Betty’s dress was stained and torn, and Barney’s shoes were badly scuffed, but neither had any recollection of how these and other physical changes happened to their car and belongings.Īfter seeking hypnosis therapy, the couple were able to recall similar details of an alien abduction. Two hours of their drive were wiped from their memories. The next thing they can recall is being 35 miles farther in their journey home. Through binoculars, Barney claims to have spotted non-human figures in a cigar-shaped craft that hovered over their car. 19, 1961, the couple was returning from a trip to Montreal and driving through New Hampshire’s White Mountains when they said they saw lights approaching them in the sky. The collection also includes the dress Betty was wearing on the night of the abduction and a ceramic bust of an alien, dubbed “Junior,” which was sculpted to resemble Betty’s description of the alien leader.īetty and Barney Hill were New Hampshire residents and lived near the seacoast in Portsmouth. Now housed at the Dimond Library, it contains artifacts related to their abduction and subsequent research, such as correspondence, personal journals and essays, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, photographs, slides, films and audio tapes relating to UFOs. UNH received the collection after Betty’s death in 2004 (Barney passed away suddenly in 1969). However, there are probably none quite as unexpected as the university’s collection of authentic UFO-related artifacts from Betty and Barney Hill, the now famous couple who made the first well-documented and widely reported UFO abduction report in the United States. The University of New Hampshire is home to many unique and surprising things that the institution has collected over its 150-year history.

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