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UFO's basemenst in Oceans

2012-07-11T03:15:00.002-07:00

Shortly after I began investigating UFOs in the late 1980s, I started to receive reports of unidentified ocean-going craft.

Most of these reports came from a certain stretch of California coastline, from about Santa Barbara south to Long Beach. This particular body of water, I soon learned, had a widespread reputation as a UFO hotspot. After several witnesses told me they believed there was an underwater UFO base there, I decided to conduct a more in-depth investigation to determine the truth.

My first step was to survey the research of other prominent investigators. To my surprise, most of the local researchers were already aware of the sightings.

Writes Ann Druffel,

“This body of water lies between the coastlines of Southern California and Santa Catalina Island, 20 miles offshore to the southwest. The area has for at least thirty years been the scene of UFO reports of all kinds: surface sightings of hazy craft which cruise leisurely in full view of military installations, aerial spheres bobbing in oscillating flight, gigantic cloud-cigars, and at least one report of an underwater UFO with uniformed occupants.”

Another researcher, Robert Stanley, editor of the now defunct magazine Unicus, writes,

“Even in the sixties, families were going down to the beach and waiting for a UFO to pass by…. By the 1970s, whole families were going down to the beach at Point Dume at night to watch the multi-colored UFOs [that] would sink under the water at times.”

MUFON field investigator Bill Hamilton writes,

“For years witnesses have seen many types of UFO cruising off the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California. UFOs have actually been seen to come out of the water in the San Pedro Channel.”

I had already uncovered several firsthand cases myself. My next step was to put together a comprehensive list of all the recorded ocean-going encounters in the area.

I came up with more than 50 sightings.

These cases were next categorized into different types.

Coastal Sightings

The first and most common type are cases that take place over the coastline. In these cases, people see UFOs either from the shoreline or while they are out at sea.

What follows are several typical cases.

1953: Engineer Frederick Hehr and several others are on Santa Monica beach when they observe a “squadron of saucers” performing maneuvers in the daylight sky over the bay. Later that day, the objects return and perform more maneuvers for a period of about ten minutes.

July 10, 1955: Around 11:00 a.m., several fishermen off the coast of Newport Beach observe a bluish-silver, cigar-shaped object flying overhead at a “moderate speed and medium altitude.” Two and a half hours later, a Washington family of three are sailing 13 miles off the coast of Newport Beach on their way to Catalina Island when they observe a “perfectly round, gray-white” craft about 2,500 feet above their boat. When the object maintains its position over their boat, they radio the Coast Guard, which sends out a plane. The object darts away before the plane arrives.

November 6, 1957: Early morning in Playa Del Rey, three cars driving along the Pacific Coast Highway suddenly stall when a large “egg-shaped object” surrounded in a “blue haze” lands on the beach only a few yards away.

Witnesses Richard Kehoe, Ronald Burke, and Joe Thomas exit their cars and observe two strange-looking men disembarking from the object. The UFO occupants have “yellowish-green skin” and wear “black leather pants, white belts and light colored jerseys.” They walk up to the witnesses and begin asking questions. Kehoe and the others are unable to understand the occupants, who are apparently speaking a foreign language. After a few moments, the figures return to the object, which takes off and accelerates out of sight.

That same day at 3:50 p.m., an officer and 12 airmen from an Air Force detachment in nearby Long Beach observe six saucer-shaped objects zooming across the sky. Two hours later, officers at Los Alamitos Naval Air Station report seeing “numerous” objects criss-crossing the sky. At the same time, police stations in Long Beach receive more than 100 calls from residents reporting UFOs.

December 1957: The crew of the British steamship Ramsey observes a large metallic gray disk with antenna-like projections off the coast of San Pedro. One of the crewmen grabs his camera and captures a blurry photo of the object before it moves away.

1960: Actor Chad Everett and two friends are on the rooftop of his Beverly Hills home one night when they observe a lighted object moving back and forth at high speeds over the nearby ocean. Because the object moves so quickly and at right angles, the witnesses are convinced it is a genuine UFO.

1970: As investigated by Bill Hamilton, an anonymous gentleman sailing from Catalina Island to San Pedro Harbor observes a metallic saucer with four “hemispherical pods” underneath it flying only a few hundred feet above his boat.

May 1973: Art director George Gray (pseudonym) observes an object sending down a beam of light while driving along the Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica in the pre-dawn hours:

“The UFO was over where the beach was…hovering I would say maybe a hundred, two hundred feet in the air. It was silver. It was your basic UFO…it was definitely completely metallic with a silver dome on top and a silver dome on the bottom of it, like two plates put together. And it had little lights around it.”

Gray is able to bring in additional witnesses before the object moves away.

Summer 1988: Professional photographer Kim Carlsberg observes a darting, star-like object while relaxing in her Malibu beachfront home. Suddenly, the object moves directly toward her.

“The brilliant point of light advanced until it became a luminous sphere some fifty feet in diameter,” reports Carlsberg. “It ominously hung in the air a hundred feet from my window… the apparent standoff lasted no more than a minute before the sphere departed as quickly as it appeared. It tore away diagonally through the night sky and vanished.”

Summer 1990: Private pilot Toshi Inouye and his student observe a large, red, glowing cigar-shaped object hovering near their plane as they fly over the Santa Monica Bay in late afternoon.

“It was standing still in the air, glowing red,” says Inouye. “We were kind of stunned. We didn’t know what to do.”

Inouye considers calling the nearby airport control tower when the object suddenly darts away.

May 4, 1990: Early in the morning, two Malibu surfers are lying on their surfboards waiting for the next wave when they observe a,

“brushed aluminum saucer with a bump in the middle [which] approached the shoreline from out of the fog bank sitting about a mile offshore.”

The object darts back and forth then moves back out to sea.

1998: Adam (pool-cleaner) and Mario (military private) are driving along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu when they see six black, diamond-shaped objects darting at high speed up and down the coast. The two men are so impressed by the brief sighting that they spend the next hour driving up and down the coast hoping for a repeat appearance. While they don’t see any more UFOs, they do find other UFO watchers.

Says Adam,

“We did come across a couple of people who were just sitting in their lawn chairs along the road. I don’t know if this has anything to do with it, but they were just sitting there along the side of the road, just looking up.”

January 3, 2004: Young Chyren is standing along the Santa Monica coast at midday when he observes a metallic, saucer-shaped craft hovering only a few thousand feet directly above a small yacht less than a mile out at sea. He quickly grabs his camera and snaps a photograph.

Into the Ocean

From the reports cited above, it should be clear that UFOs are witnessed over this coastal area in disproportionately large numbers. In most cases, they are observed a few thousand feet or less above the surface of the ocean.

It is therefore plausible to speculate that these craft may be traveling into and out of this body of water.

Saucer-shaped craft hovering off the coast of Santa Monica on January 3, 2004.
Photo by Young Chyren, courtesy UFOEvidence.org

As we shall see, the next category involves UFOs that have been observed doing exactly that. These much rarer cases provide further evidence of an underwater UFO base off the California coast.

November 21, 1951: As reported by researcher Harold Wilkins, several witnesses observe “an unidentified burning object” descending into the ocean somewhere off the coast of California.

August 8, 1954: The Japanese steamship Aliki is off the coast of Long Beach when several members of the crew observe an underwater UFO.

As the intercepted radio message from the ship reads,

“Saw fireball move in and out of sea without being doused. Left wake of white smoke; course erratic; vanished from sight.”

1955: Residents from the northern California coastal town of Santa Maria observe a “long silvery object” emerging from the ocean and taking off into space.

January 15, 1956 (Evening): Residents of Redondo Beach report seeing a large, glowing object glide down out of the sky and float on the surface of the ocean about 75 yards off shore.

Dozens of witnesses converge on the scene, including a local night watchman, Redondo Beach lifeguards, and police officers from adjacent Hermosa Beach. As the crowd gathers, the water around the object starts to “froth” and the UFO sinks beneath the surface. The glow of the object, however, remains so intense that it can still be seen.

Police officers radio for assistance and divers are brought in to investigate. Unfortunately, by the time the divers arrive, the object is gone. Another police officer tests the area with a Geiger counter, which fails to register any radiation. Another search the next day also yields no results.

February 9, 1956: Military personnel observe a fireball descending into the ocean off the coast of Redondo Beach. One year later, UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield obtains an official report on the incident, which says only:

“Fireball hits water. Submerges.”

July 28, 1962: The captain of a chartered fishing boat notices lights floating in a stationary position in the water about six miles south of Catalina Island.

Upon closer observation, the captain is startled to see what he assumes at first is a Russian sub:

“It appeared to be the stern of a submarine,” he says. “We could see five men, two in white garb, two in dark trousers and white shirts, and one in a sky-blue jump suit. We passed abeam at about a quarter mile and I was certain it was a submarine low in the water, steel gray, no markings, decks almost awash, with only its tail and an odd aft-structure showing.”

Suddenly the submarine heads straight for the fishing boat as if to ram it. The captain makes an emergency turn as the sub moves past them at high speed, emitting no noise and leaving no wake except for a “good-sized swell.” The captain contacts the navy, which is unable to positively identify the sub.

UFO researchers Coral and Jim Lorenzen hear about the case and speculate that it may have been a UFO and not a submarine:

“The high speed, lack of wake and sound, and the huge swell make this object suspect.”

One might also mention the odd shape of the submarine itself, its lack of fear of observation, and its aggressive maneuvering.

February 5, 1964: Eleven passengers are rescued by the Coast Guard from their emergency raft following the unexplained sinking of their yacht, the Hattie D. The crew was sailing south down the coast of California from Seattle, Washington, when their yacht either struck or was rammed by an unidentified “metal object.”

Crewman Carl Jansen says,

“I don’t care how deep it was…what holed us was steel, and a long piece. There was no give at all.”

December 2, 1965: Mrs. Irwin Cohen and her son observe a glowing red object descending into the sea off San Pedro, setting off a large cloud of steam. As the object descends, the witnesses snap a few photos. They wonder if they witnessed a Navy missile or some other unknown object.

October 1968: George Hiner is fishing in his boat off the eastern end of Catalina Island when he spots a “white-domed shaped object” (sic) through his binoculars. As he watches, the object rises ten feet above the surface of the water, then descends and rises again. He notices a strange parachute-like device beneath the object, which gently descends and then sinks beneath the waves.

June 1980: Therapist Linda Susan Young and a friend are driving along the Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica at night when Young observes an unusually bright light floating in place several miles out to sea.

Young was puzzled by its appearance and turned to tell her friend:

“I said to the guy with me, ‘What do you suppose this is?’ And he turned around and looked at it. And he only saw it for a second when it just shot straight up in the air and blinked out. It didn’t look like it went far enough to disappear from view, like a distance. It just sort of stopped. It just stopped being there…I have always assumed it was a UFO.”

1980s: An anonymous gentleman (a senior electronics engineer) sailing on a foggy day between Santa Barbara Island and Santa Cruz Island observes a “fluorescent green colored light” ahead of him in the mist. Thinking it was another ship using bright lights to navigate the fog, he stops and waits for it to pass. As it approaches, however, he is still unable to distinguish any detail.

When it is a quarter mile away and heading directly toward him, the witness discovers why:

“I finally realized that this dumb thing was underwater…I’m guessing it was—I don’t know—maybe 300 feet in diameter, but I couldn’t get any vertical dimension on it because it was under me in the water. It literally passed directly underneath me.”

The witness is sailing a fully equipped, 38-foot sailboat. As the object passes beneath him, he takes several readings from the depth sounder, determining that the object is about 100 feet deep. At this point, both depth sounders quit functioning. The witness checks his compasses.

“All three of them were slowly rotating and I wasn’t… I tried calling the Coast Guard and the radio was dead.”

The object moves away and disappears, leaving the witness badly frightened. A later check on his equipment reveals that all the compass mountings were broken. Says the witness of the incident,

“It was weird. I was just too damned petrified to move.”

Underwater Lights

1990: According to investigator Bill Hamilton, starting in late 1989 numerous witnesses in Marina Del Rey begin to have repeated encounters with “strange blue-green lights in the water.”

As Hamilton writes,

“In 1989 and again in 1990, witnesses have seen as many as twenty events an hour. One large light appeared to be as much as 100 feet in diameter. This large light spawned babies no larger than 10 to 12 feet in length. These lights were seen to move swiftly under the ocean’s surface some 500 to 1000 feet from the coastline in Abalone Cove…one of the lights was reported to have emerged from the water.”

Spring 1991: In the early morning hours, Tony X. looks out the window of his Malibu beachfront home and observes a brilliantly lit object floating on the ocean’s surface about two miles away.

“It looked like a big prism,” says Tony, “kind of various colors out there. I got a telescope out there and looked at it.”

After a few hours, the light winks out.

Two years later, in January 1993, the object returns.

“I got the telescope out and looked at it, and it was the same kind of thing…the colors seemed so pure for lack of a better word. They seemed real coherent.”

Tony calls up the Coast Guard, but they deny having any information.

May 5, 1992: Two friends walking along Malibu Beach observe a “sort of light/fireball” descend from the sky and into the ocean. Says one witness,

“It was going at an incredible speed and it was less than a mile away. It looked like it hit the ocean…. Once the object made its way to the ocean’s surface, it disappeared, so my guess is that it went underwater.”

1994: Two men walking near the coast of Rancho Palos Verdes at night see several “glowing disks” floating in the water. One of the witnesses returns at a later date and sees the disks again. On this occasion, he observes several black helicopters in the area. Later, he is confronted by unnamed individuals (men in black?) who tell him in no uncertain terms that this area, off Abalone Cove, is off-limits.

January 11, 2002: An anonymous gentleman camping along the coast at Point Mugu sees a light moving back and forth 100 feet above the water, and two other lights beneath the surface of the sea. The objects dart back and forth in tandem for 30 minutes (moving unlike any plane or helicopter), giving the witness the impression that they are searching for something. Afterwards, the light in the sky accelerates out of sight and the two objects in the water dive down and disappear.

Inside the Base

So much underwater UFO activity in one place is undeniably unusual and strongly points to the possibility that there is an underwater UFO base somewhere in this area. While the above reports alone provide considerable evidence, further confirmation of this possibility comes from another source.

Not only is there an unusually large number of sightings, landings, and ocean-going UFOs here, there are also cases of abductions. Normally, when somebody reports being abducted by aliens, they claim to have been taken inside a UFO. However, in this particular area, some abductees report that they have been taken to what is apparently an underground base.

Could it be that these witnesses were taken into the underwater base in the Santa Catalina channel?

1967: Two 11-year-old boys experience an episode of missing time while on their parents’ boat in Avalon Harbor, Catalina Island. Years later, one of the witnesses, Paul Nelson (pseudonym) goes under hypnosis and recalls that he and his friend were abducted to an apparently underground base where they were examined by praying-mantis-type ETs:

“I was taken into a round-walled room. It seemed to me more underground than it did onboard a ship. The walls had kind of a rock-like facet to them… rock-like walls rather than craft-type walls. It gave the impression that I was in a cavern [rather] than a ship… it was more of an underground feeling….”

Following the examination, the boys are returned to the boat with no conscious memory of the abduction.

Early 1990s: As recounted in her autobiographical book Beyond My Wildest Dreams, Kim Carlsberg experiences a series of UFO abductions from her Malibu home starting in the early 1990s. On each occasion she is examined by Grey or praying-mantis-type ETs.

On August 30, 1992, Carlsberg recalls being taken to what appears to be a vast underground complex where she sees many other abductees and ETs of various types.

“…I woke up in a lobby where many humans were milling around. They reminded me of patients waiting to endure their turns in a dentist’s chair.”

Carlsberg also recalled sitting in a large “auditorium” with many other abductees where she was told by the ETs that she was being “prepared for something.”

Hundreds of UFOs
A final piece of evidence for an underwater or underground base comes from the Topanga Canyon UFO wave of 1992 though ’94.

Topanga Canyon has been a UFO hotspot for more than 50 years. However, on the night of June 14, 1992, hundreds of unidentified craft were seen in the canyon, which is situated along the Southern California coast.

Seventeen adult witnesses have independently reported seeing UFOs on that evening. One couple, who live high on a ridge overlooking the ocean, observed approximately 200 craft rising up, one by one, from behind the ridge east of them, and then moving to various locations in the canyon.

As one of the witnesses said,

“You know when you watch something for a while… you can figure out where they’re coming from? After watching them, you got the feeling that they were going all over this area from that certain spot right there.”

That certain spot is the same location where so many underwater UFOs have been seen. And what makes this particular sighting so important is that the objects were not seen coming from above. Instead, these 200 craft came from below, either underground or underwater.

Where else could so many UFOs come from except for some kind of base?

Conclusions

As can be seen, the evidence is pretty strong that there is an underwater UFO base in the Santa Catalina channel. Hundreds of UFOs have been seen in the area. A significant portion of these cases involve objects going into and out of the water. And there are cases where people have apparently been taken inside this very base.

It’s hard to say exactly where this base is, but judging from the geographic distribution of encounters, the highest density of cases is along the Santa Catalina channel. It would have to be very deep to avoid detection.

The size of the base is again a matter of speculation, but because of the large number of UFOs that have been seen at one time and from the reports of the abductees, it seems safe to assume that this base is extremely large, perhaps the size of several city blocks or more.

How long has this base been here?

The modern age of UFOs began in 1947, when a huge wave of sightings swept across the United States and the world. This was the year of the famous Kenneth Arnold sighting and the alleged UFO crash at Roswell. That year also featured a strange mystery off the California coast.

It began on July 7, 1947, just days after the Roswell crash. At 3:10 p.m., two teenagers walking along the beach at San Raphael watched as a “flat, glistening object” emerged from the ocean, flew for a short distance, then dove back into the water 400 yards from shore.

One month later, in August 1947, the Coast Guard received reports of a “strange flaming object,” which fell into the sea.

Following this incident, steamers going into and out of San Francisco Bay encountered an “undersea mountain” that appeared and disappeared in various locations in the bay. Several ships reported the mysterious mass, calling it a “reef” or “submarine mountain” that had apparently appeared overnight. Another ship reported “a large mass under water, off the Golden Gate.”

Following that, the mass disappeared. Or perhaps it just moved again.

Around this time, the naval survey ship Maury and other craft were sent to investigate another report of a “phantom reef” that had appeared about 400 miles off the coast of Southern California. No charts listed any such mass in the area. And when Captain Hambling of the Maury arrived, the “mass” was gone. The crew immediately surveyed the surrounding area and, to their shock, they found that the mass had moved again.

Says Hambling,

“Our echo sounders did pick up a strange echo when we were about three-quarters of a mile off the reported location of the ‘reef.’ It seemed that the sounders had got an echo from a mass about 1,600 yards away. We changed course, and started right towards it. Four hundred yards away from it, we found it had vanished, and we got no other echo. We tracked and re-tracked the area, using fathometers and echo sounders. We covered five square miles very carefully, and another five miles round the outside of the area.”

The “mass” however, had gone. Or perhaps it had moved and found a more permanent residence closer to shore.

Considering the huge number of underwater reports that started in the 1950s, this may have been the time when the alleged base was constructed. In any case, underwater UFOs have been encountered in this area starting in 1947 and continuing to the present day.

While it may seem hard to believe that ETs are living beneath our oceans, these types of accounts have turned up all over the world.

Ocean-going UFOs have been seen in all of the seven seas, reaching back nearly a thousand years and continuing to the present day. With their ability to travel through the oceans and skies with ease, these cases show just how advanced the visitors are.

Remember, most of our oceans remain unexplored—at least by humans...

Aliens are True

2012-07-11T03:12:00.004-07:00

Truth Is Out There - Alien Allegedly Found at Crash Site

REAL-life FBI X-Files have emerged sensationally claiming flying saucers piloted by aliens did crash on Earth.

The top secret memos appear to back up conspiracy theories that extra-terrestrials landed in the US town of Roswell - before they were sent to the infamousArea 51 US airbase.

Three circular-shaped spaceships crashed containing the bodies of extra-terrestrials which were only three feet tall, said a special agent in 1950.

The explosive claims - that could be out of an episode of sci-fi thriller X Files - were unearthed after classified FBI documents were made public. And they are sure to fuel conspiracy theorists' beliefs that the existence of alien life has been covered up.

Last night UFO experts said the files could be final proof that aliens and flying saucers "are real". The amazing UFO find at Roswell, New Mexico, was detailed by FBI agent Guy Hottel in a 1950 memo to the agency's director.

Hottel reveals what a US Air Force investigator found.

"Three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico. They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50ft in diameter."

"Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3ft tall dressed in a metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed flyers and test pilots."

Top secret memo filed by agent Guy Hottel

The name of the investigator who told Hottel about the sensational discovery has been blacked out in the memo titled 'Flying Saucers' and there is no mention of the date of the discovery.

Roswell's radar sparked technical problems on the UFOs causing them to come down, said Hottel who was in charge of the FBI's Washington field office.

He said the spaceships crashed,

"due to the fact that the Government has a very high-powered radar set-up in that area and it is believed the radar interferes with the controlling mechanism of the saucers".

Last night British UFO expert Nick Pope - who investigated mystery air threats for the Ministry of Defense - said:

"These are the real life X-Files. This document could be the smoking gun that proves UFOs are real".

The FBI published the document along with thousands of files available in a new online archive called The Vault. Roswell became infamous after reports that a flying saucer had crashed in the desert near a military base there on or around July 2, 1947.

The bodies of aliens were said to have been recovered and autopsied by the US military at Area 51, in Nevada, but American authorities allegedly covered the incident up.

Another secret FBI memo could confirm the 1947 Roswell UFO incident.

It claims in the same year that an object was found at the base "purporting to be a flying disc". The disc was "hexagonal in shape" and "suspended from a balloon by a cable", according to the "urgent" memo sent to the FBI director.

Further proof?

Later memo to FBI director

The disc was initially thought to be a weather balloon - but the memo claims the US Air Force,

"had not borne out this belief".

But the United States military maintains the debris was just an experimental high-altitude surveillance balloon belonging to a classified program.

UFO 2010 contact made

2012-07-11T03:11:00.003-07:00

2010 is a 1984 science fiction film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Peter Hyams.

Its full title is given on posters and DVD releases as 2010: The Year We Make Contact, although the subtitle does not appear in the film itself. 2010 is a sequel to the 1968 film 2001 - A Space Odyssey, and is based on Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2010 - Odyssey Two, a literary sequel to the film.

The film is set nine years after the mysterious failure of the 800 foot exploration spacecraft USSC Discovery One's mission to Jupiter (depicted in 2001: A Space Odyssey) in which four astronauts died and another disappeared mysteriously into a large, alien Monolith orbiting Jupiter.

Dr. Heywood Floyd - who had been the Director of the "National Council on Astronautics" (NCA) during the Discovery mission - has been made the scapegoat, and has since left the NCA to become a university chancellor.

Friction is growing between the United States and the Soviet Union, and both nations are preparing missions to determine what happened to Discovery One. But although the Soviet Alexei Leonov will be ready before the new American spaceship, the Soviets need Americans astronauts to help investigate the problems with the HAL 9000 on-board supercomputer system, and to ease the diplomatic problems associated with boarding an American spacecraft. The US government reluctantly agrees to a joint mission, since Discovery's orbit destines it to crash into the Jovian moon Io within a few years.

