Hill, Betty and Barney

Betty and Barney Hill – The Abduction of the Hills in the White Mountains

Barney and Betty Hill were an American couple who claimed they were abducted by extraterrestrials in a rural portion of the state of New Hampshire from September 19 to 20, 1961. Wikipedia
Born: Barney Hill Jr.: July 20, 1922; Newport News, Virginia; Eunice Elizabeth Barrett: June 28, 1919; Newton, New Hampshire
Died: Barney: February 25, 1969 (aged 46); Betty: October 23, 2004 (aged 85); Portsmouth, New Hampshire

“On April the 13th 1987 I met Betty Hill in her house on 953 State Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Together with me was my wife Anneli Åstebro, fellow journalist Rolf Nilsén [RN] and photographer Pär Bäckström [PB] who travelled with me during a vacation in the US. What she revealed to us then has been a topic of great interest for many UFOlogists. Here is the full story.”

UFO Sweden (published for the first time in UFO-Sweden’s magazine UFO-Aktuellt number 3, 1990)  Listen to Betty Hill. 

 

  • The Hill abduction as counter-insurgency (Pt. 1) Is it weird that the “aliens” chose to abduct a far-left interracial couple who were active in the civil rights movement and drew the attention of US intelligence? by Boltzmann Booty AUG 21, 2023

 

“Yesterday I watched a talk titled “Aliens or Alienated: Hidden Assumptions about Race that Persist in Paranormal Cultures” by a person known as Professor Wham:
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[NOTE: Title and Link above updated for accuracy]
It derives in part from her dissertation: Carol Matthews, TAKEN: Constructions of Race, Biology and Colonialism informing the Alien Abduction Narrative in the United States (PhD dissertation, American Studies, University of Kansas, 2001)
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She tells the story of how she was at one of Leo Sprinkle’s gatherings of contactees and she noticed how some nonwhites reacted to a British contactee who answered a question about what the aliens looked like with, “they had white skin – like us.” The next day a woman who had been branded by Nazi soldiers in WW2 excoriated the audience for having assumptions about aliens that they should think twice about. Matthews overheard patronizing remarks by a woman in the audience, dismissing her as having had a really hard time.
She gets into the Hill case, since it is the ur-abduction in America culture and observes that while Betty has a conversation with the aliens in which she learns they are explorers and traders, the aliens only show interest in Barney Hill’s physical attributes. Simon catches on that Barney’s past had episodes in it that explained some of his part of the regression story like once visiting an integrated beach with his prior wife where a white Piper Cub pilot shouted epithets down at them. This did not make it into Fuller’s book because of patient confidentiality. Budd Hopkins would also elide the context of Barney’s biography despite Simon’s warning that Barney’s experience should not be separated from his history as a black man.
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Inevitably I have focused on the matters I found of most interest and likely missed some of the nuances in this too-brief summary. Watch the youtube video to get the full experience. I don’t think any psychosocial thinkers will be disappointed by what she is saying.

 

  • UFOs and Racism (circa April 2018) by Mark O’Connell at HighStrangenessUFO.com (via Archive.org)

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“The Abductors

The abductees’ era starts officially with Barney and Betty Hill abduction in 1961, although their story became known only in 1966. Yet, the story of Villa-Boas in Brazil predates the Hills’ abduction by four years and became known in 1966. The Andreasson case is also an early one that occurred in 1967 but published only in 1974. In the case of abductors, aliens are not so friendly as they take people away against their will. They are described as careless when they do medical examination on their abducted victims. The aliens appear to have a special interest in human reproductive organs, especially the women’s one. Evidence of this type of contact tends to be consistent across the globe, although they are often gathered through hypnosis, which cannot be considered as being a very reliable tool. This type of contact appears to be more frequent since the late 1970s and continues to this day. The sheer number of accounts makes this type of contact hard to dismiss too.

The social-political structure in the case of abductors is actually obvious. It involves again very powerful aliens, but this time they establish a negative and clearly unbalanced power relationship with the abductees. The alien power is being expressed by physical and mental control over the abductees. The locus of power is reproductive capacities, particularly the female’s one. Either a female alien more or less forces a human male to provide semen, or a human female is used as both breeder and biological incubator for alien-human hybrids. The abductees tend to loose credibility and social status if they bring their story in the public realm as they are considered oftentimes as “crackpots” and people in need of seeing a psychiatrist.”

