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It is the first and most highly documented
alien abduction story ever told.

Betty and Barney Hill,

a couple in love were driving
back from their honeymoon...

when they were kidnapped by a UFO.

Now clasp your hands in front of you.

As they get tighter, you're going to sleep.

You're going to a deep, deep sleep. Your eyes...

Rare interviews under hypnosis,

detail how alien beings subjected the couple

to disturbing experiments.

Newly uncovered evidence

and declassified government documents confirm

what happened to Betty and Barney was real.

We are not alone.

Extraterrestrials do exist.

But what do they want from us?

It was just an ordinary day in America.

Betty, a social worker and
Barney, a US postal employee

were driving home after their
honeymoon in Niagara Falls.

A trip as their niece Kathleen explains,

they would never forget.

Betty and Barney had a wonderful
time in Niagara Falls.

They spent the following afternoon in Montreal.

They thought about spending the night downtown.

But they heard that there was a
hurricane whirling up the coast.

And they wanted to drive through
the night if they could.

I was 13 years old and I had arrived
home from school in the afternoon.

My mother was on the phone with my aunt, Betty.

And I heard my mother's side of the conversation.

When my mother hung up the phone,

she told me that Betty and Barney

had seen a flying saucer
up close the night before,

they were concerned that they
might have been contaminated.

I was in shock.

I thought this was very, very strange.

This is a 1966 radio interview

with Betty and Barney in their own words.

Now, as I understand it,

we have to go back to 1961 to start this,

this whole incident, don't we?

Yes, that's right. September 19th, 1961.

The night that changed their lives forever.

Betty had never seen a satellite before.

She knew that her father was
very interested in satellites.

And so, Betty wondered could this be a satellite?

But then, she thought, no,
it's not behaving like a satellite.

It's clear at this point,
this was not a satellite.

It does a circle.

It seems to fly away to the west and
then come back directly towards them.

Barney is coming up with the other explanations.

Maybe it's a passenger jet.

Maybe it's a military helicopter.

He's got all these explanations
because that's how he thinks.

Privately, he knew that this was unusual.

But he said to Betty, "Oh, it's just
a piper cub or a commercial airliner.

Don't even think about that and let's get home.

But then, as they continue driving south,

Betty notices the aircraft
appears to be stalking them.

Betty said to Barney,
"It's coming closer, Barney."

As they looked at it, it flew in a zigzag pattern

and then it appeared to bounce back and
forth in the sky like a ping-pong ball.

Barney starts to panic.

Up until now, the sighting
had been at quite a distance.

But now that they've driven down the road,
several miles and they look up.

And it's still there.

Fear starts to settle in.

It knows that we're here.

They're thinking this has
a particular interest in us.

There's no other cars on the highway.

And this light is getting
brighter and it's getting closer.

The object, the metallic disc,

the width and length of a commercial airliner

and as flat as a pancake
is now hovering over the road.

Stunned and with nowhere
to go, Barney stops the car.

Barney is now determined,
he's boiled over not just with curiosity,

but almost a sense of duty.

I can't continue this trip

until we get rid of this thing
or find out what it wants.

So he gets out of the car

and he starts walking in
the field to approach it.

Barney is a confirmed skeptic.

Barney does not believe

that this planet could possibly be
visited by space aliens from elsewhere.

And then he sees them.

Gray uniform beings looking down.

He sees occupants inside of the craft,
which is now tilted towards him.

They're dressed in shiny black uniforms.

They were gray in complexion.

They were completely hairless.

They had eyes that wrapped around

to the sides of their faces
larger than human eyes.

We would describe this as a Close
Encounters of the Third Kind.

The witness is not just seeing it at a distance,

but they're actually seeing occupants
within the, or outside of the craft.

And windows are now visible

with the occupants looking at Barney

who's staring at them through binoculars.

There's a direct,

it seems, communication
as if to say we came for you

and we're not going to be satisfied
until we get what we want.

Little red lights started to slide out
from the craft on fin-like structures.

And something started to drop down
from the bottom of the craft.

Suddenly, Barney sees what
appears to be a ramp or a ladder.

And now, it seems like the craft is transforming

as someone is planning to come out.

Sensing danger, Barney rushes back to the car.

Barney somehow knew that there was a plan

and that that plan was to capture him like,
"a bug in a net."

They had to get out of there or
they were going to be captured.

But it's already too late.

A close encounter with a UFO sends Barney Hill

and his wife, Betty, into a panic.

