Barney and Betty Hill were an American couple who claimed they were abducted by extraterrestrials in a rural portion of the state of New Hampshire from September 19 to 20, 1961. It was the first widely publicized report of an alien abduction in the United States. Not dissimilar from the story of our beloved Travis Walton, these to spent time about a glowing ship, but they alleged to have come back with memories and instructions only accessible via hypnosis only.