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to their fate or go missing for days unable to remember what has happened to them or Worse still meet their death in bizarre circumstances with no plausible explanation while in this video we'll look at 10 cases but that is exactly what happened when the individuals involved ventured into national parks and never returned mirroring what David plaiders believes these cases and hundreds like them are unusual and mysterious and with the lack of any other explanation is there something about national parks and other forested areas around the world that pose an unknown but Sinister danger to us all now before we begin if you'd like us to go in depth on any one of these individuals then head over to patreon at the end of the video to take part in our poll the case with the highest number of votes will be turned into an in-depth podcast episode over on the Hit the Lights podcast as always if you haven't already done so hit those lights sit back and enjoy foreign [Music] on July 25th 1981 14 year old Stacey Harris from Saratoga went on a horse riding trip with her father George and seven others in the sunrise Meadows area of Yosemite National Park in California after riding for a few hours the group stopped at Sunrise High Sierra Camp where they intended to stay the night after freshening up Stacy told her dad she was going for a walk to stretch her legs and take pictures of the views she asked him if he wanted to come but he told her he'd pass although he did advise her to change her flip-flops to more suitable walking Footwear Stacey was seen walking towards a boulder where an older member of the group Gerald Stewart was sitting she told Gerald she was going to take a walk to a nearby lake Gerald offered to walk with her but after a short time he felt tired and sat down to rest while Stacey carried on alone this was the last time she was ever seen when Stacey didn't return it was Gerald who raised the alarm and a search party was sent out however despite a vast search and rescue operation the only thing ever found was the lens cap from Stacy's camera there were no indications of an animal attack or a scuffle of any kind and no sign has ever been found of Stacy's camera or her clothing she simply vanished off the face of the Earth [Music] the missing days of Danny flippidis [Music] on February 2nd 2018 firefighter Danny flippidis who was on a ski trip with friends at the Whiteface Mountain Ski Resort briefly parted from the group to retrieve his cell phone from his car but he never returned his disappearance sparked a massive search six days later Danny turned up in Sacramento still dressed in his ski gear with no ID except a single credit card he had no idea how he ended up there but believed he may have flagged down a truck and the next thing he remembered was the truck driver telling him he was in Utah nearly 2 000 miles away from Whiteface Mountain Dany eventually got a phone but took a day to remember his wife's phone number to call for help once Danny returned home safely questions and speculations swirled around his cross-country Journey the supposed truck driver who transported into Sacramento seemed to be the only one who could solve the mystery however authorities could not identify the driver and despite publicity he has never come forward it's believed Dany suffered a head injury at some point resulting in a concussion and memory loss however there are those that believe that Daniel was abducted by aliens and returned after they had carried out experiments all that some other Sinister force was to blame the truth is we may never know it is unlikely Dany will ever remember what happened and with no sign of the truck driver The Disappearance and what happened during those last six days is a complete mystery Timothy Barnes on July 5th 1988 24 year old Timothy Barnes from Cucamonga California intended to hike from Murphy Creek tail head to poly Dome lakes in Yosemite National Park he left Tania lakes near Highway 120 at approximately 9 am I was expected to return by 4 30 pm when he didn't show up the following morning one of his friends reported him to Park Service Rangers as missing an extensive search of the surrounding area failed to yield any evidence of Timothy's whereabouts and he has never been seen or heard from since on July 19 1990 two years after his disappearance Timothy was declared legally dead but the people just varnish Without a Trace or do they want to [Music] the orcans two-year-old djorkun's Junior from Idaho Falls disappeared on July 10 2015 while visiting Timber Creek Campground in Idaho with his parents Jessica Mitchell and vernal de orkins along with other friends and family members dior's parents went fishing with a friend and thought their son was being watched by his great-grandfather Robert Walton he in turn claimed he thought his parents were watching the toddler when they realized Dior was missing a search was launched but no trace of the boy was found after the police interviewed Vernal and Jessica and gathered evidence they became suspects there were discrepancies in their accounts and they both failed multiple polygraph tests however they were never arrested or charged from the beginning the parents claimed that they did not know what happened to their son and that as they walked towards the creek to fish the boy followed them but then decided to return to be with his great grandfather that was the last anybody saw of him multiple massive searches have been conducted through the Mountain Meadows dense Pine forests and waterways in the weeks and months since Dion disappeared but no solid