GERMAN RESEARCHERS PROPOSE NEW SOLUTION TO THE "BETTY HILL
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occurred on September 19, 1961 on US Route 3 near the village of
Lancaster. Barney and Betty Hill of Portsmouth, New Hampshire
were traveling home after a vacation in Canada when they saw a
moving light in the sky. Every now and then they would stop and
check on the unusual light that seemed to "fly" an erratic course.
They drove on towards the White Mountains, noting that the object
was now much larger and following a parallel course to their car.
Approaching Indian Head, the light appeared directly ahead of them.
Barney Hill left the engine running and got out of the car to observe
the strange object with a pair of binoculars. He observed what he
described as "5 to 11 figures moving behind a double row of
windows". Betty Hill, who was observing her husband from her side of
the car, heard her husband repeating, "I don't believe it! I don't believe
it! This is ridiculous!" She, however, was unable to see the figures or
the descent of the UFO. The object was now approximately 70-feet
overhead and about 100-feet distant when Barney Hill ran back to the
car exclaiming, "They are going to capture us!". He got back in the
car and drove away at a 'break-neck' speed. During this time Betty
Hill was still unable to see the object but her husband thought that it
was directly over the car. They heard a loud beeping noise, similar to
the sound of a "tuning fork", and then they felt very drowsy.
When they awoke, they found themselves driving near Ashland, two
hours later. Ashland is
35- miles south of Indian Head, a twenty or
thirty minute drive.
They continued their drive home, feeling somewhat
uneasy and confused
about their missing two hours.
The next day they
reported their experience to officials at Pease Air
Force Base. A few days
later, an investigator from the National
Investigations
Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) documented
both of their
stories.
Their experience was
far from over. Within ten days of the incident,
Betty Hill began having
recurring nightmares in which 8 to 11 "men"
would stand in the
middle of the road and stop the Hills' car. They
would then be led into
a disk-shaped craft and examined. Samples of
hair and skin would be
taken. Continued anxiety led both of the Hills
to seek the help of Dr.
Benjamin Simon, a Boston psychiatrist who
specialized in treating
personality disorders and amnesia through
hypnotherapy.
Their treatment
lasted for six months. With time regression hypnosis,
many details of their
encounter were revealed. The detail in which
both Hills described
their abductors and the subsequent examination
matched closely to each
other as well as to Betty Hill's nightmares.
Betty Hill, under
posthypnotic suggestion, was able to draw a "star
map" detailing the
origin of the alien abductors. The amazing
configuration of
Betty's map was not to be realized for some years.
An astronomical
investigation, based on information that was not
available in 1961,
produced a controversial match between Betty's
"star map"
and a cluster of previously unknown stars near two stars
called Zeta
Reticuli.
Dr. Simon later
stated that his professional opinion of the Hill's
abduction account was
that it was mere fantasy. As a prominent
Boston psychiatrist, it
would be particularly damaging to his
reputation to 'believe'
that the Hill's story was anything but a product
of their collective
imaginations. His reasoning for his conclusion was
that "people do
not necessarily tell the factual truth while they are
under hypnosis--all
they tell is what they believe to be the truth."
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