Though Betty was a little nervous and had thought of what was following them, Barney was still calm, having seen many aircraft in the war. The alien craft dogged the car in its chase, popping in and out of sight from behind trees hiding in the shadow of the moon and coming back a moment later. While driving, it seemed to somehow follow the car. However, Betty was more concerned about the thing in the sky. It looked like a satellite, a falling star, or even a plane.
But on this dark, desolate road in New Hampshire, they started to notice a strange light in the sky that was on their tail following them.īarney thought the bright object was nothing it could be anything. They were on track to reach Portsmouth at around 2 am. The two stopped over at dinner in Vermont while returning home. The two were on their way back from this short, deserved vacation on the evening of September 19th, 1961, and in the home stretch of the 500-mile drive when things got interesting. They also took their dog Delsey on a spontaneous outing. And, in turn, give him the time to take a short sabbatical or leave of abscess from his work as a postal worker.ĭuring this time of abscess is when they decided to take this trip to Canada. So the couple did endure stress, and this may have been enough to give Barney an ulcer. Thankfully for them, they did live in a very liberal area at the time and were not in as much strife as if they had lived somewhere less progressive. They were well-respected members of the community. They were heavily involved in their local church, and they were members of the NAACP. Both were obviously very passionate about the civil rights movement happening in America at the time, being they were an interracial couple. The quiet couple lived in New Hampshire in a city called Portsmouth. She was even the supervisor of the local child welfare department. Betty was a social worker with her master’s in social sciences from the University of New Hampshire. Betty was a few years older than Barney she was born in 1919.
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He became a postal worker in New Hampshire and drove approximately 60 miles every night.īetty’s full name is Eunice Elizabeth, with her maiden name being Barrett. After his time in the army, Barney married a woman named Ruth Horn, While he studied at Temple University. Allegedly he had a hand grenade accident that knocked out all of his teeth, but I only found one source that said this. When he was a young man, Barney enlisted in the army during WW2. In the roaring 20s into the great depression of the 30s was a hard time for anyone to experience their youth, but Barney was faced with intense racism. Let’s take a look at the famous couple, Barney and Betty, and get a little more background information about who they were.īarney was born in Virginia in 1922. This trip was so random they only had 70 dollars on them.
Though on the trip, the couple called it a “delayed honeymoon” as they saw Niagara Falls and Montreal. They just had the “urge” to go on a trip. It’s important to state this was a random trip. They were a biracial couple that came together at the heart of the civil rights movement. The Barney Hill abduction case is the start of the alien abduction phenomenon.Īccording to the book “an uninterrupted story,” Betty and Barney decided they needed a break. Strange lights, fear, and little gray men who do terrible things to honest good Americans. This case has all tropes of an alien encounter, possibly because it was the first. Until this point, there were lots of people saying they saw something in the skies, but not on this scale. This is the first widely reported interaction of UFOS and aliens. What’s Up, Bizarros? This week we dive into the first alien abduction story, the infamous The Barney and Betty Hill Abduction. Would you be able to tell your alien abduction story if it meant you could lose everything? Why would two small-town civil rights activists destroy their reputation? What would you do if you were chased by a UFO? The True Story of Barney and Betty Hill’s Alien Abduction
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