Letter from Betty Hill:

Scientists, working at top level government jobs. Their HOBBY was
ufos. As a job protection for them, we agreed not to release their
employment, altho it was well known to us. C D Jackson was never
associated with Time/Life. We had continuing contacts with them.
Jackson, in 1966, was still working in Alabama, at the same employment.

Most of our friends were officers at Pease AFB. Usually, we all met
at the Officers Club every Friday night. Barney's best friend was a Lt.
Col. in Intelligence. Jim McDonald was a Major; also a friend who dated
one of my best friends. Later they married. We visited each other
regularly.

Jim McDonald suggested hypnosis because our mutual friend, Capt. Ben
Swett, officer at Pease, did this. Ben felt his type of hypnosis was
not adequate, as he used only a light stage, which is the stage of
suggestibility.

Dr Ben Simon had left military service years before we met him and he
was in private practice. Dr Stephans referred us to him because he knew
he used medical hypnosis, taught in medical school, when Dr. Stephans
had been one of his students.

As for the movie, "Let Their Be Light" dealt with medical hypnosis
used by Dr Simon to treat servicemen returning from WW2, and restoring
them to good health. A wonderful movie - it should be released to the
public.

As for two therapists; we consulted one, one appointment. Barney was
seen be Dr Duncan Stephans, but I was not.

As for the cost of our appointments with Dr Simon, it is true he was
very expensive. Our health insurance paid one-half of this. Bill was
submitted for "therapy following ufo capture". We paid the remaining
half, which was in the thousands of dollars.

John Fuller did not learn of our experience from NICAP, or Donald
Keyhoe. From them, he learned the information which resulted in his
book, INCIDENT IN EXETER. He was in this area, gathering information
for this, when the Boston newspaper articles were published.

As for "Unpleasant Possibility" - Pure Paranoia! Nothing "sinister"
about our experience or our friends. And the UFO definitely had nothing
to do with New Mexico.

It would be appreciated if you would send me a corrected copy for
your computer. Nice to hear from you -
Sincerely,
Betty (signed)
Betty Hill

P.S. How I know those who captured us were not from New Mexico -- No
alien-government base exists there. Apparently this story began when a
woman in a light trance of hypnosis told of being taken there.

Ed Conroy, a writer, and a friend Dora Ruffner did an investigation of
this. They learned the locations of these so-called bases were located
on the reservation of the Jicarilla Apache Tribe, a restricted area. So
they met with the tribal leaders and obtained permission to research
the areas, with guides and without them. They explored the areas. All
they found was an abondoned water tower that had been used in the past
when a railroad ran thru this area; also a house habited by an Apache
family. No gravel roads, no towers, no government or any other kind of
installations.

Ed Conroy was the first person to research this report - He is a
reporter on arts and electronic media for the San Antonio Express News.
He should be included on your computer network.

Betty Hill


Date: Sat Jun 02 02:14:30 1990

I wrote to Mrs. Hill again and thanked her for her comments and asked
if she would like to make a statement for the BBS regarding her
experience, the following is her response.

April 2, 1990

Dear Barbara Becker,


I think probably the easiest way to answer your questions is to list
the events as they occured.

Let me say first, that in a case like ours, our conscious mind did
not remember all, but our subconscious mind did. We considered the
beginning of our capture was the time when Barney was standing in the
field, watching the craft, when one of the humanoids said something to
him, resulting in his panic and running back to the car, yelling they
were trying to capture us.

As we went speeding along the highway to avoid capture, we heard the
beeping sounds, and the car vibrated.

When Barney turned into a secondary road, I thought we knew a short
cut on our way home, and did not question this. Then we saw what we
called the moon setting on the ground. We assumed the moon was setting,
and we could see the trees in front of this.

The next, Barney turned onto a dirt road, in the direction of the
setting moon. Before I could question him about this, we saw the men
standing in the road, blocking our way - and we could not remember
beyond this point.

We remembered looking for the highway, but before we reached this, we
saw the craft again as it passed over the secondary road in front of
us.

When we entered onto the main highway, we heard a second series of
beeping sounds. And we came home, looking for the craft all the way and
not seeing it.

At home, Barney's first remark was "It is 5 o'clock, We should have
been home by 3 AM at the latest." This time was from our kitchen clock,
for both our watches had stopped running - this puzzled us, that both
stopped about the same time.

Barney began to unload our belongings from the car. We agreed they
should not be brought into the house, so they were left on the back
porch for a couple of days.

Then we took long showers, shampoos for we felt "very dirty".

We agreed that something had happened, we did not know what it was,
but we could not talk about it. We would forget about it as quickly as
possible.

The next day I went out to my car, and found highly polished spots on
the trunk in a circular pattern. I became very upset, saying maybe we
had been exposed to something dangerous - the spots should be checked
out. So I called my sister who called a physist who suggested checking
the spots with a compass, which I did. When the compass was very
erratic, I called my sister again to tell her of this. At that time a
police officer was at her home, and I talked with him - told him about
the night before. He said they had orders to tell witnesses to call
Pease Air Force Base and report this sighting. So we called Pease and
told them about the sighting, but ommitted about Barney seeing the
humanoids.

Our next step was to return to the Mountains, looking for a secondary
road, the dirt road, thinking if we could find these, we could remember
what happened after we saw the "men in the road". We went back
regularly, in all kinds of weather, looking but not finding the dirt
road. While we were there, we asked everyone we saw, if they ever saw
any strange lights in the sky, received hundreds of reports - meeting
with groups of 50 or more at a time, who told of their sightings, but
none with an experience similar to ours, which we did not discuss.

