September
1961: Near Indian Head, New Hampshire, Betty and Barney Hill have a
disturbing encounter with a UFO while driving home from a short
vacation. Later, under hypnosis, the couple recall having been abducted
by aliens.
October 1966: John Fuller’s book, The
Interrupted Journey, based on the Hills’ story, is published, and
becomes an immediate best seller.
October 1975:
NBC airs the story in a made-for-TV movie titled The UFO Incident.
James Earl Jones portrays Barney Hill, and Estelle Parsons plays Betty.
September
2000: Nearly 40 years after the original incident, a symposium of
seasoned, independent UFO researchers is held at Indian Head, New
Hampshire, to re-evaluate this classic UFO abduction case.
Among
the participants are Hilary Evans and Peter Brookesmith from the U.K.,
with Thomas ‘Ed’ Bullard, Karl Pflock, Dennis Stacy, and Robert
Scheaffer from the U.S. Sociologist and veteran anomalist Marcello
Truzzi chairs the meeting. Betty Hill joins the group for an evening’s
entertainment and a morning tour of the sites where, she says, she and
Barney encountered aliens. What the participants concluded is recorded
here, along with additional commentaries written especially for this
book by the Hills’ first investigator, Walter N. Webb, and critical
analyst Martin Kottmeyer. The result of this unique meeting of minds
was more than an exercise in diverse interpretations: it became a
common quest to establish, as far as humanly possible, what actually
happened to the Hills so many years ago.
What
reviewers are saying about the book...
"Indian
Head
is, quite possibly the most significant published piece of
work on
the [Betty and Barney] Hill affair to date...This is the sort of book
that I have wanted to see published for a long time: namely one that
sees a group of Ufologists, researchers and writers get together,
debate and discuss a controversial case, argue and defend their
respective positions, and then try and reach some form of
conclusion...a good, solid, wide-ranging study of one of the most
famous, talked-about and important UFO cases of all time. And while the
book contains a variety of theories from an equal variety of observers,
all seem unanimous in the idea that - whatever the truth of the Hill
affair - its effect and influence upon Ufology and alien abduction
research and reports has been enormous.” – Nick Redfern, UFO
Mystic
“It’s an exemplary debriefing on how a story grew in the telling,
influencing the content of many ‘abduction’ experiences to follow and,
in turn, giving birth to the ‘missing time’ school of self-referenced
and highly subjective (but very bankable in terms of media) ufology.
The lack of consensus on what happened to the Hills reflects a healthy
division of opinion in ufology.” – Bob Rickard, Fortean Times, which gave it a perfect "10" and called it “Intelligent, wide-ranging and a must have for UFOlogists."
“Encounters at Indian Head is
an excellent study of why the uncertainties of human testimony alone
will guarantee that there will always be room for doubt, and that
resolution of a case of that type will always be dependent on one’s
approach...I recommended the book.” – Bill Chalker, The UFOlogist
“The
10 essays by nine experts range from highly technical and footnoted to
deeply philosophical. We hear the Hills’ story from many perspectives… Encounters at Indian Head is
an earnest attempt to fathom the unfathomable. It’s about much more
than Betty and Barney and what happened to them. It’s about what we
believe and why we believe it." – Rebecca Rule, The Concord Monitor
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CONTENTS
Being There
.............................................................9
KARL
PFLOCK AND PETER BROOKESMITH
Images from Indian
Head ....................................19
Chapter
One
A Night and a Morning to
Remember .............28
DENNIS STACY
Chapter
Two
Judging the Hill
Case .........................................70
MARCELLO
TRUZZI
Chapter Three
The
Start of Something Rich and Strange.......91
THOMAS
E. BULLARD
Chapter Four
Beyond
the UFO Horizon ...............................127
HILARY
EVANS
Chapter Five
Of Time
and the River .....................................152
PETER
BROOKESMITH
Chapter Six
There
Were No Extraterrestrials......................186
ROBERT
SHEAFFER
Chapter Seven
A
Singular Visitation .......................................209
KARL
PFLOCK
Chapter Eight
Reflections
on the Hill Case ..........................239
WALTER
N. WEBB
Appendix
“No One
Should Know of This Experience”.272
MARTIN S.
KOTTMEYER
Index ....................................................................308
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