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40 The Betty & Barney Hill Abduction Case

The Betty and Barney

Hill Abduction Case

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The red lights on either side of the craft moved
outward, and Barney saw for the first time that
they were attached to the tips of two pointed fins
sliding out from the sides. He said over and over
again, “I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it. This
is ridiculous!”
The object moved closer to Barney, to
the extent that it filled the entire field of view
through the binoculars. The intense stare of the
“leader,” or so Barney thought of him, was
profoundly unnerving. The figure appeared to be
fiercely determined to do something, and
Barney suspected it was to capture him “like a
bug in a net.” The figures could now be easily
seen without binoculars. The UFO was now
about 75 feet from him.
Overcome with terror, Barney turned and
ran. From the car Betty could hear him
screaming and crying. “They’re going to capture
us!” he shouted. Ne jumped into the car and tore
off down the highway. Barney told Betty to look
above them to see if the object had swung above
happened after they left Indian Head, but weeks after the sighting, the Hills stepped into
them, as he feared. Betty rolled down the
memories were faint. They vaguely recalled a their house and were startled to see leaves piled
window and gazed upward. There was nothing
luminous moon shape sitting on the road. on the snack bar in their kitchen. Sorting
but blackness. Barney was sure the object was
Barney had the impression that for some reason through the leaves, Betty found the blue
blocking out the stars, which were visible
he had said to his wife, “Oh, no, not again.” earrings, she had worn the night of the incident.
through the back window. Suddenly, an irregular
Betty thought Barney had taken a sharp left turn Approximately six weeks after that, Barney
beeping sounded, loud enough to shake the car
off Route 3. came home early from work and was resting
and seeming to emanate from the rear of the car.
Later, after the couple had caught several when Betty returned. Going into the kitchen, she
The Hills then experienced a tingling sensation
hours’ sleep, Betty packed up the dress and noticed a newspaper on the snack bar.
in their bodies and a feeling of drowsiness.
shoes that she had worn that night. She placed Underneath the newspaper was a “frozen piece
Sometime later, passing through
them in the back of the closet and never wore of ice in a pattern - as if somebody had taken a
Plymouth, the couple became conscious of a
them again. Her act reflected a fear that in some bowl, filled it with water, and frozen it. There
second series of beeps. They were inside the car,
fashion she had been exposed to radiation, a were strange marks on the ice.” When she woke
and Barney was driving, but they sat numb and
concern that she confided to her sister Janet Barney up to ask him what this was about, he
passive. When the beeps faded, Betty said,
Miller, who lived with her family in nearby had no idea what she was talking about. Though
“Now do you believe in flying saucers?” Barney
Kingston. Janet said she would check with a trivial in themselves, the two incidents
snapped, “Don’t be ridiculous.” They said no
physicist-neighbor about radiation detection. suggested that somebody had been in the house
more. They were not sure where they were until
The physicist suggested that Betty run a without their knowledge or permission. These
they saw a sign indicating that Ashland - 35
compass over the car; if the needle became would not be the last such episodes. In later
miles south of Indian Head, where they had
seriously disturbed, this could be evidence of an years, according to Betty, she would find other
heard the first beeps - was close by.
unusually high degree of radiation. evidence of apparent home invasions, in which
They turned off on U.S. 93, and only
When Betty walked outside in the rain objects would be removed from their usual
after driving it a few miles did the couple
with a cheap compass, she saw something that places and dropped in some highly visible
emerge from their semi-sleep state. They exited
she was certain had not been there before: more location. Nothing was ever stolen. The relevance
on Route 4 and headed for Portsmouth, which
than a dozen perfectly shaped silver-dollar-sized of these odd events to her UFO experience is
they reached just as dawn was breaking. Once
circles on the exterior of the trunk. When she put purely speculative.
home Betty, for reasons she did not understand,
the compass over a spot, the needle wavered out The day after the sighting, Betty phoned
asked Barney to put the luggage in the back hall
of control. Over other areas of the car, however, Pease Air Force Base, and she and her husband
instead of the main part of the house. She and
it resumed its normal position. Barney discussed their experience omitting some of
Barney both felt strangely clammy and unclean.
reluctantly agreed to conduct the same test, and their fantastic details (such as the figures) out of
Barney went to the car, and as he was gathering
got the same results. fear being thought crazy. The next day Maj. Paul
their suitcases, he noticed that the leather
(Webb would write years later, “I recall W. Henderson of Pease’s 100th Bomb Wing
binocular strap, which he had had around his
viewing similar spots on my own vehicle and called back with a few questions. As the Hills’s
neck just hours ago, had broken. Furthermore,
realized that they had a natural cause due to recalled the conversation’ Henderson claimed
something about his lower abdomen so bothered
some sort of weather-related or road precipitate. that the U.S. government knows that UFOs exist
him that he stepped into the bathroom and
The spots, too, gradually faded away. I believe and wants to know more about them. His report
examined his genitals with a mirror.
Betty’s description of the spots was somewhat on the HIlls’s sighting was forwarded to Project
Betty could not understand how a pink,
exaggerated, and in her post encounter Blue Book at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton,
powdery substance got on her dress. She threw
excitement she quite naturally was looking for Ohio. Henderson reached no conclusions, and
the dress into a wastebasket, then thought better
something on her car that might explain the his telephone conversations with the couple
of it and retrieved it. She placed it on a
‘beeps’. And, of course, passing a compass over comprised the whole of the Air Force
clothesline, and soon the pink material blew
a large metallic object, such as an automobile investigation. On September 27, 1963, Blue
away, though it left some stains. Betty never
will cause the needle to spin.”) Book released the following statement:
wore the dress again.
Returning home late one evening six
The couple tried to reconstruct what had (Continued on Page 41)