Barney Hill

“They lived in New Hampshire.”

“Betty Hill and Barney Hill, an interracial couple, were both active in the civil rights movement.”

“Most researchers in this field recognize that there are actually two "first" abduction reports that have had a strong impact on our perceptions of the phenomenon...These are the watershed case of Betty and Barney Hill from 1961 and the controversial sexual "seduction" encounter of Antonio Villas-Boas from 1957.”

“I took them back to a starting point of Montreal. They had been to Niagara Falls and were coming home. And Montreal, you might say, was at the top of the journey...coming down to New Hampshire.”

“On September 19, 1961, they were driving on a rural road in that state, when they spotted a light that resembled a falling star but moved differently.”

“They stopped and used binoculars to try to identify it, but then got back into their car and continued their journey.”

“At one point, it came toward their vehicle, almost filling the windshield with its light.”

“Frightened, they stopped the car, and Barney got out with a pistol he was carrying.”

“Barney stops the car, gets his binoculars. The object has a large curved window, and behind that window, humanoids are looking at him.”

“Barney rushes back to the car, frightened, and drives away.”

“Thier little dog, Delphi, was frightened.”

“A few miles down the road the middle-aged couple loses all awareness of their actions. They next remember driving past Ashland… sixty miles to the south!”

“After the experience, they became aware of a period of missing time during which they were unable to remember what had happened. They arrived home a couple of hours later than anticipated.”

“Barney's symptoms had begun just after they had this supposed sighting.”

“had also symptoms of high blood pressure”

“Additionally, Barney had been experiencing headaches and nightmares since the event.”

“They did not say anything about the creatures (category 5) or the time loss (category 7), which only came to light after they discussed the case with someone they trusted, a local UFO amateur.”

“The Betty and Barney Hill "abduction" case of 1961 is a fascinating one in light of this classification because one part of the incident (the observation of a disk with windows) is clearly of category 3 and this is indeed what they reported to the Air Force.”

“They reported empirical evidence to the Air Force, the sighting of the starlike object. But when describing their experience to people they felt would not be inclined to scoff, like Donald Keyhoe and later their therapist (who, ironically, did not believe in UFOs), they divulged the story of the encounter with nonhuman beings.”

“they began almost at the beginning with a six-page report from NICAP...this was the story of their seeing an unidentified flying object, which was investigated by a NICAP investigator who made this report”

“When Betty and Barney Hill were interviewed by NICAP, do you know, did the people in NICAP buy their story, Hook, Line, and Sinker? ... Yes.”

“He gave me the several stories that he had been under treatment for about a year with a New Hampshire psychiatrist. for marked anxiety, had also symptoms of high blood pressure. And over the year, he hadn't gotten very far and was ultimately recommended to me by his psychiatrist.”

“Well, it was in late '63, quite near Christmas time. And I kept an appointment which my secretary had made with a Mr. Barney Hill.”

“The couple began experiencing problems—anxiety dreams for Betty and stress-related problems for Barney—that became so severe that they sought the help of a Boston psychiatrist, Dr. Benjamin Simon, in January 1964.”

“It may also have been the first time hypnosis was used on people who claimed to have been abducted by aliens.”

“to take both of the treatment and to use hypnosis to penetrate what appeared to be an amnesic period with very vague background. The only feeling they had was that coming back on a trip from Canada, they got home about two hours later than they should have, and they had no idea what had happened”

“under hypnosis, which was quite deep, told him, well, I took him one at a time before, so we begin with Barney, and directed him to tell me everything that happened on that trip...Here they were to really act out or relive that trip.”

“Barney and Betty gave the same story. And that story was precisely like the story that had been written up by the NICAP investigators. There were no significant difference, in fact, actually no differences between the three.”

“What marked the trip, particularly from Barney's point of view, up to the time of the sighting, was a revelation, coming mostly from his unconscious, of the marked anxiety he had in being a black man in a white culture.”

“it got to a point where they were in near some lonely woods where he wondered if there were bears and the bears might come out and harm him. There were some experience on up in a intense fear in which he, as would be seen in the movie, groveled on the ground, screamed with terror, and that preceded the actual sighting”

“Barney did not show strong convictions that it was anything but some wayward plane or what you will.”

“She had much more conviction on that than Barney.”

“Betty's story and Barnie's were the same. She, being a different personality, gave a little more gandy to it and so on, didn't show as much terror, and she went much further than Barney”

“up to the point of the sighting and those experiences, the two stories were exactly alike...Betty's experiences were far more vivid, fog there, and much more material there than Barney, who simply felt himself as being supportive with his eyes closed...Nothing of Betty's story, but nothing was in Barney's story.”

“if it was true, they should be identical. Everything else was identical up until then. But now the question, they two were not alike, very markedly different.”

“Dr. Simon never believed that the Hills' UFO abduction was real. For him, their story was a fantasy to be explored in an effort to relieve the associated anxiety.”

“the two stimuli, without giving the story, turned out to be the American Airlines plane, and the one which I saw long before I ever knew the Hill's and one subsequently unseen by me, and another is a guy that turned out to be a brilliantly lighted sign outside of Hartford, which was reflected through misty sky.”

“which was substantially successful in about seven months”

“Before I present my side of the story, I want to state that I think Betty and Barney Hill really saw a UFO and that something unknown stopped their car and took control of their minds. They were not lying, and they were not “nuts.””

“I do not believe that any of the contactees – not even Betty and Barney Hill – have been physically on board an actual “saucer.” It is more likely that they have taken a nonphysical “trip,” controlled and guided by a system of which we have no clear idea as yet, a system that acts on human consciousness (the Soviets use the term “psychotronic” to designate such devices)”

“I have spent hours with Betty and Barney Hill and have had a chance to discuss the case of their abduction with Dr. Simon.”

“It is this model that indicates to many authorities among the UFO believers – men like Stanton Friedman and Dave Saunders – that the saucer which abducted the Hills hailed from Zeta Reticuli.”

“My APEG team received some dress samples and control biological samples pertinent to Betty and Barney Hill.”

“Despite the passage of decades, DNA found on the dress was connected to Betty and Barney Hill, and rather surprisingly, at least some of the stained areas were found to be due to spider’s blood.”

“In a sketch he made under hypnosis, the eyes look indefinably sinister, malevolent: the irises and pupils, not distinguished from each other, are close together, while the rest of the eyes trail away upward, toward the sides of the being’s head.”

“In 1994, UFO skeptic and pop-culture expert Martin Kottmeyer announced a startling discovery. These “wraparound eyes,” as they’d come to be known in UFO parlance, had been seen by the nation’s television audience on February 10, 1964—twelve days before Barney’s hypnotic session—in an episode of the science fiction series *The Outer Limits*.”

“The alien in an episode titled “The Bellero Shield” had the same sort of eyes.”

“Barney later told [author] John Fuller that the eyes continued around to the sides of their heads, so that it appeared that they could see several degrees beyond the lateral extent of our vision.”

“On December 3, 1967, a patrolman named Herb Schirmer, of Ashland, Nebraska, had an experience that deserves to be placed in the context of the stories of the abduction of Betty and Barney Hill and of the Pascagoula fishermen.”

“Even among the grays, like even if you look at Eddie and Barney Hill, who you mentioned earlier, it's different. They have different slit-like eyes and there's different...”

“Barney Hill is dead now. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage at 46.”