240 240, 100 200, 200 210 While we at BBC Sky at Night Magazine don't pay much heed to tales of alien abductions that have come to the fore since the 1960s (in fact, we do recommend a read of our list of things commonly mistaken for UFOs), it is at least a curious chapter in the Zeta Reticuli story and an explanation as to why many people outside of practical astronomy are interested in the stellar system. If they are farther out, they have frozen oceans and no life. 100 But in no other case on record have maps ever been mentioned. There was no concentration of stars to indicate the Milky Way ( galactic plane) suggesting that if it represented reality, it probably only contained local stars. 22 27 The map indicates that the Sun has been "visited occasionally". Peter Van de Kamp says, "It's first rate. 130 Don Dixon. 24 14 Cancer She theorized that the Hill map contained only local stars since no concentration of stars was evident. Retrograde motion lessens the effect of fixed stars. 22 59 Now we are ready to return to the map drawn by Betty Hill. 82 Eridani has planets too hot for life. Assuming the two stars in the foreground of the Hill map were the base stars (the sun, a single star, was ruled out here), she decided to try to locate the entire pattern. Our editor-in-chief, Dave Eicher, laughed it off until my face told him I am serious and seriously nuts.. Agena 29 22, Kerb 210 194-211. 11 58 Izar, Princeps The Zeta Reticuli System (Zeta Ret, Reticuli, Ret) was a binary star system located on the Frontier in the Reticulum Constellation. Oct 20, 1926 2:53 AM Chiron Rx enters Aries. 100 (No.) Zeta Reticulans are described as wearing silver jumpsuit-like clothing that covers their entire bodies including half of the neck, upper torso, and legs while the uniform does not cover the head or the hands. 140 Planetary returns are most potent. Anything greater would cause climatic disaster. Heavenly Imprints: Development of the Zodiac, Saturn Sextile Midheaven Natal and Transit, Mercury Retrograde April 21, 2023 Psychic Talent, Saturn Conjunct Neptune Natal and Transit. Ras Elased Aus. 240 The inclination of this orbit will carry the stars as much as 1.3kly (0.4kpc) from the plane of the galactic disk. For questions, contact Jamie at funkastrology@gmail.com. 13 38 "I was intrigued by the proposal put forth by Marjorie Fish that she had interpreted a real star pattern for the alleged map of Betty Hill. His standing in the scientific community was deeply damaged by his UFO advocacy.) 05 20 [18], Both stars share similar physical characteristics to the Sun,[16] so they are considered solar analogs. The nearest star to the Earth with an exoplanet is HD 21693, about 105.62 light-years. Her wild enthusiasm for her newest Star Map creation is obvious, and she writes the time of the letter as 3:30 am. 19 22 28 06, 03 09 ( Barney Hill died in early 1969.) Planetary returns are most potent. Beta Reticulis zodiacal degree seems to be mistaken here! 28 45 A long-term activity cycle of ~4.2years has been tentatively identified. He believes the Gliese catalog "is the most complete and comprehensive source available". The map supposedly showed the sky as seen from a planet orbiting the star Zeta Reticuli, from which the alien abductors had arrived. Astronomy was just a year and a half old at the time, and this story set the fledgling magazines credibility back a long way. 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. 140 (If you want more details on the encounter, see Fuller's book). Betty explained that she drew the map in 1964 under posthypnotic suggestion. To find the position of the fixed stars in your chart, you should correct for Precession. Aries Noonan, Fixed Stars and Judicial Astrology, 1990. 24 47 240 Kunitzch, Smart, A Dictionary of Modern Star Names, 2006. I showed the issue to our other senior editor, Michael Bakich. Coma Berenices It's a binary star system and their home planet is called Serpo. 140 220 Because we don't even know what they might look like if they're out there we necessarily have to limit our search to the kind of life that we understand. Achernar 03 11 130 Some otherwise perfect stars are labeled "variable". Octans ZetaReticuli, Latinized from Reticuli, is a wide binary star system in the southern constellation of Reticulum. (It sounds very much like a reflective hologram.) A 1996 discovery was retracted. Leo But it did. 130 To summarize, then: (1) the pattern discovered by Marjorie Fish has an uncanny resemblance to the map drawn by Betty Hill; (2) the stars are mostly the ones that we would visit if we were exploring from Zeta Reticuli, and (3) the travel patterns generally make sense. 100 Zaniah Please dont, was his only response. The first target is Tau Ceti, 12 light-years distant and seen in this rendering just to the right of the craft's spherical living quarters. The Zeta Reticuli Greys that we will refer to as type A's are one of the more common Greys reported. 05 10 Reticulum Wasat Conversely, the inconspicuous, cool M stars may be around to see the end of the universe whatever that might be. Mira Castor The weird circumstances that we have dubbed "The Zeta Reticuli Incident" sound like they come straight from the UFO pages in one of those tabloids sold in every supermarket. 