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Set Your Phaser to Stun...

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In a new book called "Set Your Phaser To Stun," lay scientist Steve Pearse challenges what he calls the "sacred cow" of Marjorie Fish's interpretation of the star map first drawn by abductee Betty Hill in the early 1960s. When that same map was later verified by amateur astronomer Fish, it was heralded by even the mainstream publication "Astronomy Magazine" as a significant contribution to the understanding of nearby stars. Pearse covers that early history objectively, fairly and thoroughly.

But now comes Pearse's own theory. As well known abductee and author Kay Wilson recounts in her foreword to Pearse's book, "It was a beautiful summer night in the Pacific Northwest in July of 1993 when my husband had an exchange with a being that has come to be known in the vernacular as a Grey. I also saw them that night, but he was chosen by this Being as the person to converse with. As my husband Erik relayed his account of the conversation to me, I wrote down everything he said verbatim, because in my heart I understood the importance of what I was hearing."

Erik's conversation with the Grey is recorded by Pearse thusly: "We go on the deck," Erik says, "and I ask him, `Are you from the Pleiades?' The Being adamantly replies, `No.' I ask him where he is from. We look in the sky to see the Big Dipper. He says, `See the Ursa Major?' I reply, `Yes.' The Being then tells me, `The star cluster to the right and below. The one with the triangle to the left and the little stars in between . . . we're from that one. The fourth planet from our sun.'"

Pearse would seemingly randomly run across this information on the Alien Jigsaw website that Kay Wilson maintains in the year 2000. It so piqued his curiosity that he has been researching the star map phenomenon ever since. Pearse believes that the "verbal map quest" that Erik Wilson received from the Grey perfectly dovetails with Betty Hill's original star map, particularly in the matter of the triangular star cluster found in both Betty and Erik's version of what they were told.

In order to understand Pearse's theory, one has to bypass the Marjorie Fish model as well as the theories of others who took paths similar to hers. Pearse makes his argument in voluminous detail, and some of it is very technical and perhaps over the head of the casual reader, which I must admit includes me. But one doesn't have to know how to crunch the numbers in order to be fascinated by what may be a genuine and crucial piece of the overall puzzle. The Greys have to be from SOMEWHERE, and Pearse's reasoning could be completely on target. It remains, of course, impossible to know one way or another at this point.

Prior to the publication of "Set Your Phaser To Stun," Pearse approached people like the Mutual UFO Network and others in the UFO community and was completely ignored. It seems no one wanted to challenge the authenticity of the Fish-Hill map and its convenient Zetas, and the more normally open minds on the UFO subject were apparently summarily closed in this case.

Perhaps the newly named Hill-Wilson star map will find its adherents and its place in the general scheme of things, perhaps not. But "Set Your Phaser To Stun" deserves to be read in any case, not only for its groundbreaking new approach to the point of origin for the UFO occupants, but also as a story of the very human need to find real-world answers to a phenomenon that so far has given us more questions than we can comfortably bear.

I am impressed with the amount of information the author included in this book. The author, Steve Pearse, utilizes the scientific method to build upon existing data but also expounds that data into a completely new theory described and illustrated as the "Hill-Wilson star map". This is by no means a rehash of old information. This book is about an exciting new theory.

Being familiar with the Betty and Barney Hill story, I read this book with great interest. The author's level of commitment in researching the nitty-gritty details is impressive. Mr. Pearse, an apparent outsider to ufology as far as I can tell, provides a superb overview of the history of this young science while focusing on the case of Betty and Barney Hill. Pearse incorporates the original Hill investigation report from Project Blue Book which shows just how seriously the Air Force took the sighting and the alleged kidnapping Betty and Barney Hill reported back in the early 1960's. The author illustrates parallels between the Hill case and another case involving a man named Eric Wilson, who apparently like Mrs. Hill, was given information as to where the ETs come from.

In his "roadmap to the stars" which is aptly named, Pearse methodically explores each star, many of which were included in the original map that Betty Hill was shown and drew decades ago. Utilizing star charts and tables describing the physical characteristics of each star; point by point, the author backs up his claims with hard facts as to why these stars are valid choices to be included in what is referred to as a "habitable zone".

It may be a little while before this book to takes off, but for people who have an open mind about intelligent life possessing the technology to visit Earth, this is definitely a book you will want to read, especially if you have an interest or a background in astronomy. Approximately one-fourth of this book concentrates on ufological history, with the other two-thirds being split between astronomical data, contact phenomena and a nice wrap up of the preceding topics. There are also some surprises in this book that I'll keep as such for the readers to discover for themselves.

"Set Your Phaser to Stun" includes easily referenced chapter notes, bibliography, photographs and diagrams. Other themes include how the "Zetas" got their name and whether that term has ever actually been accurate. The author also provides a history of Area 51 and a critical review of previous interpretations of Betty Hill's star map and how they, in part, support the new star map hypothesis postulated by the author.

What is most interesting about this book is the author's version of the star map that Betty Hill saw and drew decades ago. Pearse appears to correct that star map therefore allowing him to pinpoint and name the system that is the home of the ETs......The same ETs people have been surreptitiously talking (and writing) about over the past several decades. And, guess what? They are not from Zeta Reticuli! At 465 pages the book is a bit lengthy, but it is well worth the time it takes to read it.