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[Quoting Google AI] "The archetype of the Grey alien as we know it—short, smooth grey skin, a disproportionately large head, and huge almond-shaped black eyes—crystallized in the public consciousness during the Barney and Betty Hill abduction case in 1961. "
...The Hill case cemented this concept into popular culture. Under hypnosis, the couple described abductors matching this exact profile, a narrative that was heavily sensationalized in books and eventually translated into mass media.
(My emphasis)
Betty and Barney Hill did not describe anything that resembles a depiction/ description of a "Grey". The Google AI summary is inaccurate.
Retellings of the Hill's accounts in books and magazine articles about UFOs, and more recently online, often ignore what Betty and Barney actually said, and the circumstances in which they said it.
The Hill's UFO occupants have sometimes become Greys in other people's (often UFO enthusiasts') discussion/ retellings of the case.
I feel this might be deliberate; the Hill story is often presented as a famous example of alien abduction, but some major details- and the Hill's later identification of humans of particular ethnicity as very closely resembling the UFOnauts- are not convenient to the "this really happened" narrative.
Equally, some write-ups of the Hill case might be using earlier articles as sources, sources which are "sanitized" (omitting improbable/ dreamlike details) and "homogenized" (implying the aliens resembled Greys) without referring to what the Hills said. The Google AI result (first line, quote above) fits this pattern.
The process of "Greying" the Hill's aliens was probably aided by the 1975 TV movie about the Hills, The UFO Incident (Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UFO_Incident):
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The aliens in the movie looked very much like the typical "little grays" we all know today from movies, TV and novelty store items. There are differences, but the influence was imprinted on the memories of everyone watching and the cultural impact of the movie is still with us today.
"Yankee Skeptic" blog, 29 July 2013, "Who invented Little Greys? Hollywood or the Hills?" viewable via Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20201028195816/https://yankeeskeptic.com/ (it's an interesting and relevant article).
This is what Betty Hill said about the aliens in the movie (source as above, quoting a draft of Betty Hill's "The Interrupted Journey Continued or A Common Sense Approach to UFOs" , Hill archives, Milne Special Collections, Special Collections, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, NH):
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Sometimes I have been approached by those who tell me they have been abducted by the same ones I met, or the same type. They are smiling, until I ask if they looked like the ones in my movie. Oh yes. Then I tell them the ones in my movie was Hollywood's idea of their appearance, for they had no similarities to the real ones. Such disappointment!
Some of the Hill's recall of their supposed experience came from dreams, and later hypnosis. We can't be sure that their recall of what they (supposedly) consciously experienced (before Betty's troubling dreams) is uncontaminated by dream recall, as Betty was having the dreams before the Hills reported/ discussed their experiences with anyone else. It isn't credible that Betty and Barney didn't discuss her dreams.
From Betty's dreams,
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The men stood about five feet to five feet four inches tall and wore matching blue uniforms, with caps similar to those worn by military cadets. They appeared nearly human, with black hair, dark eyes, prominent noses and bluish lips. Their skin was a greyish color.
Wikipedia, Barney and Betty Hill incident, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_and_Betty_Hill_incident
Dark eyes, not uniformly black, and no indication of anything unusual. Black hair. "Prominent" noses (later comments by Betty might indicate broad, not protruding noses- or possibly a changing description). Short for an average American man, but no indication of non-human build or proportions.
They had grey-ish skin, but realistically (perhaps excepting the short-ish stature) no other Grey features.
Betty describes them as "men", and they wear blue uniforms including peaked caps, perhaps like contemporaneous police or air force uniforms.
Under hypnosis, Barney Hill sketched this,
...the eyes are not black and have visible irises or pupils. Maybe the alien removed his biofilm eye sensors before taking his cap off 
Maybe Barney wasn't a very good artist.
Barney's recall of the aliens under hypnosis, from a tape recording of the session:
From Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/Barney_Hill_Hypnosis_Session_1, "Uploaded by Kameron D Kiggins, obtained from Wendy Connors."
The timings below are approximate, the emphases are mine:
At 15:00 minutes, Barney sees a man looking over his shoulder through the "window" of the UFO;
"...I think of a red-haired Irishman..."
