THE ABDUCTION OF BETTY AND BARNEY HILL
When we think of UFOs aliens and the possibility of abduction, we tend to gravitate towards Hollywood movies, perotic and cartoonish sketches or listen skeptically to the stories from those who claim to have had a direct
encounter with an extraterrestrial. It would be fair to say that for the majority such claims are easily squashed or redirected towards a claimant mental instability alcohol or drug dependency or perhaps the characteristics of an attention-seeking obsessive regardless of a person's mental state. The concept of alien abduction is something that has never been taken seriously despite ongoing investigations sightings and government disclosures into UFO sightings which have sparked Global Intrigue over the last two years and yet there are a handful of stories sightings and investigative reports which have remained at the Forefront of the UFO and conspiracy communities for decades and show no signs of going anywhere anytime soon. The Roswell crash of 1947 the Aurora Texas UFO incident of 1897. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis apparent dabbling into the occult as well as other landmark cases have kept the conversation on such mysteries
very much alive. One of these cases centers on a happily married couple whose mysterious encounter little would they know at the time would thrust them into the spotlight and would forever attribute their faces to what has become known as The Fourth Kind. Who were Barney and Betty Hill, what
happened to them and what does their story tell us about alien abduction society as a whole and the importance of listening towards someone anyone has to say regardless of how crazy they may seem. In this documentary we'll travel back in time to the late 1950s when the American
dream was reborn and flourishing to a time when unfortunately for Barney
and Betty Hill the American Nightmare was about to begin.
Before we begin our entail of what happened to this now famous couple, it's
worth taking a few moments to understand who they were before the night in question occurred. Barney and Betty Hill were an American couple who were no strangers to gossip suspicion and ridicule having been one of the few mixed-raced married couples in their hometown of Portsmouth New Hampshire. Barney a black man born in 1922 worked as an employee at the United States Postal Service whilst Betty who was white and three years older than her husband worked as a social worker. The couple were extremely fond of their dog Dalzi who is often seen in pictures and portraits of the couple and was with them at the time of their encounter having endured numerous comments slayers and insults for being in a mixed race relationship, the hills did not deter from their obligations to the church and
their community being regular attendees of the local Unitarian congregation both husband and wife are also proud members of the National Association for the advancement of colored people which was and still is a civil rights
organization formed in 1909. Barney was also on the board for his local Commission on civil rights though the couple remain childless until their deaths. Their legacy would remain very much alive after both claimed to have been abducted by alien beings somewhere in the outskirts of New
Hampshire on September 19 1961. The hills names and faces would become synonymous with that of extraterrestrials UFOs and the discussions ran in close encounters of the Fourth Kind