About six to eight weeks after this experience, we came home one
night, and found on the kitchen table a pile of dried leaves. Our first
response was - someone has been in our home! When I began to clean up
the leaves, I found my blue ear rings I was wearing that night. That
was panic - how did I lose them and who returned them? And how did they
get into our home?

Next was my dress. The second time I had worn this, and now it was
covered with a pink powdery substance. I put it outside, and the
powdery substance blew away, but it left pink stains all over my dress.
Also the hem and some seams were torn - it had a built in lining -
badly torn.

To go back, to ten nights after this experience, I had a series of
dreams, for five nights, of being captured, taken on board, given a
physical exam. At that time, Barney worked midnight to 8 AM, so he was
not here. I typed out these dreams and hid them, never discussed them
until the time of our hypnosis with Dr. Simon.

As for Hohman and Jackson, they had attended some kind of Geological
Conference in Washington DC and met Donald Keyhoe there. After the
Conference they told him they had a hobby, and interest in flying
saucers (the term at that time) He let them read Walt Webb's report of
his meeting with us.

Hohman wrote to us, asking to meet with us. We agreed for at than
time, we knew nothing about ufos, and we were quietly seeking some
explanation for our expereince. Hohman was from New York, and Jackson
was from Alabama, so we needed to wait until these two were together.

When they were here, Barney told them about the humanoid saying
something to him, which he could not remember - this was very upsetting
to him.

We told them about the setting moon just before we turned on to the
dirt road. They said we could not have seen the moon, for it had
already set. Panic by both of us.

So they suggested we take a road map, and pinpoint our location at
different times. We knew we had left Colebrook about 10 PM, the
restaurant there. We were able to pinpoint the locations and times most
of the way, but at one point between Plymouth and Ashland was a blank.
So they suggested we go back to this general area. Then we talked about
time - we could drive to Canada in seven hours, and it had taken us
seven hours to come home from Colebrook. There had to be an
explanation. Later this was called a missing time period. But right
from the beginning Barney and I knew the trip home was much longer then
it should have been.

We continued to go back to the mountains, looking for the dirt road,
asking people about their sightings. Then we began asking if anyone had
ever seen the people aboard the crafts. No. No one knew Barney had seen
them and remembered this.

As for a hallucination, I was and am a trained social worker. I know
the conditions which must exist for a hallucination to occur - for both
people to have the same one, at the same time, does not happen. Dr.
Simon confirmed this impossibility.

As for the car incident, we both became upset at the same time, but I
had already had my dreams. We were puzzled as to the reasons we
responded the way we did.

If we had not had all these upsetting events happen, without
explanation, we would had never have spent thousands of dollars going
to Dr. Simon. We went to him, to get rid of our anxieties, not for a
ufo capture. He worked with us for seven months, every week. But I
learned during these sessions when he was putting our amnesia back so
we could not remember, that we must see him every week for him to
reinforce the amnesia. If we did not do this, we would remember in
about ten days - the same length of time, after this experience, that I
had my dreams. Now I know I recalled these events, in my dreams, as a
result of the lessening of their control of my memory.

After our hypnosis, we went back to the area, and went directly to
the secondary road, to the dirt road. Found the cleared area in the
woods where the craft was down.

Since that time, three labs have tried to analyze the pink stains on
my dress without success.

I agree with you the field of UFOlogy is filled with disinformation.
They have done more to cover real activities by ufos than any other
group. As for my social worker background, I know that insecure people
have a terrible time with things they do not understand, and must
develop an explanation, satisfactory to themselves, which usually is a
fantasy. I dislike the term "missing time" for everyone has missing
time. The human brain is incapable of remembering every little detail
of our lives, every moment. No one can remember everything that
happened yesterday.

I have worked with those who have been captured, and with those who
would like to think they were. Five were real captures, reported almost
immediately to the police, and in three cases, they were at the
emergency room at the hospital within three hours. Then for the others
- five were beginning to be mentally ill, were committed, diagnosed,
and treated. Later, one became a suicide. Then there are the hoaxes - I
walked right thru the wall - how much did it cost for repairs? They
call back in a few days, and tell me how they fooled the hypnotist by
telling weird tales, which were believed. Finally, there are those who
are led astray by auto-suggestion, called hypnosis, by those using it.
I can take anyone, and in fifteen minutes, thru a simple exercise can
give them a ufo capture. But I am sure that they know it is only a
"Flight of Fantasy". But it is the same kind of "hypnosis" others are
using. It is not the hypnosis we had. We had the kind that is used in
surgery. I would like to see all those who use the wrong kind, try to
do some simple medical procedures.

So many try to copy my experiences, so Dr. Simon wrote a segment
about hypnosis, the types, testing and characteristics. No one
apparently read or understood this section, pages 82 thru 85, for they
ignore this. Unfortunately it is ruining the field of hypnosis, which
does have good medical uses.

I went to a conference of so-called abductees. One told of her
experiences, right out of Star Trek. She took on the part played by
Capt. Kirk. Used the same names as in the tv program. Later we told her
this, so she went back and had "hypnosis" again and came up with a
different capture. Such success. Such fairy tales they tell.

Thanks for letting me set the record straight. Some times I have
heard my experiences told in such a way, I did not recognize it.

Sincerely,
Betty (signed)
Betty Hill

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