Speaker 1: Strange Arrivals is a production of I Heart Radio and
Speaker 1: Grim and Mild from Aaron Mankie. This woman says that
Speaker 1: she was abducted by beings from another planet and taken
Speaker 1: on board their spaceship, where she experienced the bizarre, unforgetable
Speaker 1: Atorney in time and space, and it makes her story credible.
Speaker 1: Is the work that a team of Lupo researchers headed
Speaker 1: by this man did. The document the incident. Are the
Speaker 1: results of their findings I reported in this fascinating book
Speaker 1: Beyond Ryerson Affair. Would you please welcome Betty Andreson and
Speaker 1: Raymond Foller, whatever macomes very Could you briefly tell us
Speaker 1: what happened. I was taken out in state backyard, and
Speaker 1: I was taken up board dear craft, and I was
Speaker 1: given um extensive examination, but to exchange place and then
Speaker 1: returned home to maintain consciousness through all us inspiracy. Yes
Speaker 1: I did. Betty and Barney Hill's experience was the first
Speaker 1: story of alien abduction to become widely known, and as
Speaker 1: the first, it established the elements that subsequent abduction tales
Speaker 1: would contain. People such as Betty Andreason would take these
Speaker 1: elements and expand on them, creating even more incredible narratives.
Speaker 1: I'm Toby Ball and this is strange Arrivals Episode eight,
Speaker 1: missing time. Each stage of Betty and Barney Hills September
Speaker 1: UFO encounter seems to have a prosaic explanation. But they
Speaker 1: arrived home around five in the morning, not two as
Speaker 1: they'd expected. What happened during those missing hours. The original
Speaker 1: estimate of two am came from a stop they made
Speaker 1: at a restaurant in Colebrook, New Hampshire. As they left,
Speaker 1: they noticed that a clock on the wall red just
Speaker 1: after ten pm. They thought the rest of the trip
Speaker 1: should have taken between four and five hours. Last episode,
Speaker 1: other Jim McDonald described driving the Hills route, comparing where
Speaker 1: in the sky he saw the light on top of
Speaker 1: Cannon Mountain to the description of the UFOs movements in
Speaker 1: John Fuller's book A Journey Interrupted. He believes that they
Speaker 1: were running later than they thought, even before they entered
Speaker 1: Franconian Notch. Author Jim McDonald now we know they left
Speaker 1: Colebrook around ten pm, and Fuller says that they're at
Speaker 1: Twin Mountain, approaching Franconia Notch at eleven. This is just impossible.
Speaker 1: It cannot be done in eleven pm. They're only just
Speaker 1: a little bit south of Lancaster, still north of Whitefield.
Speaker 1: One of the pieces of evidences that their watches had
Speaker 1: stopped when they were home the next day. Especially in
Speaker 1: the early sixties with the wind up watches, it was
Speaker 1: easy enough to break a spring to jam those things.
Speaker 1: Watches were delicate. We have no idea when their watches
Speaker 1: stopped working, but based on that information, I would say
Speaker 1: their watches had already stopped at some time before they
Speaker 1: got to Franconia Notch, before the sighting even began. They
Speaker 1: were confused about the time. It's sixty two miles on dark,
Speaker 1: winding rural roads from Colebrook to Franconian Notch. Today Google
Speaker 1: Maps predicts an hour and twenty four minutes for daytime
Speaker 1: driving at night in it would have taken longer as
Speaker 1: far as how much time they spent. Remember they were
Speaker 1: stopping repeatedly to walk the dog to look at their
Speaker 1: strange light in the sky. They deliberately drove slowly for
Speaker 1: a portion of the trip. They got lost up a
Speaker 1: side road, and they spent some time driving around downtown
Speaker 1: Conquered looking for an open coffee shop. How many times
Speaker 1: they stopped at least a half a dozen. It's easy
Speaker 1: to lose two hours doing that. A few months back,
Speaker 1: I was down in Lineborough. Now, I'm sure driving around
Speaker 1: on a road that was very much like what US
Speaker 1: three would have been like in the nineteen sixties. Three
Speaker 1: has been expanded and straightened and flattened quite a bit
Speaker 1: since then. But even so, there I was driving along
Speaker 1: and I thought I was driving fifty five. I looked
Speaker 1: down at my spenometer. I was doing thirty. My thought
Speaker 1: is that Betty and Barney, when they estimated were doing
Speaker 1: fifty to fifty five, know they were doing like thirty
Speaker 1: all so we know from Fuller's book. And they crossed
Speaker 1: over from Canada at around nine and got to Colebrook
Speaker 1: round ten. It's ten miles from the border crossing to Colebrook.
