Alien Abduction: Looking Back at America’s First Case

livescience ^ | 17 April 2009 | Benjamin Radford

[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.

[Ted Grant]

There you go.

[Vinnie]

I remember when this happened.
Two other incidents pique my interest. ‘Fire from the sky’, the Walton incident and one you don’t hear much about, the Allagash incident.

One thing that puzzles me. The instruments used ,assuming the abductees are providing the info, are very crude. Like something from the 19th Century.

[Vinnie]

That’s ‘Fire in the Sky’.

[quesera]

The Andreason Affair is another worth mentioning.

[Vinnie]

I draw a blank on that one.

[Landru]

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

You're no fun a'tall, because all any self respecting alien knows how to do is "probe".

Or maybe you really meant illegal alien. :o)

[quesera]

I draw a blank on that one.

I mispelled the name, sorry. The religious angle of the story threw me off a bit.

The Andreasson Affair by Raymond E. Fowler Exploring the Betty Andreasson Abductions

Raymond Fowler, author of The Andreasson Affair, has spent a large part of his life investigating Betty Andreasson's abductions. Through hypnosis and her own memory recall, she and Raymond have probed the intricacies of alien abductions. Abductees and researchers alike will appreciate the intensity of research conducted by Raymond. Betty is one of those fortunate abductees who is able to remember either through direct recall or hypnosis the vast array of experiences she has had during her abductions. The book begins with Betty looking down the hallway into the kitchen. Suddenly she sees a dark silhouetted shape popping in front of the light shining through kitchen window, then everything goes black. Through hypnosis Betty recalls they aliens walked through the door. They had large wrap around cat-like eyes, holes for noses and ears and a slit for a mouth. During one of Betty's abductions, she had a powerful religious experience involving the rising up from the ashes of the Phoenix. The ceremony she described under hypnosis was not something she would ever known about or had an opportunity to learn in school, because the things she witnessed came from a culture thousands of years ago. Seeing this 15 foot tall bird burn in the flames of a hot fire caused Betty to undergo an intense religious experience. During another one of Betty's abductions, she had a powerful religious experience involving the resurrection of the Phoenix. The scenario Betty described under hypnosis was unknown to her and came from a culture thousands of years old. Seeing this 15 foot tall bird burn in the flames of a hot fire caused Betty to undergo an intense religious experience.