Franconia Notch and the Hills' Missing Hours
On the night of 19–20 September 1961 Barney and Betty Hill were driving home from Canada on Route 3 through this notch in the White Mountains. By their account a bright light followed the car; Barney stopped, looked through binoculars, and drove off in a panic. They reached home two hours later than they should have, and could not account for the two hours. Two years later, under hypnosis, both described being taken aboard and examined. The transcripts became a book, and through it the whole subsequent genre of abduction: before the Hills, that story did not exist in the subject. A New Hampshire state historical marker stands on the highway — a rare thing to erect for an episode of this kind.
Delphos and the Glowing Ring
On the evening of 2 November 1971 sixteen-year-old Ron Johnson was tending sheep on a farm outside this Kansas town when, he said, a glowing object on three legs stood twenty metres away and then went up with a roar. His parents, running out at his shout, found a glowing ring on the ground about two and a half metres across. The ring was photographed. The soil inside it repelled water for months afterwards, and laboratory analysis found an unusual organic content; botanists suggested a fungal ring — but a fungal ring does not glow and does not appear in a minute. The case remains one of the few in the subject where the argument is not about a story but about soil analysis.
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