So now there is a “right identification” and a “wrong identification” — and let me guess — the only “right identification” will be the one that agrees with Fish and Stanton’s identification? It is presumptuous and arrogant for anyone to make a claim like that. What is this alleged “right identification” based on anyway? A report of an experience, made in the complete vacuum of evidence of what was reported. The only two witnesses were untrained observers who were unable to provide corroboration for their storytale. Where is the “science” in all of this? There is none! If we take the logic used to support the Fish map, any identification could be the “right identification”, if you want it to be.

“A unique twosome, Zeta 1 and 2 Reticuli are the closest pair of sun-like stars in our entire local neighborhood”

Where in Betty’s testimony does she claim that the two main stars in the star chart could both only be Sun-like? It is presumptuous for Betty, Fish, or Stanton to assert that the two main stars could only be Sun-like stars. If our Sun were replaced with Zeta 1, it would clearly not be like our Sun for it is 3/4ths as bright, 0.9 times as big, and much more reddish in color. The Alpha Centari binary system also has a Sun-like star, just like the Zeta system, so why couldn’t that be the hub of the imaginary trade routes depicted by Betty? Oh, I forgot, it wouldn’t be the “right identification” then, merely because it would disagree with Fish and Stanton’s version.

There are dozens of constellations out there and, if you use your imagination, all of them look like what they are named after. Of course, they actually don’t resemble what they are named after but is the result of people who got carried away with their superstitious imaginations. If you want to, you can visualize any pattern you want to see in the stars. So when Fish took a look at Betty’s rough sketch of a star chart depicting alleged trade routes between unknown stars with unknown names at unknown distances from each and with unknown spectral classes, there is an awful lot of room for Fish to get carried away with her imagination there. It is a modern day equivalent of a Rorschach test, only instead of a random blotch of smeared ink, they are using that big inkblot in the night time sky and interpreting what they imagine they see in it (or what they hope is in it).

“We Earthlings are out in the boondocks with no other star close by”

The average distance of between stars is a little over four light years, There is a binary star system located four light years away from the Sun, called Alpha Centari A and Alpha Centari B. That means the Sun could not be in the “boondocks”, as Stanton falsely asserts, but in the “suburbs”. The Sun has just as many other stars within range of it as any other typical star out there.

This whole thing is sheer nonsense. I mean we have entire books — a virtual encyclopedic collection of them — on the in-depth psychology of aliens and the trade routes that aliens use and the vehicles they pilot and detailed anatomy of aliens and detailed descriptions of the planets they come from…yet we have never have met them face-to-face or been to their home planets or corresponded with them in any way, shape, or form. How can people write so very much on something they have never even heard, seen, smelled, tasted, or touched for themselves? This whole entire charade reminds me of The Emperor’s New Clothes. In Stanton’s case, he reminds me of a used car salesman, only he sells UFOs instead of used cars.