![]() And he said this straight-laced couple met some people with unusual ideas. "And so Betty and Barney rebuild their world to think differently about what authorities should be trusted, and what authorities should not be trusted.”īowman said the Hills came in contact with the New Age movement of the late 60s and 70s. ![]() “Betty and Barney Hill find in these groups people who will tell them, we think you saw something real, we think your memories are real," Bowman said. ![]() One was Donald Keyhoe, author of the book “The Flying Saucers are Real.” Keyhoe was a former Marine who founded a group called the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. Matthew Bowman said the Hills found some UFO researchers they thought they could trust. And Barney is really worried about what this story might do to their credibility.”Īnd they’re alarmed when their story is leaked to the press. "So they are becoming fairly prominent leaders in this organization. “He's part of a generation of African Americans who believe in political reform, who believes that passing laws, establishing new government agencies, these things can combat and take on and eventually eradicate discrimination in America," Bowman said. He attended the 1963 March on Washington and Lyndon Johnson’s inauguration. He was a major figure in New Hampshire’s NAACP, and a member of the U.S. This is what Betty Hill believes - she was raised in a family of activists.”īarney - who was Black - was an activist too. It's an era of optimism in American life, and confidence that those things that were not optimistic about can be fixed. “They grew up in an America that largely trusted the government. “Betty and Barney Hill are, in many ways, conventional Americans," said Matthew Bowman, author of the book The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill, released this month by Yale University Press. The Hills didn’t want to be known for UFOs - at first. University of New Hampshire Library Betty and Barney Hill with their dachsund, Delsey.
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