Born Eunice Elizabeth Barrett (June 28, 1919 - October 23, 2004). Betty Hill and Barney Hill were an American couple who claimed they were abducted by a UFO in New Hampshire from September 19 to 20, 1961. The first widely publicized report of an alien abduction in the United States. The incident came to be called the "Hill Abduction" and the "Zeta Reticuli Incident" because the star map shown to Betty Hill could possibly be the Zeta Reticuli system. The first and probably most influential alien abduction story in history.