Short version? Well, Medium Version. From John Fuller, 1967, The Interrupted Journey
I wish I'd made some notes of what page sections were taken from, and I don't have the book here in California.
Part One. This mixed-race middle-aged stable maybe-kind-of-boring New Hampshire couple, driving home in September, 1961 in the wee hours, saw an odd-looking thing in the sky. Then they saw it again. It seemed to be tagging along.
Betty believed in UFOs and Barney didn't and she said she thought it was one. That bothered him and he took the binoculars, got out of the car, and used the glasses, urgently wanting to be able to make it out as the shape of a traditional airplane or helicopter. For a while that explanation had worked but now the shape got close enough he saw it wasn't either one. Instead it looked like a large glowing pancake. It had a line of windows which planes that would fly this low, this close to them, did not.
He felt a pull and started walking toward it in spite of himself and his just-arisen fear. With the good field glasses he saw several people at the windows inside the "ship." He fought to yank himself away from the pull and ran back toward the car, screaming that they were going to be captured. Not knowing why, he turned off of their regular Route 3 onto a side road.
Part Two. Now they were back on the main road, progressing toward home, and heard a set of small, distinct beeps. They realized they'd heard them before, from the direction of the trunk. Their minds were foggy and they couldn't tell where they were on a road they knew well. Both in a daze, their heads cleared when Betty saw a sign for Concord, New Hampshire. "That's where we are, Barney." Before getting home to Portsmouth, they saw the streaks of dawn. It was a bit after five a.m. when they got to the house. "We're home later than I thought," Barney noted. They'd expected to get home by two a.m. They had breakfast, went to bed and slept into the day.
Later on, they started wondering about the thing in the sky and a friend noted they seemed to have a missing three hours. Also, neither of them had any memory of making a certain part of the drive, from Indian Head, N. H. to Ashland, about 35 miles.
Part Three. Since it seemed genuinely odd, two years later they went to a Boston psychiatrist, who hypnotized them.
Not him, not just her, but under hypnosis both wife and husband told of half a dozen short men, two of whom spoke English, stopping them in the road and apparently doing something to "numb" their minds so Barney and Betty did whatever they were told. They took Betty and Barney into a ship of some unearthly type, where they did medical tests on them. The crew of the ship seemed to be less than up to speed on earthlings and was, for instance, flabbergasted at Barney's false teeth. They pulled on Betty's teeth to see if they came out. They didn't.
After putting their clothes back on and being released back to the car, they were in a good mood because they knew it was over and they seemed unharmed.
They were fairly nice aliens.
Betty asked, "Well, Barney, now do you believe in UFOs?" He noncommitally said, "Betty, don't be ridiculous." They kind of agreed on the drive home they should forget the whole thing, partly because it was unbelievable and partly because the leader of the men had said they should forget it.
The psychiatrist told them they would be calm and remember whatever didn't disturb them. With that, after the hypnosis sessions began, they started remembering in the waking state what they had apparently forgotten, but then recalled under hypnosis.
The MD wasn't sure whether Betty had a fantasy that had somehow contaminated her husband.
There had been a big wave of UFO sightings and reports in that part of New England in those years, including the incident at Exeter, not many miles away, in which a disk-shaped UFO flew so close to a policeman that he ducked and drew his weapon.
Later when 50 or 150 or 1050 other people (i.e., Travis Walton) across years and continents told a story that shared distinct components of the Hills' abduction, Betty and Barney's story appeared to take on new significance. There were hints in the Hills' account that the "men" might be doing something to use human DNA or tissue. Betty recalled them taking samples.
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