WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:07.000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:13.000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:08.206 --> 00:00:13.931 [narrator] It is the first and most highly documented alien abduction story ever told. 4 00:00:18.931 --> 00:00:21.241 Betty and Barney Hill, 5 00:00:21.275 --> 00:00:25.896 a couple in love were driving back from their honeymoon... 6 00:00:27.310 --> 00:00:30.793 when they were kidnapped by a UFO. 7 00:00:38.137 --> 00:00:40.310 Now clasp your hands in front of you. 8 00:00:40.344 --> 00:00:41.620 As they get tighter, you're going to sleep. 9 00:00:41.655 --> 00:00:44.206 You're going to a deep, deep sleep. Your eyes... 10 00:00:44.241 --> 00:00:46.758 [narrator] Rare interviews under hypnosis, 11 00:00:46.793 --> 00:00:51.172 detail how alien beings subjected the couple 12 00:00:51.206 --> 00:00:53.034 to disturbing experiments. 13 00:01:01.758 --> 00:01:03.413 [narrator] Newly uncovered evidence 14 00:01:03.448 --> 00:01:07.137 and declassified government documents confirm 15 00:01:07.172 --> 00:01:10.000 what happened to Betty and Barney was real. 16 00:01:15.241 --> 00:01:17.620 [narrator] We are not alone. 17 00:01:17.655 --> 00:01:20.379 Extraterrestrials do exist. 18 00:01:23.137 --> 00:01:25.965 But what do they want from us? 19 00:01:52.551 --> 00:01:55.379 It was just an ordinary day in America. 20 00:01:57.103 --> 00:02:02.241 Betty, a social worker and Barney, a US postal employee 21 00:02:02.275 --> 00:02:06.275 were driving home after their honeymoon in Niagara Falls. 22 00:02:06.310 --> 00:02:09.413 A trip as their niece Kathleen explains, 23 00:02:09.448 --> 00:02:12.068 they would never forget. 24 00:02:12.103 --> 00:02:15.068 Betty and Barney had a wonderful time in Niagara Falls. 25 00:02:19.034 --> 00:02:23.586 They spent the following afternoon in Montreal. 26 00:02:23.620 --> 00:02:27.172 They thought about spending the night downtown. 27 00:02:27.206 --> 00:02:31.000 But they heard that there was a hurricane whirling up the coast. 28 00:02:32.206 --> 00:02:36.413 And they wanted to drive through the night if they could. 29 00:02:43.551 --> 00:02:48.448 I was 13 years old and I had arrived home from school in the afternoon. 30 00:02:53.206 --> 00:02:56.896 My mother was on the phone with my aunt, Betty. 31 00:02:56.931 --> 00:03:01.413 And I heard my mother's side of the conversation. 32 00:03:01.448 --> 00:03:04.000 When my mother hung up the phone, 33 00:03:04.034 --> 00:03:06.931 she told me that Betty and Barney 34 00:03:06.965 --> 00:03:11.344 had seen a flying saucer up close the night before, 35 00:03:11.379 --> 00:03:14.724 they were concerned that they might have been contaminated. 36 00:03:16.379 --> 00:03:18.482 I was in shock. 37 00:03:18.517 --> 00:03:21.172 I thought this was very, very strange. 38 00:03:30.965 --> 00:03:33.758 [narrator] This is a 1966 radio interview 39 00:03:33.793 --> 00:03:36.689 with Betty and Barney in their own words. 40 00:03:37.482 --> 00:03:38.551 Now, as I understand it, 41 00:03:38.586 --> 00:03:41.034 we have to go back to 1961 to start this, 42 00:03:41.068 --> 00:03:43.103 this whole incident, don't we? 43 00:03:43.137 --> 00:03:46.068 Yes, that's right. September 19th, 1961. 44 00:03:48.172 --> 00:03:51.965 [narrator] The night that changed their lives forever. 45 00:04:56.103 --> 00:04:59.413 Betty had never seen a satellite before. 46 00:04:59.448 --> 00:05:03.965 She knew that her father was very interested in satellites. 47 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:07.655 And so, Betty wondered could this be a satellite? 48 00:05:07.689 --> 00:05:12.000 But then, she thought, no, it's not behaving like a satellite. 49 00:05:14.758 --> 00:05:16.551 [Barney speaking] 50 00:05:26.517 --> 00:05:29.517 It's clear at this point, this was not a satellite. 51 00:05:29.551 --> 00:05:31.379 It does a circle. 52 00:05:31.413 --> 00:05:36.068 It seems to fly away to the west and then come back directly towards them. 53 00:05:38.551 --> 00:05:41.344 Barney is coming up with the other explanations. 54 00:05:41.379 --> 00:05:43.551 Maybe it's a passenger jet. 55 00:05:43.586 --> 00:05:45.862 Maybe it's a military helicopter. 56 00:05:45.896 --> 00:05:50.103 He's got all these explanations because that's how he thinks. 57 00:06:23.965 --> 00:06:27.517 Privately, he knew that this was unusual. 58 00:06:27.551 --> 00:06:33.000 But he said to Betty, "Oh, it's just a piper cub or a commercial airliner. 59 00:06:33.034 --> 00:06:37.103 Don't even think about that and let's get home. 60 00:06:47.586 --> 00:06:50.310 [narrator] But then, as they continue driving south, 61 00:06:50.344 --> 00:06:54.172 Betty notices the aircraft appears to be stalking them. 62 00:06:55.793 --> 00:06:58.724 Betty said to Barney, "It's coming closer, Barney." 63 00:06:58.758 --> 00:07:03.172 As they looked at it, it flew in a zigzag pattern 64 00:07:03.206 --> 00:07:08.689 and then it appeared to bounce back and forth in the sky like a ping-pong ball. 65 00:07:11.068 --> 00:07:12.620 [narrator] Barney starts to panic. 66 00:07:29.620 --> 00:07:33.689 Up until now, the sighting had been at quite a distance. 67 00:07:36.103 --> 00:07:40.413 But now that they've driven down the road, several miles and they look up. 68 00:07:41.206 --> 00:07:42.620 And it's still there. 69 00:07:43.724 --> 00:07:45.310 Fear starts to settle in. 70 00:07:46.517 --> 00:07:48.724 It knows that we're here. 71 00:07:48.758 --> 00:07:53.034 They're thinking this has a particular interest in us. 72 00:07:53.068 --> 00:07:55.517 There's no other cars on the highway. 73 00:07:55.551 --> 00:07:58.758 And this light is getting brighter and it's getting closer. 74 00:08:20.068 --> 00:08:22.000 [narrator] The object, the metallic disc, 75 00:08:22.034 --> 00:08:24.413 the width and length of a commercial airliner 76 00:08:24.448 --> 00:08:29.000 and as flat as a pancake is now hovering over the road. 77 00:08:33.103 --> 00:08:37.172 Stunned and with nowhere to go, Barney stops the car. 78 00:08:40.379 --> 00:08:44.241 Barney is now determined, he's boiled over not just with curiosity, 79 00:08:44.275 --> 00:08:47.103 but almost a sense of duty. 80 00:08:47.137 --> 00:08:48.862 I can't continue this trip 81 00:08:48.896 --> 00:08:52.620 until we get rid of this thing or find out what it wants. 82 00:08:54.896 --> 00:08:56.758 So he gets out of the car 83 00:08:56.793 --> 00:08:59.482 and he starts walking in the field to approach it. 84 00:09:01.379 --> 00:09:03.793 [Kathleen] Barney is a confirmed skeptic. 85 00:09:05.379 --> 00:09:07.448 Barney does not believe 86 00:09:07.482 --> 00:09:14.137 that this planet could possibly be visited by space aliens from elsewhere. 87 00:09:36.896 --> 00:09:38.724 [narrator] And then he sees them. 88 00:09:41.586 --> 00:09:45.275 Gray uniform beings looking down. 89 00:09:46.758 --> 00:09:51.448 He sees occupants inside of the craft, which is now tilted towards him. 90 00:10:06.068 --> 00:10:09.103 [Kathleen] They're dressed in shiny black uniforms. 91 00:10:10.965 --> 00:10:13.827 They were gray in complexion. 92 00:10:13.862 --> 00:10:16.758 They were completely hairless. 93 00:10:16.793 --> 00:10:20.068 They had eyes that wrapped around 94 00:10:20.103 --> 00:10:24.517 to the sides of their faces larger than human eyes. 95 00:10:26.965 --> 00:10:30.827 [Ben] We would describe this as a Close Encounters of the Third Kind. 96 00:10:30.862 --> 00:10:33.275 The witness is not just seeing it at a distance, 97 00:10:33.310 --> 00:10:37.413 but they're actually seeing occupants within the, or outside of the craft. 98 00:10:39.448 --> 00:10:41.275 And windows are now visible 99 00:10:41.310 --> 00:10:43.344 with the occupants looking at Barney 100 00:10:43.379 --> 00:10:45.172 who's staring at them through binoculars. 101 00:10:46.206 --> 00:10:47.310 There's a direct, 102 00:10:47.344 --> 00:10:53.068 it seems, communication as if to say we came for you 103 00:10:53.103 --> 00:10:56.379 and we're not going to be satisfied until we get what we want. 104 00:11:16.586 --> 00:11:23.517 Little red lights started to slide out from the craft on fin-like structures. 105 00:11:23.551 --> 00:11:27.586 And something started to drop down from the bottom of the craft. 106 00:11:31.793 --> 00:11:37.068 [Ben] Suddenly, Barney sees what appears to be a ramp or a ladder. 107 00:11:37.103 --> 00:11:39.689 And now, it seems like the craft is transforming 108 00:11:39.724 --> 00:11:41.689 as someone is planning to come out. 109 00:11:54.655 --> 00:11:58.758 [narrator] Sensing danger, Barney rushes back to the car. 110 00:11:58.793 --> 00:12:02.586 Barney somehow knew that there was a plan 111 00:12:02.620 --> 00:12:07.896 and that that plan was to capture him like, "a bug in a net." 112 00:12:07.931 --> 00:12:11.034 They had to get out of there or they were going to be captured. 113 00:12:24.758 --> 00:12:27.000 [narrator] But it's already too late. 114 00:12:36.551 --> 00:12:40.172 [narrator] A close encounter with a UFO sends Barney Hill 115 00:12:40.206 --> 00:12:42.275 and his wife, Betty, into a panic. 