![]() Benjamin Simon to aid them in uncovering what really happened. Documenting whatever she could remember upon waking, her diaries chronicle what she believed to be memories of her time aboard an extraterrestrial craft.Įventually they sought counsel from neuro-psychiatrist Dr. It was around this time that Betty’s dreams began. According to her diaries, these were the same ones that she was wearing on the night of the incident. In the middle of the dead foliage lay a pair of Betty’s blue earrings. Shortly after the NICAP visit the couple returned home one afternoon to discover a pile of leaves stacked on their kitchen table. It was only when prodded later by NICAP investigators that the idea of an abduction stopped being a nightmarish fantasy for the Hills. They later realized that the time it had taken them to reach home simply didn’t add up. Details of which included their hopes of using hypnosis to relieve Barney’s anxiety and stubborn mental block surrounding the incident. Betty called the local Pease Air Force base and logged the incident with Major Paul Henderson, and penned a letter to the Director of Civilian UFO group NICAP Major Donald Keyhoe several days later. “I was standing there in the rain, under the street light, and telling myself, ‘Don’t scream, keep calm, and don’t be afraid, everything is all right.’”Īnother suggestion from the police chief was to report the sighting immediately. “As I was watching this I was filled with an unexplained feeling of absolute terror,” she wrote in her diary. At the behest of Betty’s sister - who consulted a police chief friend on the matter - Betty examined the half dollar-sized scratches on the car trunk with a compass. Both of their watches had stopped working. Upon returning home Betty, for some unknown reason insisted, that their suitcases be kept outside on the back deck. Whether or not those sounds or visions meant anything, or were just the result of PTSD, for the Hills their encounter wasn’t over. Vague memories of encountering a roadblock, of seeing a huge fiery red-orange orb resting upon the ground, a feeling a desire for human contact preoccupied their thoughts.” The Aftermath They drove on without speaking until somewhere down the road they heard a second series of buzzing sounds. “Rhythmic ‘buzzing’ tones seemed to bounce off the trunk,” Betty’s niece Kathleen Marden describes in her book Captured! “and they sensed a penetrating vibration. The remainder of the drive home was equally as odd. Each time it grew closer until they neared Indian Head when the huge disc lowered itself down into the middle of the road, hovering above the Hills’ car completely blocking their windows.Īn artist's interpretation of Barney Hill's testimony. Just north of Flume, North Woodstock, the craft displayed unusual behavior, darting away into the woods before returning back to the same spot. They continued on their journey, all the while tracking the overhead object that now appeared to be following them. Betty later recalled seeing a series of flashing lights across its bow, and Barney reasoned that it was probably a commercial aircraft or satellite. Due to the thicket of trees lining the road, they pulled over to get a unobstructed look. He alerted his wife and they charted the object’s path for several miles as it began to show signs of erratic movement. On the night of September 19 at approximately 10:30 p.m., Barney spotted a bright spot moving in the sky just south of Lancaster, New Hampshire on Route 3. The New Hampshire pair delayed their honeymoon for several months after getting hitched, and eventually headed up to Montreal and Niagara Falls in the autumn of 1961.
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