50 years ago tonite -

[rup]

Betty and Barney's wild night in Franconia Notch:

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/932989-196/new-hampshire-couples-claim-of-ufo-sighting.html

 

[erugs]

I watched a piece on NH Chronicle last night about the Hills and their frightful experience. Fifty years - hard to imagine. In some ways it seems ancient history, in other ways that it happened just a few decades ago.

 

[una_dogger]

Interesting story! I hadn't heard that one. Thanks for sharing.

 

[rup]

This is from Brian's post about the NH state landnark sign near Pumkin Head comemorating the event.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/25/betty-and-barney-hill-ufo-experience_n_907770.html

 

[Becca M]

good episode on Chronicle. After reading a LOT of articles on the incident, I still cannot figure out EXACTLY where it happened. One of the articles mentions a housing development. I've also heard the incident was near Exit 31 - near the top of Tripoli Rd. I can understand not wanting to publicize the location... but, still..... where are all the T-shirts/mugs/shot glasses available?????

 

[TDawg]

After talking with a couple old timers up here in the Pemi valley, who were around here then, according to them is that it was somewhere around "Thornton Gore" where they were actually picked up. Which isn't exactly on Rt. 3, but on the 175 side of the river.

Technically it is in the town of Woodstock since neither Rt. 3 or 175 go through Thornton Gore proper (which is basically the valleys of Eastman and a bit of Johnson Brooks,) where the former hillside farming community existed. But who knows, many accounts place it up near Indian Head.

So my best guess, maybe within a mile of the marked point in the map here.

 

[David Metsky]

Visit the Irving Station at Exit 33. It's a shrine to the whole incident, very surreal.

 

[una_dogger]

Visit the Irving Station at Exit 33. It's a shrine to the whole incident, very surreal.

I will! Do they have a brochure at the Visitor's Info Center in Lincoln?

 

[Tom Rankin]

Visit the Irving Station at Exit 33. It's a shrine to the whole incident, very surreal.

Is THAT what that is?! We stopped there a few years ago, and I just noticed all kinds of weird stuff, but never made the connection.

 

[rup]

Friedman's book (written with Betty's neice, I think) gave some detail as it decsribed themselves trying to find the place. Couldn't nail it exactly with a map, but have the feeling that you probably could if you were actually there.
Tdawg's map above looks like it's pretty close from what I remember reading.

 

[zman]

from the Nashua Chronicle article:

"Among the events will be a bus tour of the route the Hills took while driving home from a vacation in Quebec, back when White Mountain roads were a lot smaller, darker and more isolated than they are now.They won’t be able to visit the actual site where the Hills say the aliens took them aboard, because it’s a housing development"

 

[Cath]

On the map the A is placed where there is a air strip .
That property belongs to the Bradley's, and there are a few
private planes that come out of there. That section of Rt 175
was where a former covered bridge spanned the Pemi.

I was of the understanding that the site was just off Exit 33
between the North off ramp and the motel, which burned a few years ago.

 

[rup]

I've got to get the book from the library again.

 

[Seeker]

Visit the Irving Station at Exit 33. It's a shrine to the whole incident, very surreal.

And how is it that you've withheld this information until NOW?

 

[Lefty E]

Check out the East Mt. VT, Wikipedia information..adds some credibility to the whole story???

 

[Maddy]

...and the craft hovered and they heard some weird noises and also vibrations.

It was an "SAR chopper" in search of an "inexperienced hiker!

All kidding aside...interesting article.

 

[rup]

I took the book, captured', by Marden (Betty Hill's niece) and Friedman fom the library again. There was only a vague turn L / R description (p110)

However, I found the abduction location on Marden's website. Here it is. Will this become the 49th peak??

http://www.kathleen-marden.com/hill-close-encounter-route-self-guided-tour.php

 

[Puck]

It is threads like this that make me want to wear foil hats.

 

[rup]

I've been wearing a foil jock ever since my undergrad nuc lab.