National Park After Dark

302: The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill. White Mountain National Forest.

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In the fall of 1961, a couple driving through New Hampshire’s White Mountains encountered something no one could explain. What followed would become the first widely reported alien abduction case in American history — and the blueprint for every abduction story that came after.

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Sources:
  • The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America, by Matthew Bowman (2023).
  • “Do We Have Evidence of Alien Life?” by People I (Mostly) Admire (2023).
  • “They Knew What They Had Seen,” by Colin Dickey (Slate, 2023).
  • “Betty And Barney Hill UFO Abduction Story Commemorated On Official N.H. Highway Plaque,” by Lee Speigel (Huffpost, 2011).
    • The Interrupted Journey: Two Lost Hours Aboard a Flying Saucer, by John G. Fuller (1966).

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