UFO - Kathleen Marden - The Betty and Barney Hill Abduction Case
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New Episode of Topic: UFO
The Betty and Barney Hill Abduction Case
Guest: Kathleen Marden
Rick welcomes Kathleen Marden, the niece of Betty Hill, and author of the book Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience. Kathleen discusses what actually happened the night of September 19th, 1961.

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Topic: UFO - Kathleen Marden - The Betty and Barney Hill Abduction Case

Rick welcomes Kathleen Marden, the niece of Betty Hill, and author of the book Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience. Kathleen discusses what ac...

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027 Capricorn Radio Stanton Friedman & Kathleen Marden June 29/2013

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This is not the end of the story. The statement "Later, after newer data was compiled, she determined that the binary stars within the pattern were too close together to support life; so as a true skeptic, she issued a statement that she now felt that the correlation was unlikely." is inaccurate. Stanton Friedman and I have been communicating with Marjorie's niece and she issued a statement regarding the inaccuracy. I sent this statement to the man that sent the obituary to me. He had been touting the obituary as evidence that Marjorie had concluded the correlation was unlikely. It had originally raised a red flag with me, because she had never made this statement to Stan Friedman or to Betty Hill. I forwarded Marjorie's niece's letter to the man who promoted the inaccurate statement. Marjorie's family had requested that the accurate information be disseminated to the public, but it appears that it didn't travel beyond the man that I mailed it to.  

Regarding the obituary of Marjorie Eleanor Fish

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“Alien Nation: Have Humans Been Abducted by Extraterrestrials?” has just been released in the May 10 online issue of Vanity Fair Magazine at  http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/05/americans-alien-abduction-science

Ralph Blumenthal, a non-fiction author and award winning journalist for the New York Times (1969-2009) interviewed a group of abduction researchers, and several experiencers, in Newport, RI last July, on the porch of Anne Ramsey Cuvelier’s blue Victorian inn on Narragansett Bay, in Rhode Island. Also present were astrophysicists from a leading institution and the director of the McLean Hospital Southeast.

Blumental interviewed Kathleen Marden, the director of abduction research for the Mutual UFO Network and niece of Betty and Barney Hill. She discussed her research on her book Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience, coauthored with Stanton T. Friedman, and her work as an abduction researcher.

Blumenthal also wrote of Barbara Lamb, a psychotherapist and family counselor, well known for her with experiencers and Linda Cortile, whose 1989 alien abduction from her 12th-floor window overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge was brought to fame by Budd Hopkins.

The article’s primary focus is upon the life and work of John Edward Mack, a prominent Harvard psychiatrist who had the courage to investigate the alien abduction phenomenon and express his belief that this is real.

Kathleen Marden’s new book with Denise M. Stoner, The Alien Abduction Files (introduction by Stanton T. Friedman), will be officially released on May 20. It is currently available at www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com, and www.indiebound.org . Autographed books can be purchased at www.kathleen-marden.com and www.denisemstoner.com.

Kmarden@aol.com

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Kathleen Marden

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The Marden-Stoner Study on Commonalities Among UFO Abduction Experiencers - deel 1 

                                                          © Kathleen Marden

Nearly a year ago, Denise Stoner and I met to discuss the commonalities that alien abduction experiencers share. As longtime abduction investigators/researchers, we were aware of certain repeating patterns of information and characteristics. The pertinent literature, the academic social science studies and the works of David Jacobs, PhD, Thomas Bullard, PhD, Yvonne Smith, and the late Budd Hopkins, John Mack, MD, and others had identified several commonalities among abduction experiencers. But we had not been able to locate an academic study that was specific to our particular interests.

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Psi Phenomena

Experiencers Speak: Abductees, Contactees and Experiencers from around the world offer a variety of opinions about the alien agenda ranging from malevolent sadism to benevolent altruism. Is it possible that our non-human visitors are exhibiting contradictory or inconsistent behavior patterns? Or do separate species of visitors have different agendas—some benevolent, others malevolent? The behavior of Earthings falls along a spectrum ranging from vicious murderers to the kindest of individuals. Do ETs behave like humans? It can be confusing.

Kathy examines the evidence and reveals what Experiencers have told her about the ET’s reasons for engaging human experimental subjects and their personal interactions with Grey, Reptilian, Nordic and Insectoid types. Experiencers have reported a variety of scientific experiments at the hands of their non-human visitors. Some describe positive interactions with non-human visitors that lead to healing and spiritual growth. Others offer negative testimony of rape and mutilation. In the absence of tangible evidence, we must rely upon little known commonalities in Experiencers’ testimony. Perhaps Experiencers themselves hold the key to the alien agenda. The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Abduction: Its Significance in 2012:The 1961 abduction of Betty and Barney Hill garnered worldwide interest because it was the first publicized experience of its kind, and because there was ample evidence that it didn’t have an acceptable prosaic explanation. 51 years later, clear patterns are emerging that give us information on the ET’s suspected agenda. This new information adds significance to the Hill's 1961 UFO abduction in Thornton, NH.

In this year’s exclusive presentation, internationally known scientific ufologist Kathleen Marden, (the Hill’s niece), presents the true story of the Betty and Barney Hill UFO abduction and breaking news from her latest research study on today’s abduction experiences. Her 23 years of abduction research and investigation, combined with her latest findings on little known commonalities among abduction experiencers, gives us insight into what it all means. Kathleen will present evidence about the ET groups that are visiting planet Earth on abducting its people, their modus operandi, and why they abducted Betty and Barney Hill in 1961.

