Betty and Barney Hill lost three hours on a New Hampshire highway in 1961. They spent years trying to understand it.
Slate receives a commission when you purchase items using the links on this page. Thank you for your support.Rather than a story of alien abduction, Bowman is more interested in telling the story of how, “in an environment of growing cynicism about the state and the science that the state sponsored, an inexplicable encounter propelled Betty and Barney Hill toward suspicion of traditional sources of authority and a consequent exploration of more esoteric possibilities.
Skeptical commentators have long theorized that Barney’s sense of unease may have played into how he would come to describe their encounter on the journey home. Having described the aliens as having gray skin at one point, he would later state under hypnosis that one made him think of a “red-headed Irishman.” Pressed by Simon under hypnosis, Barney would explain: “I think I know why. Because Irish are usually hostile to Negroes.
The story that Bowman unfolds is one of two people unable to make sense of events that they nonetheless believed to be real, turning from one institution to another, hoping not just for validation, but for an explanation for what had happened to them. The Air Force’s Project Blue Book sent an officer to listen to their claims, one who ultimately dismissed their story as not being noteworthy.
As Bowman traces the Hills’ lives after the incident, he recounts how Barney became the legal redress officer for Portsmouth, New Hampshire’s NAACP chapter. Seeking to test the strength of a 1961 antidiscrimination law that was largely being ignored, Barney sent Black men to various barbershops in Portsmouth to get haircuts; 4 of 9 places turned the men away.
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