116 00:12:46.413 --> 00:12:48.344 [Bryce] Betty and Barney are now on the run. 117 00:12:48.379 --> 00:12:51.793 They know that something is there that's not supposed to be there. 118 00:12:51.827 --> 00:12:55.275 They know it's some kind of flying saucer. 119 00:12:55.310 --> 00:12:58.275 They know that there are creatures inside it. 120 00:13:32.413 --> 00:13:35.655 [narrator] The beeps are unlike anything they have ever heard. 121 00:13:46.413 --> 00:13:50.689 [narrator] Suddenly, a tingling sensation comes over both Betty and Barney. 122 00:13:59.931 --> 00:14:01.827 Then silence. 123 00:14:03.344 --> 00:14:06.689 As if suspended in a dream. 124 00:14:06.724 --> 00:14:09.586 [Kathleen] As if only a moment had passed, 125 00:14:09.620 --> 00:14:14.586 Betty and Barney heard another series of buzzing sounds. 126 00:14:14.620 --> 00:14:16.931 This time, they didn't see the craft. 127 00:14:16.965 --> 00:14:20.758 But it returned them to full consciousness. 128 00:14:20.793 --> 00:14:25.241 And they realized that they were 35 miles down the highway 129 00:14:25.275 --> 00:14:29.586 with very little memory of what had occurred in the interim. 130 00:14:58.758 --> 00:15:02.275 When people see extraordinary things, they can often be in denial. 131 00:15:02.310 --> 00:15:05.827 You'd have to say that that is possibly the case with Barney Hill. 132 00:15:05.862 --> 00:15:09.620 He's still not believing it, even though he's seen it with his own eyes. 133 00:15:48.034 --> 00:15:51.172 [narrator] After arriving home, the Hills remain puzzled. 134 00:15:52.172 --> 00:15:55.000 They're both feeling a little creeped out. 135 00:15:55.034 --> 00:15:57.896 You know how you feel grimy after a long trip? 136 00:15:57.931 --> 00:16:00.000 They feel that, but it's a little different. 137 00:16:01.206 --> 00:16:04.241 [Ben] Betty notices that her dress has been ripped. 138 00:16:04.275 --> 00:16:09.103 She only bought this dress just before and this is the first time she's ever worn it. 139 00:16:09.137 --> 00:16:10.551 She takes it off. 140 00:16:10.586 --> 00:16:13.344 She feels like she doesn't want to be associated with it 141 00:16:13.379 --> 00:16:17.413 and she puts it in her closet, and never wears it again. 142 00:16:17.448 --> 00:16:19.862 He's just trying to figure out what happened to him. 143 00:16:21.068 --> 00:16:22.793 And Barney doesn't really know. 144 00:16:22.827 --> 00:16:25.000 And it's got him deeply disturbed. 145 00:16:35.137 --> 00:16:38.827 [Kathleen] Betty was very curious. She wanted to learn more. 146 00:16:38.862 --> 00:16:42.586 But Barney said, Betty, don't tell anyone. 147 00:16:42.620 --> 00:16:45.275 No good can ever come of this. 148 00:16:45.793 --> 00:16:47.241 And she disagreed. 149 00:16:47.275 --> 00:16:51.310 She walked to the phone and she called my mother. 150 00:16:54.551 --> 00:16:56.758 We had a neighbor who was a physicist. 151 00:16:56.793 --> 00:17:00.068 Betty was concerned about the contamination. 152 00:17:00.103 --> 00:17:03.034 And so, she asked my mother to call our neighbor 153 00:17:03.068 --> 00:17:06.172 to find out what she and Barney should do. 154 00:17:06.206 --> 00:17:09.034 He told, Betty, if she had a compass 155 00:17:09.068 --> 00:17:11.448 that she should take it out to the car 156 00:17:11.482 --> 00:17:13.793 to see how the needle reacts. 157 00:17:13.827 --> 00:17:15.965 That's not going to measure radiation, 158 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:18.482 that's going to measure a magnetic field. 159 00:17:18.517 --> 00:17:22.068 So apparently, he knew something about UFOs 160 00:17:22.103 --> 00:17:24.310 that Betty and Barney didn't know. 161 00:18:19.275 --> 00:18:21.517 Betty called my mother again. 162 00:18:21.551 --> 00:18:26.482 And the former Chief of Police of Newton, New Hampshire 163 00:18:26.517 --> 00:18:29.517 was at the house having a cup of coffee. 164 00:18:30.931 --> 00:18:33.137 He was my father's best friend. 165 00:18:33.172 --> 00:18:36.275 And he said to tell Betty 166 00:18:36.310 --> 00:18:40.413 that she and Barney need to make a report to Pease Air Force Base. 167 00:18:43.068 --> 00:18:47.310 Because they had notified all of the police departments 168 00:18:47.344 --> 00:18:50.379 that if anyone had a UFO sighting, they should report it. 169 00:18:51.965 --> 00:18:55.551 [Bryce] Peace Air Force Base is the local air force base 170 00:18:55.586 --> 00:18:59.344 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1961. 171 00:18:59.379 --> 00:19:03.620 Betty and Barney know people that are involved in the military there. 172 00:19:03.655 --> 00:19:06.310 She gets hold of somebody at Peace Air Force Base 173 00:19:06.344 --> 00:19:10.965 who takes their story in isn't that interested in it. 174 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:14.137 Until they start talking about the extension wings 175 00:19:14.172 --> 00:19:15.448 and red lights coming out, 176 00:19:15.482 --> 00:19:18.344 then he's very interested in it. 177 00:19:18.379 --> 00:19:22.862 The next day, they actually hear from a captain Paul Henderson at Peace 178 00:19:22.896 --> 00:19:26.310 who wants to know the whole story in detail. 179 00:19:26.344 --> 00:19:30.758 So suddenly, they've told this story that is now being taken very seriously. 180 00:19:55.344 --> 00:20:00.310 [narrator] Incredibly, the Hills are told of another sighting reported that night. 181 00:20:00.344 --> 00:20:05.827 The officer said that the controller at the tower had reported 182 00:20:05.862 --> 00:20:12.827 there was an unusual craft seen on radar at 2:14 a.m. 183 00:20:12.862 --> 00:20:15.896 on the night that Betty and Barney had their experience. 184 00:20:16.482 --> 00:20:20.448 [indistinct chatter] 185 00:20:20.482 --> 00:20:22.310 [narrator] Could the two be related? 186 00:20:28.137 --> 00:20:31.517 [Kathleen] The following day, my parents and my two brothers 187 00:20:31.551 --> 00:20:35.275 and I drove to Portsmouth to Betty's and Barney's home. 188 00:20:37.103 --> 00:20:43.827 I was excited in anticipation of hearing their story for myself. 189 00:20:43.862 --> 00:20:46.965 And we finally arrived there. 190 00:20:48.034 --> 00:20:50.655 We went into the kitchen with Betty. 191 00:20:50.689 --> 00:20:54.586 And she told us about the close encounter. 192 00:20:54.620 --> 00:20:57.068 She told us about the buzzing sounds. 193 00:20:58.689 --> 00:21:01.965 We wanted to see the spots on the trunk of the car. 194 00:21:05.103 --> 00:21:09.344 So she took us down the hallway and out to the vehicle. 195 00:21:11.413 --> 00:21:15.482 I could see those very shiny spots. 196 00:21:15.517 --> 00:21:17.034 And I took my finger. 197 00:21:17.068 --> 00:21:20.586 And I attempted to rub a spot off. 198 00:21:20.620 --> 00:21:24.793 My mother saw me and said, "Don't touch it, don't touch that spot. 199 00:21:24.827 --> 00:21:26.344 It might harm you." 200 00:21:26.379 --> 00:21:30.551 And very quickly, I was taken back into Betty's and Barney's house. 201 00:21:32.931 --> 00:21:35.379 It was sort of an epiphany in the sense 202 00:21:35.413 --> 00:21:40.931 that here is something that I had no idea existed. 203 00:21:40.965 --> 00:21:46.275 But suddenly, I was clued into the fact that it was real. 204 00:21:46.310 --> 00:21:50.413 [narrator] That epiphany will lead Kathleen on a lifelong mission 205 00:21:50.448 --> 00:21:54.206 to uncover what really happened to her aunt and uncle that night... 206 00:21:56.103 --> 00:21:57.103 outside... 207 00:21:58.482 --> 00:22:02.551 and then inside the UFO. 208 00:22:16.068 --> 00:22:18.758 [narrator] Several days after her UFO encounter, 209 00:22:18.793 --> 00:22:21.034 Betty Hill visits her local library 210 00:22:21.068 --> 00:22:24.965 where she checks out The Flying Saucer Conspiracy 211 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:27.896 by retired Marine Corps major Donald Keyhoe. 212 00:22:29.655 --> 00:22:32.551 Widely regarded as a leading UFO expert, 213 00:22:32.586 --> 00:22:37.310 major Keyhoe is a proponent of various theories explaining UFOs, 214 00:22:37.344 --> 00:22:38.896 government cover-ups, 215 00:22:38.931 --> 00:22:41.931 and the threat of interplanetary war. 216 00:22:44.862 --> 00:22:47.965 Major Keyhoe as an authority on flying saucers, 217 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:51.586 do you yourself believe that they exist? 218 00:22:51.620 --> 00:22:53.413 Well, I'm positive they exist. 219 00:22:53.448 --> 00:22:57.517 The weight of the evidence makes it impossible to arrive at any other conclusion. 220 00:22:57.551 --> 00:23:00.379 What tangible evidence do you have? 221 00:23:00.413 --> 00:23:03.241 Well, at least 800 reports from trained observers, 222 00:23:03.275 --> 00:23:06.275 veteran pilots, radar men, guided missile trackers, 223 00:23:06.310 --> 00:23:10.551 weather bureau observers, all people who are trained to know things in the sky, 224 00:23:10.586 --> 00:23:13.862 who describe these objects maneuvering under intelligent control. 225 00:23:13.896 --> 00:23:15.827 There are hundreds of those reports 226 00:23:15.862 --> 00:23:18.896 where the sightings were confirmed visually and by radar, 227 00:23:18.931 --> 00:23:21.000 and in some cases by photograph. 