Grays Over Gotham: Linda Napa, The United Nations, Bud Hopkins, and an Intergalactic Love Triangle| 496
Hysteria 51
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
What happens when a woman claims she was abducted by aliens from a 12th-floor Manhattan apartment… in full view of the Brooklyn Bridge… while bodyguards for a high-ranking UN official allegedly watched in horror?
You get one of the wildest UFO stories ever put to paper.
Witnessed by Bud Hopkins sets the scene for us as we tell the tale of the infamous Linda Napolitano case. Floating women. Grinning gray aliens. Secret government bodyguards named “Richard” and “Dan.” Hypnotic regression. Missing time. Mysterious letters. Alleged cover-ups. And somehow… a black Rolls-Royce lurking beneath the Brooklyn Bridge like an extraterrestrial episode of Goodfellas.
Was this the strongest multi-witness alien abduction case in history? Or did the story spiral into a perfect storm of belief, hypnosis, and UFO fever dream theatrics?
Join us as we examine every bizarre detail, every skeptical argument, and every “wait… WHAT?” moment from a case so strange that even New York City collectively looked up and went, “Yeah honestly, maybe.” All that and more this week on Hysteria 51.
Sources We Consulted
- Hopkins, Bud. Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions (1996)
- https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780671569150
- Hopkins, Bud. Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods
- https://archive.org/details/intrudersincredi00hopk
- Mack, John E. Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens
- https://archive.org/details/abductionhumanen00mack
- Bud Hopkins official archive and research materials
- http://www.intrudersfoundation.org
- Skeptical analysis by Robert Sheaffer on the Linda Cortile / Napolitano case
- https://badufos.blogspot.com
- Committee for Skeptical Inquiry archives on alien abductions and hypnotic regression
- https://skepticalinquirer.org
- Philip J. Klass UFO skepticism archive
- http://www.philipklass.org
- FBI Vault: UFO Documents
- https://vault.fbi.gov/UFO
- National UFO Reporting Center archives
- https://nuforc.org
- Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) case resources
- https://mufon.com
- New York City historical and skyline reference material
- https://www.nyc.gov
- Brooklyn Bridge historical information
- https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/infrastructure/brooklyn-bridge.shtml
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| 0:00.0 | It's a world of artificial intelligence, of limited character tweets, of mini clips on TikTok. |
| 0:08.4 | My name's Mishki, and the Mishki podcast offers something wholly different, the lost art of simple human storytelling. |
| 0:16.5 | Whether humorous tales, absurd narratives, or real drama, telling stories is my stock in trade. |
| 0:24.4 | So escape to the very human Mishki podcast, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:31.3 | The following is a fourth-hand production. |
| 0:34.1 | What happens when a woman claims she was abducted by aliens from a 12th floor Manhattan apartment |
| 0:40.5 | in full view of the Brooklyn Bridge while bodyguards for a high-ranking UN official allegedly |
| 0:47.5 | watched in horror? Well, you get one of the wildest UFO stories ever put to paper. The book witnessed by Bud Hopkins |
| 0:56.8 | sets the scene for us as we tell the tale of the infamous Linda Napolitano case. Floating women, |
| 1:05.1 | grinning gray aliens, secret government, bodyguards named Richard and Dan, hypnotic regression, missing time, |
| 1:14.6 | mysterious letters, alleged cover-ups, and somehow a black Rolls Royce lurking beneath the |
| 1:20.3 | Brooklyn Bridge like an extraterrestrial episode of Goodfellas. Was this the strongest |
| 1:26.4 | multi-witness alien abduction case in history? |
| 1:30.2 | Or did the story spiral into a perfect storm of belief, hypnosis, and a UFO fever dream |
| 1:37.9 | theatrics? |
| 1:39.4 | Join us as we examine every bizarre detail, every skeptical argument, and every, wait, what, moment from a case |
| 1:47.5 | so strange that even New York City collectively looked up and went, yeah, honestly, maybe. |
| 1:56.1 | All that and more this week on Hysteria 51. |
| 1:59.8 | They say, I'm disturbed. |
| 2:01.7 | From city to city, an incredible hysterical panic spread. |
| 2:04.6 | I think we're getting into a weird area here. |
| 2:07.8 | We do you tell these fools. |
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