When we drove past it, we could detect the smooth black outline of its decapitated stump against the stars. These days, he’s nothing but landslide remnants and an awkward New Hampshire marketing icon. Back in the Hills’ day, he still had a face. We were merely taking pictures and spooking ourselves back into the car.Īlso like the Hills before, we passed by various landmarks, including what used to be the rock formation known as The Old Man of the Mountain. Of course, they were checking out the pursuing UFO in disbelief and being terrified into flight. Just like the Hills did 47 years before, we pulled over and got out of our car at various points along the route.
In fact, due to the Hills own fuzzy recollections of that night and the various road and zoning changes over the past 50 years, we still might not have followed their course exactly, but we also didn’t get abducted, probed, or have our memories erased (that I remember), so I count it as a trade-off.Įven though a lot of the route is highway, much of it is still unlighted and highly spooky at the time of night that we drove it, especially through the mountainous Franconia Notch area. And I mean you because I didn’t and ended up having to retrace my own steps in order to retrace theirs. As a result, the Hills’ approximate route is easy enough to follow, as long as you pay attention to where it merges and unmerges with Interstate 93.
It still pretty much is, just with the addition of an interstate highway. Plus, some of the details will be more relevant in Part II, where I’ll have to come up with all new excuses of why I’m not delving into them.ĭuring the Sixties, the main route for getting from the top of New Hampshire to the bottom was Route 3. Of course, the whole story is actually more detailed and complex than my summary, but I’ve got a lot to pack into this two-part article and can’t spend too much time on the actual reason for the article. But I guess that’s more because of what it was intrinsically, a late-night re-enactment of an event I don’t believe happened in the first place but am still kind of glad that a lot of people kind of do.
#Betty and barney hill plaque series#
Life is made up of a series of schemes.Ĭertainly our own more recent trek down that same road seemed if not as surreal as the Hills’ experience, at least somewhere in the same thesaurus entry. In addition, I like commemorating events a few years before it makes sense to because then everybody who is prompted by timely media interest on the more legitimate anniversary to research it will come across my article. We chose this randomly numbered anniversary because we had just moved to the Granite State and didn’t want to wait three years for a more momentously numbered one. Last year, on the night of the 47th anniversary of the event, I and my wife got into our car, drove up to northern New Hampshire, and then re-traced the route taken by Betty and Barney Hill on that fateful night.
#Betty and barney hill plaque movie#
The story of the Hills grew big enough, in fact, that it prompted a best-selling book by John Fuller entitled The Interrupted Journey, inspired a television movie called The UFO Incident starring James Earl Jones, and was subjected to debunking by famous intellectual Carl Sagan. The event has since become the best documented and most famous case of alien abduction in the history of ufology, introducing into mainstream culture such what-was-life-like-before-them terms as “hypnotic regression,” “missing time,” and “anal probe,” as well as cementing a template for the current mythology of alien visitors in both our fictions and the abduction claims that have succeeded it.
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