Warning: Contains SPOILERS for The Manhattan Alien Abduction.Netflix’sThe Manhattan Alien Abductiondocumentary revisits the abduction of Linda Napolitano, who claims to this day that three aliens forcibly removed her from her New York apartment in November 1989. The story generated some headlines in the early 90s, butgained traction with the publication of UFO investigator Budd Hopkins' bookWitnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge Abduction,in 1997. Hopkins' book attracted significant skepticism over Mrs Napolitano’s claims but also garnered a degree of support when he suggested more than 20 observers had come forward to say they’d witnessed the abduction first-hand.
Hopkins himself had become convinced after receiving a letter from two bodyguardsclaiming to have seen a woman floating through the air over Brooklyn Bridge on the night in question, while they were on protection duty. Netflix’s own alien abduction miniseries has now stepped in,providing an examination of the event and its aftermath. Linda Napolitano, who first told her story under the pseudonym Linda Cortile, has gone public with her dissatisfaction with Netflix’s version, perThe Independent, suggesting she’s been represented as a fantasist, and she’s even gone as far as to attempt to stop the Netflix release.
Linda Napolitano Claims She Was Abducted By Aliens In November 1989
Aliens Performed Experiments On Linda Napolitano
At first glance, Mrs Napolitano’s claims appear fantastical: In the early hours of November 30th, 1989,she insists that three gray-colored bipedal aliens removed her from her 12th-floor Manhattan apartment,using a blue light-stream that paralyzed her before lifting her into the sky and on to a reddish-orange spacecraft, which then veered off toward the Brooklyn Bridge. Once aboard their craft, these other-worldly beings, according to Napolitano, performed a series of unspecified experiments on the housewife before returning her, unharmed, to her bedroom in New York.
She described the aliens as having black eyes; they were able to communicate with her telepathically - telling her in some strange language to be quiet -before finding herself unable to move as the blue beam lifted her into the night sky and on to the ship. She remembered an examination room where a metallic device was inserted into her nose. The next thing she remembered was waking up back in Manhattan next to her husband as if nothing had happened. Her first thought was that she’d dreamed the entire episode, until soon after she noticed a lump in her nose.
Budd Hopkins Interviewed More than 20 Witnesses
Until Hopkins' book, Linda Napolitano’s UFO story was seen as simply another in a long line of improbable alien encounters, fascinating but unproven.In his book, Hopkins claimed that he had uncovered at least 23 witnesses who had come forward to corroborate Mrs Napolitano’s narrative, although he declined to give real names or identities. Most important of these was the two bodyguards, and their un-named foreign dignitary client, rumored at the time to be UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar. Critics of Hopkins' book are skeptical of the 20 other witnesses, who, they say, have never been formally identified or verified.
They saw Napolitano floating in a white nightgown out of her apartment window and into the spaceship.
In their letter to Hopkins, the two bodyguards (who called themselves “Richard and Dan”), claim that they were parked under FDR Drive when they saw Napolitano floating in a white nightgown out of her apartment window and into the spaceship. They also claimed that their client had witnessed the event, though they refused to formally identify him.When Hopkins revealed to them that Napolitano was still alive, Richard and Dan reportedly visited her at her Manhattan apartment and established some sort of mutually supportive relationshipin which all parties agreed on the November 30th narrative.
What Linda Napolitano Said Happened To Her After Being Abducted
Bodyguards Became Obsessed With Napolitano
After noticing the lump in her nose, according toallthatisinteresting.comLinda Napolitano went to a doctor and an X-ray allegedly indicated she had something lodged there -later, an ear, nose, and throat specialist confirmed that a lump of some sort had been inserted there, but having been removed a buildup of cartilage had been left.For Napolitano, this proved that during her ordeal her nose had been interfered with, just as she remembered. Soon thereafter, however, events took a sinister turn - bodyguard Dan, apparently smitten with Napolitano after their meeting, began stalking her, at least according to Hopkins.
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In April 1991, both bodyguards allegedly kidnapped the housewife, and interrogated her about her alien abduction; they let her go free, but then Dan abducted her a second time, taking her to a beach house on Long Island.There, it is alleged, he addressed her as “The Lady of the Sand,“made her wear a white nightgown like the one she wore during her alien event, and tried to have sex with her. A 2022 documentary,Linda Napolitano: The Alien Abduction Case of the Centuryhas claimed that Perez de Cuellar wrote to Hopkins acknowledging his witness to the abduction.
Why Many Believe Linda Napolitano’s Alien Abduction Was A Hoax
Witnesses Unidentified And Uncorroborated
Despite all these claims, most devoted Ufologists believe Napolitano’s story is fabricated and that the abduction never happened. Hopkins died in 2011, anduntil the documentary in 2022, the story appeared to have been relegated to yet another UFO hoax. Hopkins himself admitted before his death that he’d never actually met Dan or Richard, and while the sheer number of witnesses Hopkins claimed to have come forth at first glance appears impressive, most have refused to give interviews or even identify themselves. Napolitano insists the numbers justify her story.
“If I was hallucinating,” she toldVanity Fairin 2013, “then the witnesses saw my hallucination. That sounds crazier than the whole abduction phenomenon.“The Manhattan Alien Abductionis Netflix’s attempt to sort the fact from the fantasy and to tell Napolitano’s story objectively and in light of all the evidence.Like almost all alien abduction narratives, Napolitano’s extraordinary claims are unprovable and highly suspectand will remain so. Even If Linda Napolitano is dismissed as a charlatan and even crazy, she is sticking to her story to the very end: “I’ll tell you,” she says: “I wish I was psychotic — at least there is treatment for that.”
SOURCES:The Independent,allthatisinteresting.com,Vanity Fair,
The Manhattan Alien Abduction
This docuseries investigates a woman’s claim of being abducted in Manhattan, exploring if it’s a hoax or possible proof of alien life.
