Excerpt from “Where Would Space Aliens Come From?”
If someone who claimed to be in contact with space aliens could give us just a few simple numbers they’d unequivocally prove their case to skeptics. Simply send me (1) the celestial coordinates of the home star, (2) the number of planets orbiting it, (3) their distances from the parent star, (4) and their relative masses. Then all we’d have to do is look at the star and see if the planets were there. Viola!
This has never happened in UFO history. Well, almost never.
A search on the Internet comes up with one particularly legendary place, the double star system Zeta Reticuli. It’s nearby, only 39 light-years away in the southern sky.
The naked-eye double star burst into UFO culture in the mid -1970s. An Ohio school teacher, Marjorie Fish, claimed to have decoded a star map from a 1961 UFO abduction case. It pointed to Zeta Reticuli as the aliens’ place of origin.
The alleged extraterrestrial kidnapping, described in journalist John Fuller’s book “Incident at Exeter: The Interrupted Journey,” tells how a New England couple was taken aboard a flying saucer and medically examined. Under hypnotic regression the wife, Betty Hill, sketched a star map she said she saw while inside the spaceship.
In the pre-home computer days of the early 1970s, Fish actually constructed a wireframe cube and positioned beads on strings for the nearby stellar neighborhood. She viewed the model from different angles until a match was found with the Hill map. It pinpointed Zeta Reticuli.
This map is legendary but meaningless. First, the Hill drawing contains 25 dots for stars. If you flew around a computer database of the local stellar neighborhood you’d come up with more than one match that roughly “looked” similar to her sketch.
Secondly, Hill described the map as showing alien exploration and trade routes to other stars. The notion of trade between extraterrestrial civilizations is patently absurd. There is nothing worth trading that would justify the transportation costs (at least nothing short of Star Trek’s Green Orion Slave Women). And, clearly the Zeta Reticulans aren’t trading with us, unless they’re getting modeling fees and a cut from Roswell UFO souvenir stands.
Finally, in the Fuller book Hill described the map as a flat pull-down chart (later she changed her account and described it vaguely to me, in a hesitant voice, as some sort of 3D display). BTW the UFO also carried paperbound books with “Chinese looking printing” according to Hill. This is as nonsensical as Neil Armstrong carrying stone tablets to the moon. Didn’t the aliens at least have something like an iPad?
Read the entire article at Discover News:
Where Would Space Aliens Come From? : Discovery News.