Betty and Barney Hill: Setting the Record Straight: Debunkers have had a field day with the Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience (the first publicized UFO close encounter and alien abduction in the US), disseminating so much false and misleading information over the past 45 years that most people have difficulty separating fact from fiction. In her totally new Powerpoint Presentation, Kathleen Marden, their niece, exposes the most flagrant false claims made by Carl Sagan, Philip Klass, and others and sets the record straight, time and time again, by presenting true documented evidence that indicates some well known debunkers are not only wrong, but have carefully manipulated the publics’ perception of the Hill case.

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Alien Abduction or Sleep Paralysis?

(c) Kathleen Marden 2012

I have personally been embroiled in the UFO abduction debate for 46 years and professionally involved for the past 21 years. As the niece of Betty and Barney Hill, the first abductees to gain public recognition in the United States, I find this unsolved mystery fascinating. On February 22, 1966, I observed an unconventional flying object hovering approximately less than 1000 feet above me. There were five other witnesses. I have observed additional anomalies that have been linked (by some researchers), to alien abduction phenomena. I have, however, never experienced sleep paralysis. I wish that I had so that I could describe it from a personal perspective. Without firsthand knowledge of this psycho-physiological process, I must rely upon information from those who study it professionally and the testimony of those who have experienced it.

Several skeptical scientists have suggested that sleep paralysis is the best explanation for nocturnal bedroom abductions. Nearly all abductees/ experiencers (depending upon one’s emotional response to the event), disagree. Those who were initially taken from an external environment (car, campsite, forest, field), after having a close encounter with an unconventional flying object and/or observing non-human entities, and experiencing approximately two hours “lost” time, are not convinced that  that their subsequent bedroom abductions are sleep related anomalies.

Many abductees/experiencers have no memory of being taken from an external environment. They have only vivid memories of being taken from their beds during the night by humanoid figures and later returned with new, unexplainable marks on their bodies. Others wonder if they might have been abducted because they have observed strange lights in their bedrooms at night or observed the floating face of an alien figure above their beds.

Skeptics and scientific ufologists remind us that in the absence of substantial evidence, we cannot accept anecdotal abduction accounts as real. Our perception of the events that occur during the night, while we are sleeping or partially awake, could possibly be distorted by our sleeping minds. REM sleep, visual imagery, and sleep hallucinations can be confusing.

One thing is clear. All of us experience paralysis as a function of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. More dreaming occurs during REM sleep than in another stage of sleep. The paralysis prevents us from acting out our dreams and harming ourselves or others. It is most frequently reported to occur when we are falling asleep. But it can also occur upon waking. Some people have a sleep disorder that that interferes with normal REM sleep, causing them to act out their dreams. This condition requires medical treatment because REM sleep disorder sufferers have injured themselves or family members while in acting out in REM sleep.

Sleep paralysis is related to REM but is a different entity. It can occur just before falling asleep or waking up. You will have conscious awareness of your surroundings but not be able to move anything except your eyes. You might observe shadowy figures in your bedroom and your heart might pound, as a sense of fear jars you into wakefulness. About 30-40% of those queried by sleep study scientists report that they have experienced sleep paralysis. It is simply a sign that their bodies are not moving smoothly through the stages of sleep.

People with narcolepsy, a condition characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and REM activity within ten minutes of falling asleep, are more likely to experience sleep paralysis accompanied by hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucinations than the general population. Sleep paralysis alone is characteristically different than the colorful imagery described by people who have experienced H/H hallucinations.

There is conflicting information about H/H hallucinations and I have not been able to find conclusive answers with regard to its prevalence among human populations. HH ahllucinations can last up to several minutes and affect an estimated 5% to over 12% of the normal population. However, David J. Hufford wrote in The Terror That Comes in the Night, that 50% or more of Yasuo Hishikawa’s narcoleptic subjects reported that they had experienced H/H hallucinations.

Hypnagogic (between waking and sleeping) and hypnopompic (between sleeping and waking)  hallucinations occur when factors such as stress, extreme fatigue, medications, and mental illness cause the part of the brain that distinguishes between conscious perceptions and internally generated perceptions to misfire. This results in internally generated visions, sounds, feelings, smells or tastes. H/H hallucination experiencers often see colored geometric shapes or parts of objects. Others might observe the full image of a person, monster or animal. Sometimes lines or the outlines of figures are observed. Sensations of floating or flying are common, along with hallucinated buzzing sounds. H/H hallucinations can be frightening. The hallucinations can last from seconds to minutes and are usually accompanied by a brief period of sleep paralysis. They are experienced as being as real as real.

I once personally experienced a hypnopompic hallucination, without sleep paralysis. My husband and I were sleeping soundly when the telephone jarred me into partial wakefulness in the middle of the night. I didn’t answer the phone because I “saw” my husband walk toward it, as if he were going to answer it. Even though the room was dark I perceived that he was clothed in a brightly colored red and black plaid flannel shirt. The almost fluorescent colors were brighter than what can be observed in natural sunlight. I was perplexed because the phone continued to ring even though I “saw” my husband lift the receiver from the cradle. Almost immediately I was startled by the awareness of his presence in the bed next to me. My hallucination vanished and I answered the phone. It is the only hypnopompic hallucination that I have ever had, but as a lifelong student of human perception, I found it interesting and informative.