Floyd, who feels responsible for the failed mission, volunteers for the mission himself and recruits two experts on Discovery: Dr. Walter Curnow, one of its designers and builders, and Dr. Chandra, who created the HAL 9000 series of artificial intelligence supercomputers.

The aim of the joint mission is threefold: to find the reason for the mission's failure, to investigate the Monolith in orbit around Jupiter, and to explain David Bowman's disappearance.

They suspect that much of this information is locked away in the abandoned Discovery One spaceship and her on-board HAL 9000 computer.

Upon the Leonov's arrival in the Jovian system, Dr. Floyd is awakened early from his hibernation by the Soviet crew because they have detected the chemical signatures of life on the moon Europa. An unmanned probe detects something suggestive of life, but is inexplicably destroyed in a burst of electromagnetic radiation before close-up photos can be taken. Dr. Floyd suspects that it is a warning from someone - or something - to keep away from Europa.

The Discovery One is found abandoned but undamaged, orbiting Jupiter close to the moon Io.

After space walking over to it, Curnow reactivates its on-board systems, and Chandra restarts the HAL 9000 computer ("HAL"), which had been deactivated before the Monolith had been found. The Monolith is then rediscovered in the Lagrange point between Jupiter and Io. Cosmonaut Max Brailovsky travels to it in an EVA pod, but is killed by a burst of power that emerges from the Monolith and heads into outer space towards the Earth.

A series of scenes follow in which Dave Bowman, who has been transformed into an incorporeal being, travels to the Earth. He appears on his widow's TV screen and says his final goodbyes and visits his terminally-ill and senile mother in a nursing home, combing her hair, much to her delight, as he had done during his boyhood. She is found dead in her bed shortly afterwards.

Chandra discovers the reason for HAL's malfunction: he had become paranoid after his NSC controllers ordered him to conceal from Bowman and Poole the knowledge that the Discovery mission was about the Monolith mystery. This had conflicted with HAL's basic function: the accurate processing and distribution of information without concealment or distortion. Dr. Floyd is disgusted and denies any knowledge of the secret directive.

Meanwhile, the tensions between the United States and Soviet Union have escalated to what is "technically a state of war".

The U.S. government orders Floyd, Curnow and Chandra to leave the Russian spacecraft and move into the Discovery One. On board, Dave Bowman appears to Floyd, warning him that they must leave Jupiter within two days because "something wonderful" will happen.

The Monolith suddenly disappears, and a growing black spot appears on the Jovian surface. Telescopic observations reveal that the spot is in fact a vast population of Monoliths, increasing in number at an exponential rate, shrinking Jupiter's volume, increasing its density, and modifying the chemical properties of its atmosphere.

Since neither ship can reach the Earth with an early departure, the two crews work together to use Discovery as a booster rocket for the Leonov. Tension arises when HAL is not told that the Discovery will be left stranded in space, and probably destroyed; Chandra fears that another deception may cause a repeat of HAL's malfunctions.

During the countdown Dr. Chandra tells HAL the whole truth, and much to everyone's collective relief, the computer understands that it must sacrifice itself for the human beings on board the Leonov.

The Leonov leaves Jupiter just in time to witness the swarm of Monoliths engulf Jupiter and increase its density to the point that nuclear fusion occurs, transforming Jupiter into a small star.

A wave of hot plasma erupts from the forming star, incinerating the Discovery, but failing to destroy the Leonov.

As the Leonov exits its Jovian orbit, HAL is commanded by the mysterious extraterrestrial intelligences to repeatedly broadcast this message toward the Earth:

"ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE. USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE."

Over a montage of images of two Suns in the sky of Earth, Floyd, in voice-over, explains that this miraculous occurrence inspired the American and Soviet leaders to end their stance of war.

The film ends with a montage that depicts Europa gradually transforming over millennia from an icy wasteland to a humid jungle covered with plant life and with primordial sounds emanating from the trees.

In the final shot, the camera pans across the jungle, eventually settling upon a lagoon where a lone Monolith is standing upright, waiting for intelligent life forms to evolve.

UFO sighting 1952 Washington D.C.

2012-07-11T03:10:00.003-07:00

During the dawn of Ufology in the United States, unidentified flying objects made themselves known to the leaders of the free world in 1952, buzzing over the White House, the Capitol building, and the Pentagon.

Seemingly the unknown objects were defying the very governmental agencies sworn to protect the United States from foreign powers.

Washington National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base picked up a number of UFOs on their radar screens on July 19, 1952, beginning a wave of sightings still unexplained to this day. These blips were objects traveling at about 100 m.p.h. but with the ability to accelerate to the unbelievable speed of 7,200 m.p.h.

The Washington National sighting was confirmed by other local radar, and then Andrews Air Force Base was contacted.

Washington Tower: Andrews Tower, do you read? Did you have an airplane in sight west-northwest or east of your airport moving east-bound?

Andrews: No, but we just got a call from the center. We're looking for it.

Washington: We've got a big target showing up on our scope. He's just coming in on the west edge of your airport-the northwest edge of it eastbound. He'll be passing right through the northern portion of your field on an east heading. He's about a quarter of a mile from the northwest runway-right over the edge of your northwest runway now.

Andrews: What happened to your target now?

Washington: He's still eastbound. He went directly over Andrews Fields and is now five miles east.

Andrews: Where did he come from?

Washington: We picked him up ourselves at about seven miles east, slightly southeast, and we have been tracking him ever since then. The Center has been tracking him farther than that.

Andrews: Was he waving his course?

Washington: Holding steady course, due east heading.

Andrews: This is Andrews. Our radar tracking says he's got a big fat target out here northeast of Andrews. He says he's got two more south of the field.

Washington: Yes, well the center has about four or five around the Andrews Range station. The Center is working a National Airlines - the center is working him and vectoring him around his target. He went around Andrews. He saw one of them - looks like a meteor. (Garbled)... Went by him... or something. He said he's got one about three miles off his right wing right now. There are so many targets around here it is hard to tell as they are not moving very fast.

Andrews: What about his altitude?

Washington: Well, must be over 8,000 feet as we don't have him in radar any more.

Andrews Air Force Base notified the U.S. Air Force Air Defense Command.

A couple of F-94 night fighters were ordered to the skies, but runway repairs held their mission up for several hours. By the time they were airborne, the mysterious objects were gone.

The fighters returned home, but soon the objects again showed up on the radar screens. For the next several hours, the fighters chased the illusive targets, but to no avail.

They were able to sight the UFOs, but lights of the unknown objects would darken as they were approached. Constant communication was kept with ground radar, and as the pilots lost sight of the UFOs, they also disappeared from ground radar. The UFOs were also separately witnessed by the crew of a B-29, and other commercial flights.

After a quiet week, the objects reappeared on July 26. After multiple radar operators confirmed the objects, the F-94s again began their search for the enigmatic lights over Washington. The results of their pursuit were identical to the week before. They could see the lights, but when they drew near, the lights would black out.

After their fruitless journey, the planes returned home, only to hear that the objects again were being tracked by radar.

One of the pilots stated his fear and frustration by air to ground radio.

"They've surrounded my plane, what should I do?"

The phenomenal sights would bring about an Air Force press conference on July 29, with Major General John A. Samford in charge.

The official explanation was "temperature inversions," which supposedly caused ground lights to bounce off of clouds, giving the appearance of lighted craft in the skies. The naive and trusting press accepted this explanation at first, in lieu of any other "reasonable" one.

This explanation was scoffed at, however, by Ufologists, knowing that it just did not explain what was seen by pilots and radar operators. Even Project Bluebookwould also dismiss the "temperature inversion" explanation, as it later labeled the Washington sightings as "unknown." The radar operators offered their own reason for the rejecting the Air Force explanation.

Radar controller Barnes would state,

"Inversion blips are always recognized by experts, we are familiar with what weather conditions, flying birds, and [other] such things can cause on radar.

Temperature inversions on radar are typically weak returns and move at a slow ground speed. These blips were distinctly clear, reported as a very good return, solid and often traveled at unbelievable speeds."

The Washington D.C. sightings are a solid case of UFO activity. Literally hundreds of eyewitnesses saw the objects, and photographed them. Many of these were Air Force personnel, considered as reliable.

Many of them made comment of the sightings, one was a Sergeant Harrison:

"I saw the ... light moving from the Northeast toward the range station. These lights did not have the characteristics of shooting stars. There was no trails and seemed to go out rather than disappear, and traveled faster than any shooting star I have ever seen."

The sightings continued throughout the month of July.

Washington Newspaper Article

Transcript of article:

"Saucer" outran jet, pilot reveals - Investigation on in secret after chase over capitalRadar spot blips like aircraft for nearly six hours - only 1.700 feet upby Paul Sampson

Post Reporter

July 28, 1952

Military secrecy veils an investigation of the mysterious, glowing aerial objects that showed up on radar screens in the Washington area Saturday night for the second consecutive week.

A jet pilot sent up by the Air Defense Command to investigate the objects reported he was unable to overtake the glowing lights moving near Andrews Air Force Base.

The CAA reported reported the objects traveled at "predominantly lower levels" - about 1700 feet. July 19.

Air Force spokesmen said yesterday only that an investigation was being made into the sighting of the objects on the radar screen in the CAA Air Route Traffic Control Center at Washington National Airport, and on two other radar screens .

Methods of the investigations were classified as secret, a spoken said.

"We have no evidence they are flying saucers; conversely we have no evidence they are not flying saucers. We don't know what they are," a spokesman added.

The same source reported an expert from the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton Ohio, was here last week investigating the objects sighted July 19.

The expert has been identified as Capt. E. J. Ruppelt. Reached by telephone at his home in Dayton yesterday, Ruppelt said he could make no comment on his activity in Washington.

Capt. Ruppelt confirmed he was in Washington last week but said he had not come here to investigate the mysterious objects. He recalled he did make an investigation after hearing of the objects, but could not say what he investigated.

Another Air Force spokesman said here yesterday the Air Force is taking all steps necessary to evaluate the sightings.

"The intelligence people," this spokesman explained, "sent someone over to the control center at the time of the sightings and did whatever necessary to make the proper evaluation."

Asked whether the radar equipment might have been malfunctioning, the spokesman said,

"radar, like the compass is not a perfect instrument and is subject to error."

He thought, however, the investigation would be made by persons acquainted with the problems of radar.

Two other radar screens in the area picked up the objects. An employee of the National Airport control tower said the radar scope there picked up very weak "blips" of the objects. The tower radar's for "short range" and is not so powerful as that at the center. Radar at Andrews Air Force Base also registered the objects from about seven miles south of the base.

A traffic control center spokesman said the nature of the signals on the radar screen ruled out any possibility they were from clouds or any other "weather" disturbance.

"The returns we received from the unidentified objects were similar and analogous to targets representing aircraft in flight," he said.

The objects,

"flying saucer or what have you, appeared on the radar scope at the airport center at 9:08 PM. Varying from 4 to 12 in number, the objects appeared on the screen until 3:00 AM., when they disappeared.

At 11:25 PM., two F-94 jet fighters fro Air Defense Command squadron, at New Castle Delaware, capable of 600 hundred mph speeds, took off to investigate the objects.

Airline, civil and military pilots described the objects as looking like the lit end of a cigarette or a cluster of orange and red lights.

One jet pilot observed 4 lights in the vicinity of Andrews Air Force Base, but was not able to over-take them, and they disappeared in about two minutes.

The same pilot observed a steady white light in the vicinity of Mt Vernon at 11:49 PM. The light, about 5 miles from him, faded in a minute.

The lights were also observed in the Beltsville, MD., vicinity. At 1:40 AM two-other F-94 jet fighters took off and scanned the area until 2:20 AM., but did not make any sightings.

Visible two days
Although "unidentified objects" have been picked up on radar before, the incidents of the last two Saturdays are believed to be the first time the objects have been picked up on radar-while visible to the human eye.

Besides the pilots, who last Saturday saw the lights, a woman living on Mississippi Ave., told the Post she saw a very,

"bright light streaking across the sky towards Andrews Air Force Base about 11:45 PM. Then a second object with a tail like a comet whizzed by, and a few seconds later, a third passed in a different direction toward Suntland," she said.

Radar operators plotted the speed of "Saturday night's visitors" at from 38 to 90 mph, but one jet pilot reported faster speeds for the light he saw.

The jet pilot reported he had no apparent "closing speed" when he attempted to reach the lights he saw near Andrews Air Force Base. That means the lights were moving at least as fast as his top speed-a maximum of 600 mph.

One person who saw the lights when they first appeared in this area did not see them last night. He is E.W. Chambers, an engineer at Radio Station WRC, who spotted the lights while working early the morning of July 20 at station's Hyattsville tower.

Chamber's said he was sorry he had seen the lights because he had been skeptical about "flying saucers" before. Now he said, he sort of "wonders" and worries about the whole thing.

Leon Davidson, 804 South Irving St. Arlington, a chemical engineer who made an exhaustive study of "flying saucers" as a hobby, said yesterday reports of saucers in the East, have been relatively rare.

Davidson has studied the official report on the saucers, including some of the secret portions never made public, and analyzed all the data in the report.

Davidson, whose study of saucers is impressively detailed and scientific, said he believes the lights are American "aviation products" - probably "circular flying wings," using new type jet engines that permit rapid acceleration and relatively low speeds. He believes, they are either "new fighter," guided missiles, or piloted guided missiles.

He cited some of the recent jet fighters, including the Navy's new "F-4-D, which has a radical "bat-wing," as examples of what the objects might resemble.

Davidson thinks the fact that the lights have been seen in this area indicates the authorities may be ready to disclose the "new aircraft" in the near future.

Previously, most of the "verified saucers" have been seen over sparsely inhabited areas, Davidson explained, and now, when they appear here, it may indicate that "secrecy" is not so important any more.

UFO and UN

2012-07-11T03:09:00.001-07:00

McDonald's ideas reached even the United Nations, where Secretary-General U Thant was particularly, but unofficially, very interested in UFOs.

The following is an excerpt from McDonald's statement on the international scientific aspects of the problem of UFOs, submitted to theOuter Space Affairs Group at the United Nations on June 7, 1967.

This is followed by portions of his letter to U Thant, and of other letters explaining U Thant's later actions on the matter.

Statement on International Scientific Aspects of the Problem of the Unidentified Flying Objects

submitted on June 7, 1967

to the Outer Space Affairs Group

United Nations Organization

Regardless of what ultimate explanation is found for the UFO phenomena, the present scientific neglect and ridicule must be replaced by scientific concern and intensive study. My recommendation to the Outer Space Affairs Group is that it seek all possible means of securing worldwide attention to this problem. The first need is for erasing the ridicule that is quite clearly suppressing open reporting of sightings of unconventional objects in the air and on the ground. ...

Secondly, the existence of an already-available sensing system in the form of radar facilities must be recognized as exceedingly fortunate. At present, most radar sightings of UFOs are not getting into scientific hands, largely because most radar equipment is operated by military groups who, in almost all countries of the world, tend to ignore inexplicable high-speed radar target reports or else to withhold them from scientific attention.

A wide range of electromagnetic disturbances accompanying close passage or hovering of the UFOs is now on record throughout the world -- despite this record not yet being admitted into what one would ordinarily call the "scientific record".

Disturbance of internal-combustion engines coincident with close passage of disc-like or cylindrical unconventional objects is on record in at least several hundred instances. Often the disturbances are accompanied by broad-spectrum electromagnetic noise picked up on radio devices. In many instances compasses, both on ships and in aircraft, have been disturbed. Magnetometers and even watches have been affected.

All these reports point to some kind of electromagnetic noise or electromagnetic side-effects that offer promise for design of new sensing devices, which will only be developed when competent engineers and physicists take seriously the rapidly growing body of reports of close-range, low-altitude sightings.

There is curious evidence, still too inadequately studied to warrant any firm conclusions, that unconventional objects apparently rather similar in nature to those that have been reported in our global airspace in the past two decades have been seen prior to the 1947 epoch of marked rise in sightings. ...

The UFO phenomenon may be at least a half-century old, if not longer. ...

The frequency of sightings increased by perhaps two or three orders of magnitude in 1946-47 - for reasons we do not now understand in the slightest degree.

Letter to Secretary-General U Thant

dated June 5, 1967

Dear Sir:
I wish to thank you again for making it possible for me to meet with the U.N. Outer Space Affairs Group. ... I wish to offer whatever personal assistance or counsel you or your colleagues might be able to draw from my own personal experience in studying the problem.

The U.N. has both responsibilities and obligations to accelerate serious scientific study of the UFO problem throughout the world. It appears conceivable that something in the nature of a global surveillance by UFOs has been underway in recent years.

If this view is correct, then our present ignorance of the purpose and plan of such surveillance must be speedily replaced by maximal understanding of what is going on.

Letter to Richard Barnet, Institute for Political Studies

Washington, D.C., dated April 27, 1968

Dear Sir:
... In June of last year, action on information indicating that U Thant was keenly interested in the UFO problem, I requested and received an opportunity to speak to the U.N. Outer Space Affairs Group.

Unfortunately, what did look like an auspicious beginning was scotched when Drew Pearson (almost certainly without ill intent) cited my appearance there, quoted U Thant as feeling UFOs stood second in international scientific importance only to Vietnam, and thereby left open the impression that U Thant was more interested in UFOs than in the then boiling Arab-Israeli crisis.

So U Thant issued an overstrong denial, and that temporarily closed off the channel.

Letter to Richard Hall

dated February 10, 1971

... I was talking to Tom Malone, and he mentioned having had fifteen minutes with U Thant last week, along with some visiting Russian astronomers. Tom laughed at the fact that, as soon as the conversation opened, U Thant turned to Ambarzumian, a world-noted Armenian astronomer, and, as his first question, asked the Russian what he really thought about the UFO problem.

Ambarzumian made short shrift of that topic, Tom indicated, but U Thant was not that easily put off and came through with a fairly clear conviction that there has got to be something to the problem. However, as I have long suspected, he rested much of his conviction on Buddhist faith and lore* rather than on investigatory material.

Nevertheless, it shows that U Thant is still a member of the silent majority.

Alien Space Ships

2012-07-11T03:04:00.003-07:00

What you are about to see is quite remarkable.

It seems that some of the stars above us are not stars at all... as you shall see. A young man by the name of John Lenard Walson has discovered a new way to extend the capabilities of small telescopes and has been able to achieve optical resolutions - at almost the diffraction limit - not commonly achievable.

With this new-found ability, he has proceeded to videotape, night and day, many strange and heretofore unseen objects in earth orbit. The resulting astro-photographic video footage has revealed a raft of machines, hardware, satellites, spacecraft and possibly space ships which otherwise appear as 'stars'... if they appear at all.

There are, indeed, hundreds of satellites in Earth orbit as you will read in the summary which follows. However, the images you will see are clearly of large and sizeable machines which have not been seen before.

Let's start with one such object in orbit as videotaped by John Lenard Walson.

It is the International Space Station... the ISS... take a look...

Keeping that image and it's relative size appearance in mind, now ask yourself, what is THIS?...

And if you find that one intriguing, here are more examples of the scores of space objects above us John Walson has captured on tape...

Once again, here is what the ISS looks like through the telescope and video camera lens of astro-photographer Walson...

And here is the actual video footage from which the above freeze frame is taken followed by some footage of something that is NOT the ISS.

If you might be wondering what the Shuttle looks like, here it is...

So, what are these other huge machines and spacecraft?

Now let's take a look at some of Walson's remarkable video footage showing satellites and spaceships (?) above our heads in Earth orbit.

How Many Known Satellites Are In Orbit? How Much 'Junk'?
Keeping the footage you've just seen in mind, here is what the Union Of Concerned Scientists has to say about orbiting spacecraft and satellites in Earth orbit...

There are more than 800 active satellites currently in orbit.

Amazingly, they represent four percent of the total number of objects currently cataloged by the U.S. space surveillance network; the rest includes abandoned satellites, spent rocket boosters, and other debris.

The United States owns more than 400 active satellites, just over 50 percent of all satellites.

Russia and China have the second and third highest number of space assets, owning 89 and 35 satellites, respectively.

Civilian satellites, which perform tasks for the commercial, scientific, and government sectors, make up the majority of U.S. satellites.

Russia's space assets are split nearly evenly between military and civil missions, though there are not separate military and civilian space programs.

Only a very small percentage of other countries' satellites are military in nature.

Uses for Satellites

Approximately two-thirds of all active satellites are used for communications.

Satellites for:

navigation

military surveillance

Earth observation and remote sensing

astrophysics and space physics

Earth science and meteorology missions,

...each comprise about five to seven percent of total satellites

Satellite Orbits

Satellites orbit Earth in several distinct regions of space:

Low Earth orbits (LEO) - about 80 kilometers (km) to 2000 km above Earth.

Includes:

military intelligence satellites

weather satellites

Geosynchronous orbits (GEO) - 36,000 km above Earth.

Includes:

commercial and military communications satellites

satellites providing early warning of ballistic missile launch

Medium Earth orbits (MEO) - between LEO and GEO

Includes:

navigation satellites (Navstar, Glonass)

Molniya orbit - a highly elliptical orbit with a 12-hour period

Includes:

communication satellites for regions near the North Pole

Orbital Debris

Orbital debris is any human-made object in orbit that no longer serves a useful purpose, including discarded equipment, abandoned satellites, bolts and other hardware released during satellite deployment, and particles from explosions or collisions.

The table below gives current estimates of orbital debris in three size categories. As the table shows, approximately 40 percent of all orbital debris larger than one millimeter in size is in LEO.

Large numbers of naturally occurring particles ("meteoroids") add to the total number of orbital objects less than one centimeter in size, but are not included in this table.

Estimates of Orbital Debris

Average Size	Pieces LEO Debris	Total Pieces Of Debris
1 mm - 1 cm	140,000,000	330,000,000
1 cm - 10 cm	180,000	560,000
> than 10 cm	9,700	18,000

Source: Klinkrad, H. 2006.
Space debris: Models and risk analysis. Berlin: Springer Praxis, 96. http://www.ucsusa.org/global_security/space_weapons/whats-in-space.html

So,

What is John Lenard Walson videotaping with his proprietary telescope videocam technique?

Are these just satellites and space junk?

Or, are we seeing large and very sophisticated spacecraft for the first time that we AREN'T supposed to see?

Above is another video freeze frame of a sunlit spacecraft shown at the top of the picture.

Below it is a SECOND craft which happened to pass by at an extremely high rate of speed. John pulled a single frame from his video (at 30 frames per second) and sent it to us for a closer look.

Contrast broadening of this freeze frame below reveals hidden visual data, including the enormity of the spacecraft as well as what might be a third smaller craft at the bottom of the frame....

Are We Supposed To Be Seeing These Things?
Walson received the following comment about one of the videos. Does it answer all the questions? No, but perhaps some of them...

"Hello again.

And, again, my congratulations on your superb astrophotography.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory is the group which has built some of the things you are seeing. Much of what they do is what used to be the Star Wars project, which no doubt involves some of your objects."

Maybe some of Walson's images ARE of sensitive, secret US military Star Wars machines. Maybe even 'secret' weapons platforms in space, which the US military has been rumored to have for at least 20 years.

Remember, also, the young UK hacker, Gary McKinnon, who got into the Pentagon database years ago and found a secret US Navy file titled 'Non-Terrestrial Officers'. McKinnon now faces LIFE in a US prison for hacking into those Pentagon files.