Speaker 1: They weren't driving any They were drawing closer to twenty,
Speaker 1: which give him what this road looked like then. Very reasonable,
Speaker 1: UFO investigator Robert Schaefer. They talked about driving so slowly,
Speaker 1: you know, at one point Barney said later that he
Speaker 1: was only driving along at five miles an hour. Looking
Speaker 1: at this thing, Well, if you're driving a lot of
Speaker 1: five miles an hour. You know at first year you're
Speaker 1: going to get home late. Suddenly the missing hours have
Speaker 1: become more understandable. Their watches stopped working, so their timing
Speaker 1: was off. Before the encounter began, they drove very slowly
Speaker 1: for portions of the trip. They stopped on several occasions
Speaker 1: for various lengths of time. They took a detour through
Speaker 1: conquered add in that they had been on the road
Speaker 1: for so long and must have been fatigued and possibly
Speaker 1: not driving as fast as they thought they were. The
Speaker 1: missing time seems to have eroded away, and with this explained,
Speaker 1: there's nothing left except for a strange story compelling. Lee told,
Speaker 1: there's no evidence you can point to and say, see,
Speaker 1: here's the proof. This is not to say that Betty
Speaker 1: and Barney Hill were lying or deceptive. No one I
Speaker 1: talked to believes this. They were in a confusing, stressful
Speaker 1: situation and misinterpreted what they saw. They later underwent hypnosis
Speaker 1: and told a story based on Betty's dreams that we
Speaker 1: know can't be taken literally. Tragically, Barney died in nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty nine at age forty six of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Speaker 1: In the years that followed, Betty became a celebrity in
Speaker 1: the UFO world, but her credibility suffered. After Barney's death,
Speaker 1: Betty's claims about her interactions with UFOs and aliens became
Speaker 1: more and more outlandish. She kept a journal titled Strange Events.
Speaker 1: In it, she typed out things that supposedly had either
Speaker 1: happened to her or that she had heard about. Here's
Speaker 1: an example, taken more or less at random from February
Speaker 1: five on one of weight As I was going down
Speaker 1: the hill, I saw a UFO behind the trees over
Speaker 1: the trailer. As I came closer, it moved from behind
Speaker 1: the trees, crossed the trailer yard and headed towards me.
Speaker 1: It began to descend, and here the road is higher
Speaker 1: than the field. It was very close and large and
Speaker 1: level with the road, about twenty ft across the law
Speaker 1: large bright white lights and a small red one. Two
Speaker 1: cars came and it turned away from me towards the field,
Speaker 1: moving slowly. I immediately parked to watch it. It had
Speaker 1: three lights on the back, and I began a panic.
Speaker 1: It was less than fifty feet from me, and I
Speaker 1: thought it was going to crash. I heard a faint
Speaker 1: humming sound, and then it traveled just above the ground
Speaker 1: and went towards the ocean. I headed for home at
Speaker 1: the one on one bypass an Exeter. It suddenly reappeared
Speaker 1: stopped the other side of the traffic light. I did
Speaker 1: not see it before I went through the light. Suddenly
Speaker 1: this UFO dropped down close to the road. I stopped
Speaker 1: my car. All cars screeched to a hall and sat there.
