Betty Hill (Abductee)
| Name(s): | Eunice Betty Hill |
|---|---|
| Birth Name: | Eunice Betty née Barrett |
| Birth Date: | July 28, 1919 |
| Birth Place: | Newton, New Hampshire |
| Death Date: | October 17, 2004 |
| Death Place: | Kingston, New Hampshire |
| Occupation: | Social worker |
| Spouse: | Barney Hill |
| Case File: | Betty and Barney Hill Case File |
Betty Hill (1919–2004)
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Full name | Eunice Betty Hill (née Barrett) |
| Born | July 28, 1919, Newton, New Hampshire |
| Died | October 17, 2004, Kingston, New Hampshire |
| Occupation | Social worker; child welfare caseworker, New Hampshire Division of Child Welfare |
| Education | University of New Hampshire |
| Political activity | Civil rights worker; NAACP member; active in New Hampshire Democratic Party |
| Religious affiliation | Unitarian |
| First marriage | Divorced prior to marrying Barney |
| Marriage to Barney | 1960 |
| Post-incident activity | Active UFO researcher and lecturer for decades after the incident; gave hundreds of talks |
Betty Hill was a social worker by profession and a committed civil rights activist by vocation. Her intelligence, organizational drive, and willingness to speak publicly made her the more publicly active of the two Hills in the years following the incident. She was the first to contact both NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena) and the Air Force following the September 1961 experience, and she remained an active UFO researcher and lecturer for the rest of her life — attending conferences, corresponding with researchers worldwide, and continuing to visit and study the Indian Head site.
Betty is described by everyone who knew her as curious, assertive, and completely sincere. She was not naive about the skeptical reception her account would receive, but she was constitutionally incapable of pretending the experience had not occurred.
