actually allows for the creation of alien/human beings.
416 pages, Hardcover
First published September 16, 2003
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About the author
Budd Hopkins
35 books65 followersAmerican painter, sculptor, and prominent figure in alien abduction phenomena and related UFO research.
in 1964 Hopkins witnessed an UFO, dissatisfied with the response Hopkins received when he reported the incident to nearby Otis Air National Guard Base, he suspected a possible government cover-up.
in 1964 Hopkins witnessed an UFO, dissatisfied with the response Hopkins received when he reported the incident to nearby Otis Air National Guard Base, he suspected a possible government cover-up.
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October 7, 2015
A must-read for anyone interested in the UFO and abduction phenomenon. Now every time I am in the men's room and the water faucet's infrared sensor doesn't immediately detect my hands I start to wonder...
May 5, 2011
This book emphasizes quantum and astrophysics while discussing alien and UFO phenomena. According to the information presented in this book, quantum physics and other areas of science appear to support the idea that matter can be made to appear invisible. The military is getting better at it all the time. This is an important issue for ufologists because UFOs and their occupants often disappear quite suddenly. Also, there's the issue of transgenic beings, which is also supported by science. Scientists have been manipulating transgenic lifeforms for decades now. This is also important to ufologists who report that aliens seem to be experimenting by creating human beings that are infused with alien DNA, as well as aliens infused with human DNA. Overall, this was an enlightening reading experience, especially from the point of view of cutting edge science.
January 7, 2015
Engrossing. Hopkins' wife explains how recent scientific advances may begin to pave the path towards an understanding of the technology supposed aliens use in their abductions. I've always been struck by the small-mindedness of those who insist that, because our current science sheds no immediate light, something unexplained must necessarily be impossible, and that those who witnessed such an event are necessarily lying or unhinged. I need only remember that if one showed an iPad to a medieval man he would call it magic, think one was a devil, or simply refuse to believe his own eyes.
My favourite part of the book, though, must be with Hopkins' unveiling of a type of alien encounter he had never previously publicly examined: strange humans with the potential to be alien/human hybrids. These stories fit into one of my favourite genres: the weird and eerie. (Or "high strangeness," as was the term used by Hopkins.) I felt bad for those experiencing them; how easy it would be to believe one was losing his mind.
Highly recommended, as with all of Hopkins' work. Of note: I read recently that Carol Rainey is now accusing Hopkins of using inadequate rigour in his research; supposedly his methodology is full of holes. I find it odd she didn't bring these issues up when she was working with him, and odder still she's making the accusations after he's dead. Still, she was closer to him than anybody, so there may be some truth to her claims. None of which, by-the-by, detracts from her scientific theorizing in this book, which should be shown to anyone who denies the possibility of alien abduction based on the technical "impossibility" of such things as within reach as invisibility and anti-gravity.
My favourite part of the book, though, must be with Hopkins' unveiling of a type of alien encounter he had never previously publicly examined: strange humans with the potential to be alien/human hybrids. These stories fit into one of my favourite genres: the weird and eerie. (Or "high strangeness," as was the term used by Hopkins.) I felt bad for those experiencing them; how easy it would be to believe one was losing his mind.
Highly recommended, as with all of Hopkins' work. Of note: I read recently that Carol Rainey is now accusing Hopkins of using inadequate rigour in his research; supposedly his methodology is full of holes. I find it odd she didn't bring these issues up when she was working with him, and odder still she's making the accusations after he's dead. Still, she was closer to him than anybody, so there may be some truth to her claims. None of which, by-the-by, detracts from her scientific theorizing in this book, which should be shown to anyone who denies the possibility of alien abduction based on the technical "impossibility" of such things as within reach as invisibility and anti-gravity.
March 22, 2021
Skip the chapters by Carol Rainey! I've read both Missing Time and Intruders by Budd Hopkins and both were much more enjoyable than this joint effort by him and his then wife Carol Rainey. Ms. Rainey often refers to herself as a filmmaker but on IMDb the only credit she has is for a film called Touched as "camera and electrical department." I think it's a stretch to call yourself a filmmaker if that's the only credit you have. She doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. What's more, what qualifiers her to write the pseudo-scientific drivel contained in her cliche-laden chapters. They start out okay referencing what Mr. Hopkins has written in the previous chapter but 3 pages in, I find it a struggle to read on, only to page ahead and learn that it's yet another 20+ page chapter. I actually found it validating to learn that their marriage ended a few years after this book's publication. Poor Budd! Yes, skip this one!