evidence of his whereabouts has ever been found but a few things do not add up the boy was said to be wearing cowboy boots they size too big for his feet which had actually kept slipping off and many speculated that if he was attacked by an animal or snatched the boots would have fallen off but no trace of the boots has ever turned up both the parents publicly admitted to the media that either of them was capable of harming their son since dior's disappearance they have since split up and moved on with their lives but there is a lot more to this story with far more questions and answers if you'd like us to go more in depth on this topic then head on over to the patreon poll and select The Disappearance of djokuns [Music] James Pruitt on February 28 2019 70 year old James Pruitt parked his car at the glacier Gorge parking lot at Rocky Mountain National Park and set out for a day of hiking on March 3rd Park Rangers contacted James's family in Tennessee as his car was parked in the lot with no overnight permit his family confirmed he was in the area they hadn't heard from him since February 28th they were unaware of his destination for that day but said James had no intention of staying overnight in the park the National Park Service initiated extensive search efforts in the area that were hindered by heavy snowfall but could not locate James search efforts continued throughout the year the overall search area encompassed approximately 15 square miles and included the glacier Court drainage the lockvale drainage and the glacier Creek drainage but nothing was ever turned up no clues no remains nothing James Pruitt is still a missing person and to date investigations continue but similar to most of these cases there is no explanation no closure and no indication as to where James is now foreign 39 year old Dr James mcgrogan was visiting Vale in March 2014 a small town at the base of Vale Mountain and the center of the vast ski resort set within the White River National Forest in Colorado at around 8 30 am on the morning of March 14th Jim as he was known and three companions left on the nine mile hike to the eisemann hut at the time there was a lot of snow in the area there was several feet deep in some parts however Jim and his friends were experienced hikers well prepared for the elements at about 10 AM with about five miles to go the group stopped to rest but Jim was Keen to hike on ahead of the party and they expected to catch up with him along the way but he was never seen alive again [Music] by 5 30 PM the others had notified authorities that Jim was missing and a rescue operation was launched a five-day search failed to find any signs of him Jim's cell phone pinged once the day he went missing but after that it went dead 20 days later a group of Back Country skiers found a body about four and a half miles from the booth Falls area it was identified as Jim he was found still wearing his helmet but had no coat or gloves on and strangely no boots he was still in possession of his cell phone in an area where there would have been signal and his snowboard was found nearby [Music] his boots have never been located and the coroner confirmed that James died of multiple injuries including head trauma and a broken femur and his death was ruled an accident but as with all these cases there are a lot of unanswered questions as to the circumstances that led James so far of course why didn't he use his cell phone to call for help or his GPS tracker both of which we can assume were fully functional at the time of his disappearance why did he leave on his own and where are his boots it's been suggested he succumbed to hypothermia and began to paradoxically undress it's a possibility but why he didn't call for help is a mystery and has caused many to believe another force was to blame foreign [Music] on September 22nd 2012 53 year old Linda artiga was hiking with her brother Eddie in the forests of the Arkansas Ozarks near the town of Saint Joe Eddie returned alone after becoming separated from his sister and when she didn't make it out of the woods a large-scale search was launched miraculously Linda was found five days later in a distressed state however when Linda was questioned about how she ended up alone in the woods she couldn't remember a thing in her mind her brother was hurt and she had tried to find help for him as she walked through the woods she spotted other hikers and tried to communicate with them but they ignored her as if she wasn't there she also said she could see other shadowy figures hiding from her in the woods saying they were weird people very weird people one of the rescue workers who found Linda believed she wasn't of sound mind when he found her and had since been speculated that whilst trying to survive alone for five days Linda may have ingested some hallucinogenic berries although there was no real evidence of this and to this day it remains unclear what really happened to Linda and who the strange people she referred to actually were [Music] morgenheimer 22 year old Morgan Heimer was working as a guide for the rafting company tall West the group were on day six of an eight-day trip on the Colorado River when Heimer went missing he was last seen on Tuesday June 2nd 2015 at approximately 4 pm around River mile 213 near pumpkin Springs in the Grand Canyon National Park before his disappearance Morgan had told the lead guide he was taking some time off that afternoon but when he didn't return for dinner he was reported missing at first searches weren't overly concerned as Morgan had the skills and ability to survive even if he had gotten lost and they thought