![]() Last summer, I visited what was left of the base and took photos. On July 20, 2011, it erected a historical marker to commemorate the September 19-20, 1961 close encounter and lost time of Portsmouth residents Betty and Barney Hill. The other incident was a person who fell off the top of a radar tower. One was a snowmobiler who unknowingly rode into a chain set up as a makeshift gate and was decapitated. Since its closure, there have been 2 reported deaths on the property. Hours later, Betty and Barney Hill were allegedly abducted by a UFO near Franconia Notch, New Hampshire. The Air Force ordered the site to close in 1963 as the site was too expensive to operate and the technology was becoming obsolete.Ī couple years before closing, the military reported a UFO sighting lasting about 18 minutes in the sky. The site also included a store, theater, bowling alley, barber shop and mess hall. The threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union was a huge concern at the time so the government established a site on East Mountain, a remote hideaway to station the base.Ībout halfway up the mountain, 174 men lived in quonset huts. On the night of September 19-20, 1961, Portsmouth, N.H. (The base would later rename to Lyndonville Air Force base). ![]() ![]() ![]() They filed an official Air Force Project Blue Book report of a. The base opened in 1956 as North Concord Air Force station and operated until 1963. On the night of September 1920, 1961, Portsmouth, NH couple Betty and Barney Hill experienced a close encounter with an unidentified flying object and two hours of lost time while driving south on Rte 3 near Lincoln. Learn more about the Betty and Barney Hill Papers through UNH's Special Collections website.Located deep in the hills of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom (NEK), Lyndonville Air Force base sits abandoned, left to rot and decay in the middle of nowhere. Need terms not in our license(s)? Looking for something different from the Betty and Barney Hill Papers? Contact Licensing Manager Katie Vogel at for additional arrangements. These images are available for license under our standard editorial terms, or for scholarly and educational use. Images from the collection have been featured in published works, documentary style television, and in many other venues. English: Betty and Barney Hill Incident roadside marker, Daniel Webster Highway (Route 3), Lincoln, New Hampshire. Hill, Betty(Eunice Elizabeth Barrett Hill, June 28, 1919Oct. UNH is proud to present the Betty and Barney Hill Images Collection, a collection of images and ephemera around the couple's experience, based on the images they themselves felt most important. Urn behind wall plaque in the small Cimitero di Tegna, canton of Ticino, Switzerland. In 2006, the Betty and Barney Hill Papers were donated to the UNH's Dimond Library Special Collections, including correspondence, personal journals and essays, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, photographs, slides, and DVDs relating to the Hills' experiences with and interest in UFOs, and a small amount of materials concerning their involvement in the NAACP. Betty Hill became one of the most well-known voices in UFO research she continued her research into UFOs for the remainder of her life, even after Barney’s sudden death in 1969. The Hills are also of interest as an interracial couple in New England in the 60s, which was unusual for the time. Their story is said to be the first well-documented, feasibly legitimate UFO abduction in history. The couple were catapulted into the international spotlight when in September 1961 they claimed to have been abducted by aliens in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Betty (1919-2004) was a social worker, with a degree from the University of New Hampshire (UNH), and Barney (1923-1969) was a United States postal worker. Betty and Barney Hill lived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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