228 00:23:21.034 --> 00:23:22.413 [Ben] There's kind of an evolution 229 00:23:22.448 --> 00:23:25.310 that takes place with UFOs in the United States. 230 00:23:26.241 --> 00:23:28.551 In the 40s and into the 50s, 231 00:23:28.586 --> 00:23:31.206 the government was primarily concerned with the panic. 232 00:23:33.103 --> 00:23:36.482 They wanted to be able to control the reaction of the public. 233 00:23:38.551 --> 00:23:43.620 There was an official government policy to ridicule and debunk 234 00:23:43.655 --> 00:23:45.724 and really make the witnesses feel 235 00:23:45.758 --> 00:23:48.793 as if they are the fringe, they are the crazy ones. 236 00:23:48.827 --> 00:23:52.862 And they don't deserve any merit because people really aren't seeing these things. 237 00:23:52.896 --> 00:23:55.655 So when the, the Hill incident happens, 238 00:23:55.689 --> 00:23:59.965 it's among all of this frenzy of UFO activity. 239 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:02.448 But yet, people don't know how to feel about it. 240 00:24:05.586 --> 00:24:08.379 [narrator] Curious to know more about her own experience, 241 00:24:08.413 --> 00:24:10.172 Betty writes to major Keyhoe. 242 00:24:15.655 --> 00:24:19.517 She has begun, what will become a lifelong search for the truth. 243 00:24:23.517 --> 00:24:26.793 What she finds will shock the world. 244 00:24:33.172 --> 00:24:35.586 Located an hour north of Boston, 245 00:24:35.620 --> 00:24:38.310 Portsmouth is New Hampshire's oldest settlement 246 00:24:38.344 --> 00:24:39.862 and only seaport. 247 00:24:43.551 --> 00:24:45.793 In addition to its historic importance, 248 00:24:47.482 --> 00:24:50.758 by the 1960s, the city and surrounding area 249 00:24:50.793 --> 00:24:53.000 had become noted for its fishing industry... 250 00:24:54.448 --> 00:24:56.655 strategic military importance... 251 00:25:00.103 --> 00:25:03.000 and beautiful beaches. 252 00:25:03.034 --> 00:25:07.103 [Kathleen] Betty was a child welfare worker for the state of New Hampshire. 253 00:25:08.310 --> 00:25:11.482 She cared for other people. 254 00:25:11.517 --> 00:25:15.517 She cared for children who were being abused 255 00:25:15.551 --> 00:25:19.586 by their parents or children who were being neglected. 256 00:25:19.620 --> 00:25:22.344 And then she worked in adoption. 257 00:25:22.379 --> 00:25:26.724 She was eventually promoted to the position of supervisor. 258 00:25:26.758 --> 00:25:28.517 She had an opinion on everything. 259 00:25:28.551 --> 00:25:30.206 She loved to express it. 260 00:25:30.241 --> 00:25:33.413 And if you took her on and you battled her about it, she was even happier. 261 00:25:33.448 --> 00:25:37.068 She wanted to be part of the world. 262 00:25:41.965 --> 00:25:45.275 [Kathleen] Betty met Barney at Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, 263 00:25:45.310 --> 00:25:48.931 which was very close to her home in Portsmouth. 264 00:25:48.965 --> 00:25:53.413 And she was working during the summers down there sometimes. 265 00:25:55.551 --> 00:26:01.206 Betty had friends in Portsmouth and they knew Barney. 266 00:26:01.241 --> 00:26:04.275 So they met and she said to Barney, 267 00:26:04.310 --> 00:26:09.896 well, I have an apartment that I rent to tourists. 268 00:26:09.931 --> 00:26:14.310 And if you and your family ever come up here again, 269 00:26:14.344 --> 00:26:16.413 I'd be happy to rent it to you. 270 00:26:16.448 --> 00:26:19.896 So it was sort of a congenial relationship. 271 00:26:23.379 --> 00:26:28.206 Barney was highly intelligent. His IQ was 140. 272 00:26:28.241 --> 00:26:31.931 He wanted to go to college to become an engineer. 273 00:26:31.965 --> 00:26:35.275 But he was told that that was not something 274 00:26:35.310 --> 00:26:38.068 that he would ever be able to do 275 00:26:38.103 --> 00:26:40.758 because of the color of his skin. 276 00:26:40.793 --> 00:26:45.724 He ended up joining the army before the outbreak of World War II. 277 00:26:45.758 --> 00:26:49.103 He was a marksman. He was a truck driver. 278 00:26:49.137 --> 00:26:52.310 And he ended up being wounded. 279 00:26:52.344 --> 00:26:55.896 He then was able to get a job at the Post Office. 280 00:26:55.931 --> 00:26:59.689 And he worked for the US Post Office for many years. 281 00:26:59.724 --> 00:27:04.931 He married. He had two sons. But he and his wife divorced. 282 00:27:04.965 --> 00:27:09.724 So this is when he began a relationship with Betty. 283 00:27:17.068 --> 00:27:19.586 [narrator] Barney eventually moves to Portsmouth. 284 00:27:21.275 --> 00:27:25.896 And after dating for a few years, he and Betty marry. 285 00:27:25.931 --> 00:27:29.827 They were one of the few mixed marriages in Portsmouth. 286 00:27:29.862 --> 00:27:31.931 Although Portsmouth this time, 287 00:27:31.965 --> 00:27:35.862 there was fairly large African-American population. 288 00:27:35.896 --> 00:27:38.379 But you don't want to think of Portsmouth 289 00:27:38.413 --> 00:27:40.448 or pretty much any New England town 290 00:27:40.482 --> 00:27:44.413 as being a northern town without racism. 291 00:27:44.448 --> 00:27:48.551 I mean, systemic racism is the name of the game 292 00:27:48.586 --> 00:27:51.827 as much through New England really as the south. 293 00:27:51.862 --> 00:27:54.793 Barney was one of the people fighting this with Betty. 294 00:27:54.827 --> 00:27:57.034 He was an activist in the NAACP. 295 00:27:57.068 --> 00:28:00.586 He was doing what he could to bring this to light. 296 00:28:00.620 --> 00:28:02.862 Always leading to the idea 297 00:28:02.896 --> 00:28:07.034 that to come out as an abductee of aliens 298 00:28:07.068 --> 00:28:09.620 was a huge risk on his part. 299 00:28:09.655 --> 00:28:12.241 And he was very concerned about his personality 300 00:28:12.275 --> 00:28:14.655 and how he was seen by other people. 301 00:28:14.689 --> 00:28:16.586 So this was a massive risk to him, 302 00:28:16.620 --> 00:28:18.344 which I think leads to the idea 303 00:28:18.379 --> 00:28:22.827 of how much he and Betty's story is actually, a love story. 304 00:28:25.379 --> 00:28:28.965 [narrator] But little do they know the UFO incident is not over 305 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:31.103 and will continue to haunt them. 306 00:28:34.137 --> 00:28:37.241 Ten days after their encounter in the White Mountains, 307 00:28:37.275 --> 00:28:42.103 Betty suffers a series of vivid dreams that last over five nights. 308 00:28:44.689 --> 00:28:48.931 [Kathleen] In her dreams, there was an encounter 309 00:28:48.965 --> 00:28:51.517 with very human-like entities. 310 00:28:56.586 --> 00:28:58.517 They surrounded the car 311 00:28:58.551 --> 00:29:03.103 and then they took Betty and Barney onto the craft 312 00:29:03.137 --> 00:29:07.206 where they did highly unusual physical examination. 313 00:29:13.620 --> 00:29:16.655 [narrator] In this rare interview from 1968, 314 00:29:16.689 --> 00:29:21.068 Betty describes what happened on board the alien craft. 315 00:29:21.103 --> 00:29:25.379 First, they took Barney into one room and I went into a second room. 316 00:29:25.413 --> 00:29:31.137 In this room, they did what I would call a fairly simple physical examination. 317 00:29:31.172 --> 00:29:37.103 They seem to have mostly interest in my skin. 318 00:29:37.137 --> 00:29:40.758 I had the idea they were taking pictures of my skin. 319 00:29:40.793 --> 00:29:44.482 Also, interest in my hands and my feet. 320 00:29:44.517 --> 00:29:48.344 They also did a test which they call checking my nervous system. 321 00:29:48.379 --> 00:29:49.655 Throughout the whole examination, 322 00:29:49.689 --> 00:29:52.448 it would be like picking up some kind of a strange animal 323 00:29:52.482 --> 00:29:56.344 and looking it over, giving it a checkup and putting it back down again 324 00:29:56.379 --> 00:29:58.655 without any intentions of harming it. 325 00:30:00.551 --> 00:30:05.000 [narrator] The vivid nature of the dreams along with the strange buzzing sounds 326 00:30:05.034 --> 00:30:08.551 are too much for Betty to simply dismiss. 327 00:30:08.586 --> 00:30:14.206 She was wondering if, if this somehow represented reality. 328 00:30:16.103 --> 00:30:20.517 Now, she was a social worker. She had studied psychology. 329 00:30:20.551 --> 00:30:25.827 And dreams that you have just before you wake up in the morning 330 00:30:25.862 --> 00:30:29.517 when you're sort of in a hypnotic state 331 00:30:29.551 --> 00:30:33.689 can include information that really occurred. 332 00:30:33.724 --> 00:30:37.172 Yet, there can be fantasy added. 333 00:30:37.206 --> 00:30:41.655 Betty initially jotted her dreams down on note paper. 334 00:30:41.689 --> 00:30:45.379 And she couldn't forget about them. 335 00:30:45.413 --> 00:30:49.379 And she spoke to her supervisor who said to her. 336 00:30:49.413 --> 00:30:53.655 Maybe this represents what really happened to you 337 00:30:53.689 --> 00:30:56.068 between those buzzing sounds. 338 00:30:56.103 --> 00:31:01.344 And maybe this is what happened during that period that you can't remember. 339 00:31:01.379 --> 00:31:05.000 So Betty sat down and she typed those dreams out. 340 00:31:09.310 --> 00:31:12.275 [narrator] Betty knew she and Barney saw something that night. 