Betty and Barney are now on the run.

They know that something is there
that's not supposed to be there.

They know it's some kind of flying saucer.

They know that there are creatures inside it.

The beeps are unlike anything
they have ever heard.

Suddenly, a tingling sensation
comes over both Betty and Barney.

Then silence.

As if suspended in a dream.

As if only a moment had passed,

Betty and Barney heard another
series of buzzing sounds.

This time, they didn't see the craft.

But it returned them to full consciousness.

And they realized that they
were 35 miles down the highway

with very little memory of what
had occurred in the interim.

When people see extraordinary things,
they can often be in denial.

You'd have to say that that is
possibly the case with Barney Hill.

He's still not believing it,
even though he's seen it with his own eyes.

After arriving home, the Hills remain puzzled.

They're both feeling a little creeped out.

You know how you feel grimy after a long trip?

They feel that, but it's a little different.

Betty notices that her dress has been ripped.

She only bought this dress just before and
this is the first time she's ever worn it.

She takes it off.

She feels like she doesn't
want to be associated with it

and she puts it in her closet,
and never wears it again.

He's just trying to figure out
what happened to him.

And Barney doesn't really know.

And it's got him deeply disturbed.

Betty was very curious. She wanted to learn more.

But Barney said, Betty, don't tell anyone.

No good can ever come of this.

And she disagreed.

She walked to the phone and she called my mother.

We had a neighbor who was a physicist.

Betty was concerned about the contamination.

And so, she asked my mother to call our neighbor

to find out what she and Barney should do.

He told, Betty, if she had a compass

that she should take it out to the car

to see how the needle reacts.

That's not going to measure radiation,

that's going to measure a magnetic field.

So apparently, he knew something about UFOs

that Betty and Barney didn't know.

Betty called my mother again.

And the former Chief of Police
of Newton, New Hampshire

was at the house having a cup of coffee.

He was my father's best friend.

And he said to tell Betty

that she and Barney need to make
a report to Pease Air Force Base.

Because they had notified
all of the police departments

that if anyone had a UFO sighting,
they should report it.

Peace Air Force Base is the local air force base

in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1961.

Betty and Barney know people that
are involved in the military there.

She gets hold of somebody at Peace Air Force Base

who takes their story in
isn't that interested in it.

Until they start talking
about the extension wings

and red lights coming out,

then he's very interested in it.

The next day, they actually hear from
a captain Paul Henderson at Peace

who wants to know the whole story in detail.

So suddenly, they've told this story
that is now being taken very seriously.

Incredibly, the Hills are told of
another sighting reported that night.

The officer said that the controller
at the tower had reported

there was an unusual craft
seen on radar at 2:14 a.m.

on the night that Betty and
Barney had their experience.

Could the two be related?

The following day, my parents and my two brothers

and I drove to Portsmouth
to Betty's and Barney's home.

I was excited in anticipation of
hearing their story for myself.

And we finally arrived there.

We went into the kitchen with Betty.

And she told us about the close encounter.

She told us about the buzzing sounds.

We wanted to see the spots
on the trunk of the car.

So she took us down the hallway
and out to the vehicle.

I could see those very shiny spots.

And I took my finger.

And I attempted to rub a spot off.

My mother saw me and said,
"Don't touch it, don't touch that spot.

It might harm you."

And very quickly, I was taken back
into Betty's and Barney's house.

It was sort of an epiphany in the sense

that here is something
that I had no idea existed.

But suddenly,
I was clued into the fact that it was real.

That epiphany will lead
Kathleen on a lifelong mission

to uncover what really happened to
her aunt and uncle that night...

outside...

and then inside the UFO.

Several days after her UFO encounter,

Betty Hill visits her local library

where she checks out The Flying Saucer Conspiracy

by retired Marine Corps major Donald Keyhoe.

Widely regarded as a leading UFO expert,

major Keyhoe is a proponent of
various theories explaining UFOs,

government cover-ups,

and the threat of interplanetary war.

Major Keyhoe as an authority on flying saucers,

do you yourself believe that they exist?

Well, I'm positive they exist.

The weight of the evidence makes it
impossible to arrive at any other conclusion.

What tangible evidence do you have?

Well,
at least 800 reports from trained observers,

veteran pilots, radar men,
guided missile trackers,

weather bureau observers, all people who
are trained to know things in the sky,

who describe these objects maneuvering
under intelligent control.

There are hundreds of those reports

where the sightings were
confirmed visually and by radar,

and in some cases by photograph.

