BUILDING A FORTEAN LIBRARY
The New England leaves were just beginning to turn red and gold in the early autumn of 2000 when nine disparate characters arrived for a long weekend together at the Indian Head resort in New Hampshire (see FT225:39). They were gathering to discuss, in secret, the seminal, alleged abduction by aliens of Betty and Barney Hill that had occurred nearby in September 1961 (see FT110:28-31, 195:24, 262:48-50, 276:30, 296:72-73, 299:24, 302:69, 384:44-47). They wined and dined Betty that night, and the following day went with her to what she and Barney had decided was the aliens’ landing site. Then they presented their papers, in the company of Joe Firmage, who funded the venture, and the discussions began. And seven years later, when – amazingly – still no one had let the secret out, those papers were published…
Edited by ufologists Karl Pflock and Peter Brookesmith, dissects, from nine different angles, the Hills’ experience all those years before. The main text consists of seven chapters each based on a paper delivered at the symposium, along with additional chapters written by Walter N
