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Friedman and Marden publish 'Captured!' on the Betty and Barney Hill case

When: 2007
Sources: 1 public source

Stanton Friedman, co-author with Kathleen Marden of 'Captured!' SMG2019, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman and Kathleen Marden, Betty Hill's niece, published 'Captured!' with New Page Books. It retells the 1961 Hill abduction claim, drawing on the Hills' papers, letters and audiotapes, which Marden held as conservator, and compares their hypnosis sessions.

Sources

OtherAt Last, the Inside Story of the Betty and Barney Hill Alien Abduction (opens in a new tab)PRLeap (release for New Page Books) / 2007-07-28

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How the story came out

This reports on Betty and Barney Hill encounter (19 Sep 1961) and Betty and Barney Hill hypnosis sessions with Dr. Benjamin Simon (1964).

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