Chapter 3 is about encounters on the ground, told as the witnesses told them. In September 1961 Betty and Barney Hill said a light followed their car through Franconia Notch in New Hampshire; under hypnosis they later described being taken aboard a craft, and their psychiatrist called it a singular psychological aberration. In April 1966 hundreds of children and some teachers at Westall in Melbourne reported a flying object near their school; balloons, a target drogue and false memory have all been suggested. In October 1967 at least eleven people at Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, saw lights over the water, and boats and Navy divers found no trace. In December 1980 US airmen near Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk reported lights among the trees; skeptics point to the Orfordness Lighthouse, flashing about every five seconds, and say the landing marks were rabbit diggings. In September 1994, 62 pupils at Ariel School in Zimbabwe described a craft and figures in the bush. You find the light on the forest horizon.
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