The famous UFO Abductionist Budd Hopkins succumbed to cancer in New York City on August 21, at the age of eighty (http://www.intrudersfoundation.org/inside.html ). The "UFO abduction" scenario changed significantly after the publication of Hopkin's book "Missing Time" in 1981. Prior to that time, UFO abductions were supposed to occur only when people ventured out to lonely, deserted places late at night, and encountered aliens (Betty and Barney Hill, Travis Walton). Hopkins' contribution was to entirely sever the connection between UFO sightings and UFO abductions. Hopkins wrote of a new "abduction scenario that is, if anything, even more disturbing...