![]() ![]() Betty and Barney Hill, it was just the two of them, and there was not a formal law enforcement investigation. “He was lucky in that he had six other witnesses. Compared to the Hills, Hansen says Walton was “lucky.” He believes he was accidentally injured by the alleged craft, and the two types of aliens he encountered were trying to heal him. Moreover, Walton doesn’t consider his experience to be an abduction so much as a rescue mission. “Both stories were propelled forward into the international attention against the will of those involved.” Similar to the Hills, Walton was not someone who would seek attention, says Hansen. While Walton was missing for five days, his crewmates were suspected of foul play. ![]() When Walton went to explore, he was knocked unconscious by a beam of light, and like the Hills claimed, awakened aboard an alien craft. Walton, a logger, was traveling from a job site with six crewmates when they saw a UFO hovering close to the ground. Walton’s story, very loosely adapted into the 1993 movie Fire in the Sky, took place in November 1975 in northeast Arizona. But it is the at-times disturbing recordings of the Hill’s hypnosis session - portions of which are played in the Shock Docs - that are the most powerful. And eventually, eyewitnesses were interviewed that claimed they had seen something strange in the sky around the same time as the Hill experience. Air Force’s Project Blue Book, and the civilian research group National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). The case was investigated by both the U.S. “He was already in the press for participation in civil rights … adding ‘alleged alien abductee’ didn’t help.” ![]() “It was a distraction for what they were trying to accomplish,” he says. The Hills were an interracial couple, and involved in the civil rights movement, and Hansen notes that Barney didn’t want to be stigmatized because of the encounter. “Up until that point, there were a lot of sightings and fringe topics of people saying they went to Venus, but not abductions. “It was the first widely shared story of an abduction,” says Hansen. ![]() Suddenly the couple were thrust into a spotlight. Although they spoke of the experience to some small groups, the story became national news without their consent when a reporter wrote about it. They reported missing two hours of time, and later underwent hypnosis and each relayed repressed memories of medical experiments aboard an alien craft conducted by what came to be known as Grey extraterrestrials. (And you can watch the full video interview with Hansen below, as well check out the Talking Strange podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts).Īccording to the Hills, they were driving late at night in 1961 along a deserted New Hampshire highway when their vehicle was chased by a UFO. Likewise serving as consulting producer on the Shock Docs, Hansen, who is also currently filming the second season of UFO Witness for discovery+, joined Den of Geek’s paranormal pop culture show Talking Strange to discuss the connections between both specials. 18 on the streaming platform - Hansen walks audiences through the stories, and offers up new evidence that he believes corroborates the abductees’ claims. And in two new discovery+ “Shock Docs,” Alien Abduction: Betty and Barney Hill and Alien Abduction: Travis Walton - debuting Feb. They are also the most well-documented cases, according to UFO expert and former FBI special agent, Ben Hansen. Beyond having an enormous influence on pop culture, these are the most famous so-called close encounters of the fourth kind. The tropes of an alien abduction - the UFO chasing the car, missing time, strange experiments, grey-skinned beings with large eyes - emerged primarily from two alleged experiences, the Betty and Barney Hill case in 1961, and Travis Walton’s in 1975. ![]()
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