![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When I walked into that gas station’s single unisex bathroom, I felt like Ali Baba discovering the phrase, “Open, Sesame.” I memorialized the moment with a Twitter post at the time. Clustered around the register counter were various trinkets in alien form, including day-glo inflatables and key chains, as well as a few copies of the Marden and Friedman book Captured, which I referenced in Part I of this article.Īs I started to leave the station, trying to weigh whether the outside painting by itself was enough to merit more than a passing mention in this article, my bladder made a better decision than my brain. The gas station had some, of course, although not as many as I thought an eight-foot-square painting of an extraterrestrial would presage. The date on the painting, though, is most definitely 2009…making this relatively breaking news on my part (working on the “relatively breaking news” icon as we speak).Īfter I pretended to fill up my gas tank, all the while merely checking out the painting, I went inside to see the inevitable alien-themed wares for sale. Just look for the person with the “painted giant alien tableau for gas station” feather on their resume. He or she shouldn’t be too hard to track down, though. The author’s full name is difficult to make out for sure, but the last name is probably Thibeault and the first name seems to start with an A. I didn’t notice this until after I’d returned and was sorting through the pictures from my visit, but the painting is actually signed and dated way down in the corner, inches above the paved parking lot. Above the painting are the words, “First Close Encounter of the Third Kind, Betty and Barney Hill, Sept. Upon pulling up to a pump, the first inkling you get that this gas station is more than mere pit stop is the large eight-foot-square painting of a spindly, big-headed alien standing in the middle of a dark forest road, which is hanging beside the ice freezer where any other gas station would have a vinyl banner hawking beer, cigarettes, and stale snack cakes. The strange bathroom can be found in the town of Lincoln, at the Franconia Notch Irving Express gas station located right off exit 33 on I-93/Route 3, the same route down which the Hills traversed that dark night decades past She also looks at the Hills' riveting hypnosis sessions about their time onboard the spacecraft.And that’s exactly what it is. Kathleen Marden, Betty Hill's niece, shares details from her discussions with Betty and from the evidence of the UFO abduction. In Captured you'll get an insider's look at the alien abduction, new information about the lives of the Hills before and after Barney's death in 1969, their status as celebrities, Betty's experiences as a UFO investigator, and other activities before her death in 2004. But the complete story of what really happened that day, its effect on the participants, and the findings of investigators has never been told. It also became a target for debunkers, who still attack it today. The case is mentioned in almost all UFO abduction books. The 1961 abduction of the Hills stirred worldwide interest, primarily because of the book The Interrupted Journey, the subsequent media coverage, and a 1975 TV movie, The UFO Incident. If you have doubts or questions about the Hill case or alien experiences in general, Captured will give you the answers you're searching for. Today, almost sixty years after the UFO abduction of Betty and Barney Hill, more and more people are convinced that UFOs are real and their existence is being covered up by the government. ![]()
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