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The Abduction of Betty & Barney Hill, Part 2

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Their experience would kick off an Air Force inquiry, part of the secretive initiative Project Blue Book. The incident would also become the first-ever widely publicized alien abduction account and shape how stories like it were told from then on. Debate continues on whether the Hills were delusional, mentally unstable, fueled by sleep deprivation, or just plain liars

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Analysis of the dress worn by Betty Hill during the September 19, 1961 abduction in New Hampshire; Author :Phyllis A. Budinger

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/8862147/alien_abduction.pdf?sequence=1

https://www.astronomy.com/issues/1974/december-1974/

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