341 00:31:14.413 --> 00:31:16.137 But what? 342 00:31:16.172 --> 00:31:18.551 What about those buzzing sounds? 343 00:31:18.586 --> 00:31:22.448 Why did the car have those strange shiny spots? 344 00:31:23.482 --> 00:31:26.000 Could her nightmares be true? 345 00:31:41.275 --> 00:31:46.344 [narrator] Betty Hill's letter to Major Donald Keyhoe generates interest at NICAP, 346 00:31:46.379 --> 00:31:50.517 the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. 347 00:31:50.551 --> 00:31:52.206 According to their records, 348 00:31:52.241 --> 00:31:54.758 similar looking unidentified craft 349 00:31:54.793 --> 00:32:00.344 had been reported flying over California, Kentucky and Indiana. 350 00:32:00.379 --> 00:32:05.689 NICAP in the '50s and '60s is one of the only legitimate and true organizations 351 00:32:05.724 --> 00:32:09.517 dedicated to the scientific study of UFOs. 352 00:32:09.551 --> 00:32:11.862 Now, Project Blue Book is the government's arm 353 00:32:11.896 --> 00:32:14.241 of the air force officially investigating. 354 00:32:14.275 --> 00:32:16.310 But as a citizen group, 355 00:32:16.344 --> 00:32:19.586 only NICAP and a few others were those who brought in 356 00:32:19.620 --> 00:32:22.862 scientists, medical professionals 357 00:32:22.896 --> 00:32:26.965 and had a very rigid way of investigating these events. 358 00:32:32.965 --> 00:32:38.655 [narrator] In October, 1961, Boston-based NICAP investigator Walter Webb 359 00:32:38.689 --> 00:32:42.241 interviews the Hills at their home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 360 00:32:42.275 --> 00:32:46.068 [Kathleen] Walter Webb was an investigator for NICAP. 361 00:32:46.103 --> 00:32:50.068 He wanted to know, in as much detail as possible, 362 00:32:50.103 --> 00:32:53.551 where the sighting occurred initially. 363 00:32:55.275 --> 00:32:57.586 How the craft reacted. 364 00:32:58.724 --> 00:33:01.793 How this changed as they observed it. 365 00:33:03.068 --> 00:33:06.827 What Barney saw as he stood in that field. 366 00:33:13.034 --> 00:33:17.896 Walter Webb believed their story because they didn't enlarge on it. 367 00:33:17.931 --> 00:33:21.965 They were serious in retelling what happened. 368 00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:25.551 They were consistent in their details. 369 00:33:25.586 --> 00:33:30.172 Because he interviewed them separately before he interviewed them together. 370 00:33:30.206 --> 00:33:32.965 And so, everything meshed. 371 00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:39.137 He thought that they were reliable, intelligent individuals, 372 00:33:39.172 --> 00:33:43.586 with no reason to want to make something like this up. 373 00:33:43.620 --> 00:33:48.689 The scientific community, at least those who are interested in the subject, took note 374 00:33:48.724 --> 00:33:51.172 that we have some very credible witnesses here. 375 00:33:51.206 --> 00:33:54.000 They're in high standing in society. 376 00:33:54.034 --> 00:33:55.379 They have a lot to lose. 377 00:33:55.413 --> 00:33:57.724 And so, given the credibility of it, 378 00:33:57.758 --> 00:34:02.000 it's kind of one of the first times that many of them had taken note 379 00:34:02.034 --> 00:34:05.655 that we should listen to the alleged abductees. 380 00:34:12.758 --> 00:34:14.068 [narrator] A few weeks later, 381 00:34:14.103 --> 00:34:17.000 when another set of investigators question the Hills, 382 00:34:17.034 --> 00:34:19.034 they make a startling revelation. 383 00:34:44.758 --> 00:34:48.862 [narrator] What happened during those two hours of missing time? 384 00:34:49.448 --> 00:34:52.413 [Barney speaking] 385 00:35:01.827 --> 00:35:03.517 [Bryce] Imagine you're Betty and Barney, 386 00:35:03.551 --> 00:35:05.965 you've seen this UFO, you've seen these creatures 387 00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:10.137 and then you begin to realize that there's a couple hours that are unaccounted for. 388 00:35:10.172 --> 00:35:12.034 They started to get an inkling 389 00:35:12.068 --> 00:35:17.000 that maybe there was more to that two-hour period than it first met the eye. 390 00:35:22.275 --> 00:35:27.068 [narrator] Could Betty's dreams be nightmares of something real? 391 00:35:27.103 --> 00:35:32.344 Is it possible they were abducted by aliens during the missing time? 392 00:35:32.379 --> 00:35:35.034 Betty and Barney decide to investigate further. 393 00:35:36.310 --> 00:35:40.793 Shortly after Betty and Barney met with Homan & Jackson, 394 00:35:40.827 --> 00:35:45.310 they made trips up to the White Mountains. 395 00:35:45.344 --> 00:35:51.758 They were attempting to remember more to jog their memories of what had occurred. 396 00:35:56.413 --> 00:36:01.172 In Betty's dreams, she remembered a huge fiery orb 397 00:36:01.206 --> 00:36:05.310 that seemed to be sitting on the ground of a roadblock. 398 00:36:05.344 --> 00:36:08.206 But she didn't know where or when that occurred 399 00:36:08.241 --> 00:36:12.172 of a dirt road with tall trees all around. 400 00:36:12.206 --> 00:36:14.275 And this was very perplexing. 401 00:36:20.827 --> 00:36:23.862 [Ben] The whole experience from the days, the months and the years 402 00:36:23.896 --> 00:36:28.413 after the event took a major toll on their relationship. 403 00:36:30.551 --> 00:36:35.172 Betty wanted to understand this and to unlock the secrets, 404 00:36:35.206 --> 00:36:37.586 if you will, of everything that happened. 405 00:36:37.620 --> 00:36:40.137 What were the events that were haunting her? 406 00:36:41.517 --> 00:36:43.344 Barney wanted to keep quiet. 407 00:36:43.379 --> 00:36:45.379 He didn't want it to affect their public life 408 00:36:45.413 --> 00:36:47.620 and his standing in the civil rights movements 409 00:36:47.655 --> 00:36:51.068 and everything that they were involved in. 410 00:36:51.103 --> 00:36:56.413 Barney was still attempting to forget about it, but he wouldn't. 411 00:36:56.448 --> 00:37:03.275 It was really eating away at him and was deeply troubling. 412 00:37:04.448 --> 00:37:06.655 [narrator] Concerned over a worsening ulcer, 413 00:37:06.689 --> 00:37:10.068 Barney visits a psychiatrist hoping to find relief. 414 00:37:56.655 --> 00:37:59.655 [narrator] Barney prepares to go under hypnosis. 415 00:37:59.689 --> 00:38:03.068 After years of blocking out what happened, 416 00:38:03.103 --> 00:38:07.137 will Barney finally come face-to-face with his demons? 417 00:38:24.034 --> 00:38:27.448 [narrator] Two years after the UFO encounter, 418 00:38:27.482 --> 00:38:30.551 Betty and Barney Hill travel to Boston 419 00:38:30.586 --> 00:38:33.655 for a visit with one of the country's leading experts 420 00:38:33.689 --> 00:38:37.827 in regressive hypnosis, Dr. Benjamin Simon. 421 00:38:39.862 --> 00:38:44.344 Dr. Simon had earned a reputation for himself when he was a colonel in the army. 422 00:38:45.655 --> 00:38:47.758 He developed a special technique 423 00:38:47.793 --> 00:38:52.793 using deep trance hypnosis in order to resolve the trauma 424 00:38:52.827 --> 00:38:57.344 that soldiers who were returning from the war had experienced. 425 00:38:57.379 --> 00:39:00.103 That caused physiological ailments. 426 00:39:00.137 --> 00:39:01.965 When I snapped my finger, you'll be able to let go 427 00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:04.379 and then you'll get sleepy and your eyes are getting heavier. 428 00:39:07.413 --> 00:39:10.793 [narrator] Is it possible that Betty and Barney were experiencing 429 00:39:10.827 --> 00:39:14.103 post-traumatic stress after their UFO encounter? 430 00:39:17.586 --> 00:39:19.931 And could Dr. Simon help them? 431 00:39:23.137 --> 00:39:27.827 In a rare interview, Dr. Simon discusses his treatment of the Hills. 432 00:40:01.448 --> 00:40:02.827 [narrator] Over the next six months, 433 00:40:02.862 --> 00:40:06.724 both Betty and Barney undergo a series of treatments. 434 00:40:06.758 --> 00:40:11.413 During these sessions, Dr. Simon induces them into a deep trance. 435 00:40:11.448 --> 00:40:15.586 Now, clasp your hands in front of you tight, tight, tight, tight, tight, tighter. 436 00:40:15.620 --> 00:40:17.172 As they get tighter, you're going to sleep. 437 00:40:17.206 --> 00:40:19.034 You're going to a deep, deep sleep. 438 00:40:19.068 --> 00:40:20.344 Your eyes are getting heavy. 439 00:40:20.379 --> 00:40:22.482 They're closing. They're closing tight. 440 00:40:22.517 --> 00:40:25.724 Now, your hands are relaxed. We're going back. 441 00:40:25.758 --> 00:40:30.310 We're going back to September 19th, 1961, when you were returning from your vacation. 442 00:40:30.344 --> 00:40:33.275 We're going back to September 19th, 1961. 