Claim

Betty and Barney Hill were taken aboard a non-human craft in New Hampshire in September 1961

Also known as Hill abduction claim

Open. No official finding addresses the abduction account, which emerged under hypnosis in 1964; Project Blue Book's file covers only the light the Hills reported, which it attributed to a temperature inversion and later to Jupiter. (Project Blue Book case file: Lincoln, New Hampshire, September 1961 (the Hill case))

Who has said it, in order

1. 20 September 1961 Project Blue Book — disputes it, documented: Project Blue Book filed the sighting under Lincoln, New Hampshire, 20 September 1961, as "Insufficient Data for Evaluation". Its analysis sheet attributed both a radar return and the visual sighting to a strong temperature inversion, saying the light had "all of the characteristics of an advertising search light". Source: Project Blue Book case file: Lincoln, New Hampshire, September 1961 (the Hill case)
2. 20 September 1961 — disputes it, documented: In 1963 the Air Force's Foreign Technology Division wrote that the sighting had been investigated by officials from Pease AFB, that there were "inconsistencies in the report", and that the object "was in all probability Jupiter". Source: Project Blue Book case file: Lincoln, New Hampshire, September 1961 (the Hill case)
3. 1964 Barney & Betty Hill — says so, first-hand: In a clearing, an object with a ramp and a door filled the space. She is led up the ramp and down a corridor into a room. Source: Betty Hill: original hypnosis session audio with Dr. Benjamin Simon (1964) at 12:10
4. 1964 Barney & Betty Hill — says so, first-hand: The examination: a cluster of needles with wires, then a long needle into her navel, which the leader called a pregnancy test. He stopped the pain by passing his hand before her eyes. Source: Betty Hill: original hypnosis session audio with Dr. Benjamin Simon (1964) at 16:43
5. October 1999 Barney & Betty Hill — says so, first-hand: Betty Hill retold the September 1961 encounter in the White Mountains in a 1999 interview, including the “star map” later linked to Zeta Reticuli. Source: Betty Hill: the “lost” 1999 interview (Portsmouth, NH) at 44:58
6. October 1999 Barney & Betty Hill — context: The interviewer cites the record that Pease AFB radar tracked an unknown object at 2:14 a.m. Betty Hill says Pease released the radar report but the pilots' reports are still classified. Blue Book's analysis sheet attributed the radar return to a temperature inversion. Source: Betty Hill: the “lost” 1999 interview (Portsmouth, NH) at 18:12
7. 2007 Stanton Friedman — says so, relayed: Friedman and Marden present the Hills’ account of being taken aboard a craft in September 1961 as a genuine encounter. Source: openlibrary.org (archived)
8. 29 April 2013 Stanton Friedman — says so, opinion: Asked for the best evidence of beings, Stanton Friedman cites Betty and Barney Hill, “carefully investigated by Dr. Benjamin Simon”, a psychiatrist who held ten hypnosis sessions with each. Source: Citizen Hearing 2013: Roswell, Part 2 at 13:31

Connected files

Incidents

• Betty and Barney Hill abduction (about)

Programs

• Project Blue Book (disputed by)

People

• Barney & Betty Hill (comments by)
• Stanton Friedman (asserted by)

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