there was a high likelihood he would be found alive and well but after six days of extensive searches of both the rivers and land there was no sign of Morgan and no evidence of him has ever been found this is yet another baffling Vanishing in the national park with no plausible explanation other than possibly something sinister was responsible [Music] Derek looking 24 year old Derek luking worked as an orderly at a Pennsylvania Behavioral Health Center in Tennessee but when he didn't turn up for work on March 15 2015 alarm Bells rang attempts to contact him via his cell phone failed and eventually it was his roommate Ryan who confirmed he was missing Ryan contacted Derek's family but they had no idea where he was and rushed from their home in Virginia to Tennessee to help look for him after looking through Derek's computer they found a search for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and a reservation for a hotel the family went out looking in the area and by luck found Derek's car a white Ford Escape in the parking lot of Newfound Gap on the Tennessee North Carolina line [Music] inside the car were several items of newly purchased survival gear worth around one thousand dollars there were also Pages for a military survival manual a wallet and some cash Derek had obviously been preparing for a trip Into the Wilderness he was known to be a big fan of Bear Grylls and this led people to believe he may have been trying to emanate his Hero by going off into the Wilderness without his survival gear however they also found a disturbing note that read don't try to follow me in another Twist on March 17th surveillance video showed Derek leaving the Microtel in and Suites in Cherokee near the National Park on the bed of his hotel room was a Bible and on the floor was a liquor bottle the video footage will be the last ever sighting of Derek an extensive search was launched and Rangers interviewed other hikers who were in The Park at the time but strangely no one could remember seeing Derek Derek's Father Tim said he had noticed a change in his son prior to his disappearance he had started drinking a bit and smoking however friends didn't believe he was depressed or had any Suicidal Tendencies although he was unhappy with his job since 2012 no sign of Derek has ever been found and he is still listed as missing the Great Smoky Mountain Park Service are still searching for Derek and his family continued to raise awareness in the hope that one day there will be an explanation for his Vanishing the question is did he walk away from life was he injured or is there some other outcome foreign case of Stephen kubaki in 2018 23 year old Stephen kubaki was a student at Hope College a small private Christian University near the southeastern shore of Lake Michigan in February of that Year Stephen went on a solo cross-country skiing trip for a day or two this was common for Stephen as he was an experienced cross-country skier however this time he didn't return when his search was launched a 200-yard trail of footprints in the snow were discovered that led past the edge of a lake before ending abruptly leading investigators to conclude that Stephen drowned somewhere under a thick layer of unbroken ice Steven skis and backpack were also found abandoned an extensive air and land search was undertaken but no sign of Stephen was found over a year after The Disappearance on May 5th 1979 Stephen kubaki woke up on a grassy knoll in Pittsfield Massachusetts 700 miles from where he had vanished he had no memory of the previous 14 and a half months and only realized how much time had passed once he bought a newspaper and saw the date he managed to make his way to an aunt's house in Great Barrington and from there he was reunited with his shocked family Stephen later told how he remembered right up until the time he disappeared when he got lost and felt cold after that he had no clue what happened to him although the backpack he had with him indicated he had traveled widely but he didn't recognize any of his clothing or the glasses he was wearing today kubaki works as a psychologist and is Alive and Well in the Pacific Northwest he rarely talks about his missing 14 months but theorists have suggested that Stephen's disappearance was close to the Southeastern boundary of the so-called Lake Michigan Triangle an area where numerous unexplained air disasters shipwrecks and vanishings have occurred where some believe aliens or some other Supernatural forces are responsible what do you think so that's it for this video some of these cases are incredibly interesting and again head on over to patreon to take part in 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when we think of UFOs aliens and the possibility of abduction we tend to gravitate towards Hollywood movies perotic and cartoonish sketches or listen skeptically to the stories from those who claim to have had a direct encounter with an extraterrestrial it would be fair to say that for the majority such claims are easily squashed or redirected towards a claimant mental instability alcohol or drug dependency or perhaps the characteristics of an attention-seeking obsessive regardless of a person's mental state the concept of alien abduction is something that has never been taken seriously despite ongoing investigations sightings and government disclosures into UFO sightings which have sparked Global Intrigue over the last two years and yet there are a handful of stories sightings and investigative reports which have remained at the Forefront of the UFO and conspiracy communities for decades and show no signs of going anywhere anytime soon the Roswell crash of 1947 the Aurora Texas UFO incident of 1897. