Abduction Experience on Route 3 — White Mountains, New Hampshire

My husband Barney and I were returning from a trip to Niagara Falls and Montreal on the night of September 19, 1961, driving south on Route 3 through the White Mountains. It was around 10:15 PM and I noticed a bright object moving oddly through the sky — not like any plane or satellite. I watched it through binoculars as Barney drove. It was clearly structured, disc-shaped, with a row of windows lit from within. Barney stopped the car and got out to look. He walked across a field toward it and through the binoculars he could see figures at the windows watching us. He ran back to the car in a panic. We continued driving and then a beeping or buzzing sound seemed to come from the trunk of the car, and we felt a tingling sensation, and then there was a second set of beeps, and we were suddenly miles south of where we had been with no memory of the interval. We arrived home two hours later than we should have. In the nights that followed I had very vivid dreams of being taken into a craft and examined by beings with large eyes and smooth gray skin. Under hypnosis conducted by Dr. Benjamin Simon over the following two years, both Barney and I separately recalled nearly identical experiences aboard the craft. Barney described the leader of the beings in detail — a distinctive figure he had not mentioned in any waking account. I drew a star map I was shown while aboard the craft. An astronomer later identified it as consistent with the Zeta Reticuli system.