[8] Because it moved erratically and grew bigger and brighter, Betty urged Barney to stop the car for a closer look, as well as to walk their dog, Delsey.

"[11] The Hills said they continued driving on the quiet and isolated road, moving very slowly through Franconia Notch in order to observe the object as it came even closer.

[12] About one mile south of Indian Head, they said, the object rapidly descended toward their vehicle, causing Barney to stop in the middle of the highway.

The huge, silent craft hovered about 80 to 100 feet (24 to 30 m) above the Hills' 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air and filled the entire field of view in the windshield.

"[13] Arriving home at about dawn, the Hills stated that they had some odd sensations and impulses they could not readily explain: Betty insisted their luggage be kept near the back door rather than in the main part of the house.

[15] After sleeping for a few hours, Betty awoke and placed the shoes and clothing she had worn during the drive into her closet, observing that the dress was torn at the hem, zipper and lining.

"[19] Ten days after the alleged UFO encounter, Betty began having a series of vivid dreams, which continued for five successive nights.

"[23] On November 23, 1962, the Hills attended a meeting at the parsonage of their church, where Captain Ben H. Swett of the United States Air Force was a guest speaker.

[24] Under hypnosis with Dr Benjamin Simons (as was consistent with his conscious recall), Barney reported that the binocular strap had broken when he ran from the UFO back to his car.

[26] Under hypnosis, Betty's account was similar to her five dreams about the UFO abduction, with some notable differences, mainly pertaining to her capture and release.

[27] When the series of hypnosis sessions were complete, Simon wrote an article about the Hills for the journal Psychiatric Opinion, explaining his conclusion that the case was a singular psychological aberration.

"[29] Reporter John H. Luttrell of the Traveller had allegedly been given an audio tape recording of the lecture the Hills had made in Quincy Center in late 1963.

[citation needed] In 1966, writer John G. Fuller secured the cooperation of the Hills and Simon and wrote the book The Interrupted Journey (see below) about the case.

Studying thousands of vantage points over several years, the only one that seemed to match the Hill map was from the viewpoint of the double star system of Zeta Reticuli (about 39 light-years from Earth).

Dickinson did not endorse Fish and Webb's conclusions, but for the first time in the journal's history, Astronomy invited comments and debate on a UFO report, starting with an opening article in the December 1974 issue.

Notable was an argument made by Carl Sagan and Steven Soter,[33] arguing that the "star map" was little more than a random alignment of chance points.

Marden, who sat on the board of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) for 10 years, knew Betty well and had spoken with her at great length about the encounter.

[37] Jim Macdonald, a resident of the area in which the Hills claimed to have been abducted, has produced a detailed analysis of their journey which concludes that the episode was provoked by their misperceiving an aircraft warning beacon on Cannon Mountain as a UFO.

After reading Macdonald's recreation, UFO expert Robert Sheaffer writes that the Hills are the "poster children" for not driving when sleep deprived.

"[42] Robert Sheaffer released 48 pages of archived documents relating to Betty and Barney Hill, Benjamin Simon and Philip J. Klass on the Internet on December 23, 2015.

If the identification is admitted, the commonness of wraparound eyes in the abduction literature falls to cultural forces.When a different researcher asked Betty about The Outer Limits, she insisted she had "never heard of it.

[46] In 2012 Jason Colavito pointed out[47] that in fact "The Bellero Shield" was "the least important" of the three Outer Limits episodes that aired in the weeks prior to Barney Hill's February 22, 1964, recovery of "grey alien" memories.

The process of becoming a servant involves lying face-down on a table and having one's lower back scratched with a scalpel, then having an alien organism placed on the wound to see if it will attach.

The surgical procedure is narrated in detail by an alien instructor, and is shown three times (although the camera sees only the protagonist's naked upper body and gritted teeth).

Colavito states that "[t]he surgical scenes, including the partial nudity, recall the [anal] alien probing described by Barney Hill.

"[47] The episode of February 17, 1964, titled "The Children of Spider County," featured a storyline involving the abduction of four men by an alien with wraparound eyes, which glow menacingly.

Colavito suggests that these similarities to Barney Hill's own biography go "beyond coincidental" and encouraged him to mingle the more fantastical elements of the story into his hypnosis-induced recollections.

Coincidentally, Lee Kinsolving plays the alien in love with a human girl in both "The Children of Spider County" and "Black Leather Jackets.

[48] In 2004, Betty Hill's niece Kathleen Marden, with nuclear physicist and ufologist Stanton Friedman, authored Captured, concerning the case.

[non-primary source needed] A fact-based account appears in the 2023 Dark Horse Comics series Blue Book: 1961, written by James Tynion IV with art by Michael Avon Oeming.