Here is more on McKinnon:

http://www.rense.com/general72/totp.htm

http://www.rense.com/general72/pentaa.htm

Someone Isn't Happy With John Lenard Walson

Judging by the following video footage taken by Walson at his home, it is clear he has ventured into territory that is, shall we say, 'disconcerting' to some government or military agencies who don't like him videotaping these large, mysterious orbiting machines.

The result of Walson's 'impertinence' was the almost immediate inauguration of routine visits from numerous unmarked large helicopters which began regular day and night visits to his home. Here are some still frames from video John recorded of his tormentors.

Pay particular attention to the huge, twin-rotor Chinook's pass right over the tree in his backyard (top right, below) to give you an idea of how serious these flights are.

And how clear the message is intended to be.

Here is a small sample of the video showing the outrageous helicopter harassment, intimidation and threats Walson endures...

Actual Sounds From These Space Machines
In addition to discovering and refining his optical telescope videotaping technique, John has also discovered how to actually hear and record the sounds in real time coming from the particular craft he is videotaping.

By carefully aligning a satellite dish receiver with his telescope, he has been able to record some very unusual and intriguing sound from the different spacecraft...

In summary, what you have seen are spacecraft, and maybe even space ships, parked or stationed in orbit above the Earth. It's clear the major space powers are far more heavily-invested in space than they will admit.

As a reflection of that reality, there has been a lot of recent talk about 'anti-satellite' weapons 'needed' by competing countries to 'protect themselves.'

Most recently, China has been discussing its anti-sat programs and even threatened to destroy or disable all GPS satellites which over-fly Chinese territory.

It's anyone's guess how many billions the US military and government have poured into black ops NASA-facilitated programs of 'secret' spying and surveillance programs, and military space weapons systems over the decades.

John Lenard Walson's video images and sounds may well show some of these advanced machines.

It is also within the realm of possibility some of these items might be products of non-human intelligence. Of course, the people who would know aren't talking. There is much more to the John Lenard Walson story... more images and videos will become available soon.

Japan UFO landing

2012-07-11T03:01:00.005-07:00

n December, Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura caused quite a stir with his bold statement that "UFOs definitely exist." (Same situation with Japanese Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba) In subsequent clarifications, the government claimed that there have been no confirmed sightings, but if a UFO was to appear,

"fighter jets would be scrambled to attempt visual confirmation."

A FERI member's sketch depicts a diminutive "gray" extraterrestrial life form.

PHOTO COURTESY OF FERI

While it could be that Machimura was joking, it's also possible he was attempting to pave the way for belief in the existence of alien life — at present a taboo — to become an issue of public debate. For some prominent thinkers that day can't come soon enough.

Alfred Lambremont Webre, a Yale graduate, Fulbright scholar, lawyer, and judge on the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, has spoken before the Diet on U.N. treaty issues. He is also the director of the Institute for Cooperation in Space. He helped found, and has written extensively about, an emerging field of discourse known as exopolitics.

Webre is on a mission to educate the world about the greatest news story in history: Humans not only share the universe with intelligent life but these extraterrestrial species are about to make their presence known.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

"Earth is an object of interest to a larger universal society," Webre explained in an interview. "The science-based approach of exopolitics shows that they have been showing themselves on the periphery because humanity has not been ready for the shock of revising their knowledge of reality."

While Webre's belief in the existence of extraterrestrial life is based on documents and testimonies he has amassed, Shigeru Osawa claims his knowledge of ETs came straight from the horse's mouth. Osawa — a pseudonym — founded the Future Earth Research Institute (FERI) in Japan and is working, like Webre, to enlighten humanity about unknown sources of energy.

Osawa, who gives talks throughout Japan about the dynamics of vortex "ki" energy and the future of Earth, says he acquired his knowledge directly from alien civilizations.

"There are one trillion stars in our galaxy," Osawa expounded. "Each has a solar system, with eight to 10 planets circulating, like ours.

"Around most of those 1 trillion stars there are planets with life. Among them, there are 500 million with higher intelligent life, like monkeys. Among those, 80 million have language ability, and among those, 6,800 have technology to travel in space.

"An alien race known as Betelgeuse, which hails from the top-left alpha star within the Orion constellation, created a space federation by conquering various planets. They're highly advanced in space technology though not very spiritually evolved. Before them the prevailing civilization was from Pleiades; they were gentle and created the civilization of Atlantis on Earth 400,000 years ago. But the Pleiadeans were chased away by powerful forces from Alinilam, who later were conquered by Betelgeuse about 40,000 years ago. It's been like 'Star Wars.' "

The source of Osawa's knowledge is out of this world.

"I speak with ETs and have traveled in space. I speak with the gods while in a kind of meditative state, but I do no spiritual practice. You can't get enlightenment through spiritual practice.

"At first I channeled; now I can communicate directly whenever I like. I ask questions, and they answer 'yes' or 'no.'

"I gained 'satori' (enlightenment) when I was 34. Aliens often implant 'kon' — like a computer program — in earthlings, usually during childhood, so we (those with kon implants) are half-aliens. We four were implanted," Osawa stated, indicating the three other members of FERI.

Osawa, who used to be a master of the "I Ching," the Chinese ancient book of divination, made his statements matter-of-factly, with no hint of irony, but sometimes with a touch of humor. He seemed to be amusing and surprising himself as he explained the teachings he receives. At one point during our interview he plunged into prayer, quietly chanting, with hands circulating as if to form a ball — or a world.

FERI member Sachiko Suzuki — who like her fellow implanted colleagues chose to use an assumed name — is a healer and psychic who presently lives up a mountain on Shikoku.

Her close encounters of the third kind started at her parents' 14th-floor apartment in Osaka.

"I first traveled to alien worlds when I was 18. Before I knew what was happening, I found myself inside a flying saucer.

"I had fallen asleep, but then I woke up in dark space. I was floating, looking out through a window pane. Somebody was talking to me telepathically. He was an older male, speaking Japanese. He told me, 'I will show you how stars die.'

"He told me to look straight ahead, where I saw a blue star, round, the size of a ball. There was a dark point in the center, and it started blowing up. The blackness then covered everything. Only a blue ring was left. The ring then flew away and disappeared.

"Then I realized that, just like a human being, the soul was coming out of the star's body. I realized the star had a life and a soul, just like a human, and when it dies the soul leaves the body.

"It dissolved into the darkness. That was my first trip."

FERI member Yoshimitsu Kunitsune has also traveled to alien worlds after falling into a trance-like state. Unlike Suzuki, however, he has never seen a UFO.

While the claims of Future Earth Research Institute founder Osawa are somewhat fantastical, the stories of contact with extraterrestrials told by other Japanese have been more down to earth, as it were. The testimony of 1986 JAL pilot Captain Kenju Terauchi is often cited by UFO enthusiasts.

While flying over Alaska, Terauchi and his copilot spotted what appeared to be aircraft lights. After performing some cat-and-mouse maneuvers (as if the source of the lights was playing with the JAL craft, says Terauchi), light poured into the cockpit, warming Terauchi's face.

Later Terauchi saw,

"a silhouette of a gigantic spaceship" and thought, "We've gotta get out of here quickly!"

After that they saw the UFO ascending, leaving the pilots to wonder — and fear — what the craft's purpose could be.

UFO enthusiasts claim this craft was caught on radar, and that the official Federal Aviation Administration transcripts of the exchanges between Terauchi and ground control have been preserved. They also say Terauchi was grounded and given a desk job for speaking out in public about his encounter.

Brushes with authority and government — most often with "men in black" from super-secret departments in the U.S. military seeking to suppress eyewitness testimony and evidence — are common to many accounts of the aftermath of alien encounters. The Disclosure Project, started by ex-physician Steven Greer, consists of some 400 individuals, most U.S. government civil-servant whistle-blowers, who claim to have direct evidence of UFOs or of clandestine government programs that suppress UFO information. Webre is one of over 100 former high-level governmental and military Disclosure Project witnesses. These individuals claim that a person who speaks out about UFOs may have their livelihoods — or even their lives — threatened.

Webre notes that reporter Angelia Joiner, who covered the world's most recent UFO sighting in Stephenville, Texas, on Feb. 12, has been fired from her job at the town's local newspaper, the Empire-Tribune, after being told to back off from the story. Webre believes she paid the price for bringing to light a series of eyewitness accounts of UFO sightings.

Osawa and the other FERI members declined to have their photos taken, citing security concerns and previous encounters with "men in black" and helicopters.

Although they gamely answered questions about UFOs for this article, FERI's main concern is introducing earthlings to revolutionary teachings known to alien civilizations about space and energy that they say could have massive implications for humanity. Like Webre, FERI members claim that perfectly clean and sustainable energy forms are available that can literally take humans deep into the cosmos.

For those looking for a happy ending, however, don't turn to Osawa.

"Humans will go through various challenges, especially in 2012 and 2013. It's clear to the gods that humans cannot overthrow their corrupt governments, so they will have to remove all powers from the Earth by way of natural catastrophes like earthquakes and epidemics. Economies will collapse. Civilizations will face fatal crises.

"To assist humans in coping with those dire situations, four mother ships will land on Earth: one in Calgary, another in California, one in Nagano Prefecture, and the final one in eastern Australia. Then more alien saucers will land in other parts of the world."

Webre sees a less cataclysmic scenario unfolding.

"We are not on the edge of an extinction-level event. Exopolitics shows that humanity is on the threshold of a new era of promise and positive evolution, not doom and destruction."

Evidence of Aliens

2012-07-11T03:01:00.001-07:00

Zecharia Stichin presents new evidence for Ancient Astronauts:

"The Headless Spaceman"

Is this a replica (above images) of an ancient single-seat rocket-ship?

That’s what it looks like to Zecharia Sitchin, the leading authority and scholar on the Ancient Astronaut theory.

Hidden away in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum in Turkey for a quarter of a century, Sitchin recently convinced the Museum that this artifact may indeed be ancient, and not the modern forgery they concluded it must be, simply because our current view of our ancient history doesn’t include rocket-ships.

In his article in Atlantis Rising Magazine, Issue 15, Sitchin describes this object as,

"a sculpted scale model of what, to modern eyes, looks like a cone-nosed rocket-ship… Powered by a cluster of four exhaust engines in the back surrounding a larger exhaust engine, the rocket-ship has room for a sole pilot—actually shown and included in the sculpture."

He describes the pilot as sitting with legs folded toward his chest, and wearing a one-piece "ribbed pressure suit" which becomes boots at the feet, and gloves at the hands, and points out that since the pilot’s head is missing, we cannot know whether the pilot wore a helmet, goggles, or other headgear.

The artifact measures 23 centimeters long, 9.5 cm high, 8 cm wide, or 5.7 inches long, 3.8 inches high, and 3.5 inches wide.

Sitchin spent years tracking down the artifact, until he located it at the Archaeology Museum in Istanbul. It was excavated at Toprakkale, a city known in ancient times as Tuspa, where the kingdom of Urartu reigned briefly over 2500 years ago. The museum curators decided this small artifact must be a forgery because it differs from the era’s style, and more importantly, it looks like a space capsule.

They reasoned that since there were no space capsules in ancient times, it must be a modern fake, a practical joke, made of plaster of Paris and marble powder.

from "De Goden en de Broederschappen"

However, during Sitchin’s visit to Istanbul and the Museum in September 1997, he met with the Director, Dr. Pasinli, who took the artifact from a drawer, and allowed Sitchin to examine and photograph it.

It looked to Sitchin to be carved from a porous, volcanic ash stone, the details very precise.

Dr. Pasinli asked Sitchin what he thought. It is not out of context, Sitchin told the Director and his colleagues, when you view various artifacts that also seem torepresent an ancient, space faring civilization.

In Sitchin’s "The Lost Realms," you’ll find illustrations of artifacts that may represent bearded spacemen and rocket-ships from Mexico, and from Lebanon, what might be a rocket-ship on a landing platform.

He advised the Museum directors to allow viewers to decide for themselves what it is, while stating their own doubt about the artifact’s authenticity. This was enough to convince the curators to finally put the object on public display.

Be sure to have a look for yourself next time you are in Istanbul.

Aliens latest visit

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The Dome of the Rock

is an Islamic Shrine built over Jerusalem's Temple Mount

Eligael Gedalyovich, who released the first video of a UFO hovering over the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem on January 28, 2011, claims to have found new video that reveals in greater detail the UFO that appeared that day.

Eligael claims to have been present during the filming of the very first video of the Dome of the Rock UFO which he posted to his Youtube channel. Another video soon emerged from a different source (Shshsh331) from another angle, and appeared to independently confirm the original video posted by Eligael. These first two videos have been widely viewed to be the most credible of the videos that have emerged so far of the Dome of the Rock UFO incident.

At least one of the subsequent videos that have emerged, has been concluded to be a fake intended to discredit the first two genuine videos. Now Eligael has posted 3 seconds of what he claims to be conclusive proof that the Dome of the Rock UFO was in fact an interplanetary extraterrestrial vehicle.

The new Eligael video shows what appears to be a large metallic shaped flying saucer hovering over the Dome of the Rock, and casting a light in the vicinity. In Eligael's original video, the UFO was descended over the Dome of the Rock and hovered for about 25 seconds, before quickly shooting up vertically.

The new video appears to be a close up of the UFO during the period it was hovering. Eligael claims that the new video is three minutes in total, and the three seconds released so far is a teaser of what's to come.

It appears with captions:

"Now the answer is clear" and "We are not alone."

Veteran Israeli UFO researcher Barry Chamish, was interviewed on the Kevin Smith show on February 4 about the Dome of the Rock UFO. He talked about the hundreds of witnesses and how the Israeli media and public is vigorously discussing the UFO sighting.

He said that he had absolute confidence in the authenticity of the first two videos and claims that Eligael is a credible source. His interview can be heard here: Chamish is one of the few UFO researchers that can speak with authority about UFO sightings in Israel.

These first two videos can be seen side by side and provide the context for the new video posted by Eligael.

The new video is bound to raise further controversy over what happened over the Dome of the Rock on January 28.

If the Dome of the Rock incident involved an interplanetary vehicle its significance cannot be underestimated. It is a site holy to the world's three major monotheistic religions: Islam, Judaism and Christianity.

A UFO appearing over the Dome of the Rock may well have the principal function of uniting humanity in response to the imminent appearance of extraterrestrial life.

Alternatively, it may be setting the scene for a Second Coming type of event that some believe is part of a covert operation called Project Blue Beam using holographic technologies.

Was the UFO conducting a form of galactic diplomacy in preparing humanity for events that will point to the existence of extraterrestrial life?

Or was it a scene setter for a contrived Second Coming and/or alien invasion?

One thing that is not in dispute is that soon after the January 28, Dome of the Rock incident, Hillary Clinton recalled up to 260 U.S. ambassadors from around the world to Washington DC for a one week conference that began on Monday, February 14.

The unprecedented diplomatic recall involved discussion of issues too sensitive even for the Top Secret diplomatic communication channels used by the State Department. It is worth pointing out that the Wikileaks material that has been released so far involves diplomatic cables classified below Top Secret (Secret and Confidential) that were widely shared between different U.S. bureaucracies.

In this writer's opinion, the State Department recall was related to forthcoming events with momentous global significance that far exceeded in scope the official agenda released to the U.S. media.

If the new video posted by Eligael is genuine and conclusive proof of the visitation of extraterrestrial life over one of humanity's most important religious sites, then it would qualify as the kind of global event that would have required secret discussions by the diplomatic elite of the U.S. in a highly secure environment.

Eligael has given no date for when the rest of new video will be released.

If genuine, its contents may well change the world as we know it.

White House role in UFO Crash

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Before considering the available evidence about crashed saucer material and the White House, it is important to view why the role of the president is so important.

It has long been rumored that the real hard evidence such as crash retrieval materials are in the hands of the military. The president is the civilian head of the military, and thus should be receiving on his desk the best material that has been gathered by the military.

If the critical crash material is not held by the military, but by some agency of the government such as the National Security Agency or CIA, the president should still receive the best available material, as he is the head of the Executive branch that employs most employees of the government.

Most importantly, it is important to view the role of the president in any review of crashed saucer evidence, because the president is the ultimate authority. Only when the president stands up and says, "Some UFOs are not of this world" will the cover-up end. The president’s word is final and cannot be overruled. It is therefore important to see what he knows on the subject, or at least what statements or actions he has taken.

Many believe that once elected, the president is suddenly spoken to by God and suddenly knows everything there is about the ultimate UFO evidence such as crashes. This is quite far from the truth. Once sworn in a president is dependant on cabinet officers to present to him any information he might obtain. All the information from the past administration has been removed and the filing cabinets are empty.

An example is President Clinton, who at the time of his 1993 inauguration, was faced with 17,000 classified documents a day being written within the U.S. government. People who think he has time to read these documents, and maintain a 16-hour grueling daily schedule of meetings, briefing, photos, state dinners, and in Bill Clinton’s case dating interns, are mislead.

The president’s knowledge comes from short briefings he gets from subordinates about things they think are important for him to know. The president’s knowledge is therefore dependent on the ability of those below him to gather up the facts for him.

With this as background, the following are some of the stories that look at what the president might have known about the subject of crashed saucers. These few examples I have chosen, are the result of attempts to track down rumored stories, and investigate them with interviews and material from the various presidential libraries.

The following presidential stories show at times the president knows, and at time doesn’t know. Summing it all up I would say that the president is told, but that the level of knowledge is not as great as the stories that have been leaked into the UFO community by U.S. intelligence. The aliens are still in control.

I think the evidence shows that the president knows the reality of the phenomena, but realizes that the government has very little control over the situation, especially when it comes to the phenomena of abductions and cattle mutilations. It is this ignorance and lack of control, which has led to a continued cover-up, while officials scramble to get better information about how to deal with these phenomena.

Our knowledge of the White House role and knowledge has been limited by two factors,

The lack of records in presidential libraries.

The president has only faced the UFO question twice during a news conference in 55 years.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only story that I will deal with regarding FDR is a story that is being worked on by CUFOS and the Ohio MUFON people. It involves the longest servicing State Secretary in US history Cordell Hull. Hull won the Nobel Peace Prize for the work he did towards the creation of the United Nations.

He is one of three Nobel Peace Prize winners who have been involved in UFOs. The other two are Jimmy Carter, and former Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson.

Hull’s story is this. The daughter of his cousin, Reverend Turner Hamilton Holt, came forward a few years back to tell a story of an incident that had occurred in Washington DC in 1939. According to what the Reverend told the family his cousin Cordell Hull had taken him to the sub-basement of the Capitol building during a visit to Washington. There he viewed,

1) Four large glass jars holding 4 creatures

2) A wrecked round craft of some kind nearby

No other supporting evidence is yet available, but MUFON Ohio is still working on it.

Harry S Truman
Harry Truman was, as everyone knows was the president who held the White House at the time of the Roswell crash. Despite the importance of the crash in UFO lore there is very little evidence to be found in White House records to show that Truman had any documented involvement in the handling of the crash.

A display at the Roswell Museum has a display showing a phone call and a meeting with General Hoyt Vandenberg, who is generally acknowledged to be a key player in the Roswell event. The call and meeting were supposed to have occurred on July 9^th, the day after the Roswell press release on the crash. According to White House records, however, neither occurred. Vandenburg and other possible key Roswell players did meet on July 10^th, but it was only for 10 minutes and then only for the signing of an Air Force Day proclamation.

The following were present:

Honorable W. Stuart Symington, Assistant Secretary of War

Lt. General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Acting Deputy Commander

Army Air Forces Major General Lauris Norstad

General James H. Doolittle

The White House records, however, might not be all that inclusive. Edwin Easley, for example, is shown in White House records to have never had contact with Truman. In direct contradiction to this is a statement by Easley’s daughter who stated her father had promised not to talk after making a promise to the president.

General Roger Ramey is another example of possibly incomplete White House records. White House records show that he never had contact with the president, and yet George Filer of "Filer’s Files", stated that Mrs. Ramey had told him during an interview that she and her husband had met Truman and his wife on more than one occasion, and were in fact good friends.

The oral history testimony of Robert Landry, the Air Advisor to President Truman, may also help shed light on why there is no crashed saucer material, or recorded contacts with Roswell participants, in White House files.

Landry told Truman oral historians that he briefed Truman on UFOs orally every three months during his tenure (February 1948 – January 1953). He described himself as a go-between to the CIA. As a side light to this, Landry undoubtedly told Truman of the number of radar UFO sightings (described in a second oral history interview) he had while stationed with the 8^th Army Air Force in Hawaii during World War 2.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
As I said previously, the president only knows what is told to him by those around him. He can be cut off from knowledge such as Harry Truman was while vice-president under FDR. During his whole time as vice-president he only met with the president twice, and was therefore out of the loop on almost everything that was going on.

When Truman became president he decided that the next president would not end up as president knowing nothing as he had. He set up a series of briefing to be given to the president-elect that would have him ready to govern when sworn in. This is a practice that continues up to the present.

Truman helped brief Eisenhower on many subjects he would need to govern. One of those briefings is the rumored UFO briefing given to Ike in November 1952. This briefing has become famous because of the MJ-12 document mailed to Jamie Shandera in 1984. As my time is limited and others are talking about this document I will not deal with it.

I will say, however, that I have spent a lot of time in the past couple months looking at the concept of "if president’s gets UFO briefing and what they are told." I will discuss later other examples which show the importance of such briefings.

Now to perhaps the most well known of the presidential UFO stories. This story is the visit of Eisenhower to Palm Springs in February 1954. It was during that visit that the press discovered Ike had disappeared. Panic broke out and one reporter almost got a story on the wire stating that Ike had died of a heart attack.

Ike’s press secretary James Hagerty gained control of the situation saying Ike was at the dentist after having broken a cap eating chicken. Ike reappeared the next morning at church and all was forgotten.

All of the 1950s stories state that Ike had gone to nearby Edwards Air Force Base, and there met with aliens who landed at the base. Ike met with the aliens, heard their message, and thereby decided the world was not ready for this type of information. The story further states it was at this point Ike ordered the real cover-up to start.

In the late 70s and early 80s, when dead aliens became the rage, the story of Ike’s visit to Edwards turned into a visit to see dead alien bodies. Although no 1950 story mentions dead aliens there is actually some evidence to indicate that he may in fact have gone to Edwards to see alien bodies.

A month before Ike made his trip to Palm Springs, the APRO Bulletin published a headline story which stated "A.F. Men Examine UFO: Object Found Near California Oregon Border." Prominent radio commentator Frank Edwards, who broke the story, stated that the object had been moved to a "West Coast US airfield."

An interesting sidelight to this story is the fact that one of the air force men reported to be going to the airfield to investigate the object was none other than J. Allen Hynek.
Finally, related to Eisenhower, is the testimony of Brigadier General Steven Lovekin who stated that he had been shown small UFO wreckage pieces, and that Ike was fully aware of the facts. Lovekin had served with the White House Army Signal Corps. In a conversation with me Lovekin stated that Eisenhower knew what was going on and that Lovekin himself had witnessed Eisenhower talking about UFOs while at Camp David.

Lyndon B. Johnson
During a recent visit to the Lyndon Johnson library in Austin Texas, I spent a week looking at the UFO connection to the 1965 power blackout in the northeast, and the role of the Johnson White House in the crash of an object in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania.

