Then followed a mysterious set of beeps from the trunk of the car, a prolonged period of vague memories of driving, and the eventual completion of the journey south to their home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. On an overnight car trip back from an impromptu holiday in Montreal, Betty, Barney, and their dashchund Delsey encountered a mysterious light that seemed to follow them, which then resolved itself into a craft (with visible occupants) as it approached their car after a chase down the road. Hill’s Experienceīetty Hill and her husband Barney had their experience on a lonely northern New Hampshire road in September of 1961. Indeed, Hill and Andreasson are part of an ancient tradition, stretching back in their shared native New England for centuries, of women being vouchsafed contact with alien beings, and being given a gift that society had not traditionally seen fit to give them: the gift of prophecy, and being the receivers for and interpreters of a spiritual message. The general similarities yet sharp differences in Hill’s and Andreasson’s experiences, reactions, and paths to understanding are a chance not only to examine women’s place in Cold War-era ufology but also in the larger American society of the time. (For ease of comprehension, throughout this article, Betty Hill will be referred to as “Hill” and Betty Andreasson will be referred to as “Andreasson,” except when those designations would confuse them with other members of their families.) It is noteworthy that each of these prominent abduction narratives not only revolve around women, but also around these women’s experiences as wives and mothers (in the case of Andreasson) during a turbulent era in American history: the 1960s and 1970s. Fowler‘s The Andreasson Affair (1979), about the experiences of Betty Andreasson.
Fuller’s The Interrupted Journey: Two Lost Hours Aboard a Flying Saucer (1965), about the abduction experience of Betty and Barney Hill, and Raymond E. Two of the most famed alien abduction narratives of the Cold War period were explored through first-person accounts in popular books: John C.
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