Today, this very day, forty-six years ago, Betty and Barney Hill drove down U.S. 3, right past my house and into history. They were about to become Patient Zero for Alien Abductions with Weird Medical Experiments, Missing Time, and Big-Eyed Extraterrestrials. The first and (we are told) best documented case of Alien Abduction Evah. There was a book [1]. There was a made-for-TV movie [2]. Magazine articles. Mentions in other books. Cl ose Encounters of the Third Kind [3]. X [4]-Files [5].
So what happened out on Route 3?
Via columbina [6], “Alien Abduction [7]”
I'm guessing that this debunking article won't go over very well in Rachel, Nevada [8]. It's also long, but well worth reading since everything about the Betty and Barney Hill abduction [9] is debunked.
I also found it helped to use Google Maps [10] to help follow along on that fateful roadtrip forty-six years ago.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B000GOSB1A/ref=nosim/madhousem
[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073834/
[3] http://www.sonypictures.com/sphe/closeencounters/CE3K_trailer.mov
[4] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0007ZEO7I/ref=nosim/madhousem
[5] http://en.allexperts.com/q/X-Files-
[6] http://columbina.livejournal.com/120865.html
[7] http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/009378.html