The True Story of the Worlds First Documented Alien Abduction: Disbelievers and Disinformants
It should be no surprise to anybody that the Hill case in general, and the star map work in particular, have been attacked, sometimes viciously and almost always irrationally, by the small group of nasty, noisy, negativists making up the UFO debunker community.
Generally, debunkers use the four basic rules of debunkdom:
- What the public doesn’t know, I am not going to tell them.
- Don’t bother me with the facts, my mind is made up.
- If one can’t attack the data, ignore it, and attack the people instead.
- Do one’s research by proclamation; investigation is too much trouble and most scientists and journalists won’t know the difference anyway.
Clearly, if there is reasonable evidence that the Hills were abducted by aliens, then Earth is indeed being visited. Not only is Man not alone, but we are not at the top of the heap as we yearn to believe we are. Aliens finish the job that Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus started in 1543 when he concluded that the Earth wasn’t the center of the universe, the sun was. His book was banned by the Catholic Church for 300 years and Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for later agreeing with him.
Furthermore, if Earthlings have been abducted by aliens, the government must certainly know about it because of all their radar and satellite monitoring of the planet. Most of this data is classified and inaccessible to most scientists.
The general complaints about UFOs are that there is no evidence (as long as we are willing to ignore all the large-scale scientific studies, the multiple witness radar visual cases, the thousands of physical trace cases, the pilot sightings, and the highly censored government UFO documents), that you can’t get here from there, it would take too much energy and too much time, and the speed of light limitation means we will forever be on our own. The SETI specialists, of course, must insist that no one is coming here, but there is intelligent life sending radio signals using technology so much like ours that we can receive and “translate” them, but we will never visit each other. There are, of course, some very respectable ancient academics and fossilized physicists who were convinced that man would never fly except with a balloon, that there is no way to put anything in orbit around the Earth because it would take far too much energy, that a rocket to the moon would have to weigh a million, million tons, and so on, ad nauseum. Some academics think they are so smart that they know what to expect in the actions of visiting aliens. In the case of astronomers, they seem to believe that visitors would want to speak with them.
Frankly, if one was looking for insight into the behavior and motivation of aliens, astronomers would hardly be at the top of the heap with regard to motivation and behavior: perhaps psychiatrists such as Dr. Simon, or psychologists or social workers (such as Betty), lawyers, doctors…people whose profession deals with thinking beings, no matter how different.
Astronomers certainly cannot be expected to have such expertise, dealing as they do, with activities that involve Mother Nature, but hardly involve intelligent beings. Some professionals still tell Stanton, “Look, you are a physicist, don’t you know that Einstein said that nothing can go faster than the speed of light? Therefore, just to go to Zeta Reticuli, even at the speed of light, would take at least 39.2 years, if you ignore the large amount of time during which one would accelerate to the speed of light.” These people want to pick and choose about Einstein. He also showed us that as one gets close to the speed of light, time slows down for the things moving that fast. It would take a little more than 20 months, pilot time, to go a distance of 39 light-years at 99.9 percent of the speed of light, and about six months at 99.99 percent of the speed of light. Yes, we physicists, using huge accelerators, make particles that go that fast. Mother Nature pro- duces cosmic ray particles that go that fast and faster. Furthermore, at 1 G acceleration (21 miles per hour per second), it only takes about a year to get close to the speed of light.
It is almost funny to look at the absurd reasoning of the negativists. Dr. John William Campbell, professor of mathematics and astronomy at the University of Alberta, “proved” in 1941 that the required initial launch weight of a chemical rocket able to get a man to the moon and back would have to be a million, million tons. He assumed a single stage rocket limited to 1 G acceleration, required that the rocket provide all the energy, and that the only way to slow down upon return to Earth would be with a retro rocket. The Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo space- craft weighed only 3,000 tons. It was, of course, multi-stage, and not limited to 1 G acceleration. It used the Earth’s atmosphere to slow it down on return, as well as using the moon’s gravitational field to provide some of the energy to get it there. We launch to the east, from near the equator, to take advantage of the Earth’s rotation (almost 1,000 miles per hour), and always use cosmic freeloading for our deep space probes.