At 17:15, "..and the evil face- he looks like a German Nazi" and Barney goes on to describe a black uniform, and a black scarf around his neck draped over one shoulder. Later, Hill says the figure is wearing a black shiny jacket.
18:12, apparently about the "German Nazi", "...his eyes were slanted but not like a Chinee.." (Old, now offensive term for person of "Chinese" appearance).
20:20 Hill becomes distressed, again at 21:10, "his eyes..."
26:00 "...they're men - all with black jackets...", 26:44 "the eyes are there..."
Re. the red-headed man, Barney describes the man as "friendly-looking", he finds this notable because (15:58) "Irish are usually hostile to negroes". The whole thing sounds a bit like free-form thought association, possibly reflecting (real-world) concerns that Barney may have had.
The Hills were a mixed-race couple when this was rare, and involved in the civil rights movement.
I think it is significant that retellings of the Hill accounts by UFO enthusiasts/ authors of books and articles about UFOs often omit the smiling red-haired Irishman, and the German Nazi with black coat, hat and scarf (to whom the scary eyes might belong).
In some cases- "investigators" who have actually read/ heard the Hill's accounts- it is hard to see these omissions as accidental.
Barney did not describe Greys. Betty made it clear, several times, "her" aliens did not resemble Greys. They looked like people, specifically people of specific ethnicity:
Back to the blog article "Who Invented Little Grays? Hollywood or the Hills?" from the Yankee Skeptic blog, we read
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...in a letter to Marjorie Fish, dated July 12, 1969. (Milne Special Collections, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, NH)
"Barney and I had a theory that the star that the humanoids were from probably was a colder planet than the Earth. We based this thought on similarities between the humanoids and a group of Indians who live in the Magellan Straights, south of South America. These Indians have adapted to the climate or severe cold by developing fat folds to protect themselves which give the impression of being much like the humanoids. IE, the Indians have very large slant eyes, surrounded by a fat fold which gives the impression of extremely large eyes; their noses are almost ehinct (sic); their lips are difficult to see because they are hidden by another fat fold: Their fingers and toes are very short, but their hands and feet are thick with layers of protective fat."
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This time from a October 20, 1964 letter to "Walter" about a talk given at Phillips Exeter Academy, a private preparatory school in the Concord NH area.
"Last night Barney and I went to Phillips Exeter Academy to hear Dr. Coon, anthropologist, of Harvard, lecture on the 'Races of Man'. He showed several slides, but one of them looked like the people on the space ship. Barney and I both recognized this at the same time! It was the slide of a woman that lives in a very cold climate and showed her physical adaptation to this very cold. I believe she is of Mongolian background, with very distinct slant eyes. Her adaptation is the formation or a fatty substance around her eyes, which causes the appearance of a large eye extending around to the side. Her nose is very small and flat to her face. Her mouth seems distorted by this fatty substance... ... It was surprising to actually see a picture which resembled the men so closely – much better than we could ever begin to do."
(Emphasis added).
The Hills did not report Greys.
What they report seeing (or experiencing in dreams, or describing under hypnosis) include:
(1) (Betty) Men, 5' to 5' 4", 1.52 to 1.63 m, in blue uniforms and hats. Black hair, dark eyes, noticeable noses. Greyish skin, blueish lips.
(Barney) The men had black shiny uniforms and hats.
(2) A smiling red-haired man who Barney thought looked like an Irishman (presumably an American of Irish descent). Presumably not in a hat.
(3) A "German Nazi" in a black coat and scarf, who has slanted eyes "but not like a [Chinese man]".
Barney's sketch under hypnosis shows unusually shaped, elongated eyes with visible irises or pupils; Barney becomes distressed discussing eyes. The sketch/ eye description might be connected to the German Nazi. It is unlikely real German Nazis had eyes like this- or even marked epicanthic folds- so the identification of the figure as a Nazi is perhaps based on the clothing, maybe resembling photos/ popular depictions of wartime Gestapo/ SS officers.
Betty later claimed that pictures of Mongolian people closely resembled the "aliens", also that pictures of indigenous people living on/ near Tierra del Fuego had similar features. (Her descriptions of the features of non-European people are not flattering and seem, to me, exaggerated). She claimed that Barney agreed with these identifications.
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