The young Betty and Barney Hill

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I stumbled upon this photo of the Hills from a YouTube clip I think. (I removed, sloppily, the "run video" button that was in the middle of the photo.)

It shows the happily married, young bi-racial couple at a time when such a marriage was not acceptable, as it is now.

It's a lovely photo of a seemingly normal couple.

Could they have gone "off-track" later in life? Perhaps, but I wish to believe they remained happy and sensible right up to their (imagined?) incident.

Something happened to the Hills. What that was may have been psychological (a folie a deux?) or an actual traumatic event: alien kidnapping or human assault.

I've always thought Betty Hill was a sweet person, caught up in the mob hysteria of ufologists, and made off-kilter by the attention she was subject to.

That is, she was a victim, in some way or another.

RR