443 00:40:58.655 --> 00:41:00.103 [narrator] While under hypnosis, 444 00:41:00.137 --> 00:41:03.724 Barney recalls everything in his conscious memory, 445 00:41:03.758 --> 00:41:06.275 including the drive through the White Mountains 446 00:41:06.310 --> 00:41:09.310 and seeing the strange light up in the sky. 447 00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:17.344 But when he gets to the part about standing out in a field and seeing a UFO, 448 00:41:17.379 --> 00:41:20.862 a mental block forms, a panic sets in. 449 00:41:59.758 --> 00:42:05.206 When Dr. Simon pushes Barney to go beyond 450 00:42:05.241 --> 00:42:08.172 that mental block that he had developed, 451 00:42:08.206 --> 00:42:11.413 Barney says, "Please, doctor, don't make me go there, 452 00:42:11.448 --> 00:42:13.379 please don't let me remember that." 453 00:42:13.413 --> 00:42:16.827 And Dr. Simon said, "You will remember that. 454 00:42:16.862 --> 00:42:18.344 It won't hurt you now." 455 00:42:49.034 --> 00:42:50.724 [Dr. Simon] Calm down. 456 00:42:50.758 --> 00:42:56.482 Barney had a very explosive what's called an abreaction, 457 00:42:56.517 --> 00:43:00.896 where he released a great deal of emotion. 458 00:43:04.551 --> 00:43:08.034 [narrator] Dr. Simon guides Barney past his mental block, 459 00:43:08.068 --> 00:43:13.793 where he recalls for the first time a powerful force controlling him. 460 00:43:58.482 --> 00:44:01.034 [Bryce] Listening to Barney is very difficult. 461 00:44:01.068 --> 00:44:03.103 He's hysterical. He's screaming. 462 00:44:03.137 --> 00:44:07.724 He is reliving the most terrifying moments of his entire life. 463 00:44:07.758 --> 00:44:09.758 This is a man that was in World War II. 464 00:44:13.137 --> 00:44:15.965 [narrator] Later, during another hypnosis session, 465 00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:22.275 Barney recalls hearing the mysterious beeps and what happens next. 466 00:44:22.310 --> 00:44:27.206 Suddenly, he's driving, and he's driving, and he's driving. 467 00:44:27.241 --> 00:44:29.896 And he makes a turn. 468 00:44:29.931 --> 00:44:36.379 And he says, "I don't know why I had to make that turn." 469 00:44:36.413 --> 00:44:41.241 And then he finds himself on a dirt road with tall trees all around. 470 00:44:51.620 --> 00:44:54.758 There's a fiery orb that he sees. 471 00:44:54.793 --> 00:45:01.241 And he sees these entities standing in the road dressed in shiny black uniforms. 472 00:45:01.275 --> 00:45:03.793 And then Barney says, it's them. 473 00:45:07.931 --> 00:45:11.931 It's the ones I saw when I was standing in the field 474 00:45:11.965 --> 00:45:14.586 looking through binoculars. 475 00:45:14.620 --> 00:45:19.689 [narrator] As the entities close in on the car, this time, there is no escape. 476 00:45:28.413 --> 00:45:34.068 [narrator] In early 1964, two years after her UFO encounter, 477 00:45:34.103 --> 00:45:39.034 Betty Hill also undergoes hypnosis designed to recall what happened that night. 478 00:45:45.862 --> 00:45:52.724 Under hypnosis, Betty remembers everything that she had conscious recall for. 479 00:45:52.758 --> 00:45:58.862 And then she remembers Barney taking a sharp turn in the road 480 00:45:58.896 --> 00:46:03.034 and they were then on a dirt road with tall trees all around. 481 00:46:32.793 --> 00:46:35.275 There were figures standing in the road. 482 00:46:35.310 --> 00:46:38.413 And she observed this huge fiery orb. 483 00:46:40.551 --> 00:46:44.586 And she's talking to Barney, what is this? 484 00:46:44.620 --> 00:46:47.413 Are we being robbed? Is there an accident ahead? 485 00:46:47.448 --> 00:46:50.241 Barney says to Betty, "It's them." 486 00:46:54.068 --> 00:46:56.206 Betty becomes terrified. 487 00:46:56.241 --> 00:47:00.931 She has never been so terrified in her entire life. 488 00:47:00.965 --> 00:47:02.758 She puts her hand on the door. 489 00:47:02.793 --> 00:47:05.517 She's going to run into the woods to hide, 490 00:47:05.551 --> 00:47:09.482 but she's intercepted and she loses consciousness. 491 00:47:12.413 --> 00:47:14.137 [narrator] The next thing Betty remembers 492 00:47:14.172 --> 00:47:17.551 is the alien beings escorting her through the woods 493 00:47:17.586 --> 00:47:19.689 and onto the spacecraft. 494 00:47:41.724 --> 00:47:46.413 [Kathleen] They're saying to Betty, there's nothing to be afraid of, 495 00:47:46.448 --> 00:47:49.034 we only need to do a few simple tests, 496 00:47:49.068 --> 00:47:53.724 you won't be harmed and then you'll very quickly be on your way. 497 00:47:53.758 --> 00:47:55.103 She doesn't trust them. 498 00:47:57.275 --> 00:48:01.517 She kicks the one who is beside her... 499 00:48:03.103 --> 00:48:05.586 and this tears the hem on her dress down... 500 00:48:07.517 --> 00:48:11.724 and tears the lining of the dress from waist to hemline. 501 00:48:11.758 --> 00:48:14.034 They've regained control of her. 502 00:48:14.068 --> 00:48:18.137 And she is taken into an examining room on the craft. 503 00:48:32.482 --> 00:48:36.275 [narrator] That's where Betty meets someone she calls the Examiner. 504 00:49:07.137 --> 00:49:13.827 They use some kind of stylus pressing on the vertebrae in her spine. 505 00:49:16.758 --> 00:49:18.931 They take skin samples. 506 00:50:07.827 --> 00:50:12.724 [sobbing] 507 00:51:26.862 --> 00:51:29.379 [narrator] And then it was Barney's turn. 508 00:51:43.344 --> 00:51:46.551 [narrator] While under hypnosis, Barney Hill recalls 509 00:51:46.586 --> 00:51:49.034 how after being abducted by entities, 510 00:51:49.068 --> 00:51:51.896 he too was subjected to a physical examination. 511 00:51:53.586 --> 00:51:57.413 Barney is placed on a table and his clothes removed. 512 00:52:00.206 --> 00:52:05.206 They are interested in his muscular structure as well. 513 00:52:05.241 --> 00:52:08.310 In his nervous system, he's rolled over. 514 00:52:08.344 --> 00:52:14.310 He can feel what seems to be something pushing along the vertebrae in his spine. 515 00:52:51.172 --> 00:52:56.275 [Kathleen] Something slid very easily into Barney's rectum 516 00:52:56.310 --> 00:52:58.344 and then was removed very rapidly. 517 00:52:58.379 --> 00:52:59.896 It wasn't painful. 518 00:52:59.931 --> 00:53:05.034 Then kind of a cup-like device was placed over his genitals. 519 00:53:05.068 --> 00:53:08.655 There was apparently a sperm sample taken. 520 00:53:11.034 --> 00:53:12.655 [narrator] And then it was over. 521 00:53:18.103 --> 00:53:20.482 After completing their examinations, 522 00:53:20.517 --> 00:53:24.724 the entities escort the Hills off the ship and back to their car. 523 00:55:33.862 --> 00:55:38.344 [narrator] It is the most extraordinary story Dr. Simon has ever heard. 524 00:55:38.379 --> 00:55:40.862 [Betty] I've never been so afraid in my life. 525 00:55:40.896 --> 00:55:43.241 [narrator] Were these made-up memories? 526 00:55:43.275 --> 00:55:47.379 Or did Barney and Betty really get abducted by aliens? 527 00:56:19.344 --> 00:56:22.241 [Bryce] Dr. Simon felt that the best explanation 528 00:56:22.275 --> 00:56:24.344 might very well be that the two of them 529 00:56:24.379 --> 00:56:27.000 had had some kind of transference between them 530 00:56:27.034 --> 00:56:30.724 allowing them to sort of create and build the story 531 00:56:30.758 --> 00:56:34.551 that Betty might have had a stronger feeling about this 532 00:56:34.586 --> 00:56:39.620 and her memories or dreams contaminated Barney's memories or dreams. 533 00:56:39.655 --> 00:56:41.655 But he wasn't accusing them of hoaxing. 534 00:56:41.689 --> 00:56:45.034 He just felt that it was a psychological condition. 535 00:56:47.344 --> 00:56:51.034 [narrator] While grateful for the chance to tell their stories through hypnosis, 536 00:56:51.068 --> 00:56:56.620 Betty and Barney disagree with Dr. Simon's conclusions. 537 00:56:56.655 --> 00:57:00.793 They believe their independent accounts or further confirmation 538 00:57:00.827 --> 00:57:03.862 that what they experienced was real. 539 00:57:06.344 --> 00:57:09.724 [Kathleen] They couldn't go along with Dr. Simon's suggestions 540 00:57:09.758 --> 00:57:15.000 that this had to be Barney's absorbing Betty's dreams. 541 00:57:15.034 --> 00:57:19.758 And so, Barney just accepted it as real. 542 00:57:19.793 --> 00:57:24.931 And he felt a lot better because he had military officers 543 00:57:24.965 --> 00:57:28.482 who were encouraging him, who were telling him 544 00:57:28.517 --> 00:57:31.379 that, yes, all of these things are true 545 00:57:31.413 --> 00:57:35.413 that we know there are extraterrestrial craft coming to visit our planet. 546 00:57:35.448 --> 00:57:37.172 And there's no reason to believe 547 00:57:37.206 --> 00:57:39.448 that they're not visiting humans. 548 00:57:39.482 --> 00:57:42.655 And so, Barney felt much better. 549 00:57:45.413 --> 00:57:49.448 [narrator] While the Hills are comforted that the truth has come to light, 550 00:57:49.482 --> 00:57:51.448 they're determined to keep it private. 551 00:57:54.689 --> 00:57:56.379 Little do they know, 552 00:57:56.413 --> 00:58:02.000 it's impossible to keep the first and greatest abduction story ever told, 553 00:58:02.034 --> 00:58:04.724 secret for long. 554 00:58:20.068 --> 00:58:25.862 By the fall of 1965, four years have passed since the Hill's UFO encounter. 555 00:58:26.965 --> 00:58:29.689 Their hypnosis sessions too were in the past. 556 00:58:30.931 --> 00:58:32.758 Barney was now feeling better. 557 00:58:32.793 --> 00:58:36.793 And so, he and Betty had moved on with their lives. 558 00:58:36.827 --> 00:58:41.551 [Kathleen] Barney was still so involved in the civil rights movement 559 00:58:41.586 --> 00:58:44.482 and his speaking engagements. 