Based on information supplied by Kecksburg expert Stan Gordon and researcher Leslie Kean I was looking for information that would support stories, which showed the involvement of such groups as NASA (who have now agreed to turn over 3 dozen pages of documents they have always claimed they don’t have) and the Office of Emergency Planning at the crash site.

My library research involved checking the president’s movements and contacts between him and his top advisors with the information Stan Gordon had collected related to the crash.

At the time of Kecksburg crash President Johnson was at his White House ranch in Austin, Texas. A careful review of the evidence showed some interesting parallels to what Gordon had discovered about groups reported at the crash scene. These included:

James Webb, the head of NASA arrived at the ranch at 9:50 the morning after the crash.

All members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff arrived the morning after the crash.

The Governor of Pennsylvania arrived at the ranch in afternoon.

On Sunday night, three days after the crash Johnson arrived back at the White House. The next afternoon, Johnson met off the record with Buford Ellington.Ellington was the head of the Office of Emergency Planning, which is inside the Executive Office of the President. This was one of the groups that appeared to have been involved in the Kecksburg crash.

One of the key people under Lionel Ellington was USAF Col. J. Leo Bourassa. He headed up the "Special Facilities Division" within the Office of Emergency Planning. He is the person mentioned in the Blue Book file dealing with the Kecksburg crash.

While at the Johnson library I was looking for files on Bourassa and on the "Special facilities Division" to see how it fit into the Kecksburg crash. What I learned about Bourassa while at the library is that he had also been heavily involved in the 1965 blackout of New York City. In fact, he wrote a report to Ellington detailing his findings. Bourassa’s findings hinted at the possible role of UFOs in the blackout.

From the November 23, 1965 Bourassa report we read,

"The lack of specific information at the time, plus the state of confusion that existed in the Northeast U.S., the fact that sabotage, enemy action, and unknown phenomena were all considered possibilities…"

It was not until I got home that I figured out who J. Leo Bourassa was, and why this might be significant to his involvement in the Kecksburg crash. It turns out that Bourassa was the head of Mount Weather, the nuclear attack proof bunker outside Washington D.C., where the president and top government leaders are taken in case of nuclear attack.

In fact, on September 11 when the Trade Towers were hit, the top 15 government leaders were rounded up by the secret service and taken there, while Cheneydirected things in the bunker under the White House.
Bourassa, who at Mount Weather had instant access to the Joint Chiefs of Staff Command center, all the military services, fire departments, NORAD, and other key agencies, was involved in the Kecksburg recovery and may actually have been directing the proper units to the site behind the scenes.

Aerial photographs of Mount Weather show the presidential heliport where the president is dropped off. The tower that directs in the president’s flight is known as "bluegrass tower." In the Kecksburg Blue Book file right after J. Leo Bourassa’s name you will find (Code blue grass). Another connection to the code "bluegrass" is a paranormal CIA project started in 1955, which I haven’t confirmed yet.

Another person who adds evidence for this role of Mount Weather in UFOs was Brigadier-General Steven Lovekin who testified for the Briefings held by CSETIfor Congressmen and others in April 1997. He stated,

"I was fortunate enough to travel around Washington DC area, and I was fortunate enough to speak to one individual who was a government employee. He was not military. I only knew him as Frank, and I first met him at Mount Weather Virginia, Winchester, which is the place many of you might know where the president in case of attack. He told me at that time, the first time that I saw him, because he knew I was interested in this subject matter, that this place also had facilities to track these UFOs."

Finally, I should mention a final note on the Special Facilities Division. In a 1996 story former USAF physicist Robert Collins posted a chart and a letter to the Internet following the release of "Independence Day."

As a part of that posting, Collins made the following interesting comment.

"The following has been uncovered over the years of research. MJ-12 had a "cover" under which it operated and that cover was reportedly 'TheOffice of Emergency Preparedness, Special Facilities Division.'"

I followed up on this possible role of the Special Facilities Division in the crash at Kecksburg during a recent trip to the National Archives in Washington but was unable to come up with a single piece of paper on the unit after reviewing almost every box of files from the Office of Emergency Planning.

Richard Nixon
The only Nixon story I wish to deal with in this presentation is the story about President Nixon giving Jackie Gleason access to dead alien bodies. Three separate people claim to have been told the story by Nixon. (Bill Knell, Larry Warren and Beverly Gleason)

The key witness of the three was Beverly Gleason, the second wife of the comedy superstar. We have proof that she wrote a version of the story for the National Enquirer in 1983 four years before Gleason’s death. It was a story that Beverly said made Jackie very angry.

The gist of the story is that Gleason was friends with Nixon. He lived in Miami, Florida near Nixon’s southern White House at Key Biscayne. Gleason saw the bodies late one night at Homestead Air Force Base in 1973, which was close to both men’s homes. It was also the base where Nixon flew in on his 92 trips to the southern White House.

There is very little supporting evidence other than what Beverly Gleason and the other two witnesses claimed Gleason told them about the event. In only the last few months Mrs. Gleason has reconfirmed the story she told so many years ago as being true.

Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford as most people know was involved in the big flap of UFO sightings in Michigan in the mid-sixties. He helped toinitiate a congressional look at the UFO problem.

The only things I wish to bring up about Ford is to play a clip which shows how quickly and dramatically opinions can change once a person enters the White House. Listen to him talk about UFOs before he became president. From the March 26, 1966 "Face The Nation" show the following question and answer.

Q: Mr. Ford, what about flying saucers? We’ve had some in Michigan in the past week. Do you really believe in flying saucers – you’ve called for a congressional investigation?

Ford: Dave, we’ve had several incidents in Michigan in the last week – incidents that many reliable good citizens felt were sufficient to justify some action by our government and not the kind of flippant answer given by the Air Force where the passed it off as some "swamp gas."

And in addition there are other incidents that happen from time to time – reported by people who I think are basically fully sincere and honest. It seems to me that this mystery which has been around the country with all these various sightings does require that the congress take a good look at it. They should bring up these witnesses from the Air Force and NASA – have them interrogated by the members of a House of Senate committee. Let them put their records on the line, and let the people who have seen these unidentified flying objects come and testify. I think the American people would be more assured that there were, or were not, if an effective public hearing were held."

Ford did nothing on the UFO front once he became president or after. It naturally leads to the question of whether there is a big briefing given which changes all presidents’ minds about releasing confirming evidence of UFOs.

Jimmy Carter
It has always been questioned whether Jimmy Carter was told much about evidence such as crashed saucers because he had run his campaign against the Washington insiders. He also got into trouble a couple of times with the U.S. military such as when he cut the defense budget, cancelled the B-1 bomber, leaked the stealth fighter secret.

The evidence now seems to indicate Carter was told and may actually have been told about the crashed saucers.

Now, as background for those of you who did not know Jimmy Carter had seen a UFO, here is his version of the event. He has spoken of this sighting more times than he lusted after women.

"There were about 20 of us standing outside of a little restaurant, I believe, or high school lunch room and a kind of green light appeared in the western sky. This was right after sundown. It got brighter and brighter, and eventually it disappeared. It didn’t have a solid substance to it. It was just a very peculiar looking light. None of us could understand what it was. I never made fun of other people who have seen things of that kind…"

This admission of a sighting, and a promise Carter made during the campaign to release all UFO information, led to a deluge of 9,000 UFO letters into the White House on UFOs. Here is a picture from within the Carter archives showing the letters.

What most people don’t know about the Carter promise is that there was an exception, which I believe relates directly to the crashed saucer subject being discussed here today. Carter made an exception saying he would not release UFO records with national security implications. Here is what he said,

"I don’t believe in keeping information like that secret, but there may be some aspects of the UFO information, with which I am not familiar which might be related to some secret experiments that we were doing that involve national security – a new weapons system. I surely wouldn’t release that, but if it was something removed from our national security, then I as president would go ahead and release it. I see nothing wrong with that."

In a related story, we have the story of the George Bush UFO briefing of President-elect Carter. According to Marcia Smith, a researcher at the Library of Congress, when Carter asked for the files, then CIA Director Bush said Carter did not have the need to know - that being president was not sufficient "need to know." He would have to go to Congress and get the requested UFO documents declassified. The incident and the constant rumors about George H.W. Bush’s involvement in UFOs led me to make Bush a part of my "UFO Most Wanted" deck.

An even more important story comes from prominent civil rights attorney Daniel Sheehan. He was called in by Marcia Smith as a consultant on two studies she was preparing for President Jimmy Carter. One study was on UFOs, and the second was on extraterrestrial intelligence. Sheehan is famous for his legal work on the Pentagon papers, the Karen Silkwood case, Iran-Contra, and several other important cases.

Sheehan’s story is that he had gained access to the classified Blue Book files, through the efforts of Marcia Smith. In a vault in the basement of the Madison Building in Washington, D.C., Sheehan found pictures of a crashed flying saucer. This is information that he reported back to Smith. Smith, in turn, would have undoubtedly have related this discovery to the president in her study. Here is Sheehan’s account

"Back in 1977 when I was asked to participate as a special consultant to the Library of Congress Research Group analysis for President Carter, I was given access to The Project Blue Book files – the classified sections of them in preparation for a seminar I was asked to present to the top 50 scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California in the SETI program. (on the religious implications of extraterrestrial contact) In that context I was allowed to review the classified second of the Blue Book project.

In that section I came across absolutely clear pictures, photographs of a UFO that was on the ground. It had apparently crashed and it was stuck in the side of an embankment. There was snow all around in the photograph, and there were United States Air Force personnel in the photograph measuring this particular craft. There were photographs of them. You could see in a number of these photographs. There were actually close up photos of different perspectives of the vehicle. They actually had insignia on the side of the vehicle. They had taken close-up pictures of these.

So when I saw this in the context that I had been allowed in this room downstairs in the new building of the Library of Congress. It hadn’t even been opened yet. This was a new building. They had a big special room downstairs. There were Air Force guards at the door. When I actually saw these photographs in the files, I said,

"Well now that I have seen this, and I know that the United States Air Force has these photographs – that they’ve got this vehicle. They’ve obviously got it. Here are the photographs."

Further evidence that Carter was briefed and told of UFOs and crashed saucers come from a leaked document that was put out by Bill Moore in the late 1980s. It purports to be notes related to a UFO briefing given to Carter on June 14, 1977. As this is a very complex issue, and this is a very short lecture I will leave out discussion of it. It is one of a series of UFO briefing rumors I am working on.

The most important evidence that Jimmy Carter may have been told of crashed saucers, and chose not to release it, comes from a 1995 interview with Shirley MacLaine on the Larry King show. In a call-in question, Florida UFO researcher Art Greenfield asked about a claim that was made a couple weeks before by actor Nicholas Cage. In that claim Shirley MacLaine had told him that Jimmy Carter had been shown a crashed saucer and bodies. Here is the question and Shirley MacLaine’s reply. Keep in mind that Nicholas Cage stands by his claim.

Larry King: "Cocoa Florida with Shirley MacLaine, hello.

Art Greenfield: "Hello, Good evening Larry and Shirley, About two weeks ago, Nicholas Cage was on the Letterman Show and said Shirley had told him that President Carter had told her he had seen recovered alien spacecraft and aliens in a hanger. Can you tell me exactly what President Carter said?"

Shirley MacLaine: "He didn't tell me that, but he told me many times that when I first wrote "Out On A Limb" that he would support me, that it was true, that there were crafts, that he believed there were occupants, why should we be the only people in the universe. He wanted to shine the sunshine laws on intelligence, to expose it, to see how the people would react, but he didn't and wouldn't and couldn't as he explained to me."

Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was a president who was interested in the paranormal. Any number of stories could be told about his comments on the White House ghost, or the fact that he claimed his father spoke to him during his funeral. The Reagan White House actually had people hired to keep Reagan away from school children asking questions after speeches because, as Marlin Fitzwater said, "The goddamnest things would come out of his mouth." Reagan had two UFO sightings.

There are a couple quick crashed saucer related stories that I would like to share. The first centers on the visit of Steven Spielberg to the White House in June 1982 to screen ET – The Extraterrestrial to Reagan and 36 other people.

The story of ET is actually the fictionalized version of the live alien story that has been circulated by U.S. intelligence inside the UFO community many times over the last 55 years. As the story goes a live alien was recovered from a crash in the late 1940s, and it died in captivity in 1952.

Reagan sat beside Spielberg during the screening. According to the story that Spielberg told to film producer Jamie Shandera near the end of the screening Reagan leaned over to Spielberg and stated, "I bet there aren’t six people in this whole room who know how true this all is." Spielberg was shocked by the statement but was unable to get future details from the president as Reagan left for bed as soon as it was over.

A couple months after seeing ET – The Extraterrestrial - President Reagan made an appearance at the old Roswell Army Air Base. There in front of the west hanger where the bodies and craft pasts from the Roswell crash were rumored to have been held for a short period before being shipped to WPAFB, Reagan made a campaign speech for Senator Harrison Schmitt then running for re-election. In case you are wondering, Reagan did mention ET in the speech.

As a side note to this Vice President Dick Cheney also showed up at the Roswell base to make a speech in 1992. Cheney has long been rumored to be an inside player on the critical information such as crashed saucers, so I have put him in my "UFO Most Wanted" deck as the King of Clubs.

Another Reagan story is the involvement and knowledge of Frank Carlucci, a key person in the military industrial complex, and Reagan’s former national security advisor. One of Steve Greer’s disclosure witnesses tells of Carlucci being a key figure in a Top Secret air show at Norton Air Force Base in 1988, wherean alien reproduction vehicle was shown off.
Carlucci is also in my "UFO Most Wanted" deck, holding one of the highest cards.

Finally on Reagan, let me quickly discuss the role of your present Secretary of State Colin Powell. Powell was Reagan’s last National Security advisor. He told presidential historian Lou Cannon that one of his roles in the Reagan White House was to keep the alien references out of Reagan’s speeches. He stated he worked hard to keep the alien invasion remarks out lest people think there actually was an alien invasion.

Powell stated that whenever Reagan brought up aliens in meetings, he would roll his keys and whisper to his colleagues "Here comes the little green men again."

Powell stated further that the concept of Star Wars was an idea that Reagan got from the 1951 movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still." Now billions are being spent on the idea.

Bill Clinton
Clinton, like Jimmy Carter, had problems with the military. He, like Jimmy Carter, had also run as a Washington outsideragainst the Washington insiders. He referred to them as the "F***king Washington crowd"

He should, therefore, not have been surprised when the Washington insiders, who told the UFO secrets, chose not to play ball with Clinton.

Clinton did many things, which upset the military such appearing to dodge the Vietnam War, and making a promise to put gays in the military.

It was these kind of things that have led to the idea that Clinton may have been cut out of the UFO situation. One of the stories that has been told to support this idea is a story told by Dr. Steven Greer about the late White House reporter Sarah McClendon, and her question to Clinton about UFOs. Here is what Greer said on the Art Bell show.

"You know Bill Clinton leaned over and told Sarah McClendon, who hosted us at the National Press Club on May 9^th – this is a story I haven’t told, and I’m going to tell you now. She told me this. Bill Clinton leaned over to her and said, because she brought up this issue to Bill Clinton saying, "Why don’t you do something about what Dr. Greer and this group are trying to do?" He bent over and he said, "Sarah, there’s a secret government within the government, and I don’t control it."

What I wish to discuss today about the Clinton presidency is the Clinton connection to the Roswell story. The Clinton Roswell crash story started just after Clinton entered the White House in 1993. Billionaire Laurance Rockefeller had seen a documentary on Roswell. He was amazed by what he saw. He decided it was time to go to the president and get him to declassify all UFO files, despite warnings from researchers such as Bud Hopkins who were telling him this is not how it worked.

Rockefeller’s presidential effort was cut of at the pass by Bill Clinton’s science advisor Dr. Jack Gibbons, a self acclaimed UFO skeptic. Gibbons handled Rockefeller’s questions and concerns related to declassifying the UFO files from 1993 to 1996.

Gibbons told Rockefeller that the request to declassify all UFO files would be impossible if the cover-up was as widespread as Rockefeller was claiming. Gibbons proposed taking one case and trying to get it declassified. They would then have a pattern to follow.

Rockefeller thought about it, and said that this one case idea would be fine. He was choosing the Roswell case. Thus began a move to get the facts on Roswell. The USAF started their study on what really happened in 1947.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are most well known for their interest in UFOs, and their efforts to get to the bottom of the Roswell crash. Looking back at the 1,000 pages of UFO material that was released to me by the Clinton White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, it appears that Hillary may have been dealing with the UFO issue for the president.

The OSTP files reveal that much of the Rockefeller effort to declassify the Roswell case was being passed through Hillary Clinton’s office in the West Wing of the White House.

In a November 1, 1995 letter from Rockefeller’s lawyer Henry Diamond to Dr. Gibbons, Diamond discussed a draft letter to the president on UFO disclosure that he felt it was now time for the president to see. Further Diamond talked about how Mrs. Clinton and her staff had been helping Laurance Rockefeller to edit the UFO letter to the president.

Laurance Rockefeller, head of the UFO Disclosure Initiative to Clinton White House

walks with rumored UFO Insider Dick Cheney.

In a second letter written by Laurance Rockefeller to Dr. Gibbons, Rockefeller stated,

"You indicated that you will keep the First Lady’s office informed and we shall as well."

As I have said President Clinton was very interested in the Roswell crash case. It was even known that he had a book on Roswell in his private library. Some of his top officials, however, claimed to be ignorant of Roswell. One such official was Anthony Lake who was speechless when asked a question about Roswell on the Diane Rehm Washington DC talk show. Diane Rehm was forced to go to commercial to bail him out.

In a second appearance on the show Lake talked about Roswell. He made the claim that he as National Security Advisor to the president was "out of the loop."

"Just one minute. I would like to thank you for saving, if not my life at least some embarrassment when I once did this (show). I think it was the second caller who called in and asked me about Roswell Air Base, and there was this stunned blank look on my face. I had no idea what he was talking about. You said very generously "It’s time to take a break."

Over the break you explained to me that we might or might not be keeping an alien at Roswell Air Force Base. I had never before been let into this conspiracy, even as National Security advisor, so I didn’t know what to say. I tried to prove a negative afterwards that there is no alien being held there. What I should have said is that in fact the alien does not look anything like the alien in Independence Day – the movie. Anyway I want to thank you for stepping in."

Anyway, in response to the push by the White House the USAF Headquarters released their report on the Roswell crash in late 1995. It was titled "The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert." It concluded that there was nothing to the alien spaceship theory.

President Clinton was not amused. In a speech on November 30, 1995 he answered back to the USAF. It was a speech given in Belfast Northern Ireland in front of 80,000 people, and I can assure you after a couple weeks at the Reagan Library studying how presidential speeches are put together, the reference to Roswell was intentional. Nothing gets in a presidential speech that is not there for a specific reason.

There had been a letter writing competition in Northern Ireland. School children wrote letters to the visiting U.S. president and the two winning letter writers were on the stage with Clinton during his speech. Neither of their letters, however, was read. Instead, Clinton answered a letter from Ryan who was asking about Roswell. This is what Clinton stated,

"I got a letter from 13-year-old Ryan from Belfast. Now, Ryan, if you're out in the crowd tonight, here's the answer to your question. No, as far as I know, an alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947."

A couple days following this speech the Air Force published a news story on the release of the USAF Roswell report. They quoted the above Clinton statementstating that he had therefore agreed with the USAF conclusion. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

As with any argument, it is only as strong as the facts one wishes to leave out. Here is the very next line of what Clinton said in the speech. It was a clear shot across the bow of the Air Force stating that he wanted more answers.

"And, Ryan, if the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it, either, and I want to know."

So in 1997, the USAF decided the screw the president with yet another Roswell report, this one called "The Roswell Report: Case Closed." Answering the president’s order that he wanted to know about the bodies, the Air Force spent much of the report dreaming up the bizarre notion that dummies dropped in 1953 explained why people in 1947 were reporting bodies in connection with the Roswell crash.

George W. Bush
My final story is a key story dealing with the role in the inside workings of the UFO story as it applies to Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney has held many key government positions, has been tied into the military industrial complex for years, and has been the focal point of many stories dealing with Area 51 and crashed saucers.

In April 2001, just after entering the White House I had a chance to question Cheney on UFOs. He was on the Diane Rehm talk show announcing that the U.S. had just recovered a plane from China that the Chinese had shot down claiming to be a spy plane. Cheney was in a victorious mood, until the questions started. I was first up with the UFO question and all the rest of the questions were on Halliburton. I don’t think he has appeared on an open-line talk show since.

The question I asked him was the key question of briefings. Because of his background I wanted to know if he had been involved in anything official dealing with the UFO subject, defined by the question of whether anyone had every walked in his office and given him a briefing. The Q&A went as follows,

Question: Good morning. Mr. Cheney, I have a question. Since a statement made by George Bush last July there has been a vicious rumor in the UFO community that you have been "read-in" to the UFO program. My question to you is, in any of your government jobs have you ever been briefed on the subject of UFOs, and if you have when was it and what were you told?

Cheney: Well, if I had been briefed on that, I am sure it would have been classified, and I couldn’t talk about it.

Host question: Is there an investigation going on within this administration Mr. Vice President with regards to UFOs?

Cheney: Um… I have not come across the subject since I’ve been back – I guess it’s January 20^th. I’ve been in a lot of meetings but I don’t recall one on UFOs.

Cheney has always been considered to be a smart man, but he slipped up on this answer. This is probably because he was not expecting the question.

The government has always stated that all UFO material has been released, and there is no cover-up. Cheney however clearly stated that the subject was "probably classified.’ If it is classified, there are documents. If there are documents the government has not released them, and we have been lied to. There is a cover-up.
I hope my presidential tales have added to your knowledge of what is going on.

Aliens

2012-07-11T02:55:00.001-07:00

Alien abductions extend beyond the physical medical exams and presupposed "alien/human" genetic hybridization breeding programs as premised in current UFO abduction literature.

Alien orchestrated human bonding dramas in numerous abduction cases suggest an alternative factor in understanding the motives of the extraterrestrials’ interaction with humanity.

These bonding dramas consist of alien instigated, "staged" relationship manipulations, emotional and sexual bonding arrangements between two targeted abductee partners, often resulting in dramatic love obsessions in one or both partners.

Several case studies will be presented demonstrating the characteristic signs, symptoms and patterns of alien directed relationship bondings and manipulations. An alternative explanation and motivating factor for these alien orchestrated dramas will be presented.

Introduction

Alien abduction research has struggled to maintain credibility in the UFO community and academic world. It’s paradoxical nature and lack of concrete physical proof of extraterrestrials thrusts UFO abduction researchers into taking greater efforts in empirical methodologies. In essence–a hard line, nuts and bolts approach.

As an abduction researcher of 15 years and from the perspective of female intuition, I contend that most Ufologists and abduction researchers are so adamant about the nuts and bolts--that they overlook the whole drama of what is taking place in abductees' lives.

Even other well-known abduction investigators, such as Bud Hopkins have commented that many events within the abduction scenario appear to be pre-arranged or staged events in the abductees’ lives. Some of these staged events take place in and out of the classic abduction scene and into the interpersonal lives of the abductee.

Specifically, I am referring to a variety of alien orchestrated human bonding dramas, relationship manipulations and love obsessions that are carried out in the abductee population mediated through the alien presence.

Observe the Drama

This angle of approach is better understood if you place yourself in the position of a drama director: Imagine for a moment, watching a children's puppet show.

