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Abductions: What Do We Really Know?
Mar 13th in Featured & UFO Phenomenon by Nick Redfern
September 19 of this year will mark the 50th anniversary of the famous Betty and Barney Hill UFO encounter – an event that, arguably, ushered in the phenomenon that has become known as “Alien Abduction.” But, almost half a century after the Hill’s firmly added a new category to UFO research, what do we truly know about the real nature of abductions? Let’s take a look.
On the night at issue, Betty and Barney, a New Hampshire couple, were driving home from vacationing in Canada when they were subjected to a terrifying experience. Despite viewing some form of unusual aerial object in the night-sky, and what appeared to be living entities that could be seen through the craft’s portals, until their arrival back home, the Hill’s had little indication that there was far more to the encounter than they realized.
It later transpired, however, that approximately two-hours of time could not be accounted for. After months of emotional distress, sleepless nights, and strange dreams pertaining to encounters with unusual, otherworldly beings, the couple finally sought assistance from Benjamin Simon, a Boston-based psychiatrist and neurologist. Subjected to time-regression hypnosis, both Betty and Barney recalled what had taken place during that missing 120-minutes or so.
Significantly, they provided very close accounts of encounters with apparent alien creatures that took the pair on-board some form of alien vehicle and subjected them to a series of physical examinations – a number of which were highly distressing in nature. The experience of the Hill’s later became the subject of John Fuller’s now-classic book, The Interrupted Journey and a 1975 movie of the same name. And although claims have been made (and almost certainly highly-justified claims, too) that the phenomenon long pre-dates the Hill affair, it was certainly this incident that paved the way for the massive interest in abductions that ultimately developed in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Abductions: What Do We Really Know?
Mar 13th in Featured & UFO Phenomenon by Nick Redfern
September 19 of this year will mark the 50th anniversary of the famous Betty and Barney Hill UFO encounter – an event that, arguably, ushered in the phenomenon that has become known as “Alien Abduction.” But, almost half a century after the Hill’s firmly added a new category to UFO research, what do we truly know about the real nature of abductions? Let’s take a look.
On the night at issue, Betty and Barney, a New Hampshire couple, were driving home from vacationing in Canada when they were subjected to a terrifying experience. Despite viewing some form of unusual aerial object in the night-sky, and what appeared to be living entities that could be seen through the craft’s portals, until their arrival back home, the Hill’s had little indication that there was far more to the encounter than they realized.
It later transpired, however, that approximately two-hours of time could not be accounted for. After months of emotional distress, sleepless nights, and strange dreams pertaining to encounters with unusual, otherworldly beings, the couple finally sought assistance from Benjamin Simon, a Boston-based psychiatrist and neurologist. Subjected to time-regression hypnosis, both Betty and Barney recalled what had taken place during that missing 120-minutes or so.
Significantly, they provided very close accounts of encounters with apparent alien creatures that took the pair on-board some form of alien vehicle and subjected them to a series of physical examinations – a number of which were highly distressing in nature. The experience of the Hill’s later became the subject of John Fuller’s now-classic book, The Interrupted Journey and a 1975 movie of the same name. And although claims have been made (and almost certainly highly-justified claims, too) that the phenomenon long pre-dates the Hill affair, it was certainly this incident that paved the way for the massive interest in abductions that ultimately developed in the 1980s and 1990s.
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