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missing time en · NOUN

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1. (countable, uncountable) A time period of amnesia or a gap in conscious memory reported by individuals who have experienced alien abduction.
   • 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. 1996, Angela Hague, David Lavery, Marla Cartwright (editors), Deny All Knowledge, Reading the X-Files, page 8:
   • 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. 1984, John Rimmer, The Evidence for Alien Abductions, page 45:
   • 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. 1978, Brad Steiger, Alien Meetings, page 168:
   • 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. 1999, Chris A. Rutkowski, Abductions and Aliens - What's Really Going On, page 153:
   • There were two to three hours of missing time in their return trip for which neither of them could account. 1991, David Allen Lewis, UFO: End-Time Delusion:
   • 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. 2018, Nick Redfern, Top Secret Alien Abduction Files, What the Government Doesn't Want You to Know, page 127:
   • 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. 2001, Dana Redfield, ET-Human Link, We Are the Message:
2. (countable, uncountable) An operational metric which measures the total amount of time on a timeclock that is unassigned to any task, whether productive or not.

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