Case · UFO Afrinews No 7, January 1993
Barney and Betty Hill: lost time (cited for comparison)
1961 ยท USA (not specified), United States
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
In her points of interest after Jack van der Merwe's story Hind names the Hills' 1961 experience as one of the most famous abductee stories, noting that the couple found they had lost roughly an hour and a half. She uses it only to establish that missing time is a common factor in UAP reports, matching van der Merwe's unaccounted two hours in the Durban wool shed. She adds John Spencer's remark, from The UFO Encyclopedia, that the 1989 International UFO Conference in London agreed missing time should never be suggested to a witness but must be volunteered. No other detail of the Hill case is given.
What Hind made of it
Cited as the classic example that missing time is a common factor of UAP reports.
Cross references
- Case No 40 Jack van der Merwe
- John Spencer, The UFO Encyclopedia
- 1989 International UFO Conference, London