Missing Time

Record summary

Budd Hopkins’s Missing Time, published in 1981, helped popularize accounts of alleged abductions in which witnesses reported unexplained periods later interpreted through hypnosis. The book is relevant to religious and apocryphal-account research because some narratives combine bodily examination, luminous beings, cosmic warnings, and spiritual transformation. It is an investigator’s compilation, not a controlled experiment or independent confirmation of nonhuman contact. Researchers should inspect case files, interview methods, contemporaneous records, and later critiques of hypnotic memory before comparing the narratives with visionary journeys.