THE ABDUCTION OF BETTY AND BARNEY HILL: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America

In the mid-1960s, the Hills became famous as the first Americans to claim that aliens had taken them aboard a spacecraft against their will. Authorities repeatedly discounted the Hills' story of abduction; as a result, they lost faith in the scientific establishment, the American government, and the success of the civil rights movement. Illus.