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis apparent dabbling into the occult as well as other landmark cases have kept the conversation on such Mysteries very much alive one of these cases centers on a happily married couple whose mysterious encounter little would they know at the time would thrust them into the spotlight and would forever attribute their faces to what has become known as The Fourth Kind who were Barney and Betty Hill what happened to them and what does their story tell us about alien abduction society as a whole and the importance of listening towards someone anyone has to say regardless of how crazy they may seem in this documentary we'll travel back in time to the late 1950s when the American dream was reborn and flourishing to a time when unfortunately for Barney and Betty Hill the American Nightmare was about to begin before we begin our entail of what happened to this now famous couple it's worth taking a few moments to understand who they were before the night in question occurred Barney and Betty Hill were an American couple who were no strangers to gossip suspicion and ridicule having been one of the few mixed-raced married couples in their hometown of Portsmouth New Hampshire Barney a black man born in 1922 worked as an employee at the United States Postal Service whilst Betty who was white and three years older than her husband worked as a social worker the couple were extremely fond of their dog dalzi who is often seen in pictures and portraits of the couple and was with them at the time of their encounter having endured numerous comments Slayers and insults for being in a mixed race relationship the hills did not deter from their obligations to the church and their community being regular attendees of the local Unitarian congregation both husband and wife are also proud members of the National Association for the advancement of colored people which was and still is a civil rights organization formed in 1909 Barney was also on the board for his local Commission on civil rights though the couple remain childless until their deaths their legacy would remain very much alive after both claimed to have been abducted by alien beings somewhere in the outskirts of New Hampshire on September 19 1961 the hills names and faces would become synonymous with that of extraterrestrials UFOs and the discussions ran in Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind abduction after countless interviews hypnosis sessions and public disclosures the occurrence would become known as the hill induction and The Zeta reticuli incident due to a star map which was recognized and described in detail by Betty Hill in relation to the Zeta reticuli star system later after many had made up their minds on the story their Fame would remain in the public domain with an adaptation of their encounter being presented as a best-selling 1966 book called The interrupted journey and a subsequent 1970 film the UFO incident with the rise of the internet UFO conspiracy communities and Collective evidence to support the theory that we are not alone in the universe the story of bani and Betty Hill remains one of the most interesting accounts of alien abduction in the last 100 years it is known that the majority of Betty Hill's notes recordings and other items are logged within the vaults of the University of New Hampshire in July 2011 the New Hampshire division of historical resources marked the site of the alleged Craft's first approach with a historical marker as a dedication to the couple and their story yeah the encounter so where do we start the tale of Barney and Betty Hill as recounted in the A4 mentioned 1966 book by John G Fuller started off as a happy scene back in 1961. the reason for the couple being on the road in the first place was that they needed a well-earned rest from their busy lives on a road trip sounded like a great idea the couple decided to visit Montreal Canada in what they considered to be their delayed honeymoon having been married more than 16 months and never setting aside time to celebrate their wedding previously Barney had been working countless night shifts at his job in the post office and is said to have driven 60 miles to and from his house in Portsmouth to tend to his responsibilities likewise Bethy was working hard in her job and was already finding it difficult to spend quality time with her new husband so it was decided after dropping everything on a whim scooping up the dog and grabbing the seventy dollars that they had on the counter Barney and Betty took off on their Adventure enjoying a wonderful three-day trip to Canada visiting the lights of Niagara Falls and more importantly taking the time to appreciate how special their relationship was to one another it was reported that a hurricane was due to cut directly to the couple's route home so it was decided they should head back a little earlier than planned having stopped for a quick coffee at a diner in Vermont the hills took to the road again at 10 pm on the 19th of September with the intention of reaching their house around 2 am in the morning their plan would be short-lived however as a mere 30 minutes into their Journey something happened it has been frequently stated and documented at the supposed encounter began at approximately 10 30 PM just as the hills were easing into their journey home and approaching a large town of Lancaster New Hampshire from the south end it was Betty Who spotted it first claiming to have seen a luminous beacon in the skies above a light that seemed to be moving from the vicinity of