“Barney died in 1969, he died quite young, but in the beginning, Barney did a lot of the talking.”
“They do have a lot of material, including radio interviews and presentations, mostly by Betty over the years,” said Ball, who added the podcast will feature audio not widely heard before now. “What is it that gets people like this to so strongly believe and, in some cases, spend their life on a subject?”īall had access to Betty Hill’s notes, tapes of the couple and other records that are held in a permanent collection at UNH. “The people I talked to who were believers are smart people, some of them are academics and they’ve spent a lot of time researching this, but they are coming at it from a different angle than I am,” he said. “How do you think about it if you don’t think there are aliens? How do you think about a story like this and explain it?”īall acknowledges he falls into the skeptic camp, and said he realized many believers he interviewed for the podcast did not fit the stereotype. “The University of New Hampshire has the Betty and Barney Hill papers in their library, and I thought it might be a cool way to look at those issues,” Ball said. The concept of why some people are such strong believers in UFOs and aliens, while others remain steadfast skeptics, intrigued him.
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Their experience became the first widely publicized account of an alien abduction, and led to a book, “The Interrupted Journey,” and a TV movie “The UFO Incident.”īall is a panelist on the true crime review podcast “Crime Writers On,” and author of “The City Trilogy,” a noir crime series. They later recounted under hypnosis an account of being abducted by aliens. 19, 1961, when they saw a bright light and what looked like a flying saucer as they drove through Franconia Notch. It goes on to explore the psychology of skepticism and belief using the Hills’ experience as a case study.īetty and Barney were returning home to Portsmouth from a vacation on Sept. Hosted by Durham resident Toby Ball, the podcast begins on a September night in 1961 when the Hills encountered something they could not explain. DURHAM - The mysterious case of Betty and Barney Hill, a Portsmouth couple who believed they were abducted by extraterrestrials, will be featured in “Strange Arrivals,” a new 10-episode podcast, which launched March 31.
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