In his bestselling books Missing Time and Intruders, Budd Hopkins, the internationally respected authority in the field of UFO research, focused worldwide attention on a series of thoroughly documented and disturbing alien encounters. Though these books greatly expanded our knowledge of the UFO abduction phenomenon, Hopkins subsequently learned of an extraordinary witnessed abduction, something unprecedented in the history of UFO research. This amazingly complex case is revealed here in its entirety for the first time. In New York City, on November 30, 1989, at approximately 3:00 a.m., several witnesses, including a major world political leader, saw—and later independently corroborated—this shocking event. Accompanied by three small alien figures, Linda Cortile, a married mother of two, was seen emerging from an apartment building window twelve stories above the ground. Suspended within a blue beam of light, Linda and her captors were lifted into a large reddish-orange glowing UFO, which then moved off in the direction of the Brooklyn Bridge. The presence of numerous and influential eyewitnesses to this abduction shatters all previous patterns of UFO encounters. But when Linda Cortile first reported her abduction, Hopkins conducted a thorough investigation, including a hypnosis session, and concluded that there was nothing unique about the incident among the hundreds he has studied. That assessment changed dramatically when Hopkins later received a letter in which two men, identified as New York City police officers, described sitting helplessly in a car under the FDR Drive and watching three "creatures" escort a woman into a reddish-orange glowing oval hovering in the sky. Hopkins sensed he was now on the verge of a major breakthrough in providing evidence of the reality of UFO abductions. But the men's true identifies remained a mystery. Unwilling to meet with Hopkins, they continued to contact him through letters and on audiocassette recording. The startling connections eventually revealed between Linda and one of these men are perhaps the most remarkable aspects of this case. In the following months, three more witnesses came forward. Two gave vivid descriptions of a bright red object in the sky, seen near the Brooklyn Bridge—but from two different locations in the city. The third witness told in dramatic detail the events that occurred as she saw the UFO and the floating figures from the bridge itself. Her haunting drawings, which independently corroborate descriptions related by other participants, plus Linda's memories, retrieved under hypnosis, appear for the first time in WITNESSED. While certain facts reported here suggest that the aliens' motives may be altruistic, others point toward a systematic program of genetic study and experimentation on human beings. Whatever the aliens' motives, the details of this case—from an inexplicable metallic object implanted in Linda's body to the independent witnesses and their verified accounts of the abduction— challenge all preconceptions about UFOs and alien abductions. The evidence in WITNESSED is too credible, too comprehensive, and too powerful for any individual—or government—to ignore.