Zeta 1 Reticuli and Zeta 2 Reticuli are also special stars because they are two of the relatively few places in the Milky Way Galaxy that may offer terrestrial life conditions. We already have evidence that this system supports the existence of intelligent life based upon the abduction of Betty and Barney Hill and from information provided by Bob Lazar when he went public regarding his involvement in reverse engineering an extraterrestrial spacecraft at S4 on Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.
From the southern hemisphere the pair can be seen as a naked eye double star in very dark skies. Zeta 2 Reticuli is orbited by a circumstellar debris disk. Both stars are Solar Analogs that share similar characteristics with the Sun.
They belong to the Zeta Herculis Moving Group of stars that share a common origin. The two stars are located at similar distances from the Sun and share the same motion through space, confirming that they are gravitationally bound and form a wide binary star system. They have an angular separation of The distance between the two stars is about 3, AU about 95 times greater than the Sun - Pluto distance , so their orbital period is around , years.
Zeta 1 Reticuli and Zeta 2 Reticuli share similar physical characteristics to the Sun, so they are considered Solar Analogs. Their stellar classification is nearly identical to that of the Sun. For reasons that remain uncertain, they have an anomalously low abundance of Beryllium. Both stars are considered unusual because they have a lower luminosity than is normal for main sequence stars of their age and surface temperature. That is, they lie below the Main Sequence curve on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram for newly formed stars.
Most stars will evolve above this curve as they age. Once thought to be old Population II, galactic-halo-type subdwarf disk stars, Zeta 1 Reticuli and Zeta 2 Reticuli were believed to be as much as 8 billion years old.
More recent analysis of chromospheric activity and rotation with spectral analysis and calibration with other Sol-type stars suggest that the two stars may be as young as 1. An earlier hypothesis that the stars were relatively dim because of a high abundance of Helium has been refuted recently.
The pair is now thought to be part of the Zeta Herculis stellar moving kinematic group of high velocity stars as defined by Olin J. Eggen in , which no longer includes Zeta Herculis itself. Zeta 1 Reticuli has an intermediate level of magnetic activity in its chromosphere. The actual age of this system is still in question because of the conflicting information. On September 20, , a tentative discovery of a hot Jupiter around Zeta 2 Reticuli was reported, but the discovery was quickly retracted as the signal was shown to be caused by pulsations of the star.
The retraction of the discovery of this planet remains suspicious in light of the fact that Zeta 2 Reticuli was the suspected solar system where the Greys come from. Whether a debris disc exists around 4. The Zeta Reticuli system belongs to the Zeta Herculis Moving Group of stars that share a common motion through space, suggesting that they have a common origin.
In the galactic coordinate system, the U, V, W components of the space velocity for this system are equal to Zeta 1 Reticuli and Zeta 2 Reticuli are currently following an orbit through the Milky Way galaxy that has an eccentricity of 0. This orbit will carry the system as close as The inclination of this orbit will carry the stars as much as 1. This likely puts them outside the thick disk population of stars which seems to indicate thay may be older stars.
The path of this material is not precisely circular. In the case of Zeta 1 Reticuli and Zeta 2 Reticuli, both stars pass all five tests the age of the two stars is being debated. Main Sequence stars fuse Hydrogen into Helium at their cores, generating light and heat. Because Hydrogen is so abundant in stars, most of them stay on the Main Sequence a long time, giving life a chance to evolve.
Zeta 2 Reticuli is a G2V star making it nearly identical to our Sun. Therefore, both stars pass this test. Or "a view of the Solar System from slightly beyond Saturn towards the Sun," or hypnotic delusion? Based on the that was viewed by a couple of Humans and later recalled under hypnosis, some UFO conspiracy theorists on Earth believe that Zeta2, the brighter component, harbors the base of space-travelling beings whom they call Greys ".
