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waiting. He started the car and took off quickly. They could no longer see the object, but they heard a beeping noise. Sometime later, they heard the beeping noise again, and noticed that they were thirty-five miles south of Indian Head, at Ashland. They drove on home to Portsmouth without further incident. They slept until afternoon, and when they awoke, Betty called her sister Janet and told her about their experience. Janet urged her to report the UFO sighting to nearby Pease Air Force Base. Over Barney’s objections, Betty called the base and gave a report to Major Paul W. Henderson of the 100th Bomb Wing. When asked to do so by the Major, Barney reluctantly gave his version of the sighting. Curiously, Pease AFB was the home of the 509th Bomb Wing in 1961, the same 509th Bomb Wing whose home had been Roswell AAFB at the time of the “Roswell Incident” in 1947. According to Jacques Vallee in Dimensions, the Hills’ sighting was corroborated by a radar sighting at Pease AFB on 20 September 1961, but his reference for this is unclear. It’s an excerpt from Report No. 100-1-61, that says simply: “. . . a strange incident occurred at 0214 local on 20 Sept.’ No importance was attached to the incident at the time. After reporting the incident, Barney preferred to forget about the event, but Betty went to the library to look up books on UFOs. She found Major Donald Kehoe’s The Flying Saucer Conspiracy and read it avidly. She even wrote Kehoe a letter detailing their sighting. A few days later, ten days after their sighting, Betty began to have a series of night- mares that lasted five days and then stopped. The nightmares involved she and Barney being stopped at a road block and then being taken inside some large craft. At the urging of a friend, Betty wrote down the dreams. Meanwhile, Betty’s letter to Kehoe had been passed to Walter Webb, a lecturer on the staff of the Hayden Planetarium in Force on Boston. Webb was a scientific advisor for NICAP (National Investigations Commit- tee on Aerial Phenomenon), Kehoe’s UFO organization. Webb was asked to interview the Hills. He drove up to Portsmouth and spent several hours interviewing them. He was’ much impressed with their sincerity and with the detail they provided, and he wrote a long report for NICAP. After talking to Kehoe, and after reading Webb’s report, two technical writers who were interested in UFOs, Robert Hohman and C.D. Jackson, made arrangements to interview the Hills in November. It was during this interview woe! es ee a: eee alae 22-2 28 ake to and _ spent them. He He was that one of the writers asked a key question: Why had it taken the Hills so long to get home? Calculating the time and the mileage from Colebrook to Portsmouth showed that they should have gotten home two hours sooner than they did, even allowing for stops. Also present at this interview was Major James MacDonald, a former Air Force Intelli- gence officer and close friend of the Hills. It was he who first suggested hypnosis to recover their memory of the missing time period. Te RAR AF INLD thaee needle tn 4 In March of 1962, they spoke to a psychiatrist about hypnosis, but decided to put it off until a later date. That summer, Barney’s ulcers returned, and his recurring hypertention returned. Feeling that his problems were emotional in origin, he began therapy with a psychia- trist in Exeter, Dr. Stephens. He continued this therapy through the next year, but the UFO sighting was not explored as part of this treatment at first. But, not long after Betty and Barney had been asked to speak to a church group about their sighting, Dr. Stephens decided that the sighting was important. He also decided that hypnosis was needed to help Barney deal with the incident. Not being profi- cient in hypnosis himself, he referred Barney to Dr. Benjamin Simon, a well- known Boston psychiatrist and neurolo- gist.