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    <title>Qualla: Barney and Betty Hill Incident</title>
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      <title>Barney and Betty Hill Incident: Introduction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[They never wanted to be famous. Barney Hill was a postal worker and World War II veteran. Betty was a social worker. Both were active in their Portsmouth, New Hampshire community -- members of the NAACP, leaders in their Unitarian congregation, Barney serving on a local board of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. They were an interracial couple in 1961 America, already accustomed to drawing stares. But the attention that found them on the night of September 19, 1961, while driving home from a vacation through the White Mountains on U.S. Route 3, would define the rest of their lives and reshape how the world thinks about encounters with the unknown.]]></description>
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      <title>Barney and Betty Hill Incident: A Light Through Franconia Notch</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It started simply enough -- a bright point of light in the sky, south of Lancaster, moving in a way that defied Betty's initial guess of a falling star. She urged Barney to stop near Twin Mountain for a better look. Through binoculars, Betty watched an odd-shaped craft flashing m...]]></description>
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      <title>Barney and Betty Hill Incident: Two Hours That Vanished</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Hills sped south. They heard a series of strange beeping sounds, then fell into a daze. When awareness returned, they were just outside Concord -- and the clock told a story their memories could not. The 178-mile drive from Colebrook should have taken roughly four hours. Seve...]]></description>
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      <title>Barney and Betty Hill Incident: Dreams, Hypnosis, and Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ten days after the encounter, Betty began having vivid dreams -- five consecutive nights of small men in blue uniforms with greyish skin forcing the couple through a darkened forest. She wrote down every detail. When NICAP investigators later discovered the missing time, the Hill...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ten days after the encounter, Betty began having vivid dreams -- five consecutive nights of small men in blue uniforms with greyish skin forcing the couple through a darkened forest. She wrote down every detail. When NICAP investigators later discovered the missing time, the Hill...</p>
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      <title>Barney and Betty Hill Incident: The Map to Zeta Reticuli</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Betty's star map drawing attracted one of the incident's strangest afterlives. In 1968, Ohio schoolteacher and amateur astronomer Marjorie Fish built a three-dimensional model of nearby sun-like stars using thread and beads, referencing the Gliese Star Catalogue. After studying t...]]></description>
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      <title>Barney and Betty Hill Incident: A Marker on the Mountain Road</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Barney died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1969 at age 46. Betty lived until 2004, passing at 85, a fixture in UFO circles but never remarrying. Skeptics have offered alternative explanations -- an aircraft warning beacon on Cannon Mountain that appears and disappears exactly as the...]]></description>
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