Betty and Barney Hill

Betty and Barney Hill

On the night of 19/20 September 1961, “between 20/0001 and 20/0100”, a couple driving south on Route 3 near Lincoln, New Hampshire, saw “a strange object in the sky” (NAID 28994718, image 39). By the Air Force’s report, taken by telephone, it was a “Continious [sic] band of lights - cigar shaped at all times despite changes of direction”, from which “wings seemed to appear” with red lights on the tips; it stopped and hovered, then seemed “to swoop down in the general direction of their auto”, and as they drove off they heard “a series of short loud ‘buzzes’” (image 40). The record card marks the case “Other”, with “INSUFF DATA” written by hand (our reading), and says the source of the light “is not known” (NAID 28994660, image 1). Four years later the Boston Traveler reported an abduction “related by a New Hampshire couple under clinical hypnosis” (image 30); the file holds that story only in the press.

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