If you ask a UFOlogist to name the book that changed the conversation from "lights in the sky" to "what happens inside the craft," the answer is almost always .
What makes Intruders so effective is the banality of the horror. Kathie isn't a mystic or a drifter. She is a mother, living in a quiet duplex, dealing with mundane marital issues. The terror seeps in through the cracks of normalcy: a persistent rash on her legs, nosebleeds, a phobia of the color purple, and a recurring nightmare about a strange child in her bedroom. Budd Hopkins Intruders.pdf