Some sleep scientists contend that an experiencer’s perception of alien abduction while sleeping or awake in bed is most likely attributable to sleep paralysis, perhaps with hypnopompic hallucinations. They suspect that extraterrestrial entities are generated in hypnagogic and hypnopompic sleep states. Sleep hallucinations might be related to dreams because they are more elaborate and enduring than sleep paralysis alone. Hypothetically, we might be sleeping and perhaps dreaming about alien entities. When we start to move up out of REM sleep we might experience a hypnopompic hallucination and “see” nonhuman entities in our bedroom that we perceive as real. After a few seconds or minutes, we become fully awake but remember the onset of an abduction/contact as if it were real.

If we experience a combination of sleep paralysis and H/H hallucinations, we will suffer intense fear and wake up paralyzed, unable to move anything except our eyes. We might observe shadowy figures standing beside our beds or hovering overhead. If we attempt to cry out we find that we can’t utter more than a nondescript sound. We’re locked inside paralyzed bodies, unable to speak or move, except for our eyes. Our hearts pound and we strain to breathe as if there is a weight upon our chests. We are acutely aware of surroundings. Shadows transform into frightening shadowy images and sounds intensify. We struggle to break free from our dreadful predicament, and within seconds we are fully awake. This occurs to some of us when we emerge from REM sleep and our natural paralysis continues for a few seconds. I have never met an abductee/experiencer who believes that their ET contact experience was sleep related.

I have, however, spoken with individuals who have experienced HH hallucinations throughout their lifetime. Most report the observation of geometric shapes or disconnected body parts. One observed the upper torso and face of a monster. Two have observed alien heads that were not connected to bodies.  These details are not consistent with the reports that I have received from abductees/experiencers.

Many abductees/ experiencers have described distinctly different demarcations between sleep paralysis, H/H hallucinations and real abduction experiences. They insist that they were fully awake at the onset of an alien abduction or visitation. They might even have received a telepathic message earlier in the day that they would be visited. They did not wake up paralyzed. It was only after they cried out or attempted to fight or flee that they became paralyzed. Some might even remember being transported through solid objects, such as a wall, roof or window, to a craft. Most have observed non-human entities and might even retain a complex memory of being examined on the craft and/or being taught a lesson. They are later returned to their beds. Prior to their experience some witnesses report that they were nervously glancing at their alarm clocks, unable to sleep due to their anxiety about an impending abduction. Having noted the time on their alarm clocks prior to and after their experience, they can think of no prosaic explanation for the lost time. Sometimes bed partners and family members sleeping in the house recall identical experiences on the same night.

Sleep paralysis and HH hallucinations are not an acceptable explanation for “Jennie Henderson’s experiences. At age 16, she and a companion were in route to a high school basketball game when they were stopped and immobilized by an unconventional craft and “lost” two hour’s time. At first the craft resembled a helicopter in rapid pursuit of their vehicle. The silent teardrop shaped object hovered directly overhead and the engine of the Volkswagen died. As if only a moment had passed the car restarted and the teens were once again on their way to their destination. Jennie anticipated meeting her younger brother there and transporting him home at the end of the school event. Upon their arrival, they discovered that the event had ended nearly two hours earlier. There was no prosaic explanation for their “lost” time, and the family decided not to make a formal report of the event.

Years later, Jennie sought help after she experienced a series of frightening nocturnal bedroom visitations. Occasionally, she would awaken during the night and observe nonhuman entities in her bedroom.  Shortly thereafter, a wave of paralysis crept up her body. Several times, she was fully awake when an unseen force suddenly and unexpectedly ripped her body from her bed. Her next conscious memory was of finding herself in a holding area aboard a strange craft accompanied by short non-human entities with grayish skin and large eyes. As time passed, she was able to recall many of the details of her visits with extraterrestrial entities, without hypnosis. Her husband and children’s memories of the events added support to Jennie’s suspicion that she had not experienced a sleep anomaly or vivid dream. On two occasions, her neighbors observed a silent disk-shaped craft hovering over her rural home.

Many abductees believe that their experiences are real because they and others in their homes retain the same experiential memories. When there is unusual physical evidence attached to these memories, it is difficult to find an adequate prosaic explanation such as sleep paralysis and H/H hallucinations. Abductees are often awakened by a rushing sound and activity in their bedrooms. At the onset of their experience they are not paralyzed, and often cry out, attempt to escape, or even throw objects at the intruders. Small entities, often with glistening eyes, move about their bedrooms. The abductees’ partners sometimes attempt to fight back, but are quickly immobilized and returned to their beds in a seemingly deep sleep.

Some abductees/experiencers are returned to their beds, but others end up locked outside of their homes. Some awaken on their roofs, in their vehicles, or even in someone else’s home. Sometimes they find mud and vegetative matter in their beds. Others find they are no longer dressed in their own clothing, but in a stranger’s nightshirt. Sometimes experiencers find landing trace evidence on their property.

