The Hill Abduction Case, page 4

Great post Gazrok, I like you became interested in this case because of the map. I’ve recently got a copy of Marjorie Fish’s Journey Into the Hill Star Map.

I found this thread on ATS and was expecting that someone would’ve debunked it...

nobody has!!! (even the ever-clever Byrd!!)

As pointed out earlier, the debunking article By Terence Dickinson (with commentary by Jeffrey L. Kretsch, Carl Sagan, Steven Soter, Robert Schaeffer, Marjorie Fish, David Saunders, and Michael Peck) does little to debunk the validity of the star map, but rather reinforces the maps validity!

However, the article itself is very informative for astronomy neophyte such as myself. Here are some of the points made (there are many) that I feel greatly increases the validity of the map…

During their examination of the map, Mitchell and some of
his students inserted the positions of hundreds of nearby stars
into a computer and had various space vistas brought up on a
cathode ray tube readout. They requested the computer to put
them in a position out beyond Zeta Reticuli looking toward the
sun. From this viewpoint the map pattern obtained by Marjorie
Fish was duplicated with virtually no variations. Mitchell noted
an important and previously unknown fact first pointed out by Ms.
Fish: The stars in the map are almost in a plane; that is, they
fill a wheel shaped volume of space that makes star hopping from
one to another easy and the logical way to go -- and that is what
is implied by the map that Betty Hill allegedly saw.

www.skepticfiles.org...

Later in the article, the same team at Ohio State
University in Columbus discusses the odds of Hill getting this right.

The odds are about 10,000 to 1 against a random
configuration matching perfectly with Betty Hill's map," Saunders
reports. "But the star group identified by Marjorie Fish isn't
quite a perfect match, and the odds consequently reduce to about
1,000 to 1. That is, there is one chance in 1,000 that the
observed degree of congruence would occur in the volume of space
we are discussing. (same link as above)

I went to my friend’s house (a astronomy buff) to see if I could line up the stars like Fish’s model. (my knowledge of the software is insufficient) It seems the creators of the Starry Night software have a sence of humor, they added this info to the Reticulum Constellation entry.

Good stuff!! Thanks guys! The AFB radar confirmation is amazing@!
And a well deserved bump to this thread.

few questions…

1. When was Zeta Reticuli added to the Gliese Index? When did we discover that Zeta 1 and Zeta 2 were G2 type stars like out sun?

2. Was Zeta Reticuli discussed as a possible location for the visitor’s home planet before the Hill’s case?

3. Is there a general contempt towards the map amongst astronomers? (see Starry Night Joke above)

[edit on 20/11/06 by ConspiracyNut23]