UFO Wave Of 1947 : The Expedition : The Signals

Since we've now established the fact that a series of signals were sent out into the universe in July and August of 1945 from the first three atomic blasts in New Mexico, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we must therefore, look at the significance of the timeframe of the twenty-three months which passed between the very first Trinity test and the arrival of The Expedition in June of 1947.

Kenneth Arnold's UFO sighting took place on June 24th, 1947. Of course, this does not necessarily mean that The Expedition arrived on planet Earth on the exact same day. But this was the first truly credible, indisputable, convincing and dramatic UFO report of its kind — ruling out the somewhat questionable sightings of Europe's Foo Fighters in 1944, Scandinavia's Ghost Rockets in 1946 and the Maury Island UFO Incident on June 21st, 1947, all of which we will begin investigating in Chapter 2. The Expedition could have arrived days or even weeks earlier. Since we're going to be talking about interstellar travel — and more importantly, traveling at the speed of light, let's consider this to be a twenty-four month, two-year period for ease of reference.

If inter-dimensional travel were truly possible, why wouldn't The Expedition have been at the Trinity Site on the Alamogordo Bombing Range in New Mexico on the day of July 16th, 1945, watching the world's first atomic explosion seconds after it occurred? There were no reports of UFO's in this particular part of North America at the time. None at all. No strange activity or flying discs. The real, rock-solid UFO sightings all happened in 1947 which has since become known as the UFO Wave Of 1947.

I do not believe inter-dimensional travel to be a reality, let alone even a remote possibility. The Holy Grail of all modern physics known as the Grand Unified Theory and the closely-related Theory Of Everything, both of which meld all possibilities and answers into one, have yet to be discovered and proven. But I do believe, just as Albert Einstein believed, that it is possible to travel at the speed of light.

Einstein's Theory Of Relativity (which actually consists of two theories — General Relativity and Special Relativity) suggests that the closer we come to traveling at the speed of light, the more time would appear to slow down from the perspective of someone who, in relation to us, was not moving. This is referred to as time dilation. According to scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Einstein's principle of the constancy of the speed of light "holds up under extremely tight scrutiny, a finding which rules out certain theories predicting extra dimensions and a frothy fabric of space".

Where would an alien civilization originate from if they were advanced enough to travel at the speed of light and had two years to reach their destination of planet Earth? To this day, scientists and visionaries of all kinds insist that in order for life to exist on other planets outside of our solar system, life forms must be based on a carbon chemistry — equivalent to all life forms on Earth. There is a requirement of liquid water and a sun-like star. But what if life as we know it was completely different elsewhere in the universe? Life forms which are not composed of carbon. Life forms requiring no liquid water and no sun-like stars. Why must we continue to insist that life on another planet be similar to ours? If another civilization can travel at the speed of light, there's a very good chance that the life form wouldn't resemble ours in the least. Especially when you consider the consequences which a human-like body would be subjected to when traveling at a speed of 186, 282 miles per second — the speed of light. In just one light year, you would travel approximately six million million miles.

» The Interrupted Journey «

Often referred to as the Zeta Reticuli Incident, an American couple named Betty and Barney Hill claim to have been abducted by a UFO which they began observing in the late evening of September 19th,1961, while on their way home from a holiday in Montreal, Canada. The UFO was first spotted just south of Groveton near the town of Northumberland in southwestern Coos County, New Hampshire. While continuing to travel south along US Route 3 to their home of Portsmouth, the "bright object" in the sky began moving very erratically, approaching closer and closer. About a mile south of Indian Head, a huge craft quickly descended toward them — filling the entire windshield of their 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Hardtop, causing them to stop in the middle of the highway. The craft shifted its location to directly above the vehicle. Being the first widely-reported, indisputable case of alien abduction in history, their story is so credible and believable — even to this very day — that it is a very hard one to ignore in modern ufology.

Under hypnotic regression, the Hill's claimed to have been abducted by aliens described as being five feet tall with greyish skin, pear-shaped heads and slanting, cat-like eyes — this was the first mention of "the greys" in modern ufology. Betty Hill claimed to have been shown a three-dimensional star map by her alien abductors which she was able to later draw a sketch of. The map was analyzed by a number of people including an astronomy enthusiast named Marjorie Fish whose interpretation of the map matched a binary star system named Zeta Reticuli. One of the "trade routes" which Hill learned about from her abductors in this star system was estimated to have been 39 light years away from Earth.

Charles W. Atterberg, an aeronautical communications employee in Illinois, constructed an extremely accurate map of Betty Hill's star system — all of the stars depicted in the Atterberg map were within 18.2 light years of our sun with the base stars being Epsilon Indi and Epsilon Eridani in the constellations of Indus and Eridanus, respectively. Atterberg's research led to the discovery of a point in space along the southern boundary of a large constellation known as Ophiuchus where the stars in the vicinity of the sun appear to match the pattern of Betty Hill's sketch in an almost identical fashion.

Atterberg's map appears to fit the sketch much better than the Fish map because it identifies over 95 percent of the stars in Hill's original map as opposed to just under 60 percent of the stars identified in the Fish interpretation. It's important to note, however, that Marjorie Fish did not include any red dwarf stars in her analysis whereas, Atterberg did include them in his interpretation. Interestingly, Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani were the first two stars examined under Project Ozma by Cornell University Astronomer, Frank Drake, at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, West Virginia in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in 1960. A so-called "false signal" was detected on April 8th, 1960. Tau Ceti appears in both, the Fish map and the Atterberg map.

Betty Hill herself discovered significant resemblances in a map depicting the stars of the constellation Pegasus which was published in the New York Times on April 13th, 1965. At this same time, Russian Astronomer Gennady B. Sholomitsky claimed that CTA 102 (which was depicted in the map) may be sending out intelligent radio signals. It was widely speculated that if CTA 102, which appears near the "globes" in Hill's sketch, was a true artificial radio source, this would give the Pegasus map much more credibility by providing evidence of a Type II or III extraterrestrial civilization. The radio source was later identified as a quasar.

In 1995, Swiss Professor Michel Mayor of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Geneva along with Didier Queloz discovered the first extrasolar planet orbiting the sun-like star, 51 Pegasi, in the constellation of Pegasus. It was named 51 Pegasi b. The map of Pegasus which Betty Hill identified in the New York Times, along with the Russian Astronomer's claim about CTA 102 were both included in John G. Fuller's 1966 book about the Hill abduction, The Interrupted Journey.

» Earth To Zeta Reticuli «

What conclusions are we to draw from this information? Did The Expedition originate from Zeta Reticuli? From Pegasus? Or from a star system much closer as Charles W. Atterberg suggested? We know that the UFO Wave Of 1947 didn't stop in 1947. It continued on for years and years — for decades. As more and more nuclear weapons were tested, more and more sightings were reported, especially in the vicinity of the tests and in the vicinity of the developmental laboratories which produced the technology to build the weapons themselves.

I believe that since its arrival in 1947, The Expedition has never left our planet. So let's now discuss the theory I have researched for over thirty-five years regarding the origin of The Expedition based on the timeframe of two years as indicated above and my own interpretation of Betty Hill's star map. As you are about to learn, there is definitely a connection between the UFO Wave Of 1947 and Betty and Barney Hill's almost unbelievable, yet totally convincing, Zeta Reticuli Incident.

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