![]() Neither was the part about Hill making a mad dash back to his car on Route 3, screaming in terror to his wife, Betty Hill, that the couple had to leave, fast, or risk capture. The part about Barney Hill squinting through binoculars and seeing humanoids above this same field, peering from windows like passengers on a plane, was not. At least that’s what Noel had always told his children and then his grandchildren. The trees had been zapped by radiation emitted from an alien craft in 1961. He pointed with a sweeping motion across the horizon. Leon Noel moved carefully toward the row of twisted, sagging apple trees near the Interstate 93 overpass in Lincoln, each step swallowed by two feet of snow. GEOFF FORESTER-Monitor staffīetty and Barney Hill show a newspaper account of their alleged abduction by aliens. All I know is something happened.â GEOFF FORESTER-Monitor staffĪn alien drawing on the side of the gas station conveniece store across the street where the supposed Hill incident involving an abduction took place in Lincoln, New Hampshire in 1961. When asked if he believed in the story, âWho knows?â Noel said. Leon Noel stands among the old apple trees near the I-93 exit where Barney and Betty Hill stopped in Lincoln, New Hampshire back in 1961 and had their supposed encounter with aliens. When asked if he believed in the story, Noel said, “Who knows?â Noel said. ![]() Leon Noel stands among the old apple trees near the Interstate 93 exit where Barney and Betty Hill stopped in Lincoln back in 1961 and had their supposed encounter with aliens. Little green aliens hang from the gas station convenience store across the street from the location of the Hill incident happened in 1961. The official state marker identifying the Betty and Barney Hill incident along Route 3 in Lincoln.Īlien dolls are sold at the gas station convenience store across the street from where the Hills’ incident allegedly occurred along Route 3 in Lincoln. They’re there in my brain.Clouds over Lincoln are seen at sunset in February. The setting is eerie, shifting, dreamlike and yet the invasion is corporeal-a haunting within flesh-as described by Barney Hill, ‘Oh those eyes. I wanted to capture that faltering feeling through repetitive, abstract events-as if the car is moving through time and space until time and space itself degrades around them-the characters, stuck in a loop, ultimately ending up in the same place they began. However, there is much we do not yet understand, some of which we will never comprehend.”Ĭlara Murray, who animated the video, talked about the abduction itself, “As with any alien abduction story, the case of Betty and Barney Hill left me unsettled, curious, doubtful. The looming presence of the unknown is daunting and sometimes frightening. When we experience something that doesn’t make logical sense, the mind looks to conjure any explanation no matter how outlandish it appears. I even started to believe that perhaps I had been abducted by some kind intergalactic being as they claimed occurred to them fifty-four years ago. Within this period, I felt a close connection to Betty and Barney Hill and their story. ![]() ![]() In reference to “The Ballad of Betty and Barney Hill,” Angelo says that “while making the album I endured an experience so horrendous, torturous, and inexplicable that words fail me and explanation seems impossible. Both the bundle and LP include a randomized set of three Toil and Trouble themed collector cards. Check with your local record store to pre-order an indie gold exclusive color, or you can buy a cauldron-fire colored vinyl, and a bundle including a Toil and Trouble themed T-shirt, Angelo’s 2019 Tomb on vinyl. You can hear the song and watch the video here. The song is based on the Betty and Barney Hill incident, a UFO sighting in New Hampshire that occurred in 1961 in which the Hills, with their dog, Delsey, claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials.Īccompanying the song is a stop-animated video by Clara Murray. Today Angelo De Augustine released “The Ballad of Betty and Barney Hill,” the second single from his upcoming new album, Toil and Trouble.
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