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time, they realized they were unaccountably missing two hours of time. After the incident Barney Hill began having problems with an ulcer, and Betty Hill began having severe nightmares. Several months later they sought the help of a Boston psychiatrist, Dr. Benjamin Simon. Dr. Simon began four months of independent regressive hypnosis of the Hills. He encouraged them not to discuss their sessions with each other. In the sessions the events recounted by the Hills were remarkably consistent. They claimed that while they were on the road they had been abducted by humanoid beings, taken aboard the ship, and given humiliating medical examinations by the alien crew They described the aliens as hairless entities with large heads, large eyes, and grayish skin. Betty claimed that while on board, a large needle-like object was inserted in her abdomen and she was surgically examined and given a pregnancy test. Barney Hill's description of the encounter paralleled his wife's quite closely. However, it was not until many years after the encounter that Barney Hill eventually revealed that while on board the alien craft, he had been subjected to a sperm retrieval procedure. The story was published in a best-selling book by John Fuller entitled The Interrupted Journey, which was the basis of television docudrama The UFO Incident. While the veracity of this incident remains unconfirmed, it does parallel the thousands of incidents of alleged abductions that would be reported over the next 30 years. In 1987 Budd Hopkins published a book entitled Intruders, which chronicles the alleged abduction accounts of Kathy Davis and her family members. Hopkins, who wrote the book Missing Time, has researched alleged the claims of alien abductions for more than 20 years. He admits that when he began studying UFOs and abduction phenomena, he was quite skeptical about such accounts. However, he eventually became convinced, against his better judgment, that the phenomenon was real and represented a significant potential threat to the human population. According to Hopkins, Kathy Davis (an alias), who was born in 1959, began having strange encounters in the winter of 1966. On a family trip she encountered a strange object in a field, which she described as a white, windowless house. In it she met a group of strange-looking humanoid entities who performed a physical examination and removed a piece of skin from her lower leg. According to her account, the entities had the ability to change shape into gray-skinned, small humanoid figures with large heads and large eyes. After the incident she returned to her friend's house having no recollection of the events. Between July 1975 and October 1983, Kathy claimed that she was repeatedly abducted, taken aboard alien space-craft and subjected to in-depth gynecological examinations, harvesting of ovum, genetic experimentation, and finally presented with the fruit of the these experiments—a small child which looked like an alien-human hybrid! Confirmation that this hybrid child was her "daughter," she claimed, came by telepathic communications from the aliens. The only evidence for the alleged abductions of Kathy Davis are the accounts themselves, obtained under hypnotic regression. The veracity of such encounters based on evidence obtained under hypnotic regression is impossible to confirm, and for most of us accounts such as these are impossible to believe. Skeptics often argue that these accounts are more akin to fantasy or a delusional 64 INTRUDERS