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'{{Infobox television | show_name = The UFO Incident | image = UFO listing.png{{!}}border | image_alt = A newspaper clip with the headline stating "Now It's a TV Movie... Aboard A Flying Saucer! This Fall You Can See Couple's Incredible Story Of How They Were Kidnapped by a UFO". The article includes photo of a Estelle Parsons as Betty Hill and James Earl Jones as Barney Hill. | caption = A newspaper clip about the film shortly upon its release. | genre = Biography<br />Drama<br />History<br />Romance<br />Sci-Fi | based_on = | writer = [[Hesper Anderson]] (teleplay) and [[Jake Justiz]] (teleplay)<br>[[John G. Fuller]] (book)<br>[[S. Lee Pogostin]] | starring = [[James Earl Jones]]<br />[[Estelle Parsons]] | executive_producer = [[Richard A. Colla]] | producer = [[Joe L. Cramer]] | editor = [[Richard Bracken]] | location = | music = [[Billy Goldenberg]] | cinematography = [[Rexford L. Metz]] | company = [[Universal Television]] | distributor = [[NBC]] | network = NBC | runtime = 92 min. | released = October 20, 1975 | country = | language = }} '''''The UFO Incident (Interrupted Journey)''''' is a 1975 [[television film]] starring [[James Earl Jones]] and [[Estelle Parsons]] based on the alleged 1961 [[alien abduction]] of [[Barney and Betty Hill]]. == Plot == The movie introduces us to Barney and Betty Hill, two ordinary people who have had the most extraordinary experience. She is a social worker and he a postman. They are an inter-racial couple who are very happy with each other but they are tormented by a traumatic experience of which they have no memory. Two years later, they are still tormented by what happened on their trip to where they have a mysterious lapse of memory after sighting a strange object hovering over their car and waking up some time later much further down the road. They consult Doctor Benjamin Simon a psychiatrist who tries to help them find the answer. The doctor decides that the best treatment to unlock their case of double amnesia is hypnosis. Doctor Simon mentions that Barney has suffered from a childhood of racial strife and feels deep guilt about his divorce. Barney tells the doctor that he has had strange physical symptoms after the experience such as strange warts on his groin. They are both tormented by mysterious nightmares that Betty begins to document. They report the incident to the US Air Force (the US Air Force actually had a project relating to UFO sightings called Blue Book). Doctor Simon places Barney under hypnosis and he begins to relive the experience. Barney describes he and Betty seeing a strange object in the sky that begins to follow and then to terrify them. Barney begins screaming in horror during the session as he describes he and Betty being abducted by the aliens from the UFO. Betty also reacts with horror describing their captive experience. She and Barney are subjected to medical experiments by the aliens including Betty having a needle shoved into her navel. With Doctor Simon's assistance and their strong love for each other, Barney and Betty are able to come to terms with their experience and get on with their lives. At the end of the movie it is revealed that Barney died of a stroke in 1969 at the age of 46. Betty lived on until 2004. == Main Cast == * [[James Earl Jones]] as Barney Hill * [[Estelle Parsons]] as Betty Hill * [[Barnard Hughes]] as Dr. Benjamin Simon * [[Dick O'Neill]] as Gen. James Davison * Beeson Carroll as Lt. Col. Jack MacRainey * Terrence O'Conner as Lisa MacRainey * Jeanne Joe as "Examiner" * Lou Wagner as "The Leader" == Possible remake == According to [[The Huffington Post]], a more developed and detailed film depicting the events of the Hill couples alleged encounter and abduction is a possible project that can give a better insight to the incident.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/betty-barney-hill-alien-abduction-ufo_n_962485.html|title=Betty And Barney Hill's Alien Abduction: New Film To Detail First Widely Reported UFO Kidnapping|work=The Huffington Post}}</ref> ==Historic context== The film aired two weeks before the [[Travis Walton UFO incident]] on November 5, 1975 which lead cognitive psychologist [[Susan Clancy]] to argue that this film influenced Travis Walton to present his own alleged abduction story.<ref name="Clancy2009">{{cite book|author=Susan A. Clancy|title=Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U8fqoTvsvUEC&pg=PA99|date=1 July 2009|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-02957-6|pages=99–}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} == External links == * {{IMDb title|0073834}} {{DEFAULTSORT:UFO Incident, The}} [[Category:1975 television films]] [[Category:Alien abduction in television]] [[Category:Alien abduction films]] [[Category:Films set in New Hampshire]] [[Category:Films set in 1961]] {{tv-film-stub}}'