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zations and flying saucers. Everyone knows the story of Barney
and Betty Hill who disclosed under hypnosis that they had been
kidnapped in a flying saucer in 1961, had undergone a physical
examination, and had been shown a celestial map of the stars as
seen from the planet of origin of the astronauts.
To tell you the truth, I did not believe a word of it at first. I
only became interested in 1964 when Betty Hill was able, again
under hypnosis, to reproduce the star map shown to her by the
astronauts; but I was still skeptical about the whole thing. I
thought maybe that time she was really going too far.
But then I really became fascinated when an amateur American
astronomer named Marjorie Fish discovered that the celestial
map shown to Betty Hill corresponded exactly to the one
that could be seen from the star Zeta Reticuli, which is located in
the southern hemisphere of the celestial vault, between the two
bright stars Achernar and Canopus.
And I had good reasons to be excited because the main star
drawn by Betty Hill on her map was a double star, and nobody
on earth at that time, in 1961 or even in 1964, knew that Zeta Reticuli
was a double star. This was only discovered in March igys
by the American astronomer Peter Van de Camp, who specializes
in that kind of research, especially the stars that move in spirals
instead of straight lines, which indicates stars vnth a planetary
system or double and triple stsirs.
Then I knew that Betty Hill had been telling the truth all the
time, because there was no way she could have known that Zeta
Reticuh was a double star when she was drawing the star map.
Also, that map was drawn in a way that I have never seen anywhere
on earth. The Reticulian astronauts, who were practical
people rather than poets, linked their stars with traffic lines
(double, single,
or dotted), depending on the intensity of their
traffic, instead of trying to draw bulls, lions, or even virgins as
our ancestors used to do.
Over twenty years ago, an incredible phenomenon happened
in 'France that is very little knowni (it was reported in the September
1959 issue of Aerospace Engineering, p. 46) but could
very well have been a signal from an outer-space civilization for
the purpose of informing us about their existence.
For almost five years, from 1953 to 1957, Maurice Allais, direc-