Comments on: Abductee Betty Hill Expected “Millions” For Alien Story

By: Ryan Dube

Ryan Dube — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:52:00 +0000

Hey Johken – I’m pleased that you landed on this particular page. It was one of the first Ufology pieces I wrote at TSW, even though I’ve written extensively on the topic elsewhere. I think what you’ll discovery after looking around is that TSW is one of the least biased sites covering these matters – we work extremely hard to maintain the middle ground.

For example, the “Betty expected millions” was based on an excellent source – an author that interviewed her in person. We interviewed the author himself and followed up with additional articles (please check them out). You will find that we do not draw conclusions if there’s no evidence to support it, but we also don’t dismiss something out of hand unless that ‘something’ is completely ludicrous and flies in the face of all available solid evidence to the contrary.

Happy to have you here!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:50:00 +0000

Hi everyone! Just stumbled upon this site after clicking through various links, and voila! I landed here!

I love the premise…”top secret stuff you never knew existed…” etc. But now, after reading the first posting (“Betty expected millions…”) I am left with 2 distinct impressions; 1- Your stories are not properly vetted, and 2- They are profoundly biased, which flies in the face of journalistic rules.
But hey…it’s your blog. I may probe a bit deeper into other stories, unless I find it to be like so many other websites that thrive on sensationalism.

By: Ryan Dube

Ryan Dube — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 04:11:00 +0000

Thank you Jimmy – isn’t that fascinating… It would be interesting to probe any correlations between that movie and the Hills – for example, if they saw the movie and if so, when they saw it? Definitely something worth pursuing. Thank you!

By: JimmyTheNeedle

JimmyTheNeedle — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 04:07:00 +0000

Hi there! great site! This is a response to ur “challenge” posted above. I dont know if anybody has commented on this already but if you look at the cover art for the movie “Invaders from Mars” there is clearly a “grey” in the centre of the art work. its only a head, but its there. That movie was released in 1953. So yeah, the idea of the “greys” was around way before Betty or Barney Hill. I know its not an “eyewitness” description but it clearly shows a “grey” anywho, I really enjoy ur scientific approach to all this. Its refreshing to be able to read something that is unbiased and focused on the scientific approach.

Keep the awesomeness coming!

By: Ryan Dube

Ryan Dube — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:19:00 +0000

Yes it is true – my wording was just off. What I meant to say was that the “Greys” were created throughout the 1970s, based on what Betty and Barney hill relayed under hypnosis. I will edit to clarify that sentence.

Furthermore, they did in fact describe the greys first in their hypnotic descriptions. Please reference transcripts of their sessions in 1964 with Boston psychiatrist Dr Benjamin Simon where they describe the beings as approximately 5ft 4inches tall, no ears, slit-like mouths, small noses, cat-like eyes that extended toward the side of the heads, broad foreheads and a small chin.

I challenge you to produce any other description of a grey prior to 1964. The Hills were the first to describe this alleged “being” which the UFO community later labeled the “greys” – they were invented by the Hills in these hypnotic regressions.

In 1999, Betty might have wanted to distance herself from the madness of the UFO community and their hijacking of the “greys” – who can blame her – but the bottom line is that she and Barney started the madness in 1964.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:31:35 +0000

Pablo,

Thanks for your comment and insight. I couldn’t agree more. It would do the field a great service if more scientists would be willing to once again turn to this phenomenon with a fresh eye and ignore the ridiculous nature of Ufology as it stands today. With one or two significant scientific findings in the field, it could potentially gain relevance as a viable and important field of study.

Thanks again for your comment!

By: Pablo

Pablo — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:16:32 +0000

This is a perfect example that shows why the search for extraterrestrial life should be left to scientists; whether the Hill case is true or not now has been tarnished beyond salvations simply because ufology is a collection of hearsay stuff in one sense or another. Science does recognize the probability of finding aliens ? after all, what is the Drake equation? What is the SETI project? What is exobiology? It just doesn’t let itself be carried away by every alleged belief, witness or victim. The sad lesson for ufology is that being the idea of finding life elsewhere so attractive to the public, it has generated expectations well beyond what it could deliver simply because finding, learning, understanding and doing all the things involved in any scientific quest take time. The common public is normally not so patient and that led to the appearance of all sorts of wild notions and scams that brought down the prestige of the very notion of alien life. Ufology has been ridiculed not because life outside Earth or interstellar travel are ridiculous, but due to its very poor epistemological record.

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