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Aboard a Flying Saucer the Adventures of Two 'Kidnapped' Humans

Central Intelligence Agency · 2001-03-12 · 29 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This CIA-released copy, approved for release in 2001, reproduces a LOOK magazine condensation of John G. Fuller's book The Interrupted Journey. It recounts Betty and Barney Hill's September 19, 1961 sighting near Indian Head, New Hampshire, their two missing hours, Dr. Benjamin Simon's hypnosis sessions and Walter Webb's NICAP investigation. Simon found neither patient psychotic but said nothing was proved. The file also includes an Air Force UFO report form and a letter from J. Allen Hynek urging scientific study of UFOs.

  • p. 1 …FULLER ON SEPTEMBER 19, 1961, Barney Hill and his wife Betty began a night drive from…
  • p. 2 …The Hills stopped briefly several times. At one of the stops, a few miles north of…
  • p. 3 …As the daze dissolved, Betty Hill vaguely remembers saying to her husband: "Now do you believe…
  • p. 4 …Hall's letter included a copy of a letter Betty Hill had written him. He suggested…
  • p. 5 …Barney's and Betty's knowledge of hypnosis was fragmentary. Dr. Simon explained that the Hills…
  • p. 7 …FEBRUARY 29, 1964, the Hills arrived punctually for their appointment. Betty sat in an outer office…
  • p. 8 …He hoped that Betty Hill could provide some explanation for her husband's account, and he…
  • p. 9 …FULLER RETURNING FROM a brief vacation in Canada in September, 1961, Barney and Betty Hill had…
  • p. 10 …The Hills returned to the office for Betty's second session on March 14, 1964. DOCTOR…
  • p. 11 …What did you say to Betty? BARNEY: Betty said to me: Well, do you believe in…
  • p. 12 …Didn't Betty tell this to you while you were asleep? BARNEY: No. Betty never told…
  • p. 14 …Under hypnosis, Betty Hill described a map she was shown "by the leader aboard the ship…
  • p. 16 …I think that we can work together, don't you, Betty? ## Betty nods in agreement. DOCTOR…
  • p. 17 …Barney and Betty Hill are not crusading to convert nonbelievers or skeptics into the acceptance of…

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# The unsolved mystery: the almost identical stories under hypnosis

or the incident that played so big a part in it. Both the doctor and Mr. and Mrs. Hill regretted that it would be impractical to continue into deeper therapy over the long period of time that would be necessary.

As the sessions drew to a close, the question of illusion or reality dominated the discussions. The doctor pointed out that he was not going to say it was either; that he and the Hills together would both have to continue to reason for the truth, but that ultimately, the acceptance or nonacceptance of the occurrence would have to rest with them.

From the long and intensive exploration of the case, however, certain nearly irrefutable points emerge:

1. A sighting of some sort took place.

2. The object sighted appeared to have been a craft.

3. The sighting caused a severe emotional reaction.

4. The anxiety and apprehension engendered by Barney Hill's racial sensitivity served to intensify the emotional response to the sighting.

5. The Hills had no ulterior motives to create such a story. They had confined their experience to a small group of people for four years.

6. The case was investigated by several technical and scientific persons who support the possibility of the reality of the experience.

7. There is a measurable amount of direct physical circumstantial evidence to support the validity of the experience.

8. Under hypnosis by a qualified psychiatrist, both the Hills told almost identical stories of what had taken place during the period of amnesia.

There are no final answers.

Barney and Betty Hill are not crusading to convert nonbelievers or skeptics into the acceptance of the phenomenon, although they are hopeful that some new evidence might come to light to clarify without question the strange circumstances of their experience. They are content now to let whatever facts that have come out of their story speak for themselves.

But as Tennyson has said: "Maybe wildest dreams are but the needful preludes of the truth."

END

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 29 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.