When Betty and Barney Hill arrived at the office of Boston psychiatrist Benjamin Simon on Dec 14, 1963, they appeared to have a number of perfectly normal problems.

Betty and Barney Hill believed in racial uplift, liberalism, advancement through respectability, and worked as part of their local NAACP organizing committee in New Hampshire. They believed reform and ...

The tale of Barney and Betty Hill, who claimed to have been abducted by aliens in 1961, is the subject of a new film, Strange Arrivals, starring Demi Moore and Colman Domingo ...

For Betty and Barney Hill, however, the drive down Route 3 was less enjoyable. As the story goes, the Hills were driving home from a vacation in Canada on Sept. 19, 1961, when they saw lights ...

Betty’s husband died of a brain haemorrhage aged 46, in 1969, and she became a celebrity within the UFO ­community before dying at 85, in 2004.. Now their 76-year-old niece Kathleen Marden, who ...

Matthew Bowman’s new book, “The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill,” claims that the couple’s story of the 1961 encounter isn’t so much about aliens as it is about race.

Betty and Barney Hill were at the center of one of America’s most famous alien abduction cases. They were also an interracial couple and civil rights leaders at the time. But their alleged ...