Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: The True Story of the World's First Documented Alien Abduction
by Stanton T. Friedman, Kathleen Marden
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Author: Kathleen Marden, Stanton T. FriedmanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-07-23
ISBN: 1564149714
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: New Page Books
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Book Review: A Fascinating Read - Leaves No "Wriggle Room" for Skeptics
Summary: 4 Stars
In the early 1970's public interest in UFO's had almost waned. These days any mention of UFO's (let alone Alien Abduction) is generally greeted with dismissive ridicule, largely thanks to disinformation put out by UK and USA governments during the 1980's, in response to resurgent public interest in the topic following "discoveries" made by ufologist researchers and the government documents they unearthed (containing details of crash UFO recoveries) under the then new Freedom of Information Act.
This book takes the reader back to different simpler times, a less cynical and maybe more naive public but nevertheless with murky political/military "dark forces" in the background.
These days any claims of Alien Abduction are usually seen as the ravings of country hicks from smallville American pursuing their fifteen minutes of fame. Betty and Barney Hill were an American married couple who rose to fame after they claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials on September 19-20, 1961. However, they were seeking neither fame nor fortune nor were they typical country hicks. The Hills were a mixed race couple at a time in America when that was unusual.
Barney was employed by the U.S. Postal Service, while Betty was a social worker. Both were active in a Unitarian congregation and were community leaders. Barney sat on a local board of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. In short, in view of their status in the society, they had more to lose than gain by going public with their claim. In fact it took great courage and integrity in permitting their traumatic experience and its later investigation to become public at all.
The authors of Captured! Stanton T. Friedman, a nuclear physicist, is also regarded as the "Godfather of Modern Ufology", Kathleen Marden is Betty's niece and as trustee of her estate has all of the Hill's papers and correspondence from which this book draws upon.
I for one would not doubt its sincerity or scientific methodology but the book concentrates too heavily on debunking the debunkers for my liking - it interrupts the flow. Others will probably appreciate the authors taking on the skeptics, detail for detail, who attacked the case - just how could a woman with no knowledge of astronomy know the positions of stars in constellations, from the perspective of outer space looking back at Earth!, that could only be detected by the world's most powerful telescopes some four years later?
Order yourself a copy of Captured! see if you can come up with any answers!
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