the night sky.
More concernedly, it soon became clear, whatever it was, it was heading in their direction.
believed to be the planet Jupiter.
She wondered if it were a shooting star.
Betty started calling out to him, but he did not hear her.
He looked through the binoculars again.
were not exactly processing what was happening.
Barney was still driving.
Betty took a compass and went out to the car.
Upon examining it, she found over a dozen shiny circular spots on the trunk.
When Betty's dreams were recalled around Barney multiple times, Barney may have picked
up on the details, convincing himself of it as well, and even subconsciously inventing
In 1965, a reporter working for the newspaper The Boston Traveler named John H. The Trell
had somehow been given access to these recordings.
Eventually they felt their full story should be recorded, perhaps in the form of a book.
In 1966, they, and Dr. Simon, sat down with John G. Fuller to be interviewed for the
Barney Hill died from a stroke in 1969, aged 46.
a half years worth of Saturdays on these hypnosis sessions.
Did they do it for fame?
It is entirely possible that they came from a world that is extraordinarily different
from ours and even that they conceptualize the universe very differently, and so these
leaving in the sky.
Furthermore, even if we accept that the dreams were fictional, false memories that filled
in the missing two hours and 35 miles, then how did they lose those two hours and 35
miles?
Secondly, while hearing about Betty's dreams may have influenced Barney's memory, he
also had a number of experiences that Betty did not.
At no point under hypnosis, did Barney recall a detail that Betty shared of which she
should not have been aware because he was not present or vice versa?
They each recalled their own story from their own perspectives, in a way that would be consistent
with it being something that had actually happened.
Walter Webb pointed out that their experience connected like puzzle pieces to the periods
they remembered before and after the blackout.
Furthermore, while their personality differences could have led to Betty transferring her dreams
onto Barney, it is also worth considering that, if it were real, because of these same personality
differences you would expect Betty to remember more because she wanted to, while Barney
At the same time, however, Martin noted that towards the end of her life, Betty expressed
frustration with the UFO community for its lack of cautiousness and skepticism, and turned