![]() ![]() The Hills became increasingly more afraid as it became clearer that the object was indeed tracking them and that it was obviously no aircraft that they could recognize. However, he too began to get nervous as the object got closer and closer and he realized that it was almost completely silent: they would definitely have been able to hear the plane’s engines at such a close range. Betty had noticed that there was a “particularly bright star, perhaps a planet” in the sky that night, but she was slightly startled when she noticed “another star or planet” appear as they continued on their way.Īt first, Betty said nothing, but soon she began to observe that the bright object appeared to be getting bigger and that it appeared to be following their car, “changing its course in an erratic manner.” After she alerted her husband to the strange phenomenon, he attempted to brush it off as a satellite or plane that had veered off course. The couple had run out of cash and were, therefore, driving straight through the night, with only the moon illuminating a highway empty but for their car. Barney and Betty Hill were driving home from a vacation in Canada, passing through the White Mountains on their way back to New Hampshire. ![]() The lost period of time had occurred two years prior, in September 1961. Simon recommended they undergo hypnosis to try and recover their lost memories he had no idea the explosive chain of events he had set in motion. They both had “a feeling that something occurred” but could not recall what. Hill “manifested…in the form of repetitive, nightmarish dreams”) was rooted around a “period of several hours” that the couple could not entirely account for. Simon was mistaken and concluded that the “crippling anxiety” that both Hills suffered from (which Mrs. Benjamin Simon’s office one December day in 1963 for a consultation, the psychiatrist first assumed that they had come to discuss problems from their interracial marriage. When husband and wife duo Barney and Betty Hill walked into Dr. Adapted with Permission from: The New England Grimpendium by J.W.Universal History Archive/ UIG via Getty Images Barney and Betty Hill were an American couple, allegedly abducted by extra-terrestrials. In 2009, the archive went on temporary public display in the library in the Milne Special Collection and Archives Department. The archive includes letters and personal journals from the Hills, audio tapes and transcripts of their hypnosis sessions, essays, newspaper clippings, reports, photographs, artwork, drawings by the Hills of the space ship, and even artifacts from that surreal night such as the dress Betty Hill wore, a swatch of which had been cut off and set for analysis of pink powdery substance that she found on it. In 2009, the Betty and Barney Hill archive was donated to the University of New Hampshire in Durham. ![]() On the night of September 19th and on into the early morning of September 20th in 1961, husband and wife Barney and Betty Hill were traveling South on Route 3 to their home in Portsmouth, NH, after vacationing in Montreal when, according to their story, they were followed by a spaceship and eventually accosted, kidnapped, examined, and then released by its extraterrestrial crew. ![]()
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