I just recently read that book "Captured!" by Stanton Friedman, an allegedly "good" book about the Hill case.
Of course, I knew about the Hill case for many years already, it's THE classic UFO abduction case.

"Captured!" did NOT convince me in the slightest. There would a be a lot to write now as to why.

To me it became even more clear that Betty was a witness with very poor observational skills, sometimes even getting fundamental things wrong in her observations. At times, her and Barney's account even differ in simple things like who actually walked the dog or other very basic things about their memory recollections.

I can, NOT IN A MILLION YEARS, imagine that Betty Hill then "all of a sudden" and in this instance only had such a phenomenal photographic memory that she was able to recall a star map and then draw it 100% accurately. There is no fricking way on Earth. Most of the other things she recalls are vague and subjective, makes me question her capability as a witness what they experienced on that day as a whole.

Funny thing is, even Friedman at some point admitted that Betty's capability as a witness is mediocre at best.

I therefore have to reject the "star map" and the "research" done with it.

Thanks for this thread OP I'm about to digress a little off topic.

It is quite amazing and unexplainable how an average couple (especially Betty) can have such vivid and bizarre memories of things that wouldn't at all serve a purpose if her objective was to punk the world!

I had the pleasure not only to meet Betty in 2002 but speak with her briefly ---- and I walked away with a profound consideration.

I don't believe Mrs Hill was a liar. Not at all. Nor do I think most of the famous folks (Travis, Jim/Jack Weiner etc) associated with this phenomenon are either.

So I ask: how is it Betty, an average social worker from New Hampshire, was able to memorize almost verbatim, a star map that wasn't part of our present day knowledge?
Or how was she able to describe the details of amniocentesis even before it was ever heard of (but now used all the time in risky pregnancies)?

That's when I thought, perhaps some of us get stuck in some vortex and are reliving past (and/or future) experiences. It may be as simple as that complex thought!

We can easily accept that we are all star-dust, right? In fact, we sing song about that so...is it really that much of a stretch to consider we're the biological creation of some earlier race that evolved first?

I don't believe for a minute that this life is all we were created for. Not this blink of reality. It defies quantum and spiritual logic.
I believe with every fiber of my being, we've been here for billions of years and experience 'life' in different vibrations/dimensions and stages.

So can these experiences be flash-backs of some past life of ours being re-lived sporadically and without warning, during this life time?
I sincerely believe that that might be what's going on here because the conventional explanations leave too many stone unturned.

Originally posted by flexy123
I can, NOT IN A MILLION YEARS, imagine that Betty Hill then "all of a sudden" and in this instance only had such a phenomenal photographic memory that she was able to recall a star map and then draw it 100% accurately. There is no fricking way on Earth. Most of the other things she recalls are vague and subjective, makes me question her capability as a witness what they experienced on that day as a whole.

I once had a car accident with another car that ran away. A serious crash though no one was injured.

I tell wou what, I am unable to identify that other car. There were 3 other persons with me in the car, and we all 4 had a different opinion on what make/model it was, and even the color.

I clearly remember many other details though, like my clothes or the fact that a refrigerated meat truck was parked on the left side of the road a few dozens of meter ahead of me. That was in 1996.

Memory is not something easy to understand. And there is absolutely nothing against having discrepancies in different people's accounts of the same events. Sometimes, it is not that, that matters.

The first thing that come to my mind about such "star map"... Really? There are billions of stars in the sky... If you draw a bunch of random dots in a paper, the chance you get a similar star position is almost 100%. Don't matter where you put your dots, you can find one if you look in a astronomical map.