Betty Hill Dies Oct. 17 at Age 85

Above Photo of Betty Hill in UFO Review Magazine

September 19, 1961- On Route 3, New Hampshire, traveling home from a vacation in Canada at around 10:15pm, Betty and Barney Hill -- a couple most likely not to desire any special attention drawn to themselves as they were interracial in the early 60s -- spotted a bright star which seemed to be keeping pace with their vehicle. After losing sight of it for a time, it reappeared in front of them and Barney stopped the car at Indian Head to get a look at it through binoculars.

Betty and Barney continued their journey home that night and found that they had lost about 2 hours time.  They both began having severe nightmares. They visited Dr. Benjamin Simon (Boston psychiatrist) who hypnotized both of them (independently) and found that they revealed a story about being abducted by unknown creatures and were taken aboard a craft.  This is the first publicized story on alien abduction.  The stories later appeared in a series of five articles in Look Magazine in 1965.  Their story later appeared in a book titled "Interrupted Journey" by John Fuller.  The book was made into a movie titled "UFO Incident."  Barney preceded Betty in death and died in 1969 at the age of 46.