Betty had described short, dark-haired men with big noses in her dreams, but Barney spoke of thin, gray-skinned, big-headed beings with “wraparound” eyes, the template for the modern “grey” alien. Still, once under hypnosis, the separate stories varied widely. Undoubtedly she shared these with Barney, surely influencing him, despite Barney during all that time thinking nothing really extraordinary happened that night in 1961, assuming the light they saw was a plane. During that time, Betty obsessively wrote down accounts of what she said were “dreams” of what happened on board the craft. That’s right, as long as Thomas Mann had to wait for Allen Hynek to put him under, the Hills waited even longer. Crucially, it was Betty who most pushed the abduction narrative in the intervening two years between their encounter and the first hypnosis sessions. The couple was separated by their captors and “examined,” in what’s become traditional abduction lore. Maybe most importantly, it wasn’t just Barney (“Thomas Mann,” as the character is named in the “Abduction” episode of Blue Book) who was taken, but Betty as well. But with a case as important to the history of UFO research as the Betty and Barney Hill alien abduction, the first of its kind ever reported in North America, isn’t it a little damaging to play so fast and loose with actual history? I’ve noted over and over in these articles that History Channel’s Project Blue Book is a drama that only uses the touchstones of certain “real” UFO investigations to help drive the narrative.
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