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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.
“Betty”15 pages
- p. 1 …FULLER
ON SEPTEMBER 19, 1961, Barney Hill and his wife Betty began a night drive from…
- p. 2 …At one of the stops, a few miles north of Cannon Mountain, Betty said, "Barney, if…
- p. 3 …In the car, Betty waited. Suddenly, she became aware of Barney's disappearance into the blackness…
- p. 4 …Hall's letter included a copy of a letter Betty Hill had written him. He suggested…
- p. 5 …And I'm saying, hurry up, Betty, so I can get a look. And Betty passes…
- p. 6 …Let's go Betty. It's nothing but a plane: And they're coming over this…
- p. 7 …And I told Betty to look out—and the object was still around us. I could…
- p. 8 …And I see Betty is coming down the road, and she gets into the car, and…
- p. 9 …FULLER
RETURNING FROM a brief vacation in Canada in September, 1961, Barney and Betty Hill had…
- p. 10 …Did this look like Japanese? BETTY: No.
DOCTOR: Was it writing or printing?
BETTY: It was…
- 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 …Simon asked Betty: "Do you recall much of your experience now?"
BETTY: Yes, I think so…
- 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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He has sought the answer for 18 years Dr. H. Allen Hynek, head of the astronomy department at Northwestern University and chief scientific consultant on UFO's to the Air Force.
He believes flying saucers are "modern superstitions"—Dr. Donald H. Menzel of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Cambridge, Mass.
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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.