Page Content (OCR)
race of space explorers. In my opinion it proves nothing of the kind. Betty's drawing is a map to nowhere. If there is some intelligence involved, Betty's map may even be another deliberate attempt to lead us astray, or a sophisticated symbol pointing to a higher level of the truth. I have told how a psychiatrist took Betty and Barney Hill back to the instant of the incident by using regressive hypnosis. They both described a scene they could not remember consciously: the car was stopped, eerie dwarf-like men in black uniforms took control of them, and they were taken inside the flying sacuser for a medical examination. Barney Hill is dead now. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage at forty-six. Betty has become a UFO celebrity and a rallying point for the believers in extraterrestrial visitation. She has done more than any other UFO witness to spread among the American public a belief in space visitors. Several ufologists have now claimed that the home base of these visitors has been identified: they come from a planet circling a star, Zeta Reticuli, in the southern constellation Reticulus. This is by no means the first time that the supposed origin of "flying saucers" has been revealed, either by the ufonauts themselves or by deduction from the words of the witnesses. In each case the witness seems genuinely sincere and believes in the "revelations." But in each case these revelations contradict what all the other contactees are saying. The history of such identification goes back to the days of the 1897 airship, whose occupants invited witnesses to come with them to "a place where it doesn't rain." As noted earlier, on one occasion, asked where they were from, the strange pilots replied: "We're from anywhere, but we shall be in Greece tomorrow!" Another occupant mentioned Cuba. Art An AtAan nu n ” anao4 1 ma 1 a On July 23, 1947, near Pitanga, Brazil, a group of surveyors saw a disk-shaped craft land near them. One of them, Jose G. Higgins, saw three beings in shiny clothes and translucent suits emerge from the saucer. They were two meters tall, had oversized bald heads, huge round eyes, no eyelashes or eyebrowns, and wore a metal box on their backs. They drew the solar system for the benefit of the witness and pointed to Uranus as if to indicate they came from there. In 1952 a man named Truman Bethurum met space beings who claimed they originated from Fa) De CE Oe en es Clarion, a planet hidden from us by the sun. In a radio interview and in conversations with me, a contactee named "Jim" has identified the home The entities of light that appeared in energy form said they were from the constellation we call Orion, and they were here to prepare us to interconnect with the next level of universal teat i intelligence. On November 2, 1966, a salesman named Darenberger saw a dark object ahead of him on the road as he was driving home to Parkersburg, West Virginia. A man of dark complexion came out of the strange flying machine and approached him. The man was dressed in a blue shirt and blue trousers and gave the witness a message saying he came from another world called Lanulos. On September 4, 1967, in Latin America, a police officer named Andrade saw a dwarf wearing silver coveralls near a hovering disk. He pointed his machine gun at the creature, but a voice came from the object and ordered him not to use the weapon. The dwarf then attempted to convince Andrade to come to his world, which was "very distant and much larger than the earth, with many ~ Ave 2 Oe atti advantages for earthlings." Let us not forget the Ummo affair, which I described in an earlier book. A complex series of messages allegedly coming from a "Cosmic Federation of Planets" has been recieved by people in Spain and in France. These messages from Ummo claim to give full details on the origin and civilization of our visitors: We wish to inform planet Earth of our origin and of the purpose of our visit to you. We come from UMMO, a planet that rotates around the star IUMMA, recorded on your Earth under guided the pilots to our solar system. This proves, they argue, that we are in fact being visited by a base of the saucers as Orion: