We Are Not Alone: Betty and Barney Hill Abduction In 1961, the first abduction case was brought to the public’s attention, this case is known as the “Betty and Barney Hill Abduction”. Betty and Barney Hill, an American couple, reported seeing an UFO and experienced a period of missing time while on a car journey back home. According to the Hills, the alleged UFO abduction happened on September 19, 1961 around 10:30 P.M. to September 20, 1961 1:00 A.M. near White Mountain, New Hampshire while driving on U.S. Route 3. While on driving on U.S. Route 3, Betty observed a falling star, however; the star began to grow bigger and brighter. Betty urged Barney to stop the car for them to take a closer look. Through binoculars, Betty and Barney saw an …show more content…
odd craft flashing multicolored lights. The Hills rushed back to car and began to drive home, but continued to keep a close eye on the strange craft in the night sky. One mile south of Indian Head, the object came towards the Hills’ vehicle causing Barney to come to a stop in the middle of the highway. Barney stepped outside of the vehicle and went to take a closer look with the binoculars. He said he saw about eight to eleven unhuman figures who peered from the windows of the craft. Barney hysterically tore the binoculars away from his eyes and ran back to the car and took off in a hurry. The Hills then claimed to of heard a series of beeping sounds and felt a tingling sensation pass through their bodies and suddenly both fell to an out of conscious state. They came back to full conscious when they heard another series of beeping. However, they had traveled thirty-five miles but had no recollection of traveling this far. The Hills also did not arrive home until 5:00 A.M., arriving much later than they expected. They were puzzled because they couldn’t recalled what had happen in the past two hours. Based on the Hills being good-hearted people with no desire of interest in UFOs or extraterrestrial beings, reliable analyses, including Dr. Benjamin Simon’s reports during the Hill’s hypnosis sessions, and convincing physical evidence, points to the likelihood that the abduction of Betty and Barney Hill was a genuine contact from extraterrestrial beings. The Hills were trustworthy and ordinary people with no prior interest in the topics of UFOs or extraterrestrial beings. Betty was a social worker and Barney worked for the U.S. Postal Service. Both of the Hills were positively well-known in the state of New Hampshire for their civil rights activities and political rights activities. There were active members of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a civil rights organization for ethnic minorities in United States. The Hills were an interracial couple and at the period of this time this was consider to be uncommon. Barney was African American and Betty was European American. Betty and Barney Hill wanted no publicity because of them being an interracial couple could cause more trouble. However, they expected to lose their jobs instantly and their reputations within their community to go tumbling after publicly speaking about their abduction. Although, some people responded negatively and the Hills received several death threats occasionally, the Hills never changed their story. Betty began to have a series of startling nightmares about an abduction from aliens and an UFO several days after the abduction. For more than two years, Betty’s nightmares persisted and Barney soon started to developed health issues. The Hills finally seek for help from Dr. Benjamin Simon. Dr.
Benjamin Simon, a Boston psychiatrist specializing in hypnosis, agreed to conduct an analysis on the Hills. He used a technique called regression hypnosis to help unlock the Hills’ forgotten memories. Dr. Simon began hypnotizing the Hills on January 4, 1964. He hypnotized Betty and Barney several times each, and the sessions lasted until June 6, 1964. Simon made sure to conduct the sessions on Barney and Betty separately to assure that one could not overhear another’s memories. Simon hypnotized Barney first. However, “Barney, who admitted that he had overheard snippets of Betty’s dreams, informed Dr. Simon, ‘I just told her it was a dream and nothing to get alarmed about…I can’t believe whatever these dreams are that she is having…I never believed her dreams.’(March, 21, 1964 hypnosis transcript)” Dr. Simon kept this noted while analyzing Barney’s hypnosis to be assure he was just not repeating Betty’s dream. Barney recalls witnessing non-human figures but kept his eyes closed for much of the abduction and physical examination due to being scared. Barney exhibited considerable fear and emotional distress during majority of his hypnosis sessions. Although, Barney’s recollection were very alike to Betty’s hypnotic. Both of Hills had mentions that the beings’ mouths did not move when they communicated in English with them. The non-human beings communicated telepathically with the Hills. However, under Betty’s session, her recollection were similar to her dreams. But, there were notable differences in her account. She was able to fill in many missing details that were not in her dreams such as the technology of the craft, her physical examination. She had also mentioned the “leader” of the non-human beings had shown her a map of where they were in space. Under her hypnoses in 1964, Betty sketched a copy of the three-dimensional star map that rather looked like a hologram. Around the late 1960s, Majors Fish, a teacher, tried to compare the star map to real nearby
