APRIL UPDATE: New Navigation Added! The Linda Cortile Web site: Twenty-two years after a multiple-witnessed UFO abduction; 16 years after the release of Budd Hopkins’ book documenting The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge Abductions, comes the most comprehensive Web site about an alien abduction case ever.

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On January 8, 1993, a 25-page article titled A Critique of Budd Hopkins' Case of the UFO Abduction of Linda Cortile* was published by Joseph J. Stefula, Richard D. Butler, and George P. Hansen. The purpose of their article was to attempt to prove that the Linda Cortile case was a hoax.

In 2008, I read the book Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions by Budd Hopkins. In addition to reading Witnessed, I looked for more information about the case on the Internet. It was then that I came across the 25-page Hansen/Stefula/Butler critique of the Linda Cortile case which, at first glance, appeared to be an in-depth dismantling of the case. Since I was curious as to why their document concluded this case was a hoax, I compared the information contained in it with the information contained in Witnessed. After I conducted a close examination of their document and compared it with the book, I discovered that their "critique" was inaccurate, ad hominem and evidentially void.

During my research, I also discovered that prior to Witnessed being published in 1996, only ten percent of the information contained in Witnessed had been publicly released. The more I studied their "critique," the more flaws I found. I decided the most constructive action to take was to document and provide proof of the serious and numerous flaws in their work. This way there would be, if nothing else, a private historical record covering the facts.

I began writing my rebuttal in 2009 and completed it in the Winter of 2010. It took me 18 months to thoroughly address all of the statements and claims that are alleged in the Hansen/Stefula/Butler document. What I am presenting to the public is a document containing 187 pages of my direct findings. The remaining pages are comprised of quotes, references and appendices to demonstrate and numerically correlate the proof behind each of the statements I make in my work.

During my work on Critique Rejected I established contact with Budd Hopkins and Linda Cortile by mail, telling them about my work, that it was being done in total privacy, and that I had no plans to release it publicly. I explained that I planned to keep my research a "private historical record" because I did not wish to inflame the debunkers into action again. The three of us agreed this would be the wisest decision, and my document was delivered to them personally at the end of 2010.

In 2011, the public debunking of Linda's case started up again by a new series of debunkers who, besides spreading new inaccurate statements about Linda's case, made a point of championing data from the Hansen/Stefula/Butler document as though it were proof that the case is invalid. It was at this point when I contacted Budd and Linda and asked them if they would like for me to publicly release Critique Rejected so we could finally make the inaccuracies of the Hansen/Stefula/Butler "critique" publicly known once and for all.