In unison, all but one figure moved to what appeared to be a panel on the rear wall of the hallway that encircled the front portion of the craft. Using the binoculars, Barney claimed to have seen about 8 to 11 humanoid figures who were peering out of the craft’s windows, seeming to look at him. Carrying his pistol in his pocket, he stepped away from the vehicle and moved closer to the object. The huge, silent craft hovered approximately 80–100 feet above the Hills’ 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air and filled the entire field of the windshield. As they drove along Route 3 through Franconia Notch, they stated that it seemed to be playing a game of cat and mouse with the couple.Īpproximately one mile south of Indian Head, they said, the object rapidly descended toward their vehicle causing Barney to stop directly in the middle of the highway. The couple watched as the silent, illuminated craft moved erratically and bounced back and forth in the night sky. Betty testified that it was at least one and a half times the length of the granite profile and seemed to be rotating. It passed over the mountain and came out near the 48′ profile of the Old Man of the Mountain. At one point, the object passed above a restaurant and signal tower on top of Cannon Mountain. The Hills claimed that they continued driving on the isolated road, moving very slowly through Franconia Notch in order to observe the object as it came even closer. This observation caused Barney to realize, “this object that was a plane was not a plane.” He quickly returned to the car and drove toward Franconia Notch, a narrow, mountainous stretch of the road. However, he soon changed his mind, because without looking as if it had turned, the craft rapidly descended in his direction. Through binoculars Barney observed what he reasoned was a commercial airliner traveling toward Vermont on its way to Montreal. Because her sister had confided to her about having a flying saucer sighting several years earlier, Betty thought it might be what she was observing. Worried about the presence of bears, Barney retrieved a pistol that he had concealed in the trunk of the car.īetty, through binoculars, observed an “odd shaped” craft flashing multicolored lights travel across the face of the moon. Barney stopped at a scenic picnic area just south of Twin Mountain. Since it moved erratically and grew bigger and brighter, Betty urged Barney to stop the car for a closer look, as well as to walk their dog, Delsey. Route 3, Betty reasoned that she was observing a falling star, only it moved upward, like a plane or a satellite. Just south of Lancaster, New Hampshire, Betty claimed to have observed a bright point of light in the sky that moved from below the moon and the planet Jupiter, upward to the west of the moon. There were only a few other cars on the road as they made their way home to New Hampshire’s seacoast. The Hills were driving back to Portsmouth from a vacation in Niagara Falls and Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They were an interracial couple at a time when it was particularly unusual in the United States Barney was black and Betty was white.Īccording to a variety of reports given by the Hills, the alleged UFO sighting happened on September 19, 1961, at around 10:30 p.m. Active in a Unitarian congregation, the Hills were also members of the NAACP and community leaders, and Barney sat on a local board of the U.S. Postal Service, while Betty (1919–2004) was a social worker. Barney (1922–1969) was employed by the U.S. The Hills lived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Betty and barney hill 1961 alien abduction movie#
Theirs was the first widely-publicized claim of alien abduction, adapted into the best-selling 1966 book The Interrupted Journey and the 1975 television movie The UFO Incident. The couple’s story, called the Hill Abduction, and occasionally the Zeta Reticuli Incident, was that they had been kidnapped for a short time by a UFO.
Betty and Barney Hill were an American couple who claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials in a rural portion of New Hampshire on September 19–20, 1961.
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