Roster / Experiencers and claimants

Barney Hill

Postal worker and civil rights leader, abduction account · 1922 to 1969

With his wife Betty, gave the first widely known abduction account, from 1961.

Barney Hill worked for the US Postal Service and served on the state advisory board of the US Commission on Civil Rights and in the NAACP. As an interracial couple in early-1960s New England, the Hills were already public figures in their community.

Under hypnosis he described the craft's occupants and being examined. He was reluctant about the publicity and died in 1969.

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