On March 22nd, 1952 two ladies, (pseudonyms) Sara Shaw and Jan Whitley, who shared an isolated cabin in the Tujunga Canyons area, were awakened by a bright light outside the cabin. They also discovered, after leaving the cabin in a state of terror that it appeared that they had “lost time”, two hours were unaccounted for.

Thus began 23 years of UFO sightings and abduction experiences.In 1956, Jan Whitley and a young lady called Emily Cronin were driving back home to the cabin at night; Emily's young son was sleeping in the back seat. Because of the late hour they decided to pull in at a rest stop and have a sleep.

Some time later they were awakened by a bright light and realised that they were both paralysed. Eventually Emily managed to move a finger and very quickly they both found that they could move. Feeling frightened by the events they drove back to a café in order to recover.

Above : Tujunga Canyons
A remote and desolate area,
North of Los Angeles (U.S.)

As they drove near Lancaster , just west of the White Mountains, they became aware of a bright light which eventually seemed to be very close and circling the car. Barney stopped the car and took some binoculars and walked until he was about 50 feet away from the object. Using the binoculars he saw a large craft, like a big pancake with a row of windows and at least half a dozen occupants. Fearful of being captured, Barney ran back to the car - they reached Portsmouth after having taken over 7 hours to drive the last 190 miles.

Betty reported the sighting to Pease Air Force Base and between 29th September and 3rd October she had a series of nightmares involving herself and Barney being led into a UFO and being medically examined. Betty reported her experiences to the National Investigations committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) and in late October, whilst being interviewed by them, Barney realized that their journey home had taken over 2 hours longer than it should have done - there seemed to be "missing time" after they came across the UFO.

Barney began to develop physical ailments and had psychiatric treatment for a year resulting in him having regressive hypnosis in the summer of 1962, in order to discover what really happened on 19th September 1961. Betty decided to join him and they both commenced hypnosis sessions with Dr. Benjamin Simon of Boston in December 1963.

Under hypnosis both the Hills related very similar stories including abduction by humanoids with no nose, large eyes, lipless mouths and whilst aboard the UFO they were both subjected to medical examinations. Artistic impression  [ left ] of "Alien" based on Betty Hill's description.

The aliens communicated using telepathy and spoken language and after her medical examination, Betty was shown a star map and was told she would remember nothing of the experience. The Hills then found themselves back in their car, watching the UFO fly away - like a glowing orange ball.
Although there is little doubt that the Hills encountered a UFO, opinion is divided regarding the abduction story they related under hypnosis, for instance Dr. Simon came to the conclusion that their abduction was an imaginary experience caused by fear after a genuine experience with a UFO.

Barnet Hill died in 1969 but Betty continued to maintain the truth of her abduction and some years later Ohio schoolteacher, Margaret Fish, observed that Betty's star map indicated that the aliens came from Zeta Reticuli - about 3.7 light years from Earth.

Interestingly, Bob Lazar claimed to have seen evidence that the UFOs held at Area 51 originated from Zeta Reticuli. Bob Lazar is covered in some detail on this site. 

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Even Hollywood considered the Hill's Abduction case important enough to make a film of - newspaper report by eminent Ufologist the "late great" Bob Pratt.

A Letter from Betty Hill to the eminent Dr. Velikovsky

953 State Street Portsmouth, N.H. March 9, 1968

Dear Dr. Velikovsky,
Since 1950 I thought that some day I would write to you, for at that time I discovered your "Worlds in Collision." At that first reading, my emotional experience was one of shock, but I accepted your theories quickly, for they answered many of my own questions: If man has been in existence for so many ages, where has he been and what has he been doing? These theories helped me to solve this riddle.

Also it seemed to me that mankind has a fear of the world coming to an end. My father told me that when he was a young boy he saw Halley's comet, but the thing that surprised him was the reaction of the people in the small country town in which he lived. Some people went up the highest hill in the area and prayed to be saved. Others went to bed and stayed there waiting for "the end." Many crowded into churches. My grandfather, who was a school teacher, went among the people and told them that their fears were only superstitions.

Today we find many people who are afraid of watching the skies.

They tell us that they never look up; several months ago some atmospheric tests were done which created large moon-size "lights" in the sky. Although many people watched them, others refused to look and hurried to their homes.
Your "Worlds in Collision" had the most profound effect on me of any book I have ever read. Almost daily something will occur in my life that reminds me of some part of this. Also in later years, it has been a source of strength to me, in that you "dared" to differ with the popular thinking of the times. Since my husband and I had our experience in 1961-we are the subjects of the book, "The Interrupted Journey," published by Dell - I have questioned every scientist we have met about your book. It makes my task easy now that your paperback is on the market.