Speaker 1: UFO rose and began to move across the highway and disappeared,
Speaker 1: traveling from the left to the right. Skeptoid host Bryan
Speaker 1: n she was a lifelong UFO obsessive to a point
Speaker 1: that was practically a psychological illness. In the letter to
Speaker 1: a friend, she wrote, Barney and I go out frequently
Speaker 1: at night for one reason or another. Since last October,
Speaker 1: we have seen our friends in quotes on the average
Speaker 1: of eight or nine times out of every ten trips.
Speaker 1: She would believe that she saw UFOs everywhere she went.
Speaker 1: She was part of UFO groups, and other people in
Speaker 1: the group's kind of I don't want to say, laughed
Speaker 1: at her, mocked her, but they knew her to be
Speaker 1: someone who saw in the UFO and everything she looked at.
Speaker 1: Here's a story where they were looking at a street
Speaker 1: light and she was saying, no, it's a UFO. Standing
Speaker 1: on a tripod, Betty took strange, out of focus photos
Speaker 1: of what she claimed were flying saucers. Here she is
Speaker 1: showing slides of her photos at a UFO conference. In
Speaker 1: the image is she presents are blurred and impossible to identify.
Speaker 1: This is a carrier. The bottom opens up and the
Speaker 1: disc dropped down. Next, now they are and here we
Speaker 1: have the same flight pal, same position as we had
Speaker 1: before with the seven flying in V formation. Here this
Speaker 1: atable next. Okay, here we have a disk in a boomerang. Next,
Speaker 1: this one is absolutely huge. It filled up the whole field.
Speaker 1: And I went back with my car and drove along
Speaker 1: the edge of the field and it's over a quarter
Speaker 1: of a mile. And this one was tremendous roaring sound.
Speaker 1: It's sounded like ten jets. And that's only part of it.
Speaker 1: I don't have it all on the slide, but they
Speaker 1: have red light at the very ends. Next that he
Speaker 1: back up to the previous question about communication. You have
Speaker 1: had communication in the form of blinking your headlights at them.
Speaker 1: Is that correct. Oh, yeah, that I'd say indirect communication. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, as I was saying, they don't leave the crap,
Speaker 1: they don't speak. But like we've done things like allowed
Speaker 1: to emplay Christmas carols and then have a UFO fly
Speaker 1: over playing back the same Christmas carols. This story is
Speaker 1: an example of how she undermined her own credibility with
Speaker 1: tales that seem clearly fanciful. It is important, though, to
Speaker 1: remember that this is almost twenty five years after her
Speaker 1: hypnosis sessions again Robert Schaefer. Betty actually wrote a self
Speaker 1: published book, I think, and it was called Common Sense
Speaker 1: about UFOs by Betty Hill. If you read that book,
Speaker 1: utterly amazing. She'd be standing like near the mouth of
Speaker 1: a river and she would see entire fleets of hundreds
Speaker 1: of UFOs would come in off the ocean and would
Speaker 1: fly up the river. I suspect she was saying some
Speaker 1: birds and in her imagination of birds were UFOs, or
Speaker 1: maybe she just made the whole thing up. In Kathleen
Speaker 1: Martin's book captured the Betty and Barney Hill UFO experience,
Speaker 1: Kathleen acknowledges the credibility problem caused by Betty's later years
Speaker 1: Betty's fall from grace ultimately transpired because she surrounded herself
Speaker 1: with UFO enthusiasts who looked to her for guidance. Many
Speaker 1: were not trained observers or UFO investigators, but friends who
Speaker 1: supported her belief that they were observing extraterrestrial craft, even
Speaker 1: when they were misidentifying conventional aircraft. Some of their descriptions
Speaker 1: seemed to support the conjecture that at least a few
Speaker 1: of their observations were anomalous. Addition, some of these observations
Speaker 1: were made by trained military observers and UFO investigators who
Speaker 1: confirmed that they had observed unconventional craft. Betty publicized this
Speaker 1: information because she thought she was contributing valuable information to
Speaker 1: the scientific community. What we must remember, though, is Betty
Speaker 1: was not a scientist or a trained observer. After Barney's death,
Speaker 1: she turned away from careful objective evaluation and, with subjective enthusiasm,
Speaker 1: began to identify any lights in the sky as UFOs.