Most academic psychologists ignore these unique characteristics associated with nocturnal bedroom abductions. Instead they attempt to squeeze reports made by abductees/experiencers into sleep paralysis and HH hallucination categories, despite the evidence to the contrary. There are several reasons for this. One is that HH hallucinations and sleep paralysis are often experienced as real as real and can contain complex imagery and physiological responses. Another is that when Occam’s razor, the principle that among competing hypotheses, the simplest explanation within accepted scientific paradigms is the most plausible, HHHs and SP are the scientifically acceptable explanations. Political agendas have relegated UFO and alien abduction to the fringe science category. Officially, ufology is a pseudoscience lacking the respectability required for serious scientific study. A few courageous scientists have stepped outside politically acceptable constraints and have advanced our scientific knowledge of UFO related phenomena. However, some have experienced the professional consequences of thinking outside the box. Young scientists who wish to advance their professional careers are fearful of investigating these taboo subjects. To do so might lead to professional suicide.

References:

Blackmore, Susan. “Abduction by Aliens or Sleep Paralysis?” Skeptical Inquirer Magazine. 

May/June 1998. www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc817.htm   7/2/2009.

Friedman, Stanton & Kathleen Marden. Chapter 14. Science was Wrong. Franklin Lakes, NJ: New Page Books. 2010.

Hufford, David J.. The Terror that Comes in the Night. Philadelphis, PA: .University of PA Press. 1982.

Mack, John, Caroline McLeod, Barbara Corbisier. “A More Parsimonious Explanation for UFO

Abduction”. Psychological Inquiry (7:2) 1996.

Marden, Kathleen. “The Conundrum of Alien Abduction”, MUFON 2010 International UFO Symposium Proceedings. July 2010.

Randle, Kevin D., Russ Estes, & William P. Cone, PhD. The Abduction Enigma. New York, NY: Tom Doherty Assoc., 1999.

“Sleep Paralysis”. January 26, 1999. www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html. Visited 3/2010.

“Sleep Paralysis”. www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/guide/sleep-paralysis  Visited 12/2011.

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“Sleep Paralysis and Associated Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Experiences”. http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/S_P.html

“What are Hypnopompic Hallucinations?”. www.wisegeek.com/what-are-hypnopompic-hallucinations.htm. Visited 1/2012.

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The Betty and Barney Hill Experience

by Kathleen Marden

On September 19, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were relaxed and enjoying their bright starlit drive along US Route 3, Northern New Hampshire’s major north-south route. From the top of Mount Washington, visibility was 130 miles and the waxing gibbous moon was about two thirds full. It was the last leg of their journey home to New Hampshire’s seacoast after a brief vacation in Niagara Falls, NY, and Montreal, Canada.

South of Lancaster, Betty’s interest was aroused by what she at first thought was a falling star, until it suddenly paused in the southwest sky and inched its way upward, stopping next to the moon. As Betty watched the star-like object, it grew larger. South of Twin Mountain, she and Barney stopped at a roadside picnic area in order to walk their dog. This gave her the opportunity to view the object through binoculars. Betty watched as it traveled across the face of the moon flashing multi-colored lights. By the time she handed the binoculars to Barney, the object had changed course, and shortly thereafter, rapidly descended in their direction.

Franconia Notch

Back in the car, Betty was awestruck by the perplexing object that seemed to be pacing them. Barney made a second stop near the Old Man of the Mountain, in Franconia Notch, to observe the ever descending silent craft. It rapidly changed direction, ascended and descended vertically and hovered motionless in the sky. This enigmatic phenomenon piqued Barney's interest and confounded his sensibility. His skepticism left no room for the nonsensical belief in flying saucers. However, although he remained cool for Betty's sake, he was quietly ruminating about the remarkable sight. He knew that it was different than anything he had ever seen before.

The Close Encounter

As they motored south of the Indian Head area of North Lincoln, almost directly in their path, the couple encountered a huge flattened circular disc with a row of intense blue-white lighted windows along its forward edge. Barney rapidly brought the car to a halt in the middle of the road and grabbed his binoculars for a closer look, opening the car door for a less encumbered view. The silent hovering object descended to an estimated eighty to a hundred feet above their vehicle. Rapidly, in an arc like movement, it shifted from its location directly ahead, and rested above the tree tops in an adjacent field. Barney pocketed his handgun and walked toward it. The silent enigmatic craft was huge; maybe sixty to eighty feet in diameter. As he approached it, two red lights at the end of fin-like structures parted from the sides of the craft, and it tilted toward Barney.

Lifting his binoculars to his eyes, he spied a group of figures that were "somehow not human" moving about with the precision of German officers. As the craft tilted downward and began to descend toward him, one of these strange creatures, who remained at the window, communicated a frightening message. Barney had the immediate impression that he was in danger of being plucked from the field. Overcome with fear and with all of the courage that he could muster, he tore the binoculars from his eyes and raced back to the car. Breathless, trembling, and in near hysterics, he told Betty that they needed to get out of there or they were going to be captured.