the Moon towards the planet Jupiter initially thinking nothing of it they proceeded on their Journey however Betty's eyes continued to glance up at the object as it seemingly grew brighter and larger in the night sky as they approached it from the south directing his gaze from the road to the Stars Barney decided to have a look and inspect what it was that was worrying his wife despite having an interest and knowledge of Aviation mechanics and having served in the second world war Barney came to the passive conclusion but the entity was nothing more than a wayward satellite from there things quite literally took a bizarre turn as Barney round that a mountainous Road the Light began to follow the cars bends and turns remaining high enough not to pose a threat but low enough to hold their attention sphere would navigate with Precision ensuring that it avoided any trees and mountain tops while steadily zoning in on the couple's 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air still undeterred by the mysterious orb Betty and Barney decided to get a better look at it by pulling over to the side of the road somewhere near Twin Mountain allowing dalzi to have a short walk and stretch her legs luckily Betty had packed a pair of binoculars for their sightseeing trip in Canada so decided to put them to good use what she described as an odd-shaped craft seemingly hung in the sky still emitting its radiant light and becoming ever clearer through the magnifying lens of the binoculars according to the startled social worker the orm was in fact a solid object that was spinning in mid-air in an unrecognizable Manner and displaying multi-colored flashes of light that would have been difficult to notice without the assistance of the binoculars startled by this spectacle Betty instructed her husband to take a look still assuming that the crowd was a satellite or militarized aircraft Barney did as used hold and quickly regretted his decision as the entity was now making its way directly towards them at a steady pace it was now the turn of the recently married couple to navigate with intelligence and precision making their way through Franconia Notch a mountain pass traversed by a unique Parkway which extends from The Flume Gorge at the South to Echo Lake in the North the hills kept track of the object's movements it was at this point that Barney Holsted his handgun from the glove compartment and Betty took the time to estimate the size of the UFO as it passed over Cannon Mountain as being approximately 40 feet long by now the craft was extremely visible and its looming presence was beginning to intimidate all three of them taking his pistol in his hand bani kept a fixed Gaze on the craft as he attempted to confront him by stopping the car again and peering through the binoculars steadying himself in the event of a standoff it was at this point the Barney claimed to have seen between 8 and 11 humanoid shapes within the aircraft's capsule most of them were looking out of its windows and down towards the terrified onlooker shockingly the figures moved around shuffling themselves into a collective formation before one of the aliens approached the front of the ship and according to Barney decided to communicate with him telepathically for what seemed like an eternity for the postal worker the creature stared at him intensely before sending a message to his subconscious telling him to stay where you are and keep looking Instinct was also telling him to raise his gun Take Aim and fire yet when bani tried to do what his body was yearning to do he found that he couldn't he was frozen by fear and something else that he could not explain something which was forced upon him by the humanoid creature unable to protect himself his wife and his dog Barney was completely at the mercy of this strange Starship and its inhabitants the creatures themselves were described as wearing glossy black uniforms and black caps craft then descended towards the ground and winged latches opened up from the science and front producing a long structural slide from the bottom of the ship's body luckily and for some strange reason the spout was briefly broken and so using all the energy in his body Barney was able to break away from the hypnotic trance of the visitors and sprinted back to the car with Betty and dousey sat in Terror before they could take off and drive away from the object and its colonists the last thing they could remember was a series of loud measured beeping noises and vibrations surrounding the trunk of their vehicle and feeling an instant lethargic sensation consuming them which quickly rendered them unconscious exactly two hours later Barney and Betty Hill regained consciousness to their surprise in horror they found themselves approximately 35 miles from where they remembered passing out not wanting to linger any longer and with the UFOs seemingly out of sight they started at the car and drove as fast as they could back to their home in Portsmouth only when they arrived did they notice that they were covered in dirt and both their watches had stopped working although the encounter itself was now over little did they know just how important and significant their terrifying tale would become in the months and years that follow arriving home upon arrival back at their home in Portsmouth Barney and Betty Hill would spend the rest of the day attempting to put the pieces together in determining what had just occurred why did they feel a strong urge to keep their luggage packed and near the back door of their home why did Barney constantly check his genital area why did they continuously wash themselves