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July 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 31/07/2010 10:53 AM Page 31 31 Where Would Space Aliens Come From? 31 Where Would Space Aliens Come From? Analysis by Ray Villard Discovery News A reader reminded me that today is the 63rd anniversary of the so-called Roswell UFO Incident. Even if you know nothing else about the UFO phenomenon, you certainly have heard about what supposedly happened in Roswell, New Mexico in July, 1947: a crashed flying saucer, autopsies on alien bodies, Government cover-ups. It ushered in the 1950s kitsch of bubble-headed little green space jockeys inside silvery saucers flitting across our skies. This space-age mythology, embellished over the years, tells of an alien interstellar vehicle simply falling out of the sky near a desert town. The only tangible evidence is scraps of wood and metal foil and other mundane debris that suspiciously look like they came from a crashed U.S. military balloon. That is, unless you believe the Government has been hiding all the goodies -- including alien corpses -- inside an Indiana Jones style warehouse all these decades. similar to her sketch. craft over Roswell with pilots of flesh and This leads me to wonder that if flying Secondly, Hill described the map as blood. Over the past 50 years our newbie space saucers are supposedly real, why haven't we showing alien exploration and trade routes to civilization has reconnoitered the entire solar learned where the visitors come from among the other stars. The notion of trade between system with a pretty nimble and savvy armada stars? Didn't the Roswell aliens leave a driving extraterrestrial civilizations is patently absurd. of robots. They self-navigate into stable orbits map in their glovebox? There is nothing worth trading that would and landings on hostile worlds. At least when If someone who claimed to be in contact justify the transportation costs (at least nothing one of them crashes, nobody gets killed. with space aliens could give us just a few simple short of Star Trek’s Green Orion Slave Women). Similarly, a native technological numbers they’d unequivocally prove their case And, clearly the Zeta Reticulans aren’t trading intelligent species certainly would be enticed to to skeptics. Simply send me (1) the celestial with us, unless they’re getting modeling fees explore any inhabited planets orbiting the coordinates of the home star, (2) the number of and a cut from Roswell UFO souvenir stands. companion star in the Zeta Reticuli system. planets orbiting it, (3) their distances from the Finally, in the Fuller book Hill described They would rapidly become an “extra- parent star, (4) and their relative masses. Then the map as a flat pull-down chart (later she terrestrial” space-faring civilization. They all we’d have to do is look at the star and see if changed her account and described it vaguely to would be motivated to develop far-advanced the planets were there. Viola! me, in a hesitant voice, as some sort of 3D propulsion systems needed to hop over to the This has never happened in UFO display). BTW the UFO also carried companion star. Such a trip would take close to history. Well, almost never. paperbound books with “Chinese looking 2,000 years with our present generation space A search on the Internet comes up with printing” according to Hill. This is as vehicles. one particularly legendary place, the double star nonsensical as Neil Armstrong carrying stone In this star system UFOs could become system Zeta Reticuli. It's nearby, only 39 light- tablets to the moon. Didn't the aliens at least reality. That’s because a less-advanced years away in the southern sky. have something like an iPad? civilization on the companion star might be able The naked-eye double star burst into Today, the Hill map even has a link to to see manifestations of a visiting advanced UFO culture in the mid -1970s. An Ohio school the Roswell incident. According to one website intelligence from the neighboring binary teacher, Marjorie Fish, claimed to have decoded the Roswell aliens supposedly set up a secret companion. Eventually they could decide to a star map from a 1961 UFO abduction case. It exchange program with the U.S. military. send a living emissary for a face-to-face contact pointed to Zeta Reticuli as the aliens' place of Apparently 12 humans were sent to the home between civilizations, assuming a similar origin. planet, named Serpio, in the Zeta Reticuli astrobiology. It could be a scene straight out of The alleged extraterrestrial kidnapping, system. The write-up describes a “10-month the sci-fi classic film “Avatar.” described in journalist John Fuller’s book journey” with poor food (what do you expect To date, no planets have been found “Incident at Exeter: The Interrupted Journey,” from an interstellar airliner?) around either star. NASA’s Spitzer Space tells how a New England couple was taken The reality is that the Zeta Reticuli Telescope did find the telltale glow of a dusty aboard a flying saucer and medically examined. system is a fascinating place where I’d expect to disk that would indicate planets are present. Under hypnotic regression the wife, Betty Hill, find advanced life. The two stars are similar to As our survey techniques improve it’s sketched a star map she said she saw while our sun and separated by 800 billion miles. This probably only a matter of time before we inside the spaceship. would leave plenty of elbowroom for inhabited discover a family of worlds in the Zeta Reticuli In the pre-home computer days of the planets to exist around both stars. system. And, follow-up observations will seek early 1970s, Fish actually constructed a The stars are estimated to be as much as out the biosignatures of life on any planets in wireframe cube and positioned beads on strings 3 billion years older than our Sun. Any habitable zones. This is a far more enthralling for the nearby stellar neighborhood. She viewed intelligent life that originated there would be far future narrative than the unimaginative fantasy the model from different angles until a match too advanced for the shenanigans reported in of some space hot rodders totaling their vehicle was found with the Hill map. It pinpointed Zeta Roswell. What's more, you could not place a in the middle of nowhere. Reticuli. sentient entity a billion years more evolved than Now, Roswell UFO believers can save This map is legendary but meaningless. us onto a dissection table. And, it definitely us a lot of time and effort by simply telling us First, the Hill drawing contains 25 dots for stars. would not be humanoid, or perhaps even exactly what the planetary system looks like . . . If you flew around a computer database of the biological. local stellar neighborhood you’d come up with Therefore, it's simply ludicrous to Miss An ‘X’ Zone Radio Show? more than one match that roughly “looked” imagine that there really was such a wayward www.xzonepodcast.com