The Brooklyn Bridge Abduction

Witnessed by an United Nations dignitary and his bodyguards, Linda Napolitano's alien kidnapping led to a secret CIA investigation that almost killed her.

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On Nov. 30, 1989, While she slept in her 12th floor apartment on CHerry Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side, 41 year-old Linda Napolitano was levitated—"like an angel" she later said—on a beam of light through her security-barred window and into a spacecraft hovering nearby over the Brooklyn Bridge. She was accompanied by five small grey aliens who, like Napolitano, were tucked into fetal positions for the journey from land to sky.

Although asleep, Napolitano was aware of being abducted; floating above her building and . seeing the UFO open up "almost like a clam" to accept her. Once inside, she was walked down a hallway to a room with a long table, where she said she was examined before being returned home. Like many alleged alien abduction victims, she had few s memories of what took place. Though she could recall the kidnapping and examination room, everything else was lost. 

But Napolitano was sure this wasn't her first close encounter. In 1976, she had visited her doctor after,discovering a bump near her nose. He said it was just a scar from an earlier sinus surgery. There was just one problem: She'd never had the procedure. 

In April 1989, eight months before she was stolen from her apartment in the middle of the night, Napolitano began reading Intruders: The Incredible Visitations of Copley Woods, by UFO investigator Budd Elliot Hopkins. Nicknamed the Father of the Abduction Movement, Hopkins theorized that the motive behind alien kidnappings is to perform genetic experimentation, including surgery. Napolitano started to suspect the bump on her face was the result of an invasive examination by extraterrestrials. She made contact with the author, who had her undergo regressive hypnosis to bring forth buried memories. In the days after her second encounter on November 30, he began hunting for eyewitnesses to her Brooklyn Bridge abduction. 

He hit the jackpot. At the moment Napolitano was being levitated into the spaceship, a . United Nations dignitary and his two bodyguards were in a limousine on the bridge and saw her body floating through the night sky with five aliens. The guards were identified only as Richard and Dan, but the man they were protecting was eventually revealed as the third witness: Javier Felipe Ricardo Perez de Cuellar Guerra, at the time the secretary-general of the United Nations. According to Richard and Dan, after the bodies entered the craft, it descended into the East River and disappeared. 

Ultimately, two of the witnesses would become Napolitano's tormentors. On the morning of April 29, 1991, Richard and Dan kidnapped her while she was out walking and interrogated her for hours. On Oct. 15, Dan bundled her off to a safe house on New York's Long Island and forced her to wear a nightgown similar to what she wore the night of her encounter. Napolitano said that, while there, she saw paperwork from the CIA. Eventually, she escaped and ran toward the ocean, but Dan caught up and tried to drown her before Richard arrived to stop him. A month later, Richard appeared at her door to say Dan had been committed to an asylum. 

Hopkins heard from many other witnesses to the 1989 incident, including a truck driver for The New York Post and Janet Trimble, a retired telephone operator who was crossing the bridge and assumed she was seeing a film crew shooting a science fiction movie. 

But as far as Hopkins was concerned, Perez de Cuellar was the crucial witness. If Hopkins could get him to go public with his testimony, it would lend significant credibility to alien abduction theorists. The Secretary-General communicated regularly with Hopkins but refused to come forward.

Hopkins made Napolitano's experience the subject of his 1996 book, Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abductions, in which her name was changed to Linda Cortile. The author died in 2011, but research into the Napolitano mystery continues, carried on by Sean F. Meers, an Australian UFO and alien abduction investigator who worked with Hopkins. 

Despite amassing what he called "a large amount of evidence obtained from a diverse array of sources," Meers suggests the truth behind Napolitano's encounter will remain a secret. "Some of the evidence is too sensitive to be publicly released," he writes. "This is because its release would compromise the privacy of some of the individuals who are associated with it."

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