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Budd Hopkins
American artist, author, ufologist (1931–2011)
Elliot Budd Hopkins (June 15, 1931 – August 21, 2011)[1][2] was an American artist, author, and ufologist.
He was a prominent figure in alien abduction phenomena and related UFO research.
Early life
Elliot Budd Hopkins was born in 1931. He was raised in Wheeling, West Virginia.[3][4] He lived with his parents, Elliot B.
Hopkins and Eleanor A. Hopkins, brother, Stuart, and sister, Eleanor.[5] At age two, Hopkins contracted polio.[3] During the long recovery process, Hopkins developed an interest in drawing[2][3] and watercolors,[6] which eventually led him to Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in art history in 1953.[3] It was here, Hopkins was exposed to art with "a capital A",[7] and attended a lecture by Robert Motherwell that first introduced him to the "au