Aliens: Where SETI Astronomers Can Find Them

SETI, or Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, haslatitude . The planets have to be in the right position at
been an ongoing endeavor for many decades. In thethe right time. And the three stars too, for that matter.
early days, it was expected to be a quick success, soThe last stanza of the three stanzas is numbered
much so that national governments even helped fundIV-33. It begins: Jupiter closer to Venus than to the
these projects. Like the Moon race, there wasMoon, appearing in full whiteness. According to St.
something of a "find E.T." race. All that is gone now.George, Earth and Jupiter would have to be pretty
Government funding has virtually evaporated aroundmuch on opposite sides of the Sun for this to be true,
the globe. The explanation is simple: no one likes aand the full Moon (more likely seen from the Alien
perpetual failure. The few remaining SETI efforts havePlanet than from Earth) serves as a timer. The
to count on private funding to scrape along. Well, thealignment is Alien Planet, Sun, Moon.
objective of this article is to come to the rescue of theThe next line of IV-33 goes: Venus hidden under the
last of the SETI astronomers, to tell them where theywhiteness Neptune (discovered more than two
can find E.T. so that they can regain the world'shundred years after the death of Nostradamus). Note
respect.that there's no "of" between whiteness and Neptune.
That last sentence was not meant to be cynical. AsMeanwhile, the French words following "hidden" (used
noted in my article "Decoding Book Resurrects theelsewhere in the prophecies to cryptic ends), "soUS la
Ancient Astronaut Theme," author Morten St. GeorgebANcheUR," allows the extraction of "Uranus." Thus,
claims that some of the prophecies of Nostradamusthe whiteness (partial rather than full) is Uranus, not
are of alien origin, and that those prophecies tell usNeptune, and we have a second alignment: Alien
how to calculate the galactic coordinates of wherePlanet, Uranus, Venus.
E.T. came from. In a follow-up interview, I posed theIV-33 has one more line: From Mars struck through the
following question to St. George: Do you agree thatwhite granary. Since Neptune was left hanging at the
contact with intelligent aliens could be of immenseend of the preceding line, it should come into play here,
importance to humankind? He agreed. Then I asked:meaning Neptune from Mars struck through the white
Do you agree that this is more important than yourgranary. According to St. George, the "white granary"
selling a few copies of your cryptic thinking book? Herefers to a star cluster called the Pleiades, which
agreed. This article will be a little longer and a little morehappens to lie at the opposite side of the sky from
technical than the others.Barnard 72. Until recently, St. George thought the
According to St. George, three prophetic stanzasplanetary arrow to Barnard 72 commenced with Mars,
combine to provide information about E.T.'s location.so he not yet had a chance to check out if a Mars,
The first of these is stanza number I-81. Here, the firstNeptune, Pleiades alignment, or a Pleiades, Mars,
four words of the fourth verse are the most relevant:Neptune alignment, is even feasible.
"Kappa, Thita, Lambda, mors." St. George says he hasOverall, there are only a limited number of possibilities.
an etymological dictionary that defines "mors" as theIV-33 gives us two inner planets, Venus and Mars, and
"bite of a scorpion." Consequently, Kappa, Theta, andtwo outer planets, Uranus and Neptune. Mars lines up
Lambda are the names of three stars in the tailwith Neptune to hit the Pleiades, and Venus lines up
section of the constellation Scorpius. (Note that the usewith Uranus to hit the Alien Planet. Depending upon the
of Greek letters for star names postdatesPleiades direction, Uranus and Neptune need to be
Nostradamus). It's a star arrow, and Lambda is thetogether on the same side of the solar system or on
arrow head. Elsewhere, the prophecies name threedirectly opposing ends of the solar system. Also
cities to form an arrow circling around the globe; thus,remember to check that you're viewing a full Moon
St. George believes the three stars should be viewedfrom the Alien Planet, and that Jupiter is closer to
as points on a sphere.Venus than the Moon at the same time. When? The
Where does the star arrow point? St. George says heskies and planets are in constant motion. In what year
followed the star arrow upwards on a star map and itdoes all this happen?
hit or passed close to a dark cloud called Barnard 72,St. George is convinced that the date of the given
for which he already had other indications. So that'sconfiguration should somehow or somewhere be
the answer. E.T. came from or near Barnard 72. Butprovided in the prophecies. Other than the stanza
we're not done yet. We're looking for precisenumber, 433, we have 580, 700, 703, 882, 883, 1204,
coordinates.1559, 1571, 1607, 1609, 1649, 1666, 1689, 1690, 1700, 1727,
The second stanza is numbered IV-32. According to1781, 1813, 1832, 1858, 1859, 1861, 1928, 1952, 1955, 1979,
St. George's decoding, this stanza tells a story: Once1982, 1999, 2001, and 2006. The years 1571, 1607, 1781,
upon a time, Triton, Pluto, and Charon formed a triple1859, and 1982 were astronomy related. St. George
planet system with a distinct orbit around the Sun.suspects one of the later years is more likely mainly
Then one day, the aliens came along, grabbed hold ofbecause astronomers may not have accurate data
Triton, and pushed it into a retrograde orbit around thethe position of the outer planets in earlier times. "We
planet Neptune. In route to Neptune, Pluto and Charonhave to assume that they want us to get it right, and
hung on for a while, then broke loose and drifted offprecision is clearly required here."
into a new orbit. When did this happen? St. George2006? What happened in 2006? St. George replied:
says the aliens were here in 580 A.D., so that would"Absolutely nothing. 2006 was a second, inferable date
be his guess for the date of these planet manipulations.in a London catastrophe stanza. The date does not
I mentioned that I had read on the Internet that Plutonecessarily have to come from an astronomy stanza.
has been downgraded, that it is no longer considered aIt can be provided elsewhere."
planet. St. George responded: "I believe that wasPlease excuse the digression. My final question was:
because they found that Pluto didn't clear away debrisDo you realistically expect SETI astronomers to take
in its orbit. But since 580 A.D., a contemporary date inyou up on this coordinate stuff? St. George responded:
terms of solar system history, Pluto in its new orbit"Yes. It would be foolish of them not to. The way
would have made only a handful of complete orbitsthey're going now, their odds of finding E.T. are not
around the Sun, hardly enough time to clear awayeven one in a billion. If my theories merely reduce the
much debris. In any case, the astronomers got it allodds to one in a thousand, their chances improve
wrong. What they should really be looking for is Triton'simmensely. Moreover, I think they've forgotten; SETI
original orbit, a cleared-out orbit with no planet in it. And Iwas originally based on the premise that there are lots
doubt that we're talking about an orbit at the outerof intelligent civilizations out there, which in turn implies
edges of the solar system. Triton's original orbit maythat at least one of them should have succeeded in
have been closer to the Sun than Neptune. They needexploring the entire galaxy by now."
to figure out where Triton could have been in 580 A.D.,So there you have it, SETI astronomers, go forth and
then they will know where to look for that orbit."become famous, work out the coordinates, point your
Why did the aliens move Triton? A display of power?radio telescope there, and tell the world you heard
St. George remarked that the star arrow only providesfrom E.T.!
longitudinal coordinates. We also need to know the