Varnie Hill Jr. aged 39, his wife Eunice Elizabeth Hill, who went by Vettian aged 41,
At some point, Barney grabbed a 32-calibre pistol from his trunk.
They resumed driving.
practically feeling the figure's intense concentration.
Terrified, Barney took off running back towards the car, hopped in, and took off as fast
Committee on Aerial Phenomena, or NICAP.
NICAP found her story fascinating.
The most major of the inconsistencies identified was the length of time it took them to get
home.
They opened their doors, and the beings began escorting them down a path to their ship.
Barney and Barney both walked.
apart from the examining table on which he was laid and a cabinet.
Betty agreed with most of this, but said that the room in which she was led was less
He replied by asking her where Earth was.
She laughed and said she did not know, to which she responded, quote, if you don't know
What are vegetables?
What is squash?
The experience was quite profound to them.
Though they ran through what he called a gamut of emotions while listening to the tapes
been only dreams that they became convinced were reality.
When Betty's dreams were recalled around Barney multiple times, Barney may have picked
Betty and Barney gave public talks on their incident and even appeared on radio and television
shows.
which are not mutually exclusive.
Hoaxes, misidentifications of normal phenomena, delusions, and reality.
any kind of intense abnormal stress that one would expect to be associated with some kind
of delusional experience.
They did not get rich off this scheme, and in fact spent $1200 plus transportation and
a half years worth of Saturdays on these hypnosis sessions.
The hoax explanation cannot be ruled out, but it does not seem to be the most likely explanation.
I think the hills genuinely believed that this happened to them.
But did it?
No one involved in the investigation, including various psychiatrists, believed the hills
suffered from any form of mental illness that would cause them to lose touch with reality.
They had no other indications of mental illness, and had no other known incidents like this
in their past.
It was considered that something in their environment may have triggered hallucinations.
Multiple influences, like a nitrate fertilizer stored in their car, were considered, but
the lack of any other reported symptoms is a problem for any explanation relying on
the presence of any mind-authoring substance in the environment.
They were sober, and there was no evidence of the use of anything else apart from caffeine
and tobacco.
Dr. Simon believed that their sighting of the unidentified object was probably real,
and that it probably did have a profound emotional impact on them, though he didn't venture
As Betty recalled her dreams to the investigators with Barney overhearing her do so time after
time, Simon argued they may have convinced their subconscious minds that these events were
However, there are very obvious problems with this explanation which Dr. Simon himself admitted.
Firstly, the hills had conscious memories of profoundly unusual things the morning after
with it being something that had actually happened.
Walter Webb pointed out that their experience connected like puzzle pieces to the periods
she often ventured to spot UFOs, seeing so many that she categorized them into different
types.
worth considering that this had begun by 1961.
At the same time, however, Martin noted that towards the end of her life, Betty expressed