January 12, 2025
Well, it's audacious. I am giving it the stars because I am primarily a speculative fiction author, and some of this could be gist for the mill. Also, I am working on a book and already wrote an expansive article that was unkind to the late Hopkins, so I was also gaining material.
I cannot speak to the veracity of the authors' claims, of course. I can applaud the relentless game of "Yes, And" ufology must undertake to explain away why the storied aliens do as they do. Apparently, because they can be invisible at a whim to mutilate cows for their oocytes to use as cozy homes for foreign DNA to create transgenic human minions who lack basic emotions (and once was probably just a sweet man with autism).
I cannot speak to the veracity of the authors' claims, of course. I can applaud the relentless game of "Yes, And" ufology must undertake to explain away why the storied aliens do as they do. Apparently, because they can be invisible at a whim to mutilate cows for their oocytes to use as cozy homes for foreign DNA to create transgenic human minions who lack basic emotions (and once was probably just a sweet man with autism).
April 3, 2025
Budd Hopkins and Carol Rainey investigate two facets of the abduction phenomenon and show just how close modern human science is to the abilities and technologies of the alien abductors.
Looking at both UFO invisibility and alien-human hybrids, Hopkins introduces deeply moving and engrossing witness testimony while Rainey demonstrates the corresponding scientific advancements.
An absolute must-read for anyone who is interested in the UFO phenomenon and particularly for scientists and researchers to see that what is routinely castigated as sci-fi nonsense is, in actuality, already happening - here on earth and in the depths of space.
Looking at both UFO invisibility and alien-human hybrids, Hopkins introduces deeply moving and engrossing witness testimony while Rainey demonstrates the corresponding scientific advancements.
An absolute must-read for anyone who is interested in the UFO phenomenon and particularly for scientists and researchers to see that what is routinely castigated as sci-fi nonsense is, in actuality, already happening - here on earth and in the depths of space.
February 7, 2022
The late Budd Hopkins is sorely missed. I am pleased to have once met him at a workshop he, David Jacobs, and Jim Carpenter conducted in Chicago.
This book has a number of fascinating revelations such as:
If the abducting aliens want you and not me and we're together, they take you and "turn me off."
When they are done with you and return you and "turn me back on," the first thing I experience is a sharp pain in my eyes.
Why?
My eyes dried out when I was "turned off."
This book has a number of fascinating revelations such as:
If the abducting aliens want you and not me and we're together, they take you and "turn me off."
When they are done with you and return you and "turn me back on," the first thing I experience is a sharp pain in my eyes.
Why?
My eyes dried out when I was "turned off."
January 23, 2024
I thought intruders and missing time were the only classic books from Bud, this one is as good or even better. Amazing cases, and the follow up, how we are on the way to acquire some rough version of the same technology now. Excellent read, highly recommended.
August 2, 2018
Its okay the theories like the string theories and alternate universes is a bit hard to swallow but once you get past that about 1/2 way through book it's not bad
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August 1, 2016
Oh Budd... Interesting read but the scientific "facts" brought up by his wife do not necessarily relate to the subject at hand during discussion. I feel like sometimes she is grasping at straws. This book does however, make you think. There are a few interesting stories from experiencers, but nothing outrageously convincing. Trust me, I am not a very skeptical person and I enjoy paranormal stories and believe that there is intelligent life out there somewhere. Budd and his wife just did not do a good job of convincing me any further.
May 23, 2012
Good material that could have been better. In that the author used vocab that was not suited to these kinds of subjects. He was an Arts man may be that's why. So it wasn't a smooth read for me, had to keep referring to a dictionary. But otherwise had some goods abduction cases laid out.
July 5, 2012
Great cases but too many scientific terms for some to understand. I thought it was amazing though.
July 27, 2013
A conspiracy aficionado, I have found my credulity strained, and occasionally sprained. But what if...? By Jove, what if?
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