Speaker 1: In the end, it destroyed her credibility, not because she
Speaker 1: didn't observe a photograph UFOs, but because she failed to
Speaker 1: heed John Fuller's warnings. Fuller, the author of an Interrupted Journey,
Speaker 1: wrote letters to Betty, warning that she would undermine her
Speaker 1: credibility if she promoted questionable sightings. Betty's fantastical claims later
Speaker 1: in life are not proof that she misidentified what she
Speaker 1: saw in nine six one, but in my mind they
Speaker 1: reflect a kind of openness to drawing incredible conclusions based
Speaker 1: on fairly ordinary circumstances. Remember, she pegged a light in
Speaker 1: the sky as a UFO pretty much right away, regardless
Speaker 1: of what actually happened that September night. The Hill story
Speaker 1: had a cultural impact that resonates today, UFO researcher Alejandro Rojas.
Speaker 1: It was the first kind of in the media alleged
Speaker 1: alien abduction experience. The whole idea about these beings from
Speaker 1: Zetta Reticulate coming here comes from this. So for the
Speaker 1: mythos of it all, it's been very significant. And it's
Speaker 1: not just the concept of alien abduction that began with
Speaker 1: the Hills. Their story of their time aboard the craft
Speaker 1: became the template for subsequent alien abduction stories. It was
Speaker 1: a template that prevailed very much from nineteen six to
Speaker 1: really right up until the nineteen eighties. The Hill story
Speaker 1: provided the basic framework for future alien abduction stories, but
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be enough to tell a variation of their narrative.
Speaker 1: The news stories would have to be more incredible. After
Speaker 1: the break, strange arrivals will return in a moment. A
Speaker 1: Journey Interrupted was published in nineteen sixty six. Just months later,
Speaker 1: in January of another abduction allegedly occurred. This was the
Speaker 1: abduction of Betty Andreasen, who was taken from her home
Speaker 1: in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. Her story was told in the nine
Speaker 1: book De Andreason Affair by Raymond Fowler, a former colleague
Speaker 1: of John Fuller's. Betty Andreason was a fundamentalist Christian who
Speaker 1: was taken aboard of flying Saucer by two very friendly aliens.
Speaker 1: The names of the two aliens, as I recall, were
Speaker 1: Quasgaw and jew Hop. This is author Terry Matheson. I'm
Speaker 1: a retired English professor taught at the University of Saskatchewan
Speaker 1: for many years, and I wrote a book back in
Speaker 1: the nineties called Alien Abductions Creating a Modern Phenomenon, where
Speaker 1: I analyzed a number of books about the alien abduction phenomenon.
Speaker 1: They were all best sellers, or most of them were
Speaker 1: sold very well and reach a wide swath of the public.
Speaker 1: And I was interested in how the narratives developed. The
Speaker 1: Bit Andreason story showed how the Hill narrative could be
Speaker 1: used and expanded upon. Betty Andreason was a homemaker with
Speaker 1: seven children who was allegedly taken from her home on
Speaker 1: a night when her husband was in the hospital and
Speaker 1: her parents were visiting here. Author Raymond Fowler described the
Speaker 1: beginning of the encounter during a nineteen seventy nine radio interview.
Speaker 1: It's how about explaining to the listeners and to me too,
Speaker 1: for that matter, what exactly happened to Betty and Becky
Speaker 1: Andreas And on January on that particularly evening, about six pm,
Speaker 1: uh there was an intimittent power failure. Simultaneously that there
Speaker 1: was a flashing orange light which king through the kitchen window,
Speaker 1: which overlooks a huge field. The children was scared Mrs
Speaker 1: Andreas and shoot her seven children into the living room.