obsessively it could have been due to fear of radiation or the possibility of being violated in all sorts of heinous ways Betty noticed her horror but her dress had been torn the stitching and zippers burst open uncovered in a mysterious pink powder that ever since has been unable to decipher even after various lab tests were conducted unable to understand what had happened and what was happening to them the couple attempted to draw images of what they saw at fateful night as well as connecting the dots in chronological order as best they could but to no avail they describe their car as having obscure circular markings carved onto the Bonnet and was surprised to find the way Compass was laid next to them the needle would spin erratically it was then that the dream started dreams or nightmares approximately 10 days after the encounter with the spacecraft and its inhabitants Betty Hill began to suffer from extreme lucid dreams over the course of five nights dreams that would initially be dismissed as Mind Tricks but would eventually overwhelm Betty's paranoid mindset try not to worry a husband she began to document the dreams in a diary as they were so vivid and clear that she couldn't ignore them anymore in one of the dreams she and Bonnie came across a dead end Road whilst driving in their car almost immediately a group of men appear from nowhere and surround the car before it jumps ahead to another Moment In Time the next scene is of Betty being led into a wooded area by two relatively small men wearing blue colored uniforms whose skin was a mixture of blue and gray and she is followed by her husband who is in some sort of uncommunicative hypnotic state this specific dream ends with the couple being led back to their car and left motionless as they watched the men enter a similar shaped craft that they saw the previous week before it takes off into the sky above reminiscent and eerily similar to the events that took place on their journey home the loss of time between encountering the gray creatures and their craft to regain Consciousness in the car terrified Betty to her core the initial report unable to shift the sense of dread paranoia and fear in the months following their strange encounter with the UFO Betty still referencing her dreams and becoming obsessed with finding the truth came across the national investigations committee on aerial phenomena at the local library after discussing her concerns with Barney it was agreed that they report the sighting to the group and to the U.S Air Force for fear of radiation or infection and in the hope that they may be able to provide answers on October 22nd 1961 Barney would go on record to the committee to state that what they saw that night was out of this world and the creatures Were Somehow not human case was assigned to Walter and Webb a boston-based astronomer an nicap member who decided to conduct an extensive interview with the couple that lasted over six hours whereby any and all information was discussed and recorded as the interview progressed it became obvious that Barney was frustrated confused and afraid that he was losing his mind due to the loss of time vagueness of memory and the possibility that his subconscience was hiding memories from him luckily for the hills Mr Webb would also go on records to state that in his opinion they were telling the truth and the incident probably occurred exactly as reported except for some minor uncertainties and technicalities that must be tolerated in any such observations where human judgment is involved EG exact time and length of visibility apparent sizes of object and occupants distance and height of objects Etc finally getting closer to the truth hypnosis after Walter Webb's report was concluded filed and peer-reviewed it was recommended to the hills that perhaps a few sessions of hypnotic therapy would assist them in coming to terms with what had happened and possibly provide additional evidence and Clarity of the events one of the burning questions for both Benjamin Simon the psychiatrist and the hills was the concept of missing time and why the newly married couple could not account for the hours and distance that was accumulated during their apparent blackout the only thing they could recall was the image of a blazing orb that was sitting stationary on the ground somewhere on Route 35 this along with Barney's concerns for his wife's dreams and mental state was enough information to begin the sessions they began with Barney who after weeks of therapy sessions was able to recall being led into the alien capsule not long after passing out from the pressure and disorientation fouled by the vibrations bani was able to describe a small examination room with bright lights odd-shaped walls and a very small table to which he was fastened stripped and experimented on by the humanoid beings through hypnosis he described to Simon how he and his wife had hair nail and skin samples extracted from them as well as having wires connected to various parts of their bodies most worryingly was when one of the creatures supposedly inserted a large needle into his wife's belly to apparently test for pregnancy causing Betty to Rife and scream in pain interestingly Barney then recalls being in the middle of a forest and coming across a group of men who approached his car and led him blindly through the wooden lands with his wife in front of him he stated I was told to close my eyes because I saw two eyes coming close to mine and I felt that the eyes had pushed into my eyes Betty concurred but the aliens were using some sort of telepathy to communicate with them as they spoke in a language that