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series of short loud "buzzes" which they described as sounding like someone had dropped a tuning fork. They report that they could feel these buzzing sounds in their auto. No further visual observations were made of this object. They continued on their trip and when they arrived in the vicinity of Ashland, N.H., about thirty miles from Lincoln, they again heard the "buzzing" sound of the "object", however, they did not see it at this time. Mrs. Hill reported the flight pattern of the "object" to be erratic, changing directions rapidly, that during its flight it ascended and descended numerous times very rapidly. Its flight was described as jerky and not smooth. This report is remarkable for what it does not contain. In this respect, it is probably typical of a large class of Air Force records (most of those involving close proximity to a UFO) where either witness reluctance or lack of adequate follow-up eliminated the most significant information. In the present case, the witnesses failed to give the Air Force any information as to the beings they could see aboard the craft during their observation with binoculars. And proper investigation would have disclosed an element of which they were not immediately aware: they could not account for a time gap of two hours between the two periods of buzzing sounds. In fact, they could not recall how they had driven the thirty-five miles between Indian Head and Ashland so casually mentioned in the Air : Force report. Both witnesses had a series of strange nightmares. The dreams led them to see a psychiatrist who used hypnosis to discover the root of the problem, and it was only then found that the origin of the nightmares could be traced to those missing two hours. Under separate hypnosis, Betty and Barney Hill said they had been taken by the strange beings into the UFO. I have heard the portion of the tapes covering the "abduction" of Betty and Barney Hill. I spent two days in New Hampshire with the witnesses, and with Dr. Simon and John Fuller. The case represents a general pattern that cannot be separated from the total phenomenon. First, it is interesting to note that, as further details come to the Hills' memories after treatment, the case took on more of the features present in other UFO landings, of which the Hills could not have heard. One such detail is the recollection by Betty Hill that, after their car was stopped and a group of "men" had come toward them, the creatures had opened the door of the vehicle and pointed a small device at her. When I asked her to what usual object she could compare it, she told me, "It aad 1 a0 could have been a pencil." It is not necessary to repeat the descriptions given by the Hills of the manner in which they were abducted or of the conditions inside the object. It is enough to say that the statements made under hypnosis by Betty and Barney are in general agreement. And it is also useful to study the detailed accounts of the entities given by the witnesses. Betty states: Most of the men are my height.... None is as tall as Barney, so I would judge them to be 5' to 5'4". Their chests are larger than ours; their noses were larger [longer] than the average size although I have seen people with noses like theirs — like Jimmy Durante. Their complexions were of gray tone; like a gray paint with a black base; their lips were of bluish tint. Hair and eyes were very dark, possibly black. In a sense, they looked like mongoloids.... This sort of round face and broad forehead, along with a certain type of coarseness. The surface of their skin seemed to be a bluish gray, but probably whiter than that. Their eyes moved, and they had pupils. Somehow, I had the feeling they were more like cats' eyes. The men had rather odd-shaped heads, with a large cranium, diminishing in size as it got toward the chin. And the eyes continued around to the sides of their heads, so that it appeared that they could see several degrees beyond the lateral extent of our vision. This was startling to me....[The mouth] was much like when you draw one horizontal line with a Barney, on the other hand, says this: