What do you think of Betty Hill's story of her encounter with aliens?

Question

http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=lctf3qz9jd

This video is about 3 min. and worth watching.

Answer 1

This has been refuted. Everyone should look at both sides of any issue before forming an opinion. Such stuff as this has been refuted by scientists, so there's no good reason to believe it. The hypnotist was overly enthusiastic, and Betty tried to tell him what he wanted to hear. Barney repeated what she said, so the truth of this matter is obvious to objective people.

Answer 2

I think it's certainly a compelling case. The "star map" that Betty recalled under hypnosis simply adds to the mystery. Generally I'm sceptical of alien abduction stories, but when they happen to people who are wide awake - and driving - I find them far more interesting.

Alan Godfrey's abduction story  is quite similar, check it out.

Answer 3

I think it is a typical "repressed memory", that is, it is a false memory that the therapist/hypnotist led Hill into. The "star map" is not compelling. She just created a pattern of dots which could be connected in a huge number of ways, at least one of which is likely to resemble some pattern of stars found in the skies just by chance.  

Answer 4

The Betty and Barney Hill story has been heavily mythologized with the re telling over the years.   New details have been added that were never there in the original interviews, and are now taken to be true by the Believer community.  It has been quite thoroughly debunked as a simple case of false memory syndrome.  There was an episode of The Outer Limits on a few months before the "kidnapping" that closely matches Betty's "memory"

I remember being quite convinced by the various media reports (like your video)  that I read when I was younger.  It was quite disappointing to find out that what actually happened was not quite as interesting or mysterious.

Answer 5

Well i don't deny the truth of what she saw.

Answer 6

The Betty and Barny Hill abduction case is, in my opinion, one of the most interesting and....dare I say it....solid cases in Ufology. Betty Hill's star map is...well I feel completely unexplainable without intervention by someone or something with presage astronomical knowledge for the time.    

Answer 7

who knows if she's telling the truth.

Answer 8

She could be telling the truth but then I don't know because the Nefilim are still making appearances! It is not always the good gods. But these creatures she seen were greys they were called Zetas by the ancient Sumerians so she could be telling the truth.

Answer 9

I read this book back in the 70's.  It's the story that got me started thinking of the possibilities out there.  I believe her with all my being.  In the book she recounts how during the examination by the aliens they were trying to pull her teeth out and there was much confusion about this, because they couldn't understand why her husband Barney's teeth came out.  She found this amusing as she told them that Barney had dentures.  

Little details like this convince me  of the validity of her story.  Why would she make up trivial stuff like that?  

Answer 10

Betty Hill was crucified by so many people about her account.

What convinced me, years after her experience, was the medical testing she described in detail she had done.

I'm talking about her experience, where they injected her with a needle, through the navel and took fluid from her for testing.

This happened years before our medical knowledge caught up, and started performing the same test on pregnant woman. How could she describe a medical test in full detail?  A medical test that did not exist at the time of her experience.

Dots on a sheet a paper, when turned around formed an area, that was discovered after the fact? Coincidental? I don't think so.

Answer 11

It's certainly one of the more compelling cases--I like to believe it's true. Sad for them, and I've never seen a UFO. The recent Illinois sighting with 3 police officers at different locations--that's got me going.