stars to see if it matched any. Eventually, Fish found the almost perfect match and concluded that Betty Hill had drawn stars that came from the Zeta Reticulum system. She concluded, Fish concluded “Since we did not have the data to make such a map in 1961 when Betty saw it, or in 1964 when she drew it, it could not be a hoax. Since the stars with lines to them are such a select group, it is almost impossible that the resemblance between Betty’s map and reality could be coincidental. Betty’s map could only have been drawn after contact with extraterrestrials.” Under hypnosis, Barney and Betty told that the abducting aliens intended that they would be not be able to remember their ordeal and blocked their memory. The dazed and confused Hills were then released and allow to go back on their way home to New Hampshire while the UFO disappears into the dark starry sky. After a couple interviews, Dr. Simon's diagnosis of the Hills was anxiety syndrome relating to the incidents of the night of September 19, 1961. According to the NICAP investigator’s report, Dr. Simon, knew almost nothing about UFOs and refused to read any of the UFO sighting reports the investigator tried to give him. However, his opinion changed after the series of hypnosis treatments with the Hills. Dr. Benjamin Simon’s conclusion is that he is convinced the UFO encounter actually took placed and reported and that a craft was witnessed by the Hills. Overall, both of the Hills came up with the same story independently under hypnosis, both reveling parts of the story that they didn’t consciously know about. Later on after the hypnosis sessions stopped, Betty Hill started to reveal her recollections to her favorite niece, Kathy Marden. Kathy Marden, a prominent UFO abduction researcher, author and the niece of the Betty Hill and Barney, has written a book called Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience with Stanton T. Friedman, a nuclear physicist and scientific ufologist that follows and analyzes closely the story of the Hills’ abduction to prove the case was a genuine contact from extraterrestrial beings. Kathy Marden's goal behind the book was to found out if her aunt and uncle had actually been abducted or had actually created a fantasy that they retold through hypnosis. Her interest began when her aunt Betty first phoned her to discuss that her and Barney had encountered a UFO while traveling home. She became a first-eye witness of seeing her aunt struggle through anxiety and post traumatic disorder and her aunt’s determination of finding out the truth of her abduction, especially after Barney had passed away. Kathy interviewed her aunt extensively to help her research in proving the Hills’ story was true. Later on, Kathy contacted Stanton to help her with her research. Kathy and Stanton first started retracing the journey that the Hills had described through hypnosis and interviewing the case with earlier investigators. According to Kathy, there were three different locations: Mountain Cleveland Picnic Area, near Cannon Mountain, one mile south of Indian Head where they stopped the car and were abducted. Kathy Marden with the help of Stanton Friedman, gives an excellent insight into the case the Hill's abduction case. With her incredible background of over twenty five years in the field of UFOs and aliens, she gives an honest analyses over her aunt and uncle’s story. Within Kathy and Stanton’s book, there also analyzed over several physical evidence that points to the proving the Hills’ abduction happened. Several physical evidence convinces that the Hills had made contact and were abducted by extraterrestrial beings. Starting off, Barney’s shoes were badly scuffed. Both of the Hills watches had stopped working at the exact same time. Betty’s dress was torn from waist to hemline on the right side. But one of the most significant physical evidence was there were an unusual pink stains on Betty’s dress. Betty said that the stains on her dress were due to where her captors had touched her. Phyllis Budinger, an analytical industrial chemist conducted an extensive analysis on Betty’s dress. She removed a small swatch from Betty’s dress and analyzed the swatch for over a two period term in her laboratory located in Ohio. Budinger analyzed that the stained areas “were coated with a biological material of mostly protein and a small amount of natural oil.” However, she proves the pink substance did not come from Betty, but from an external source. The pink stains were mainly in the areas that Betty had claimed to be touched by her non-human captors. This areas were around the arms and the top of the zipper of the dress. Budinger concluded that her analysis supports Betty’s claims about her dress. However, one skeptic, Robert Sheaffer, a writer for the website of The