There's kind of an evolution

that takes place with UFOs in the United States.

In the 40s and into the 50s,

the government was primarily
concerned with the panic.

They wanted to be able to control
the reaction of the public.

There was an official government
policy to ridicule and debunk

and really make the witnesses feel

as if they are the fringe,
they are the crazy ones.

And they don't deserve any merit because
people really aren't seeing these things.

So when the, the Hill incident happens,

it's among all of this frenzy of UFO activity.

But yet, people don't know how to feel about it.

Curious to know more about her own experience,

Betty writes to major Keyhoe.

She has begun, what will become
a lifelong search for the truth.

What she finds will shock the world.

Located an hour north of Boston,

Portsmouth is New Hampshire's oldest settlement

and only seaport.

In addition to its historic importance,

by the 1960s, the city and surrounding area

had become noted for its fishing industry...

strategic military importance...

and beautiful beaches.

Betty was a child welfare worker
for the state of New Hampshire.

She cared for other people.

She cared for children who were being abused

by their parents or children
who were being neglected.

And then she worked in adoption.

She was eventually promoted
to the position of supervisor.

She had an opinion on everything.

She loved to express it.

And if you took her on and you battled
her about it, she was even happier.

She wanted to be part of the world.

Betty met Barney at Hampton Beach, New Hampshire,

which was very close to her home in Portsmouth.

And she was working during the
summers down there sometimes.

Betty had friends in Portsmouth
and they knew Barney.

So they met and she said to Barney,

well,
I have an apartment that I rent to tourists.

And if you and your family
ever come up here again,

I'd be happy to rent it to you.

So it was sort of a congenial relationship.

Barney was highly intelligent. His IQ was 140.

He wanted to go to college to become an engineer.

But he was told that that was not something

that he would ever be able to do

because of the color of his skin.

He ended up joining the army before
the outbreak of World War II.

He was a marksman. He was a truck driver.

And he ended up being wounded.

He then was able to get a job at the Post Office.

And he worked for the US
Post Office for many years.

He married. He had two sons.
But he and his wife divorced.

So this is when he began
a relationship with Betty.

Barney eventually moves to Portsmouth.

And after dating for a few
years, he and Betty marry.

They were one of the few mixed
marriages in Portsmouth.

Although Portsmouth this time,

there was fairly large
African-American population.

But you don't want to think of Portsmouth

or pretty much any New England town

as being a northern town without racism.

I mean, systemic racism is the name of the game

as much through New England really as the south.

Barney was one of the people
fighting this with Betty.

He was an activist in the NAACP.

He was doing what he could
to bring this to light.

Always leading to the idea

that to come out as an abductee of aliens

was a huge risk on his part.

And he was very concerned about his personality

and how he was seen by other people.

So this was a massive risk to him,

which I think leads to the idea

of how much he and Betty's story is actually,
a love story.

But little do they know
the UFO incident is not over

and will continue to haunt them.

Ten days after their encounter
in the White Mountains,

Betty suffers a series of vivid
dreams that last over five nights.

In her dreams, there was an encounter

with very human-like entities.

They surrounded the car

and then they took Betty
and Barney onto the craft

where they did highly
unusual physical examination.

In this rare interview from 1968,

Betty describes what happened
on board the alien craft.

First, they took Barney into one
room and I went into a second room.

In this room, they did what I would call
a fairly simple physical examination.

They seem to have mostly interest in my skin.

I had the idea they were
taking pictures of my skin.

Also, interest in my hands and my feet.

They also did a test which they
call checking my nervous system.

Throughout the whole examination,

it would be like picking up
some kind of a strange animal

and looking it over, giving it a
checkup and putting it back down again

without any intentions of harming it.

The vivid nature of the dreams along
with the strange buzzing sounds

are too much for Betty to simply dismiss.

She was wondering if,
if this somehow represented reality.

Now, she was a social worker.
She had studied psychology.

And dreams that you have just
before you wake up in the morning

when you're sort of in a hypnotic state

can include information that really occurred.

Yet, there can be fantasy added.

Betty initially jotted her
dreams down on note paper.

And she couldn't forget about them.

And she spoke to her supervisor who said to her.

Maybe this represents what really happened to you

between those buzzing sounds.

And maybe this is what happened during
that period that you can't remember.

So Betty sat down and she typed those dreams out.

Betty knew she and Barney saw
something that night.

But what?

What about those buzzing sounds?

Why did the car have those strange shiny spots?

Could her nightmares be true?

