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abductions. NOVA: What is your best response to people who believe abductees must simply be crazy, that this is just crazy mentally stuff. Do you think they would feel differently after they got a chance to meet and hear directly from these ae Pa) must meet and people? from these HOPKINS: Well, the issue of whether the abductees are crazy—by the thousands, we're talking about by the thousands—is, I think, a simple question to answer. I mean these people can be psychologically tested as they have been. We instituted a psychological series of psychological tests with a group of abductees, without informing the psychologists of the nature of our sample—many years ago. And there was no_ psychopathology that emerged from the testing. And this is what happens again and again. Budd Hopkins has received many awards for his painting, scupture, and scholarship, among them the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Guggen- heim Fellowship. He began to formally investigate UFOs in 1975. His books include Missing Time, Intruders, and W714. 22-24 Time, Witnessed. 17