The dazed Hills were released and allowed to go on their way while the spaceship disappeared into the dark starry sky. The abducting aliens intended that the Hills would be unable to remember their ordeal, presumably using their advanced technology to block the couple’s memories. The alien, who spoke English, told her that the map showed trade and exploration routes between stars and that our Sun and the aliens’ home star were marked on it (he pointed out roughly where he and his crew came from). After performing a strange, bumbling but painful and degrading medical examination of the Hills (using technology which seems oddly archaic now, such as the chart recorders the Hills’ vital signs were plotted on), the alien’s leader showed Betty a star map. Their kidnappers were small greyish-coloured men who seemed to be conducting a scientific investigation of earthlings. The Hills had been forced to stop their car by a landed spaceship and its crew who compelled their captives to board their vessel. This is the most important points of their story as recorded by Dr Simon in 1964. Hypnotised by a distinguished psychiatrist, Dr Benjamin Simon, both gave detailed accounts of what they believed had happened on their fateful drive. Increasingly distressed, the Hills looked to more professional help. Eventually the Hills sought help, initially from UFO investigators (who, it seems leaked the couple’s details to the press, the Hills had wanted their experience to remain private). Betty was interested in UFO stories, and she began to believe that during their journey she and Barney had been abducted and taken on board a spaceship. In the following months, Betty suffered from severe nightmares of a kidnapping. Frightened, the Hills began to suspect that something very odd had happened to them. The Hills were worried by this missing time, more alarming still, they also had a selection of minor cuts, grazes and clothing damage that they could not remember receiving (other intriguing-sounding physical evidence claimed by the Hills’ supporters, such as odd areas of exposed bare metal on their car and strange “chemical” stains on Betty’s clothing have been lost to history). On their arrival, the couple were puzzled their journey seemed to have taken a couple of hours longer than it should have. (Image credit: Armagh Planetarium, made with Stellarium) Under the Moon are Jupiter (left) and Saturn (right). The New Hampshire sky on the night of the Hill’s journey looking south. Anxious to escape this ominous presence, the Hills drove on at high speed…and then it was dawn and they were nearly home. To Barney’s horror some of these creatures were grinning as they looked right back at him. Through the craft’s large windows Barney Hill could see humanoid beings standing as they controlled the craft by manipulating long levers. It was clearly not of this Earth (interestingly, to the best of my knowledge, no subsequent UFO of similar appearance has been reported). Barney observed the light through binoculars, revealing it to be an odd-looking flying vehicle, a flying saucer with extensive windows, bright lights and variable geometry wings. As they drove, both believed it to be following their car, the couple rationalised it as an aircraft or satellite. Both observed a bright light in the sky under the Moon. Their journey took them through the forested and deserted White Mountains of New Hampshire. They drove overnight from Montreal, Canada to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Middle-aged, the Hills were respectable pillars of the community, living quiet, decent lives. ![]() On 19 September 1961 Barney (1922–1969) and Betty Hill (1919-2004) were returning from a holiday. A real UFO, almost certainly a Chinese lantern, seen in a still from a short movie made by a member of the public and sent to the Planetarium.
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