Cold Cases: Case 3: The White Mountain UFO
Uncanny
BBC
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Danny Robins has a close encounter with the original alien abduction case.
On a quiet night in 1961, Barney and Betty Hill are driving home through New Hampshire when they see something in the sky that will change their lives forever. What they recount is a series of experiences so strange that even sceptics struggle to explain them - from missing time to vivid, seemingly impossible memories of an encounter with beings who may not be human.
Dr Ciaran O’Keefe and Evelyn Hollow are on hand as ever to help make sense of what might really have happened. It’s the OG alien abduction story - but what do the team make of it, 60 years later?
Presented by Danny Robins Experts: Evelyn Hollow and Dr Ciaran O’Keeffe Story sections by Joel Morris and Will Maclean Research by Nancy Bottomley and John West Filming and editing by Robb Leech Editing and sound design by Charlie Brandon-King Theme music by Katherine Priddy Theme co-produced by Jennifer Ann Keller Incidental music by Evelyn Sykes Commissioning executive: Paula McDonnell Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts Produced by Simon Barnard and Victoria Lloyd
A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:47.5 | Hello, it is a wild wind-swept night and this is the third episode of our brand new series Uncanny Cold Cases. This time, we are going back to America in 1961. I want you to picture the scene. |
| 0:55.0 | It is late summer, and a couple called Betty and Barney Hill pull up outside their house |
| 1:00.0 | at the end of a long road trip. |
| 1:02.0 | They have no idea how they got home because three hours of their lives have completely seemingly disappeared. |
| 1:09.0 | The last thing they remember is seeing something impossible and frightening in the sky. |
| 1:12.6 | And then after that, nothing. |
| 1:14.6 | Something happened that night that changed Betty and Barney's lives forever. |
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