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Oct 7, 2020 · The 9 Most Convincing Alien Abduction Stories In Modern History. By Marco Margaritoff | Edited By John Kuroski. Published October 7, 2020. Updated January 21, 2024. From the 1969 Berkshires UFO incident to the eerie tale of Barney and Betty Hill, these alien abduction stories might even make skeptics believe that the truth is out there.
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- 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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The episode of February 17, 1964, titled "The Children of Spider County," featured a storyline involving the abduction of four men by an alien with wraparound eyes, which glow menacingly. Early in the episode the protagonist's car is stopped (in fact, wrecked) by the alien.
May 31, 2018 · The Original “Alien Abduction” Story That Launched A Thousand Bogus Tales. By Gina Dimuro | Edited By John Kuroski. Published May 31, 2018. Updated June 13, 2018. Betty and Barney Hill were the first people to claim to be abducted by aliens, and have an in-depth story to back it up.
