The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America Bowman Matthew
The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America Bowman Matthew A gripping account of an alien abduction and its connections to the breakdown of…
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The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America Bowman Matthew
A gripping account of an alien abduction and its connections to the breakdown of American society in the 1960sIn the mid-1960s, Betty and Barney Hill became famous as the first Americans to claim that aliens had taken them aboard a spacecraft against their will. The Hills, an interracial couple who lived in New Hampshire, were civil rights activists, supporters of liberal politics, and Unitarians. Their story--involving a lonely highway late at night, lost memories, and medical examinations by small gray creatures with large eyes--has become the template for nearly every encounter with aliens in American popular culture since.Historian Matthew Bowman examines the Hills' story not only as a foundational piece of UFO folklore but also as a microcosm of 1960s America.
But when their story of abduction was repeatedly ignored or discounted by authorities, they lost faith