missing time

plural missing times

1. countableuncountablehuman sciencesA time period of amnesia or a gap in conscious memory reported by individuals who have experienced alien abduction.

   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

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   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

   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

   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

   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

   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. countableuncountablebusinessAn operational metric which measures the total amount of time on a timeclock that is unassigned to any task, whether productive or not.