Stanton T. Friedman, a nuclear physicist and the nation's only space scientist devoting full time to researching the UFO phenomenon, has spent many hours in conversation with the Hills. 07 27 A nuclear-pulse powered starship begins a historic voyage to some nearby stars similar to our sun sometime in the 21st century. Checking further we find that all but two of the stars in the Fish pattern are on the table of nearby solar type stars. 140 The fact that it would be easily visible in full daylight would give Zeta 1 Reticuli supreme importance to both early civilizations and modern man. The plot of all 46 candidate stars reveals a clumping in the direction of the constellations Cetus and Eridanus. Vertex Steggert zeroed in on possibly the only real bone of contention that anyone has had with Marjorie Fish's interpretation: The data on some of the stars may not be accurate enough for us to make definitive conclusions. (Majorie Fish later repudiated her findings prior to her death in 2013. 18 31 Star sign definition at Dictionary.com, a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms and translation. Apparently unable to control their actions, Betty and Barney are easily taken back to the ship by the humanoids. The conclusion we can draw is this: The star has to be like the sun. The first rule will be to restrict ourselves to life as we know it, the kind of life that we are familiar with here on Earth carbon-based life. Coma Berenices Or perhaps a tiny cloth to polish the lens?? 100 140 This hypothesis is based on a strange, almost bizarre series of events mixing astronomical research with hypnosis, amnesia, and alien humanoid creatures. 1 has 96% of the Sun's mass and 84% of the Sun's radius. The penalty is a short lifespan as a main sequence star. Then in 2007, infrared observations with the Spitzer Space telescope showed evidence of a dusty disc of cosmic debris surrounding star Zeta 2, the same sort of disc out of which planets could potentially form. Markab Keeping all this in mind, Marjorie Fish constructed several three-dimensional models of the solar neighborhood in hopes of detecting the pattern in the Hill map. 240 Rukbat How do we even begin to determine which stars might likely have such planets? The data on some of the stars in the map is just not good enough to make a definitive statement. But then, we don't even know for certain if there is anybody at all out there anywhere -despite the Hill map and pronouncements of the most respected scientists. 140 Long ago our satellite stopped rotating and now has one side permanently turned toward Earth. Anything greater would cause climatic disaster. In some ways, the UFO folklore is fading from consciousness. ", (In his book Set Phasers to Stun, author Steve Pearse reported that a professor who worked with Mitchell, Gerald Newsom, said of the map, "i don't believe Walt Mitchell's work was ever held in high regard by the consensus of the faculty and grad students at Ohio State, and this point hardly anyone in the Department is even aware that the work was done" in a 2007 email.). 100 Bos 15 12 230 Betelgeuse The close-in orbits of potential Earth-like planets of M and faint K stars produce the second dilemma rotational lock. Propus 200 18 38 The Gliese catalog uses photometric, trigonometric and spectroscopic parallaxes and derives a mean from all three after giving various mathematical weights to each value. 13 51 A planet between a star and earth brings out the fixed stars potential. 200 They come from Planet Serpo or ZR 3 third planet out from the star Zeta Reticuli 2 to exact which is in the Zeta Reticuli star system. They concur with Simon's belief that there seems to be no evidence of outright fabrication or lying. 27 34 Someone should (or perhaps has already) conduct a test to see how well a similar pattern could be recalled after a substantial period of time. (These stars can last on a scale of trillions of years though they may soon fade into blue dwarfs, none of which exist yet.) 100 And watch out for low-flying spacecraft. Their account begins on the night of 19/20 September 1961 as they were returning to their New Hampshire home, after having spent their honeymoon in Montreal, Canada. [26], In 2007, the Spitzer Space Telescope was used to find an apparent infrared excess at a wavelength of 70m around 2. Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis, 4th Century AD. For questions, contact Jamie at funkastrology@gmail.com. Delphinus [17], Zeta Reticuli has no known extrasolar planets. He fell in love with the night sky when he caught his first glimpse of Orion, aged 10. Betty, a social worker, asks advice from a psychiatrist friend. 8:56 PM Chiron enters Taurus. In the late 1960s Marjorie Fish (a teacher) supposedly succeeded in correlating Hill's star map with real stars associated with Zeta Reticuli, this proving Hill had been on a ship from Zeta Reticuli. For two reasons, then, we eliminate stars of class F4 and above: (1) most of them rotate rapidly and thus seem to be planetless, and (2) their stable lifespans are too brief for advanced life to develop. (No planets have been discovered around either star. A professor of plant physiology, his biology expertise has been turned to astronomy on several occasions while studying the possibility of biological organisms existing on Mars. 14 18 Schedir 16 50 But eventually (around the time the Contact movie came out) I wised up and realized the real hunt for life on other worlds wouldnt come from the sky in cigar shaped flying spheres or in the middle of the night through a light in the window. 06 52 The Planet Serpo exchange project traces its origins to the Famous Roswell Incident where a UFO reportedly crashed in the plains near Socorro, New Mexico, on May 31, 1947. The other 2/3 are composed of stars not visible to you, on Earth, but nevertheless affecting the gravitational pull of the other stars and planets in the system. 