they didn't understand but were able to do so as instructed by the so-called leader of the Extraterrestrial group although they were notable but minor differences in Betty's Recollections during her sessions the general account of what happened to the couple was quite clearly coherent after multiple neurological tests interviews and hypnotic sessions the hills record of what occurred that night was collected and reviewed extensively Benjamin Simon would confirm his findings publishing a full report on his conclusions in psychiatric opinion a medical journal which focused on various mental illnesses and Mysteries of the Mind he attributed the case of Barney and Betty Hill to that of psychological aberration which is considered to be a deviation from normal mental activity resulting in derangement and or psychopathy although he did not believe that they were lying Simon was able to diagnose them through a variety of symptoms and reasons this unfortunate decision was backed by members of Project Blue Book the top secret study of unidentified flying objects by the United States Air Force which ran from March 1952 to December 17 1969 who dismissed the story and their mental state as being down to natural causes however the national investigations committee on aerial phenomena would come to their defense supporting the couple's assertions but they may in fact have been abducted by deeming their account as credible x marks the spot one of the most significant not to mention bizarre descriptions came from Betty whilst under hypnosis in which she drew a star map that initially was considered an insignificant doodled sketch but would later be the talking point of a 1966 book named the interrupted Journey two lost hours aboard a flying saucer after hearing of the couple's testimony and becoming fascinated with their story John G Fuller a new england-based American Author gained approval from both the hills and Benjamin Simon to write and publish their strange Adventure in print already an established columnist and author of multiple articles and books on the supernatural Fuller took the project seriously and gathered as much information no matter how irrelevant to form the basis of his book including the illustrations the star map drawn by Betty after his publication in 1966 the interrupted Journey became a success and helped reignite the debate to surrounding UFO phenomena and that of the various kinds of Close Encounters however for Marjorie fish an elementary school teacher and amateur astronomer it was the picture of the star map that led to her personal fascination with the couple's story having read Fuller's book in 1968 fish took it upon herself to try and analyze and decode the drawing in relation to the cosmological blueprint of space to try and understand with a craft and the alien creatures had originated she was able to construct a 3D model of sun-like stars using various materials to measure the distances in comparison to the same Stars which were documented in the 1969 gleesy star catalog fish concluded that the drawing was extremely similar to that to The Zeta reticuli star system as the illustration supposedly shows the sky as seen for a planet orbiting the Zeta reticuli this large Southern system within reticulum a small faint constellation in the southern sky can be seen with the naked eye as a double star in very dark skies and is located approximately 39.3 light years away from Earth after an in-depth analysis and conclusive report were issued to Walter Webb both parties agreed that the drawing was indeed that of The Zeta reticuli star system something Betty Hill knew nothing of though many subsequent reports investigations and astronomers would reject the hypothesis posed by fish it certainly got people talking how could someone with a basic knowledge of space stars and planets be able to draw under hypnotic therapy an advanced star system 39 light years from Earth in 1989 the hippocar satellite at the European space agency was launched deemed to be the first of its kind this satellite's obligation was to document and analyze the measurements of the positions of celestial objects in the sky three combination of radial velocity measurements from spectroscopy those involved in the project were able to calculate the relative information needed to determine the motion of stars the mission ended in 1993 however whilst in space astronomers decided to put fish's Theory to the test and use their technology to take measurements of the zatar ratakuli unfortunately for the teacher the hippocus's findings showed that some of the stars on her blueprint were much further away than previously thought resulting in fish publicly renouncing her theories and assumptions Skeptics and so with this public rejection we now look at a few Skeptics who weighed in on the story hypotheses and the married couple themselves Robert Shafer of the skeptical Inquirer took to printing his review of the account after attending the National UFO conference in 1980 the event which took place in New York was attended by Betty Hill herself who spoke of the incident and presented the audience with supposed photographs that she had taken of UFOs according to Betty those mostly blurred images were evidence but the extraterrestrials were still haunting her watching her every move and continuously experimenting on her and her environment for Robert and the audience at large this was the final straw as he states that after her talk had exceeded about twice its allotted time Betty was literally jeered off the stage by what had been at first a sympathetic audience this incident witnessed by many of ufology's