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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9 ning. Hazily at first, and then more vividly, it came back to him that, after driving away from the “sighting” of the craft, they were stopped farther up the road by a group of men whom Hill first suspected were robbers. No such pro- saic experience was in store for them, however. There were six men, dressed alike in dark clothing. They took Hill from the car, half carrying, half dragging him up aramp to what appeared to be a hospital operating room. He was placed on a table and a cup was clamped around his groin. He experienced no fear or feeling that he was Driving at night through the dramatic vastness of the White Mountains with the lifelike faces nature carved in stone, Barney and Betty Hill lived their own drama going to be harmed and when the “experiment” was com- pleted, for whatever purpose it was performed, he was re- leased from the craft in an almost jovial frame of mind and returned to his car. Betty Hill’s recollections were similar but more detailed and graphic than her husband’s when it came time for her to be placed under hypnosis. She recalled the original “sighting” and of later being stopped on the highway by the group of men they first thought to be bandits. Here her story assumed more definition and revealed more night- marish aspects than had that of Barney Hill. % Approved For Release 2001/04/02 She was taken from the car by men who spoke fluent English but with some unrecognizable accent. She was led into the “ship” ahead of her husband and taken to a separate room where she was examined by what she assumed to be a doctor under a machine she thought’ was a microscope with Jarge lens. They took scrapings from her skin, exam- ined her eyes and ears, took hair samples and a snip of fingernail. An instrument full of needle clusters was run over her body and the procedure was completed by sticking a long needle into her navel. This was the only phase of the experience to which phys- ical pain attached and when she cried out, the leader rubbed his hands in front of her eyes and the pain went away. He explained to her that he had been conducting a pregnancy test and seemed distressed that she had felt pain. She was allowed to dress then and fell into friendly conversation with the leader. She asked if she could take some proof of her visit with her and when he agreed, she settled on a book, the pages of which were covered with hieroglyphics . . . sharp lines, thin lines, dots, curves. But when she was leaving the craft, another examiner spot- ted the book and insisted that she return it. She was forced to relinquish the only evidence she had of her remarkable experience. In later sessions, the subjects “recalled” that their “hosts” did not actually speak to them, but got across their thoughts through some form of mental telepathy. Barney described the humanoids as having large heads, diminishing toward the chin. Their eyes continued par- tially around the sides of their heads, affording a much broader range of vision than is provided for known hu- mans. The mouths were horizontal lines and the sound emitted was a “mmmmming” one. Their skins were a metal- lic gray and Hill could recall only two slits for a nose. T he conclusions drawn were that there: had been an ac- tual sighting. That it had been of sufficient consequence to bring on a severe emotional-reaction. That the Hills had nothing to gain from publicity and that they made no ef- fort to, were, aS a matter of fact, reluctant to discuss the incident even among friends. That there was a: measure of physical evidence to support their “recollected under hypnosis” story. Medical men extracted what was pertinent to their pro- fession from the doctor’s experiment. ATIC examined the reports for that information which would lend enlightenment to their own investigation. Scientists followed the fascinating procedure with avid interest. The sensation seeker drew from the disclosures every item that answered his demands. Investigators whose interests were concentrated primar- ily on the possibility of UFO landings and physical en- counter continued to probe the unique and mysterious ex- perience, bearing in mind as they proceeded that the emi- nent scientist Walter Webb was convinced “the incident occurred exactly as reported.” : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010002-9