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Hallucinations
with uniformed figures seen through the craft's transparent windows.
Several years later, Barney's psychiatrist referred him to a
Boston hypnotherapist, Benjamin Simon, MD. Betty came to be
hypnotized as well. Under hypnosis they separately filled in
details of what had happened during the 'missing' two hours: they
watched the UFO land on the highway and were taken, partly
immobilized, inside the craft where short, grey, humanoid creatures
with long noses (a detail discordant with the current
paradigm) subjected them to unconventional medical examinations,
including a needle in her navel (before amniocentesis had
been invented on Earth). There are those who now believe that
eggs were taken from Betty's ovaries and sperm from Barney,
although that isn't part of the original story.* The captain showed
Betty a map of interstellar space with the ship's routes marked.
Martin S. Kottmeyer has shown that many of the motifs in the
Hills' account can be found in a 1953 motion picture, Invaders
from Mars. And Barney's story of what the aliens looked like,
especially their enormous eyes, emerged in a hypnosis session just
twelve days after the airing of an episode of the television series
'The Outer Limits' in which such an alien was portrayed.
The Hill case was widely discussed. It was made into a 1975 TV
movie that introduced the idea that short, grey alien abductors are
among us into the psyches of millions of people. But even the few
scientists of the time who thought that some UFOs might in fact
be alien spaceships were wary. The alleged encounter was conspicuous
by its absence from the list of suggestive UFO cases
compiled by James E. McDonald, a University of Arizona atmospheric
physicist. In general, those scientists who have taken UFOs
seriously have tended to keep the alien abduction accounts at
arm's length, while those who take alien abductions at face value
see little reason to analyse mere lights in the sky.
McDonald's view on UFOs was based, he said, not on irrefutable
evidence, but was a conclusion of last resort: all the alternative
* In more recent times, Ms Hill has written that in real abductions, 'no sexual
interest is shown. However, frequently they help themselves to some of [the
abductee's] belongings, such as fishing rods, jewelry of different types,
eyeglasses or a cup of laundry soap.'
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