Betty Hill's letter to Major Donald
Keyhoe generates interest at NICAP,

the National Investigations
Committee on Aerial Phenomena.

According to their records,

similar looking unidentified craft

had been reported flying over California,
Kentucky and Indiana.

NICAP in the '50s and '60s is one of the
only legitimate and true organizations

dedicated to the scientific study of UFOs.

Now, Project Blue Book is the government's arm

of the air force officially investigating.

But as a citizen group,

only NICAP and a few others
were those who brought in

scientists, medical professionals

and had a very rigid way
of investigating these events.

In October, 1961, Boston-based
NICAP investigator Walter Webb

interviews the Hills at their home
in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Walter Webb was an investigator for NICAP.

He wanted to know, in as much detail as possible,

where the sighting occurred initially.

How the craft reacted.

How this changed as they observed it.

What Barney saw as he stood in that field.

Walter Webb believed their story
because they didn't enlarge on it.

They were serious in retelling what happened.

They were consistent in their details.

Because he interviewed them separately
before he interviewed them together.

And so, everything meshed.

He thought that they were reliable,
intelligent individuals,

with no reason to want to
make something like this up.

The scientific community, at least those who
are interested in the subject, took note

that we have some very credible witnesses here.

They're in high standing in society.

They have a lot to lose.

And so, given the credibility of it,

it's kind of one of the first times
that many of them had taken note

that we should listen to the alleged abductees.

A few weeks later,

when another set of investigators
question the Hills,

they make a startling revelation.

What happened during those
two hours of missing time?

Imagine you're Betty and Barney,

you've seen this UFO, you've seen these creatures

and then you begin to realize that there's
a couple hours that are unaccounted for.

They started to get an inkling

that maybe there was more to that two-hour
period than it first met the eye.

Could Betty's dreams be
nightmares of something real?

Is it possible they were abducted
by aliens during the missing time?

Betty and Barney decide to investigate further.

Shortly after Betty and Barney
met with Homan & Jackson,

they made trips up to the White Mountains.

They were attempting to remember more to
jog their memories of what had occurred.

In Betty's dreams,
she remembered a huge fiery orb

that seemed to be sitting
on the ground of a roadblock.

But she didn't know where or when that occurred

of a dirt road with tall trees all around.

And this was very perplexing.

The whole experience from the
days, the months and the years

after the event took a major
toll on their relationship.

Betty wanted to understand this
and to unlock the secrets,

if you will, of everything that happened.

What were the events that were haunting her?

Barney wanted to keep quiet.

He didn't want it to affect their public life

and his standing in the civil rights movements

and everything that they were involved in.

Barney was still attempting to
forget about it, but he wouldn't.

It was really eating away at
him and was deeply troubling.

Concerned over a worsening ulcer,

Barney visits a psychiatrist
hoping to find relief.

Barney prepares to go under hypnosis.

After years of blocking out what happened,

will Barney finally come
face-to-face with his demons?

Two years after the UFO encounter,

Betty and Barney Hill travel to Boston

for a visit with one of the
country's leading experts

in regressive hypnosis, Dr. Benjamin Simon.

Dr. Simon had earned a reputation for
himself when he was a colonel in the army.

He developed a special technique

using deep trance hypnosis
in order to resolve the trauma

that soldiers who were returning
from the war had experienced.

That caused physiological ailments.

When I snapped my finger,
you'll be able to let go

and then you'll get sleepy and
your eyes are getting heavier.

Is it possible that Betty and
Barney were experiencing

post-traumatic stress after their UFO encounter?

And could Dr. Simon help them?

In a rare interview, Dr. Simon
discusses his treatment of the Hills.

Over the next six months,

both Betty and Barney undergo
a series of treatments.

During these sessions,
Dr. Simon induces them into a deep trance.

Now, clasp your hands in front of you tight,
tight, tight, tight, tight, tighter.

As they get tighter, you're going to sleep.

You're going to a deep, deep sleep.

Your eyes are getting heavy.

They're closing. They're closing tight.

Now, your hands are relaxed. We're going back.

We're going back to September 19th, 1961,
when you were returning from your vacation.

We're going back to September 19th, 1961.

While under hypnosis,

Barney recalls everything
in his conscious memory,

including the drive through the White Mountains

and seeing the strange light up in the sky.

But when he gets to the part about
standing out in a field and seeing a UFO,

a mental block forms, a panic sets in.