Speaker 1: Her father ran to the kitchen window and looked out
Speaker 1: and claimed he saw what looked like children dressed in
Speaker 1: strange Halloween cost On second luck, though, he saw that
Speaker 1: they weren't walking, but they were moving, floating with a
Speaker 1: hopping motion. All you can remember after that is in
Speaker 1: somehow getting in the house. They did enter the house
Speaker 1: Mrs Andreas and communicated with him through mental telepathy. Other
Speaker 1: members of the family seemed to have just frozen in motion.
Speaker 1: For want of a better term, we called it. We
Speaker 1: called it suspended animation. Mrs Andreason was very concerned about
Speaker 1: her family, and they allowed Becky Andreas, and she was
Speaker 1: a loving years all at the time, to come out
Speaker 1: of this state of suspended animation, to assure Mrs Andreas
Speaker 1: and that she was all right, uh, And then to
Speaker 1: make a long story shot. They convinced Betty Andreas and
Speaker 1: to follow them to a craft which was out in
Speaker 1: the back yard. She felt that she had free will,
Speaker 1: but and looking back hindsight, felt that they had complete
Speaker 1: control over everything that she did. So you can see
Speaker 1: where there are some of the elements of the hell story,
Speaker 1: the abduction, the control the aliens have over her. But
Speaker 1: she has already added elements the suspended animation and the
Speaker 1: aliens themselves, two of whom, as Terry Mathieson mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: were named Quasga and jew hop. Betty Andreason was a
Speaker 1: bit of an artist. She grew pictures of Clasgow and
Speaker 1: Jew and they were sort of tow little beings. You
Speaker 1: can find the images that she drew on the Internet.
Speaker 1: They're of whimsical creatures, not the strange, ambiguous, though ultimately
Speaker 1: friendly aliens described by Betty Hill. In another parallel with
Speaker 1: the Hill case, Betty Andreason's experience on the alien spacecraft
Speaker 1: was recovered through regression hypnosis years after the fact. Her
Speaker 1: sessions were conducted by Harold Edelstein, who at the time
Speaker 1: was the director of the New England Institute of Hypnosis.
Speaker 1: Her story begins with obvious similarities to Betty Hills again
Speaker 1: and Raymond Fowler. The craft is very small. They stayed
Speaker 1: in their craft for Philly long time. She felt heaviness
Speaker 1: and so forth, and then it stopped, and she felt
Speaker 1: that she was taking aboard Aliga craft where she was
Speaker 1: subjected to the effects of a number of very very
Speaker 1: strange instruments. Fowler had brought portions of Andreason's hypnosis session
Speaker 1: tapes with him to this radio interview. If you would
Speaker 1: give us background so we can lead up to what
Speaker 1: I understand is going to be a pretty startling piece
Speaker 1: of audio tape that we're going to be listening to.
Speaker 1: All Right, the audio tape that you're going to be
Speaker 1: hearing excerpts from comes from one of fourteen hypnotic regression sessions,
Speaker 1: and it concerns Betty Andreason, who allegedly was abducted by
Speaker 1: uf All occupants and given, among many other things, a
Speaker 1: physical examination. What you're about to hear is a small
Speaker 1: segment of that physical examination. And I think that you
Speaker 1: will be able to relive with her of the trauma
Speaker 1: and the hay uh and the emotion that she experienced
Speaker 1: reliving this experience under hypnosis. And she is under hypnosis
Speaker 1: and recounting, reliving, not recounting, and really living. Okay, there
Speaker 1: listening up, it's breaking like it, Oh, it's hanging. And
Speaker 1: here is where her story diverges significantly from the Hill narrative.
