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56 Alien Abduction: America’s First Case

Alien Abduction: Looking

Back at America's First

Case

by Benjamin Radford

(Published April 17, 2009)

The University of New Hampshire today is
hosting a public forum surrounding a new
exhibition called the "Betty and Barney Hill
Collection." The Hills were an interracial couple
in the 1960s, and the exhibit discusses Barney
Hill's civil rights activism. However, the couple
is best known for giving the first reported
incident of an alleged alien abduction in
America.
Today, due to television shows and films,
the scenario is familiar: UFOs chase down
terrified witnesses on a desolate road and take
them onto the spaceship to ask them questions or
probe them in awkward places.
It began one night when Barney and
Betty Hill claimed they were pursued by a and no eyewitnesses to support their remarkable Over 2500 left handed people are killed each
glowing UFO through parts of New Hampshire. story, the Barney and Betty Hill abduction case year from using products made for right handed
Betty soon had vivid nightmares (which she is, as often happens, inconclusive at best and a people.
interpreted as fragmented memories) about the complete fabrication at worst. It's a shame that
incident, and the couple came to believe that their dream- and hypnosis-inspired alien Over the last 50 years in the United States,
abduction story has overshadowed the Hills' approximately 9,000 people have died as a result
they had been abducted by the UFO's occupants,
legacy as advocates for civil rights. [] of tornadoes, 5,000 as the result of floods, and
who then erased their memories. The couple
sought the help of a psychiatrist, and under 4,000 as the result of hurricanes.
hypnosis both Hills soon reported full-blown, Death Trivia
detailed "repressed memories" of their The Buddhist priest and mystic, Kukai, who
abduction. died on 23 April 835, is believed by his
In 1845, President Andrew Jackson's pet parrot followers to have become a 'Buddha in his own
The Barney and Betty Hill story was
was removed from his funeral for swearing. body' by mummifying himself while still alive.
celebrated as the most important UFO-related
event in the 1960s, and spun into a media
In 1992, approximately 750 deaths occurred in The leading cause of deaths for children
sensation. Their experiences became fodder for
the United States due to workplace violence. between the ages of 1 and 4 are motor vehicle
many magazine articles, books, and a made-for-
TV film called "The UFO Incident." Betty crashes.
In 19th-century Europe there was so much
became a UFO celebrity, giving media
anecdotal evidence that living people were The most extraordinary thing about the Tarim
appearances and writing a book about her story.
mistakenly declared dead that cadavers were mummies of Xinjiang province in China is that
As the years passed, however, the story
laid out in "hospitals for the dead" while these naturally-preserved bodies are not Chinese
lost its gloss.
attendants awaited signs of putrefaction. but Caucasian. Discovered in the Takla Makan
No other witnesses could support their
desert, the mummies are dressed in what has
account, parts of it were implausible, and the
In Erwin, Tennessee an elephant was once been described as a 'Celtic tartan' style of
validity of "repressed memories" was called into
hanged for murder. clothing.
question. Betty Hill's own reported experiences
cast doubt on her credibility. In the decades
In the Spanish Pyrenees, when a beekeeper dies, The practice of burying the dead may date back
since her original 1961 experience with her
each of his bees is splashed with a drop of Black 350,000 years, as evidenced by a 45-foot-deep
husband Barney, Betty claimed not a few, nor
Ink. pit in Atapuerca, Spain, filled with the fossils of
dozens, but hundreds of UFO sightings.
Though UFO investigators desperately 27 hominids of the species Homo
In the United States, poisoning is the fourth heidelbergensis, a possible ancestor of
wanted to believe her, that became more
leading cause of death among children. Neanderthals and modern humans.
difficult. One UFO researcher who worked with
Betty noted that she was “unable to distinguish
Influenza caused over twenty-one million deaths The tiny poison arrow frog has enough poison to
between a landed UFO and a streetlight.” In
in 1918. kill over 2200 people!
other words, she saw UFOs where none existed.
Investigator Robert Sheaffer, author of
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected When a person dies, hearing is generally the last
"UFO Sightings: The Evidence," examined the
intravenously - it can kill you. sense to go. The first sense lost is usually sight.
path that the Hills claimed they followed in 1961
while pursued by the UFO. He noted that the Then follows taste, smell, and touch.
On average, people fear spiders more than they
area is populated by several towns, and that "it
do dying. However, statistically you are more When Thomas Edison died in 1941; Henry Ford
seems impossible that nobody would have
likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by captured his last dying breath in a bottle.
noticed a car madly speeding down Route 3,
the bite of a poisonous spider.
screeching around corners and running stop
signs and traffic signals with a low-level UFO in When Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the
On average, right-handed people live 9 years Russian Revolution, died in 1924, his body was
close pursuit."
longer than their left-handed counterparts. mummified and placed on display at the
Even many UFO believers reluctantly
admit that much of Betty Hill's experiences and Kremlin wall in Moscow.
Only one in two billion people will live to be
stories cannot be true and instead are likely
116 or older. (Continued on Page 73)
imaginative fantasies of a sincere but confused
woman. With little or no corroborating evidence