Barney Hill talks about his UFO experience with missing time before he had heard his hypnosis tapes

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In the modern history of UFO research, the case of Barney and Betty Hill is considered the definitive turning point—the first official and detailed record of what is now known as "alien abduction." On the night of September 19, 1961, while returning to their New Hampshire home from a vacation in Canada, the couple encountered an unidentified flying object that pursued their car over the White Mountains. The testimony of Barney Hill presented here offers a rare glimpse into the critical moments in which he tried to process the events on his own, before undergoing the clinical hypnosis sessions that later revealed repressed memories of close contact with extraterrestrial entities. The most fascinating and mysterious element of the Hills' story is the phenomenon of "missing time." Upon arriving home, the couple were surprised to discover that the journey had taken two hours longer than expected, without any conscious memory of what had transpired during those long minutes. In these early conversations, Barney describes with a sense of urgency and bewilderment the unexplained gap in his memory—the desperate attempt to reconstruct what happened after he saw the glittering lights in the heart of the forest, and how both their wristwatches simultaneously stopped working. This testimony is free from the external influence of suggestions or later conspiracy theories, making it a historical document of great informative value for researchers of both psychology and phenomenology. The significance of this record also stems from the couple's social background; Barney Hill was a respected postal clerk and a civil rights activist, a rational man and a skeptic by nature who did not seek fame or recognition in the realm of the supernatural. His raw descriptions of physical sensations—the strange beeping sounds echoing on the car's roof and the tingling sensation that seized his body—have since become benchmarks in similar abduction accounts worldwide. Here, without the mediation of memories recovered under regressive hypnosis, one can hear the voice of a man facing the unknown, attempting to bridge the gap between familiar reality and an event that changed his life, and UFO research, forever.