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SUBJECT: THE HILL ABDUCTION CASE FILE: UFO2706
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PART 5
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REPLY: By Terence Dickinson
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The question raised by Steven Soter and Carl Sagan concerning the
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pattern resemblance of the Hill map and the computer generated
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projection of the Fish pattern stars is certainly a key question worthy
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of discussion. Next month two authors will make specific comments on
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this point.
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Briefly, there is more to discounting the Fish interpretation than
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pattern resemblance. We would have discounted the Fish interpretation
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immediately on pattern resemblance alone. The fact that all the
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connecting lines join stars in a logical distance progression, and that
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all the stars are solar type stars, is significant. Ms. Fish tried to
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fit hundreds of other viewpoints and this one was the only one that
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even marginally fit and made sense in three dimensions and contained
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solar type stars. in this context, you could not "have just as well
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drawn the lines...to lead the other way".
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Naturally there was a desire to find a resemblance between a group of
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nearby stars and the Hill pattern! That's why Marjorie Fish built six
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models of the solar neighborhood containing the relative positions of
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up to 256 nearby stars. The fact that she came up with a pattern that
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fits as well as it does is a tribute to her perseverance and the
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accuracy of the models. Stars cannot be moved around "to optimize the
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desired resemblance". Indeed Marjorie Fish first tried models using
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nearby stars of other than strictly solar type as defined in the
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article. She found no resemblances.
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The three triangle dots selected from the background dots in the Hill
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map were selected because Mrs. Hill said they were more prominent than
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the other background stars. Such testimony was the basis of the
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original map so we either accept Mrs. Hill's observations and attempt
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to analyze them or reject the whole incident. We feel there is
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sufficient evidence compelling us not to reject the whole incident at
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this time.
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We too are demanding rigorous standards of evidence to establish the
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reality of extraterrestrial intelligence. If there is even the
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slightest possibility that the Hills' encounter can provide information
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about such life, we feel it is worth pursuing. The map is worthy of
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examination by as many critical minds as possible.
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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