Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction

320 Pages·2007·3.54 MB·English

by  Stanton T. Friedman

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“Captured! fills in many of the inevitable gaps in our knowledge of
the famous Betty and Barney Hill case, and is therefore a must for
anyone interested in the remarkable gestation period of UFO
abduction research. It is touching but not surprising to read that the
brave and prescient investigators who took the Hills’ experience
seriously assumed that it was a unique, momentous, and isolated event,
and never suspected that, instead, it was only the first of thousands of
similar covert encounters from the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s to receive wide
public attention. Captured! abundantly demonstrates that the most
important aspect of the Hills’ 1961 abduction lies in their personal
courage and integrity in permitting their frightening experience and its
later investigation to become public. Tens of thousands of abductees
have benefitted from the Hills’ extraordinary role in opening doors to
the serious study of the UFO abduction phenomenon, thus making
possible new therapeutic strategies to help treat their traumas. In the
pages of Captured!, Betty and Barney Hill emerge, not as victims, but
as true, undaunted modern heroes.”
—Budd Hopkins
World-renowned UFO abduction researcher,
author of Witnessed and Missing Time
“Many books have been written about people being abducted by
aliens, but Captured! tops them all. It is powerful, detailed, and
personal. Drawing on the actual diaries written by Betty Hill, this book
exposes the shocking events that took place during and after she and
her husband Barney were abducted by aliens in the White Mountains
of New Hampshire. Further, it documents their many hours of
hypnotherapy with Dr. Benjamin Simon and their close ties with
military personnel at Pease Air Force Base. Capped by official
government records of UFO activity at the time, a replication of the
Star Map seen by Betty, and an analysis of the clothing she was wearing
at the time of the abduction, all mundane explanations for the event
have been eradicated. It really happened.”
—John F. Schuessler
Mutual UFO Network, Inc.,
International Director, Emeritus
“With Captured!, internationally known UFO investigator/nuclear
physicist/lecturer Stanton Friedman, and Betty and Barney Hill’s niece,
Kathleen Marden, take the historically significant UFO event of the
Hills’ double abduction and educate the reader with meaningful,
typically never mentioned, rich in too-many-to-list details that show the
Hills to be blood and flesh, neighbors-next-door-type individuals—not
merely footnotes in a UFO double abduction case. The revelations of
previously little known personal details of their abduction experience
trauma impressed me—a hypnotherapist dealing with abduction
trauma—with the similarity of Betty’s and Barney’s encounters to my
own subjects.”
—Yvonne Smith, C.Ht.
Director, Close Encounters Resource Organization
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“The most explosive book yet on UFOs.”
—Star Magazine
“Friedman operates mostly as a scientist, carefully weighing all
evidence before coming to a conclusion.”
—Library Journal
“This book will delight those who can’t get enough of crashed
saucers and government cover-ups.”
—Booklist
“Friedman has been involved in UFO research for more than a
quarter century. During that time, he has struggled tirelessly against a
vast amount of resistance on almost every level. He has uncovered
hoaxes, discovered hidden truths, and has fought arrogant bureaucrats
and fallacy-happy UFO debunkers, not to mention other researchers
eagar to discredit him for their own ends. He is one of the few truly
professional UFO researchers.”
—Whitley Strieber
New York Times best-selling author of Communion
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The Betty and Barney Hill
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Marden, Kathleen.
Captured! : the Betty and Barney Hill UFO experience : the true story of the
world’s first documented alien abduction / by Kathleen Marden and Stanton
Friedman.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-10: 156414-971-4
1. Alien abduction. 2. Hill, Betty (Eunice) 3. Hill, Barney. I. Friedman, Stanton
T. II. Title.
BF2050.M353 2007
001.942--dc22
2007011941
Stanton and Kathy wish to thank the following people:
Jerry Baker, for permission to publish her late husband David’s
watercolor paintings;
Phyllis Budinger, for her expert opinion on the chemical
analyses;
Thomas Elliott, for his generous contribution;
Marjorie Fish, for her curiosity, patience, and perseverance;
Picture Perfect, for the photo donation;
Patrick Richard, for permission to publish his paintings;
Ben Swett, for his sworn statement and guidance;
Walter Webb, for his investigation, guidance, and generous
contributions;
