Betty / Barney Hill Abduction (New Hampshire; 1961)

[charliebrown]

According to wikipedia, in 1977 ufologist John Oswald spent time with Betty Hill, and he claimed that Betty would go outside at night longing and calling for the UFO to return to her.

It sounded like Betty was lonely.

It also sounded like she did not feel the UFO occupants were not a threat.

 

[EnolaGaia]

It also sounded like she did not feel the UFO occupants were not a threat.

Just for the sake of clarity ... You mean your impression was that Betty didn't feel the UFO occupants represented a threat - right?

(The double negative makes it seem that she did consider them a threat.)

 

[charliebrown]

It sounded to me she would like to the UFO occupants for tea and discuss the situation.

It seems the E.T.s were not a threat to her.

 

[Paul_Exeter]

 

[Paul_Exeter]

The is a new book out on this case:

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300251386/theanomalist

Here is a review:

"Bowman’s new book, The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill (Yale University Press) takes an unusually political approach to ufology, using the story of the most famous case of alien abduction as a framework for exploring the social, cultural, and political upheavals that transformed FDR’s America into Reagan’s. In theory, this might have been a fruitful way to locate the abduction phenomenon in the context of the forces that gave rise to what Bowman himself concedes was almost certainly not an actual encounter with space aliens. In practice, however, the book never quite delivers on that promise and instead tends to alternate between passages of compelling narrative and long digressions into politics that Bowman doesn’t quite tie convincingly to the experiences of abductees Betty and Barney Hill. As an academic, Bowman is hesitant to draw strong conclusions, and this undercuts what could have been a strong book."

https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/...on-of-betty-and-barney-hill-by-matthew-bowman

 

[ramonmercado]

Their granddaughter Angela Hill is an UFC fighter. Does she have Alien enhancements?

UFC strawweight Angela Hill has many interests. She is a high-level mixed martial artist, a cosplayer, a fan of video games and a believer that "the truth is out there".

Hill is a follower of the extra-terrestrial, a watcher of the skies - she has no doubt that aliens exist, and there is good reason for it.

Her family has a special place in UFO folklore.

On a September night in 1961, Hill's grandparents, Barney and Betty, believed they were abducted by aliens.

"It has always been a part of our family history," Hill tells BBC Sport.

"It has always been a fact to us. We know something happened, even if it isn't exactly what has been put out there."

It is one of America's most famous alien abduction tales and has been adapted into a best-selling book, The Interrupted Journey, and TV show The UFO Incident.

Barney and Betty said they saw an unusual spacecraft when driving back to their home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire after a vacation at Niagara Falls in 1961.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/mixed-martial-arts/67292222

 

[Paul_Exeter]

New book out and getting positive reviews:

The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America​

"A gripping account of an alien abduction and its connections to the breakdown of American society in the 1960s

“Excellent and exhaustive.”―Colin Dickey, Slate

In the mid-1960s, Betty and Barney Hill became famous as the first Americans to claim that aliens had taken them aboard a spacecraft against their will. Their story―involving a lonely highway late at night, lost memories, and medical examinations by small gray creatures with large eyes―has become the template for nearly every encounter with aliens in American popular culture since.

Historian Matthew Bowman examines the Hills’ story not only as a foundational piece of UFO folklore but also as a microcosm of 1960s America. The Hills, an interracial couple who lived in New Hampshire, were civil rights activists, supporters of liberal politics, and Unitarians. But when their story of abduction was repeatedly ignored or discounted by authorities, they lost faith in the scientific establishment, the American government, and the success of the civil rights movement.

Bowman tells the fascinating story of the Hills as an account of the shifting winds in American politics and culture in the second half of the twentieth century. He exposes the promise and fallout of the idealistic reforms of the 1960s and how the myth of political consensus has given way to the cynicism and conspiratorialism and the paranoia and illusion of American life today."

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0300251386?linkCode=gg2&tag=theanomalist