560 00:58:44.517 --> 00:58:49.655 Because that was what he was really truly fighting for, was civil rights. 561 00:58:51.965 --> 00:58:53.827 [narrator] But then, in October... 562 00:58:55.137 --> 00:58:58.206 their lives turn upside down once again 563 00:58:58.241 --> 00:59:02.068 when theBoston Traveler prints a five-part series 564 00:59:02.103 --> 00:59:06.448 detailing the Hill's UFO sighting and hypnosis sessions. 565 00:59:08.793 --> 00:59:10.655 [Kathleen] It was a huge story. 566 00:59:10.689 --> 00:59:13.655 It ran for five days in the newspaper. 567 00:59:13.689 --> 00:59:17.137 Betty and Barney were extremely distressed. 568 00:59:17.172 --> 00:59:19.827 The Boston Traveler newspaper series, 569 00:59:19.862 --> 00:59:22.827 it blew the cover off the story 570 00:59:22.862 --> 00:59:25.103 that they've been telling a small group of people 571 00:59:25.137 --> 00:59:26.379 to a large group of people. 572 00:59:29.724 --> 00:59:31.344 When I first heard about the story, 573 00:59:31.379 --> 00:59:36.758 I couldn't imagine that somebody would either come up with that or lie about it 574 00:59:36.793 --> 00:59:38.758 for several years, 575 00:59:38.793 --> 00:59:42.965 and meet with Air Force officials and just make up a story. 576 00:59:43.000 --> 00:59:44.931 I mean, why would somebody do that? 577 00:59:44.965 --> 00:59:50.034 And especially, two Portsmouth people who were very respectable and respected. 578 00:59:51.689 --> 00:59:56.448 There was a violation of confidentiality in 1965. 579 00:59:58.034 --> 01:00:02.862 John Luttrell who was a reporter for theBoston Traveler in Boston 580 01:00:02.896 --> 01:00:08.758 had received confidential information from a friend of Betty's. 581 01:00:08.793 --> 01:00:11.896 And this woman had told him everything that she knew 582 01:00:11.931 --> 01:00:14.862 about the encounter and the hypnosis. 583 01:00:14.896 --> 01:00:18.482 He contacted Betty and Barney and wanted to interview them. 584 01:00:18.517 --> 01:00:23.206 Betty and Barney said, no, we do not want this story told. 585 01:00:30.482 --> 01:00:32.068 [narrator] In this rare interview, 586 01:00:32.103 --> 01:00:35.241 award-winning investigative reporter John Luttrell 587 01:00:35.275 --> 01:00:38.000 explains why he went ahead with the story. 588 01:00:39.482 --> 01:00:42.862 These people deserved every single consideration. 589 01:00:42.896 --> 01:00:46.137 But then, where do you draw the line 590 01:00:46.172 --> 01:00:49.517 between maintaining a certain degree of personal privacy 591 01:00:49.551 --> 01:00:52.344 or the public's right to know? 592 01:00:52.379 --> 01:00:54.586 And in making this decision, 593 01:00:54.620 --> 01:00:58.655 it had to be made abundantly clear to all of the readers that number one, 594 01:00:58.689 --> 01:01:02.655 the Hills themselves did not initiate this with theBoston Traveler. 595 01:01:02.689 --> 01:01:07.000 They have not chosen to talk about any of the incidents at all. 596 01:01:10.551 --> 01:01:13.137 [narrator] The sensational tale of an alien abduction 597 01:01:13.172 --> 01:01:16.206 thrusts Betty and Barney into the public spotlight. 598 01:01:18.172 --> 01:01:23.275 This had an impact not only on Betty and Barney, but on the entire family. 599 01:01:23.310 --> 01:01:29.241 We were a very respectable family who had many accomplishments. 600 01:01:29.275 --> 01:01:34.241 And we sat down and we talked about how should we handle this? 601 01:01:34.275 --> 01:01:37.034 Where will we go from here? 602 01:01:37.068 --> 01:01:42.793 And we decided as a family that since it did in fact happen 603 01:01:42.827 --> 01:01:49.103 and since the story had been told that Betty and Barney should tell the truth. 604 01:01:50.965 --> 01:01:54.000 [narrator] Unable to avoid the intense media spotlight, 605 01:01:54.034 --> 01:01:57.862 the Hills cooperate with author John Fuller in the writing 606 01:01:57.896 --> 01:02:04.206 ofThe Interrupted Journey: Two Lost Hours Aboard a Flying Saucer. 607 01:02:04.241 --> 01:02:07.482 [Kathleen] The Interrupted Journey went worldwide. 608 01:02:07.517 --> 01:02:10.103 It was aNew York Times bestseller. 609 01:02:10.137 --> 01:02:13.000 There was a tremendous amount of public interest. 610 01:02:14.655 --> 01:02:18.206 [Bryce] They literally shook the world when their story came out. 611 01:02:26.965 --> 01:02:28.931 In today's terms, The Interrupted Journey 612 01:02:28.965 --> 01:02:32.448 was like the final movie in the AvengersSaga. 613 01:02:32.482 --> 01:02:33.793 I mean, it was huge. 614 01:02:33.827 --> 01:02:35.965 I mean, everybody knew about it. 615 01:02:36.000 --> 01:02:37.896 It was a book club selection. 616 01:02:37.931 --> 01:02:40.620 It was excerpted in newspapers around the country. 617 01:02:40.655 --> 01:02:41.827 People couldn't get enough of it. 618 01:02:41.862 --> 01:02:46.275 [screaming] 619 01:02:47.275 --> 01:02:51.310 Betty's story, which is so dramatically told 620 01:02:51.344 --> 01:02:54.413 in which she's talking to the aliens. 621 01:02:54.448 --> 01:02:56.620 There's all these things that are going on. 622 01:02:56.655 --> 01:02:58.034 This story wrote itself. 623 01:02:59.689 --> 01:03:02.172 [Bryce] What makes the Betty and Barney case so extraordinary 624 01:03:02.206 --> 01:03:04.344 is it's just a case about first. 625 01:03:04.379 --> 01:03:07.000 They were the first Americans to claim to be abducted. 626 01:03:07.034 --> 01:03:10.862 It's the first time that anyone had missing time. 627 01:03:11.551 --> 01:03:13.310 [indistinct] 628 01:03:13.344 --> 01:03:17.758 It's the first time that hypnosis was used to regress people 629 01:03:17.793 --> 01:03:19.172 to recover those memories. 630 01:03:19.206 --> 01:03:23.448 And it's also the first time that anyone had described the aliens 631 01:03:23.482 --> 01:03:27.000 as what is now popularly known as the greys. 632 01:03:27.034 --> 01:03:31.068 So Betty and Barney really just laid the template out there. 633 01:03:36.103 --> 01:03:38.517 [narrator] The story explodes into popular culture 634 01:03:38.551 --> 01:03:41.896 when book excerpts are reprinted inLook Magazine. 635 01:03:43.034 --> 01:03:46.655 You got to remember that if this is not like today, 636 01:03:46.689 --> 01:03:49.275 it's not like we each have our own radio station 637 01:03:49.310 --> 01:03:52.655 and our own podcast and our own TV channel that we watch exclusively. 638 01:03:53.482 --> 01:03:55.482 There was minimum amount of media. 639 01:03:55.517 --> 01:03:57.241 And so, they end up inLook Magazine. 640 01:03:57.275 --> 01:03:58.379 That's huge. 641 01:04:03.275 --> 01:04:06.655 The book release changed Betty's and Barney's lives, 642 01:04:06.689 --> 01:04:12.379 because Barney had been appointed to the US Civil Rights Commission. 643 01:04:12.413 --> 01:04:18.758 He also was very actively involved in politics, as was Betty. 644 01:04:18.793 --> 01:04:23.172 And they had to put those activities aside for the time being. 645 01:04:23.206 --> 01:04:29.689 And to publicize this book, they took time off from work. 646 01:04:29.724 --> 01:04:32.655 So that they could travel to do television shows. 647 01:04:32.689 --> 01:04:36.413 -What is your name, please? -My name is Barney Hill. 648 01:04:36.448 --> 01:04:40.379 And they did many, many radio shows as well. 649 01:04:41.517 --> 01:04:43.206 My name is Barney Hill. 650 01:04:45.241 --> 01:04:48.517 This was kind of exciting to our family. 651 01:04:48.551 --> 01:04:51.068 Because at that point, 652 01:04:51.103 --> 01:04:56.068 we believed that finally this was being acknowledged as real. 653 01:04:56.103 --> 01:04:59.965 Which one of these three gentlemen in truth is Barney Hill? 654 01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:04.827 Will the real Barney Hill please stand up? 655 01:05:07.172 --> 01:05:10.344 [applauding] 656 01:05:15.655 --> 01:05:18.000 [narrator] The publicity surrounding the abduction 657 01:05:18.034 --> 01:05:19.758 brings out a number of skeptics 658 01:05:19.793 --> 01:05:25.793 who refuse to believe the Hills, leaving many to wonder, what really happened? 659 01:05:28.689 --> 01:05:33.931 It's a question Kathleen has been trying to answer since she was a teenager. 660 01:05:53.448 --> 01:05:57.931 For the past 40 years, Betty and Barney's niece Kathleen 661 01:05:57.965 --> 01:06:01.517 has been investigating the truth behind the Hill abduction. 662 01:06:03.241 --> 01:06:05.758 [Kathleen] I decided to investigate this story 663 01:06:05.793 --> 01:06:11.551 because I was hearing about it on television, 664 01:06:11.586 --> 01:06:17.034 I was reading about it in magazine articles and newspaper articles. 665 01:06:17.068 --> 01:06:22.034 But what I was reading was not consistent with my memories of what actually occurred. 666 01:06:24.379 --> 01:06:29.000 [narrator] In the process, she has uncovered classified documents kept secret 667 01:06:29.034 --> 01:06:32.206 and a government conspiracy to hide the truth. 668 01:06:32.241 --> 01:06:37.034 I wanted to look at the Project Blue Book documents 669 01:06:37.068 --> 01:06:41.137 that had been recorded at Pease Air Force Base, 670 01:06:41.172 --> 01:06:44.379 but also the documents that went to headquarters. 