Raggedy Andy meets Raggedy Ann. They flip and flop to the tune of an enigmatic love affair. Raggedy Andy courts his beloved Ann, wooing her to that anticipated kiss. Raggedy Ann swooned into a spell of romantic love. The curtain closes.

Next scene Raggedy Ann is yearning for her newfound knight in shining armor. Raggedy Andy sees her, but instead of running to embrace her, he turns around and walks off stage, leaving Ann grieved with unrequited love.

Raggedy Andy and Ann are not really puppets; they're real people who have had lifelong alien encounters. The puppet masters are the aliens playing the role of the proverbial Cupid and his arrow. Perhaps a puppet show is a harsh analogy for the lives of some abductees caught in the dramas of the alien matchmakers. But I adjure you to take a look from a different perspective, one that asks different questions regarding the modus operandi of the alien or extraterrestrial intelligence.

Throughout my experience studying and counseling abductees and "experiencers", I can confidently say that the alien presence - or whoever is acting behind its image - exerts a heavy influence on their lives, sometimes down to the lovers they meet and even the very partners they choose to marry.

Alien Orchestrated Love Relationships in Abductees
Bud Hopkins famous Brooklyn Bridge UFO abduction investigation brought to light this rarely discussed aspect of alien directed human bonding arrangements in some abductees' lives.

Mr. Hopkins recent book, Witnessed recounts the dramatic story of Linda Cortile's UFO abduction in 1989 from an apartment window in Manhattan, USA.

Three men witnessed the extraordinary event, one of whom (Richard) Linda Cortile had previously met in her abductions as a child and young adult. These mutually shared encounters and dream like scenarios that took place between Linda and Richard can be described as alien orchestrated bonding exercises.

According to Hopkins, the bonding that Linda and Richard experienced are not isolated incidents in the abductee population, but are rare. Mr. Hopkins has observed the bonding dramas in 14 out of 650 cases, which accounts for roughly 2% of al his cases.
Barbara Bartholic, a hypnotherapist and abductions researcher of 25 years, has observed that many of these alien manipulated bonding dramas result in dramatic love obsessions. Ms. Bartholic maintains that the bonding phenomenon carried out by aliens occurs much more frequently than one would think. In my own work, I’d say a rough one third have had either a bonding experience or some kind of relationship manipulation with another person (i.e., shared abductions or mutually shared dreams with the targeted partner) within their abduction experiences.

These may include a classic physical type of abduction, a vivid, alien controlled or "stage managed" dream or virtual reality scenario. The oversight of these dramas result in a serious lack of understanding concerning the alien intelligence and their motives for interacting with humanity.

The bonding experiences exhibit a characteristic pattern and sequence of events that goes something like this:

An abductee meets another abductee during one or more alien abductions or in very vivid dreams. The couple may interact on a verbal or physical level to initiate the bonding process. This can occur several times until a strong emotional connection occurs. The nature of the bonding exercises seems to be tailor-made to the individual.

The bonding interactions may or may not be consciously recalled by either partner. Often, only one partner will remember the experience, while the other has no memory or only a vague recall. When both partners meet in real life, there is an instant sense of recognition and the couple may fall in love. There are variations to the pattern and sequence of events, but in most cases one partner falls in love more than the other and is left feeling unrequited.

In a few cases, a bonding with an alien being or spirit guide progressed into a love obsession where it was discovered later that the spirit guide turned out to bean alien masquerading as the "lover".

Supernatural Events and Synchronicities

The relationship between the two bonded individuals is such that both persons are magnetically attracted to one another, often in unlikely situations.

The love relationship set-up may include a number of bizarre synchronicities, vivid dreams, supernatural events and bonding exercises during alien encounters.

The orchestrated experiences are often intimate and sexual such that one or the other develops an intense chemistry and love obsession with the targeted partner. Oftentimes, either person is married to or has an existing relationship with another mate. It makes no difference.

The emotional, passionate and even telepathic connection between the bonded pair is unlike normal relationships (whatever normal is, anyway). Some have described it as the most exhilarating love imaginable, to the point of total spiritual immersion or indwelling with their "beloved." Then the inevitable happens. It's absolutely devastating. The targeted love partner becomes "switched off" and the love-struck other half becomes painfully unrequited.

The switching off is described as an emotional and sexual disinterest in their once "attractive" partner. The chosen partner may have an initial attraction or even a strong love for the other, but then loses interest, often right after an abduction or vivid dream. If one or the other abductee has a good recall of their dreams and abduction memories, they may remember being previously bonded together in one or more experiences.

Some abductees report spontaneous remote viewing images and visions of the intended partner in such a way as to elicit emotions, such as jealousy, obsessive love, yearning and grievous unrequited love pangs. The alien manipulated love obsession process is akin to a carrot being dangled just enough to get the obsessed lover into a constant cycle of love and unrequited love.

This can extend from relationship to relationship and is emotionally exhausting.

Characteristics, Signs and Symptoms of a Bonding Set Up

Multiple abduction histories

In most cases the person had numerous alien encounters and/or UFO sightings. In a few cases the targeted love bite partner did not realize him/herself to be an abductee. For example one partner was said by the "alien handlers" to have been abducted only for the purpose of the love bite relationship with a particular female abductee.

Memories of bonding scenarios in abductions, vivid dreams or virtual reality scenarios

Some have described it as a "stage managed" dream where both partners are present in a bedroom scene set up, where both partners are being given telepathic messages to initiate contact, either on a verbal level or more physical sexual level. Oftentimes either partner appears to be in a tranced out or drugged state.

Other stage-managed dreams and/or abductions may have the partners in various situations as if they are being tested for their emotional compatibility or coerced into thinking that this person would make an ideal romantic mate.

Supernatural Events and Synchronicities

Uncoincidental coincidences and psychic flashes concerning the targeted partner. Meeting the person seems to be set up in a supernatural way such that the couple may believe their eventual union to be divinely arranged. A match made in heaven.

A first meeting of the pre-bonded partner may set off a series of de ja vu memories, flashback memories of previous abductions or dream related bondings. Some have even described it as a "body memory" of having made love to that person before. One or both partners have a strong sense of having known the person before, as if they knew them all their lives or a strong soul connection.

Paranormal and supernatural phenomena increases during the love bite set-up

This may include empathic and even telepathic communication between the love bite pair. Spontaneous remote viewing images and mutually shared dreams. Other oddities may include the physical sensation of the partners "touch" or energy field when the other partner is thinking or fantasizing about them.

Strong emotional, mental and even psychic connections with the bonded partner–such that it sets up the conditions and desire for them to meet one another. The connection can be so strong that they have described it as a soul immersion in their beloved or literally having their souls joined to one another.

A need for one partner or the other to be with them to the point of becoming obsessed

This includes the need to meet the person, even if it is in secret, and having to hear the person’s voice on the phone, sometimes calling the person daily or several times a day. Just hearing the targeted partner’s voice may have a calming effect on the obsessed lover. Extreme anxiety may be felt if the obsessed person cannot hear that person’s voice or see them somehow.

The obsessed partner usually feels "love at first sight" and may lose all critical reasoning ability. Some have described it as having the compulsion to make sudden life decisions like moving away, changing jobs, getting divorced or going out of their way to do things for the targeted person.

It has been compared to being under a "love spell" whenever the obsessed person hears their partner’s voice. They may go to great lengths to please the person–doing anything for them, even giving up their life for them.

Switching off

One or the other partners becomes unplugged emotionally, leaving the other in a state of unrequited love. Usually the obsessed lover becomes painfully unrequited after the other partner loses interest, often right after an abduction. It has been described as the psychic and emotional unplugging of the targeted partner.

Unfortunately the obsessed lover still feels the strong psychic/emotional connection, but the other "switched off" partner feels nothing, leaving the obsessed lover grieving. Or the conditions for the bonded lovers are such that it is impossible for them to consummate their strong love, such as both partners being married to others or living a great distance away.

Emotional turmoil in the unrequited partners life

These powerful emotions of love and grief may cause the person to be inspired with creative energy, so that they write poetry, music, or any other art form of creative inspiration. Conversely, the degree of emotional pain may throw the unrequited lover into suicidal tendencies, mental and physical exhaustion or illness.

Profound mystical experiences may also be perceived during the time of increased emotional processing or periods of prayer.

Increase in alien encounters during periods of high drama and emotional conflict

These alien encounters may also increase if the person gets involved in alternative sexual lifestyles or increased sexual activity–especially if it is with the targeted love bite partner. Some have reported increases in reptilian activity with methamphetamine or "crack cocaine" abuse.

Some abductees have reported the bonding experience to take place more than once, whereby they have been on both sides of the love bite; the obsessed unrequited end, or the non-unrequited end. When they are on the non-unrequited end, a platonic friendship may be engendered. Some heterosexuals have suddenly become obsessed with a homosexual where a drastic change in lifestyle occurs.

Case Studies of the Love Bite

These cases have been condensed for the sake of this paper and can be read in more depth in "The Love Bite" book.

The Case of Sophia and Dave
Sophia, a 33-year old married wife and mother was on a truth quest concerning her lifelong alien encounters. Her husband George did not share her spiritual interests or fascination with the UFO phenomena.

George was not an abductee and spent most of his time working long hours in his career. His emotional coolness left Sophia lonely and wanting for a companion who could understand. During Sophia’s alien encounters George seemed to be "out cold" or deathly unconscious. In any event, he was conveniently out of town or unavailable.

Two months before Sophia became pregnant with her daughter, she had an alien encounter where a telepathic message was given which stated:

"We need more offspring."

When the couple’s daughter turned two, she would awake screaming in terror during the night and hide in her bedroom closet, "away from the monsters." This sometimes happened on the same nights Sophia had alien intruding "dreams." During these periods, the daughter acted out with a lot of anger especially towards her father. She also displayed an extreme phobia to bugs.

In the midst of Sophia’s quest for an abduction therapist, Sophia met an older man named Dave. Dave was also an abductee and happily married. When the two met, Dave couldn’t stop staring at Sophia as if he knew who she was. Both exchanged business cards after briefly meeting at a UFO conference and continued to correspond by telephone.

Sophia then recalled "déjà vu" type dream memories of having been with Dave before in very intimate detail, years before met. She became empathetically connected to Dave and had several dreams of him in which she was able to pick up real information on Dave’s personal life that she had no way of knowing.

Dave started having spontaneous remote-viewing images of Sophia, which she was able to confirm as true to detail. Sophia also had remote viewing images of Dave, and intuitively knew things about him and his family, which he confirmed also.

Sophia was in love with Dave and couldn’t understand why she loved him so much, as Dave was many years older than she and not really her type. The two experienced a strong, spiritual and emotional connection with one another as if they had known each other for years.

Sophia made plans to visit an abduction researcher and hypnotist but was detracted from visiting the therapist following an encounter akin to a virtual reality abduction involving military men. She became ill after the threatening scenario and could not visit the therapist. One of Sophia’s main reasons for seeing the therapist was due to her overwhelming love obsession with Dave.

Sophia called Dave often, initiating most of the communication. Soon, she started to get the feeling he was trying to get rid of her, as he became indifferent and uncaring. Even though Dave rarely called Sophia or reciprocated her affections, she made excuses that he was just too busy and really would be with her if he could. Wrong.

Dave was friendly and enjoyed Sophia’s affections. But he was not in love with her. It didn’t seem to matter to Sophia, as she thought that perhaps in the future they would end up together. After all, the synchronicities, profound love and bonding they experienced must have been divinely ordained.

Two years later and with the help of an understanding abductions therapist, Sophia’s love obsession with Dave finally tapered off. It had taken an enormous emotional and physical toll on Sophia and at one point she became very ill. Part of the therapeutic process was for Sophia and her husband George to undergo marital counseling, bringing to light the awareness and effects of alien abductions, and avoiding emotional isolation of one another.

Even though Sophia and George’s marriage is still intact and improved, the love obsession left Sophia very hurt. She loves her husband, yet admits she is not as attracted to him anymore. Sophia’s consolation is her faith in God and helping others.

The Case of Andrew
Andrew, a 32-year-old single male abductee has had difficulty maintaining long term relationships with women.

He fell in love with a beautiful, affectionate woman named Sharon. Two months into the romantic relationship a tall, tan, "Grey" alien and a shorter, dark alien in a hooded cloak visited the sleeping couple. Andrew recalled the first part of the abduction with the tan figure, but feelings of fear and foreboding overcame him and the memory faded.

Sharon was seriously distraught and emotionally distant the next morning. Later, Andrew discovered that the cloaked, alien jabbed Sharon in the side with a pointy, spear-like object as the entity warned her to stay away from Andrew, leaving her petrified. Even though Sharon found a red triangular mark on her body the next morning, she assumed it was just a horrible dream.

Less than two weeks later, Sharon no longer had amorous feelings for Andrew and seemed to be "switched off". She soon broke off the relationship, leaving Andrew grief stricken, pining away for his lost love.

In the next couple of months the aliens revisited Andrew. In this encounter he remembered graphic imagery of his girlfriend Sharon being a "slut", having sexual relations with his best friend, making it appear that his best friend cheated on him behind his back. This invoked feelings of intense jealousy, rage and unrequited love for his ex-girlfriend Sharon.

In another relationship of Andrew’s the aliens again interfered. This particular girlfriend, Ingrid, did not recall the alien visitation they both shared one night. Andrew remembered the tall, tan aliens in the room and saw Ingrid sitting up in bed, her face contorted in horror, frozen into a silent scream. During this encounter, Andrew attempted to ask the alien,

"Why are you always interfering?"

Within seconds of his request, Andrew experienced intense pain and blacked out.

After the abduction, Ingrid abruptly changed her amicable attitude from indifference to outright nastiness and the love affair suddenly ended.

Andrew’s persistence at pressing the aliens for an answer was met with a barrage of platitudes such as,

"She wasn’t one of us. You are one of us. She wasn’t necessary, not part of it. She doesn’t understand us." And the notorious, "You are not ready yet to know."

After both of these broken off relationships, the aliens projected into Andrew’s mind seductive images of a beautiful, exotic Tahitian woman with children, implying that this was Andrew’s future wife and kids. The understood message, according to Andrew, was,

"If you stick with us and so as we say, this is what we will give you."

It never happened. The aliens lied.

Today, Andrew is dating a nice woman who is understanding of the alien abduction phenomena. They share a mutually beneficial relationship. Andrew still distrusts the aliens, but maintains a positive and hopeful attitude of overcoming his difficulties and has even had some success in resisting abductions.

The Case of Angelina and Steve
Angelina, a 30-year-old wife and mother of three children has experienced multiple abductions since childhood. Her mother and sisters have also reported encounters with alien Greys at various times throughout their lives.

In addition to Angelina’s encounters with Grey’s, a tall, 7- foot lizard man replete with tail, claw like hands and feet and yellow snake slit eyes, repeatedly visits Angelina and rapes her. Very often, the reptilian being will physically enter her bedroom at night through an interdimensional portal or doorway and proceed to have intercourse with her.

Angelina’s husband, Dick does not believe his wife that she is getting abducted. He emotionally isolates her and is sometimes abusive, even blaming Angelina for the abductions.

Angelina’s children have seen small reptilian creatures in the house at night and even in the daytime on rare occasions. One neighbor has also witnessed poltergeistic activity and ghoulish looking beings in their home as well.

When Angelina tries to tell her husband Dick about her encounters with the aliens he becomes angry and jealous and blames his wife that she enjoys the reptilian "sex" better than him. Angelina has been turned off to her husband sexually and is repulsed by his human "pheromones" as if she has developed a heightened sense of smell that others cannot discern. She has conflicting feelings of guilt and shame because her body responds to the sexual liaisons with the reptilian male to an unnatural degree–so much so that she is completely turned off to her husband.

Paradoxically, Angelina also reports frightening, violent and unpleasant sexual assaults in her abductions as well, which include the reptile being and also human military men. She has recalled other abduction related procedures such as medical gynecological exams, implant surgery, pregnancies and disappearing fetuses, non-pregnancy related lactation and miscellaneous body marks such as puncture marks, triangles, bruises, etc.

In one abduction memory, Angelina recalled being in bed with a man who she was strongly attracted to. She found herself in bed with a good-looking man in a non-descript white hotel room, white bed covers and sheets. They are both nude and she receives messages to make love to this man. They have sex and Angelina recalls being told that she will meet this man named Steve in two months. Angelina noticed that in the bonding "dream" Steve appeared to be tranced out and not as fully aware as she was.

Two months later Angelina meets Steve in her hometown, which is over 100 miles away from his residence. It is unlikely that they would even meet considering the distance between them. The couple has an instant attraction and sense of recognition with one another. They fall in love at first sight and are compelled to continue to communicate with one another.

The love bite pair call one another often and make secret plans to meet one another. Steve is married to another woman, but going through a separation. One weekend the couple sneaks off for a weekend fling in another city so that no one would recognize them.

While Steve and Angelina are away, Dick is at home experiencing spontaneous remote viewing images of his wife making love to another man. These vivid mental images pop into Dick’s head as if they have been ‘inserted" in his mind. (These mental pictures Angelina has associated with some ball of light phenomena).

He sees his wife in a sexy, teddy night gown with a man he later described perfectly as Steve although the two had never met, nor had Dick ever seen his wife’s new teddy that she had just bought for her weekend rendezvous - purposely hiding it out of the house so her husband wouldn’t find it.

Dick is incited to jealousy and rage, accusing Angelina of having an affair when she returns from the trip. She denies his accusations, fearing abuse, but is shocked he could perfectly describe everything Angelina and Steve did, as if he was right there in the room with them.

Dick is so enraged that he starts having homicidal ideations and obsesses over taking revenge on his wife, her lover and then killing himself. During this time of chaos and conflict, the paranormal activity and balls of light phenomena increase in the household.

Meanwhile, Angelina and Steve make plans to get married, but are continuously prevented from being with one another for one reason or another. They both are in anguish because they seem to be prevented from consummating their love and passion for one another.

Dick’s homicidal tendencies subside as the couple goes to counseling together with a friend who understands the aspect of mind control and alien abductions. They try to make it work between them, but Angelina is doubtful things will ever work out.

Six months later Angelina has another abduction where she recalls beings told, "Steve will not be needed anymore." She also was told that Steve was an abductee just for the purpose of their bonded relationship, but he was "not in training" for any other purpose as opposed to Angelina. Thereafter, Angelina no longer feels the obsessive yearning for Steve and can easily let go of the relationship. She breaks up with Steve, leaving him bewildered. Steve has never been aware of the abductions, but only felt a strong sense of recognition when meeting Angelina.

Meanwhile, Angelina continues to have abductions involving Greys, Reptilians and human military. She is put through a number of testing and training scenarios in very vivid dreams. She and several other abductees in the support group experience mutually shared dreams and abduction related testing and training elements together.

A male abductee in the support group named Scott was set up in a bonding encounter with Angelina in which both recalled the sexual nature of the "dream". This creates a strong sexual tension between the two when they meet. They also experience a psychic link and even telepathic connection with one another. Although they feel a powerful chemistry between them, they refrain from any sexual behavior. Both have become aware of the love bite bondings and purposely avoid any intimate contact.

Instead, they are good platonic friends and enjoy a close psychic bond with one another.

To this day, Angelina is still married to Dick. He has become aware of the abductions and even has had some of his own. They have numerous marital difficulties but have managed to stay together despite the odds against them.

Marital and Family Issues of Abductees

On the surface, these relationship problems appear to be easily explained marriage and family issues.

But as I got a closer look at a number of abductees’ lives and interpersonal relationships it made me wonder. The psychological swamp gas theory was no longer palatable.

There was something real, possibly sinister going on beneath the veil of alien contact in these people’s lives. It made me ask the classic question:

What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Are some dysfunctional relationship problems due to faulty coping mechanisms of the individual’s response to alien abductions, or have the aliens’ deliberately contrived these family problems all along?

In my experience counseling abductees, one of the hallmarks of these peoples’ lives is the pattern of emotional isolation.

This behavior can be explained as a result of conditioning, learned adaptations from the abductee’s family members, or reinforced by the alien handlers. In fact, some persons have discovered that the aliens instructed them not to talk about their encounters, making if apparent that the alien presence will go to great lengths to maintain secrecy. They have often instilled false or screen memories into their victims to cover their true activities and motives.

Some researchers, myself included, believe that the human bonding relationships which result in high drama and love obsessions may be instigated for purposes other than the alien breeding and hybridization program, as one may suspect at first glance. (Although that is a factor that can’t be ignored).

Barbara Bartholic, a hypnotherapist and abductions researcher of over 25 years has studied and defined the love obsession phenomena down to a T.

"First", Barbara states, "the individuals are set up during encounters from childhood for maximum emotional and sexual bonding. The bonding process sets the stage for the drama of the love obsession. The aliens are somehow able to harvest the energies emitted by the emotionally charged persons. These emotions range from intense love, longing, passion, rage, jealousy and anticipation of one’s beloved."

Ms. Bartholic believes we are all affected by this phenomenon, not just abductees and contactees. It is just that we only find out about this love obsession phenomenon and all its associated life dramas through the ones who do remember.

"The love obsession drama can be played out on a large scale as well." Barbara adds. "This is incorporated through glamorous public figures or super stars."

The drama-directing aliens can use the super star images for massive unrequited love obsessions in the general population.

"In short," Barbara concludes, "It is like one big human Nintendo game".

Bud Hopkins takes a more conservative approach and stated,

"The bonding phenomena is not an across the board aspect of abductions. It is relatively rare and must be differentiated from group abductions where two or more persons get taken simultaneously, like husband and wife, or friends for various reasons".

When asked the general trend of how the abductees handle the bonding dramas, Bud commented,

"It depends on the circumstances. If they are already married, it is extremely difficult".

According to Barbara Bartholic and Bud Hopkins, the bonding is not always directed towards romantic, opposite sex situations, and can include same sex friendships and even homosexual relationships.

A noteworthy point here is the emotional energy derived through a series of intense dramas and crises. As ludicrous as it may sound, the aliens may feed off these emotional energies.

I’ve had several persons admit to me in private that they had a higher frequency of alien encounters during the more stressful and chaotic periods of their lives.

As one of my support group members has sarcastically described it,

"The aliens have a way of jerking my emotional chain, putting me through intense highs and lows."

Emotional Isolation and Maintenance of Secrecy: Dysfunctional Families
Our social structure and especially in the Western world, reinforces the precept that "aliens and extraterrestrials do not exist", and is only science fiction or psychological delusion.

The result of these negating and isolating conditions forces the abductee to turn inward or even act our in rebellion against parents, school, religion or society. The abductee who has been denied validation of their experience will have a tendency to distrust their own feelings, stay in denial or even act out in anger.

When core issues of alien abductions (especially traumatic ones) are not addressed or resolved, a variety of unhealthy coping skills result and extend into their relationships and family systems. When alien abductions occur multigenerationally, dysfunctional family issues are compounded. As such, abductees may find themselves in unhealthy, unfulfilling relationships that perpetuate the viscous cycle of emotional isolation or even abuse. These dysfunctional patterns of relating serve to maintain the secrecy of alien abductions.

Resolution and healing of alien abduction related issues – and the dysfunctional family systems which serve to maintain the secrecy – can only be complete when false and misleading "swamp gas" theories are put to rest. It makes one ask what the real culprit is.

