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Jun 29, 2020 · It’s only fair that we begin with one of the most famous UFO and alien abduction cases in history: the Betty and Barney Hill case. The two were driving on a road in New Hampshire at...
- True Stories From The World's Most Haunted Forests
The Smolensk Forest, Russia. In 1943, at the height of World...
- Ufo Sightings No One Can Explain
By the mid-1960s, UFOs were being investigated by the U.S....
- True Stories From The World's Most Haunted Forests
Oct 7, 2020 · From the Pascagoula UFO abductions to the chilling story of Betty and Barney Hill, these are the creepiest alien stories in history. While none of these accounts have concrete evidence to support them, many feature the same phenomena, including memory and time loss.
- The Hills Saw Strange Lights Pursuing Their Car
- Betty and Barney Hills' Close Encounter
- Using Hypnosis to Recover The Hills' Abduction Memory
- The Hills' Story Became A Model For Alien Abductions
- The Psychology of Alien Encounter Stories
The Hills’ road trip was spontaneous, a well-earned break Barney decided the couple needed, as explained in The Interrupted Journey, a 1966 book they collaborated on with author John G. Fuller. Barney worked a grueling night shift at the post office, driving 60 miles each way. Betty’s job handling state child-welfare cases was no easier. The little...
He knew she was right. Barney had an IQ of 140, noted Fuller in his book. Barney was also a pragmatic man who wouldn’t give flying saucers a second thought, remembered his niece Kathleen Marden in her work, Captured: The Betty and Barney Hill Experience. The night was too quiet for a helicopter, a commercial plane or even military jet with a hotsho...
Back home in Portsmouth, they tried to make sense of the night. Barney felt compelled to examine his body’s lower half. Both seemed aware of a puzzling presence. In the weeks and months after, Betty, an avid reader, checked out books from the library discovering the civilian UFO group National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena(NICAP). Sh...
The Hills weren’t the first to spot a UFO or even to report an abduction. But their story did capture the nation’s imagination and was so widely publicized, it has helped shape how we talk about alien encounters and abductions to this day. Before the Hill’s story, alien encounters were friendly, according to Christoper Bader, a professor of sociolo...
Those who report abduction might also see the world a little differently. According to research, one of the strongest predictors of false recall is a vivid imagination. This group scores high in “magical ideation” and is more likely to believe in ghosts and tarot readings, according to McNally. Some believe the Hill’s story was simply a myth in the...
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Mysterious lights. Sinister saucers. Alien abductions. Between 1947 and 1969, at the height of the Cold War, more than 12,000 UFO sightings were reported to Project Blue Book, a small,...
- The Kenneth Arnold Sighting, 1947. On June 24, 1947, a private pilot called Kenneth Arnold was flying his CallAir A-2 airplane in the state of Washington when he saw a series of bright flashes coming from north of Mt.
- The Roswell UFO incident, 1947. Only a few weeks after Arnold’s sightings, came an event that has gone down as the most famous in UFO history to date.
- The Tehran UFO incident, 1976. The September 19, 1976, incident in Tehran, Iran, started with phone calls from concerned citizens reporting a bright light in the sky.
- Rendlesham Forest eyewitness accounts, 1980. The Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, which took place in the county of Suffolk in the United Kingdom, stands out as being one of the few cases where eyewitnesses said they saw a craft land after weaving through trees in a forest.
The Travis Walton incident was an alleged alien abduction of American forestry worker Travis Walton on November 5, 1975 in the Apache–Sitgreaves National Forests near Heber, Arizona. It is widely regarded as a hoax, even by believers of UFOs and alien abductions. [1] [2] [3]
Mar 19, 2024 · The Past — March 19, 2024. A two-stage psychological model that explains alien abduction stories. The truth may be out there — but it’s not in these close encounters of the third kind....
