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

In this episode you will hear from Stanton Friedman, a leading researcher on the Hill

encounter. A few months after I interviewed him, he passed away at the age of 84.

I had a thoroughly enjoyable 45 minute conversation with him, during which he answered

all my questions at length and gave me a good-natured hard time about my skepticism.

I know his passing is a loss to the UFO community and I feel fortunate to have had the

chance to chat with him. October 14th, 1969, Marjour Fish Speaking.

My qualifications to do this research, I've had one course in astronomy in college about 20 years ago, which doesn't amount too much,

except it did show me to our placement, and quite an interest in that since childhood, but my main interest is in biology and

anthropology. My degree was in sociology. I went back for my teaching credits later. I also had what amounted to the pre-med course with a great

interest in biology. Being passion is anthropology makes somephorology so interesting and consider how many different kinds of cultures

there might be and add to this a different biological background which could lead into even more complex and far-reaching

cultural differences.

Hospicts are highly intriguing to say the least. differences. on the spacecraft. The first was a type of book containing alien symbols.

We looked at this in the previous episode.

The second object was more compelling and it prompted exhaustive research. Proponents of the Hill story point to it as

evidence that they were in fact abducted by aliens. This object came to be called the Star Map.

I'm Toby Ball.

This is strange arrivals. Episode 4, Zeta Raticulae.

Betty and Barney Hill reacted very differently during their abduction experience.

Barney spent much of the time in a days, unresponsive to Betty's pleas.

His hypnotic recall suggested that he regarded the experience as something to be endured,

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