Mom who famously claimed she was abducted by aliens says Netflix made her look like a liar in new docuseries

A New York City mother of two who shared her controversial story of being abducted by aliens from her downtown apartment in an upcoming Netflix docuseries says the streaming giant ended up portraying her as a fabulist — and now she’s fighting to block the show’s release.

Linda Napolitano, who first told her story under the pseudonym Linda Cortile, has long claimed three gray bipedal beings extracted her during the wee hours of November 30, 1989, from her 12th-floor window on a blue beam of light, lifting her onto a reddish-orange spacecraft that quickly sped off toward the Brooklyn Bridge.

Late artist-turned-UFO investigator Budd Hopkins championed Napolitano’s story in the 1997 book Witnessed: The True Story of the Brooklyn Bridge Abduction, generating widespread interest and, naturally, some skepticism. Hopkins said he became further convinced Napolitano was telling the truth after he received a letter from two bodyguards who said they had been nearby protecting an unnamed “world leader” when they saw a woman floating through the night sky into an alien spacecraft. More than 20 other witnesses claimed that they, too, witnessed Napolitano’s purported abduction.

Now, Napolitano, 77, is trying to block Netflix from releasing its take on the supposed incident, The Manhattan Alien Abduction, set to premiere on Wednesday, claiming it presents “a tale of skepticism” and an examination of Napolitano’s “pulling the wool over [Hopkins’s] eyes,” rather than a credulous recitation of her claims, according to an eyepopping lawsuit obtained by The Independent.