(06-14-2021, 12:55 PM)BIAD Wrote: People around the world have definitely witnessed something in the skies that they cannot identify, it's just strange
that in many cases, the description of a 'saucer'-shaped craft matches the misinterpretation from the media of what
Kenneth Arnold described as their movement like "saucers skipping on water"
He stated that what he actually saw were delta-wing-style machines, but 'flying saucer' sounds more silly and the
belief in unknown 'out-of-this-world' craft became shelved with Nessie and the Patterson-Gimlin footage.
Aye.
In a similar vein, nearly everyone who claims to have spoke with them little grey fellers from beyond the sky these days claims they said they were from Zeta 2 Reticuli. That goes back to the Barney and Betty Hill case in 1961. Betty, under hypnosis, produced a "star map" that she said she was shown on the flying saucer. A few years later, Marjorie Fish built models of stars and finally said she found that configuration from the direction of Zeta 2 Reticuli, and a legend was born for folks to hang their hats on.
There were fundamental false assumptions in Ms. Fish's work that invalidated it, but people still, to this day, go right back to it as if it were gospel, especially since all these alleged "contactees" claim their little grey fellerrs confirmed it.
Technology has marched onward, and nowadays anyone with a computer and internet connection can download "Celestia", which uses far more accurate data for star positions than Fish had to work with, use that program to "fly" to Zet2Ret, and look back towards the sun, and see for themselves that it is all bunk, the star pattern is not there, in just a few minutes.
But apparently, fame and fortune seeking "contactees" either don't know how to do that, or are banking that no one else will, and they stubbornly stick to their bullshit tales, because they sell.
I don't know if the Hill case was legit or not. I don't know if Betty Hill's "Starmap" is legit, or just a figment of an overactive imagination. What I DO know is that, if one takes her original map, and uses only the stars from it, omitting the planets and moons (Fish, unfortunately, included them as "Stars"), a disturbingly similar star configuration can be seen from the direction of the north galactic pole, a location very near to a star named Beta Comae Berenices.
Yet "contactees" and the internet in general still swear by an explanation they have never bothered to check for themselves. Not only do I cringe every time I hear it, I also know they are utterly making it up out of whole cloth every time they claim that they spoke with aliens, and them little gray fellers said the come from Zeta 2 Reticuli.
I know where that bullshit line came from, and I DID check it out for myself.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’