| There are many great alien abduction cases which I | | | | hard day's work and encountered a UFO. Travis was |
| have heard at my local UFO conference down the | | | | curious and got out to have a look. The other crew |
| years but two stand out above the others. | | | | members screamed at him to head back to the truck |
| The abduction experience of Betty and Barney Hill only | | | | but could only watch in horror when a greenish light |
| came to light after the couple involved decided to | | | | shot out from the underside of the UFO craft, hitting |
| have therapy for sleep problems shortly after their | | | | Travis and knocking him backwards to the ground. |
| encounter. The storm of media interest which followed | | | | Petrified, they fled area only to return a while later to |
| led to a book and a film by the title of "The Interrupted | | | | find that Travis was not there. Travis recounted this |
| Journey" and an appearance at a UFO conference. | | | | part of the experience at a UFO conference in the |
| During their hypnotic regression sessions the therapist, | | | | 1990s and the tension in the air was amazing. |
| who was totally unprepared for what the Hills had to | | | | The local police force were very unhappy with the |
| say, tried to put a conventional spin to their story but | | | | logging crew's story of the events surrounding Travis's |
| the Hills held firm. The hypnotist was amazed as the | | | | disappearance and suspected a murder motive. |
| couple recalled encountering the UFO and then being | | | | However, the crew all undertook lie detector tests and |
| led into a spacecraft by alien beings. Although the | | | | passed. The police's murder theory was squashed |
| couple told the same story about their abduction | | | | when Travis suddenly called home from a telephone |
| experience, the emotional impact on each was | | | | box at a petrol station and asked his family to come |
| markedly different. | | | | and pick him up. He kept mentioning aliens with large |
| It was Betty Hill who was most intrigued by her | | | | eyes on the way to his parent's house. Travis thought |
| encounter and remembered asking her alien hosts | | | | that it was the following morning and was shocked to |
| which star system they had come from. They | | | | find out that he had been away for five days. He had |
| showed her and she drew a map of their star system | | | | lost weight and had a short beard. His hypnotic |
| under hypnosis. This was easily dismissed at the time | | | | regression session recalled his story aboard a |
| as being pure imagination. Some time later an | | | | spaceship that included both the archetypal small gray |
| astronomer claimed at a UFO conference to have | | | | beings who were about five foot tall, and humanoids |
| found a match for the star system which Betty had | | | | who declined to communicate with him but signed for |
| drawn. However, this has been dismissed as dubious | | | | him to go with them. An oxygen mask was placed |
| because the match is not exact and the map needs | | | | over his face, and Travis said he passed out. When he |
| to be manipulated to look exactly like the star system | | | | awoke, the craft was in the air over the road near the |
| in question. Barney Hill had a much more unpleasant | | | | petrol station, and when it headed off, he made his call |
| encounter than his wife. He was terrified of the alien | | | | from the phone booth. |
| beings and of their invasive "medical" tests. Throughout | | | | One of the most amazing features of Travis Walton's |
| his hypnotic description, he wanted only to get away | | | | case and one which was noticeable at a recent UFO |
| from these strange beings. | | | | conference, is the personality changes of both Travis |
| Time has not weathered the importance of the Betty | | | | and his co-witness and relative, Mike Rogers. Travis |
| and Barney Hill encounter. It remains as probably the | | | | now speaks in a quiet voice. He doesn't seemed |
| most important and fascinating UFO conference alien | | | | bothered if skeptics doubt what happened to him. His |
| abduction case of all time. Travis Walton's encounter | | | | once quiet brother-in-law, Mike Rogers, is now the |
| and alien abduction experience is also often discussed | | | | person upset by those who rubbish Travis's claims. |
| at a UFO conference and is just as fascinating as the | | | | Neither of them have ever amended their recollections |
| Hill's case. | | | | of that famous evening and encounter with a UFO on |
| The incident occurred in November 1975 when Travis | | | | that forest road. |
| and his work colleagues were heading home after a | | | | |