671 01:06:44.413 --> 01:06:49.034 I wanted to find any evidence of further investigation 672 01:06:49.068 --> 01:06:52.344 that was done by the Air Force and further documentation. 673 01:06:54.896 --> 01:07:00.931 I found that a false letter was written in 1963 674 01:07:00.965 --> 01:07:05.862 that contradicted the results of Betty's and Barney's statements 675 01:07:05.896 --> 01:07:08.034 in the Project Blue Book report. 676 01:07:09.896 --> 01:07:13.827 Betty and Barney talked about the movement of the craft, 677 01:07:13.862 --> 01:07:20.379 how it moved erratically in a zigzag fashion, how it swooped down. 678 01:07:20.413 --> 01:07:25.965 So I wanted to compare that to what was written in 1963. 679 01:07:26.000 --> 01:07:32.551 In '63, it said that it was a star-like object at all times 680 01:07:32.586 --> 01:07:35.724 and that there was no movement. 681 01:07:36.517 --> 01:07:39.275 And so, that was just a lie. 682 01:07:39.310 --> 01:07:43.551 Over the years, there's certainly been a lot of debate back and forth 683 01:07:43.586 --> 01:07:46.068 about why doesn't the government just tell us what it knows. 684 01:07:46.103 --> 01:07:47.896 And the government has said, 685 01:07:47.931 --> 01:07:51.724 "Well, there's really nothing to see here" and tried to minimize it. 686 01:07:51.758 --> 01:07:54.000 And it's even worse on the abduction phenomenon, 687 01:07:54.034 --> 01:07:58.965 which nobody seems to, to want to talk about on an official capacity. 688 01:07:59.000 --> 01:08:01.896 And it's really not a surprise because why would they, 689 01:08:01.931 --> 01:08:05.000 if what happened to Betty and Barney has been repeated 690 01:08:05.034 --> 01:08:10.931 hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of times since 1961. 691 01:08:10.965 --> 01:08:15.068 What that says is we have a really out of control situation going on. 692 01:08:21.896 --> 01:08:25.689 One of the greatest pieces of evidence that the Betty and Barney Hill case 693 01:08:25.724 --> 01:08:31.551 could so desperately use would be a bunch of witnesses saying, I saw that thing too. 694 01:08:31.586 --> 01:08:34.137 And that is what the original reporter 695 01:08:34.172 --> 01:08:37.137 for the Boston Traveler, John Luttrell thought he had. 696 01:08:39.310 --> 01:08:44.241 [narrator] In 1976, John Luttrell admitted to interviewing these witnesses 697 01:08:44.275 --> 01:08:47.448 in a letter to nuclear physicist and UFO investigator, 698 01:08:47.482 --> 01:08:49.862 Stanton Friedman. 699 01:08:49.896 --> 01:08:55.586 Before Stanton Friedman passed away, he gave me a letter written by John Luttrell. 700 01:09:00.689 --> 01:09:07.793 And John Luttrell spoke of 12 to 14 people in the White Mountains 701 01:09:07.827 --> 01:09:11.551 who had observed a craft by the same description 702 01:09:11.586 --> 01:09:14.689 on the same night in the same time frame 703 01:09:14.724 --> 01:09:17.068 that Betty and Barney saw this. 704 01:09:20.206 --> 01:09:22.896 His editors didn't feel that that needed to be included 705 01:09:22.931 --> 01:09:26.517 in the five articles that he wrote in 1965. 706 01:09:26.551 --> 01:09:29.655 Well, when Luttrell left the Boston Traveler, 707 01:09:29.689 --> 01:09:34.827 he actually gave the file to his editor with all those witnesses in it. 708 01:09:34.862 --> 01:09:36.103 And guess what? 709 01:09:36.137 --> 01:09:38.482 That file has disappeared. 710 01:09:47.137 --> 01:09:49.241 [narrator] Perhaps the most compelling clue 711 01:09:49.275 --> 01:09:53.172 is the dress Betty wore the night of her abduction. 712 01:09:53.206 --> 01:09:55.620 [Kathleen] She had placed it in her closet. 713 01:09:55.655 --> 01:10:00.862 And the next time she took it out, she thought about throwing the dress away. 714 01:10:00.896 --> 01:10:03.931 But on second thought, she thought she would keep it 715 01:10:03.965 --> 01:10:07.206 because it might hold a clue to what happened that night. 716 01:10:11.034 --> 01:10:14.482 [Ben] Over the years, several tests have been done on this dress, 717 01:10:14.517 --> 01:10:18.034 where there are areas where it appears there are stains. 718 01:10:21.551 --> 01:10:27.724 Now, some of these results indicate that there's an organic material of some sort. 719 01:10:27.758 --> 01:10:31.586 But it wasn't until recently when I re-examined the dress 720 01:10:31.620 --> 01:10:33.965 that I found something very, very peculiar. 721 01:10:35.724 --> 01:10:39.620 Now, we knew about several stains from the outside. 722 01:10:39.655 --> 01:10:42.413 But as I turn the dress inside out, 723 01:10:42.448 --> 01:10:46.965 there's an inner lining to it, where I found a series of three spots. 724 01:10:49.068 --> 01:10:50.344 What's that from? 725 01:10:51.379 --> 01:10:53.896 The location of the stains is important 726 01:10:53.931 --> 01:10:55.551 because some might say 727 01:10:55.586 --> 01:11:00.206 that it's, you know, residue from female menstruation, for example. 728 01:11:00.241 --> 01:11:03.275 But this area was higher up. 729 01:11:03.310 --> 01:11:07.827 It's higher in the abdomen and pretty much where I would expect 730 01:11:07.862 --> 01:11:11.517 if the story is true that a needle was inserted. 731 01:11:11.551 --> 01:11:14.758 You've got different bodily fluids that would have leaked out. 732 01:11:14.793 --> 01:11:20.689 But from the inside, staining the lining of the dress on the inside 733 01:11:20.724 --> 01:11:23.137 and not going through to the outside. 734 01:11:28.448 --> 01:11:32.344 We've confirmed that this fluid does belong to Betty, 735 01:11:32.379 --> 01:11:35.551 and that she put this dress away and never wore it again. 736 01:11:35.586 --> 01:11:41.137 To me, this is consistent with the procedure of having put the clothing back on 737 01:11:41.172 --> 01:11:46.310 or wearing it through the procedure and indicating it happened as she said. 738 01:11:49.793 --> 01:11:52.344 [Bryce] It seems pretty clear what the aliens were doing 739 01:11:52.379 --> 01:11:57.586 based on the regression tapes and the testimony of Betty and Barney. 740 01:11:57.620 --> 01:12:00.310 They're taking a sperm sample from Barney. 741 01:12:00.344 --> 01:12:03.551 They're testing Betty to see if she's pregnant. 742 01:12:03.586 --> 01:12:08.034 Obviously, there's a reproductive issue that's being looked into. 743 01:12:08.068 --> 01:12:10.689 But they're also scraping skin samples. 744 01:12:10.724 --> 01:12:12.965 It's clearly a medical exam. 745 01:12:23.206 --> 01:12:26.551 It seems like they want to know more about our biology. 746 01:12:26.586 --> 01:12:29.241 Why else would they be conducting medical experiments? 747 01:12:35.206 --> 01:12:37.689 It seems like they don't have all the answers. 748 01:12:37.724 --> 01:12:39.344 So, do they keep coming back? 749 01:12:39.379 --> 01:12:41.000 Have they gotten what they want? 750 01:12:41.034 --> 01:12:42.586 Do they know everything they need to know? 751 01:12:42.620 --> 01:12:44.310 Or is there a further motive? 752 01:12:48.551 --> 01:12:50.275 [narrator] In the 1970s, 753 01:12:50.310 --> 01:12:55.379 the controversy surrounding the Hill abduction explodes in the media once more. 754 01:12:55.413 --> 01:13:00.344 This time, when a schoolteacher in Ohio claims the Hill story is real 755 01:13:00.379 --> 01:13:04.137 and she knows where the aliens came from. 756 01:13:14.448 --> 01:13:17.862 [narrator] One unanswered question has always been, 757 01:13:17.896 --> 01:13:20.344 where did these entities come from? 758 01:13:21.482 --> 01:13:24.068 [Bryce] During her dreams and during hypnosis, 759 01:13:24.103 --> 01:13:27.275 Betty Hill described seeing a star map 760 01:13:27.310 --> 01:13:30.413 that one of the alien creatures had showed her a map, 761 01:13:30.448 --> 01:13:34.517 a destination map of the routes that had been traveled. 762 01:13:35.965 --> 01:13:39.896 She said to the Leader, "I know you're not from around here. 763 01:13:39.931 --> 01:13:42.241 Where's your home port?" 764 01:13:42.275 --> 01:13:47.724 And he produced this three-dimensional star map. 765 01:15:01.206 --> 01:15:03.862 [narrator] Under instructions from Dr. Simon, 766 01:15:03.896 --> 01:15:06.551 Betty later reproduced the map from memory. 767 01:15:08.137 --> 01:15:15.103 Then in 1974, the school teacher in Ohio claims to have deciphered the map 768 01:15:15.137 --> 01:15:19.379 and located the star system where the entities originated. 769 01:15:19.413 --> 01:15:23.482 Marjorie Fish was a brilliant woman from Ohio. 770 01:15:23.517 --> 01:15:27.517 She had studied biology in college. 771 01:15:27.551 --> 01:15:31.344 And she was an amateur astronomer, a member of Mensa. 772 01:15:31.379 --> 01:15:33.586 Meaning that she had a very high IQ. 773 01:15:33.620 --> 01:15:37.103 She saw Betty's star map in the first book 774 01:15:37.137 --> 01:15:40.896 that was written about the abduction. 775 01:15:40.931 --> 01:15:45.172 And she was interested in it. She was skeptical. 