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b'by Charles Lear, author of\\xa0\\u201cThe Flying Saucer Investigators.\\u201dIn 1981, a new narrative became firmly established as part of the UFO mystery with the publication of Budd Hopkins\\u2019s book\\xa0Missing Time.\\xa0A large part of the book consists of transcriptions of recordings made during hypnosis sessions where the subjects described being taken aboard craft by 3-4 feet tall creatures that performed medical procedures on them. The descriptions of the creatures were similar to descriptions of beings that would become known as \\u201cthe greys,\\u201d which are the now iconic creatures with large black eyes that became commonly reported after Whitley Strieber\\u2019s 1987 book\\xa0Communion.\\xa0The eyes of the creatures reported in Hopkins\\u2019s book vary. The book came out in July of 1981 and Hopkins, along with Dr. Aphrodite Clamar, a psychotherapist hired to conduct some of the hypnosis sessions, gave interviews to the press. From this point on, the UFO Abduction phenomenon began to receive serious consideration from the mainstream press with Hopkins as the leading authority for the rest of the decade.\\xa0Read more\\xa0\\u2192'