Speaker 1: After Betty Hill's examination, she talked with the leader and
Speaker 1: was shown a map of the alien's domain. Betty Andreason,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, was actually taken to see distant worlds,
Speaker 1: and the worlds are pretty clearly a reflection of her
Speaker 1: religious beliefs. This is Betty Andreason from an interview on
Speaker 1: the Transitions radio show in nine Well after they had
Speaker 1: examined me, they took me back to the cubicle where
Speaker 1: they told me to change into my regular clothes, and
Speaker 1: from there I was escorted into this room that appeared
Speaker 1: like a quantt uh hot type from half cylindrical, and
Speaker 1: within it were eight glass like chairs, and they sat
Speaker 1: me down in the one of the chairs to the right,
Speaker 1: and this hood, glass like hood came down. I could
Speaker 1: hear it clicker on me, and then I felt very cold,
Speaker 1: as if I was breezing. They had her switched chairs
Speaker 1: and again sealed her up. They put tubes in her
Speaker 1: nose and another in her mouth and told her to
Speaker 1: keep her eyes closed. They gave me this reddish color
Speaker 1: liquid to take, and it tasted very sweet, and I
Speaker 1: felt very relaxed from it. And meanwhile this gray liquid
Speaker 1: fell down, you know, was falling on my head, and
Speaker 1: it was building up in the bottom of the chair,
Speaker 1: and when it was filled and vibrated like a whirlpool
Speaker 1: around about me. And from there they drained that out
Speaker 1: to the breathing tubes out and set me on this
Speaker 1: track where one being was in front of me and
Speaker 1: one being was in back of me. Her captors put
Speaker 1: black hoods over their heads and led her to a
Speaker 1: very dark tunnel. I was taken through this tunnel and
Speaker 1: we came. We were coming up to a mirror, and
Speaker 1: I thought we were going to crash right through the mirror,
Speaker 1: and instead we passed just like we passed through the
Speaker 1: wood in my home. And we came into this red atmosphere. First,
Speaker 1: She's brought to a desolate, red place with weird creatures hell.
Speaker 1: And in this red atmosphere there was no vegetation. There
Speaker 1: were just large buildings with square windows, and there were
Speaker 1: the strange creature like beings having like two stocks for
Speaker 1: a head, was very large eyes on the end of it,
Speaker 1: and they were crawling all over the walls and in
Speaker 1: and out the windows and all over the place. And
Speaker 1: we passed through this area into a green atmosphere and
Speaker 1: then the fantastically beautiful green area heaven. That was beautiful.
Speaker 1: It was just fantastically beautiful. They were things there I
Speaker 1: can't even described today, you know, nothing that I could
Speaker 1: relate to in this and planet Earth. And so I
Speaker 1: saw different things there. A dome city. This was obviously
Speaker 1: the poorful. No, this was not their planet. They told
Speaker 1: me that this was the high place. Betty Andreason has
Speaker 1: taken the Hill story and made it more spectacular. The
Speaker 1: religious imagery continued as the story went on, and I
Speaker 1: came up to some crystals that were just hanging in
Speaker 1: mid air, and I did become fearful. I wanted to
Speaker 1: go back at that point because it was awesome, and
Speaker 1: they just wouldn't go along with my request, and we
Speaker 1: on going until we came to this area where this
Speaker 1: large bird stood, and the beings just got off the
Speaker 1: track and I was left there along where this huge
Speaker 1: bird was, and it was alive, and there was light
Speaker 1: and back of it just radiating, kept on radiating, and
Speaker 1: I kept getting hotter and hotter and hotter, and these
Speaker 1: blocks of gold were flying around in front of me,
Speaker 1: and I felt like I was being consumed by fire.
Speaker 1: And at that point I must have passed out of something,
Speaker 1: because the next time I looked that the bird was
Speaker 1: gone and there was a pile of ashes there, and
Speaker 1: out of these pile of ashes, a large gray worm appeared.
Speaker 1: And then from the side of a voice spoke to
Speaker 1: me very loud voice and called my name twice and said,
Speaker 1: you have seen and you have heard. You understand And
Speaker 1: I said, I I don't know, I don't understand. I
Speaker 1: don't even know why I was there. And then the
Speaker 1: voice talked with me and reassured me that everything was
Speaker 1: all right, that some of the pain that I experienced
Speaker 1: was because of my fear, and I just felt better.
