| While there are many dozens of alien abduction | | | | were heading back home from working in the |
| reports from around the world, this article | | | | forest when a very brightly UFO appeared over |
| mentions the two best ones which I heard at a | | | | the trees. Travis got out to get a closer look and |
| ufo conference recently. | | | | ended up being right under the UFO. The other |
| The abduction experience of Betty and Barney Hill | | | | crew members screamed at him to head back to |
| only came to light after the couple involved | | | | the truck but could only watch in horror when a |
| decided to have therapy for sleep problems after | | | | greenish light shot out the underside of the UFO |
| their encounter. The storm of media interest lead | | | | craft, hitting Travis and knocking him backwards |
| to a book and a film by the title of "The | | | | to the ground. Petrified, they fled area only to |
| Interrupted Journey" and an appearance at a ufo | | | | return a while later to find that Travis was not |
| conference. As they retold their experience during | | | | there. Travis recalled this part of the experience |
| the regression hypnosis sessions, the therapist | | | | at a ufo conference in the 1990s and the tension |
| tried to seek mundane explanations for their | | | | in the air was amazing. |
| encounter but both of the Hills recounted the | | | | The local police force were very unhappy with |
| same experience and could not be moved from | | | | the crew's story of the events surrounding |
| their alien abduction story. The hypnotic | | | | Travis's disappearance and suspected another |
| regressionist was stunned as the couple both | | | | motive. However, the crew all undertook lie |
| described their encounter with the small beings | | | | detector tests and passed. The police's murder |
| which led them into their craft. However, although | | | | theory was squashed when Travis suddenly called |
| the couple described the same encounter, the | | | | home from a telephone box at a petrol station |
| emotional effect on each was quite different. | | | | and asked him family to come and pick him up. |
| It was Betty Hill who was most intrigued by her | | | | He kept mentioning aliens with large eyes on the |
| encounter and remembered asking her alien hosts | | | | way back to his father's house. Travis believed |
| which star system they had come from. They | | | | that only a few hours had passed and was |
| showed her and she drew a map of their star | | | | stunned to find out that he had been away for |
| system under hypnosis. This was easily dismissed | | | | five days. He hadn't shaved for days and was a |
| at the time as being pure imagination. Some time | | | | lot lighter. His hypnotic regression session included |
| later an astronomer claimed at a ufo conference | | | | his experience aboard an alien ship that housed |
| to have found a match for the star system | | | | both the five foot tall gray alien entities , and |
| which Betty had drawn. However, this has been | | | | human like beings who declined to talk to him but |
| dismissed as dubious because the match is not | | | | signed for him to go with them. An oxygen mask |
| exact and the map needs to be manipulated to | | | | was placed over his face, and Travis lost |
| look exactly like the star system in question. | | | | consciousness. When he came around, the UFO |
| Barney Hill's experience of the alien encounter | | | | was stationary over the roadway near the gas |
| differed markedly to Betty's. He had a much | | | | station, and when it shot off, he called for help. |
| more terrifying time and was desperate to | | | | One of the most intriguing points of Travis |
| escape from his captors. He particularly disliked | | | | Walton's incident and one which was apparent at |
| the probing which the aliens did during a medical | | | | a recent ufo conference, is the personality |
| examination. | | | | changes of both Travis and his friend, Mike |
| The Betty and Barney hill abduction was the first | | | | Rogers. Travis now speaks in a quiet voice. He |
| alien abduction case to gain national fame and | | | | doesn't appear to object if the public have doubts |
| even after 50 years remains in my view as the | | | | about what happened to him. His once quiet |
| most fascinating ufo conference case of them all. | | | | friend, Mike Rogers, is now the person upset by |
| The other UFO abduction which is often | | | | those who are sceptical about Travis's |
| mentioned at a ufo conference is that of logger | | | | experiences. Neither Travis or Mike have ever |
| Travis Walton. | | | | changed their witness statements of that famous |
| In November 1975, Travis and his logging crew | | | | evening and alien encounter on that logging road. |