![]() ![]() "She writes that one night soon after his death she's driving home on a kind of lonely New Hampshire road and the UFOs come over her car. "She does begin seeing UFOs more and more and more frequently," he said. ![]() And I think, critically, this idea that the government knew things about UFOs and was covering it up," he said.īarney Hill died suddenly in 1969. “Ideas about conspiracy theory, ancient aliens. And he said this straight-laced couple met some people with unusual ideas. ![]() "And so Betty and Barney rebuild their world to think differently about what authorities should be trusted, and what authorities should not be trusted.”īowman said the Hills came in contact with the New Age movement of the late 60s and 70s. “Betty and Barney Hill find in these groups people who will tell them, we think you saw something real, we think your memories are real," Bowman said. One was Donald Keyhoe, author of the book “The Flying Saucers are Real.” Keyhoe was a former Marine who founded a group called the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. Matthew Bowman said the Hills found some UFO researchers they thought they could trust. And Barney is really worried about what this story might do to their credibility.”Īnd they’re alarmed when their story is leaked to the press. "So they are becoming fairly prominent leaders in this organization. “He's part of a generation of African Americans who believe in political reform, who believes that passing laws, establishing new government agencies, these things can combat and take on and eventually eradicate discrimination in America," Bowman said. He attended the 1963 March on Washington and Lyndon Johnson’s inauguration. He was a major figure in New Hampshire’s NAACP, and a member of the U.S. This is what Betty Hill believes - she was raised in a family of activists.”īarney - who was Black - was an activist too. It's an era of optimism in American life, and confidence that those things that were not optimistic about can be fixed. “They grew up in an America that largely trusted the government. “Betty and Barney Hill are, in many ways, conventional Americans," said Matthew Bowman, author of the book The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill, released this month by Yale University Press. The Hills didn’t want to be known for UFOs - at first. Let’s just say you won’t need any reading material if you use this particular bathroom.University of New Hampshire Library Betty and Barney Hill with their dachsund, Delsey. In the single, unisex bathroom is a “museum” dedicated to alien abductions, with walls full of drawings and photos of supposed extraterrestrial encounters and images from science fiction TV shows and movies. 19th, 1961.“ But inside is where is gets even more interesting. An eight-foot-square painting of a huge alien standing in the middle of a dark forest road covers the outside with the words, “First Close Encounter of the Third Kind, Betty and Barney Hill, Sept. Make sure to fill your tank because it’s not your everyday gas station. But there’s another one at an Irving Express gas station, located off exit 33 on I-93/Route 3, along the same route the Hills traveled that night. Yeah, you’ll see a a state marker if you happen to be driving outside the Indian Head Resort in Lincoln, New Hampshire. If you consume enough of that shit, you’d be seeing more than just aliens if you catch my drift.Īnd about that historical marker, well, there’s more than just a boring plaque to read. The most interesting documents from the Betty and Barney Hill Archive at USNH include their drawings of the space ship as well as the dress Betty Hill wore, a swatch of which had been cut off because the pink powdery substance found on it had to be analyzed. Whether you believe in aliens or not, it is a fact that Betty Hill’s notes, tapes and other items are kept in a permanent collection at the University of New Hampshire (her alma mater) and the abduction site is memorialized with an offical state historical marker. Known as the Hill Abduction, it was the first ever widely-publicized claim of alien abduction. Betty and Barney Hill claimed a mysterious UFO’s extraterrestrial crew accosted, kidnapped, examined and released them in rural New Hampshire. ![]()
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