Bruce Maccabee, for reviewing the manuscript and writing the
foreword;
Linda Moulton Howe, John Schuessler, and Yvonne Smith, for
reviewing the manuscript and writing an endorsement;
All of the anonymous individuals for their behind the scenes
assistance;
and John White, our literary agent, for seeing this through.
Additionally we want to acknowledge the splendid effort by
the people at Career Press/New Page Books to expedite
publication. We truly appreciate your efforts.
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Special thanks to Kathy Marden’s husband,
Charles,
and Stanton Friedman’s wife,
Marilyn,
for their unremitting support and understanding; and
Barbara Stavropoulos,
for her daily injection of humor.
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Contents
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Chapter 1: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
A Glimpse Into the Lives of Betty and Barney Hill
Chapter 2: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
An Evening’s Journey
Chapter 3: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
The Project Blue Book Report
Chapter 4: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
A Formal Investigation Begins
Chapter 5: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
The Hills Begin Their Own Investigation
Chapter 6: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Hypnosis
Chapter 7: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
The Trouble With Betty’s Dreams
Chapter 8: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Canada to Colebrook
Chapter 9: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
An Unconventional Craft Approaches
Chapter 10: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Conscious Memory Fades
Chapter 11: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
The Abduction Experience
Chapter 12: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Betty’s Interview With the Leader
Chapter 13: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
The Occupants
Chapter 14: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Release From Capture
Chapter 15: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
A Tenuous Diagnosis
Chapter 16: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Admiral Herbert Bain Knowles
Chapter 17: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
A New Focus
Chapter 18: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
A Betrayal of Trust
Chapter 19: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Psychophysics Experiments
Chapter 20: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Sky Watch 1967
Chapter 21: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Life Without Barney
Chapter 22: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
The Star Map Investigation
Chapter 23: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Disbelievers and Disinformants
Chapter 24: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
The Dress Analysis
Chapter 25: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Betty’s Fall From Grace
Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Foreword
by Dr. Bruce Maccabee
After all these years since I first read their story, I still find it some-
what amazing that the aliens didn’t know how to operate a zipper and
would have ripped Betty’s dress off her if she hadn’t shown them how to
operate it. (Perhaps they had forgotten because it was so long ago in their
cultural history, or perhaps they had bypassed the zipper period of devel-
opment and jumped directly to the Velcro period.) And after all these
years I am still surprised that they were surprised that Barney’s teeth
could be removed, but Betty’s couldn’t. Did they also bypass the false
teeth era? Or perhaps the aliens don’t have teeth. So now we know that
way back then they didn’t know everything. But they did demonstrate
their technical superiority by performing on Betty what appears to have
been an amniocentesis several years before that procedure was common
in Earth hospitals. Well, it seemed to be an amniocentesis, but maybe it
was something else far more advanced. Will we ever know?
And my mind still boggles over the way Betty allowed all that pink
dusty stuff to just blow away in the wind. It was chemical evidence of the
abduction! And then there were the shiny spots on the car with the
rotating magnetic fields that were ignored by investigator Walter Webb.
What? Did you say rotating magnetic fields in the metal of a car? That’s
impossible!
Reading this book I felt that “it’s deja vu all over again,” except this
time I was learning the answers to questions I had when I first read about
Bettyand Barney Hill almost 40 years ago. Furthermore, I now had the
benefit of 40 years of UFO history and my own investigations into nu-
merous sightings. Way back then, in that ufologically more innocent
era, when flying saucers seen in the sky and perhaps on the ground
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