Alien Abductions: Betty Hill

Interview with Betty Hill, (BH) Held at her Home in Portsmouth NH on Thursday October 1, 1998 by Peter Huston (PLH). We meet at about 11:15AM at her old New England style Portsmouth NH home. Betty Hill, age 79, invites me in and is a gracious hostess from beginning to end. Frequent "mm.. hmms", "okays" and head nodding sounds (rattle rattle) by the interviewer have been removed. At times it was difficult to understand a word or two. (?)

I just returned from the premiere of ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE at Universal City. No saucers or aliens, but there was plenty of mind control of the most deliciously satiric kind. Fearless Leader, played by Robert de Niro, takes over all television stations of the world. His company, RBTV, short for REALLY BAD TELEVISION, is so bad it stupefies everyone that watches. Actually, it Zombifies them.

SEPT. 21 Major Paul Anderson, Intelligence Officer for the 100th Bomb Group, Pease AFB, calls back, says he has stayed up all night working on a report of this incident. Asked Barney for the size of the object. Barney says it appeared as big as a dinner plate held at arms length. Major Anderson filed a report with Blue Book, #100-1-61.

Betty Hill is sick of talking about UFOs. The story of her 1961 abduction by aliens in the White Mountains of New Hampshire is old news. But the phone in her Portsmouth home never stops ringing. "I bet I've done 250 radio interviews since last June," Betty says. "They call from everywhere on Earth. I've done as many as four and five talk shows in a day."

PORTSMOUTH, N.H -- Betty Hill sits in her living room, an inquisitive, highly engaging woman of 84. Surrounded by the mementos and clutter of a lifetime that is waning as the cancer afflicting her progresses, she is serene, even as she reflects on her role in one of the strangest events of the 1960s, one that helped spawn a mass cult phenomenon. Her petite frame initially takes one by surprise. By reputation alone, you would think that she would be more physically imposing.

Betty Hill...of the legendary Betty and Barney Hill abduction case... is now in her 80th year. She is suffering from lung cancer and is undergoing vigorous chemotherapy 5 days a week for 6 weeks.

Who is Betty Hill? Along with her husband Barney, on a September night in 1961, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, they were abducted and examined by Aliens. Under hypnosis, what really happened to the couple that night came out; a startling report that clearly indicated we were being visited by aliens from another world outside our own solar system. Author John Fuller wrote about the Hills experiences in a book titled The Interrupted Journey, which was also turned into a TV movie.

I'd heard about Betty's acerbic opinions of the modern abduction phenomenon on the ufological grapevine. Naturally I wondered how far and in what ways we might agree. We talked a lot about cats (about 15 condescend to frequent her house) and politics and her own abduction, but her less than dewy-eyed approach to most of today's abduction claims will probably surprise people more.

THE UFO INCIDENT (1975) Universal Studios TV-Movie Click here for cast and info from Internet Movie Database The story of the 1961 abduction of Portsmouth NH's Betty & Barney Hill led to a national bestseller "Interrupted Journey." More than a decade later, the book was adapted into a made-for-TV film. These images from Universal Studios publicity department are reproduced crudely here from a 1975 copy of the National Enquirer.

Betty Hill, the Grandmother of UFOlogy, passed away this morning, October 17, 2004, at the age of 85. Betty struggled with cancer for the past year. I would like to thank everyone who send cards and letters to Betty. She will be missed by many.