The UFO Incident
A 1975 TV film about the Hill alien abduction case.
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The UFO Incident is a 1975 American made-for-television biographical film starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons. It is based on the alleged 1961 alien abduction of Barney and Betty Hill, an interracial couple who reported a traumatic encounter with a UFO and later recovered memories under hypnosis.
Lore & Background
The film introduces Barney and Betty Hill, two ordinary people who have had the most extraordinary experience. Barney is a postman and Betty is a social worker.
They are an interracial couple who are very happy with each other, but they are perplexed by a traumatic experience of which they have no memory. Two years later, they are still tormented by what happened during a trip where they have a mysterious lapse of memory after seeing a UFO hover over their car. They wake up from a strange daze after hearing an odd beeping sound further down the road.
Reader's Guide
The UFO Incident aired on October 20, 1975, about two weeks before the Travis Walton UFO incident of November 5, 1975. Cognitive psychologist Susan Clancy argued that this film influenced Travis Walton to present his own alleged abduction story.
The film did not have an official home video release until June 21, 2022, when Kino Lorber Studio Classics released a 2K remaster on Blu-ray. In 2011, The Huffington Post reported that a more developed film based on the book Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience (2007) by Stanton Friedman and Kathleen Marden was being pursued as a possible project.
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- Wikipedia: The UFO Incident (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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