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Alien Abduction: Looking Back at America’s First Case
livescience ^ | 17 April 2009 | Benjamin Radford

Posted on 04/17/2009 2:34:19 PM PDT by JoeProBono

The University of New Hampshire today is hosting a public forum surrounding a new exhibition called the "Betty and Barney Hill Collection." The Hills were an interracial couple in the 1960s, and the exhibit discusses Barney Hill's civil rights activism. However, the couple is best known for giving the first reported incident of an alleged alien abduction in America. Today, due to television shows and films, the scenario is familiar:

UFOs chase down terrified witnesses on a desolate road and take them onto the spaceship to ask them questions or probe them in awkward places. It began one night when Barney and Betty Hill claimed they were pursued by a glowing UFO through parts of New Hampshire. Betty soon had vivid nightmares (which she interpreted as fragmented memories) about the incident, and the couple came to believe that they had been abducted by the UFO's occupants, who then erased their memories. The couple sought the help of a psychiatrist, and under hypnosis both Hills soon reported full-blown, detailed "repressed memories" of their abduction.

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TOPICS: UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: barneyhill; bettyandbarney; bettyandbarneyhill; bettyhill; bettyndbarneyhill; fredandwilma; ufo
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Betty Hill 1919-2004

Barney Hill 1921-1969


1 posted on 04/17/2009 2:34:19 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono; Quix
Over to you Dr. Quix
2 posted on 04/17/2009 2:44:49 PM PDT by starlifter (Sapor Amo Pullus)
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To: starlifter

You’ve got the right two people together!


3 posted on 04/17/2009 2:47:58 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (When you're RuPaul posing as the wife of the president, you need all the make-up help you can get.)
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To: ConservativeMind

I certainly don’t know about abductions and all that. But a lot of stories are similar.

And with probing different areas, a lot of stories focus on the reproductive system. Aliens apparently like to harvest sperm and egg cells, for who knows what purpose.
They take blood and tissue samples, as they are so curious about earthlings and want to study us.


4 posted on 04/17/2009 2:50:32 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: starlifter
James Earl Jones as Barney


5 posted on 04/17/2009 2:50:59 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: starlifter; ALASKA; ActionNewsBill; airborne; albertp; areafiftyone; aruanan; ...
Ha! I pinged the list before the good doctor...!

PINGING........

6 posted on 04/17/2009 2:53:39 PM PDT by Las Vegas Dave ("Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: JoeProBono

I think being abducted by aliens would be kind of cool. But I would draw the line at being “probed”.


7 posted on 04/17/2009 2:57:50 PM PDT by LiberConservative (0bama is to the presidency what Kenny G is to jazz.)
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To: Las Vegas Dave; starlifter; ALASKA; ActionNewsBill; airborne; albertp; areafiftyone; aruanan
Side bar...

Folks are asking; "What do we do after the Tea Parties?"

I am (and have been) taking individual action.

Everywhere I go I carry loose tea bags. I leave one behind. At the bank, on the train, at the gas pump, at the library, especially at Borders Books.

I have left over a hundred so far. My favorite was a teabag looped over the ears of a life-sized cardboard figure of TOTUS in Union Station in DC. I pulled back and watched the reactions of passers-by. People do notice...and that is the point.

If hundreds of us did this (or thousands) in every state we could make it a "Kilroy Was Here" legend and drive the commie bastards crazy.

8 posted on 04/17/2009 3:00:36 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: LiberConservative

9 posted on 04/17/2009 3:03:54 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: wtc911

Teabags hung on POTUS ears; a good idea. Cheap and effective, and easy to do.


10 posted on 04/17/2009 3:10:04 PM PDT by Twinkie (HITLER WAS A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER.)
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To: JoeProBono

I don’t completely dismiss the idea of UFO’s being space ships tho I think it very unlikely.

On the other hand, alien abductions are the pure lunatic fringe.


11 posted on 04/17/2009 3:12:34 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Twinkie

12 posted on 04/17/2009 3:15:00 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

/for later


13 posted on 04/17/2009 3:33:42 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: starlifter

Thanks, Will try and check it out more when I get home.

Dr Qx is at the college for one of those end of semester meet n greet horse’s ovaries things.


14 posted on 04/17/2009 3:47:53 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: yarddog

15 posted on 04/17/2009 3:54:49 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

I’m not sure which is more entertaining — the claims of alien abduction — or the inevitable efforts to prove or disprove them. :)


16 posted on 04/17/2009 4:01:00 PM PDT by Continental Soldier
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To: JoeProBono

That is the best mixing of two threads - EVER!!


17 posted on 04/17/2009 6:13:08 PM PDT by BagCamAddict ("Wolverines!!")
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To: Twinkie

Indeed...the entire US has been abducted by an alien


18 posted on 04/17/2009 6:17:42 PM PDT by xp38
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To: JoeProBono

Repressed memories are a dicey subject - everything from genuine incidents to wild fantasy can come up as a ‘repressed memory.’

I wouldn’t place much faith in findings that come from hypnosis, without some physical, corroborating evidence.


19 posted on 04/17/2009 6:23:43 PM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: Ted Grant

20 posted on 04/17/2009 6:37:09 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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