Free Alien Universe by Don Lincoln Page B

doubt spoken to Betty at length about them, although there were differences in their accounts. Barney remembered the Aliens (for by this time it became clear that Aliens were behind all of this) were short and gray, but without a nose. They spoke to him in English but without moving their mouths. Barney called it “thought transference,” as he was unfamiliar withthe term telepathy. Betty and Barney were examined in different rooms in the saucer. During the examination, the Aliens studied the Hills’ physiology, spending a large amount of time on the pelvic region, including putting a cup of some kind over his genitals to extract a sperm sample and inserting some sort of tube in his anus. Eventually, he was returned to Betty and they both returned to their car, in the manner of sleepwalkers.
    Betty recalled similar details to Barney’s during her session. Under hypnosis, both of the Hills’ accounts were closer to each other’s than they were to Betty’s dreams as written down previously. After the examination, Betty asked the Alien where they came from, and he produced a star map. Simon was able to implant a posthypnotic suggestion for her to draw the map, and she did so. Simon also had Barney draw a picture of an Alien while under hypnosis. The hypnosis sessions ended in the summer of 1964, although the Hills and Simon kept in occasional contact through 1965.
    Simon’s conclusion was that the recollections were simply a repeat of Betty’s dreams. He did not believe that they had been abducted by aliens. He wrote up the account in the journal Psychiatric Opinion and the Hills went about their normal lives, feeling much better now that they felt that they could account for the missing time. The Hills would still talk about their experience with friends and family and the occasional UFO researcher, but they didn’t seek out the media. To this point, the Hill episode was only a curiosity discussed by UFO enthusiasts. This was about to change.
    Reporter John Lutrell of the newspaper The Boston Traveler had heard of the Hills and obtained a 1963 audio recording of them talking about their experience. He did a little digging and found that they had spoken to Simon and asked for information. Simon and the Hills refused to cooperate, so Lutrell reported with what he had available. On October 25, 1965, he published the paper UFO Chiller: Did THEY Seize Couple ,” the first of a three-part series. UPI picked up the story on the following day, and the Hills became international celebrities.
    The Hills were aghast at the report and decided to tell their story. Writer John Fuller worked with them in 1966. The result was the highly successful The Interrupted Journey: Two Lost Hours aboard a Flying Saucer . The book contained some sketches Betty had made of the star map and others that Barney had drawn showing what their captors looked like. Later critics compared the Hill’s account of the appearance of the Aliens with those in an episode of the television show Outer Limits , broadcast just a few days before the relevant hypnotic session ( figure 2.3 ).

    FIGURE 2.3 . Barney Hill’s drawing of the alien he believed he saw ( left ) is the progenitor of the public’s modern concept of Aliens. The middle figure appeared in “The Bellero Shield,” an episode of the television show Outer Limits , and is thought by some to be the inspiration for Barney’s drawing. The figure on the right is from the 2011 movie Paul and shows a modern depiction of a typical Alien. Copyright John G. Fuller ( left ), United Artists Television ( middle ), Universal Pictures ( right ) .
    In 1968, amateur astronomer Marjorie Fish read The Interrupted Journey and was interested in the star map. Over a period of 5 years, she made a three-dimensional model of stars near Earth, using beads and string. She even visited Betty Hill in the summer of 1969 (Barney having died earlier that year) to get as much information as possible. When the model was