When Dr. Simon pushes Barney to go beyond

that mental block that he had developed,

Barney says, "Please, doctor,
don't make me go there,

please don't let me remember that."

And Dr. Simon said, "You will remember that.

It won't hurt you now."

Calm down.

Barney had a very explosive
what's called an abreaction,

where he released a great deal of emotion.

Dr. Simon guides Barney past his mental block,

where he recalls for the first time
a powerful force controlling him.

Listening to Barney is very difficult.

He's hysterical. He's screaming.

He is reliving the most terrifying
moments of his entire life.

This is a man that was in World War II.

Later, during another hypnosis session,

Barney recalls hearing the mysterious
beeps and what happens next.

Suddenly, he's driving,
and he's driving, and he's driving.

And he makes a turn.

And he says, "I don't know
why I had to make that turn."

And then he finds himself on a dirt
road with tall trees all around.

There's a fiery orb that he sees.

And he sees these entities standing in
the road dressed in shiny black uniforms.

And then Barney says, it's them.

It's the ones I saw when
I was standing in the field

looking through binoculars.

As the entities close in on the car,
this time, there is no escape.

In early 1964, two years after her UFO encounter,

Betty Hill also undergoes hypnosis designed
to recall what happened that night.

Under hypnosis, Betty remembers everything
that she had conscious recall for.

And then she remembers Barney
taking a sharp turn in the road

and they were then on a dirt
road with tall trees all around.

There were figures standing in the road.

And she observed this huge fiery orb.

And she's talking to Barney, what is this?

Are we being robbed? Is there an accident ahead?

Barney says to Betty, "It's them."

Betty becomes terrified.

She has never been so
terrified in her entire life.

She puts her hand on the door.

She's going to run into the woods to hide,

but she's intercepted and
she loses consciousness.

The next thing Betty remembers

is the alien beings escorting
her through the woods

and onto the spacecraft.

They're saying to Betty,
there's nothing to be afraid of,

we only need to do a few simple tests,

you won't be harmed and then you'll
very quickly be on your way.

She doesn't trust them.

She kicks the one who is beside her...

and this tears the hem on her dress down...

and tears the lining of the
dress from waist to hemline.

They've regained control of her.

And she is taken into an
examining room on the craft.

That's where Betty meets
someone she calls the Examiner.

They use some kind of stylus pressing
on the vertebrae in her spine.

They take skin samples.

And then it was Barney's turn.

While under hypnosis, Barney Hill recalls

how after being abducted by entities,

he too was subjected to a physical examination.

Barney is placed on a table
and his clothes removed.

They are interested in his
muscular structure as well.

In his nervous system, he's rolled over.

He can feel what seems to be something
pushing along the vertebrae in his spine.

Something slid very easily into Barney's rectum

and then was removed very rapidly.

It wasn't painful.

Then kind of a cup-like device
was placed over his genitals.

There was apparently a sperm sample taken.

And then it was over.

After completing their examinations,

the entities escort the Hills off
the ship and back to their car.

It is the most extraordinary
story Dr. Simon has ever heard.

I've never been so afraid in my life.

Were these made-up memories?

Or did Barney and Betty
really get abducted by aliens?

Dr. Simon felt that the best explanation

might very well be that the two of them

had had some kind of transference between them

allowing them to sort of
create and build the story

that Betty might have had a
stronger feeling about this

and her memories or dreams contaminated
Barney's memories or dreams.

But he wasn't accusing them of hoaxing.

He just felt that it was
a psychological condition.

While grateful for the chance to
tell their stories through hypnosis,

Betty and Barney disagree
with Dr. Simon's conclusions.

They believe their independent
accounts or further confirmation

that what they experienced was real.

They couldn't go along
with Dr. Simon's suggestions

that this had to be Barney's
absorbing Betty's dreams.

And so, Barney just accepted it as real.

And he felt a lot better because
he had military officers

who were encouraging him, who were telling him

that, yes, all of these things are true

that we know there are extraterrestrial
craft coming to visit our planet.

And there's no reason to believe

that they're not visiting humans.

And so, Barney felt much better.

While the Hills are comforted
that the truth has come to light,

they're determined to keep it private.

Little do they know,

it's impossible to keep the first and
greatest abduction story ever told,

secret for long.

By the fall of 1965, four years have
passed since the Hill's UFO encounter.

Their hypnosis sessions too were in the past.

Barney was now feeling better.

And so, he and Betty had moved
on with their lives.

Barney was still so involved
in the civil rights movement

and his speaking engagements.

