The simple answer is that Barry was taken very recently. When the aliens finally decide that we're worthy of official first contact, as a show of good faith they returned all of their subjects in the same state they abducted acquired them.
There's no specific information about how long Barry was gone, but it wasn't very long, albeit sufficient time has passed for his mother to have had a mental breakdown and lose considerable amounts of weight:
She did not look at all well. She had lost a lot of weight since Barry had been taken. More than that, though, Jillian had the look of someone who had suffered the greatest loss imaginable and was paying for it.
On his return, he's obviously the same age as they day he was taken:
One of the civilians, staggered by it all, said to the team leader, “They haven’t even aged! Einstein was right.”
“Einstein was probably one of them.”
Quotes from 'Close Encounter of the Third Kind - A Novel by Stephen Spielberg'
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