Rhythmic Buzzing Sounds

As Barney rapidly accelerated down the highway in an attempt to escape from the craft, it shifted directly overhead. Suddenly, rhythmic "buzzing" tones seemed to bounce off the trunk of their vehicle and they sensed a penetrating vibration. They drove on without speaking until 35 miles down the road, once again they heard a second series of buzzing sounds. Vague memories of encountering a roadblock, of seeing a huge fiery red-orange orb resting upon the ground, and feeling a desire for human contact preoccupied their thoughts. They looked for an open restaurant to no avail, so they drove on through Concord, picked up Route 4 and made a beeline to Portsmouth, expecting to arrive at approximately 3:00 A.M. The Hills were surprised to notice that, as they crossed into Portsmouth, dawn was already streaking the sky.

Physical Evidence

The Hills were startled to find shiny concentric circles on their car's trunk. When a compass was placed over the spots, the needle would whirl. But when it was moved to another area on the vehicle, the needle dropped down. Their watches had stopped and never ran again. The leather binocular strap had been severed.

Betty's favorite dress had been in fine shape when she dressed on the morning of September 19. But when she returned home, there was a 2' tear at the top of her zipper. The lining was torn from waist to hemline. And the hem was torn down on one side. Later, she discovered that it was coated with a strange pink powder that had degraded the fabric and reduced it to a rag. It has been analyzed by five laboratories. No one can explain the mystery.

The tops of Barney's best dress shoes were scraped. He had to purchase new shoes. His pant legs were covered with vegetative matter. Later, a concentric circle of wart-like growths appeared on his groin. They were removed when they became inflamed during his hypnosis sessions with Dr. Benjamin SImon. They were not venereal warts.

Project Bluebook Report

The day after the sighting, Betty phoned the 100^th Bomb Wing SAC at Pease Air Force Base in neighboring Newington, New Hampshire to report an unidentified flying object. She and Barney gave the interviewing officer a general description of the craft they observed. Barney omitted his observation of the humanoid figures fearing that he might be thought a “crackpot.” Later that day, Major Paul W. Henderson phoned the Hills and questioned both of them extensively. According to Betty, he seemed very interested in the wing-like structures that telescoped out from each side of the pancake shaped craft and the red lights on their tips.

As an “ADDITIONAL ITEM”, Major Henderson included information about a radar observation at 2:14 AM. Although it was not possible to determine any relationship between the two observations, as the radar observation provided no description, time and distance between the events, he stated, could hint of a possible relationship.

Letter to NICAP

On September 26, after reading a book she found at the public library, Betty typed a letter to Major Donald Keyhoe, director of the civilian UFO group, NICAP, in which she described the encounter. She stated that Barney had observed figures dressed in black, shiny uniforms looking down at him as he stood in a field. They were scurrying about as though they were making some hurried type of preparation. Barney had returned to the car in a hysterical condition, laughing and repeating that they were going to capture the Hills. She mentioned that they were considering the possibility of contacting “a competent psychiatrist who uses hypnotism” to assist Barney in removing the mental block that prevented him from recalling whatever he saw in the field that caused him to panic and develop a mental block.

Betty's Dreams

A few days later, Betty had the first of a series of five frightening dreams/nightmares, which she jotted down on note paper and, two months later, typed into a detailed account. Although the nightmares failed to follow a sequential story line, Betty rearranged them in logical order. Thus, she developed a frightening dreamlike account of abduction by aliens from another solar system. Barney was working nights and was not at home. When she mentioned her dreams to him, he stated tht they were only dreams and she should not be concerned by them. He refused to read her dream account but did overhear Betty explaining part of a dream to Walter Webb. Later, skeptics would argue that the abduction has no foundation in reality—that Betty’s nightmares are nearly identical to her and Barney’s hypnotic recall of abduction. This contention has been refuted through Kathleen Marden’s comparative analysis of the hypnosis transcripts. Although much of Betty's recall of the capture and physical examination aboard a flying saucer are similar to her dream account, there are significant differences. Betty and Barney recalled identical detailed information that wasn't in Betty's dreams and even contradicted the information in Betty's dreams. (See Hill Hypnosis Tapes VS Betty's Dreams.)

The Investigation

On October 21, 1961, NICAP investigator, Walter Webb, initiated his confidential preliminary investigation at the Hills’ home, interviewing them together and separately for a six-hour period. They had conscious recall for the close encounter with a large, silent hovering disk and the two sets of code-like buzzing sounds that seemed to strike the trunk of their vehicle. Barney described the figures he observed in detail remarking that they were "somehow not human."

NICAP members Robert Hohmann and CD Jackson, along with Major James MacDonald (retired A.F. Intelligence officer), interviewed the Hills on November 25, 1961. On this day, the Hills realized that their drive that should have taken approximately four hours to complete had taken seven. They were previously aware that they arrived home later than they had anticipated. But they had no mundane explanation for the 2-3 hour time discrepancy. Their only "lost time" memories were of a fiery orb in the road silhouetted against a stand of trees, a sharp unplanned turn off the main highway, and a roadblock, without knowing where or when it occurred.

On March 12, 1962, Betty contacted Dr. Patrick Quirk, a psychiatrist from Georgetown, MA, to request an appointment. Dr. Quirk did not attempt hypnosis. He recommended that the Hills should wait to see if more conscious memories of the experience would emerge. Betty and Barney were beginning to remember information that they had previously forgotten and Dr. Quirk explained that, in time, they would remember more without the use of hypnosis.

