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Still No Answer
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"Barney and I kept going. Naturally, we were nervous. Then a few minutes after we passed the Old Man of the Mountains, the craft, which had been following an erratic flight pattern, stopped and hovered directly over the highway. My husband got out of the car to see if he could get a good look at the thing. I stayed by the car, as he went down the road. Delsey was locked in the back of our old Chevy. Suddenly, Barney came running back. 'Let's get the hell out of here,' he called out. 'We're going to be captured.'
"We both leaped into the Chevy and took off. Barney said it was a flying saucer. He said there was a double row of windows on the front of it, and there were people visible inside. He said there were six of them, and that one of them acted like he was the leader of the group. We raced off down the road trying to get away from the light. The thing remained directly above us though. We couldn't get away from it. Then there were three beeping sounds, and the car started to vibrate.''
According to Betty, what happened next can best be described as "a brown study." Simply stated, there was a blank period during which neither Betty nor Barney could remember what happened. "The next thing I remember was hearing three more beeping sounds. That's the only way I can describe them. And I said to Barney: 'Do you believe in flying saucers? He laughed and said, 'Don't be ridiculous.' "
At this point, the Hills were in a town called Ashland, which is about thirty miles beyond where they heard the original three beeping sounds. "Barney and I went home," declared Betty, "and spent most of the day asleep in bed. It was the 20th of September by then. When we woke up, after talking matters over, we decided to notify authorities at Pease Air Force Base about the sighting, and we did. After that, Barney and I decided to do our best to forget about the entire matter."
However, the couple made several trips back to the area in the vicinity of the Old Man of the Mountains. For awhile, Betty was having nightmares. "We were bothered about the time element. We didn't reach Portsmouth until dawn, That was two hours longer than normal for such a trip. Barney and I couldn't figure out what happened to those extra two hours."
Two years later, in 1963, Barney developed an ulcer. "Medication did not work," said Betty, "so it was decided that Barney should see a psychiatrist to determine if the ulcer was caused by emotional problems."
On December 14, 1963, Barney Hill went to the office of the distinguished Boston psychiatrist Benjamin Simon. Under hypnosis and during sessions that were tape recorded, Barney cleared up the mystery of the lost two hours. "After some sessions with Barney," said Betty, "Dr. Simon asked permission to place me under hypnosis. He said it would help him to understand Barney's problem better. So I agreed to allow him to hypnotize me." Her account of what had happened during the missing two hours was exactly like Barney's.
Let it be clear that the Hills were hypnotized in separate sessions, and that neither was aware of what the other had said. When conscious, they had no idea of what they had revealed under hypnosis. Later, Dr. Simon played the tapes for them, and for the first time they became aware of what had happened to them during the lost hours.
"After we heard the original three beeping sounds, and our car started to vibrate, Barney and I left Route 3 in an effort to get away from the thing flying above us. We went down a side road. Up ahead, we saw a group of men in the road; I think there were six of them. Barney applied the brakes, and our motor went dead. The men separated, half on each side of the car. Then I fell into a deep trance.
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