 When I was but a young boy, the only time anyone talked about flying
saucers was after watching a movie about them, or seeing an episode of
Twilight Zone, or Science Fiction Theater. Then one morning, I was
scanning over our local newspaper, and noticed about three pages deep
this heading, "New Hampshire couple encounters UFO." Well, needless to
say, I was intrigued. In our small town paper, you just didn't see
things on this type of subject. As I began to read the article, I was
astounded to see that these two people claimed to have been abducted by
aliens, and taken inside the ship! Well, that was enough for me to
think, "What is this, some kind of joke?" I thought I had heard the
last of it, but I had not. Soon, this story became an international
one, and even today, is still considered one of the most believable,
and certainly most researched UFO cases, except for maybe the Roswell
incident. One thing about this whole subject that seems odd to me, is
that it is considered within the realm of possibility that someone
could see a UFO, but for someone to be taken aboard one, NO WAY.
In 1961, Barney Hill was a 39 year
old black man who worked for the US Postal Service. His wife Betty was
a 41 year old white woman, who owned a Master's Degree, and was the
supervisor for the child welfare department. The fact that the Hills
were an interracial couple has been given weight by some who state that
Barney was suffering stress in dealing with some public ridicule about
the black and white union, which was not nearly as readily accepted in
the early 1960s as it is today. In my research into Mr. Hill's life, I
can't find any reason for his stress being the cause of telling such an
incredible story. What ensued after the couple went public with their
story, was much more stressful to him than any anti-racial remarks he
may have encountered.
The story of Betty and Barney Hill
begins in September 1961, in the state of New Hampshire. Barney had
recently developed an ulcer, and he and his wife Betty decided to take
a short vacation to Canada. The couple had visited Niagara Falls, and
Montreal, and on the 19th of the month, they began their journey back
home to Portsmouth. The night was clear, with a crescent moon shining
on the heavily wooded landscape, that surrounded US Route 3 in the
central part of New Hampshire. At about a quarter past 10:00 P.M.,
three miles south of the city of Lancaster, Barney noticed what
appeared to be a bright star, or planet which seemed to move
erratically. Barney pointed this out to Betty, and they both began to
keep track of the object.
The couple began to believe that
they were watching a plane, appear and disappear, as the movement of
their vehicle caused the trees to come and go in obstructing their
view. Later Barney would state that he tried to convince himself that
the object was a plane, but that Betty thought it to be something else;
an unidentified craft of some kind. As the two continued to the Flume,
just north of North Woodstock, the object appeared to move in an odd
way. As they reached Indian Head, Barney actually stopped the car to
have a look at the object with his binoculars. He saw multicolored
lights, and rows of windows on a flat-shaped object, which now seemed
to be moving toward him. As the object moved to within a hundred feet
of him, he could see occupants inside. Frightened, he ran back to his
car where Betty waited. They climbed inside and sped away. Soon, two
hours of their lives would vanish into oblivion.
 After resuming their journey home,
they were not able to see the strange craft anymore. Oddly though, they
heard a beeping sound. They then heard the beeping a second time,
noticing that they were suddenly thirty-five miles farther down the
road than a minute or two ago. They were now in Ashla. The mood in the
car was quiet as they proceeded home, and went to bed. They both slept
until the next afternoon. When Betty got up, she called her sister
Janet, and told her what had happened. Janet told her to call nearby
Pease Air Force Base, and report what she had seen. Betty reported the
incident, speaking to Major Paul W. Henderson, who told Betty; "The UFO
was also confirmed by our radar." It is important to note at this point
that Barney was against calling the sighting in to the base, hoping to
keep it quiet.
At this time, neither Betty nor
Barney recalled any abduction. Soon, Betty began having nightmarish
dreams of her and her husband being taken aboard a craft of some kind,
against their will. In a matter of weeks, two writers got wind of the
story, and after interviewing the Hills, made an intensive log of the
events of the night. They discovered that there were two hours of
unaccounted time in the Hill's story, even allowing for stops for the
Hills, and breaks for their dog, who also had made the trip with them.
Another interesting note that I should interject here is that these
"two writers," which are mentioned in almost every report of this
incident, (and there are literally thousands of them), have not been
named, or I cannot find their names. However, the story is true,
because their interview was attended by Major James MacDonald, a former
Air Force Intelligence Officer. Shortly after Betty began having these
disturbing dreams, she wrote a letter to Major Donald Kehoe, who passed
her information on to one Walter Webb, who was on the staff of the
Hayden Planetarium. Webb, at the time, was a scientific advisor for the
National Investigations Committee on Arial Phenomena. (commonly
referred to as NICAP) What he did with the report is unknown.
It was Major MacDonald who made the
suggestion to the Hills that regressive hypnosis might account for the
two hours of missing time. In the spring of 1962, the Hills contacted a
psychiatrist about the hypnosis sessions, but decided to put it off for
a time. All the while, Betty was still haunted by the dreams, and
Barney's ulcer was worse, and he was again suffering from hypertension.
After
dodging reporters, and doing some research on psychiatrists, the Hills
made a decision to contact well-known Boston psychiatrist and
neurologist, Dr. Benjamin Simon, who was one of the most respected
doctors in his field. After a couple of initial interviews, Dr. Simon's
preliminary diagnosis was "anxiety syndrome," relating to the incidents
of the night of September 19, 1961. His next step was to find out what
those events were.
Continue with "The Betty and Barney Hill Abduction," ...PART 2...
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