The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: Canada to Colebrook As they drive on, the roads become narrower, and they are finally in a country setting. It is early in the evening and they are hungry, so they stop at a roadside stand for hamburgers and hot dogs, potato chips, and coffee. Barney … Read more
The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: Canada to Colebrook An analysis of the Hills’ separate recall regarding their abduction would be lacking without a detailed inspection of their individual claims under hypnosis. To facilitate this dissection of material, Kathy transcribed the 10 surviving hypnosis tapes recorded by Dr. Simon and given to … Read more
The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: The Trouble With Betty’s Dreams It is clear that, throughout the Hills’ psychotherapy, Dr. Simon continually tested his hypothesis that Barney had absorbed Betty’s dream material and produced fantasies to fill in the period of missing time. He used suggestion and persuasion in an attempt … Read more
The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: The Trouble With Betty’s Dreams Betty didn’t tell her supervisor about another dream that recurred off and on for a period of time after her sighting. She thought it was irrelevant. However, she discussed it with Dr. Simon at the end of her hypnosis sessions. … Read more
The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: Hypnosis Dr. Simon treated Betty and Barney for dissociative amnesia related to their inability to recall a period of missing time following a close encounter with a UFO. As we mentioned, they first became aware of a period of missing time on the morning of September … Read more
The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: Hypnosis The complex events that precipitated Barney’s psychiatric symptoms commanded expert intervention. With this in mind, Dr. Stevens sought out the best hypnotherapist he could find within commuting distance of the Hills’ Portsmouth, New Hampshire, home. He made a referral to Dr. Benjamin Simon. Benjamin Simon … Read more
The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: The Hills Begin Their Own Investigation On March 12, 1962, Betty and Barney wrote to Dr. Patrick Quirk, a psychiatrist from Georgetown, Massachusetts, to request a Saturday morning appointment, explaining that they were both employed week- days. They enclosed NICAP’s “UFO Investigator,” a bulletin that … Read more
The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: The Hills Begin Their Own Investigation Three of the men obviously knew a lot about Air Force UFO reporting—more than I did—but I didn’t know them. Betty and Barney walked outside with me, and we talked for rather a long time. I was skeptical of … Read more
The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: A Formal Investigation Begins When Hohmann and Jackson visited the Hills on November 25, 1961, Betty and Barney thought that they might finally get some answers to their myriad questions concerning UFOs. The Hills incorrectly assumed that the men were government scientists, visiting in an … Read more
The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: A Formal Investigation Begins A profound sense of curiosity about the UFO encounter in New Hampshire’s White Mountains prompted Betty to visit the Portsmouth Public Library on September 23, 1961, where she checked out The Flying Saucer Conspiracy by Major Donald Keyhoe. Keyhoe, the director … Read more
