With Doctor Simon's assistance and their strong love for each other, Barney and Betty are able to come to terms with their experience and get on with their lives.Īt the end of the film, it is revealed that Barney died of a stroke in 1969 at the age of 46. She and Barney are subjected to disturbing medical experiments by the aliens, such as Betty having a needle shoved into her navel. Betty also reacts with horror describing their captive experience. Barney begins screaming in horror during the session as he describes his and Betty's being abducted by the aliens from the UFO. Barney describes his and Betty's seeing a strange object in the sky that begins to follow and then to terrify them. They report the incident to the US Air Force (the US Air Force at the time had a project relating to UFO sightings called Project Blue Book).ĭoctor Simon places Barney under hypnosis and he begins to relive the experience. They are both tormented by mysterious nightmares that Betty begins to document. Barney tells the doctor that he has had physical symptoms after the experience such as strange warts on his groin. Doctor Simon mentions that Barney has suffered from a childhood of racial strife and feels deep guilt about his divorce. The doctor decides that the best treatment to unlock their case of double amnesia is hypnosis. They wake up some time later much farther down the road.īarney and Betty consult psychiatrist Doctor Benjamin Simon, who tries to help them find the answer. Two years later, they are still tormented by what happened during a trip where they have a mysterious lapse of memory which takes place after sighting a strange object hovering over their car. 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. The film introduces us to Barney and Betty Hill, two ordinary people who have had the most extraordinary experience. The UFO Incident is a 1975 American made-for-television biographical film starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons based on the alleged 1961 alien abduction of Barney and Betty Hill. Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California Hesper Anderson (teleplay) and Jake Justiz (teleplay) A newspaper clip about the film shortly upon its release.
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