There are scores of courageous abductees who have come forward to share their stories, only to be ridiculed and blamed later by the mainstream or even their peers in the UFO community. For these reasons, many abductees simply remain silent. Volumes of valuable witness testimonies and alien abduction related information remain under lock and key - by the twin pillars of fear and imposed ignorance.

Whatever the true reasons for the aliens’ interference in our relationships, we may never know, but from what some abductees have reported, the effects are both devastating and exhilarating.

After surviving of the grievous effects of an alien contrived love obsession, Sophia poetically stated,

"Even though my experiences have been incomprehensibly painful, I wouldn’t trade them for any other. I realized it was better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all".

I marveled at her statement and could only imagine what the aliens are missing. Life itself.

The Question of Spiritual Warfare

It doesn’t take long for any abductions researcher to realize the alien presence - or whatever is acting behind its image - is deceptive, manipulative and intelligent. The aliens act both in a physical and non-physical reality, a true paradox.

Their ability to orchestrate elaborate dramas, bondings and love obsessions in abductee’s lives bespeaks an adeptness with unseen spiritual realities.

Researchers and abductees have reported that as they delved into UFO related matters and especially abduction related memories, they were besieged with a number of detracting efforts that served to steer them away from retrieving hard core information on alien abductions.

One woman in my group named Sophia described it eloquently,

"Once I decided to pursue in-depth research into my abductions, a series of tests and trials assailed me, like going through a gauntlet of spiritual warfare."

If we take a closer look at how spiritual warfare operates within the abduction phenomenon, we can see it manifest itself in the bonding dramas that resulted in love obsessions.

Two targeted abductees are chosen by their alien handlers for their ability to create and express a high degree of emotion within the context of a romantic attraction.

This romantic attraction more often than not results in an unrequited love obsession for one or the other partner– or they are unable to consummate their feelings due to other impossible circumstances. These conditions release a variety of powerful emotions such as intense love, longing, passion, rage, jealousy and anticipation of one’s beloved.

In the more severe cases, the abductee became exhausted, depressed and ill, even to the point of suicidal ideations, or brought close to death from severe illness. The dramas that were set into motion in these people’s lives caused a lot of chaos and conflict, some even losing their marriages due to alien interference and manipulation.

The flip side is that some of the abductees who experienced deep emotional conflict and intense love also reported a release of creative energy at the height of the obsession. In one case, the abductee moved into new levels of ecstatic mystical experience as a result of reaching the deepest degree of her emotional capacity.

Paradoxically, we see excruciating grief and pain of unrequited love on one hand, and ecstatic mystical visionary unions and creative inspiration on the other.

If frequency of alien encounters is directly proportional to high drama, chaos and conflict, then we can surmise that the alien presence is somehow benefiting from our emotional energies. In the cases of bonded love obsessions, a high degree of emotional and sexual passion was present. Aliens have a keen interest inour capacity to feel and express love and other highly charged feelings.

We need to ask some serious questions. What is the true essence of human abductees as a resource for these alien beings? Rather than researching indefinitely with frustration and confusion, ask the question: What are the intentions and capabilities of the aliens based on their ability to insidiously orchestrate such elaborate dramas such as love obsessions?

Within the annals of contemporary alien abduction research we can say that the aliens are carrying out some kind of genetic human/alien hybridization programspanning several generations. This is what we see on the surface and it may very well be true.

When we look deeper we may suspect the worst conspiracy theory imaginable. And somewhere in between, you may get a glimpse of the magick trick taking place right before your eyes.

But where is the evidence of UFO’s and extraterrestrials?

Everyone asks,

"Where’s the beef?"

And to this I’d say,

"There is no beef. Only chunks of horsemeat in a tossed salad of confusion."

Summary

Alien directed human bonding dramas that resulted in love obsessions were a serendipitous observation of abductee’s interpersonal relationships.

Although these bonding dramas did not occur to a majority of abductees, its profound effects and ramifications are of noteworthy importance.

If the alien presence can orchestrate people’s lives to the extent demonstrated via their love lives–then we need to reassess the intentions and capabilities of the alien abductors. Perhaps it is not a far-fetched idea to hypothesize that the aliens play the role of the mythical Cupid and his arrow. And much, much more.

Observing the dramas of abductees lives opened up a doorway of perception hitherto unacknowledged in the more scientific nuts and bolts methodologies of UFO abduction research. I liken this concept to a "blocked memory" only retrievable to conscious awareness by re-routing the neural pathways.

Summarized case studies of alien orchestrated human bonding dramas were presented with characteristic signs and symptoms. These patterns are unique to the abductee population and can be clearly distinguished from other non-abduction related psychological and relationship issues.

It is of great importance to address the culprits of emotional isolation and the maintenance of secrecy regarding alien abductions within marriage and family systems. The key to unlocking the mysteries and motives of the alien intelligence lies in the tenacity of abductees to search for the truth of their experiences. Creating an environment of safety free from ridicule and politically correct peer pressure is the first step in uncovering the truth of alien abductions.

Discovering the reality of a lifetime of alien encounters is a Pandora’s box few are willing or ready to open.

A few brave souls have explored the depths of their interactions with the alien presence. For some, this means the realization that their whole lives have beenstaged, manipulated and orchestrated at the hands of the alien puppet masters – the architects of human drama.

This realization throws a whole new understanding on the quest and value of human freedom.

Vile Vortices

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Figure 1:

Vile Vortices Overview - from Ivan Sanderson's 1972 article in Saga magazine,

"The Twelve Devil’s Graveyards Around the World"

plotted ship and plane disappearances worldwide, focusing attention on 12 areas.

Is the earth a gigantic crystal that resonates at 7 Hz with harmonic focal points at specific equidistant points?

One of the best summaries is "Anti-Gravity and the World Grid" by David Childress.

The Bermuda Triangle & Japan's Devil's Sea are considered anomalies, where unexplained phenomena occur, such as disappearing ships & planes, & radios & compasses that stop working.

Why are ancient Megaliths placed at specific equidistant points, such as Mohenjo-Daro, Cairo, Peru, Easter Island, Zimbabwe, and Borneo, to name a few. Why are Positive Energy Vortices, such as in the Himalayas, Sedona (AZ), & the Incan culture situated where they are?

If the Earth is mapped out as a icosahedron (or dodecahedron) Grid, these are all equidistant geometric points (Vortices) of intersecting (Ley) lines. Note that the Vortices appear to originate from deep beneath the Earth's Crust, so they may be focused by underground water or mineral deposits to vary slightly from the exact dead center, sometimes with multiple surface areas of manifestation.

The highest energy areas seem to center near the 31.7 degree (Positive) or 25 degree (Negative) parallels - North and South:

There are 5 areas of the Northern Hemisphere near 25 North that may be doors to other dimensions, often called "Vile Vortices" (Vile may be too strong a term):

Bermuda Triangle (planes & ships disappear in green fog)

Algerian Megalithic Ruins (South of Timbuktu)

Karachi (Pakistan) [site of Mohenjo Daro - Rama culture, the ancient origins of Hindu culture]

Devil's Sea Triangle (near Iwo Jima, Japan) (planes & ships disappear - Japan officially calls dangerous)

Hamakulia, S.E. Hawaii (heaviest volcanic activity) - actually, the focal point is in the ocean, more to the SE of Hawaii. It is in the Ocean, where some ships and planes have disappeared in the past.

There are 5 areas of the Northern Hemisphere near 31.7 North that are Positive healing Energy Vortices:

Between Sedona, AZ & Sonora, Mexico (31.7N 112.8W) - Hopi & Yaqui Indian, Hohokom waterworks, Sedona Healing Vortex (& magnetic anomalies at Torreon, Mexico?)

The calculated Vortex Focus is near the Papago Indian Reservation, W of Tucson, AZ, S of Pisinimo/W. of Cowlic/Vamori/Little Tucson

According to Ken Eagle Feather, in "A Toltec Path" p.11, Castenada's Books on Don Juan (Matus) were centered here (mid-Atlantic, Atlantis per Edgar Cayce - "the position ... Atlantis occupied is between the Gulf of Mexico ... and the Mediterranean")

Egypt - Pyramids (focus Energy)

Himalayas, N.E. of Lhasa (Tibet) - Center for Tibetan Enlightenment - also, not far from Xi'an Pyramids in China. Home of the Panda and ancient irrigation systems and Midway Island

Further North, near 50 to 55 North, are some well known Vortices:

Findhorn, Scotland: Key Celtic/Druid Ley Line: Calendish megaliths, Loch Ness, Maes Howe, Ring of Brodger

Kiev (Ukraine, Russia) - Key Eastern Orthodox Religious Site

Buffalo Lake (Alberta Canada), major Indian Medicine Wheels

Hudson Bay, Canada north Magnetic pole, Ugansk Bay, Eskimo Art, Chubb meteor crater

Lake Baikal (Northern Mongolia): Meteor Crash? - unique soil, strange plant & animal genetic changes

In the southern Hemisphere, there are also 5+5 areas, near 25 & 30 South, (most are in less-traveled ocean areas), some of which are the:

Megalithic structures at Sarawak (Borneo)

Nan Madol (Pohnpei Island, Micronesia)

Incan Culture in South America

Easter Island - Megalithic Statues, many of evil Cthulhu - culture degraded to cannibalism, then enslaved

Gabon (West Africa) [alleged natural Atomic Reactor 1.7million yrs ago] / Zimbabwe Megaliths

List of Numbered Places

Numbered List of Vortices on World Grid Map from Becker-Hagens

Key to symbols in Tables Below: (yang-hot [vile])

(yin-cool)
= (balanced)
r (radiation)

d (diamond)

Northern 25-30 degree parallel:

16. N.E. of Hawaiian islands; d

= 17. Hopi -between Sedona (AZ) & Four Corners, Hohokom waterworks; r, [wheel observed in Gemini photos]

18. Bermuda triangle - Bimini atoll, Bahamas [wheel observed in Gemini photos], d

= 19. Atlantis Fracture in Mid-Atlantic

20. Algerian megalithic ruins, Ahaggar ancient cave art; w, d, fault line to Pakistan, #12; birds over winter

= 1. Great Pyramid at Giza, Egypt; Mysteries, rites, Energy, Egyptian Book of the Dead; r

12. Karachi, Pakistan; Indus Valley, ancient Mohenjo Daro culture; d, birds over winter

= 13. Ancient Du Jiang irrigation, home of panda [Between Lhasa (Tibet-Himalayas) & Xi'an China Pyramids]

14. Japan's Devils's Sea- between Iwo Jima and Marcus Island, seismic activity, Ships & Planes Disappear

= 15. Midway Island

Southern 25-30 degree parallel:

= 46. Undifferentiated south pacific ocean

47. Easter Island megaliths; d

= 48. Argentine Tafi megaliths

49. East of Rio de Janeiro; d

= 50. Atlantic Ridge

41. L'uyengo on Usutu River in Swaziland, Great Zimbabwe, site of earliest pre-humans; d, r, birds over winter

= 42. Intersection of Mid-Indian and Southwest Indian Ridges

43. Wharton Basin (Deep Ocean) d

= 44. South Australia aboriginal land; Marilinga atomic test site, Wilpena Pound huge meteor impact site

45. ??? Peruvian megaliths, UFO sightings; d

Northern 50-55 degree parallel:

= 7. Gulf of Alaska, Exxon Valdez oil spill

8. Buffalo Lake, Alberta, Canada; major concentration of medicine wheels

= 9. Hudson Bay, north magnetic pole; Ugansk Bay, Eskimo art complex, Chubb meteor crater

10. Mid-atlantic underwater ridge to 37

= 11. Scotland; northern British Isles, Maes Howe, Ring of Brodger, Callenish megaliths; Loch Ness

2. Kiev (Ukraine, Russia) - Eastern Orthodox religious Site - soil composition1

= 3. Tyumen oil find

4. Lake Baikal, N. Mongolia; unique 3/4 of plants, animals & soil (1000 species), megaliths (Meteor Crater?)

= 5. Sea of Okhotsk; major Soviet defense research site

6. Amchita Island, Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea

Equator:

= 30. Phoenix Islands; Nova Canton trough; equator

31. Society Island; Caroline Islands, ecliptic crosses here

= 32. Mid south Pacific; equator

33. Clipperton Islands

= 34. Galapagos Islands; junction of Cocos and Carnegie ridges; equator

35. Lima, Peru; Lake Punrrun in coastal highlands; boundary of Nazca plate, ice stones, ancient Incan capital

= 36. Amazonian ruins, Yanomomo homelands; equator

37. Guiana Basin, Vema Fracture

= 38. Romanche Fracture; equator

39. Ascension Island

= 40. Gabon, west Africa; spontaneous U-235 atomic explosion 1 million years ago; equator

21. Zimbabwe, Africa; Sudan, ancient Kush, recent locust plague, near Khartoum, ecliptic crosses here & #31

= 22. Somalia Basin, equator

23. Chagos archipelago

= 24. Equator

25. Sea of siam, S.E. of Bangkok, cf. Angkor Wat

= 26. Sarawak, Solomon Islands, Borneo megaliths, equator, center of spice trade, Toraja

27. Gulf of Carpentaria, massive gold reserves

= 28. Ponapé, Solomon Islands, equator

29. Marshall Islands

Ivan Sanderson

The professional biologist who founded the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in Columbia, New Jersey, wrote "The Twelve Devil’s Graveyards Around the World" for Saga magazine in 1972, plotted ship and plane disappearances worldwide, focusing attention on 12 areas. Reprinted in Paradox, byNicholas R. Nelson, Dorrance & Co., Ardmore, Penn. 1980.

"... with several associates, he set out to 'pattern the mysteries' by taking full advantage of modern communication technology and statistical data analysis. His success was startling. "The Twelve Devil’s Graveyards Around the World," plotted ship and plane disappearances worldwide, focusing attention on 12 areas, equally spaced over the globe, in which magnetic anomalies and other energy aberrations were linked to a full spectrum of strange physical phenomena.

Highest on Sanderson’s statistical priority list was a lozenge-shaped area east of Miami, in the Bahamas, on the western tip of the infamous Bermuda Triangle. This area’s "high profile" of strange events, Sanderson concluded, was mostly due to the enormous flow of air/ sea traffic in the area. Other zones of anomaly, though less familiar, were equally rich in disappearances and space-time shift occurrences. ...

Another area of continuing disappearances and mysterious time-warps is the Devil’s Sea located east of Japan between Iwo Jima and Marcus Island. Here events have become so sinister that the Japanese government has officially designated the area a danger zone. Sanderson theorized that the tremendous hot and cold currents crossing his most active zones might create the electromagnetic gymnastics affecting instruments and vehicles. His theory is now being balanced against several."

Devil's Sea Triangle
Bermuda Triangle & Devil's Sea

Another area of continuing disappearances and mysterious time-warps is the Devil’s Sea located east of Japan between Iwo Jima and Marcus Island. Here events have become so sinister that the Japanese government has officially designated the area a danger zone. Sanderson theorized that the tremendous hot and cold currents crossing his most active zones might create the electromagnetic gymnastics affecting instruments and vehicles. His theory is now being balanced against several.”

-- from Anti-Gravity, page 35
The ten regions, says Sanderson, are symmetrically situated around the globe, five above, and five below at equal distances from the equator. Had the American investigator thought to add two more points, at the north and south poles, say the Russians, his scheme would have precisely coincided with the model which they have adopted."

-- Planetary Grid, Chris Bird, New Age Journal May 1975

Details on "Vile Vortices"

(not really "Vile", but strong)

Bermuda Triangle (26.6N/76.8W):

An Impartial Geography link tells us that weather disturbances are common here: it is known for the sudden nature of its storms (Whiteouts & strong winds in seconds). Most of the Ocean Bed below is shallow, but some areas, like north of Puerto Rico, are considered the deepest part of the Atlantic. An "Anti-Current" below the Gulf Current complicate matters. Magnetic North is the same as True North here

These anomalies alone would be sufficient to sink ships from sudden storms. Most Hurricanes for that hemispheric area originate in the Bermuda Triangle

In addition, ships and planes have reported periodic disturbances that made compasses, radios, and even instrument panels fail to function

Edgar Cayce stated that a gigantic Magic Crystal was embedded in the Bermuda Triangle

Compare these anomalies with the almost identical ones in the Devil's Sea Triangle, SE of Japan. Both areas are not really a triangle, but a blob shaped area pitched at an angle of 25 degrees SW to N

Some claim similar situations in the western Mediterranean, NE of Hawaii, SE of Argentina, the Tasman Sea off Australia, the east Indian Ocean, SW of Australia

Hawaii (26.57N/148.8W):

The Vortex Center is actually in the Ocean, N.E. of Hawaii
Ship and Plane disappearances have been alleged here
The Hawaii Volcano at Hamakulia is said to have mysterious energy

SE of Rio de Janeiro: (26.6S/40.8W)

Easter Island (26.6N/112.8W):

"Hints of the old, hideous shadow that philosophers never dared mention, the thing symbolized in the Easter Island colossi -- the secret that has come down from the days of Cthulhu"

Karachi, Pakistan (26.6N/67.2E):

Near the ancient sites of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, the source of Hindu civilization. The gods Rama and Shiva are the focus here. The big question here is what is a Vile Vortex? It is mainly an energy focus, with potential multi-dimensional portals, and possible focuses on the negative, as on the Hindu god Shiva, the destroyer. If tapped properly, even a Vile Vortex provides Positive Results.

Algeria (26.6N/4.8E):

Algerian megalithic monuments and burial grounds at Djebel Mazala Salluste, Ahaggar ancient cave art, etc are major indications of ancient activity here. Additionally, there is a major earthquake fault line to Karachi, Pakistan (see #12), and many birds spend the winter here.

Diamonds deposits underground?

Some connect it to mysterious plane disappearances over the Sahara Desert.

Zimbabwe (26.57S/31.2E):

Actually, near Swaziland, South Africa. Above Diamond Deposits?

Positive Vortices:

Himalayas/China (31.72N/103.2E) :

Tibet, in the Himalaya mountains, has always been viewed as a focus of meditative energy. However, it is actually West of the Vortex.

The actual vortex is at 32N/103E, Chengtu, China. Just N.E. of it are the China Pyramids at Xi'an (Sian/Hsian)

Egypt (32N/31E):

The Sphinx and Pyramids have always been a focus of attention. Pat Flanagan has showed that the pyramid shape focuses energy (energizes water, makes wine better, sharpens razors, enhances ESP; maggots leave meat energized in pyramids, because they only eat dead flesh)

Were the pyramids placed here to best focus the vortex energy?

Findhorn, Scotland (58N/4.8W):

Scotland has always been a focus of research on the Celtic Druids and Sacred Geometry. They have focused on the Ley Lines that converge on their area. Sites include the Callendish megaliths, Maes Howe, ring of Brodger, Loch Ness. (58N/4.8W is SW of Inverness)

The Book "The Magic of Findhorn", by Paul Hawen details "40-poung cabbages, 8-foot delphiniums and roses that bloom in the snow."

Findhorn itself appears to be the actual center of the Vortex. Ley Lines have been mapped by the Celtic Druids from here to England's Stonehenge and Avebury, et al.

Kiev, in Ukraine (of the former Soviet Union)(51.6N/31.2E):

Kiev has been a major Religious Site for the Eastern Orthodox church. The Vortex is just N. of Kiev, S. of Gomel. (near Chernobyl)

Hrushiv (S.W. of Vortex) has been the site for 2 Apparitions of Mary (1914 & 1987). The 1987 Apparition was 1 year (to the minute) after the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident

Buffalo Lake, Alberta, Canada (52.6N/112.8W):

Alberta, Canada: Buffalo Lake is considered by Indians to be a major concentration of Medicine Wheels.

Hudson Bay (58.3N/76.8E):

Hudson Bay, in Canada, is the source of the Magnetic North Pole. The Chubb meteor crater, Ugansk Bay, and an Eskimo Art complex are also present here.

Midway Island (30N/175.2E):

Midway Island is considered a focus of Energy. More to come on this.

Sedona, Arizona may have been the legendary "Cibola". In 1540 Francisco Coronado led an expedition to northern Mexico in search of the legendary seven cities of Cibola.

"Seven Cities Of Gold. The experience left a lasting impression and after their return insisted that, "Even the sands were made of gold." 1

"speculation places them in two likely places; the Four Corners area of Arizona and New Mexico and the now present-day location of the City of Phoenix, The Valley Of The Sun."

"a comet's wrath that may have struck around 1680 AD. In his opinion, what was destroyed was a fabulous, gold-laden Hohokham city filled with mines, workers and fine artists of the precious metal"

"Richard Dannelley, Sedona vortex authority says that a vortex of earth's energy, "Allows power from the dimension of pure energy to leak through into our dimension." ⁷

Vortexes seem to appear at intersections of the earth's grid, or bio-magnetic field of the earth. These intersecting strands of Earth's energy are also known as ley lines. The symbol for a vortex is a cross in a circle. (See diagram B)

Dannelley writes of this symbol,

"The cross is the symbol of the union of cosmic forces, the coming together of the polarities which create the world. A cross may be defined as a Vortex: The intersection of angles. In the practice of geomancy a cross is used to mark a place where the strands of the Web of Life join together, thus forming a Power Spot." 8

"Water is also a key element and may play a role in the disbursement of vortexian energies. Underneath the Gobean Vortex is the largest aquifer in the Southwest; three huge fresh water lakes, Coeur d'Alene and Pend 'Orielle in Idaho and Flathead Lake in Montana are located in the Shalahah Vortex. "

1. David Hatcher Childress, Lost Cities Of North & Central America (Adventures Unlimited Press, Steele, Illinois, 1992) page 298.

7. Richard Dannelley, Sedona Power Spot, Vortex And Medicine Wheel Guide (R. Dannelley, Sedona, Arizona, 1991) page 22.

UFO and Mars

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In 1959 a Martian flying disc spacecraft reportedly landed in the wilderness outside of Moscow, in the Soviet Union, where a secret meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was arranged. The conference regarded improving relations with Earth, exchanging knowledge, and securing world and interplanetary peace, yet the Soviet government rejected the terms. This report originated from Sgt. Willard Wannall, formerly of Army Intelligence, who investigated U.F.O.s in Hawaii while in the military in the 1950s, and met with us while we were in the Department of Interplanetary Affairs research agency in the 1970s.

On April 24, 1964, an oval shaped metallic flying object landed in a farm field in Newark Valley in New York State, and two alien beings emerged from the estimated 20 foot long craft. Farmer, Gary Wilcox drove his tractor toward the object clearly visible on a bright sunny day. The farmer kicked the metallic object to make sure it was real. The two occupants were about 4 feet high, and they carried a square tray full of the different vegetables they had collected from his farm. Wilcox reported that when he confronted the beings stealing his crops, they said “don’t be alarmed, we have spoken to people before.” Gary described the voices as being very strange. They wore white, metallic-looking overalls without seams, stitching or pockets. He could not see their hands or feet.

He could not see their other features beneath the full space-suits, which we speculated were protecting these aliens from the Earth’s atmosphere deadly to their race. As Wilcox became inquisitive, one of them stated,

“We are from what you know as the planet Mars. We can only come to Earth every two years,” and left a warning that Earth people should stay out of space.

They said that they were studying the organic materials on Earth because of the rocky structure of Mars, and that they did not fly near our cities because they avoided the air pollution. The beings told Wilcox everything in monotone. He asked if he could go with them and they rejected.

