The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America

A gripping account of an alien abduction and its connections to the breakdown of American society in the 1960s

“Excellent and exhaustive.”—Colin Dickey, Slate

In the mid-1960s, Betty and Barney Hill became famous as the first Americans to claim that aliens had taken them aboard a spacecraft against their will. Their story—involving a lonely highway late at night, lost memories, and medical examinations by small gray creatures with large eyes—has become the template for nearly every encount...