Strange Arrivals is a production of I-Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Mankey.

I'm Dudley Dudley. I live in Durham, New Hampshire, and many years ago I lived in

Greenland, New Hampshire, which is just outside of Portsmouth and Exeter.

While I was living there with my husband and children,

we joined a group called Seaco's Council on Religion and Race.

It was in the early 60s

among the other people who were members of that group

there was a couple

party in Betty Hill.

I got to know them rather well and invited them to dinner one month.

And after dinner we were sitting in the living room just talking generalities and all of a sudden out of absolutely nowhere

Barney started to tell this story of something that had happened to them, oh maybe six months or eight months earlier.

It was the story of their abduction by aliens. It was jaw dropping. I mean, it was nothing that I had any

reason to believe, apart from there saying it, but I mean there'd been no clues whatsoever.

Nobody had whispered about, you know, Barney and Betty had this adventure.

They just started to talk and it was compelling. They talked about driving in their

car and coming down the highway and seeing lights flashing. in their

driving in their car and coming down the highway and seeing lights flashing.

Somehow the lights urged them to pull over. From there, in their telling of the story, it developed into their being taken out of the car and into, I guess, the spaceship and physically examined.

Betty sort of laughed about it saying that she figured later that they went back up into the heavens of wherever

from whence they had come

and were reporting to their boss

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