| While there are many dozens of alien abduction | | | | very brightly UFO appeared over the trees. Travis got |
| reports from around the world, this article mentions the | | | | out to get a closer look and ended up being right under |
| two best ones which I heard at a ufo conference | | | | the UFO. His friends yelled at him to get back into the |
| recently. | | | | truck but before he could he was hit by a turquoise |
| The 1961 UFO abduction of Betty and Barney Hill | | | | beam which came from the underneath of the craft. In |
| gained worldwide interest because of the book and | | | | panic, they floored the truck and left the scene in a |
| movie "The Interrupted Journey" and an appearance | | | | hurry. After a few minutes they regained their |
| at a ufo conference. After their encounter, the couple | | | | composure and when they came back, Travis had |
| had problems sleeping and it wasn't until they had | | | | gone. Travis recalled this part of the experience at a |
| hypnosis therapy that the true nature of their | | | | ufo conference in the 1990s and the tension in the air |
| experience was revealed. As they retold their | | | | was amazing. |
| experience during the regression hypnosis sessions, | | | | For a full five days, Travis's friends were under |
| the therapist tried to seek mundane explanations for | | | | scrutiny. They all agreed to take lie-detector tests and |
| their encounter but both of the Hills recounted the | | | | were interviewed for many hours but none of them |
| same experience and could not be moved from their | | | | changed their story. The police were convinced that |
| alien abduction story. Their hypnotic therapist was in | | | | Travis had been murdered because he was dating a |
| shock as they described the small alien beings that had | | | | mate's sister. The police's murder theory was |
| led them from their vehicle and into the UFO. While | | | | squashed when Travis suddenly called home from a |
| both of the Hills recalled the same incident, the | | | | telephone box at a petrol station and asked him family |
| emotional effects was quite different for each person. | | | | to come and pick him up. He kept talking about beings |
| It was Betty Hill who was most intrigued by her | | | | with big eyes on the way to his parent's house. Travis |
| encounter and remembered asking her alien hosts | | | | thought that only a few hours had passed and was |
| which star system they had come from. They | | | | surprised to hear that he had been missing for five |
| showed her and she drew a map of their star system | | | | days. He hadn't shaved for days and was a lot lighter. |
| under hypnosis. This was easily dismissed at the time | | | | His hypnotic regression session included his experience |
| as being pure imagination. It wasn't until about 30 years | | | | aboard a spaceship that included both the archetypal |
| later that an astronomer claimed at a ufo conference | | | | small grey beings who were about five foot tall, and |
| to have found the star system which Betty Hill had | | | | human like beings who refused to communicate with |
| drawn. He named Zeta Reticuli as the system which | | | | him but motioned for him to follow them. An oxygen |
| the beings had come from. The system does not | | | | mask was placed over his face, and Travis said he |
| however match Betty's drawing exactly and is | | | | passed out. When he came around, the craft was in |
| therefore dubious. Barney Hill had a much more | | | | the air over the roadway near the service station, and |
| unpleasant encounter than his wife. He was terrified of | | | | when it headed off, he rang for his brother to come. |
| the alien beings and of their invasive "medical" tests. | | | | One of the most amazing features of Travis Walton's |
| Throughout his hypnotic description, he wanted only to | | | | encounter and one which was apparent at a recent |
| get away from these strange beings. | | | | ufo conference, is the personality changes of both |
| The Betty and Barney hill abduction was the first alien | | | | Travis and his brother in law, Mike Rogers. Travis now |
| abduction case to gain national fame and even after | | | | talks much more quietly than he did. He doesn't appear |
| 50 years remains in my view as the most fascinating | | | | to object if the public have doubts about what |
| ufo conference case of them all. The second famous | | | | occurred to him. His previously quiet friend, Mike |
| alien abduction encounter which I often hear told at the | | | | Rogers, is now the person upset by those who rubbish |
| ufo conference is the case of Travis Walton. | | | | Travis's claims. Neither Travis or Mike have ever |
| In November 1975, Travis and his logging crew were | | | | amended their witness statements of that famous |
| heading back home from working in the forest when a | | | | evening and close encounter on that forest road. |