Where they are supposed to be

A wide pair of Sun-like stars, ζ¹ and ζ² Reticuli, visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere. Searches have found no confirmed planets; a 2002 claim of a dust disc around ζ² was withdrawn.

Source of the claim: Marjorie Fish's 1974 interpretation of Betty Hill's star map, adopted by the Serpo story for the Ebens.

Vega is a young, fast-spinning white star with a debris disc, the fifth-brightest in the sky. A possible hot planet was reported in 2021 and is unconfirmed. The star is about 450 million years old, too young by most estimates for complex life.

Source of the claim: Channelled 'galactic history' names Lyra as the cradle of the human-like races; European ufology adopted it for the Nordics.

An open cluster of over a thousand stars about 100 million years old, dominated by hot blue giants. Its youth makes evolved life there unlikely by any current model. 'Erra', the Pleiadian homeworld of the Meier story, has no astronomical counterpart.

Source of the claim: Billy Meier's contact claims from 1975 and the channelled books that followed.

The brightest star in the night sky, a hot white star with a white-dwarf companion, Sirius B. No planets are known, and the white dwarf's history of expansion makes stable habitable orbits doubtful.

Source of the claim: Robert Temple's The Sirius Mystery (1976) read Dogon mythology as knowledge of Sirius B brought by amphibious visitors.

An orange giant star, the brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere, near the end of its life. No planets are confirmed. Its velocity suggests it may have formed outside the Milky Way's disc.

Source of the claim: Edgar Cayce's readings and Norma Milanovich's channelled We, the Arcturians (1990).

A spiral galaxy of perhaps a trillion stars, the most distant object visible to the naked eye. Any 'Andromedan' would be from a galaxy, not a star; the lore rarely specifies which of its stars.

Source of the claim: Alex Collier's 1990s talks describing an Andromedan council.

A white giant with a close companion; it was the pole star around 2700 BCE when the Egyptian pyramids were built. No planets are known.

Source of the claim: Chosen for the Draconians by name association with the dragon constellation in 1990s conspiracy and channelled writing.

The three belt stars are blue supergiants hundreds of times more luminous than the Sun, a few million years old. Below them lies the Orion Nebula, where stars are forming now.

Source of the claim: Bauval and Gilbert's Orion correlation theory and the channelled literature that cast Orion as an empire.

An orange giant, the eye of the Bull. A giant planet claimed in 1993 and 2015 was not confirmed by later analysis.

Source of the claim: Post-war Nazi-UFO myths of a 'Vril Society' in contact with Aldebaran, which historians find no evidence for.

A bright white star with a white-dwarf companion, one of the Sun's nearest neighbours. No planets are known.

Source of the claim: 1980s speculative literature, notably George Andrews's Extra-Terrestrials Among Us.

The nearest star system: two Sun-like stars and the red dwarf Proxima, which has at least one confirmed planet, Proxima b, in the habitable zone. Its habitability is doubtful because of stellar flares. This is the one homeworld on the map with a real, confirmed planet.

Source of the claim: Contactee Elizabeth Klarer's 1980 account and general science-fiction usage.

Two yellow giant stars orbiting each other closely, with a distant pair of red dwarfs. No planets are known.

Source of the claim: Speculative channelled sources; the Atlas labels the Capellan speculative.

A faint pair of red dwarfs invisible to the naked eye. No planets are known. The Ummo letters named it 'Iumma'.

Source of the claim: The Ummo letters received in Spain from the 1960s, later claimed as a hoax by their likely author.

A young Sun-like star with a debris disc and one confirmed giant planet, Epsilon Eridani b, on a cold orbit. A favourite of science fiction; the Tall White assignment is a fan inference rather than Charles Hall's own claim.

Source of the claim: Loosely attached to the Tall Whites in online discussion.

A yellow supergiant, the brightest star of Aquarius. The 'Aquarian' is a speculative water-world type named for the constellation rather than any star in it.

Source of the claim: New Age astrology and speculative writing.

Surface temperature around 465 °C under a crushing carbon-dioxide atmosphere and sulphuric-acid clouds. Soviet Venera landers photographed the surface in 1975 and 1982. Nothing lives there.

Source of the claim: Adamski and the 1950s contactees, before spacecraft reached Venus. Not plotted: it moves across the sky.

No such planet exists. A body on the orbit Sitchin described would be visible to the naked eye for years before any approach and would disturb the orbits of the known planets. Astronomers have ruled it out.

Source of the claim: Zecharia Sitchin's The 12th Planet (1976). Not plotted.