Five years ago I had difficulty finding anyone who was acquainted with this, but now everyone is reading this. So I have been having fun with many of the scientific community, in the hopes that I might stimulate some of their thinking. Several have met you, or have attended your lectures. And some have asked me why I defend your thinking, when they know that you do not believe in UFOs, which actually has no bearing on your theories.

I do not know if you are acquainted with our book or not; or your opinions about this. And it is not important really. You might be interested in knowing that on our trip, we visited an area called the Devonian Sea area and picked up some fossils.

When we had our experience, they were on the front seat of the car, and we wonder if any interest was shown in them.

Another purpose of writing is to acquaint you with the works of Charles Hapgood, if he is not known to you now. He teaches at Keene Teachers College in N.H., but he is known for his research of maps. He is the author of "Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings," published by Chilton Books. His theory is that an advanced civilization existed thousands of years ago that was almost as advanced as ours today-as evidenced by their superior methods of mapmaking and that they mapped all the continents including the Antarctic when it was still free of ice; and that this advanced civilization was suddenly destroyed. This is another book I recommend to our scientists.

Recently we were filmed by British Broadcasting for a documentary. At that time I introduced the producer to your books and also Charles Hapgood's. He seemed very interested, but of course, we can not predict their decision, but it is my personal opinion that it would be a tremendous documentary.

Today I completed reading "Earth in Upheaval" and now I am seeking "Ages in Chaos," but I assume this is not in paperback yet.

We receive tons of letters from students requesting reading suggestions about UFOs, so I always include your books on the basis that one must understand the past in order to understand the future. Undoubtedly classrooms are being upset all over the country, by these two controversies.

In conclusion, I thank you for broadening my thinking and making new ideas more acceptable.

Sincerely,
Betty Hill

Travis Walton - 5th November 1975

Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest near Snowflake, Arizona - U.S.A.

Travis Walton was a member of a woodcutting crew working in a forest 15o miles north of Phoenix, Arizona and when darkness fell at 6-00p.m., they decided to stop work and drive home. They had not driven far in their truck when a UFO, 20 feet wide and 8 feet high, appeared and blocked the road. The UFO had a dome on top and was glowing - "milky-yellow" in colour. When Travis Walton got out of the truck and approached the UFO, a bright green-blue light shot out of its base, hurling Walton into the air.

His workmates, now terrified, drove off but soon decided to return only to see the UFO shoot up and discover Travis Walton had disappeared.

A massive search for Walton over the next few days did not discover his whereabouts but six days after his disappearance his sister received a phone call from him - Travis was calling from a phone booth in Heber, 12 miles from the area where he had vanished.

Walton told an amazing story of meeting three aliens in the UFO and trying to escape - eventually being introduced to other human beings who had been abducted. He finally awoke and saw the UFO shooting up into the sky and managed to walk to the telephone booth where he called his sister.

This proved to be a very controversial case - many people accused Walton of hoaxing the whole thing and polygraph tests did not resolve the situation. However, for more than twenty years, the witness testimony has never varied.

 

Travis emotionally describes his abduction experience, 29 years after the event!

The Allagash Abductions

The "Allagash Four" - Jim Weiner, Jack Weiner, Charlie Foltz and Chuck Rak.

In August 1976, Chuck Rak, an artist of some talent, invited three of his friends from the Massachusetts College of Art, Charlie Foltz, and the twins Jim and Jack Weiner, to canoe the Allagash waterway in Northern Maine. Chuck, from Vermont, had canoed the Allagash waterway during the summer of 1975, and Found it so enjoyable that he wanted to do it again. Allagash Wilderness Waterway is located between the White Mountains of New Hampshire (where Betty and Barney Hill were abducted in September 1961) and Loring AFB in Maine. Loring AFB was plagued by strange lights over the weapons storage area in October 1975.

 On Saturday, August 21, Chuck and his pals loaded up his Chevy Vega and drove up Route 95 from Boston to Baxter State Park in Maine. After a night's camping, they climbed Mount Katahdin and the next day, Monday, they drove to the town of Shin Pond where they left their car in order to be flown to their Telos Lake starting point by a Scotty's Flying Service pontoon plane. Because roads in this area consisted mainly of private logging roads with such limited access, pontoon planes were the best way in.

On Tuesday morning, they continued to Chamberlain Lake camping at the Mud Brook campground on that night. On Tuesday evening, they and a number of other campers saw a peculiar light in the sky that appeared suddenly and then winked out. The following day, Wednesday, the four continued up Chamberlain Lake and by Thursday they had travailed the locks into Eagle Lake and arrived at the Smith Brook Campsite. That night, they decided to try some night fishing but before leaving they built a large bonfire to help indicate where they were camped. When they were about a quarter-mile from shore, they suddenly observed "a large, bright, pulsing spherical light" over the treetops and Charlie flashed three short, three long, and three short flashes at the object. The object responded and started moving towards them, making no sound. At this they panicked and paddled to the shore where they watched as the object then hovered for a few moments and then disappeared. However, on reaching their campsite the bonfire, which should have blazed for 2 to 3 hours, was burned down to coals - although they had only been gone for what seemed to be about a quarter of an hour.

