The First Reported Alien Abduction Is Finally Getting The Movie It Deserves

On September 19, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill claimed to have been taken aboard a UFO, experimented on, and returned with missing memories. It was the first time an abduction like that had ever been reported, and now the story is becoming a feature film.

Gotham/Principal, one of the companies that produces The Maze Runner films, has just partnered with writers Bryce Zabel and Jackie Zabel to adapt the Hills’ story. It’ll be called Captured, based on a 2007 tell-all of the same name by Stanton Friedman and Kathleen Marden. Because Betty and Barney Hill were an interracial couple, the film will reportedly “place the events in a context of both Cold War paranoia and the country’s struggle over race relations.”

Source: io9