Wilcox gave the beings a bag of fertilizer and exchanged information about it and other subjects, before they entered the craft and took off. Wilcox was investigated by a psychiatrist and the sheriff department, who found him a normal, truthful person with no emotional problems, and they confessed they believedhis UFO experience was real.

In February 1972, United Nations diplomat Farida Iskiovet, who investigated UFOs and occupant contacts for the President of the General Assembly, told me and my department agents that she had been contacted by a landed spacecraft from the planet Mars. The reported contact took place in the Mojave Desert, in California, in 1971, and made the “front page” of the major Arizona newspaper the daily Arizona Republic. This story also made the front page of the San Clemente Sun-Post in an article written by Fred Swegles, who covered President Nixon and his staff at the Western Whitehouse.

Farida stated that the alien offered to admit an ambassador to their interplanetary confederation in this solar system, in exchange for an alien ambassador to the General Assembly of the United Nations, in an attempt to re-establish diplomatic relations with Earth and other planets that had been suspended in ancient timesdue to hostility on Earth. However, the terms of this peace arrangement were not acceptable to the Security Council, and the exchange was rejected in a secret meeting.

Adam Malik, President of the United Nations, was in favor of the treaty and exchange and he was in contact with us on this matter. Iskiovet and Malik were frustrated with U.N. attempts to block this exchange, so they came to us to help try to establish a civilian council to handle affairs between the people on Earth and the Interplanetary Confederation in this solar system.

The corporations and military-government interests that finance and control the U.N. did not accept the alien insistence on:

destroying all weapons

ending all wars

eliminating all polluting fuels, which are all the biggest bank accounts in the world

The most famous astronomers of the early twentieth century, including the great Percival Lovell, stated there were signs of intelligent life on Mars. They reported huge areas of green vegetation that expanded and contracted with the melting of the ice caps and the 4 seasons on Mars. In the 1950s, teachers in public schools in America taught students that the temperature at the Martian equator was about 80 degrees.

The man credited with inventing the radio, Marconi, published data that he believed he had received intelligent radio signals from Mars.

For three decades, several astronomers in different parts of the world reported seeing flashing and moving lights on the surface of Mars, some huge explosions, and other strange unnatural phenomenon. In 1927, the U.S. government carried out a public experiment designed to try to detect intelligent life on Mars, by sending radio transmissions toward that planet and waiting for an answer.

A series of dots and dashes, in Morse code was revealed on a machine, reportedly originating from the direction of Mars, and drawing a human face on a piece of receiving paper in dots and dashes! This drawing in Morse code was displayed in the Bureau of Standards in Washington D.C. In 1976 the famous Viking probewas sent to Mars by NASA, and out of over 2,000 photos reportedly taken of that planet, only a small fraction were shown to the public. Since most of those photos were not released to the news-media, were they trying to hide something?

One photo that was published by the U.S. daily newspapers over a decade later, shows what many researchers believe to be pyramids and a huge face carved into the surface of Mars. We have studied other Mars photos showing what appears to be an ancient ruined city, roads, rectangular buildings, and walls. Skeptics say that shadows may make natural objects appear like a man-made structure, yet all the photos taken from different angles of the sun and the cameras show the exact same objects the same way, ruling out the shadow theory.

The proof that the NASA space program covers up the truth about Mars is all tile serious contradictions in their public data.

NASA told the public that the Martian atmosphere is less than one percent of that of Earth. Then how could their 50 foot parachute on the rocket they landed on Mars even slow it down? Scientists calculated NASA would need a parachute over a mile wide to slow down the Viking probe in a one percent atmosphere! Their 50 foot parachute would crash like a rock!
Furthermore, if the Martian atmosphere is only one percent of Earth’s, how can sand dunes similar to our deserts in Arizona be photographed. Impossible! It would take 200 mile-per-hour winds on a planet with air said to be so thin that no winds over 40 miles-per-hour had ever been recorded, and the warm rising air to cause those winds did not even exist on that part of Mars (according to other NASA data).
NASA also claimed that the temperatures around the Martian polar areas was a minus 90 to 120 degrees, in a region where another NASA statement said the polar ice melts. How can ice melt at minus 90 to 120 degrees below zero? It melts at 32 degrees above zero.
How can NASA land a probe on Mars that shoots out a flame that burns the soil below it at thousands of degrees with deadly chemicals, then a shovel scoops up that SAME fried poisoned soil and reports “there is no life in it.” What life on Earth could survive in soil blasted at thousands of degrees by poisonous chemicals ? All the loose topsoil of any potential biological value was blown away by the rocket landing.

Fred Steckling, who has some thorough research on Mars, stated that,

“their true findings and most pictures are classified material which to this day have not been shown"

He added that we were told Mars is about half the size of Earth, with a surface gravity of about 40 percent and that the atmospheric pressure is about 7.7. millibars compared to 1,000 on Earth.

We are also told that the Martian temperature ranged from minus 22 below zero (F) to minus 122 degrees. One Viking probe landed about a thousand miles closer to their equator than the other one, yet contradicted logic by reporting the temperature at the equatorial region was colder than up north. He added,

“the amazed scientists discovered a 100 percent mistake during atmospheric measurements. The argon content of the Martian atmosphere was not 30 percent, but only 3 percent. A mistake of the same magnitude was admitted when a much higher water vapor reading was received than thought possible from earth measurements.”

Dr. George Sands, of Mission Control, stated,

“IT IS OBVIOUSLY WETTER THAN WE ANTICIPATED. THERE IS GROUND FOG AT THE LANDING SITE DURING PART OF THE DAY. Thirty microns of water have been found in the atmosphere, enough to not only cause ground fog, but ALSO FROST AND SNOW!”

NASA data, to a meteorologist, problematically proves Mars is much warmer than official reports stated. Ground fog is made by warm moist air moving across cool land or water, and ground fog is a product of temperatures ABOVE 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Water-based clouds like on Earth have been photographed about 15,000 feet over Mars, and such clouds and fog cannot exist in an atmospheric pressure of only 7.7 millibars. Evidence indicates that 32 degrees above zero must exist up to at least 15,000 feet on Mars, which is higher than Haleakala Crater in Hawaii. We all know we can live as we walk through Haleakala. Minus 122 degree temperatures can exist in certain parts of Mars, just like minus127 degrees has been recorded on Earth.

There are also thousands of American scientists, engineers, medical personal, and other specialists secretly living in Martian underground bases and cities, who have either been abducted by UFOs and taken there, or are part of a top secret exchange program with the Pentagon’s MJ-12 agency called ALTERNATIVE THREE. The Pentagon has been secretly trading livestock, minerals, and a labor force to these Zetans on Mars, for a couple of decades at least, for technology that was developed into the Star Wars defense system, lasers, superior metals, computers, medical advancements, etc.

Martians also live on Earth underground at secret cities and bases, like the one below the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean established by Baavians.

Most Martians are 3 to 4 feet tall, yet not all of them are the same size or race.

The underground civilization has no pollution, disease, crime, poverty, political corruption, malnutrition, or warfare, and few of the problems associated with Earth civilization.

It has been described as a technological, intellectual, scientific, computerized paradise, where emotions such as pleasure, sexual ecstasy, and individuality have been eliminated among the locals. Following leaders called Knowers is the norm. Cloning is the main form of reproduction.

However, there is also a spiritual civilization on Mars that is so far advanced that the other civilizations cannot interfere with it. The spiritual civilization has very little involvement with Earth and avoids its internal affairs. This civilization is on a higher 4th dimensional frequency than the other 3D nations on Mars.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN magazine stated,

“the Martian environment is by no means so hostile as to exclude LIFE.”

The sand dunes on Mars photographed by the Orbiter have the SAME height and dune to dune spacing as sand dunes on Earth in Colorado. That is impossible in an atmosphere one percent of Earth’s. Viking 2 revealed the Martian polar caps are frozen water, that snows often, and the atmosphere above the polar areas is saturated with water vapor. NASA stated the North Pole on Mars is now going through its summer, so the ice cap is about as small as it ever gets. How can ice in these below zero temperatures melt like they said it does?

Dr. Martin, who was with Pasadena Viking Control, said the biology instrument on Mars have received positive signs of life in spite of the amazing fact it was at such a blow-torched landing site!

“Analysis of the Martian environment has so far shown that there is carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and sufficient amounts of water vapor."

If we would have placed our Viking landers in our Pasadena parking lot and received the SAME chemical and biological readings were, received from Mars, WE WOULD HAVE CALLED IT A DEFINITE "SIGN OF LIFE”. He gave that report at the International Academy of Astronautics. Scientists admit that if all the water trapped below the surface of Mars was released to the surface, it would form an ocean a mile deep covering the entire planet!

Dr. Daniel J. Milton reported that,

“we have photographed the Martian mystery channels (canals). They resemble huge flood channels some 24 miles wide and several hundred miles long, shaped by sudden discharges of water that dwarf the flow of the Amazon River.”

Dr. Milton is a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, commenting in Science Newsfront.

An international AP release stated that photos of Mars’ northern regions reveal mysterious patterns, resembling contour PLOWING on the planet’s red surface. Striped patterns that resemble an aerial photograph of a farmers field after plowing have been studied with no natural explanation. The stripes are too regular to be natural.

In research published by the French archeologist and historian Robbert Charreux, which we have been unable to even order in book stores in the United States (why is it suppressed?), Mars was colonized by extraterrestrials from the Proxima Centauri solar system about 15,000 years ago.

These were tall aliens from a planet about half the size of Earth called Baavi. These expeditions found Mars similar in size to Baavi, with similar atmospheric characteristics. Mars has many canyons and at the bottoms are shrubby trees not more than ten feet high, standing on both sides of small narrow streams. On the banks of these streams is a type of moss which stores infrared heat rays from the sun during the day, and then gradually releases that heat at night.

As a result, when the night temperature on the red Martian plains dips to sixty to one hundred degrees below zero, near the moss at the canyon floors it may be 40 to 50 degrees above zero. The oxygen of the air is largely fixed by the ground under the atmospheric pressure that is really about a tenth of the surface of Earth (at sea level), so there can be a 40 degree difference between air and ground. The bottoms of such canyonshave released enough oxygen to support a small humanoid monad Martian with robust vitality. (Even NASA admits huge quantities of oxygen and water are trapped below the Martian ground).

The report added that the mammals on Mars are rodents with thick white fur, comparable to large hares, that feed on roots, larvae, and the eggs of big lizards that live among the low rocks of the canyon walls. In deep hollows, water forms marshes in which crustaceans proliferate. About 12,000 years ago life-sustaining conditions on Mars deteriorated to the point where it became urgent to evacuate most of the inhabitants, who migrated to Earth and landed high in the mountains of Tibet, where the air is thin with little oxygen like it is on Mars.

However, before the exodus the Baavians had hybrid genetic cross-breeding with the short native Martians with the somewhat Oriental features.

This inter-racial mixing took place over many generations over 3,000 years, producing a humanoid hybrid. However, many of the residents of Mars flew to the Moon and Earth (where many primitive ancients mistook them for gods).

Mars once had large oceans, abundant atmosphere, and vegetation according to official NASA research. They just try to cover it up today.

We have much detail on the Baavian civilization on their home planet, in our other publications. The Martians who landed on Earth about 11 to 12 thousand years ago, over hundreds of generations, slowly adopted to lower elevations and Earth’s climate as they gradually migrated to the lowlands over the centuries to seed the Asian races.

Other research states that Mars was involved in nuclear wars when the Orion Empire invaded our solar system in ancient times, devastating the forests, oceans, rivers, and atmosphere on both Mars and Mercury ..... and causing the destruction of the ancient prehistoric Atlantean Empire on Earth. The nuclear devastation in Atlantean times was so great very little trace remains today of that culture. Other reports indicate Mars was also devastated by a catastrophic approach of a comet in ancient times, indicating more than one great cataclysm on Mars (we have scientific evidence of 5 great world cataclysms on Earth in ancient times).

Many Martians chose to colonize the safe inside of their planet deep underground, rather than to flee to Earth. Today an entire civilization of artificial dome-shaped protected underground cities, air-conditioned with controlled climate and connected by tunnels and subways... exist all around Mars. These self-sufficient underground communities grow their own food in artificial food facilities created by their superior technology, mine the interior of the planet, and manufacture space-craft. Mars is reportedly no longer involved in colonizing the Earth or trying to substantially interfere in our affairs like they did in ancient times.

There are also different races living on Mars. These races originate from other solar systems, and are not at the same level of spiritual, technical, or intellectual evolution, disagreeing on interplanetary affairs. One race active on Mars is reportedly from Zeta Reticuli, a small humanoid grey race with large heads, long slender arms, and no lungs (they do not need an atmosphere to breath), and no digestive system as we know the Zetans are biologically somewhat like insects, with thick tough skin adaptable withstanding a harsher atmosphere like on the surface of Mars. There are also androids and robots living on the Martian surface!

The Sirian Interplanetary Empire reportedly claimed Mars before it claimed Earth in Atlantean times, and the ancients called the Sirian constellation the Phoenix Constellation.

The Phoenician Empire in ancient Persia worshipped Sirius, and the Phoenix Project of the Secret Government (Illuminati) using technology Tesla, Einstein,Parsons, and Von Neumann, was named after the Sirian solar system and constellation. Its former directors now trying to expose its secrets claimed that the Sirians gave them their technology of mind-control, time-travel, invisibility, etc.

Our chronology indicates that at one time:

the Sirians controlled Mars

the Pleiadeans controlled Venus

the Orion League controlled the Moon

the Vegan Lyrans controlled the Earth .....

while galactic war devastated Lemuria, Atlantis, and other ancient Earth empires as these races fought for control of the Earth’s natural resources, people, and rulers.

The Sirians evacuated Mars when its atmosphere and surface was devastated by nuclear war and a comet, while the Alcyone Pleiadeans evacuated Venus in the same conflicts Venus Whov. Whatever race lived on Mercury also had to leave its material plane, yet we have yet to discover specifically who lived there before it was hocked out of orbit and spun closer to the sun in a nuclear cataclysm. Of course, Maldek was blown apart into asteroids in these cataclysms.

This scenario is allegedly the reason why the Galactic Confederation, the Solar Police Force, the Ashtar Command, and even the Orion League (Star Wars Evil Empire) will not allow a major nuclear war on Earth anymore. Such a cataclysm would destroy the Orion colony on the Moon (Luna) and the Sirian colony today on Mars. The Illuminati and its 4^th Reich (New Berlin Nazis), Asian Communism, and Western nuclear powers do not want such a war for the same reasons. It took too long to recover last times. The Clementine probe that took over a million detailed photos of the Moon in the 1990s took a lot of detailed photos of domes and ruins and artifacts on the Lunar surface that are not available to the public. I have been in close association with Richard Hoagland and his Mars Mission.

Hoagland is the famous scientists who wrote the Monuments of Mars and publicly exposed the Face, pyramids, and other Martian and Lunar ruins on CNN, major newspapers, and national and international magazines. He came to Maui in 1994 when I was only able to say Hi and shake hands. Later I became affiliated with his Mars Mission to expose this huge news. We witnessed color photos of the shattered domes and other artifacts on the Moon blown up to movie theater screen size at the Castle Theater on Maui. They were shocking evidence of some incredible ancient Lunar cataclysms.

Hoagland also sent details of suppressed photos taken by Clementine that further confirm this evidence and a lot more. It also turned out that NASA had been releasing several-generation copies of the key photos instead of the clearest archive originals, and in the archives same key photos were missing completely! Hoagland had demanded access to the NASA archives and was given a lot of run-around until certain NASA researchers sided with him and showed him some hidden evidence. We suggest to you... go to a video store and rent out Arnold’s classic movie Total Recall. This is a mostly TRUE MOVIE about secret Pentagon/ Soviet/ Illuminati activities on Mars. A lot of truth is leaking out as so-called fragmented fiction. Some researchers now think the 39,000 year old Egyptian Sphinx was a Sirian/Martian GODDESS whose breasts were sheered off by invading Christians who condemned goddess worship and defaced the hair and face destroying its feminine features. This information comes from the Phoenix Project scientists and technicians.

Aleister Crowley and his Magic secret societies are allegedly the legacy of Martian Secret Science and Sirian psychic and inter dimensional genetics. There are apparently some thriving underground cities on both the Mars and the Luna where
intergalactic colonists and their associates shuttled up from:

the Phoenix Project

Delta Forces’

Pentagon lunar-circles

New Berlin (underground in Antarctica)

Illuminati

...plan their future survival during prophesized Earth cataclysms.

UFO and Moon

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Apollo Moon astronauts were often followed to the Moon, at times, by U.F.O.s. Official N.A.S.A. Apollo 12 photograph AS12-497319 clearly Shows a large U.F.O. hovering over an astronaut walking on the Moon.

The government agencies policies of keeping U.F.O.s secret from the general public is well-known and has been well-documented in several books by famous astronomers like J. Allen Hynek (who investigated U.F.O.s for the U.S. Air Force), Major Donald Keyhoe, Timothy Good (in his book Above Top Secret), and many other professionals. One unquestionably absolute expert we may want to consult is Christopher Kraft, who was director of the N.A.S.A. tracking base in Houston during the Apollo Moon missions, when he revealed the following conversation “after” he left his work at N.A.S.A.:

- ASTRONAUTS NElL ARMSTRONG and BUZZ ALDRIN speaking from the Moon: “Those are giant things. No, no, no .... this is not an optical illusion. No one is going to believe this!”
- MISSION CONTROL (HOUSTON CENTER): “What...what...what? What the hell is happening? What’s wrong with you?”

- ASTRONAUTS: “They’re here under the surface.”
- MISSION CONTROL: “What’s there? Emission interrupted... interference control calling Apollo II.”

- ASTRONAUTS: “We saw some visitors. They were there for awhile, observing the instruments.”
- MISSION CONTROL: ”Repeat your last information.”

- ASTRONAUTS: “I say that there were other spaceships. They’re lined up on the other side of the crater.”
- MISSION CONTROL: “Repeat...repeat!”

- ASTRONAUTS: “Let us sound this orbita ..... In 625 to 5...automatic relay connected... My hands are shaking so badly I can’t do anything. Film it? God, if these damned cameras have picked up anything... what then?”
- MISSION CONTROL: “Have you picked up anything?”

- ASTRONAUTS: “I didn’t have any film at hand. Three shots of the saucers or whatever they were that were ruining the film.”

- MISSION CONTROL: “Control, control here. Are you on your way? Is the uproar with the U.F.O.s. over?

- ASTRONAUTS: “They’ve landed there. There they are and they are watching us.”
- MISSION CONTROL: “The mirrors, the mirrors...have you set them up?”

- ASTRONAUTS: “Yes, they’re in the right place. But whoever made those space ships surely can come tomorrow and remove them. Over and out.”

It is logical that if government agencies keep the existence of U.F.O.s from outer space secret from the public, if they discovered the home of the U.F.O.s that would obviously be secret also, and they would have to release “cover stories” about the Moon to hide the truth. The problem has been that witnesses have “talked” to our Department of interplanetary Affairs.

Among the experts who told us about life on the Moon and the discoveries of the astronauts were:

Farida Iskiovet, former U.F.O investigator for the President of the United Nations

a mysterious Mr. English who did TOP SECRET photography for N.A.S.A.

the moon astronauts:

Commander Mark Huber formerly of Naval Intelligence who knew much top secret data

Sgt. Willard Wannal (formerly Army Intelligence)

Major Wayne S. Aho (formerly Army Intelligence who submitted U.F.O research to Congress)

Dr. James Hurrah from the N.A.S.A. space program

and others who have secret identities. I personally spoke to all of the above leaks and investigators

Suspicion or interest in life on the Moon grabbed public attention when the inventor of the radio (so credited) Marconi, Tesla publicly reported his experiments in transmitting radio signals to the Moon and attempting to receive answers, which he indeed believed took place. After that, American, British, and French astronomers reported glowing and moving and sometimes even blinking lights on the Moon during the 1920s and 1930s, often reported in local newspapers and scientific journals of those years which can often be found in major libraries. This interest peaked when a respected expert in aerial phenomenon, Pulitzer Prize winning astronomer John O’Neill, publicly reported observing the “bridge” on the Moon that appeared artificially constructed by intelligence. There were other witnesses to the twelve mile long “bridge” which was erected because it was not seen in the same place before, and was later dismantled for unknown reasons (was it too conspicuous?). The bridge sighting occurred in the early 1950s.

Most of the Gemini and Apollo astronauts admitted that they saw U.F.O.s while they were in orbit, particularly Gordon Cooper who publicly admitted he believed they were intelligently controlled craft (we have seen his photos of U.F.O.S). James McDivitt also took U.F.O. photos while orbiting Earth and we have seen these also. One Soviet astronaut mission in the 1960s, designed to set a new record for time in orbit, was mysteriously aborted right after their craft entered space. Private researchers with powerful receiving radio equipment claimed the Soviet cosmonauts were followed into orbit by U.F.O.s, which surrounded them and began bouncing them back and forth as if they were playing a ball game with the Soviet craft. The cosmonauts reportedly panicked and were immediately sent back to Earth.

During the 1950s many U.F.O.S seen over Earth were tracked back to the Moon by government tracking stations in secret complexes in deserts in Arizona and Nevada and inside underground mountain bases. WE HAVE ONE PHOTO OF A SAUCER SHAPED CRAFT HOVERING OVER THE MOON, taken by a civilian astronomer. Sergeant Willard Wannail, who investigated U.F.O. landings on Ohio when in Army Intelligence, showed us an 8 by 10 CLEAR glossy detailed photo of a silvery spaceship hovering directly over a huge Moon landscape, estimated to be several miles long, and said to be CITY-SHIP designed to transport thousands of people between solar systems or galaxies and live for extended periods of time in self-sufficient orbiting communities!

In the 1950s to 1960s more moving, flashing, and stationary lights were seen on the Moon by civilian astronomers, usually inside craters, along with a mysterious glowing cross. Soviet and American spacecraft in orbit over the Moon began to photograph mysterious structures on the Moon which were censored by N.A.S.A. for awhile, yet were obtained by Scientific researchers like Fred Steckling who demanded the evidence from this so-called “civilian agency.” It is amazing how N.A.S.A. released these photos WITHOUT COMMENT! Many of the structures can only be seen when these photos are blown-up to a much larger size.

The U.S. spacecraft RANGER II took over 200 photographs of Moon craters with domes inside. These domes are nothing new. They were reported in the news media by French astronomers about 48 years earlier. 33 Moon dome photos from Lunar Orbitter 2 were released without comment, in Washington D.C., in 1967. On June 1, 1966, N.A.S.A. had admitted to the news media that astronauts had seen U.F.O.S, then later on contradicted themselves by denying it (anyone who saves all official releases on U.F.O.S from agencies will find many contradictory statements to prove a cover-up). That did not stop Astronaut Gordon Cooperfrom his public statement “I believe in extraterrestrial life because I saw a spacecraft” (on his 16^th Gemini orbit).

There are also the photos in our files of the “Blair cuspids”, taken by satellites on the Moon showing strange spires that have been found to form perfect geometric patterns. Tall white spires resembling the Washington monument were photographed on the lunar surface, along with mysterious straight roads or tracks that cut through craters, hills, valleys, and rock piles without a twist. Some of the domes had flashing lights. Several N.A.S.A. photos we saw showed long cigar-shaped objects parked on the Moon, which later departed in other photos. We observed one photo of a pyramid like object on the dark side.