PTSD

In 1963, Barney developed a physically debilitating condition, which forced him take a three month leave of absence from his job at the U.S. Post Office. His traditional medical treatment was augmented by psychotherapy, but his health did not improve. At one appointment, Barney mentioned his continuing anxiety over his apparent amnesia and requested a referral to a competent psychiatrist who used hypnosis. His psychotherapist, Dr. Stevens agreed to set up an appointment with neuro-psychiatrist Dr. Benjamin Simon whose outstanding career included expertise in the use of deep trance hypnosis.

Hypnosis Sessions

Early in 1964, the Hills began what would amount to six months of separate hypnotic regression and therapy sessions (hypno-analysis), with Dr. Simon, who knew almost nothing about UFOs, and according to the NICAP investigator's report, refused to read any of the UFO sighting reports he gave to him. He induced amnesia at the end of each session for two reasons: 1. to protect the Hills from remembering their traumatic memories 2. to prevent the Hills from discussing their memories until he had completed his hypnosis sessions. An uncannily consistent dual recall of alien abduction emerged that was somewhat inconsistent with the details of Betty’s dream account.

The Publicity

Were it not for a violation of confidentiality, all of this would have remained undisclosed. However, on October 25, 1965, the Hills’ greatest fear was realized when a Boston newspaper published, for five days, a detailed account of the Hills’ UFO encounter and abduction experience.

For a complete account of the Hills’ UFO encounter and its aftermath, read Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience by Stanton T. Friedman and Kathleen Marden

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Dreams or Recall on the Hill Abduction Hypnosis Tapes

Copyright 2009: Kathleen Marden                                                 

The scientific investigation of the 9/19-20/1961 Betty and Barney Hill UFO encounter has been supported by the abundance of evidence that something anomalous occurred. It is bolstered by the professional competence of early investigators, such as Walter Webb, Robert Hohmann, C.D. Jackson, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Dr. James McDonald, Marjorie Fish, Stanton T. Friedman and Dr. James Harder. However, skeptical literature is teeming allegations that the reported alien abduction was nothing more than a fantasy dreamed by Betty over a five night period and absorbed by Barney when he overheard her retell the tale to Walter Webb and others.

Barney, who admitted that he had overheard snippets of Betty’s dreams, informed Dr. Simon, “I just told her it was a dream and nothing to get alarmed about…I can’t believe whatever these dreams are that she is having…I never believed her dreams.”(3/21/64 hypnosis transcript)  Dr. Benjamin Simon reported on the Larry Glick Show in 1975 that he thought Betty so strongly believed her dreams that she repeated them as fantasies during her hypnosis sessions. During the 1965 hypnosis sessions, he also expressed that Barney had unintentionally absorbed the information in Betty’s dream account.

Although he was willing to accept the possibility that the Hills observed an unidentified flying object in the night sky on September 19-20, 1961, (though not necessarily an extraterrestrial craft), he stated that their abduction accounts were so nearly identical that one had to have obtained the information from the other, particularly since in 1964, alien abduction had never been reported. He added that although anything is possible, he felt that kidnapping by extraterrestrial aliens seemed improbable to him. (He knew almost nothing about UFOs.)

Dr. Simon stated of the Hill account to Larry Glick, "Barney and Betty gave the same story and this story was precisely like the story that was written up by the NICAP investigator. There were no differences between the three. It was the same story they gave consciously...There was no difference. They both shared the same story all the way."

He continued, "It had me in a bind and I was now faced with certain decisions and I couldn't make them. I was faced with a story that was very fantastic. If this were real and true, I would have to believe that these supposed people were from outer space...I believed in their honesty, but this story was fantastic and unreal and had to be accepted or rejected."

Many of you have read about the Hills’ close encounter with an 80’ silent, hovering craft south of Indian Head in Lincoln, NH. Barney’s conscious description of the figures on board, copied from NICAP investigator Walter Webb’s October 1961 confidential report, can be found on page 52 in my book Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience, co-written with nuclear physicist/scientific ufologist Stanton T. Friedman.

Overview of the Close Encounter 

It has been well established through early investigation reports that Betty and Barney consciously recalled a series of buzzing/beeping sounds that caused their vehicle to vibrate and a tingling sensation to pass through their bodies as the UFO hovered above their vehicle.

Later, they consciously recalled observing a fiery orb and a roadblock on an unfamiliar stretch of road, followed by another series of buzzing/beeping sounds approximately thirty-five miles south of the first occurrence.

When they arrived home later than expected, they observed and reported perplexing physical and circumstantial evidence for which they had no prosaic explanation. There were 12-18 shiny, magnetized circles on their car’s trunk that hadn't been there the day before. Their watches  were broken. The leather binocular strap was severed. The toes of Barney’s best dress shoes were so badly scraped that he relegated them to yard work attire. Betty's good dress was torn in several places--the top of her zipper, the lining and the hemline. (Later, Betty reported to investigators that her dress was coated with a pink powdery substance.)

It was the period of missing time and the subsequent decline in Barney’s health that finally took Barney, accompanied by Betty, to Dr. Simon’s office on December 14,1963. The events that unfolded under six months of separate hypnotherapy with amnesia imposed at the end of each session are well documented in John G. Fuller’s The Interrupted Journey (1966) and my book Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience, with Stanton Friedman. (2007).  

