Posted on 02/21/2009 6:30:20 PM PST by JoeProBono
Umm...isn’t it kinda weird their names are Betty and Barney?
Kidnapped by the Great Gazoo?
Leni
dont bet too much.
LOL!!
Betty Hill, 85, Figure in Alien Abduction Case, Dies
By MARGALIT FOX
Published: October 23, 2004
Betty Hill, whose assertion that she was carried off by otherworldly beings in 1961 inspired a national obsession with alien abduction that remains a staple of American popular culture, died on Sunday at her home in Portsmouth, N.H. She was 85.
The cause was lung cancer, her niece Kathleen Marden said.
Mrs. Hill was not the first person to tell of an alien encounter. But her account was the first to capture the public imagination on a grand scale, defining a narrative subgenre that has flourished in the decades since.
Mrs. Hill's account was the subject of a book by John G. Fuller, "The Interrupted Journey: Two Lost Hours 'Aboard a Flying Saucer' " (Dial, 1966). In 1975 it became a television movie, "The UFO Incident." The film starred Estelle Parsons as Mrs. Hill and James Earl Jones as her husband, Barney, who also said he was abducted.
The incident, the Hills said, occurred on the night of Sept. 19, 1961. Driving in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, they saw a light that seemed to grow larger and larger. Back home, they found what appeared to be shiny spots on the car's exterior. They could not account for a two-hour segment of their trip.
The Hills later saw a psychiatrist, who put them under hypnosis. Gradually, a narrative of the couple's lost hours emerged. They recounted many times that a group of short gray-skinned beings stopped their car and took them aboard a waiting spaceship. There, the Hills said, they were subjected to rigorous medical examinations that included inserting a long needle into Mrs. Hill's navel.
The account fit squarely in the Western narrative tradition. With a dark night, ghostly apparitions and sexual undercurrent, it had many Victorian gothic hallmarks, and it shared the common Western folklore theme of being spirited off and ravished by an otherworldly creature.
In the Hills' account, these traditional elements were transplanted to a modern but no less anxious time, the height of the cold war, when many people gazed nervously skyward.
"It's not unlike the Leda and the swan myth," said Terry Matheson, a professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan and the author of "Alien Abductions: Creating a Modern Phenomenon" (Prometheus, 1998). "The alien comes in, probes women in a distinctly sexual way for purposes that are equally inscrutable, but which may, we're told, make sense down the road."
Mrs. Hill was born Eunice Elizabeth Barrett on June 28, 1919, in Newton, N.H. A graduate of the University of New Hampshire, she was a social worker for many years. Besides her niece, survivors include three sisters, two children and three grandchildren. Mr. Hill died in 1969.
The Hills' cultural legacy includes films ("Close Encounters of the Third Kind"), television programs ("Roswell") and books, like those by Whitley Strieber and John Mack, that treat alien abduction as a plausible phenomenon.
I remember seeing the movie with James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons:
The UFO Incident (1975) (TV)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073834/
Looks like you can watch it on YouTube too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsrsxtGSDcM&feature=related
Only through hypnosis, did they find out what happened to them (or so says the hypno-therapy, which can also help you recall your previous lives, like the woman who was hypnotized on TV and recalled working as a prostitute in the Wild West!)
Some of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, a little over 60 years
ago, witnesses claim that an unidentified flying object (UFO) with
five aliens aboard crashed onto a sheep and cattle ranch just outside
Roswell , New Mexico . This is a well known incident that many say has
long been covered up by the U.S. Air Force and other federal agencies
and organizations.
However, what you may NOT know is that in the month of April 1948,
nine months after that historic day, the following people were born:
Albert A. Gore, Jr.
Hillary Rodham
John F. Kerry
William J. Clinton
Howard Dean
Nancy Pelosi
Dianne Feinstein
Charles E. Schumer
Barbara Boxer
See what happens when aliens breed with sheep?
I certainly hope this bit of information clears up a lot of things for you. It did for me.
No wonder they love to support legislation to help illegal aliens!
Now You Know.
Ping.
After a long night time drive they arrived at their destination much later than the distance driven would require and could not account for the missing time. Thus the saga begins. Didn't Betty become a favorite guest speaker at UFO gatherings?
There have been many UFO sightings in the NH seacoast area (the Pease Air Force Base used to be there).
Another famous one is the “Exeter incident.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeter_incident
Part II of 10 The UFO incident:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R4JyJN5aLU&feature=related
I found a site hawking it for $99. I read it. It was a joke. Here's the blurb from the site:
* THE DAY AFTER ROSWELL: A Former Pentagon Official Reveals the US Government's Shocking UFO Cover-Up, by COL. PHILIP J. CORSO (Ret.). Foreword by US Senator Strom Thurmond. Amazing revelations by a top US military man directly involved in dispersing alien artifacts from the crash of a UFO at Roswell, New Mexico, to major companies who then developed integrated computer chips, fiber optics, lasers and more. The author is a former member of the National Security Council under Eisenhower. The Foreword by Senator Thurmond created a big fuss, as he claimed he did not know his letter of endorsement would be published, so this was removed from subsequent editions and printings. This is therefore a unique Collector's Item! In mint, brand-new condition, with dust cover. No shelf wear. 341 pp. $ 99.00 HardboundJust for factual purposes, the comments about Thurmond are incorrect. Here's what actually happened. Phillip Corso had been an aide to Thurmond. Before publishing the book, he asked Thurmond to write a foreword. I read the foreword. It's standard boilerplate, in all likelihood written by one of Thurmond's aides. It compliments Corso as a good man and all around great guy with a commendable service record. There's no mention of UFOs or the subject of the book. Thurmond had this foreword written as a favor to a former aide, and it was totally general. He had no idea the book was this UFO junk. When he found out, he asked that his foreword be removed. The text was obviously written as a foreword, and Thurmond doubtless thought the book would be a military personal life story or some such.
This story may be the REAL one, but I've seen way too many Bigfoot in a Freezer stories to go snipe hunting again.
Slightly off topic perhaps, but Betty Rubble is one of those cartoon characters who has always been on my "anywhere, anytime" list.
She and Judy Jetson.
And the Flying Nun too, though I realize she's not a cartoon.
Funny, but debunked.
Oh my!
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