Alien Abduction: Betty and Barney Hill

This is based on an autobiography type novel that the authors claimed was real to increase their book sales. It worked and movies have been made based on the book. The Authors confessed years ago(like in the 1980's, on many TV talk shows and magazine interviews) that it was only a work of fiction with a mishmash of ideas thrown in for good measure, and that it did make them a lot of money! Success! The story is pretty interesting until one of the aliens appears in WW2 German officers uniform, then the story gets dumb and silly and eventually fails. If you have some time time to kill and don't care how you do it, give this a watch-trust me, while it's bad, there are far worse shows out there!

There's a bit of new research and new recordings but if you already know the Hill's story then this doesn't really add much. There are a few strange omissions such as how some psychiatrists wrote the entire abduction off as one big hallucination due to the difficulties of being an interracial couple and how the hypnosis sessions were criticised for "prompting" Betty and Barney, despite that not always being the case -- especially where important detailed scenarios are described by the abductees. As in most of these types of documentary series', the over-use of spooky alien eyes and repeated transitions of a ship flying over or an alien looking at the camera with some glitchy effects is prominent. There's also a lot of AI upscaling used for old photos of the couple -- these images would have been better with basic noise reduction tools as the upscaling creates artifacts that make the couple's faces look hilarious (think silly misshaped mouths and eyes) The doco finishes off with a clip of a much-older Betty where she claims that they were the first couple to be abducted -- a bit of a silly thing to include if you want to push their credibility as it makes it seem like they were proud of the publicity the abduction caused.

This is based on an autobiography type novel that the authors claimed was real to increase their book sales. It worked and movies have been made based on the book. The Authors confessed years ago(like in the 1980's, on many TV talk shows and magazine interviews) that it was only a work of fiction with a mishmash of ideas thrown in for good measure, and that it did make them a lot of money! Success! The story is pretty interesting until one of the aliens appears in WW2 German officers uniform, then the story gets dumb and silly and eventually fails. If you have some time time to kill and don't care how you do it, give this a watch-trust me, while it's bad, there are far worse shows out there!

There's a bit of new research and new recordings but if you already know the Hill's story then this doesn't really add much. There are a few strange omissions such as how some psychiatrists wrote the entire abduction off as one big hallucination due to the difficulties of being an interracial couple and how the hypnosis sessions were criticised for "prompting" Betty and Barney, despite that not always being the case -- especially where important detailed scenarios are described by the abductees. As in most of these types of documentary series', the over-use of spooky alien eyes and repeated transitions of a ship flying over or an alien looking at the camera with some glitchy effects is prominent. There's also a lot of AI upscaling used for old photos of the couple -- these images would have been better with basic noise reduction tools as the upscaling creates artifacts that make the couple's faces look hilarious (think silly misshaped mouths and eyes) The doco finishes off with a clip of a much-older Betty where she claims that they were the first couple to be abducted -- a bit of a silly thing to include if you want to push their credibility as it makes it seem like they were proud of the publicity the abduction caused.