Colebrook

The skeptics aim almost entirely at the second half, while the believers try to carry the first half's credibility over to it.

The two-hour figure comes from a departure clock reading of 10:05 in Colebrook, and an arrival shortly after 5:00.

Sheaffer and Jim McDonald, a Colebrook resident who has retraced the route, argues that the Hills never fixed that departure time until they were regressed under hypnosis, so the gap was reconstructed after the fact rather than noticed at the time.

Peter Brooksmith adds that the arithmetic done that November used straight line distances on a road that winds, and in one stretch, reverses direction.

Martin's position is that the family knew they were late that same morning, that the specific calculation came in November because that was when someone asked, and that the road the Hills vaguely remembered turning onto, Route 175, cannot be turned onto by accident.

Upon returning to her family, Tina spent many years in therapy trying to undo the psychological damage inflicted during her ordeal.

Finally, on April 13th, Chris stopped at Vic's Getty Service Station in Colebrook, New Hampshire.

He parked his car, walked inside, grabbed a soda, and then asked the clerk directions to the Canadian border while he paid.

But then, on the way back to his car...

And now, two lost hours on Route 3, the Betty and Barney Hill UFO abduction, 65 years later.

The clock over the restroom door at Howard's Restaurant in Colebrook, New Hampshire, read 10.05 when Betty and Barney Hill walked back out to their car on the night of September 19, 1961.

They had roughly 175 miles of U.S. Route 3 between them and their house on State Street in Portsmouth, and Barney figured on pulling into the driveway somewhere between 2.30 and 3 in the morning.

The car was a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air two-door hardtop.

was not finished with them.

On November 25, two more NICAP members drove up to Portsmouth, C.D. Jackson and Robert Homan, both of whom worked at IBM, and in the course of going back over the timeline, they worked out loud through a sum nobody had done yet.

Colebrook to Portsmouth in about a four-hour drive.

The Hills had left at 10 and gotten home after 5.

Hey, Howie.

I'm surprised that, uh, this is all news to people about the UFOs, because I know you remember maybe in your day up in Colebrook, New Hampshire, when Betty and her husband were supposedly abducted-

Yeah

... by aliens and-

And I will say he was omnivorous.

He always was paying attention to what was going on in every part of the state, in every, you know, like, just this depth of media knowledge of, you know, what's going on in Keene and Colebrook and all these things.

He really did a good job staying connected with various parts of the state.

And John E. Sununu is the beneficiary of that for sure, with that Sununu brand having grown during Chris's time.

I've never gone that far north.

I was in Colebrook four years ago for the first time.

Okay.

And I've never seen four-wheelers on the road.

Until you got to Colebrook.

It was a new world for me.

It was like Wild West.

We do not allow four-wheelers on the road, but every once in a while you get some yahoos that don't care.