04 31 Zeta Reticuli, Latinized from Reticuli, is a wide binary star system in the southern constellation of Reticulum. Ridpath, Star Tales, 1988. "But lt lS not unequivocal evidence," he cautions. [21], Both stars were considered unusual because they were thought to have had a lower luminosity than is normal for main-sequence stars of their age and surface temperature. 01 31 110 100 A long-term activity cycle of ~4.2years has been tentatively identified. Serpens From this viewpoint the map pattern obtained by Marjorie Fish was duplicated with virtually no variations. 150 But the Hills are troubled by unexplained dreams and anxiety about two hours of their trip that they can't account for. Polaris In general, the entire sequence of events just does not smell of falsification. If some of the star names on the Fish map sound familiar, they should. Dec 22, 1933 2:38 AM Chiron Rx enters Taurus. Prophetic Fixed Stars, Behenian Fixed Stars Mackey, The Original Design of the Ancient Zodiacal and Extrazodiacal Constellations, 1834. The inclination of this orbit will carry the stars as much as 1.3kly (0.4kpc) from the plane of the galactic disk. (Salisbury is also noted for his work promoting creationism.). Alnilam Acubens Betty estimated the map was approximately three feet wide and two feet high with the pattern covering most of the map. HIP 18598, Reticulum's Furthest Star It represents the reticle, a net of cross-hairs at the focus of a telescope eyepiece used to measure star positions. 200 Hyginus, Astronomica, @ 10 AD. And, in fact, icy moons could be ripe for life, as in the case of Enceladus or Europa.). 240 220 130 09 09 21 47 These slender aliens are light and almost delicate looking are are always . Anyway that's where things were in 1966 when Marjorie Fish, an Ohio schoolteacher, amateur astronomer and member of Mensa, became involved. 09 06 If we plan to visit some of these solar type stars and then return to Earth, we should try to have the shortest distance between stops. She theorized that the Hill map contained only local stars since no concentration of stars was evident. Zeta 1 would have long ago been the focus of religions, mythology and astrology if it were in earthly skies. One star that should be there ( Zeta Tucanae ) is missing probably because it is behind Zeta 1 Reticuli at the required viewing angle. [23] 2 is more sedate, showing a much lower level of activity[24] with a ~7.9-year cycle, which may indicate it is in a Maunder Minimum state. And since we assume their biology is similar to ours, their planet should have the same temperature regime as Earth (Betty and Barney did say it was uncomfortably cold in the ship). PresentationThe Zeta Reticulans or EBE survivor of the Roswell UFO Crash in early July 1947 claimed he was from a . First, these stars fry their planets with occasional lethal bursts of radiation emitted from erupting solar flares. David J. Eicher, Editor, John Wenz, associate editor, note: Every time I mention this piece, someone in the office shudders. Because the stars are similar to our Sun, if an Earth-like planet were in orbit around the stars at the right distance, liquid water might be able to pool on that planet's surface, and the conditions might be right for life as we know it to flourish. ), Elaborating on this aspect of the incident, Mark Steggert offers this: "I am inclined to question the ability of Betty, under posthypnotic suggestion, to duplicate the pattern two years after she saw it. 100 29 23, 00 24 Denebola Noctua 03 11 Marjorie Fish wrote a letter to Betty Hill dated October 7, 1972 source University of New Hampshire State archives), and she draws her Zeta Reticuli Interpretation set to Betty Hill's star map. English translation by Daria Dudziak. "Gliese added other criteria to compensate and lessen the possible errors," he says. Castor 03 11 In July 1965, an alien spacecraft from the Zeta Reticuli star system landed in Nevada and welcomed aboard twelve military personnel for a 10-month journey to their home planet, Serpo. Libra Shortly following, she opened the first yoga center in . Wasat Leo After several run throughs, he confirmed the positions determined by Marjorie Fish. Our last table indicated the sun (a G2 star) has a stable lifespan of about 11 billion years. It was to be drawn only if she could remember it accurately, and she was not to pay attention to what she was drawing which puts it in the realm of automatic drawing. They are each fifth magnitude stars barely visible to the unaided eye located in the. Khambalia Sagitta We don't want to waste our time and efforts we only want to go to stars that we would think would have a high probability of having planets harboring advanced life forms. But after several years the magazines fortunes recovered and by 1980, the time of the Voyager flybys, Astronomy became the worlds most widely read publication on the subject. I wasnt around on Astronomys staff in the 1970s. 09 47 Bootes 130 24 12 Phact "By no stretch of the imagination could anyone who knows them conclude that they were nuts," he emphasizes. 130 2 Reticuli is slightly brighter at magnitude 5.22. Sadalmelik "In most fields of investigation where similar statistical methods are usod, that degree of congruence is rather persuasive," concludes Saunders. After all, its hard to claim a UFO or alien or ghost when we all have a cell phone in our pocket. 05 18 This seems like a tall order. 21 57 After the examination she asks him where they are from. 210 Admittedly this is based on our one example of intelligent life us. 29 55, 03 26 Crater If you're a starseed from the Zeta Reticuli system, then you probably already know that you have a special mission here on Earth.