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UFO ABDUCTIONS ABDUCTIONS Expos, in both Sydney and Brisbane, so I was able to hear 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 takings. I wondered how many people in the room had had their own encounters with strange creatures or UFOs, and when this predictable question was raised by the organiser, I was not surprised to see at least 90% of the people there had their hand up for those who themselves seen, or knew a family member/close personal friend who had seen a UFO or an alien. Ne Magazine had a small stall at each of the UFO A 3 month survey of over 6,000 American people contained 5 randomly placed, innocent looking questions pertaining to symptoms common to UFO abduction experiences. The word UFO was not used in the survey. This survey revealed that a conservative figure of 2% of the American population have symptoms of at least one UFO abduction experience. 2% of the American population is equivalent to about 5 million people! Budd Hopkins is an excellent speaker. He makes a refreshing change from the usual American so-called UFO researchers, most of whom have a self-confessed military or government background. The thing I and a lot of other people enjoyed about Budd's presentations, was that he rarely, if ever, drew conclusions. 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, "what did you have for breakfast?, do you like Dan Quayle?" etc etc. Question 1 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 paralysed 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 people 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 Budd Hopkins, author of "intruders" was guest speaker at the recent UFO Expo, held in October in both Sydney and Brisbane. Video and audio’ tape copies of the lecture are now available - see page 45 for more details. NEXUS*43 By Duncan Roads DECEMBER-JANUARY '93