Committeee for Skeptical Inquiry disagrees with Phyllis Budinger’s conclusion. He argues in his article Over the Hill on UFO Abductions, “I would expect that an item of clothing left undisturbed in a closet for forty years would pick up all manner of interesting biological substances from insects, spiders, mites, mold, bacteria, etc." However, Budinger did in fact keep note of the dust and trace environmental elements on Betty’s dress. Budinger also compared Betty’s dress to a dress nearly identical in description to Betty’s dress that had been hanging in a closet for 35 years. Budinger found that it “displayed none of the unusual properties of Betty’s dress.” The dress adds to the proving that Betty was not lying and adds to the credibility of the case of “Betty and Barney Hill Abduction”. This case is consider to be a milestone in ufological history, since it was the first abduction case to be taken seriously and reported openly. The significance that leads to the credibility and validity of the case “Betty and Barney Hill Abduction” is the fact that there were no such stories of abductions around 1960. Their bravery to speak to the public of something that was found as nonsense and silliness gave courage to others to people to come forward with similar stories of being abducted. Betty and Barney Hill were an ordinary American couple and were well respected within their community, they had no prior knowledge of UFOs or aliens. Eight years after the abduction, Barney Hill passed away due to a cerebral hemorrhage, known as bleeding within the head that was caused by his post-trauma disorder which was caused by the incident. One would not hoax an abduction or fake post-trauma disorder to the point of killing oneself. Even after Barney’s pass, Betty tells the same story and has never once changed a word that she or Barney had said. Based off the genuine people the Hills were, physical evidence, and credible analyses by Kathy Marden and Dr. Benjamin Simon prove the authenticity of the Hills’ story and that the Hills did indeed make contact with extraterrestrial beings.
What really happened over the summer in 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico? People have debated this topic countless times. Despite all of the deviations of what happened, there is a general timeline. Sometime during the months of June and July 1947, an aircraft landed in Mac Brazel’s ranch; Brazel proceeded to tell Sheriff George Wilcox. He sent a member of the Roswell Army Air Field base to look at the wreckage on Brazel’s ranch. This person took some of the debris back to the base for further inspection. On July 8, 1947, the newspapers published stories about how someone found a flying saucer in New Mexico. However, the government told the newspapers to report that it was merely a weather balloon that had crashed. After that, everybody simply accepted the story and dropped the topic. Throughout that story, many pieces of evidence went untold to the media. There were numerous pictures that went unreleased. Many affidavits went unnoticed and nobody paid attention to inconsistencies in the government’s justifications. Because of explicative photographs, several eyewitness accounts, and contradictory government explanations, there is extensive proof that the government concealed an alien landing in Roswell, New Mexico.
The mass hysteria of UFOs and the Salem Witch Trials share many similarities between each other. Some that were stated were the fact that people claim that they have witnessed UFOs or witnessed a Witch. These claims also lead to the similarities of how people were split in both topics, never agreeing to one side of the hysteria. A difference was also expressed in this paper saying that in the Trials people died compared to UFO sightings where no one died related to them. Overall they share many similarities and differences and there are many more that can be
This paper will prove it will remain unknown if the Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) crash sighting at Roswell, New Mexico on July 4th, 1947 did happen, although the government is hiding Extraterrestrial information there. The following is a list of terms that may become confusing to some readers.
The original study took place at Yale University. Milgram came up with an advertisement to gain participants to contribute to his study. He offered them four dollars and told them it was a study about memory. Three people took place during each experiment. The three subjects were the experimenter the “learner” and the “teacher”. The experimenter was a dressed as a biology teacher and the “learner” was trained to act out his role. Of the three participants the teacher was only person that didn’t know about the actual study. The “teacher” and the “learner” were placed in separate rooms so that they were unable to see one another. The teacher’s role was to ask the “learner” a number of questions and punish the “learner”” for answering incorrectly. The “teacher” was advised to issue a shock to the “learner” each time he answered incorrectly. The participant was also told to administer +15-volts of shock for each additional question answered incorrectly.