Because that was what he was really
truly fighting for, was civil rights.

But then, in October...

their lives turn upside down once again

when theBoston Traveler prints a five-part series

detailing the Hill's UFO
sighting and hypnosis sessions.

It was a huge story.

It ran for five days in the newspaper.

Betty and Barney were extremely distressed.

The Boston Traveler newspaper series,

it blew the cover off the story

that they've been telling a small group of people

to a large group of people.

When I first heard about the story,

I couldn't imagine that somebody would
either come up with that or lie about it

for several years,

and meet with Air Force officials
and just make up a story.

I mean, why would somebody do that?

And especially, two Portsmouth people
who were very respectable and respected.

There was a violation of confidentiality in 1965.

John Luttrell who was a reporter
for theBoston Traveler in Boston

had received confidential information
from a friend of Betty's.

And this woman had told him
everything that she knew

about the encounter and the hypnosis.

He contacted Betty and Barney
and wanted to interview them.

Betty and Barney said, no, we
do not want this story told.

In this rare interview,

award-winning investigative
reporter John Luttrell

explains why he went ahead with the story.

These people deserved every single consideration.

But then, where do you draw the line

between maintaining a certain
degree of personal privacy

or the public's right to know?

And in making this decision,

it had to be made abundantly clear to
all of the readers that number one,

the Hills themselves did not initiate
this with theBoston Traveler.

They have not chosen to talk about
any of the incidents at all.

The sensational tale of an alien abduction

thrusts Betty and Barney
into the public spotlight.

This had an impact not only on Betty
and Barney, but on the entire family.

We were a very respectable family
who had many accomplishments.

And we sat down and we talked
about how should we handle this?

Where will we go from here?

And we decided as a family that
since it did in fact happen

and since the story had been told that
Betty and Barney should tell the truth.

Unable to avoid the intense media spotlight,

the Hills cooperate with author
John Fuller in the writing

ofThe Interrupted Journey:
Two Lost Hours Aboard a Flying Saucer.

The Interrupted Journey went worldwide.

It was aNew York Times bestseller.

There was a tremendous amount of public interest.

They literally shook the world
when their story came out.

In today's terms, The Interrupted Journey

was like the final movie in the AvengersSaga.

I mean, it was huge.

I mean, everybody knew about it.

It was a book club selection.

It was excerpted in
newspapers around the country.

People couldn't get enough of it.

Betty's story, which is so dramatically told

in which she's talking to the aliens.

There's all these things that are going on.

This story wrote itself.

What makes the Betty and
Barney case so extraordinary

is it's just a case about first.

They were the first Americans
to claim to be abducted.

It's the first time that anyone had missing time.

It's the first time that hypnosis
was used to regress people

to recover those memories.

And it's also the first time that
anyone had described the aliens

as what is now popularly known as the greys.

So Betty and Barney really just
laid the template out there.

The story explodes into popular culture

when book excerpts are reprinted inLook Magazine.

You got to remember that
if this is not like today,

it's not like we each have our own radio station

and our own podcast and our own TV
channel that we watch exclusively.

There was minimum amount of media.

And so, they end up inLook Magazine.

That's huge.

The book release changed
Betty's and Barney's lives,

because Barney had been appointed
to the US Civil Rights Commission.

He also was very actively involved
in politics, as was Betty.

And they had to put those activities
aside for the time being.

And to publicize this book,
they took time off from work.

So that they could travel to do television shows.

- What is your name, please?
- My name is Barney Hill.

And they did many, many radio shows as well.

My name is Barney Hill.

This was kind of exciting to our family.

Because at that point,

we believed that finally this
was being acknowledged as real.

Which one of these three gentlemen
in truth is Barney Hill?

Will the real Barney Hill please stand up?

The publicity surrounding the abduction

brings out a number of skeptics

who refuse to believe the Hills,
leaving many to wonder, what really happened?

It's a question Kathleen has been trying
to answer since she was a teenager.

For the past 40 years, Betty
and Barney's niece Kathleen

has been investigating the truth
behind the Hill abduction.

I decided to investigate this story

because I was hearing about it on television,

I was reading about it in magazine
articles and newspaper articles.

But what I was reading was not consistent
with my memories of what actually occurred.

In the process, she has uncovered
classified documents kept secret

and a government conspiracy to hide the truth.

I wanted to look at the
Project Blue Book documents

that had been recorded at Pease Air Force Base,

but also the documents that went to headquarters.

