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70 Most amazing is the star map. Years later, schoolteacher Marjorie Fish analyzed the star map that Betty had seen aboard the craft and drawn under hypnosis. Using new astronomy charts, Fish was able to determine that the E.T.s home star was Zeta-Reticuli. Today, the case is considered a classic and has been the subject of a book and a By this time, researchers had uncovered numerous other cases involving the strange feature of “missing time.” While missing time is now a recognized symptom of a close encounter, the first cases baffled investigators. Today, most researchers believe that the am- nesia is placed upon abductees by the aliens to either protect the aliens’ activities from becoming known, or to protect the abductees from potentially traumatic memories. In either case, many abductees suffer from this bizarre memory loss in association with their close encounters. Researchers have helped people overcome this memory block through the use of regressive hypnosis. Usually used on vic- tims of trauma such as child abuse or war victims, hypnosis allows the patient to mentally relax enough to access memories that are normally kept hidden from the conscious mind. Some skeptics claim that hypnosis can lead to “false memory syndrome,” or, in other words, imagining events that didn’t happen. Most of today’s leading abduction researchers, however, support hypnosis as a valid tool to recover hidden abduction memories. One of the most electrifying UFO contact cases occurred on Octo- ber 11, 1973, to two fishermen in Pascagoula, Mississippi. On that evening, Charles Hickson and his friend Calvin Parker sat in their favorite fishing spot near an old shipyard. Hickson had just caught a fish when they both heard a weird “zipping sound” coming from behind and above. Turning around, they saw a 30-foot-long football- shaped object with two portholes landing 60 feet away. Suddenly, a UFOS AND ALIENS television movie.”’ THE HICKSON-PARKER ABDUCTION