 

Betty Hill's Dress
Betty Hill’s Dress

“Betty, who had noticed a tear on her dress, also discovered some pink powder on the surface of it. She apparently threw the dress away, but would dig it out of the trash within a few days, thinking it provided a clue.”

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“In January and February of 1964, roughly the same exact time as Betty and Barney began undergoing hypnosis with Dr. Benjamin Simon, two episodes of television aired. One was an episode of The Twilight Zone titled “Black Leather Jackets,” and the other an episode of Outer Limits titled “The Bellero Shield.” Both television episodes featured a storyline involving aliens encountering humans in gentle, friendly ways, and included imagery that may have made its way into Betty and Barney’s imagination.”

The Twilight Zone "Black Leather Jackets"
The Twilight Zone “Black Leather Jackets”

 

 

Ed, List, All —

The Interrupted Journey, (Dial hardback) page 298…

Betty Hill in her dream sequence said, ‘Their chests are larger than ours; their noses were larger (longer) than the average size although I have seen people with noses like theirs – like Jimmy Durante’s.

Kevin”

 

Jimmy Durante – We’re Going UFO’ing (1966)

 

“The enduring legacy of “The Bellero Shield” is one you might not expect. This is often credited as the first visual representation of the gray alien. One of the monsters in the episode is an alien species of little grey men: short, bald, and with large wraparound black eyes. The episode even aired shortly before the Betty and Barney Hill abduction story was first reported to Betty’s hypnotherapist. While she claimed to not know what The Outer Limits was, her description of her captors matched the aliens of “The Bellero Shield.””

 

“Main article: Barney and Betty Hill incident

Skeptics have pointed to this episode as an origin for the grey aliens described in the 1961 Betty and Barney Hill abduction. In his 1990 article Entirely Unpredisposed, Martin Kottmeyer suggested that Barney’s memories revealed under hypnosis might have been influenced by the episode, which was broadcast twelve days before Barney’s first hypnotic session. Between the alleged 1961 abduction and the airing of the episode in 1964, Betty Hill’s writings had described the aliens as short black-haired men with large “Jimmy Durante” noses.[3] The episode featured an extraterrestrial with large eyes who says, “In all the universes, in all the unities beyond the universes, all who have eyes have eyes that speak.” The report from the regression featured a scenario that was in some respects similar to the television show. In part, Kottmeyer wrote:[4]

“Wraparound eyes are an extreme rarity in science fiction films. I know of only one instance. They appeared on the alien of an episode of an old TV series The Outer Limits entitled “The Bellero Shield”. A person familiar with Barney’s sketch in “The Interrupted Journey” and the sketch done in collaboration with the artist David Baker will find a “frisson” of “déjà vu” creeping up his spine when seeing this episode. The resemblance is much abetted by an absence of ears, hair, and nose on both aliens. Could it be by chance? Consider this: Barney first described and drew the wraparound eyes during the hypnosis session dated 22 February 1964. “The Bellero Shield” was first broadcast on 10 February 1964. Only twelve days separate the two instances. If the identification is admitted, the commonness of wraparound eyes in the abduction literature falls to cultural forces.”

When a different researcher asked Betty about The Outer Limits, she insisted she had “never heard of it”.[5]

Despite Kottmeyer’s writing that “wraparound eyes are an extreme rarity in science fiction,” exaggeratedly large slanted eyes and a bald head are also features of the “monster” in the following week’s episode, “The Children of Spider County,” which aired only five days before Barney Hill’s hypnosis session.[6]“

 

  • UFOs, Modernity, And The “Laboratory World”: A Postmodernist Probe by T. Peter Park (Archive.org) May 2004

 

  • Dark White: Aliens, Abductions and the UFO Obsession by Jim Schnabel (notes)
    • 21 – bottom – Silent Contactees / Abductees?
    • 22 – top – “bat-man” in Kent 1963, hairy dwarves and Villa Boas
    • 24 – top – circles on trunk lid of Betty/Barney Hill car, poltergeists, MIB

 

Hill, Betty and Barney – University of New Hampshire Library

 

Videos

LOST BETTY HILL INTERVIEW (New Angle)

 

The Lost Betty Hill Interview (Full Length)

 

Examining Betty Hill’s Alien Abduction Dress | Episode 003 | Haunted Objects Podcast

 

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Barney Hill on To Tell the Truth – Need to Know

 

 

 

 

 

Dramatic Portrayels

The UFO Incident (1975)

 

The Lost Honeymoon of Betty and Barney Hill — “Dark Skies” (NBC)