I wanted to find any evidence
of further investigation

that was done by the Air Force
and further documentation.

I found that a false letter was written in 1963

that contradicted the results of
Betty's and Barney's statements

in the Project Blue Book report.

Betty and Barney talked about
the movement of the craft,

how it moved erratically in a zigzag fashion,
how it swooped down.

So I wanted to compare that
to what was written in 1963.

In '63, it said that it was a
star-like object at all times

and that there was no movement.

And so, that was just a lie.

Over the years, there's certainly
been a lot of debate back and forth

about why doesn't the government
just tell us what it knows.

And the government has said,

"Well, there's really nothing to see here"
and tried to minimize it.

And it's even worse on the abduction phenomenon,

which nobody seems to, to want to
talk about on an official capacity.

And it's really not a surprise
because why would they,

if what happened to Betty
and Barney has been repeated

hundreds, thousands or tens of
thousands of times since 1961.

What that says is we have a really
out of control situation going on.

One of the greatest pieces of evidence
that the Betty and Barney Hill case

could so desperately use would be a bunch
of witnesses saying, I saw that thing too.

And that is what the original reporter

for the Boston Traveler,
John Luttrell thought he had.

In 1976, John Luttrell admitted
to interviewing these witnesses

in a letter to nuclear
physicist and UFO investigator,

Stanton Friedman.

Before Stanton Friedman passed away,
he gave me a letter written by John Luttrell.

And John Luttrell spoke of 12 to
14 people in the White Mountains

who had observed a craft by the same description

on the same night in the same time frame

that Betty and Barney saw this.

His editors didn't feel that
that needed to be included

in the five articles that he wrote in 1965.

Well, when Luttrell left the Boston Traveler,

he actually gave the file to his
editor with all those witnesses in it.

And guess what?

That file has disappeared.

Perhaps the most compelling clue

is the dress Betty wore
the night of her abduction.

She had placed it in her closet.

And the next time she took it out,
she thought about throwing the dress away.

But on second thought,
she thought she would keep it

because it might hold a clue
to what happened that night.

Over the years,
several tests have been done on this dress,

where there are areas where
it appears there are stains.

Now, some of these results indicate that
there's an organic material of some sort.

But it wasn't until recently
when I re-examined the dress

that I found something very, very peculiar.

Now, we knew about several
stains from the outside.

But as I turn the dress inside out,

there's an inner lining to it,
where I found a series of three spots.

What's that from?

The location of the stains is important

because some might say

that it's, you know, residue from
female menstruation, for example.

But this area was higher up.

It's higher in the abdomen and
pretty much where I would expect

if the story is true that a needle was inserted.

You've got different bodily fluids
that would have leaked out.

But from the inside, staining the
lining of the dress on the inside

and not going through to the outside.

We've confirmed that this
fluid does belong to Betty,

and that she put this dress
away and never wore it again.

To me, this is consistent with the procedure
of having put the clothing back on

or wearing it through the procedure and
indicating it happened as she said.

It seems pretty clear what the aliens were doing

based on the regression tapes and
the testimony of Betty and Barney.

They're taking a sperm sample from Barney.

They're testing Betty to see if she's pregnant.

Obviously, there's a reproductive
issue that's being looked into.

But they're also scraping skin samples.

It's clearly a medical exam.

It seems like they want to
know more about our biology.

Why else would they be
conducting medical experiments?

It seems like they don't have all the answers.

So, do they keep coming back?

Have they gotten what they want?

Do they know everything they need to know?

Or is there a further motive?

In the 1970s,

the controversy surrounding the Hill
abduction explodes in the media once more.

This time, when a schoolteacher in
Ohio claims the Hill story is real

and she knows where the aliens came from.

One unanswered question has always been,

where did these entities come from?

During her dreams and during hypnosis,

Betty Hill described seeing a star map

that one of the alien creatures
had showed her a map,

a destination map of the
routes that had been traveled.

She said to the Leader,
"I know you're not from around here.

Where's your home port?"

And he produced this three-dimensional star map.

Under instructions from Dr. Simon,

Betty later reproduced the map from memory.

Then in 1974, the school teacher in
Ohio claims to have deciphered the map

and located the star system
where the entities originated.

Marjorie Fish was a brilliant woman from Ohio.

She had studied biology in college.

And she was an amateur
astronomer, a member of Mensa.

Meaning that she had a very high IQ.

She saw Betty's star map in the first book

that was written about the abduction.

And she was interested in it. She was skeptical.

