{"id":305,"date":"2011-07-25T14:33:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T18:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=305"},"modified":"2011-08-22T17:10:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T21:10:17","slug":"alien-abduction-a-tourism-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/07\/25\/alien-abduction-a-tourism-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien Abduction A Tourism Draw?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_306\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-306\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/07\/25\/alien-abduction-a-tourism-draw\/2001957108_c48aca9ceb\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-306\" title=\"Alien Visitor, A Pleasant Fellow\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/07\/2001957108_c48aca9ceb-e1311625268120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">cobalt123 \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">If this little guy looks familiar to you, it&#39;s thanks in large part to Betty and Barney Hill, who helped make the gray alien image iconic. This figure stands at the entrance of the Red Planet Diner in Sedona, CA.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard of Betty and Barney Hill, you\u00a0either weren&#8217;t born&#8211;or very old&#8211;before\u00a0the 1960&#8217;s,\u00a0or you&#8217;re not terribly interested in (alleged)\u00a0alien abductions.<\/p>\n<p>I promise, this really (might) have to do with business.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the Hills were a Portsmouth couple who were driving through the White Mountains in 1961 when they claimed to have seen a cigar-shaped UFO.\u00a0 They\u00a0said they were\u00a0abducted, poked, and prodded\u00a0by gray aliens.\u00a0 When the story got out in 1965, it was the first\u00a0&#8220;widely-reported&#8221; alien abduction in American history.<\/p>\n<p>And now, <a title=\"Betty And Barney Hill UFO Abduction Story Commemorated On Official N.H. Highway Plaque \" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/07\/25\/betty-and-barney-hill-ufo-experience_n_907770.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lee Speigel of the Huffington Post <\/a>reports the state has put up an historical marker near the Indian Head Resort to commemorate the (alleged) event.<\/p>\n<p>So is this a bid to draw <a title=\"The Official Site For The City Of Roswell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.roswellmysteries.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roswell enthusiasts <\/a>and other True Believers to the Granite State?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard of Betty and Barney Hill, you\u00a0either weren&#8217;t born&#8211;or very old&#8211;before\u00a0the 1960&#8217;s,\u00a0or you&#8217;re not terribly interested in (alleged)\u00a0alien abductions. I promise, this really (might) have to do with business. Anyway, the Hills were a Portsmouth couple who were driving through the White Mountains in 1961 when they claimed to have seen a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[474],"tags":[508,499,510],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}