Jerry Clark wrote a review of Budd Hopkins’ Art, Life and UFOs: A Memoir in what may have been the last print issue of Fate magazine. For Clark, the book was special for many reasons, one of which was “because memoirs by ufologists are both exceedingly rare and crucial to the historical record.” Other than the expected ufological figures like J. Allen Hynek, John Mack, and others, Hopkins mentions encounters with some of the leading cultural figures of the 20th century, among them Alger Hiss, Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, Brendan Behan, Edward Hopper, Zoot Sims, Buddy Rich, Mel Torme, Ray Bradburry, as well as Budd’s fellow Abstract Expressionists Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, and Robert Motherwell. Written “in prose that sparkles and delights,” writes Clark, “Budd’s book will engage the happy attention of readers who don’t know him or perhaps have never heard of him. Art, Life and UFOs does justice to all three. It’s a wonderful book. It is also safe to say that, given its unique main character, there will never be another one like it.”