23 13 Walter Mitchell, professor of astronomy at Ohio State University in Columbus, has looked at Marjorie Fish's interpretation of the Betty Hill map in detail and tells us, "The more I examine it, the more I am impressed by the astronomy involved in Marjorie Fish's work. It has windows -and behind the windows, looking directly at him are humanoid creaturesl Terrified, Barney stumbles back to the car, throws it into first gear and roars off. Hynek described how the Hills recalled the details of their encounter in his book, The UFO Experience (Henry Regnery Company, 1972): "Under repeated hypnosis they independently revealed what had supposedly happened. He claimed other planets that have never been confirmed.). We would want to include every star that would seem likely to have a life-bearing planet orbiting around it. At a declination of 62, the system is not visible from Britain's latitude of +53, so it never received a Flamsteed designation in John Flamsteed's 1712 Historia Coelestis Britannica. Alphecca Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Lyra In 2005, members of the Defense Intelligence Agency came forward to reveal the operation, including details from the 3,000-page debriefing of the seven members of the Serpo team who returned. A one percent fluctuation in the sun would be annoying for us here on Earth. While he later came to believe in UFOs, he later stated he didnt believe them to be of extraterrestrial origin. There is another more compelling reason for eliminating stars of class F4 and brighter. 2 is slightly larger and more luminous than 1, with 99% of the Sun's mass and 88% of the Sun's radius. A lot of the published trigonometric parallaxes on stars beyond 30 light-years are not as accurate as they could be, according to Kyle Cudworth of Yerkes Observatory. 140, 100 This story shouldnt have run. You need to move the planets in your horoscope forward to catch up with the positions of the stars for 2000. Two things happened from this absurd tale. According to the most recent star catalogs, there are about 1,000 known stars within a radius of 55 light-years of the sun. (These stars can last on a scale of trillions of years though they may soon fade into blue dwarfs, none of which exist yet.) After several run throughs, he confirmed the positions determined by Marjorie Fish. Such planets would also likely have unstable orbits. [4] Most stars will evolve above this curve as they age. If you've ever heard of aliens referred to as 'Zeta Reticulans', now you know why. A short time later a UFO group leaks a distorted version of the story to the press and the whole, thing blows up. Using beads dangling on threads, she painstakingly recreated our stellar environment. 28 54, 02 03 (Umm, no.) 100 First, these stars fry their planets with occasional lethal bursts of radiation emitted from erupting solar flares. He walks into a field to get a closer look, focuses the binoculars, and sees the object plainly. 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. 140, 200 Prior to 1969, the data could only have been obtained from the observatories conducting research on the specific stars in question. Bailey, Alice A., Esoteric Psychology Volume I, 1962 "The data for some of the stars seems to be very reliable, but a few of the pattern stars are not well observed and data on them is somewhat conflicting," says Kretsch. It takes a lot of stellar fuel to emit vast quantities of light and heat. [25], This star system belongs to the Zeta Herculis Moving Group of stars that share a common motion through space, suggesting that they have a common origin. The mintaka starseed's astrological sign is Pisces (astrology) and Aquarius (star system origin). 100 130 One significant fact against a charade is that the data from the Gliese catalog was not published until 1969, five years after the star map was drawn by Betty Hill. Gemini Armus Oculus 140 220 Their atmosphere must be similar because the Hills breathed without trouble while inside the ship, and the aliens did not appear to wear any protective apparatus. This debris disk interpreted as an analogy to the Kuiper belt with a semi-major axis of 100AU and a temperature of 3040 K.[28], However, observations with ALMA from October and November 2017 revealed that the structure observed by Herschel shows no common proper motion with Zeta Reticuli. 21 26 Fish later believed her work was in error. Since the aliens were described as humanoid and seemed reasonably comfortable on this planet, their home planet should be basically like ours. Tau Ceti has a planet of limited habitability. There is none better." Zeta 2 is about 99% the mass and 99% the radius of the Sun. Data used to derive the Fish model and the computer readout were taken from Gliese catalog. 07 47 "I was able to locate potential areas of error, but no real errors," Steggert concludes. Frank B. Salisbury of the University of Utah has also examined the Hill and Fish maps. These other 2/3 of the bulk of the star system are only evident by the . It represents the reticle, a net of cross-hairs at the focus of a telescope eyepiece used to measure star positions. Its something like planning a vacation trip. If we go west, all we can visit is Kansas City and Denver. 110 Acrux Alnilam Admittedly this is based on our one example of intelligent life us. 11 43 Did they visit Earth in 1961? The hottest, brightest and most massive main sequence stars (with rare exceptions) are the A stars. It probably cost Terry his job, as he was gone from the magazine a few months later. Antares and Betelgeuse are members of the ultrarare supergiant class. Such stars cannot have life-bearing planets because, at least based on our experience on our world, this is not enough time to permit highly developed biological systems to evolve on the land areas of a planet. Allen, Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning, 1889. (Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri are currently tantalyzing targets, although only one planet has been confirmed in the triple star system.) [23] Although the kinematics of this system suggest that they belong to a population of older stars, the properties of their stellar chromospheres suggests that they are only about 2 billion years old. . 