Zeta Reticuli

As you know, the ExtraTerrestrials that supposed to have abducted Barney and Betty Hill showed them a map of their home star system. Marjorie Fish several years later concluded that this star is Zeta Reticuli.
So dear members of our community, what is your opinion about this?
Is Zeta Reticuli a suitable place of life, or even perhaps intelligent life?
What Do you believe about this map?

Pure Fiction created by and for the gullible and ignorant.

I do not really believe in that short of stories, but we must admitt that Zeta 2 Reticuli and our Sun are completely identical stars. Zeta 2 is a G1V Star and has 99% Sun's mass and 88% of the Sun's radius! If we could remove Sun from the sky and put at its place zeta 2 nobody would notice the difference. Iam not sure but I think that it is the only star in the known universe that looks so much with Sun!

Jason,

Ten years is plenty of time for a mass hysteria to settle in. In the late 50's my family lived on a street in Northern Virginia that had two Air force Colonels down the block from us. They were called to duty over a weekend because it was thought that a UFO was going to land somewhere in Washington DC. Here in Tennessee, Oprah Winfrey's father was a State congressman who introduced a bill to provide a landing pad for a UFO in downtown Nashville. One of my former bosses also claimed to have seen a UFO as well.

I read the book back when it came out and felt sorry for Barney and Betty in that they were hallucinating. Now I think it was a clever way to sell a few books.

No one that I know now believes that Roswell was anything other than an attempt to spy on Russia using high altitude balloons.

Notice that since world-wide television and video cameras became widely available and ubiquitous that the sightings of UFO's have gone away. If UFO's were made of solid material they would produce a terrificly loud sonic boom. No reports of sonic booms associated with any of these sightings.

Zeti 1 and Zeti 2 Reticuli are on NASA's short list for study by the Terrestrial Planet Finder project when it becomes available. The European Space Agency Darwin system of satellites will also apparently be used to check for planets around these stars. It stands to reason that these agencies must think it a reasonable possibility that Earth like planets will be found there.

Jason,

If you do a little research you will see that there are inversions in temperature and atmospheric layers that act as a funnel for sound and electronic transmissions. This is true for sonar and various ocean layers as well.

There were actual listening devices hoisted up on high altitude balloons that went extremely high. They were painted silver to keep the sun from heating the gas in the ballon so it would rise very high before it burst.

What they found in Roswell was the silver coated skin of the balloon and a few structural members. It was hush-hush at the time since the GOVT didn't want to reveal their method of listening in on the Rusky's.

Quote from Wiki:
"....secret government program called Project Mogul, which involved high altitude balloons meant to detect sound waves generated by Soviet atomic bomb tests and ballistic missiles"

You can find pictures of what they found at the time:

http://www.astro.virginia.edu/class/oconnell/astr121/im/Roswell-debris-1947.jpg

Go there and tell me if that looks like an alien craft.

Daddio

ahh yes always the conspiracy.

Honestly, I doubt the government is competent enough to keep anything like that a secret for 50 years. Seriously... you gotta be kidding....

There were numerous "flying saucer" sightings through out the 50's.. most of which were explained when eventually the "flying pancake" airplanes were revealed.. at the time of the tests they were "top secret". Of course they do make an occasional re-appearance near moonshiners...

I myself have seen "UFO's" Unidentified flying objects. One was flying due north at incredible speed (and altitude). Satellite? wrong orbit even for a wayward one. Too slow for any type of meteor. I checked through a friend of a friend with Air Force information. There was no "official" disclosure.

But I bet someone knew what it was. Just did not want to talk about it. So it remains.. "Unidentified". They would probably be happy to tell me.. in another 15 or so years.

Such as a photo showing what appears to be "space blanket" material on the ground. It was sold in the early 70's as a "survival" blanket, able to withstand and protect against temperature extremes.

I also believe any alien technologies would be used politically to obtain "carte blanche" expenditure for any military expenditures they could dream of. Keeping it secret would be their last course of action. But they are also not going to talk about what is in roswell. But you can do a little research and discover what HAS been in roswell.

Much like the "philidelphia experiment".. There are other explanations that make a LOT more sense than the tall tales that came in Bar room bull.
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Janice

If hot hallucinatory, then perhaps the word applies that refers to those who believe in heaven, hell, purgatory, limbo, 72 virgins and the afterlife....Delusional

ahh yes always the conspiracy.
Honestly, I doubt the government is competent enough to keep anything like that a secret for 50 years.

Well,

I am being a bit harsh I suppose. People who believe in things that are highly unlikely, defy the laws of physics or are contradictory or irrational often hold their beliefs without a shred of physical evidence. I guess that you could call me a skeptic and those others "non skeptics".

In the past millions of people believed in the sun god, Thor, Zeus, Krisna, Swine flu, Y2K, etc.

In fact there were and are probably billions. Are they all right--or are they all delusional ? What do you think ?

I will be the first to repent when an alien ship or body is put on display.

Regards,

Daddio
AKA Bill

People who believe in things that are highly unlikely, defy the laws of physics or are contradictory or irrational often hold their beliefs without a shred of physical evidence.

Well Egyptians still exists, Greek also still exists. Iam Greek you know.
I have to remind you that we are discussing here about the Zeta Reticuli system and Betty Hill starmap. I also want to ask you, to respect each other opinions and stop insulting other people beliefs religious, or not.