Although I was a primary witness to the evidence and the aftermath, my own investigation and research was delayed until the late 1980s. Finally, after several years of intensive study I convinced Betty (1996) to allow me to test the hypothesis that Barney had merely absorbed her dream account and that she had reiterated her dreams nearly verbatim in Dr. Simon’s office. This research approach is clearly amenable within the framework of social science, and also gave me the opportunity to answer the question that had been nagging at me for thirty-two years—were my aunt and uncle really abducted by alien beings?

Hypnosis Sessions

 Barney’s first hypnotic regression transpired on February 22, 1964 in a soundproof room at Dr. Simon’s Back Bay office in Boston, MA. To insure privacy Dr. Simon played bombastic classical in the room where Betty waited for Barney.  At the end of each session he reinstated amnesia in both Betty and Barney to ensure that no cross-contamination of information would occur and to protect his patients’ psychological well-being.  He reasoned that if the traumatic event, for which they had amnesia, entered their conscious memories too early it could produce added trauma.

I listened to the tapes several times, and when I felt that I had a full understanding of what had occurred, I transcribed the hypnosis tapes and performed a detailed dissection of the Hills’ individual statements for my comparative analysis.  It was then that I realized how much I (and probably Dr. Simon) had missed simply by listening to the Hills' statements.

With a couple of exceptions, that were easily worked out in later sessions, the Hills’ separate accounts for which they retained conscious memory were amazingly consistent.  I was anxious to compare Betty’s dreams with the several accounts detailed under hypnotic regression. (Dr. Simon revisited the Hills’ testimony several times in order to clear up what seemed at first to be inconsistencies.)

In “Dreams or Recall?” Betty wrote, “…I saw 8-11 men standing in the middle of the road.  Barney slowed down to wait for them to move, but the motor died.  As he was trying to start the motor, the men surrounded the car.”(11/61)

My Comparative Analysis of the Capture

Now let us compare this account to Barney’s hypnotic recall.  He stated, “I think I have driven a lot of miles and the road is not Route 3.  It is a heavily wooded area but it is a road, and this is when I am flagged down…I thought I saw a cluster of six men, because three came to me and three did not.” (2/29/64) The discrepancy is obvious. 

In Betty’s dream account 8-11 men surrounded the Hills’ vehicle, whereas Barney recalled six men who divided into two groups. Betty’s hypnotic recall is inconsistent with her dream account but consistent with Barney’s statement.

She reported, “There were these men standing in the highway…There were several…And Barney, of course, had to stop…and these men started to come up to the car.  They separated.  They came up in two groups…And there are one, two, three next to me.”(3/7/64)

“Dreams or Recall?” continues, “We sat there motionless and speechless, and I was terrified.  At the same time, they opened the car doors on each side, reached in and took us by the arm.” (11/61)

In Betty’s and Barney’s hypnotic regression sessions, a new scenario emerged that contradicted Betty’s dream account. Barney recalled, “I saw two eyes coming close to mine and I felt like the eyes had pushed into my eyes….I got out of the car and put my left leg on the ground, and the two men helped me out.”(2/29/64)

Now let us examine Betty’s statement made under hypnosis: “The men are coming toward us and I think I can get away from them.  If I can get the car door open I can run into the woods and hide. And I just put my hand on the car door to open it and the men come up and they open it for me.” Betty reported that although there were three men next to her, one took her out of the vehicle. Next, Dr. Simon stated that he didn’t hear her last statement and in a very confusing sentence, Betty started to count the men over and over again. Then she added, “I don’t know what happened.”(3/7/64)

She later informed me that she had lost consciousness when a handheld device was pointed at her. Again the Hills’ hypnotic regression statements are consistent, but they are inconsistent with Betty’s dream account. They did not sit motionless. Barney opened the car door and put his foot on the ground and Betty attempted to open her door to escape into the woods.

I suspected that Betty slipped into her dream account after she lost consciousness. Her dream account reads, “I am walking through a path in the woods. Tall trees are on both sides, but next to me on both sides is a man; two men in front; two men in back; then Barney with a man on each side of him; other men in back of him.”(11/61)

In “Dreams or Recall?” she counts ten escorts, whereas in Dr. Simon’s office, she and Barney had previously counted a total of six at their car doors, or perhaps eight in all. (Betty’s statements become a bit confusing.)

My Comparative Analysis of the Journey to the Ramp

Her hypnotic recall is nearly identical to her dream sequence when she states, “I open my eyes and I’m walking through the woods!...and there’s a man on this (right) side and an man on this (left) side, and two men in front of me…and there’s a couple of men behind me, and then there’s Barney…and there’s a man on each side of him.”(3/7/64) Her hypnotic recall omits the two men behind Barney that she mentioned in her dream account. Otherwise, her statement to Dr. Simon matches her dream almost verbatim.

The comparative analysis becomes tricky when Betty and Barney approach the ramp leading to the craft’s interior.  Betty’s dream account states, “We stepped up a step or two to go onto a ramp, leading to a door.” On 3/7/64 Betty omitted the steps when she told Dr. Simon, “I go up the ramp, and I go inside and in the corridor to the left.”

On 2/29.64, Barney stated, “I am only thinking of mental pictures because my eyes are closed, and I think I am going up a slight incline, and my feet are not bumping on the rocks.  That's funny, I thought of my feet bumping on the rocks. And they are going up smoothly, but I'm afraid to open my eyes because I am being told strongly, by myself, to keep my eyes closed.  Don't open them.” Barney’s omission of steps is consistent with Betty’s statement to Dr. Simon, but both contradict Betty’s dream account. 

