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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81 ROO560R0001 0001 0003-8 _ -f FLYING SAUCERS continued \ the doctor saw the couple togethier and soon real- ized that both needed help. They had brought with them a copy of the NICAP report written by Walter Webb. a Dr. Simon’s attitude toward the subject of UFOs wa’s neutral. He was willing’to accept what- ever authoritative sources said about it. ; Atthecloseofthesession, Dr.Simon decided that‘one of his objectives was to open up the am- > nesia,.if this was what the condition turned out to be. This symptom.usually responds particularly well to hypnosis. : _ He planned to begin the therapy with an at- tempt to penetrate the amnesia, through hypnosis, and'to proceed from there as indicated by devel> “opments. Dr. Simon also decided to tape-record the therapeutic:sessions, to preserve an accurate ‘record and to have the tape available for probable , later use in bringing the material into the’con- sciousnessoftheHillsundercontrolledconditions. Barney’said Betty’s knowledgeofhypnosis was fragmentary. Dr. Simon explained that the Hills would be brought into a condition some- what akin-to sleep, although not identical to it. In a lecture some years before to The New York Academy of Medicine, Dr. Simon discussed ~ hypnosis and its function in-medical and psychi- “atric ‘practice: = ~_“Who-can.hypnotize? Who can be hypno- ~ tized?” Dr. Simon asked in the lecture. “Any in-. telligent adult with appropriate knowledge of... _ technique can hypnotize....Psychotic individuals _ :and the mentally retarded are very resistant. to _ hypnosis. Most of these cannot be hypnotized... _ , . Will plays no part whatever in: hypnosis, “and the belieftiat*hypnotizability-is:a manifes- ~ tation of a weak will is false... . “Hypnosis has gone through many periods of enthusiastic acceptance and then ensuing re- jection, as-have some of our ‘modern trends’ in- psychiatry. There isno doubt that these-symp- toms (those removed by hypnosis) tend to recur or to be replaced by more distressing symptoms, unless the underlying emotional conflict (of ‘which thé symptoms-are manifestations) is re- solved. Unless the physician can be sute that -he will be able to continue treatment of the patient: -after the removal of the symptoms, the symptoms should not be removed by hypnosis. . ... ‘Many question whether a forcible break- through of resistance (such as-that which is pro- vided by hypnosis) is a desirable approach. In a- ~ variety of conditions, hysterical, psychosomatic and others, hypnosis may help to shorten the time , ~ of therapy-by facilitating the approach to uncon- scious conflicts. ... Hypnosis has dangers, and yet: it isnot dangerous. The essential dangers lie in its use by those not bound by a professional code of ethics and who are not adequately trained.” As the Hills were to discover, they were in cautious, medically conservativehands. They were to run into a stiff test of whatever beliefs they now had as a result of their experience at Indian'Head. Aceight in the morning, on Saturday, Jan- uary 4, 1964, the- Hills arrived at the doctor’s ~office for the first of three sessions in which the _doctor would repeatedly induce hypnosis. as a conditioning process. , They responded well. The doctor was satis- fied that they could attain the depth of trance de- sired. In exploring the amnesia, both the doctor ~ and the patients would be going-upa blind alley, andthe reinforcement of the hypnosis would ‘ make it possible to’ maintain firm control in the “face of possible-emotional-disturbances. ~~ _ ~ Barney’s‘fervousness increased somewhat - i N as he prepared to undergo hypnosis for the first time. Dr. Simon placed ‘him by the largedesk~ in the office, his hands at his sides, and stood ‘near him,“in front of the desk and just in front of a comfortable chair. / 2 . “Dr. Simon began talking to me,” Barney recalls, “telling me that I was relaxing, and. he had me clasp my hands together, and that they would be tight, tight, very tight, that I couldn’t open them.no matter how hard I tried. And I was © standing there, feeling very, very foolish, because Ithoughtif this is hypnosis, there is nothing to it. I’m just humoring the man. I didn’t want to hurt his feelings. I think he stopped and placed. his hands over my eyés so that they would Close. I said to -myself that I wasn’t really hypnotized, and when he told me that I couldn’t pull my hands apart, I knew that all I had to do was open my fingersiand I could doit. But I just didn’t feel like opening my fingers. I didn’t even feel I was asleep, but then I was aware that he was waking me up, and asked me how I felt. And I felt