Journalism and Media
New Hampshire’s Betty & Barney Hill UFO Historical Marker Needs a Rewrite
It’s only 92 words long, but contains two fact errors. On the 60th anniversary of the Hill UFO abduction, it’s time to set the record straight.
If you happen to take a vacation to New Hampshire and end up driving through the White Mountains on Route 3, you may come across this historical marker in Lincoln, near the northern end of the area’s quaint Indian Head Resort. It commemorates the famous alien abduction case of Betty and Barney Hill that allegedly took place nearby. The sign itself has become a tourist destination, and this is what it says:
Betty and Barney Hill Incident.
On the night of September 19–20, 1961, Portsmouth, NH couple Betty and Barney Hill experienced a close encounter with an unidentified flying object and two hours of “lost” time while driving south on Rt. 3 near Lincoln. They filed an official Air Force Project Blue Book report of a brightly-lit cigar-shaped craft the next day, but were not public with their story until it was leaked in the Boston Traveler in 1965. This was the first widely-reported UFO abduction report in the United States.
