Missing time episodes indicate covert abduction activity

This claim states that missing time episodes represent the most reliable initial indicator of an abduction event. Hopkins argues that unexplained gaps of thirty minutes to several hours, followed by confusion, fatigue, or disorientation, consistently appear across cases even before hypnosis. He treats missing time as the signature of covert intervention. Evidence includes repeated case studies in which witnesses notice lost hours upon arriving at home later than expected or discovering that watches and clocks no longer match physical expectations. Hopkins interprets these patterns as deliberate memory suppression. Conceptually, this claim sits at the core of early abduction research. DSETI evaluates it as Moderate—missing time is real but not uniquely diagnostic.