Oct 7, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 15 segments
ALIENS OVER MANHATTAN! In 1989, Linda Napolitano claimed three extraterrestrials floated her right out of her apartment window and into a UFO hovering over New York City. According to UFO Investigator…
It's changed a little bit.
that
kind of gave it a different name, but colloquially for a long time was known as the Brooklyn Bridge alien abduction.
And this story is, man, it's all over the damn place.
You know, it's very hard to tell in a linear fashion.
So I'm not going to attempting to tell it.
Attempting to tell in a linear fashion is like you're just going to miss a lot of stuff and a lot of parts you wouldn't understand.
Of course.
Yeah.
Anyway, this is, yeah, it was a real doozy to research this one.
So to start to kind of understand it, we're going to start talking about a guy named Bud Hopkins.
Bud! Oh, Bud Hopkins, who was pretty big time in the UFO world for a long time.
Starts drawing as a kid.
Goes to art school.
Moves to New York City and becomes a really well-established artist in the abstract expressionist world.
So we're kind of in the 1960s.
At this point, he's got a serious professional career.
He's in a lot of galleries.
He's doing great.
No big deal.
It's changed a little bit.
that
kind of gave it a different name, but colloquially for a long time was known as the Brooklyn Bridge alien abduction.
And this story is, man, it's all over the damn place.
You know, it's very hard to tell in a linear fashion.
So I'm not going to attempting to tell it.
Attempting to tell in a linear fashion is like you're just going to miss a lot of stuff and a lot of parts you wouldn't understand.
Of course.
Yeah.
Anyway, this is, yeah, it was a real doozy to research this one.
So to start to kind of understand it, we're going to start talking about a guy named Bud Hopkins.
Bud! Oh, Bud Hopkins, who was pretty big time in the UFO world for a long time.
Starts drawing as a kid.
Goes to art school.
Moves to New York City and becomes a really well-established artist in the abstract expressionist world.
So we're kind of in the 1960s.
At this point, he's got a serious professional career.
He's in a lot of galleries.
He's doing great.
No big deal.
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