Speaker 1: I felt elated, enjoy filled me. I felt very happy
Speaker 1: at that. To get a point in the Andreason affair,
Speaker 1: Betty goes into a great deal of detail about her
Speaker 1: interactions with Quasga and jew Hop, who served as friendly
Speaker 1: guides on her Uncanny journey. They also advanced the religious
Speaker 1: tone of Betty's story. The aliens behave in a way
Speaker 1: that reflects the belief systems of the abducte. Betty Andreason
Speaker 1: was a very devout Christian Krasgown. Jew Hopper constantly saying
Speaker 1: little passages, the epigrams and stuff that sound profound and
Speaker 1: and spiritual. They don't make much sense when you analyze them,
Speaker 1: but they're an extension of Betty's beliefs. Betty reports jew
Speaker 1: Hop saying things like, because man has separated himself, he
Speaker 1: has become dual separation, duality a love, there is no separation.
Speaker 1: Quasca also talks cryptically. Many riddles will be given. Those
Speaker 1: that are wise will understand, those that seek will find.
Speaker 1: They must be hidden in this way because of the
Speaker 1: corruption the corruption that is upon the earth. If they
Speaker 1: are revealed outright, man would use it. Fowler eventually wrote
Speaker 1: three books about Betty Andreasen and her previous and subsequent
Speaker 1: dealings with aliens, but this is the crux of the
Speaker 1: initial story. In addition to the religious themes, Terry Matheson
Speaker 1: also found that her descriptions of the imagery from her
Speaker 1: journey were often influenced by popular culture. In fact, a
Speaker 1: lot of vys events in her account, together with the
Speaker 1: pictures that she drew of her experiences, are taken lights
Speaker 1: from science fiction and fantasy movies from the nine in fifties,
Speaker 1: and I was able to trace most of them. Is
Speaker 1: not all of them. I know. There's one picture she
Speaker 1: drew of herself in a very sort of attractive party dress,
Speaker 1: and I thought I've seen that before. And then I
Speaker 1: went downstairs and found an old movie of Cinderella. And
Speaker 1: remember when the very Godmother was apped her magic wand
Speaker 1: and Cinderella puts on this beautiful dress and she whirls around. Well,
Speaker 1: Betty's picture of herself is almost identical. And there are
Speaker 1: other scenes too. She talks about being in a flying sauce,
Speaker 1: and I mean put in some kind of pressure chambers,
Speaker 1: and that I found immediately from a very well known
Speaker 1: science fiction movie from that period, from the fifties called
Speaker 1: This Island Earth. The two of you beginning a strange journey,
Speaker 1: a journey that no Earth people have evern have taken before.
Speaker 1: Now with you, consider me at devil or a saint
Speaker 1: is unimportant. What is important is that you're here on
Speaker 1: this spaceship. And also from another famous movie that I'm
Speaker 1: sure Betty may well have seen, called Forbidden Planet. This
Speaker 1: is no offense, but you are. That is correct for
Speaker 1: your convenience. I am monitored to respond to the name Robbie,
Speaker 1: Betty Andreason's story was the first step in what became
Speaker 1: a succession of ever more incredible abduction stories. Each next
Speaker 1: step had to top the previous tale. But as with
Speaker 1: narratives of any sort, there comes a point where incredulity
Speaker 1: is strained and the genre falls apart under its own weight.
Speaker 1: How far did Ailien abduction stories go before they reached
Speaker 1: the breaking point? Next time on Strange Arrivals. Strange Arrivals
Speaker 1: is a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and
Speaker 1: Mild from Aaron Manky. This episode was written and host
Speaker 1: by Toby Ball and produced by Miranda Hawkins and Josh Thane,
Speaker 1: with executive producers Alex Williams, Matt Frederick and Aaron Manky.
Speaker 1: Betty Hill was portrayed by Gina Rickike. Barney Hill was
Speaker 1: portrayed by Jason Williams. Special thanks to the Miln's Special
Speaker 1: Collections and Archives at the University of New Hampshire, John Horrigan,
Speaker 1: w y C h A M in Norwich, Connecticut, John White,
Speaker 1: and David O'Leary, the executive producer of the History Channel's
Speaker 1: dramatic series Project blue Book. Learn more about the show
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