The next day, they reported their experience to a forest ranger, who apparently didn't believe them. Nothing more unusual happened and the experience became just an unexplained memory.

In 1978 Jim Weiner began to have strange dreams and symptoms some of which could be explained by an injury that caused temporal lobe epilepsy but in 1986, Jack Weiner began to have nightmares that related back to the Allagash trip. Jack dreamt that he and the other three were being examined by some sort of strange insect-like beings. Jim went to Raymond Fowler of MUFON and in 1989, all four of the friends were subjected to a series of hypnotic regression sessions with a qualified hypnotherapist named Anthony Constantino.

Their stories were all consistent - all four of the men told of being taken on board an alien craft, examined, and then placed back into their canoe on Eagle Lake

Bill Herrmann – 1978, Charleston, U.S.A.

The experiences of Bill Herrmann include UFO sightings, intimidation by MIBs and suspected abduction (Bill’s story is told in some detail on this site – see “Men in Black”). Travis Walton was a member of a woodcutting crew working in a forest 15o miles north of Phoenix, Arizona and when darkness fell at 6-00p.m., they decided to stop work and drive home. They had not driven far in their truck when a UFO, 20 feet wide and 8 feet high, appeared and blocked the road. The UFO had a dome on top and was glowing - "milky-yellow" in colour. When Travis Walton got out of the truck and approached the UFO, a bright green-blue light shot out of its base, hurling Walton into the air.

On the evening of March 17th 1978, Bill went outside his home in Charleston to get a better look at a “bright light” which was hovering nearby. Some hours later he found himself in a field, 15 miles from his home, with no proper recollection of how he got there and what had happened in the intervening time. Deputy Sheriff Pike Limehouse arrived on the scene to find Bill Herrmann in a confused, excited and disturbed state. Bill suspected that he had been abducted.

Bill Herrmann  [ left ] underwent Hypnotic Regression in order to discover what happened during a period of "lost time".
 

Bill had numerous sightings of and experiences with UFOs and eventually underwent hypnotic regression in the hope that more details of his abduction experiences would be revealed.
Whilst hypnotised, Bill did describe his experiences of the night of March 17th and although the abduction was at times a terrifying episode, he was able to relate certain information that he had been told by the occupants of the craft. This included an explanation for the curious triangular flight path which the UFO had adopted prior to his abduction – the reason for this, he was told, was to avoid the effects of ground-based Radar. Also, the occupants of the UFO informed Bill that they were from the star system Zeta Reticuli – a star system mentioned by other abductees Betty and Barny Hill and Bob Lazar in his account of his work period at Area 51.

Bill Herrmann's drawing [ above] of the flight pattern of the UFO he sighted.

Police Constable Alan Godfrey

 29th November 1980. Todmorden, Yorkshire - U.K

P.C. Godfrey was driving a police car in the early hours of the morning when he became aware of what he thought was a road accident, namely a bus that had slid across the road sideways. When he got to about 20 yards of it he realized that what he had suspected to be a crashed vehicle was, in fact, a UFO. Godfrey later remarked: "It was about 20 feet wide and 14 feet high and diamond shaped. It had a bank of windows and the bottom half was rotating. The police blue beacon was bouncing back off it, as were the headlights. It was hovering off the ground - it was very frightening, very frightening". Godfrey noticed that nearby trees and bushes were shaking and his attempts to contact H.Q. by radio failed. Godfrey decided to sketch the object but suddenly he found himself 100 yards down the road - the UFO had vanished.

Immediately Godfrey drove back to the town and met a fellow police officer, to whom he related his experience. They drove back to the location of the UFO sighting and discovered that the area of road which had been covered by the UFO was mainly dry - elsewhere the road was extremely wet due to rainfall. P.C. Godfrey was staggered to find that it was 5-30a.m. - he believed it to be much earlier - apparently he had experienced some form of lost time or time lapse.
During several hypnotic regression sessions, P.C. Godfrey revealed a story of being abducted and taken on board the UFO - his solicitor, Harry Harris, recorded the sessions on video and there is no doubt that P.C. Godfrey in is mortal fear when regressed.

Godfrey, himself, remained uncertain about his experiences during the period of lost time but strongly maintains that he was made to sign "various documents", made to visit "certain places" and dissociate himself from anyone interested in UFOS. The policeman later reluctantly admitted he was the victim of a cover-up.

 Bud Hopkins talks briefly about "Screen Memory".