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1.The Hill Abduction

On September 19, 1961, Barney and Betty Hill were driving along a deserted section of highway in New Hampshire's White Mountains, returning from vacation. They expected to be home by 3:00 a.m..

During their drive, they saw what they initially thought might be a satellite or conventional aircraft. As it appeared to be tailing them, they stopped the car and examined it with binoculars. It was multi-coloured, and looked to Barney like an airplane without wings. He told his wife that it was likely only an airplane.

When they arrived home inexpliccably two hours later than they should have Betty felt that she had to bathe, and she bundled the clothes she had been wearing and put them in the back of her closet. Both experienced nightmares. A week later, Mrs Hill wrote of the sighting Major Donald E. Keyhoe, then assigned to the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP).

Two years later, the Hills underwent hypnotherapy with Dr. Benjamin Simons, a well- established neurosurgeon. There (mostly from Betty), the UFO Abduction story emerged.

Their story involved adbuction by extra-terretrials, who examined them on tables, took hair and tissue samples, and spoke to them with a voice they heard in their heads. A lengthy needle was inserted in Mrs. Hill's abdomen. The examiners claimed this was a pregnancy test. When she complained of pain, one of them passed a hand over her head, and the discomfort vanished. They also presented an image of "our" section of the galaxy, and indicated their star-system of origin. Mrs. Hill later described this image under hypnosis.

Initially, the aliens were Mongoloid in appearance, with large noses. One of them wore a leather jacket. In later sessions, they turned into the conventional slit-nosed "Grays" now popular in alien lore. One significant detail: a 1964 account given by Mrs. Hill under hypnosis gave them previously unmentioned "wraparound eyes." Shortly before this account was given, aliens with this unusual feature appeared in the Outer Limits TV series.

Hypnosis has a troubled history; we now know that subjects are more, not less, prone to fabricate details under hypnosis, especially if prompted by the examiners. Both Barney and Betty Hill later came to believe that hypnosis created the alien abduction. They do not doubt that something very odd and unnerving happened in 1961, but Betty no longer feels certain (if her late husband ever did) that aliens necessarily had anything to do with their experience.

In 1972, an Ohio teacher named Marjorie Fish, after years of research using a three-dimensional model of our section of the galaxy, found a match with a star-map drawn by Betty Hill under hypnosis. If her "match" is correct, the aliens hail from systems in the stars Zeta I and Zeta II Reticuli, aout 37 light-years from earth.

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