The Manhattan Alien Abduction
Netflix’sThe Manhattan Alien Abductionrevisits the alleged 1989 alienkidnapping of Linda Napolitanofrom the 12th trading floor of her Manhattan apartment . At about 3 a.m. , November 30th that year , she insist that three gray - colored bipedal extraterrestrial being removed her from her bedroom using a blue light stream that paralyse her before cabbage her into the sky and onto a reddish - Orange River space vehicle , which then veered off toward the Brooklyn Bridge . Once aboard their craft , these other - worldly beings , claims Napolitano , performed a series of unspecified experiments on the woman of the house by inserting a metallic gadget in her nose , before revert her to her home in New York .
She key out the aliens as having grim eyes ; they were allegedly able to communicate with her telepathically - tell her in some strange spoken language to be tranquil - before she wound up unable to move as the dreary ray lifted her into the night sky and onto the ship . InThe Manhattan Alien Abduction , one ofseveral UFO documentaries , she commemorate an examination room where a metal equipment was inserted into her olfactory organ , and then fire up up back in Manhattan in bed next to her husband as if nothing had happened . allot to her , her first thought was that she ’d daydream the intact episode , until she noticed a lump in her nose .
Linda Napolitano Has Sued Netflix Over The Manhattan Alien Abduction
Napolitano Says The Film Is Unflattering
The story generate some headlines in the other 1990s , butgained traction with the publishing of UFO investigator Budd Hopkins ' bookWitnessed : The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge Abduction , in 1997.Hopkins ' book attract significant skepticism over Napolitano ’s claim , but the author reported that he had interviewed more than 20 witnesses to the event , which lent the story some credibleness . Despite this , Netflix’sThe Manhattan Alien Abductiondocuseries firm intimate that Napolitano ’s storey is entirely fanciful , which has so riled up the allege abductee that she has take the matter to court .
According toForbes , Napolitano has sued the streamer in the New York Supreme Court , claimingThe Manhattan Alien Abductionis defamatory because it depicts her in an unflattering Light Within and , she say , steals Budd Hopkins ' employment . She is unite in the suit by the writer ’s estate and is involve a judge for damages and to staunch the sack of the film . Included in the suit are Netflix , Top Hat Productions , several producers , and Carol Rainey , Hopkins ' ex - married woman , who appear in the series claim that Napolitano was"pulling the fleece over Budd ’s eyes ” when researching the Scripture .
Over 30 Years Later, Linda Napolitano Is Still Sticking By Her Alien Abduction Story
She Insists The Witnesses Prove She’s Telling The Truth
In the suit , Napolitano challenges that the show sets her up as " a villain for purposes of controversy and conflict , " and " defame her role and fictional character , " and will " ruin her report as an honest and adequate person . ” Now 77,Linda Napolitano still live in New York and is sticking resolutely to her story , despite the content inThe Manhattan Alien Abductionand the grounds provided by Carol Rainey and others painting her abduction issue as , at best , hallucinatory .
Sci - fi films have always been fascinated by extraterrestrial nobble humans , and these picture beguile the panic , and sometimes the humour , of foreign abduction .
“ If I was hallucinating , ” she toldVanity Fairin 2013 , “ then the witnesses run into my hallucination . That fathom crazier than the whole abduction phenomenon . “The Manhattan Alien Abductionis Netflix ’s attempt to sort the fact from the illusion and to tell Napolitano ’s story objectively and in light of all the grounds . Like almost all alien abduction narratives , Napolitano ’s extraordinary claims ca n’t be essay based on the evidence uncommitted and will in all probability continue so . Even If Linda Napolitano ’s claims are n’t taken in earnest , she is sticking to her chronicle to the very end : “ I ’ll order you , ” she says , “ I wish I was psychotic — at least there is handling for that . ”
seed : Forbes , Vanity Fair
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This docuseries investigates a woman ’s claim of being abducted in Manhattan , explore if it ’s a hoax or potential proof of exotic life .
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This docuseries investigates a woman’s claim of being abducted in Manhattan, exploring if it’s a hoax or possible proof of alien life.