Separate Experiences

The Hills are then escorted to separate examining rooms and both recall similarly detailed, but separate experiences with their captors. Although there is correlating data in their statements regarding procedures, attitudes and room descriptions, I chose not to include it in this comparative analysis. Additionally, the sequential order of Betty’s onboard experience differs from that in her dream account. My research protocol dictated that my data should be restricted to shared descriptive details, including positional and numerical data; not physical descriptions.

The Hills' Departure from the Craft

This takes us to the point where the Hills and their captors share a common area in the corridor at the time of departure. Betty’s dream   account  reads, “We left the ship and walked through the woods…All the men accompanied us. We came to the car and the leader suggested  that we wait and see them leave. We agreed. Barney seemed to wake up as we approached the car, and he showed no emotion. We stood on the right-hand side of the car, Barney was leaning against the front fender, and I was by the door. As we were waiting, I thought of Delsey. I opened the car door and Delsey was under the seat. She was trembling badly, and I patted her for a moment. She came out and I picked her up, and held her, again leaning against the car door.”

Betty contradicts her dream account when she states to Dr. Simon, “I've been standing there on the side of the ramp talking to him, and I'm at  the ramp now, and they're taking Barney ahead while we were talking. “ (3/14/64 hypnosis session)  

Barney’s statement is consistent with Betty’s hypnotic recall but inconsistent with Betty’s dream account. He informed Dr. Simon, “I am walking and I am walking, and I am being guided and my eyes are closed. And I open my eyes and there is the car, and the lights are off and it is not running. And Delsey is under the seat, and I reach under and touch her, and she is in a tight ball. And I sit back and I see Betty is coming down the road.” (2/29/64)

This comparative analysis reveals that Betty and Barney did not leave the craft at the same time and were not escorted to their vehicle by all of the men. Barney was returned by the crew, while Betty remained on the craft arguing with the leader. Finally, the leader escorted Betty to the car where Barney was already seated on the driver’s side. On 3/14/64, Barney added, “I saw my car and the lights were out and it was sitting down the road…very dark.  And I couldn't understand…I had not cut out the lights, and I opened the door, and felt for Delsey. And got in and I sat on my gun, and I took it...removed it from the seat, and put it down on the floor. And Betty was coming down the road and she came around and opened the door".

Betty added, “I got out to the car and Barney's inside and I opened the car door and I said, "Come on out and watch them leave…Delsey's sitting on the seat where I sit and I felt of Delsey and she is trembling all over. And she's scared, so I said, Well Barney, come on out and I'll get Delsey." And I picked Delsey up off the seat and I'm holding Delsey and I'm patting her and I'm saying, "Don't be afraid, Delsey. There's nothing to be afraid of.  Look Delsey, look."  And I'm leaning against the fender of the car and I shut the car door and I'm leaning against the fender and I'm looking up and I say, "Barney, look." And Barney comes out and stands aside of me and I'm patting Delsey "

It is clear that Betty and Barney’s statements to Dr. Simon independently confirm that they did not return to the car at the same time. This is in direct contradiction to Betty’s dream recall.  Additionally, both stated that Barney was seated in the driver’s seat when Betty arrived at the car. This statement is inconsistent with Betty’s dream sequence.  In Betty’s dream, she opens the car door to remove Delsey from under the seat, but under hypnosis she states that Delsey is on the car seat.  Barney confirmed Betty’s statement that he then exited the car and stood beside her to observe the craft’s departure.

My Conclusion

The above statements provide evidence that Betty and Barney Hill recalled correlating detailed positional and numerical information regarding their abduction experience.  Further, this information is inconsistent with Betty’s dream recollection, and therefore could not have been transferred to Barney by Betty. Nor could Betty have been restating the fantasy material in her dreams. Because the Hills amnesia remained intact during their hypnosis sessions, they could not have contaminated each other’s recall.  These findings clearly support the abduction hypothesis and refute the dream transference hypothesis.

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We, in turn, plan to publish our findings pertaining to little known commonalities among UFO abductees.

The “UFO Abduction Experiencer Survey” lists 45 general multiple choice questions pertaining to experiencer’s demographics, abduction memories, psychic phenomena experiences, and physiological responses. Some examples of these questions include the following:

1. Are your abduction memories? Conscious ( ), Through dreams ( ), Through hypnosis ( ) Other ( ) (Please check all that apply.)

2. Are you more or less “sensitive” or intuitive than you were prior to your abduction? More ( ), Less ( ), about the same ( )

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6. Following an abduction, did you ever experience malfunctions of electrical equipment such as lights, digital watches, computers, etc? Yes ( ), No ( ) If yes, please explain.

Kathleen Marden requests that abductees/experiencers participate in her “Abduction Experiencer E.T. Technology Survey” to increase our knowledge of E.T. technology. She has discovered unique, unpublicized information observed by several abductees, but needs to add to her data base. The “Abduction Experiencer E.T. Technology Survey” lists 16 multiple choice and fill-in questions. Some examples of these questions include the following:

1. Were you transported through a solid object such as a wall, window, roof, etc?) Yes ( ), No ( )

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