17 42 220 The distance between the two stars is at least 3,750AU (0.06 light-year, or almost a hundred times the average distance between Pluto and the Sun), so their orbital period is 170,000 years or more. Algol, Alcyone are the "hub" of exploration or, in the context of the incident, the aliens' home base. We are forced to "scratch" all stars suspected or proven to be variable. [27] In 2010, the Herschel Space Observatory, a telescope with a comparatively superior spatial resolution and, unlike Spitzer, able to resolve radiation excesses beyond the wavelength of 70m, determined the infrared excess as coming from a two-lobed structure that looked like a debris disk seen edge-on. The interesting aspect of the Betty and Barney Hill case is that it wasn't initially their intention for their tale to be made public, but also that they were intelligent and respected members of both their community and also of the Civil Rights movement at the time. (Majorie Fish later repudiated her findings prior to her death in 2013. (Today, K-type star stability is seen as a boon, rather than a hinderance, for their habitability.). Under an aggressive exterior, the natives have a deeply nurturing quality and have great capacities to support others. Lets find out why. ), "Advanced life on this planet was annihilated when its sun ended it's "normal" phase as a main sequence star and ballooned into the red giant seen here. They are each fifth magnitude stars barely visible to the unaided eye located in the obscure southern constellation Reticulum. Phoenix 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. Or would the pattern become distorted? Hamal 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. Given the orientation of these two locations and the relative distances, it would be hard to place Zeta Reticuli anywhere but firmly within the Orion Arm. [8][19] The two stars are somewhat deficient in metals, having only 60% of the proportion of elements other than hydrogen and helium as compared to the Sun. 2 Reticuli is slightly brighter at magnitude 5.22. For the moment we will leave Marjorie Fish back in 1969 trying to interpret Betty Hill's reproduction of the map. It all started this way: Barney grabs his binoculars from the car seat and steps out. ", (Theres skepticism about the usefulness of hypnotic regression, as heavy suggestion can lead to false memories.). This means astronomers have observed variations of at least a few percent in the star's light output. Accepting Doles further trimming, we are left with single, non-variable stars from F8 through all the Gs to K1? Italian translation by Giuseppe Bezza from CCAG V/1 pp. 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. 110 ), Using information on the same 15 stars from the Royal Observatory catalog (Annals #5), Steggert reports that the pattern does come out differently because of the different data, and Gliese 59 shows the largest variation. The Lines on the map, according to Betty Hill, were described by the alien as trade routes or places visited occasionally with the dotted lines as expeditions. The viewing angle is from a point In space beyond that limit looking back toward the sun. Lazar simply picked one to talk about. And, in fact, icy moons could be ripe for life, as in the case of Enceladus or Europa.). It is slightly brighter at magnitude +5.22 and is a yellow dwarf of class G2. However, this was challenged, after using the much more accurate parallaxes from the Hipparcos catalogue (ESA, 1997), it was calculated that the stars actually have higher luminosities and so are shifted upwards, putting them in the main sequence. The spectral class letters are part of a system of stellar "fingerprinting" that identifies the main sequence star's temperature and gives clues to its mass and luminosity. The Gliese catalog uses photometric, trigonometric and spectroscopic parallaxes and derives a mean from all three after giving various mathematical weights to each value. Zeta Reticuli, on the other hand, is believed to be a mere 39 light years from Earth. Shortly after the invention of the telescope astronomers would be able to detect . HIP 18598, Reticulum's Furthest Star 130 Bos Heres the thing: I used to be obsessed with UFOs. A list of all the major fixed stars in your chart with links to complete interpretations at Astrology King. Designated Zeta 1 and Zeta 2 Reticuli, the two solar analogs are slightly smaller, less massive and less luminous than the Sun. 14 18 100 It is a yellow main sequence star of class G3 with a magnitude or brightness of +5.52 (for more on this, read our guide to stellar spectral classifications and stellar magnitude). Zeta Reticuli: facts about the binary star sytem. 26 41 21 37 The Exchange Program Between Earth and Project Serpo In the Zeta Reticuli System. Asellus Australis 03 46 In general, the entire sequence of events just does not smell of falsification. An example of rotational lock is right next door to us. 210 Because this is a potentially troublesome area for our objective, we will eliminate all close and moderately close pairs or systems of multiple stars. Unfortunately most of the Ks and all of the Ms are out. Thuban 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. 220 [13] Subsequently, the two stars received separate designations in the Cape Photographic Durchmusterung, which was processed between 1859 and 1903, then in the Henry Draper Catalogue, published between 1918 and 1924. 27 17 El Nath Stephen Dole of the Rand Corporation has made a detailed study of stars in this range and suggests we should also eliminate F5, F6, and F7 stars because they balloon to red giants before they reach an age of five billion years. 200 100 Sinistra, Spiculum They have an angular separation of 309.2arcseconds (5.2 arcminutes);[17] far enough apart to appear as a close pair of separate stars to the naked eye under suitable viewing conditions. In essence, then, we assume their home planet must be very Earthlike. Porrima 07 27 Pollux Dschubba The Bayer designation for this star system, Zeta () Reticuli, originated in a 1756 star map by the French astronomer Abb Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille.
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