Apparently, these Greys have been visiting Earth to abduct humans for research and other nefarious purposes. One of their vehicles purportedly crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico , which the U. Government is alleged to have been trying to cover up. Star map by unknown artist with "trade routes" -- derived from drawings and best-fit stars by Betty Hill, Marjorie Fish, and Jeffrey Kretsch -- can be compared with a ChView map centered on Zeta2 that includes our Sun, Sol, and other bright stars now known to be located within 40 light-years.
This is a yellow-orange main sequence dwarf star of spectral and luminosity type G2. Gray, ; and Kenneth R. Lang, The star may be 42 to percent as enriched as Sol with elements heavier than hydrogen "metallicity" , based on its abundance of iron NASA Star and Exoplanet Database ; and del Peloso et al, The planet has a thin atmosphere made of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, nitrogen, and water vapor. This planet orbits at a semimajor axis of 4.
Zeta Reticuli Bf is the outermost planet of the secondary star's planetary system. It orbits at 6. It takes The planet's diameter is 7.
It's rotation takes 7. It has a very high axial tilt, at Its surface temperature is about the same as on Saturn's moon Titan, resulting that the planet looks similar to Titan. The planet's surface contains lakes and seas of liquid methane and other hydrocarbons, surrounded by the atmosphere made mainly of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, methane, and hydrocarbons.
PlanetStar Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Zeta Reticuli system. Edit source History Talk 0. Categories Articles Planetary systems Add category. Cancel Save. But this is much more than a retelling of a famous UFO incident; it's an astronomical detective story that at times hovers on that hazy line that separates science from fiction.
It all started this way:. Barney grabs his binoculars from the car seat and steps out. He walks into a field to get a closer look, focuses the binoculars, and sees the object plainly. It has windows -and behind the windows, looking directly at him are But for some reason he turns down a side road where five Of the humanoids are standing on the road.
Apparently unable to control their actions, Betty and Barney are easily taken back to the ship by the humanoids.
While inside they are physically examined, and one Of the humanoids communicates to Betty. After the examination she asks him where they are from. In response he shows her a three-dimensional map with various sized dots and lines on it. She doesn't know, so the subject is dropped. Betty and Barney are returned unharmed to their car. They are told they will forget the abduction portion of the incident.
The ship rises, and then hurtles out of sight. The couple continue their journey home oblivious of the abduction. But the Hills are troubled by unexplained dreams and anxiety about two hours of their trip that they can't account for. Betty, a social worker, asks advice from a psychiatrist friend. He suggests that the memory of that time will be gradually restored over the next few months but it never is. Two years after the incident, the couple are still bothered by the missing two hours, and Barney's ulcers are acting up.
A Boston psychiatrist, Benjamin Simon, is recommended, and after several months of weekly hypnosis sessions the bizarre events of that night in are revealed. A short time later a UFO group leaks a distorted version of the story to the press and the whole, thing blows up. The Hills reluctantly disclose the entire story. Can we take this dramatic scenario seriously? Did this incredible contact with aliens actually occur or is it some kind of hallucination that affected both Barney and Betty Hill?
The complete account of the psychiatric examination from which the details of the event emerged is related in John G.
Fuller's The Interrupted Journey Dial Press, , where we read that after the extensive psychiatric examination, Simon concluded that the Hills were not fabricating the story. The most likely possibilities seem to be: a the experience actually happened, or b some perceptive and illusory misinterpretations occurred in relationship to some real event.
There are other cases of alleged abductions by extraterrestrial humanoids. The unique aspect of the Hills' abduction is that they remembered virtually nothing of the incident. Many alien abduction stories since then have included stories brought out by hypnosis, not always under the most reputable researchers. Intrigued by the Hills' experience, J.
Allen Hynek, chairman of the department of astronomy at Northwestern University, decided to investigate. His standing in the scientific community was deeply damaged by his UFO advocacy.
The two stories agreed in considerable detail, although neither Betty nor Barney was privy to what the other had said under hypnosis until much later.
Under hypnosis they stated that they had been taken separately aboard the craft, treated well by the occupants — rather as humans might treat experimental animals — and then released after having been given the hypnotic suggestion that they would remember nothing of that particular experience. The method of their release supposedly accounted for the amnesia, which was apparently broken only by counterhypnosis.
A number of scientists, including Hynek, have discussed this incident at length with Barney and Betty Hill and have questioned them under hypnosis. They concur with Simon's belief that there seems to be no evidence of outright fabrication or lying. One would also wonder what Betty, who has a master's degree in social work and is a supervisor in the New Hampshire Welfare Department, and Barney, who was on the governor of New Hampshire's Civil Rights Commission, would have to gain by a hoax?
Although the Hills didn't, several people have lost their jobs after being associated with similarly unusual publicity. Stanton T. Friedman, a nuclear physicist and the nation's only space scientist devoting full time to researching the UFO phenomenon, has spent many hours in conversation with the Hills. Friedman is rather well-known. He left physics in to become a UFO researcher, and was known for a time for promoting the Roswell crash as an extraterrestrial incident as well as the widely-discredited Majestic 12 document.
Three key phases in the analysis described in this article are illustrated here. Top diagram is a copy of the map Betty Hill drew, allegedly a duplicate of one she saw inside an extraterrestrial vehicle. Center map is derived from a model of our stellar neighborhood by Marjorie Fish. It shows the stars that coincide with those on the Hill map the Fish model is illustrated on page The only area of significant incongruity is the wide separation of Zeta Reticuli in the Hill version.
Lower photo shows a cathode ray tube computer readout that was run at Ohio State University as a check on the Fish model. Data used to derive the Fish model and the computer readout were taken from Gliese catalog. Don Dixon So the experience remains a fascinating story despite the absence of proof that it actually happened. Anyway — that's where things were in when Marjorie Fish, an Ohio schoolteacher, amateur astronomer and member of Mensa, became involved. She wondered if the objects shown on the map that Betty Hill allegedly observed inside the vehicle might represent some actual pattern of celestial objects.
To get more information about the map she decided to visit Betty Hill in the summer of Barney Hill died in early Here is Ms. Fish's account of that meeting:. Betty explained that she drew the map in under posthypnotic suggestion. It was to be drawn only if she could remember it accurately, and she was not to pay attention to what she was drawing — which puts it in the realm of automatic drawing.
This is a way of getting at repressed or forgotten material and can result in unusual accuracy. She made two erasures showing her conscious mind took control part of the time. The stars were tinted and glowed. The map material was flat and thin not a model , and there were no noticeable lenticular lines like one of our three- dimensional processes. It sounds very much like a reflective hologram. Betty did not shift her position while viewing it, so we cannot tell if it would give the same three-dimensional view from all positions or if it would be completely three-dimensional.
Betty estimated the map was approximately three feet wide and two feet high with the pattern covering most of the map. She was standing about three feet away from it. She said there were many other stars on the map but she only apparently was able to specifically recall the prominent ones connected by lines and a small distinctive triangle off to the left.
There was no concentration of stars to indicate the Milky Way galactic plane suggesting that if it represented reality, it probably only contained local stars. There were no grid lines. So much for the background material on the Hill incident. If you want more details on the encounter, see Fuller's book.
For the moment we will leave Marjorie Fish back in trying to interpret Betty Hill's reproduction of the map. There is a second major area of background information that we have to attend to before we can properly discuss the map.
Unlike the bizarre events just described, the rest is pure astronomy. Majorie Fish later repudiated her findings prior to her death in This change, which vastly increases a star's energy output, can occur at various times depending on the star's mass. It won't happen to the sun for six billion years.
Don Dixon According to the most recent star catalogs, there are about 1, known stars within a radius of 55 light-years of the sun. What are those other stars like? A check of the catalogs shows that most of them are faint stars of relatively low temperature — a class of stars astronomers call main sequence stars.
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