It is the night of 19 September 1961 and spouses Betty and Barney Hill are returning home from their vacation in Canada. While heading for Portmouth , Crossing the valley of Connecticut, his wife noticed in a succession and then another very bright star. Betty informed the husband that he had seen as describing falling stars ; Her husband speculated that it was satellites . The two objects in the sky emanated lights winking that seemed to invite a kind of game, but as soon as the driver (Barney) stopped the car the light sources disappeared. The car then traveled another 30 kilometers, but Barney had to stop again because of that that reappeared chasing them insistently. The woman then took the binoculars and observed the UFO, with great amazement informed the husband that it was a oval device with different porthole . "What pictures? It will be a plane or a helicopter." was the response of her husband, but by invitation of Betty to look better that he could not see the obvious: this was a huge object at about a sixty meters from dall'avvistatore large and as we approached was clearly a " flying saucer ".
The object at this point, in a completely silent, was resting on the floor, supporting two arms with terminations palmate and equipped with intermittent bright red devices that were leaking from the airplane during the landing. Through the porthole he could see the pair a dozen small black silhouettes you away suddenly excluded.
Then the bottom fell undersc was a scale And the terrified driver tried to flee but said that it could not because he felt like " paralyzed by a mysterious force "that kept attached to the ground. He realized that with great probability this phenomenon was due to look (possibly magnetic) of one of the "little men", and so appealing to all forces in the body that had succeeded in freeing the unknown strength; races so on to the machine, but always felt his presence near him, and was tormented throughout the trip by a continuous " beep beep "From the trunk.
Following the couple decided to keep secret this experience to avoid being taken for fools visionary. But this broke the silence when it realized that their car was completely " magnetized "And on top were etched strange symbols . In addition, Betty had frequent nightmares in which it was kidnapped by extra-terrestrial that ensured that no harm would be done soon and that would have granted.
An official of the NICAP Richard Hall came to know of this fact and instructed Walter Webb (teacher at the Hayden Planetarium), to inquire about it: after he had thoroughly interrogated the two witnesses who could not conclude that no mind, but were caught by amnesia from the time of landing of the aircraft to about a half hour later. Later Barney's health began to be excellent and the two turned to a psychiatrist who could help you remember what happened that night told, in a state of hypnotic trance To be increased on a spaceship That it has traveled in space and they stopped in a base space another planet.
It is difficult to doubt the word of two respectable and honest teachers under hypnosis, for this sighting of the Hill has long been studied and has always been considered one of the most reliable UFO phenomena.