Pseudo-Skeptical Science: Betty and Barney Hill Abduction Case

americanchronicle ^ | February 21, 2009 | Steve Bass

[DJ MacWoW]

It has always bothered me that people that claim alien abduction always describe painful “medical tests” (that included inserting a long needle into Mrs. Hill’s navel.). If aliens are sophisticated enough to get here, why would they be using “horse doctor” medical techniques?

[JoeProBono]

[DJ MacWoW]

Looks like an Asgard. Well actually Thor was “cuter”.

[Kirkwood]

The naivete of such accounts clearly show that they come from the overactive imagination of simple-minded people.

[Krankor]

Well, if you’re talking about “anywhere, anytime”, I gotta go with Arlene Golonka (Howard Sprague’s girlfriend) and Teresa Ganzel (hot actress and cartoon voice). Both, sadly, way over the hill now.

[wally_bert]

Wilma Flintsone is the sexiest woman in the universe. She will never leave Fred. I'd go with Betty but I would be thinking of Wilma.

That is after 3 million years in deep space.....

[GrannyK]

I know, but it was good for a laugh....ha!

[DJ MacWoW]

I can’t say that as when I was a teenager, my sister, brother and I saw what could be classed as a UFO. I have no idea what it was but I can say it didn’t fly like anything I’d seen before or since.

[Quix]

IIRC, they were examined about every which was was routine at the time.

[Diogenesis]

[Quix]

Great posts thanks.

[FrdmLvr]

My aunt and uncle had friends named Bert and Ernie, the woman’s name was Bert. I forgot what it was short for.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Be creepy if it were true, though. BTW, Hillary actually was born 3 months after the Roswell Incident.

[hinckley buzzard]

This buffoonery was totally discredited about twenty years ago by CSICOP. Like the zombies though, it never seems to die...

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[hinckley buzzard]

Anyone ignorant enough to believe this garbage, I don't ever want to see you question global warming, crop circles, or any other junk science. You suck down this kool-aid, you cross a line you can't come back from. You're stuck on Zeta, a-holes, whether you like it or not.

[beaversmom]

My dad, three older brothers, and neighbors saw one in Montomery, Alabama in the late 1960’s. Unfortunately I was a baby. My brothers saw it first and were very excitedly trying to get my dad to come out. He didn’t believe them at first. It came in over a pasture, then I believe it disappeared very quickly. Neighbors were out as well looking at it. Neighbors didn’t know what to make of it. My dad called up the local news station to report it, and they wanted my dad’s name—which he wouldn’t give. He was in the A.F. at the time and didn’t want any government visitors I guess. I think the official verdict was that it was a bread advertisement :) According to my dad and brothers it was a typical flying saucer shape and had lights around it. It disappeared very quickly. They don’t know what it was, but didn’t buy the bread advertisement deal.

[DJ MacWoW]

It was night and we couldn’t see the shape but it had a row of lights. We were aged 16, 17 and 19. And not given to odd fantasies. The thing hovered, zipped a distance, hovered again, then disappeared. I’ve never seen anything fly that fast.

[beaversmom]

You are basically describing the same thing my dad and brothers described they saw. It seems to me this was all happening before the sun set. Be interesting if there was a way to pull up any accounts of it in the papers in Montgomery at the time. When did this happen to you and your friends—60’s, 70’s?