The Betty and Barney Hill Exhibit is now open in the University Museum and runs until the end of May, 2009. The museum is located on Level 1 in Dimond Library.
The Betty and Barney Hill Collection in Special Collections consists of thousands of items stored in 87 folders, including correspondence, personal journals and essays, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, photographs, slides, films, audio tapes and artwork.
As Portsmouth resident Betty Hill drove her mother home on Route 108 at 8 p.m. Sept. 7, 1977, she saw large red and green lights on what she believed to be a UFO as she neared Trickling Falls in East Kingston. Later as she was driving home, she saw another UFO with red and green lights following railroad tracks near Route 107.
Betty Hill’s report of a UFO sighting is one of thousands she catalogued during her lifetime after she and her husband, Barney Hill, became known internationally for reporting they had been abducted by aliens in 1961 in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.
On Friday, April 17, a public forum will be held to celebrate the opening of the Betty and Barney Hill Collection exhibition. The forum and exhibition highlight the couple’s reported alien abduction in 1961, and Barney Hill’s civil rights activism in New Hampshire in the 1960s.
The public forum, “Betty and Barney Hill: Tales of Alien Abduction and Civil Rights Activism in New Hampshire,” begins at 1 p.m. in the Memorial Union Building, Room 334/336.
The Betty and Barney Hill Collection consists of thousands of items stored in 87 folders, including correspondence, personal journals and essays, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, photographs, slides, films, audio tapes and artwork.
