ÿ\RBBS\DL\HILL.UFOAP 09/19 02:20 EDTBy David Tirrell-WYsocki THORNTON, N.H. (AP) -- Betty Hill shows no fear as she walks from a back road onto a wide path that leads into the woods, but the first time she remembers being here was different. "They dragged me, kicking and screaming," she said of kidnappers who shecontends blocked the road, took her and her husband, Barney, out of their carand yanked them into the woods to be examined -- in a flying saucer. The Hills arrived home in Portsmouth 25 years ago today after a drive through the White Mountains, puzzled by stains and tears on Betty's dress, scuffs on Barney's shoes, shiny spots on their car, watches that had stopped and no memory of two hours of the trip. After the void was filled for them through hypnosis, their account of beingkidnapped by beings from another solar system made the Hills immediatecelebrities. The book "The Interrupted Journey" tells their story. "Right here is where they were standing," Hill, 67, said on a recent returnto the spot where she says she was captured. "And this is where they took us,"she said, heading into the woods. Until their 1964 hypnosis, the Hills remembered only being followed by abright object in the night sky as they drove south through New Hampshire fromMontreal to Portsmouth, turning off the main road onto a dirt road and stallingout after being confronted by strange men in the road. They tried to forget about it, but Betty had nightmares about being capturedand Barney's health began to fail. When he didn't respond to medication a doctor suspected emotional problems and suggested hypnosis. During one session Barney mentioned being captured by strange beings. His wife, under separate hypnosis, recounted the same events and the story began to unfold. The beings, they recalled, approached as Barney tried to restart the car,took them from the car and through the woods to a glowing object in the forest. "I was fighting," Hill said. "I'm probably the first person in the world whotook a sock at them." As evidence, she still has the torn and stained dress she wore that night. Standing in a clearing that she said was the landing spot, she described athorough, medical-type examination that, when recalled under hypnosis, evokedterror in her and in Barney, who died in 1969. She said she and Barney tried repeatedly to retrace their 1961 route but didnot find it until about a year after their hypnosis, when they rode through themountains with relatives searching for a place to camp. "All of a sudden we got up here and said, 'Oh my God!' We recognized theplace immediately. We came down here, stopped the car, jumped out and ran uphere, up the path," she said. She said that for a while after the hypnosis, she tried to pass off theincident as a bad dream. "For a while I tried to tell myself it never happened, because there was alot of pressure," she said. "So I'd go to bed and say, 'I'll forget it. It never happened.' But then, after a while, I couldn't do that anymore." Hill is not fazed by people who don't believe her story. "I say, 'You're entitled to your opinion, but if it happens to you, you knowwho to contact.' " Hill gives lectures on UFOs and her experience and says people who have never seen a UFO probably don't know what to look for. "I say anytime you see a light in the sky, check it out," she said. A rainbow appeared over her head as she stood at the capture spot. "Hi boys," she shouted, laughing. Asked how she will mark the anniversary, Hill said she hopes to "very quietly go out to my area and say, 'Happy anniversary, boys. You are the so-and-sos that did this to me."' <<>>