The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill
Alien Encounters, Civil Rights and the New Age in America
Matthew Bowman
Yale University Pres 2023
Hb, 278pp, £25, ISBN 9780300251388
Matthew Bowman, a religious historian who has written on that very UFO-adjacent American church, Mormonism, asks us to cast our minds back to 1961, a time when segregation was still a part of American life, people trusted scientists and their government and, perhaps most shockingly of all, almost nobody had heard of alien abductions.
The story of Betty and Barney Hill’s late night encounter with something in the mountainous New Hampshire wilderness
