The couple initially thought they had seen a falling star or a satellite off its course, but the Hills soon had the sinking feeling that the bright light was following them. While driving, they noticed a bright light cross the night sky. The Hills were also an interracial couple active in the civil rights movement, and they had been married just 16 months at the time of their impromptu trip. They wanted to escape their demanding work lives: Barney worked the night shift at a post office, and Betty was a welfare worker for the state. Photo: FX / FXīetty and Barney Hill were driving down Route 3 in the White Mountains of New Hampshire on September 19, 1961, returning from a vacation to Niagara Falls and Montreal. The alien abduction case of Betty and Barney Hill has fascinated the public for decades and frustrated skeptics who believe the whole ordeal is nothing but a giant hoax.
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They collaborated on a book about their experience, and their story was later adapted into a 1975 made-for-TV movie called The UFO Incident, starring Estelle Parsons and James Earl Jones. The Hills claimed they were taken in 1961 ( Asylum starts in 1964), and their story quickly became a media sensation. The American Horror Story alien abduction adapts the supposed real-life abduction of Betty and Barney Hill. It was also about science versus faith so it made sense to me," Murphy said in a 2013 interview. It fit very easily into the world of a Catholic sanitarium asylum. At first glance, the two plots have nothing in common, and showrunner Ryan Murphy had to defend the choice. "For me, were always an obvious metaphor for God. Fans were divided at the end of American Horror Story: Asylum, which patched together the storylines of a nightmarish mental institution and an alien abduction.
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