Around June 25th, 1947 a pilot, Ken Arnold had reported strange objects in the sky while flying near Mt. Rainer, Washington. He stated that they flew like "saucers being skipped over water." This was where the term "Flying Saucers" derived from. The Roswell UFO Incident all started on the evening of July 3, 1947, Dan Wilmot and his wife were sitting on their front porch when they saw the distinct shape of a saucer flying through the sky. A few days prior to this sighting, military radar in the area was tracking an Unidentified Flying Object for four days. On Independence Day the radar indicated that the object had gone down about 30-40 miles Northwest of Roswell. A few days after the actual sighting from the Wilmot's, W.W. Brazel, the Foreman of the J.B. Foster Ranch went to check on his sheep after some intense thunderstorms the night prior. He happened to discover a very large amount of debris of an unknown metallic substance scattered throughout the field. It was also stated that he stumbled across a shallow trench in the ground that stretched hundreds of feet. Brazel would gather some of this debris to show family and friends. A few days after he would contact sheriff Wilcox of Chaves County. Once Wilcox had the information he needed, he contacted the Roswell Army Air Force Base, where Major Jessie Marcel was briefed to look int...
In 1963, Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment that was one of the most controversial of his time, and of ours. “The subjects—or ‘teachers’—were instructed to administer [electroshocks] to a human ‘learner,’ with the shocks becoming progressively more powerful and painful” (Collins, para. 1, Book Overview). The subjects watched as the “learner” was strapped into a chair. When the experimenter asked if either of the two had a question, the “learner” mentioned he had a heart problem. The “teacher” heard this, as well, and still continued to go through with the experiment. told that they were to read a series of paired words, and “learners”
Gould’s attempt at explaining how this type of hypnosis occurs began at first comparing two sides of a certain word. He started by using the word ‘Certainty; one definition is that certainty is warm, provides peace, and security. The other definition is that certainty is also threat; “ certainty is also a great danger...how
Firstly, the experiment took place at Yale University, which creates an atmosphere of credibility and importance. Those participating were also lead to believe that their contribution went to a worthy cause – to advance knowledge and understanding of learning processes. They were also told that the victim (the learner), was taking part voluntarily meaning they had an obligation to fulfill even if it became unpleasant, (also applies to the teacher). Additionally, the volunteers were being paid which created a further sense of commitment to the investigation. Those who took part also had little knowledge about how psychological experiments ran, as Milgram’s study was most likely the first one they ever partook in. Therefore they had little knowledge about the rights and expectations of the situation, and felt more confined than if they had been through a similar experience prior. The participant was also under the impression that the roles of being the teacher or learner were assigned randomly, so there were no feelings of unfairness in the system. The partakers had also been assured that the shocks were “painful but not dangerous” and that the procedure was all part of a worthy long term cause (Holah). Lastly, the victim responded to all of the questions until the 300 Volt was reached, convincing the participant of their willingness and persistence to
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The Roswell incident is one of the most publicized and well-known accounts of a possible UFO crash in the world. Perhaps the greatest evidence that a UFO did indeed crash near Roswell, is the wide scale military cover up that took place after the crash. This along with numerous eyewitness accounts of the crash site, prove that what ever happened in the summer of 1947, was certainly not a normal occurrence.
. At the town of Roswell an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) crash landed in the quiet little town. Many Roswell residents testified that they saw a burning object plummet toward the ground before exploding upon impact. The Air Force's initial reaction to the incident was to tell the world that they did not know what it was. This shows me evidence that they had no “protocol” for this kind of occurrence, thus the Military leader stepped in and covered everything up. This incident caught the attention of citizens of the United States, local officials, and the media. It has especially gained interest in a variety of Special interest groups/ groups that specialize in researching and investigating events that involve UFO’s.
The Roswell Incident, which enlightened our minds to the capacity of excepting all, has remained one of the most controversial issues today. In Roswell, New Mexico, 1947, a strange occurrence arises. An alien craft from outer space crashed in an open field. The issue lay still for almost thirty years, until the thought of a government cover-up arose.
Kidnapped Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 was written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1850. As a child growing up, Stevenson was extremely sick and suffered from severe respiratory ailments which continually interrupted his schooling. As he grew up, his relationship with his parents became more and more difficult. His father expected Robert to follow the family profession and become an engineer.
Roswell has been described as one of the most intensively investigated UFO reports to date, and it is still being studied today. The official date that it was recorded on is July 8, 1947 in Lincoln County, New Mexico. Considering that the Roswell case is so well-known, there are scientists and researchers all over the world that have their own theories about what all really happened in Roswell, New Mexico. There are many theories that give their own facts, beliefs, and why,
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