Abductions

BETTY & BARNEY HILL, 1961

BARNEY HILL ON MISSING TIME:

"I couldn't seem to understand why I felt that I was on Route 3 and yet that I wasn't sure that I was on Route 3, but now I know I turned off the highway." - interview after hypnosis session, 1964

BARNEY HILL ON ABDUCTION STORY:

"Betty...would say that she had had a dream...that she had been taken aboard a UFO, and that I was also in her dream, and was taken aboard. She would tell me this, usually when someone would ask us about our sighting of a UFO." - Hypnosis session, 1964, when asked, "How did you learn about this experience?"

BETTY HILL ON DREAMS:

"My supervisor...said, well Betty, for heaven's sake, don't you realize this [dream] has actually happened to you? She said, this must have happened to you because if it had not happened then you wouldn't be reacting this way, and I wouldn't have this concern about it; I'd say, well it was a dream and forget it. And then I began to feel [that] something had happened." - Hypnosis session, 1964

BARNEY HILL ON SUPPOSED "ALIENS":

"They did not look too strange; they are not unlike people I see. Human beings." - Hypnosis session, 1964

BETTY HILL ON RECOVERED MEMORY:

"The leader said...'Maybe you will [remember the abduction] but it won't do you any good if you do, because Barney won't. Barney won't remember one single thing; and not only that: if he should remember anything at all, he's going to remember it differently than you.'" - Betty Hill hypnosis session, 1964

HYPNOTHERAPIST BENJAMIN SIMON ON BETTY HILL:

“I concluded that...it was a dream... The abduction did not happen... I feel quite confident that there was a whole experience, and an experience with a UFO, if we clearly define that; it does not involve visitations from outer space, but it does involve seeing an object which cannot be identified at the time, whatever it is. I think that did take place. But from there on, I think it was largely a dream." - Today Show, 1975

PASCAGOULA, 1973

Fig 1. Hickson's robots, 1973

Fig 2. Invaders From Mars (1953)

"Two shipyard workers at Pascagoula, Mississippi...claimed in 1973 to have been abducted by UFO occupants with lobsterlike claws while fishing from a pier in the Pascagoula river. I have seen that pier, which is only a few hundred yards from the busy US Highway 90 between Mobile and New Orleans, and can confirm that no glowing UFO could have landed without being seen by passing motorists. Yet there were no other reported sightings of this UFO. [Philip] Klass found that a lie detector test, the only independent support for the fantastic story, was administered by an unqualified operator under uncontrolled conditions." - Ian Ridpath, Messages From The Stars, 1978

TRAVIS WALTON, 1975

"When NBC television in the United States screened a two-hour programme on the Hill case in 1975, Philip Klass wrote an article predicting that it would inspire imitators. Within weeks came the story of the alleged abduction of an Arizona woodcutter, Travis Walton, who disappeared for five days after his colleagues claimed to have seen him taken aboard a flying saucer.

     Klass found that the woodcutting team of which Walton was a member were in danger of incurring a financial penalty for failing to complete a woodcutting contract on schedule, and they apparently staged the ‘abduction’ as an ‘act of God’ excuse for not meeting the contract deadline. A leading polygraph examiner who tested Walton within a week of the incident concluded that Walton was ‘attempting to perpetrate a UFO hoax, and that he has not been on any spacecraft.'" - Ian Ridpath, Messages From The Stars, 1978

LA RUBIA, 1977

Fig. 1: La Rubia abduction robot, 1977

Fig. 2: "Porky in Wackyland," 1938

Fig. 3: Pascagoula abduction robot, 1973

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