Because Campbell didn’t know anything about aeronautics or astronautics, his conclusion as to the required initial launch weight was too high by a factor of 300,000,000. Obviously, ignorance can lead to very wrong conclusions, despite having a Ph.D.
In 1926, Dr. A.W. Bickerton, professor of physics and chemistry at Canterbury College in New Zealand, had “scientifically” shown to the British Association for the Advancement of Science that it would be impossible to give anything sufficient energy to get it into orbit around the Earth. He noted that the best explosives can only release one tenth as much energy per pound as an object in orbit needs. He made two seriously wrong assumptions. First, there are chemicals that can be combined, such as hydrogen and oxygen, that provide more energy per pound of propellant than any explosive, and can release their energy out the back of the rocket, using a nozzle, rather than in all directions. Second, what he had shown was, roughly speaking, that it takes the energy of 10 pounds of propellant to orbit one pound of payload. There is little benefit from placing the propellant in orbit. Furthermore, if one uses staged rockets, the second one starts at the velocity produced by the first, and the third one begins at the final velocity of the second.
Equally wrong, and for much the same reason (false assumptions about the process), Dr. Simon Newcomb, one of the top American astronomers of the 19th century, had shown in a “scientific” paper published on October 22, 1903, that it would be impossible for man to fly in a vehicle other than with a balloon. This was just two months before the first flight of the Wright brothers. Newcomb, when so informed, supposedly remarked, “Perhaps a pilot, but never a passenger.” The Wright brothers were two bicycle mechanics who conducted loads of experiments to evaluate lift and drag and the effects of changing many different parameters.
Based upon all of these cases, it should not be surprising that astronomers have been so reluctant to accept the notion of alien visitors, interstellar travel, and alien abductions. Throughout the years, they have made many false claims about various aspects of astronomy, no less ufology. Astronomy, by its very nature, doesn’t involve intelligent behavior of other beings. For example, astronomers claimed that the sun was less than 50 million years old because they had no idea how it could pro- duce the energy it does. Nuclear fusion wasn’t really understood as the energy production process of the stars until about 1938. We now know that the sun is at least 4.5 billion years old. Astronomers claimed that there was only one galaxy, until a big debate in the 1920s. It turns out that the visible universe is about 13 billion light-years across—vastly greater than they had assumed. They claimed that rocketry and manned rockets were impossible. They were flat out wrong about the atmosphere of Venus (supposedly a tropical paradise), now known to have a sulfuric acid atmosphere hot enough to melt lead. They were also wrong about the sur- face of Mars having always been dry as a desert.
The problem actually goes much deeper. Many astronomers have claimed that there is no evidence for UFOs. Looking more carefully, one finds no basis for these claims. These astronomers never refer to the large-scale scientific studies that present the evidence they claim doesn’t exist. The largest study ever done for the United States Air Force, “Project Blue Book Special Report 14,” has 240 charts, tables, maps, graphs of data, and so on, for about 3,201 sightings. The work was done by engineers and scientists at the highly respected Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, under contract to Project Blue Book (the Air Force’s unclassified study of UFOs), which was closed in 1969. There are quality evaluations, categorizations, and statistical analyses of unknowns vs. knowns. Briefly, it was found that 21 percent of the sightings could not be explained. These were completely separate from the 9.5 percent listed as “Insufficient Information.” They found that the better the quality of the sighting the more likely it was to be listed as an unknown.
urthermore, they found that the probability that the unknowns were just missed knowns was less than 1 percent based on six different observables, such as apparent color, size, shape, speed, and so on.1 In 13 books by UFO debunkers (three of these by astronomers), there isn’t even a mention of this vital source, even though all the authors were aware of it. Dr. Carl Sagan claimed that there are interesting sightings that aren’t reliable, and reliable sightings that aren’t interesting, but no sightings that are reliable and interesting…exactly the opposite of the facts. Dr. Donald Menzel, a Harvard astronomer, claimed “All unexplained sightings are by poor observers”; this despite the fact that he had, according to his correspondence, a copy of Project Blue Book Special Report 14.2 Of course, he might have been influenced by the fact that he had done highly classified work for the CIA, NSA, and 30 companies, and was probably a member of the Majestic 12 Group controlling classified UFO research.