54: A Light Among the White Mountains: The Betty and Barney Hill Incident, Part 1

In the early 1960s, UFO contact began its transformation from benign encounters with human looking beings, to the more terrifying incidents involving non-human entities forcing bystanders on board, and subjecting them to medical examinations.

We’ve examined the abduction of Antonio Villas Boas from his tractor early one morning in 1957, but the subject of tonight's episode was groundbreaking. Betty and Barney Hill were an unassuming interacial couple from New Hampshire that didn’t stick out in anyway. They were on their way home from a short vacation in Niagara Falls and Montreal, when a single light in the sky would change their lives forever.

When you hear the name Betty and Barney Hill they are synonymous with the phrase alien abduction. And while they were not the first, their experience would be the archetype of all the others yet to come. In this episode we present the Betty and Barney Hill abduction complete with details you may never have heard before. 

Sources:

The Life and Crimes of Reinhold O. Schmidt - Bizarre and Grotesque

Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: The True Story of the World's First Documented Alien Abduction by Stanton Friedman & Kathleen Marden

A Dramatic Encounter in the White Mountains, New Hampshire The Hill Case - Sept. 19-20, 1961 by Walter Webb

Music:

“Astrix” by Blue Dot Sessions (sessions.blue)

“Low Slope” by Blue Dot Sessions (sessions.blue)

“Grey Alley” by Blue Dot Sessions (sessions.blue)

“Lights Out” by Blue Dot Sessions (sessions.blue)

“Where It All Happened (Darkstar Version)” by Blue Dot Sessions (sessions.blue)

“An Unknown Visitor” by Blue Dot Sessions (sessions.blue)

“Ask the Sisters” by Blue Dot Sessions (sessions.blue)

“Closing” by Blue Dot Sessions (sessions.blue)

“OneEightFour” by Blue Dot Sessions (sessions.blue)

Theme song by Big Cats Artwork and Web Design by the Great Desdymona

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