very, very good, very calm and comfortable. And I no longer had any fear of hypnosis.” The opening up of amnesia réquires ‘the ~ use of time regression, wherein the patient's mem-s ory becomes vivid and exact, where details long forgotten to the conscious mind emerge sharply. Itis norunusual for a person in hypnosis to recall the niafnes and color of the eyes of everyone at his fifth birthday party“if so requested: Thete is also - the tendency to relive, fe-create, reenact the time segment being recalled, so that the subject ac- tually experiences emotions involved in the origi- nal experience, a process referred to as abreaction. The physician must always recognize the danger “lam scared. God, I'm scared!” BARNEY TOOK HIS SEAT in front of the doctor’s . desk. He started to reach for a cigarette, but upon’ . hearing the key words from Dr. Simon, his eyes closed, and his head nodded.“His hands were folded across his lap, and he gave the appearance of having dozed in an easy chair. The deep trance... was induced. The doctor began the session: DOCTOR: You are deeper and deeper asleep. Deep asleep. You will remember everything now, and. you will tell me everything. And I want you to -tell me in full detail a your experiences; a// of -- your thoughts.and a// of your feelings, beginning with the time you left your hotel..... © - After retracing in precise detail the visit to Montreal, the trip into Canada ~ and the upper part of Vermont and the drive down U.S. 3, Barney then men- tioned the object in the sky. - _ BARNEY: I look up through the windshield of the car, and I see a star. That’s funny, but I said: Betty, that’s a satellite. And then I pulled over to the side of the road, and Betty jumped out her __< Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010003-8 wer au 53 in bringing to light unconscious memories and feelings. These may be intolerable to the patient and.can lead to serious after-reactions. ’ ~. “‘Afterthe first test,”. Barney Hill recalls, “‘a curious thing happened. As I got ready for the~ induction into hypnosis, I looked at my ‘watch. It _must have been five minutes after eight. And he gave me the key word, and I was hypnotized. And as far as time.was concerned, I thought he was waking me immediately. But I looked at my watch, and it was after nine. Yet it seemed no.time ‘at all. I recalled also, just.at the beginning ‘of what must have been the trance, that he had ~~ poked my hand with something that felt like the bristle of a brush. I asked him if I could see:this « done. So the doctor put me in a trance again, and «| told me to open my eyes, and-that I would. re- member this part of it. Then he took.a needlelike instfument.and pushed it against my hand, and there was no pain,except pethaps like a bristle - of a-brush. He put considerable pressure om it, and I could feel.no pain. The needle had pene- trated’my skin, and there wasn’t any blood. So J began to realize that there wete two things that’ could happen here: One, I could be hypnotized and.made to forget that I had been hypnotized at. all; two, I could be hypnotized, and if I-was told I could remember, I would retain a knowledge of all that had taken place under hypnosis.” __ Dr. Simon decided to take Barney first, hop- ing. to regress him to the night of Séptember 19, 1961, and have him. reveal every detail of the- ttip from-Canada to Portsmouth: Since the trance’ would provide-details of marked clarity; and sifice there was a reasonable expectation that Barney“ ‘would bridge the amnesic gap-under_hypnosis, the blocking off of his memory after each session would permit Betty to give her own story in later * sessions without being influenced by Barney.» _ On February 22, 1964, Barney was ready to” make his excursion into the unknown. ~ > CHAPTER. . .. side with the binoculars. .... And I look towards” the sky. ... And I’m saying, hurry up, Betty, so I _can get a look. And Betty passes the binoculars to me. And I see that it’s not-a satellite. It is 2 plane. And I tell Betty this and. give the binocu-~ Jars back to her: And-I-am satisfied. Doctor: What kind of a. plane was it? , BARNEY: I look—and it is to the right. And it does not go where I thought it would go. It does ‘not-go past me to the right, my right shoulder. I_ think it will pass my right shoulder, off in the dis- ‘tance, going to the north. I am facing west, and” my right is to the north. And it doés not goto. the north. ; ’ A faint trace of amazement-comes” into his voice. From his tone, it is ap-- parent that he is reliving, not retelling; the story. = Ses DocTor: Does it have propellers? BARNEY: I cannot tell. And I think this is strange: T cannot hear a motor, to know if it has propellers: 9 continued