Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: Disbelievers and Disinformants (Part 1)

The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: Disbelievers and Disinformants It should be no surprise to anybody that the Hill case in general, and the star map work in particular, have been attacked, sometimes viciously and almost always irrationally, by the small group of nasty, noisy, negativists making up the UFO debunker community. … Read more

Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: The Star Map Investigation (Part 3)

The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: The Star Map Investigation Furthermore, it seems reasonable to expect that a special location, with two older sun-like stars in relatively close proximity to each other, would become the hub of the local neighborhood. They might well be expected to colonize and migrate and patrol … Read more

Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: The Star Map Investigation (Part 2)

The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: The Star Map Investigation Fish’s work was a splendid example of persistence and objectivity. She had to copy out all the coordinates, convert the data to useful angles and distances, string the beads, and hang them. Subsequently, she had to scan the results from many … Read more

Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: The Star Map Investigation (Part 1)

The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: The Star Map Investigation Stanton Friedman met Marjorie Fish in 1971 through a referral from Coral Lorenzen, cofounder of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization. During a subsequent visit to Fish’s home, he was impressed by her intellectual curiosity and precise attention to detail. Additionally, her … Read more

Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: Life Without Barney (Part 2)

The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: Life Without Barney Soon, Betty’s phone began to ring incessantly. Television and radio programs had been interrupted to announce Barney’s untimely death, and the media wanted more information. Finally, at 4 a.m., Betty dropped into bed, confused and completely exhausted, for a three-hour nap. Friends and … Read more

Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: Life Without Barney (Part 1)

The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: Life Without Barney During the promotion of the book, the Hills were besieged with a variety of health problems. In 1967, Betty’s health had declined to the degree that she requested a transition from full-time to part-time employment at the Welfare Department. In a letter dated … Read more

Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: Sky Watch 1967

The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: Sky Watch 1967 The Hills’ spirit of scientific cooperation led to a plan, coordinated for the experimental team by Robert Hohmann, to again attempt contact with the ETs on June 10, 1967. Betty’s parents agreed to host the experimental team at their Kingston, N.H. farm, while … Read more

Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: Psychophysics Experiments (Part 1)

The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: Psychophysics Experiments Three and a half years after their initial contact, Robert Hohmann, the second investigator to examine the Hill case, penned a letter to NICAP’s original investigator, Walter Webb. Hohmann, a scientific writer, wrote that he had heard via NICAP Director Dick Hall that … Read more

Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: Psychophysics Experiments (Part 2)

The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: Psychophysics Experiments It seems more than a coincidence that, according to Betty, her Portsmouth home was entered and uncanny events transpired almost immediately after her contact attempts were initiated. Given the multiple-witness component to some of the paranormal events, one must place these reported phenomena … Read more

Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: Psychophysics Experiments (Part 3)

The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: Psychophysics Experiments In a letter to Hohmann dated April 29, 1966, Betty indicated that her “psychophysics” experiments seemed to have reaped limited success. She wrote: As you will remember, I suggested that they go to my parents’ home in Kingston and knock on the door, … Read more