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The Betty and Barney

Hill Abduction Case

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“The Barney Hill sighting was investigated by
officials from Pease AFB. The case is carried as
insufficient data in the Air Force Files. No
direction (azimuth) was reported and there are
inconsistencies in the report. The sighting
occurred about midnight and the object was
observed for at least one hour. No specific
details on maneuverability were given. The
planet Jupiter was in the South West, at about 20
degrees elevation [,] and would have set at the
approximate time that the object disappeared.
Without positional data the case could not be
evaluated at Jupiter. There was a strong witness - along with the very real fear of being understand her answers. For example, he shook
[temperature] inversion in the area. The actual captured adding to imagined fears - that his his head when she answered his inquiry about
light source is not known. As no lateral or mind finally refused to believe what his eyes her and Barney’s ages. When she talked about
vertical movement was noted, the object was in were perceiving and a mental block resulted.” the foods human beings eat, he seemed
all probability Jupiter. No evidence was In November Betty recorded her still confused.
presented to indicate that the object was due to sharp memories of her dreams, which were He then said he wished to perform a few
other than natural causes.” remarkable indeed. They were also terrifying, simple tests on her. Harmless and painless, they
she wrote, “greater than I had ever believed would determine the differences between his
Series of Dreams possible.” people and human beings. The leader then

Betty dreamed that she was struggling to returned to the room and watched as Betty was
Unable to get the incident out of her mind, Betty regain consciousness. Finally able to open her sat on a stool with a bright light shining down on
took out some UFO books from the Portsmouth eyes (in the dream), she saw herself on a path in her. Standing in front of her, the doctor
library and they wrote Keyhoe. When Webb the woods. On either side of her was a man. Two examined her hair and cut off a sample from the
conducted a six-hour interview with the couple men were in front of her, two men behind her. left rear of her head. He studied her mouth,
on October 21, he found that their apparent Men also surrounded Barney, who looked as if throat, ears, hands, and fingernails, taking a
amnesia concerning some parts of the episode he was sleep walking. He did not respond when piece of the last. Next he looked at her feet. Then
had unsettled them profoundly. Betty also Betty called his name, and Betty did not respond he ran a slender, letter-opener-shaped instrument
reported that one and a half to two weeks after when the man to her left asked if Barney was his along her arms and handed the scrapings to the
the UFO incident she had six straight nights’ name. She and Barney would be given some leader, who placed them on glass slides.
worth of extremely vivid nightmares, unlike any tests, then released unharmed and in short order. Betty was then asked to lay on an
she had ever experienced before. They were so The man spoke English clearly, though in a examination table. The doctor pulled a machine
lifelike she could not stop thinking about them foreign accent. His companions were silent. over. It looked, Betty thought, like “the wires of
even during the day. The strange figures were slightly over an EEG, but no tracing machine was seen.” He
By the time the Hill case had run its five feet tall, with oversized chests and noses, explained that he wanted to check her nervous
course, investigators would see these sorts of black hair and dark eyes. Their skin was gray. system. He proceeded to touch various parts of
details - missing time, fragmented memories, They wore uniforms consisting of trousers, short her anatomy with the needles. Her dress was
inexplicable anxieties and obsessions - as jackets, slip-on shoes or boots, and caps similar removed because it was getting in the way. Next,
symptomatic of an abduction experience. But to those worn by the Air Force, “but not so broad the doctor produced a needle, four to six inches
when Webb met the couple, only a few scattered at the top.” long, and announced that he was going to
accounts by individuals who claim to have been Betty and Barney were ked to a metallic conduct a pregnancy test. It would not hurt, he
grabbed by UFO entities seemingly intent on disc-shaped structure “almost as wide as my assured her. Suddenly he thrust the needle into
kidnapping them had been recorded. Most were house is ling,” Betty noted. They stepped onto a her naval, and Betty writhed in agony, startling
from South America. One prominent kidnapping ramp which led to the rear of the craft, and they both the doctor and the leader. The leader waved
claim, from Domsten, Sweden, in December entered through a door. At this moment Betty his hand in front of her eyes, and the pain
1958, was later exposed as a hoax. Noting like froze in fear and stopped in her tracks. The instantly disappeared.
the modern abduction phenomenon was known leader told her that the longer she refused to “At that moment I became very
or even suspected in 1961. Thus Webb cannot be cooperate, the longer she would be away from grateful...and lost all fear of him,” Betty noted.
blamed for dismissing as irrelevant what would her car. Betty stepped inside and strolled along a The leader said that if they had known the test
turn out to be crucial clues to the case’s hidden corridor which followed the curve of the ship. would cause her pain, they would not have done
dimension and most dramatic aspect. In his As she and the leader went into the first it.
October 26 report to NICAP, Webb wrote: room along the corridor, she was alarmed when The testing completed, the doctor left as
“In his conversation with me (and with she saw that Barney was being led farther on. the leader gathered up the samples and placed
his wife since the sighting) a mental block Why could she not be examined in the same them in a drawer. He said the doctor had gone
occurred when he mentioned the ‘leader’ room with her husband? The leader replied in an off to finish testing Barney. Soon the couple
peering out the window at him. Mr. Hill believes exasperated tome that it would take twice as would be allowed to return to the car.
he saw something he doesn’t want to remember. long that way. Then four or five men briefly In the time that remained, Betty
He claimed that he was not close enough to see came into the room, only to leave when yet conversed with the leader, who said he would
any facial characteristics on the figures, another man, who would do the examining, answer her questions if he could. The exchange
although at another time he referred to one of stepped inside. In a pleasant, reassuring tone he was interrupted, however, when a number of
them looking over his shoulder and grinning and asked Betty a number of questions. Though he crew members rushed into the room in a state of
to the leader’s expressionless face. However, it is spoke in English, the doctor, as Betty would excitement or agitation.
my view that the observer’s blackout is not of think of him, had an imperfect command of the
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experience was so improbable and fantastic to him. At the same time he did not always