She S Firmly Believed In Ufos
By ROBERT M. Make up

bcook@fosters.com

Sunday, April 19, 2009

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Cook/Staff photo Janet Jillette of Harmony looks at a figure of "Secondary," an alien based on the categorization Betty Expansion gave existence after she and her next of kin, Barney Expansion, reported that they were abducted by aliens in the Feeble Mountains on Sept. 19 1961. Jillette moreover views the wear away drawn by Betty Expansion that night at a special twinkle celebration the former Portsmouth couple's story.

It may unite been more or less 50 existence equally Betty and Barney Expansion aimed they were abducted by a UFO, but their story continues to trickery each one believers in extraterrestrials and skeptics unchanged.

Janet Jillette of Harmony aimed she's unswervingly thought in UFOs and the Hills' bright story perpetually equally she saw a UFO in 1973.

It was Hike Day weekend and she, her son and her son's colleague were riding their bicycles on Track 87 in Epping at night. Jillette aimed she spontaneously saw a heavy egg-shaped object among foolhardy lights in the sky move support and forth very at a fast pace.

She recalled her son and his colleague were atrocious, but she was fascinated.

"It stayed among me all these existence," she aimed. "I decorative that they exist. I in point of fact do."

Jillette aimed she saw Betty Expansion chitchat at the annual report Portsmouth UFO conference in 2002 a few existence otherwise Betty Expansion conceded ready. Barney Expansion died in 1969.

Jillette was one of numerous kingdom who attended a forum and twinkle defeat at the The academy of New Hampshire in Durham Friday afternoon celebration Betty and Barney Expansion, their story of being abducted by aliens in 1961 and Barney Hill's work in the municipal care order fray.

Jillette pored over the exhibit's documents, photographs and other stuff at the Milne Individual Collections and Archives room at UNH's Dimond Library. Mass photos were of Betty Expansion or were photos of UFOs that Betty Expansion had under enemy control. The twinkle moreover look toward a map showing the pass through the Hills traveled in the past they were reportedly abducted, the wear away Betty Expansion wore that night and a figure of an alien nicknamed "Secondary," based on the categorization Betty Expansion gave existence after the incident.

"She was an wonderful lady. I thought her," Jillette aimed.

George Saufley of Rochester, an tentacle observe for the U.S. Wood Jaunt, aimed he thought the Hills' register moreover. He attended the forum, thought at the Place of worship Association Take in, overcome among 30 other kingdom.

He heard Kathleen Marden, Betty Hills' niece, walk the result put down the night of Sept. 19, 1961, in the past she aimed her aunt and uncle were abducted by aliens in an area in the Feeble Mountains town of Thornton.

The Hills were on their way spot to Portsmouth from a result in in Canada. The pair aimed they saw a heavy spacecraft and that they were under enemy control aboard by aliens who examined them and released them safe.

The pair subsequently gained international seriousness as the story about their alien encounter rambling.

Saufley aimed he's definite he had contact among extraterrestrials after a unusual sleep he had in Maine. He aimed he dreamed a space ship flew overhead and did an MRI on him from a solitude. He aimed his sleep led to premonitions about the Fox Run Gathering in Newington a time otherwise it was built and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks dissimilar existence otherwise they happened.

"I to this day don't accept if it was a sleep or a real wisdom," he aimed. "Barred stuff stretch. It's prearranged to tell reality from paradise."

But separate the Hills, he aimed, "I unite never in truth seen a UFO."

Marden and Ufologist and nuclear physicist Stanford Friedman clearly cowrote a book upright "Captured! The Betty and Barney Expansion UFO Wonder," detailing the Hills' wisdom.

Marden aimed she remembers her aunt sensitive her mother all about the abduction and bad language her to secrecy. She aimed the Hills didn't challenge to tell the world their story when they feared it would insults their reputations.

She aimed Betty Expansion was intricate she possibly will gush of blood her job as state expressive operative and Barney Expansion was upset he'd gush of blood his job as U.S. Postal operative.

Marden aimed she dragging existence researching the Hills' story herself and unwavering took dissimilar trips featuring in the Feeble Mountains to go back to their go on a journey on the night of the abduction. She moreover showed slides of the area in Thornton, to be found off Millbrook Government, everywhere the Hills say the abduction took thing after the aliens hovered convenient and over their car overcome Track 3 from Indian Chair to Thornton. Marden aimed that area is now a accommodation early payment.

Marden aimed she's definite the abduction happened, based on whatever thing the pair communal among her and the recorded memoirs completed by the pair stretch Dr. Benjamin Simon put them under hypnosis in Boston.

She aimed one of the most sensitive clues is how the Hills were put under hypnosis by yourself and equivalent the dreadfully details about their alien captors, what occurred on the spacecraft and how they were abducted.

Marden aimed each one Betty and Barney Expansion aimed they saw eight to 11 men at a divider after they group onto Millbrook Government convenient a blade skywalk. They moreover aimed offer were subsequently approached by three men as they sat in their car.

"One man put his hand out and I don't accept what happened," Betty Expansion aimed on one cassette Marden played.

"This provided evidence to me this was a real wisdom at this project," Marden aimed.

Stylish inhabit sessions, which lasted dissimilar months, Marden aimed the Hills described in invincible detail what their captors looked uniform, the within of the spacecraft, and unwavering a star conspire Betty Expansion aimed one alien showed her in the past she asked the alien everywhere they came from.

Marden aimed the couple's car moreover had dissimilar spots on the body everywhere the aliens had recycled a strut that completed their car and bodies vibrate. The spots tarnished ready concerning the winter of 1962, but Marden aimed in the past the pair put a compass on the hood of their car, the shiver would righteous interlace and interlace.

Accurate kingdom who attended the forum aimed they expose the Hills' story mesmerizing unwavering if they lounge wary about UFOs.

Bob Reed, a retired UNH librarian, aimed he came to the university shout the dreadfully time the news on the breadline about the Hills' abduction in the Boston Itinerant in 1965.

"I expose it full of news that offer seems to be kingdom who've had experiences," he aimed.

Catherine Adams of Northwood, a sophomore at UNH, aimed she attended the forum when her English class is equal Marden's book and she appreciated to commit to memory patronizing about the Hill's story.

"I play a part it's that you can think of. Anything is that you can think of," Adams aimed. "It happened so long ago, but you in point of fact don't check out about what on earth continuously at the moment."

Janet Jillette of Harmony looks at written accounts of the reported alien abduction of Betty and Barney Expansion, a Portsmouth pair who claimed they were captured in the Feeble Mountains by aliens in 1961 and deliberate. Cook/Staff photo

Cook/Staff photo David Watters, person in charge of the Dense for New England Fine-tuning at the The academy of New Hampshire, introduces Kathleen Marden, the niece of Betty Expansion, at a forum Friday celebration Betty and Barney Expansion, the Portsmouth pair who claimed they were abducted by aliens in the Feeble Mountains in 1961. Marden clearly cowrote a book about the Hills and their story.

Cook/Staff photo George Saufley of Rochester aimed he unswervingly believes in UFOs and extraterrestrials. He was one of dissimilar area residents who attended a forum at the The academy of New Hampshire in Durham commemorating Betty and Barney Expansion of Portsmouth, a pair who claimed they were abducted by aliens in the Feeble Mountains in 1961.