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Barney Hill sketched the UFO he had observed hours earlier when he arrived home on 9/20/1961. Skeptics incorrectly claim that he sketched in years later. Why do skeptics offer the public false reports on this case? You'll find the historical evidence below.

Project Blue Book Air Intelligence Information Report 100th Bomb Wing SAC Pease Air Force Base

Betty typed this letter to NICAP Director Donald Keyhoe, a USMC Retired Major, on September 26, 1961, days after the Hills' UFO encounter. She borrowed his book from the Portsmouth Public Library. It is the first book she had ever read on UFOs. Yet skeptics falsely claim that she was anavid science fiction fan.

NICAP Investigator Walter Webb, an astronomer at the Hayden Planetarium in Boston, MA, investigated the Hills' UFO sighting in mid-October 1961. This is one important page from his confidential NICAP Report. Barney described the figures he observed with binoculars through the craft's windows as it hovered less than 100 feet in the distance. Skeptics mistakenly claim that he was observing a boxy tramway car, eight miles north of his actual location more than a mile south of the Indian Head Resort. Others claim that he remembered nothing from that night. Read WalterWebb's report for the truth of what Barney remembered.

Closeminded skeptics insist that there were no witnesses to the UFO on September 19, 1961. They are incorrect. Below you will find the evidence that they have chosen to ignore. John Luttrell, the author of this letter, was an award winning investigative reporter. He learned of the Hills' UFO event through a violation of confidentiality by Betty's trusted friend Lorrie, the wife of a military officer. Mr. Luttrell contacted Betty and Barney, but they refused to speak with him. He investigated the case and published his findings in The Boston Traveler newspaper. His columns on the Hills' abduction were published for five consecutive days in late October 1965. He had already located six witnesses to the UFO, all in separate locations. It appears that additional witnesses contacted him after The Boston Traveler published his investigative report. Below you will read his reply to an inquiry from Stanton Friedman. This is compelling evidence of witnesses to the same craft, at the same time, in the same location, on the same night. Kathleen has received reports from three additional witnesses that night. Skeptics choose simply todismiss this evidence. Why?

Walter Webb, astronomer and NICAP Investigator took this photograph of Barney at the close encounter field on US Highway 3 in Lincoln, NH, during his investigation of the Hills' UFO sighting. This is supporting evidence of the Hills' report that the UFO swooped down was  south of Franconia Notch. Skeptics continue to ignore this evidence while they promote a false scenario insisting that Betty and Barney did not observe a UFO south of Franconia Notch. It defeats their hypothesis that they observed nothing more than a stationary light in Franconia Notch. (The produce stand is no longer there and Interstate Highway 93 is now visible from this location.)