The three-part series describes Linda Napolitano's claim to have been repeatedly beamed into a spaceship from her bedroom and includes commentary from her supporters as well as her detractors.
She claimed that aliens extracted her 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."
"[1] Initially, filmmaker Carol Rainey believed Napolitano's story, but she later thought that her ex-husband Hopkins had lost his objectivity.
[6] The Decider summarized their impressions in this way, "Despite all the archival footage and dark-toned reenactments that set the scene for The Manhattan Alien Abduction, the docuseries is essentially two now-senior citizens litigating a decades-old beef via the camera they’re talking into and the producer that’s asking them questions."
"[7] The October 2024 lawsuit, filed by Napolitano and the estate of Budd Hopkins, seeks damages for six claims, including fraud, defamation, and breach of good faith.
[6] Napolitano argues that Netflix portrayed her as a "fabulist" and that she was "smeared as a liar by a late ufologist's scorned ex-wife.