leaders and top activists removed any lingering doubts about Betty's credibility she had none the columnist noted that in the Years following her husband's death Betty would go on UFO vigils on a regular basis throughout the week it was apparent that she was becoming frantically obsessed with the concept of UFOs aliens and possibly attempting to relive or at least make sense of what happened that fateful night in 1961 one of these patrols was attended by John Oswald a local resident who had a keen interest in the UFO phenomenon however when he was quizzed on the event and Betty Hill's state of mind he responded Mrs Hill was unable to distinguish between a landed UFO and a street light another critic of the Hill's version of events came from another local resident named Jim McDonald who felt obliged to propose an alternative Theory based on his knowledge of the landing and adjoining roads after fully analyzing the account paying particular attention to the supposed route of the couple took on their way home from Canada McDonald was able to deduce the spacecraft as being nothing more than an aircraft warning Beacon that sits atop Cannon Mountain having traveled the specific route many times himself McDonald states that the warning Beacon intermittently appears and reappears throughout the high mountainous Skyline at exactly the same time the couple claimed to have been chased by the UFO this information though helpful is somewhat diminished when McDonald proposed his theory on the subsequent events of the night and the possible abduction relating it simply to stress sleep deprivation and false memories the word stress appeared quite often by those who didn't believe the abduction Theory being a mixed race couple during a time of social unrest throughout the United States would have certainly played a major factor in the couple's relationship as well as their safety undoubtedly they would have encountered racial abuse ridicule and threats from those who adopted the close-minded mentality at the time and would have put unquestionable strain on their relationship at some point with their workload and responsibility to the community and local church taking up most of their time and resources the possibility of hallucinations caused by burnout cannot be overlooked it has been declared by Leading psychologists that false memories forced the brain to conjure up stories sometimes highly elaborate stories to fill in the blanks in order to piece together the mysterious events or timelines that took place some say that the social financial and emotional pressures faced by the hills resulted in the couple using the rise of the UFO phenomenon and that of the Cold War to take advantage of growing paranoia to make money via a carefully calculated and coordinated scam perhaps this opportunity mixed with a mental breakdown LED Betty Hill to pursue her obsession with unidentified flying objects and photographing the so-called evidence of her captor's aircrafts throughout the rest of her life Legacy Bonnie Hill died of cerebral hemorrhage on February 25 1969 age 46. Betty would live on to the age of 85 passing away on October 17 2004 due to cancer having never remarried or bearing children and yet even to this Bright Day the events that took place in September 1961 the Barney and Betty Hill remain a Fascination for UFO enthusiasts filmmakers and investigators as they continuously fixate on the mysteriousness of the evening in question film was made in 1975 for television audiences and starred James L Jones as Barney and Estella Parsons as Betty and focused on the couple's story as well as their relationship to one another in 2015 the reports of a film and television series based on the incident an adaptation of renowned American nuclear physicist Stanton T Friedman's 2007 book captured the Betty and Barney Hill UFO experience the true story of the world's first documented alien abduction though many documentaries have been shelved the latest report as of late 2022 is that the streaming giant Netflix will be producing an in-depth documentary on the couple and the occurrence a roadside marker on Daniel Webster Highway on Route 3 in Lincoln New Hampshire was also erected to commemorate the incident and the couple's Legacy [Music] so what do you think here were Betty and Barney held the victims of a terrifying ordeal abducted by extraterrestrial beings as test subjects for their invasive hideous experiments did they really experience a close encounter of The Fourth Kind only to be ridiculed and ousted from many within their community and humiliated by those to whom they were seeking help or could it be that Bonnie and Betty Hill were mere scam artists looking for a loophole in a world that was slowly losing its mind to paranoia fear and confusion perhaps we'll never know the truth is we live in a world where technology and scientific advancement is constantly ingraining itself within our society our relationships and into the exploration of our surrounding planets and that of the cosmos television social media and the internet gives one the opportunity to seek out the truth and discuss many of life's mysteries and yet despite this massive step towards infinite knowledge and information there are still those stories that are worth retelling and remain unsolved for Barney and Betty Hill their case will forever be cause for speculation investigation and argument all we know for sure is that something happened that night which made us question who we are and who else is out there we hope you enjoyed this video take care and as always keep searching
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