But she thought that if this place
really did exist in our galaxy,

that she'd be able to find it.

In order to understand the perspective
from which the map was drawn,

Fish constructed an elaborate 3D model
using fishing line and colored beads.

I set up a number of criteria
when I started the search.

One was that the sun had to be in the pattern

and it had be one of the stars with a line to it.

Because the one Betty called the Leader had said,

"Where are you in the map and indicating
that the sun was in the map?"

And this was difficult in those days.

She didn't have a computer.

She had to hand copy all of the distance data

that was available on the stars in
our local galactic neighborhood.

And the properties of those stars

out 54 light years from
our sun in every direction.

In all, she constructed 14 models.

She still didn't have a match.

But there was a new catalog that was released.

She took the new distance data back.

She constructed a model. She found a match.

I had all 12 points plus three background stars.

And at this point, I was very
elated and very happy.

I didn't sleep at all that night.

According to her evidence,

the beings that abducted the
Hills came from Zeta Reticuli,

a binary star system located
39 light years from Earth.

What we know about these stars is
that they're very similar to our sun.

They're called main sequence stars.

And so, they're the right age,
the right temperature.

If there are planets revolving around them,

they could be at the perfect what we
call goldilocks, you know, distance,

where they could support life.

We may never know for certain

if there is indeed life on planets
around Zeta Reticuli one and two.

But there is a good possibility that there is.

We have discovered that that area of space

that these extraterrestrials allegedly came from

is rich in exoplanets.

For a long, long time, I had the feeling

that I had sort of lived
through a tragedy in some way.

And sometimes, even now,
I still have this feeling.

Because it's something that's haunting.

It's something that's always on my mind.

No matter where I go or what I do.

It's the last thing I think
of when I go to bed at night.

And it's the first thing I think
of in the morning when I wake up.

And I expect it'll probably be
that way for the rest of my life.

Of course after this happened,
there's no doubt in my mind

that these are real solid crafts and they're
astronauts from another solar system

because they told me so themselves.

Today, six decades after their UFO encounter...

Betty Hill and her husband,
Barney are no longer with us.

They are buried together
beside Betty's sister, Janet

in a small picturesque cemetery in Kingston,
New Hampshire.

These were two people, long ago,
who lived in Portsmouth...

who have now passed on.

But they've left us with a message
of something they experienced.

There are aliens out there
who may be visiting us,

might not be harmful,
might want to know about us,

might want to examine us...

and may just want to be inquisitive
about what we're about.

And maybe someday, who knows when.

But maybe someday, they're going to say hello.

The good question is, why are they coming here?

I don't think the government
knows any more than we do.

They're just as puzzled as we are.

I mean, we know they're here.

We know there are beings on board.

We don't know why they're here.

This question of why recently resurfaced

following the 2017 release of
the so-called Tic-tac video.

These images of a purported UFO

were captured by a navy fighter jet

and radar on board the nuclear-powered
aircraft carrier, USS Nimitz.

Peace Air Force Base located in Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, in 1961,

was the home of the Strategic Air Command.

And that's where the bombers with
the nuclear bombs were housed.

A few years earlier, in 1947,

the Strategic Air Command
bombers were held at Roswell.

So UFOs, aliens, nuclear weapons

kind of have this thing where
they're brought together,

which would make me say,

it's one reason to believe that the Betty
and Barney case might not be random,

but might be something that's related to that

since they lived very close
to this nuclear bomber base.

Six decades after risking
their reputations and careers,

many, no longer view Betty and Barney
Hill as frauds, but as heroes.

After UFOs are generally acknowledged,

you can call that disclosure or
whatever you want to call it.

But when the world is finally saying,
yeah, these things are real,

then the history books are
going to have to be rewritten.

Betty and Barney Hill,
they're going to be in history books.

I always remind people,
when I hear the skepticism of,

well, there's no physical evidence,

you could have a murder conviction

from one or two very credible
witnesses of seeing an event.

Imagine the implications of that or
someone goes to prison or is put to death.

Yet, we ridicule somebody who says

that they had a very fantastical
story of a UFO report.

But, yet, this same credibility
exists with these witnesses.

I think we should start listening.

I think that if Betty and
Barney were alive today,

they would be satisfied that
they had been vindicated.

We know so much more scientifically
than we knew in that time frame.

And Betty's and Barney's knowledge was
consistent with what we understand today.

I'm Betty Hill,

and my husband, Barney and I were
the first persons on this planet

to be abducted by astronauts
from another solar system.