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The mysterious beings even provided a map of Ummo and details of its atmospheric composition! In recent years Colonel Wendell Stevens has promoted lurid reports of contact with UFOs from the Pleiades and a variety of other places (the Pleiades are young blue stars, very unlikely to have planets with life on them). Finally, Uri Geller has stated that his powers come from a form of consciousness emanating from "Hoova," and Spanish contactee Jacques Bordas believes that the strange being he saw was from Titan. Thus, we have a bewildering multitude of "revelations" of the saucers' point of origin! An Ohio schoolteacher named Marjorie Fish added another chapter to this quest by constructing a model of known sun-like stars and matching it to a map that Betty Hill saw inside the flying saucer. It is this model that indicates to many UFO believers that the saucer which abducted the Hills hailed Marjorie Fish visited Betty in 1969 to get information about the map. Betty told her that she drew the map under post-hypnotic suggestion in 1964. She remembered it as a flat, thin display giving an impression of depth. Since she didn't move while viewing it, she couldn't tell whether it was truly three- dimensional or just flat like a television screen. It was about three feet by two feet and showed many stars. Ms. Fish cleverly investigated this pattern by compiling a list of all the known stars within 55 light years of the sun that are good candidates for supporting life, according to currently accepted cosmological theory. These are stars that are neither too hot nor too cold, that do not vary in brightness, and that rotate slowly, the slow rotation being necessary if the stars are to have planets around them. There are forty-six such stars. Marjorie Fish went on to build models of the positions of these stars by using beads dangling on threads and looked for "suspicious alignments." Finally she exhibited a configuration of sixteen stars that was very similar to the Hill map when seen from a particular viewing angle. An astronomy professor at Ohio State, Walter Mitchell, has recreated the model by using a computer and has stated that he was "impressed." In many lectures around the country, UFO researchers have shown slides of the model and the original map and have shown audiences the resemblance, implying that UFOs were real spacecraft originating on Zeta Reticuli. People I have spoken to after such lectures came away with the feeling that the whole UFO mystery had at last been solved. Yet, I believe they are mistaken. Recognizing that the witness is sincere and that the analyst is accurate, we still have two very important problems before us. It is appalling to find that no one has raised them and that UFO "investigators" have been so eager to jump to a sensational conclusion on the basis of the evidence presented. The two questions we must ask are: (1) from how many positions in space can we look at the forty-six-star model and find as good a match with the original map? and (2) once we find a good match, or even a "best" match, does that necessarily tell us anything about the origin of UFOs? The question posed to the computer was the wrong one. Given the stars in the model and the viewpoint chosen by Marjorie Fish, the computer was bound to display the same pattern that she had already found with her beads and threads. It would be a lot more interesting to ask the computer to place itself in succession at each of the millions of possible space viewpoints and to calculate how many would give a good fit to the original map. To do this would require some definition of "goodness" and a lot of patience — not to mention a lot of computer time. We would probably generate a list of many points in space from which sixteen of the forty-six stars form a pattern closely resembling the Hill map. Zeta Reticuli may or may not be significant when these results are sorted out. Clearly this experiment hasn't been done. What if a perfect match were found? What if it identified Zeta Reticuli as the hub of the star pattern? This would still not be a proof of the spatial origin of our visitors. A crucial fact seem to have escaped the attention of those who have examined Betty Hill's drawing: her map is not drawn to scale! The size of the stars — if the Fish interpretation is correct — does not correspond to their the designation Wolf 424. from Zeta Reticuli.