![]() Type of observation: Ground-visual Air intercept radar.ġ0. "The official Project Blue Book Project 10073 Record Card concerning Barney and Betty Hill's visual sighting of a UFO and the UFO sighted on the Pease AFB radar reads as follows :ģ. Time and distance between the events could hint of a possible relationship." It is not possible to determine any relationship between these two observations, as the radar observation provides no description. Subsequent interrogation failed to bring out any information in addition to the extract of the "Daily Report to the Controller". ![]() No importance was attached to the incident at the time. Daughaday, Commander 1917-2 AACS DIT, Pease AFB, NH it was revealed that a strange incident occurred at 0214 local on 20 Sept. Reynolds, 100th B W DCOI and Captain Robert O. "During a casual conversation on 22 Sept 61 between Major Gardiner B. They threw everything in there but the planet Venus and meteorites. The official explanations at the time were confused at best, and included weather balloons, advertising searchlights, temperature inversions, the planet Jupiter and finally "insufficient data". Interestingly, the Betty and Barney Hill case was reported to the Air Force in 1961 and to Project Blue Book, including the "strange incident" that happened to them. If anything, I suspect this monument may actually increase the number of skeptical views upon the ET/UFO connection in the long run. Funny to think that if when one reads Betty and Barney's recollection, one cannot help but be puzzled by the mention of paper books and teletype machines. As Boon suggested, this one at least is a win/win, maybe the same can come from the Betty/Barney monument. Funds raised go directly to the Gundagai District Hospital. That dog has been sitting on that tuckerbox since 1926! Well 2 dogs really, the monument was rebuilt and relocated in `32, but there is an annual festival that has been running 20 years now. I think you are also right in that this has nothing to do with honoring Betty and Barney, but drawing a small, if not regular crowd. Worrying about the here and now requires the dollars. If one has a marketable item, it makes no sense to leave it lie. ![]() I'm sure the motiviation was completely financial, and had nothing to do with the 'honoring' of the kidnappies. The local chamber of commerce, or some enterprising businessperson pushed this with their local official. Here’s what I found.Yep, that was my point. ![]() Last summer, I visited what was left of the base and took photos. 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. (The base would later rename to Lyndonville Air Force base). The base opened in 1956 as North Concord Air Force station and operated until 1963. 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. ![]()
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