Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact - Above Top Secret

pencil in a buttonhole with a piece of paper wound tightly around it. He took the paper and burnedit. Then he seemed to come out of a trance. He had to look for the road. Not understanding why hehad come there, he turned himself in and thus met Sheriff Otto Pfief, who gave him the details ofthe first incident.The Lorenzens contacted Irwin after he had returned to Fort Bliss and undergone a newpsychological examination, as futile as the previous one. His case came to the attention of theInspector General, who ordered a new investigation. On July 10, Irwin reentered the hospital. OnAugust 1, he failed to report for duty. One month later he was listed as a deserter. He was neverseen again.New Hampshire RevisitedThe Irwin case is reminiscent of another incident that has become one of the standards of modernAmerican folklore: the report by Betty and Barney Hill and their examination under hypnosis by Dr.Benjamin Simon, which has been documented at lenght by John Fuller in his excellent book TheInterrupted Journey. The reader must keep in mind the main features of the Irwin and Hill cases inorder to follow the discussion that is the object of this chapter.Report No. 100-1-61, in the files of the 100 th Bomb Wing, Strategic Air Command, Pease Air ForceBase, New Hampshire, was prepared by Major Paul W. Henderson. The only official documentconcerning the Hill case, it contains a detail of which both Dr. Simon and John Fuller wereunaware: the object seen by the Hills had been detected by military radar.During a casual conversation on 22 Sept 61 between Major Gardiner B. Reynolds, 100 th B SDC01 and Captain Robert O. Daughaday, Commander 1917-2 AACS DIT, Pease AFB,N.H., it was revealed that a strange incident occurred at 0214 local on 20 Sept. Noimportance was attached to the incident at the time.The visual sighting itself is summarized as follows:On the night of 19-20 Sept between 20/0001 and 20/0100 Mr. & Mrs. Hill were travelingsouth on route 3 near Lincoln, N H when they observed, through the windshield of their car,a strange object in the sky. They noticed it because of its shape and the intensity of itslighting as compared to the stars in the sky. The weather and sky was clear at the time.In the report itself we read Betty Hill's account of the sighting as reported by Pease Air Force Baseofficials:The observers were traveling by car in a southernly direction on Route 3 south of Lincoln,N.H., when they noticed a brightly lighted object ahead of their car at an angle of elevationof approximately 45°. It appeared strange to them because of its shape and the intensity ofits lights compared to the stars in the sky. Weather and sky were clear. They continued toobserve the object from their moving car for a few minutes then stopped. After stopping thecar they used binoculars at times.They report that the object was traveling north very fast. They report it changed directionsrather abruptly and then headed South. Shortly thereafter it stopped and hovered in the air.There was no sound evident up to this time. Both observers used the binoculars at this point.While hovering, objects began to appear from the body of the "object" which they describeas looking like wings which made a V shape then extended. The "wings" had red lights onthe tips.... The object continued to descend until it appeared to be only a matter of "hundredsof feet" above their car. At this point they decided to get out of that area, and fast.They report that while the object was above them after it had "swooped down" they heard a