![]() ![]() Suddenly, the UFO lowered itself in front of their car and hovered, silently, as though it was waiting for them. But that's exactly what they alleged they were.Īfter stopping to check out the light, the Hills continued on the highway toward Franconia Notch with their eyes glued to the object in the sky. They didn't seem like alien abductee types. Neither Betty nor Barney believed in aliens or UFOs, their niece Kathleen Marden later told a British TV interviewer. They belonged to the local chapter of the NAACP and attended a Unitarian Universalist church. They lived in coastal Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where Betty was a social worker and Barney commuted to Boston to work nights for the U.S. Shannon Leigh O'NeilĮxcept for their “mixed marriage,” as it was then called (Barney was Black, Betty was white), the Hills enjoyed totally ordinary, middle-class lives. A copy is displayed at the Notch Express gas station on Route 3. Under hypnosis, Betty Hill drew this description of their alien abduction. Their story was so bizarre that it dominates our concept of alien abductions in movies, TV shows, and books even today. The couple described traumatic events-not at first, in their testimony to military and civilian authorities, but later, after haunting nightmares and months of hypnosis. They said its alien occupants took them aboard and subjected them to medical experiments. ![]() According to government reports, they didn't just spot a flying saucer. The Hills claimed to have been kidnapped by extraterrestrials that night 60 years ago, on September 19, 1961. What happened next shocked the world-and introduced mid-century Americans to the possibility of alien abduction. They stepped out of the car and, sharing a pair of binoculars, saw a disc-shaped object in the blackness, flashing multicolored lights as it traversed the moon. When the light was still there after a few miles, Barney stopped their '57 Chevy to get a better look. and it seemed to be tracking their movement.ĭelsey, the couple's dachshund, squirmed and trembled on the seat between them. Route 3 in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, glanced up and saw the same phenomenon. It was behaving unusually-rather than falling down, as a shooting star might, it instead drifted upward.īetty's husband Barney, behind the wheel on U.S. Betty Hill peered through the car's windshield at a strange, beaming light in the sky. ![]()
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