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document concerning the Hill case, it apparently has never before
been published. Yet it contains a detail of which both Dr.
Simon and John Fuller were unaware: 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, 100th B W DC01 and Captain Robert O.
Daughaday, Commander 1917-2 AACS DIT, Pease AFB, NH, it
was revealed that a strange incident occurred at 0214 local on
20 Sept.
No importance was attached to the incident at the time. Subsequent
interrogation failed to bring out any information in addition
to the extract of the "Daily Report of Controller."
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 traveling south on route 3 near Lincoln, NH 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
its lighting as compared to the stars in the sky. The weather and sky
was clear at the time.
In the report itself, under Paragraph E: Location and Details,
we read Betty Hill's account of the sighting as reported by Pease
Air Force Base officials:
The observers were traveling by car in a southerly direction on
Route 3 south of Lincoln, N.H, when they noticed a brightly lighted
object ahead of their car at an angle of elevation of approximately
45°. It appeared strange to them because of its shape and the intensity
of its lights compared to the stars in the sky. Weather and
sky were clear. They continued to observe the object from their
moving car for a few minutes then stopped. After stopping the car
they used binoculars at times.
They report that the object was traveling north very fast. They
report it changed directions rather abruptly and then beaded 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 describe as looking like wings which
made a V shape then extended. The "wings" had red lights on the
tips. At this point they observed it to appear to swoop down in the
general direction of their auto. The object continued to descend
until it appeared to be only a matter of "hundreds of feet" above
their car. At this point they decided to get out of that area, and fast.
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Mr. Hill was driving and Mrs. Hill watched the object by sticking
her head out of the window. It departed in a generally Northwesterly
direction but Mrs. Hill was prevented from observing its
full departure by her position in the car.
They report that while the object was above them after it had
"swooped down" they heard a series of short loud "buzzes" which
they described as sounding like someone had dropped a tuning fork.
They report that they could feel these buzzing sounds in their auto.
No further visual observations were made of this object. They continued
on their trip and when they arrived in the vicinity of Ashland,
N.H., about thirty miles from Lincoln, they again heard the
"buzzing" sound of the "object"; however, they did not sec it at
this time.
Mrs. Hill reported the flight pattern of the "object" to be erratic,
changed directions rapidly, that during its flight it ascended and
descended numerous times very rapidly. Its flight was described as
jerky and not smooth.
Mr. Hil] is a Civil Service employee in the Boston Post Office
and doesn't possess any technical or scientific training. Neither docs
his wife.
During a later conversation with Mr. Hill, he volunteered the observation
that he did not originally intend to report this incident
but inasmuch as he and his wife did in fact see this occurrence he
decided to report it. lie says that on looking back he feels that the
whole thing is incredible and he feels somewhat foolish—he just
cannot believe that such a thing could or did happen. He says, on
the other hand, that they both saw what they reported and this
fact gives it some degree of reality.
Information contained herein was collected by means of telephone
conversation between the observers and the preparing individual.
The reliability of the observer cannot be judged and while
his apparent honesty and seriousness appears to be valid it cannot
be judged at this time.
This report is remarkable for what it does not contain. In this
respect, it is probably typical of a large class of Air Force records
(most of those involving close proximity to a UFO) where either
witness reluctance or lack of adequate follow-up eliminated the
most significant information. In the present case, the witnesses
failed to give the Air Force any information as to the beings they
could see aboard the craft during their observation with binoculars.
And proper investigation would have disclosed an element
Of which they were not immediately aware: they could not ac-