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By Duncan Roads Nexus Magazine had a small stall at each of the UFO Expos. in both Sydney aDd Brisbane. so I was able to Ihear Budd Hopkins speak at both events. ' The Sydney Expo drew about 1300 people over the two days. just enough to keep the lecture hall at the Hyatt in Sydney full up. and just enough to keep the organisers happy with door J-akings. 1 wondered how many people lin the room had bad their own encounters with strange creatures or UFOs, and when this predictable question was raised by the organiser. 1 was not surprised to see at least 90% of the people there had their hand up for IDQ-se who themselves se-en. ali knew a family member/close personaJI friend who had seen a UFO or an alien. Budd Hopkins is an excellent speaker. He makes a refreshing change from the usual American so-called oro researchers, most of whom have a self-confessed military or government background. The thing 1and a lot of other people enjoyed about Budd's presentations. was that he rarely, if ever. drew conclusion.s. He did not conclude who the abductees were. why they are abducting people. or where they are from. Most refreshing, especially for an American. A three month poll conducted by the Roper Organisation in America. of about 6,000 people across the country. had 5 little questions buried in amongst questions like. "whall, did you have for breakfast?, do you like Dan Quayle?" etc etc. Question I related to the phenomenon of missing time experiences. 13% responded that they had at least one unexplained missing time experience of one hour or more. Question 2 asked if the person had ever woken up at night sensing another presence in the room, and/or had the sensa tion of being p~lysed in the whole body upon waking up. 18% responded that they had experienced this feeling. Question 3 asked if the person had any memory or experi ence of flying through the air -physically (so as to distin guish from dream/out of body experiences). 10% of the peqple polled responded that they had had this experience. Question 4 asked, whether the person had any strange' or unusual scars or wounds which had mysteriously appeared on their 'body. Question 5 asked if the person had woken up at night and found strange lights moving around their bedroom. 8% of people responded positively to Question 4. or 5. The researchers then tallied those who had positively answered 4 out of the 5 questions, concluding that 2% of the DECEMBER-JANUARY '93 NEXUS-43