776 01:15:45.206 --> 01:15:50.448 But she thought that if this place really did exist in our galaxy, 777 01:15:50.482 --> 01:15:52.206 that she'd be able to find it. 778 01:15:55.862 --> 01:16:00.655 [narrator] In order to understand the perspective from which the map was drawn, 779 01:16:00.689 --> 01:16:06.655 Fish constructed an elaborate 3D model using fishing line and colored beads. 780 01:16:08.793 --> 01:16:12.862 [Marjorie] I set up a number of criteria when I started the search. 781 01:16:12.896 --> 01:16:15.551 One was that the sun had to be in the pattern 782 01:16:15.586 --> 01:16:18.000 and it had be one of the stars with a line to it. 783 01:16:18.034 --> 01:16:21.931 Because the one Betty called the Leader had said, 784 01:16:21.965 --> 01:16:27.034 "Where are you in the map and indicating that the sun was in the map?" 785 01:16:27.068 --> 01:16:29.206 [Kathleen] And this was difficult in those days. 786 01:16:29.241 --> 01:16:30.724 She didn't have a computer. 787 01:16:30.758 --> 01:16:34.620 She had to hand copy all of the distance data 788 01:16:34.655 --> 01:16:39.517 that was available on the stars in our local galactic neighborhood. 789 01:16:39.551 --> 01:16:42.344 And the properties of those stars 790 01:16:42.379 --> 01:16:46.862 out 54 light years from our sun in every direction. 791 01:16:49.379 --> 01:16:52.965 In all, she constructed 14 models. 792 01:16:53.000 --> 01:16:55.655 She still didn't have a match. 793 01:16:55.689 --> 01:17:00.241 But there was a new catalog that was released. 794 01:17:00.275 --> 01:17:02.862 She took the new distance data back. 795 01:17:02.896 --> 01:17:06.482 She constructed a model. She found a match. 796 01:17:08.862 --> 01:17:14.000 [Marjorie] I had all 12 points plus three background stars. 797 01:17:14.034 --> 01:17:17.758 And at this point, I was very elated and very happy. 798 01:17:17.793 --> 01:17:19.172 I didn't sleep at all that night. 799 01:17:22.000 --> 01:17:24.034 [narrator] According to her evidence, 800 01:17:24.068 --> 01:17:29.172 the beings that abducted the Hills came from Zeta Reticuli, 801 01:17:29.206 --> 01:17:33.689 a binary star system located 39 light years from Earth. 802 01:17:36.241 --> 01:17:39.862 What we know about these stars is that they're very similar to our sun. 803 01:17:39.896 --> 01:17:41.896 They're called main sequence stars. 804 01:17:41.931 --> 01:17:45.206 And so, they're the right age, the right temperature. 805 01:17:45.241 --> 01:17:48.793 If there are planets revolving around them, 806 01:17:48.827 --> 01:17:53.862 they could be at the perfect what we call goldilocks, you know, distance, 807 01:17:53.896 --> 01:17:55.482 where they could support life. 808 01:17:57.931 --> 01:18:01.482 [Kathleen] We may never know for certain 809 01:18:01.517 --> 01:18:07.689 if there is indeed life on planets around Zeta Reticuli one and two. 810 01:18:07.724 --> 01:18:13.034 But there is a good possibility that there is. 811 01:18:13.068 --> 01:18:19.620 We have discovered that that area of space 812 01:18:19.655 --> 01:18:23.689 that these extraterrestrials allegedly came from 813 01:18:23.724 --> 01:18:26.965 is rich in exoplanets. 814 01:18:30.241 --> 01:18:32.620 [Betty] For a long, long time, I had the feeling 815 01:18:32.655 --> 01:18:36.344 that I had sort of lived through a tragedy in some way. 816 01:18:36.379 --> 01:18:39.241 And sometimes, even now, I still have this feeling. 817 01:18:39.275 --> 01:18:41.448 Because it's something that's haunting. 818 01:18:42.655 --> 01:18:46.068 It's something that's always on my mind. 819 01:18:46.103 --> 01:18:48.793 No matter where I go or what I do. 820 01:18:48.827 --> 01:18:51.896 It's the last thing I think of when I go to bed at night. 821 01:18:51.931 --> 01:18:56.655 And it's the first thing I think of in the morning when I wake up. 822 01:18:56.689 --> 01:19:01.310 And I expect it'll probably be that way for the rest of my life. 823 01:19:14.586 --> 01:19:18.068 Of course after this happened, there's no doubt in my mind 824 01:19:18.103 --> 01:19:22.655 that these are real solid crafts and they're astronauts from another solar system 825 01:19:22.689 --> 01:19:24.379 because they told me so themselves. 826 01:19:25.827 --> 01:19:29.275 [narrator] Today, six decades after their UFO encounter... 827 01:19:30.620 --> 01:19:34.310 Betty Hill and her husband, Barney are no longer with us. 828 01:19:39.172 --> 01:19:42.379 They are buried together beside Betty's sister, Janet 829 01:19:42.413 --> 01:19:46.206 in a small picturesque cemetery in Kingston, New Hampshire. 830 01:19:49.793 --> 01:19:53.827 [Jim] These were two people, long ago, who lived in Portsmouth... 831 01:19:56.275 --> 01:19:58.862 who have now passed on. 832 01:19:58.896 --> 01:20:03.000 But they've left us with a message of something they experienced. 833 01:20:06.896 --> 01:20:11.517 There are aliens out there who may be visiting us, 834 01:20:11.551 --> 01:20:15.551 might not be harmful, might want to know about us, 835 01:20:15.586 --> 01:20:17.724 might want to examine us... 836 01:20:19.206 --> 01:20:23.241 and may just want to be inquisitive about what we're about. 837 01:20:23.275 --> 01:20:25.724 And maybe someday, who knows when. 838 01:20:25.758 --> 01:20:28.413 But maybe someday, they're going to say hello. 839 01:21:00.103 --> 01:21:02.931 [Betty] The good question is, why are they coming here? 840 01:21:02.965 --> 01:21:05.793 I don't think the government knows any more than we do. 841 01:21:05.827 --> 01:21:07.620 They're just as puzzled as we are. 842 01:21:09.310 --> 01:21:10.896 I mean, we know they're here. 843 01:21:10.931 --> 01:21:13.413 We know there are beings on board. 844 01:21:13.448 --> 01:21:14.931 We don't know why they're here. 845 01:21:16.172 --> 01:21:20.827 [conversation over PA] 846 01:21:23.310 --> 01:21:26.172 [narrator] This question of why recently resurfaced 847 01:21:26.206 --> 01:21:31.172 following the 2017 release of the so-called Tic-tac video. 848 01:21:31.206 --> 01:21:33.620 These images of a purported UFO 849 01:21:33.655 --> 01:21:36.034 were captured by a navy fighter jet 850 01:21:36.068 --> 01:21:40.793 and radar on board the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, USS Nimitz. 851 01:21:40.827 --> 01:21:44.482 [conversation over PA] 852 01:21:47.241 --> 01:21:51.448 Peace Air Force Base located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1961, 853 01:21:51.482 --> 01:21:54.448 was the home of the Strategic Air Command. 854 01:21:54.482 --> 01:21:58.344 And that's where the bombers with the nuclear bombs were housed. 855 01:21:58.379 --> 01:22:01.586 A few years earlier, in 1947, 856 01:22:01.620 --> 01:22:05.758 the Strategic Air Command bombers were held at Roswell. 857 01:22:08.517 --> 01:22:12.793 So UFOs, aliens, nuclear weapons 858 01:22:12.827 --> 01:22:14.931 kind of have this thing where they're brought together, 859 01:22:14.965 --> 01:22:17.034 which would make me say, 860 01:22:17.068 --> 01:22:21.862 it's one reason to believe that the Betty and Barney case might not be random, 861 01:22:21.896 --> 01:22:24.137 but might be something that's related to that 862 01:22:24.172 --> 01:22:27.551 since they lived very close to this nuclear bomber base. 863 01:22:29.758 --> 01:22:34.206 [narrator] Six decades after risking their reputations and careers, 864 01:22:34.241 --> 01:22:39.931 many, no longer view Betty and Barney Hill as frauds, but as heroes. 865 01:22:41.068 --> 01:22:43.275 After UFOs are generally acknowledged, 866 01:22:43.310 --> 01:22:45.793 you can call that disclosure or whatever you want to call it. 867 01:22:45.827 --> 01:22:49.034 But when the world is finally saying, yeah, these things are real, 868 01:22:49.068 --> 01:22:51.896 then the history books are going to have to be rewritten. 869 01:22:51.931 --> 01:22:55.206 Betty and Barney Hill, they're going to be in history books. 870 01:22:55.241 --> 01:22:59.965 [Ben] I always remind people, when I hear the skepticism of, 871 01:23:00.000 --> 01:23:02.275 well, there's no physical evidence, 872 01:23:02.310 --> 01:23:04.344 you could have a murder conviction 873 01:23:04.379 --> 01:23:10.241 from one or two very credible witnesses of seeing an event. 874 01:23:10.275 --> 01:23:15.034 Imagine the implications of that or someone goes to prison or is put to death. 875 01:23:15.068 --> 01:23:17.413 Yet, we ridicule somebody who says 876 01:23:17.448 --> 01:23:21.620 that they had a very fantastical story of a UFO report. 877 01:23:21.655 --> 01:23:26.068 But, yet, this same credibility exists with these witnesses. 878 01:23:26.103 --> 01:23:27.551 I think we should start listening. 879 01:23:34.310 --> 01:23:38.137 [Kathleen] I think that if Betty and Barney were alive today, 880 01:23:38.172 --> 01:23:42.241 they would be satisfied that they had been vindicated. 881 01:23:42.275 --> 01:23:47.517 We know so much more scientifically than we knew in that time frame. 882 01:23:47.551 --> 01:23:53.620 And Betty's and Barney's knowledge was consistent with what we understand today. 883 01:24:00.172 --> 01:24:02.344 I'm Betty Hill, 884 01:24:02.379 --> 01:24:08.551 and my husband, Barney and I were the first persons on this planet 885 01:24:08.586 --> 01:24:12.413 to be abducted by astronauts from another solar system.