Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: Betty’s Fall From Grace (Part 2)

The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: Betty’s Fall From Grace In retrospect, it seems that Robert Hohmann’s recruitment of Betty to participate in psi experiments precipitated a feeling of confidence in her ability to contact UFOs. Her participation in continuing psi experiments under the observation of an experimental psychiatrist and a college … Read more

Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: Betty’s Fall From Grace (Part 1)

The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: Betty’s Fall From Grace Marjorie Fish’s star map investigation brought renewed scientific interest to the Hill abduction. For many people in the scientific community it represented tangible, measurable evidence that the abduction hypothesis was highly probable. This gave new life to Betty’s commitment to solving the … Read more

Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: The Dress Analysis

The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: The Dress Analysis On the morning of September 20, 1961, Betty removed the blue acetate sheath dress that she had worn on the drive home from Canada, folded it, and placed it in the back of her closet. It was a new dress that had never … Read more

Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: Disbelievers and Disinformants (Part 4)

The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: Disbelievers and Disinformants She apparently feels she has exhaustively studied the UFO phenomena as well as abductions: “So far as we know, there is no evidence that aliens exist. You can’t disprove alien abductions. All you can do is to argue they’re improbable.” No argument is … Read more

Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: Disbelievers and Disinformants (Part 3)

The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: Disbelievers and Disinformants The fourth type of scientific activity is the most relevant. These are events involving unexpected observations by untrained personnel of events involving intelligence (such as automobile accidents, airplane crashes, bank robberies, rapes, and so on). Here, eyewitness testimony can be crucial, and scientific … Read more

Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: Disbelievers and Disinformants (Part 2)

The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: Disbelievers and Disinformants The late Philip J. Klass, who was for many years the noisiest of the anti-UFO negativists, had, of course, attacked the Hill case. He often almost ludicrously claimed that there were no UFO sightings for which he couldn’t find a prosaic explanation. The … Read more

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