Meaning of missing time | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A time period of amnesia or a gap in conscious memory reported by individuals who have experienced alien abduction.
   countable, uncountable
2. An operational metric which measures the total amount of time on a timeclock that is unassigned to any task, whether productive or not.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“The report of abduction, the memory loss, the missing time, and the shape of the UFO are all familiar to UFO investigators, for this is not an isolated episode.”

“We have already seen how the victims of UFO abductions seem to have 'missing time' - sometimes they have no memories of several hours of their lives.”

“There were two to three hours of missing time in their return trip for which neither of them could account.”

“Hopkins describes "missing time" as a time lapse of approximately two hours, after which the abductee can consciously remember little or nothing of the experience.”

“While Johnson doesn't display many of the indications of alien abduction, he does have a period of missing time which can be absolutely verified, unlike most abductees' cases.”

“If not for the contact and encounters, I would never have thought the missing times in childhood might have been for the purpose of meetings with ETs.”

“According to Zerbe, while he and his team were out at the crash site, they experienced a period of what in alien abduction terminology has become known as missing time.”

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