THE DARK SIDE is always hidden to our eyes and telescopes on Earth, an obviously perfect place for aliens to construct secret hidden spaceports. A lack of atmosphere is no problem to enclosed domes with artificial environments, which even N.A.S.A admits our scientists have the technology (but not the billions of dollars) to construct, an underground bases with artificial air-conditioning like our military now has on Earth. Astronaut Edgar Mitchell privately told Farida Iskiovet, of our Department of Interplanetary Affairs, that he saw a U.F.O. on the Moon.

In 1978 a mysterious tall, stocky, agent-appearing stereotype man moved to Maui, identified as a Mr. English. I cannot give out his full name. He had a TOP SECRET security clearance from N.A.S.A., and reported to me that he was staff photographer to the Apollo astronauts, had photographed the wreckages and bodies of crashed alien flying discs in a secret Texas Air Force hanger, and had a seen an unidentified spacecraft in flight while with astronauts. He traded U.F.O. data with us and admitted the astronauts have seen alien spacecraft on the Moon, and that our Moon expose’ is true!

There is an unconfirmed report that when Buzz Aldrin opened the door after landing on the Moon, he immediately saw a transparent etherical being staring at him outside. Welcome to the Moon? N.A.S.A. director Kraft added that there was a public and a secret private A.S.A. radio frequency between Moon and Mission Control and that the conversation above took place during a mysterious two minute interruption in public transmissions. To prove it is the truth, hundreds of independent CIVILIAN radio operators with powerful VHF equipment separately reported hearing the AME spaceship report from the Apollo moon-walkers!

Soviet radio operators also picked it up and published it in Moscow. Another mysterious radio message from the Moon was broadcast on French public television only one time before it was censored AFTER it leaked out. That transmission appeared to be a mysterious clearly spoken ALIEN LANGUAGE. The famous French historian and author Robbert Charroux published the transmission which has been suppressed in the U.S. It came from astronaut Worden who transmitted it to N.A.S.A, and expert linguists have been unable to translate the message.

However, the following PUBLIC RADIO BROADCASTS from the Moon WERE NOT CENSORED:

“The dome-ical structures are partially filled up. Breach has either flowed into these STRUCTURES before they were BUILT or the DOMES are younger than the floor. The area is OVAL or ELLIPTICAL.”

What are these domes and structures that were built? Apollo radio public broadcasts from the Moon also used terms and phrases “FLASHES OF LIGHT”, “BUILDINGS”, “ROADS”, “TRACKS”, and “HUGE BLOCKS.” When news reporters asked space program officials what these terms were all about, they were absurdly told that these are metaphors for geological formations. However, the scientist “who taught geology to the astronauts”, admitted he was totally baffled by those terms! This geology expert, Farouk El Bez admitted the clincher when he said, “Not every discovery has been announced.” When news reporters asked him about the flashes of light, Mr. Bez replied, “there is no question about it. Not natural.”

Astronaut Irwin radioed back to Earth, “that’s the most organized structure I’ve ever seen.” How could the most organized structure Irwin had ever seen be a natural formation? How can geological formations flash on and off.

N.A.S.A. tried to distort the truth by replying volcanic action could cause the flashes, yet in other contradictory statements said there was no volcanic activity observed in those areas. Domes up to 1,500 feet high, taller than our skyscrapers were too high to deny that they were bigger than any building on Earth (miles wide). A radio tower appearing thing was photographed, along with sequences of large moving vehicles leaving tracks in the lunar soil. We have these photo reproductions.

A huge clearly photographed lake, wider than Maui island, was photographed on the hidden back side of the Moon with a spaceport near it (NASA APOLLO 8, with what appears to be a long road in the distance.

Have any of you ever wondered why there have been NO ASTRONAUTS SENT TO THE MOON SINCE 1973!? Why was the Moon program suddenly ended after so much publicized great success? What sense does that make? 17 years of no landings as of this writing. Why did N.A.S.A. scientists and spokesmen of the 1960s brag about how they were going to establish space bases, mining operations, and colonists on the Moon in the 1980s change their plans? The likely excuse is lack of money from Congress, but that was a cover-up.

The Apollo program only cost less than one percent of the budget! Considering the huge billions spent on DEFENSE, the military advantage of having a base on the Moon would be enormous. Why were the American space officials of the 1950s-60s so publicly afraid that the Soviet military might beat America to the Moon to gain a military advantage. So why risk that serious threat by abandoning the Moon flights? And why did the Soviet cosmonauts NEVER land on the Moon?

COULD IT BE THAT THE MOON IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY AND SOMEONE ELSE'S PROPERTY, AND THE MOON GOVERNMENT DOES NOT WANT US COMING UP AND INVADING THEIR TERRITORY WITH OUR NUCLEAR WEAPONS, POLLUTION, UNWELCOME MILITARY FACILITIES, DISEASES, LITTER, MINING EXPLOITATION, AND HISTORICALLY PROVEN RECORD OF FOREIGN IMPERIALISM?

Could it be that Moon locals kicked us off their world fearing that Americans would exploit and conquer the Moon like we did with the Mexicans in the U.S. deserts, the Hawaiians, and other cultures. And would Moon citizens welcome Soviet Communist dictatorship, military aggression, and slave labor circa 1960s-70s? We doubt it.

N.A.S.A. is passed to the public as a civilian organization, but is it really? It is funded by government controlling the policies by financial pressures. N.A.S.A. directors and astronauts have traditionally been former military officers drawing military pensions, many who own stocks or positions in defense industries as civilians. When in the military they took oaths of secrecy regarding U.F.O.S, subject to U.F.O. secrecy laws like JANAP-146, The Code of Federal Regulations title 14 section 1211, and other military laws demanding U.F.O. secrecy for life. Punishments include fines up to $10,000, 10 year jail sentences, persistence harassment, and transfer or confinement to remote inconvenient military stations.

While in the service people who talk too much about U.F.O.S may be court martialled, reduced in rank and pay, and dishonorably discharged, and in retirement they can lose all retirement financial and medical benefits... their income. In all cases they are threatened with confinement to mental institutions and the government agencies WILL PUBLICLY SAY THEY LIED OR SUFFERED FROM HALLUCINATIONS, etc. In cases of high ranking officers or key scientists or N.A.S.A. directors knowing shocking details about alien visitors, these individuals know that they can accidentally and suddenly die with their whole families in “planned” accidental deaths engineered by military intelligence agents.

In extreme cases many were transferred to Vietnam or other foreign war zones, and bombed by American airplanes on purpose to silence them... and blame enemy planes. Some of the M.I.A.S met that fate... or were imprisoned in remote underground bases after they mysteriously disappeared “in action.” NOTE THAT the astronauts who talked about U.F.O.s were all from the era before the first APOLLO Moon landing (1969) before the wall of secrecy was imposed and during the years N.A.S.A. publicly admitted U.F.O. sightings.

Why did N.A.S.A. suddenly change it’s public policy? Was it the Apollo orbit around the Moon that sent back photographs of mining operations, domes, roads, a pyramid, a spaceport (named Luna) and lakes on the hidden dark side of the Moon? Did they fear a possible alien invasion from that base and panic and fear the public would panic? Was it too embarrassing to admit that all the billions of taxpayers dollars spent on the space program was largely wasted because the main goal was to colonize the Moon and we were kicked off that world because “we are screwed-up?” No official wants to admit what corrupt negative folks they are on the six o-clock news, after being told so by aliens!

Why do some of the craters photographed on the Moon have the exact same walls, floors, rims, and other details as atomic bomb craters... and do not geologically look like the other craters formed by meteor impact? The Lamont Observatory and other civilian experts noted that fact.

Why did the N.A.S.A. program land a probe on the Moon, its batteries went out, and it stopped working supposedly forever, and then someone or something mysteriously turned it back on, repaired it, and it began working after a year of silence? When confronted with their photos of domes and roads and other artifacts, why do certain N.A.S.A. spokesmen reply “no comment”, “subject to further analysis”, “not all the discoveries have been announced” and other double-talk to keep them looking clean if the bubble ever bursts big-time?

Plate 115, Apollo 16, 16-18918 has to be blown-up to clearly see the large oval-shaped object inside a crater. N.A.S.A. has no scientific explanation for this object that does not fit into the natural terrain.
Apollo 13 NASA NO. 13-60-8609 shows a large circular glowing UF.O. hovering over a very dark Moon landscape, definitely not natural.
N.A.S.A. LUNAR ORBITER 5 Photo HR 1033, taken on the hidden side of the Moon, clearly shows a huge cylindrical shaped object appearing to be parked on the Moon with front section in an opening on the side of the crater at Mare Moscovience. There is no scientific geological explanation.
Apollo 15 photo 1512640 shows a reported mining operation at the Humboldt crater. 3 domes are shown inside the crater Archimedes.

The ancient Babylonians, Sumerians, Egyptians, Chaldeans, Phonecians, Assyrians, Aztecs, Mayans, Hindus, and Tibetans all left written records claiming they were contacted by ancient astronauts who taught them the basics of civilization, but not technology that could be used against the E.T.s. Modern historians do not tell us that because they believe the ancients were not telling the truth... with no documented evidence to PROVE the ancients made-up the histories.

There is a lot more evidence the ancients were telling the truth, based on the astronomical knowledge no primitive cultures could has possibly attained, artifacts and ruins only a modern technology could create, and the sudden appearance of the Egyptian civilization at its cultural peak with no prior history of evolving. There is a lot of documented proof.

Many scientists in 1990, as well as thorough archeologists-explorers like Robbert Charroux, Eugenes Savoy, Warren Smith, Peter Colosimo, Dr. George Hunt Williamson, and many others in my files from the last few decades, say they’ve absolute scientific proof of ancient astronauts based on ancient writings, ruins, artifacts, and historical contradictions they have analyzed in painstaking investigations.

I have also talked to Farida Iskiovet of the United Nations U.F.O. investigation and 8 former army, navy or air force intelligence officers who had top secret security clearances, as well as former N.A.S.A officials, and our department interviewed some ex C.I.A. agents... who all say they know there were ancient astronauts influencing earlier cultures... and here is the bombshell... there is scientific proof of ancient nuclear warfare on Earth left by radiated ruins and skeletons, nuclear bomb craters on Earth from ancient times, and buildings and objects with that nuked look, as well as carbon-dating and radiation tests on these things. Is that tied into the nuclear bomb appearing Moon Craters?

And if ancient astronauts could get to Earth from other solar systems, it would be easier for them to get to our Moon because its thin atmosphere and absence of violent weather would make it much easier for construction and mining...not to mention its absence of large empires of hostile locals!

We have accumulated massive research indicating our Moon was colonized and explored by races from other planets, most notably in the Orion constellation, and that aliens called ZETANS from Zeta Reticuli are active there today. The Zetans have been analyzed by government psychologists to be, in ways, similar to Nazi scientists... technologically very advanced and materialistic, intellectual geniuses, yet lacking the kind of compassionate emotions and spiritual desires common with most people in our Earth nations.

To N.A.S.A, the Pentagon, the President and his top aids... that finding is a bit too scary to put on our six o’clock television news. If you think people might panic, you must first realize that the military officers who have been running the C.I.A. and other intelligence agencies and a Secretary of Defense already HAVE panicked. If they can do that will all their military power, where do we stand? A chance?

There is also absolute scientific proof that the Zetans have forcibly abducted thousands of Americans, many who were used in bizarre Nazi-like genetic experiments. The locals on the Moon, from Rigel, Betelguese, the Barnard Star, and a planet orbiting Sirius, most known as “grays” but not all (some are blue, Nordic blondes, or orange or even pale white), are the ALLIANCE OF THE HOLY ...their capital planet reportedly TYRANTOR. They have been involved in a star wars empire intergalactic war for at least 50,000 years, during which they invaded on conquered planets in Rigel and enslaved many people, the star wars against the Lyrans and Vegans, and against the Sirians who would not join the ALLIANCE OF SIX.

Some of these star wars were fought on Earth in ancient times when colonies from different planets fought for our planet to try to take control. The Pleideansfrom planet Erra, humans from a spaceport on Venus, Sethians, Centaurians and beings from the reported 12^th planet in our system were involved in these battles on Earth and were mostly driven off the planet (except for remaining secret underground cities and bases all of those civilizations still have on Earth). TheZetans now have a spaceport on the hidden dark side of the Moon, and many underground cities there too. They also have scientific, military, and mining stations on the surface of the Moon. So Americans and Russians can’t just fly up there and plant their flags and say, “hey, this is ours!” (like they are used to doing after invading other countries on Earth).

Government agents have been forced to do everything they can theorize or scam on, to make it look like the Moon is a dead world impossible to inhabit. What they do not tell you is that ZETANS do not need an atmosphere like ours to breath because ZETANS do not have lungs. They do not need to irrigate and grow crops because Zetans have no digestive systems. They do not need to worry about being too hot or cold because they have incredibly thick tough skin... like reptiles only more extreme and much tougher... and are cold-blooded... the sun, heat, and cold on the Moon do not damage their skin.

In fact, they would DIE IN OUR EARTH ATMOSPHERE without a space suit, like they did after emerging from those crashed flying saucers... because our Earth atmosphere is poisonous to Zetans. The atmosphere in one of their planets, orbiting a dying red star sun, is composed of elements like sulfur and carbon monoxide... described by some scientists like the runaway greenhouse effect of out of control pollution Zetans would like on Earth for themselves. They cannot live on the surface of Earth without creating genetic sub-human hybrids in laboratories... part them and part us. So they live in underground cities in the United States, Soviet Union, Moon, Mars and certain asteroids off Jupiter.

In ancient times a planet between Mars and Jupiter, Maldek, was destroyed and turned to asteroids by a nuclear war, allegedly from Zetanic influence. Mercuryhad a civilization and atmosphere and was destroyed by nuclear war, reportedly knocking it out of orbit sending it too close to the sun. MARS also had nuclear wars which reportedly destroyed its oceans, much of its atmosphere, forests, and farms (which were further devastated by a passing comet or asteroid).

We are fortunate such star wars did not destroy Earth after they set-off the global cataclysms that destroyed Atlantis, Lemuria, Rama, and other continents... and devastated civilizations in ancient Middle Eastern, Asian, and American Amazonian cultures, etc... We also have massive documented evidence that theN.A.S.A. SPACE PROGRAM is a public front and proof it is a public “disinformation agency”, and we have files of false contradictory statements it has made about the atmospheres of Venus, Mars, the Moon, etc.

There is another TOP SECRET military space program that is the REAL THING.

THE SECRET SPACE PROGRAM

It is known to some as Alternative 3. it is not designed to serve the public. It is designed to RESCUE the elite of the President and his inner circle, the Joint Chiefs of Staff running the military, key corporate executives playing the secret game, key top scientists in on the scam, certain favored political leaders, directors of the secret intelligence agencies, and key members of secretive organizations with names like

illuminati

Council on Foreign Relations

Jason Scholars (a top think tank)

MJ-12 or MAJORITY

Round Table

Bilderbergers

Tri-lateral Commission,

and other “insiders” from that a “THINK TANK” of top scientists from many fields, concluded in the 1950s to 1960s, was an unavoidable series of world cataclysms that would destroy most of humanity by the year 2,000.

Included in this scenario was the great threat of nuclear war, runaway greenhouse effect, out-of-control pollution and over-population (running out of necessary natural resources), and cataclysmic earthquakes and tidal waves caused by the periodic historical proven shifts of the Earth’s axis, as well as a comet projected to come too close to Earth. The first two alternatives involved using scientific technology and world negotiations with leaders to stop those disasters, but the experts believed that would be hopeless; as well as going underground on Earth which was also considered a bad idea.

Alternative 3 was to develop a top secret insiders space program with Majority (MJ-12) as a secret interplanetary state department in the Pentagon, and secretly build underground spaceports to live in on Mars and the Moon and surface domed manufacturing, mining, communications, and other centers. The ALTERNATIVE 3 astronauts landed on the Moon and built their own bases many years BEFORE the FIRST APOLLO ASTRONAUTS landed on the Moon in 1969, as the result of a secret treaty between the Pentagon and the Zetans. The Zetans helped the Department of Majority colonize the Moon with secret bases, and in exchange the Pentagon’s Majority Department helped the ZETANS colonize the United States with their own secret underground bases. The Pentagondecided that co-operating with the ZETANS was a better idea than being invaded!

The Zetans showed the Pentagon scientists how to Construct nuclear and mercury powered saucers, as well as space shuttles, rockets, and other N.A.S.A. technology that was inferior to the anti-gravity magnetic powered saucers of the Zetans and thus at a military disadvantage. Of course, our Presidents did not want to go on the six o’clock news to talk about how they made a top secret treaty with a violent conquering foreign planet that in the past nuked the Earth people! Not a bad reason for a big secret.

The Pentagon’s secret saucers were also aided by captured NAZI rocket scientists who were testing saucers they got from the ZETANS instructors in 1944, when the Zetans had the NAZIS do their genetic experiments for them... much easier than abductions. The primitive saucers, rockets, and shuttles of the pentagon insiders, often mistaken for REAL U.F.O.S, made it to the Moon and Mars. In May 1962, a secret spacecraft from the Pentagon landed on Mars and video-taped it, and I have seen the actual video. It shows a Martian landscape far different than what N.A.S.A. showed us!

Mars had canals, lakes, green vegetation, swamps, and animal life on the surface, but N.A.S.A. the dis-information agency wants you to believe it is a dead world so you will not expect E.T.S live there! They have never shown the public most of the 2,000 photos they promised us with VIKING I. When the first Apollo astronauts landed on our Moon in 1969, they were shocked to find it already inhabited. Thousands of Americans, Soviets, British, French, and Australians were ALREADY LIVING THERE! Astronauts who discovered too much truth and were considered security risks died in those famous accidents in the shuttle or on the launch pad, etc.

Have you ever wondered why the HUBBLE, the most expensive and expertise telescope ever invented, was flawed so it would not take the kinds of photos it should produce? Do you really believe all those technological experts from prestigious universities with billions of dollars at their disposal could make such embarrassing idiot mistakes. Please, do not be so naive, if you so do. This was a planned accident because that telescope was too good. It would photograph things on the Moon and Mars and in orbit that the public astronomers are not supposed to see!

The footage of the American spacecraft landing on Mars BEFORE Apollo landed on the Moon leaked out in major public British TV for one evening, thanks to a smuggling scientist, before it was Censored and never made it to America. British authorities tried to call it a hoax to cover-up the leak, but it was no hoax. The only astronaut who has ever died outside of duty said it was the truth on video, and he was silenced. We have seen that interview too, as well as a secret video stewing the scientist who leaked that video being assassinated. A book exposing ALTERNATIVE 3 appeared in 1976 and was quickly forced out of print. I have read it. You can’t even order it, and the printers will not issue a new release in spite of a huge demand! Very strange to turn down that big profit. Not really.

On public FRANCE INTER TV on August 3rd, 1962, at 8:00 A.M., and also in the weekly magazine Le Meilleur, was another leaked that was covered up fast.Alain Ayache reported:

“why has no one Spoken of the mysterious message heard on the Moon---20 untranslatable words? Perhaps it proves that other men exist, something that N.A.S.A wished to hide...words which really sow the Seeds of panic. Everything was going well that day on our Moon, then at 11:15 an extraordinary fading occurred and contact with Houston was lost. Worden, who was in charge of telecommunications, had his attention drawn by a breathing sound and a long whistle. A sentence was constantly repeated on one note, varying from a small to a shrill tone, and from lightly stressed sounds to raucous exclamations. Luckily the transmission was recorded on Lem’s tape recorder, and Worden transmitted it to N.A.S.A. Here are the 8 separate words .......

“MARA RABBI ALLARDI DINI ENDAVOUR ESA COUNS ALIM.”

Why did the Berlin Wall Come down so suddenly and unexpectedly with the cold war ending and enemies becoming friends? Did President Reagan give a clue at his speech at the 42^nd session of the General General Assembly of the United Nations, on September 21, 1987, saying,

“in our obsessions with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget much unites the members of all humanity. Perhaps we need some OUTSIDE universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think that how quickly our differences world-wide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world."

And yet I ask, “IS NOT AN ALIEN FORCE ALREADY AMONG US?”

In Reagan’s speech on December 4, 1985, he stated,

“if suddenly there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet, we’d forget all the little local differences that we have between our countries.”

Soviet President Gorbachev publicly stated,

“At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S. President said that if the Earth faced an invasion by extraterrestrials, the U.S. and Soviet Union would join forces to repel the invasion.”

(Feb. 6. 1987 in Soviet Life)

I ABSOLUTELY EMPHASIZE THAT YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR OF THE ZETAN INVASION, AS THE UNITED CONFEDERATION OF PLANETS (the friendly aliens) plans to remove all of them from Earth in 1993! More details in another one of my documents, tapes, and lectures. THIS IS NOT FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC. Use common sense, wisdom, discretion in spreading this information, while avoiding skeptics, paranoid types, religious fanatics, and the emotionally unstable.

Bermuda Triangle

2012-07-11T02:49:00.002-07:00

A German historian/scuba diver has recorded the exact location and value of deviations in magnetic fields off the Bahamas coast. Scientists to whom he has shown the figures do not dismiss the possibility that they are caused by micro-wormholes. His researches have also led him to wonder whether the American AUTEC naval base on Andros Island is not-perhaps on account of these same wormholes - an "Underwater Area 51 of the Caribbean." And he has reached some new conclusions concerning Atlantis and the Bahamas.

Oceans of ink have been spilt over the subject of the Bermuda Triangle, that apparent paranormal grab-bag of missing vessels (hundreds of ships and scores of planes), deviations in the magnetic field, abrupt outpourings of fog, UFO sightings far above the national average-and much, much more. A vast amount of pure speculation has accompanied these reports, the most controversial being that the Bahamas archipelago is comprised of the mountaintops and higher areas of the lost continent of Atlantis, sunk beneath these waters millennia ago.

As a practicing historian, with a doctorate in history and sociology from the German Sports University in Cologne - and therefore with a vigorous training in avoiding speculation - I certainly never expected to have anything to contribute to this controversy, which I tended to entirely dismiss.

Pure happenstance changed all that. I am also a trained scuba diving instructor; and, in 1995, I was sent by my company on a six-month stint to Nassau, Bahamas, with my wife and children. My German customers were the travel companies Inter Airlines and Aeroplane. My task was to develop tourist programs for scuba divers and help customers who were already there.

In the course of my work, I heard persistent reports of persons on boats who had experienced sudden deviations in their compass readings which had put them right off course. My curiosity as a historian got the better of me (and, besides, it would make for an unusual diving experience): I decided to look for magnetic field anomalies in the places where the deviations had been noted, and try to bring back exact figures for those deviations.

Based on the stories I'd heard, I chose more than half-a-dozen points at which to dive:

Fish Hotel, Lyford Cay, and White Hole, near Nassau

Lost Blue Hole, about an hour by boat from Nassau

Dogleg Reef, an hour by boat from Marathon, in the Florida Keys

the "Atlantis Wall," near Bimini

Sunken Train, near Eluthera

Fellow scuba divers Al Miller, an American, and Joel Green, a Jamaican, accompanied me on these expeditions. Over the course of several weeks, we carried out one to seven dives a week, depending on the time we had available.

Dressed in our scuba gear, and singly or in pairs, we dove at each location several times, usually descending to a depth of no more than a few dozen feet. The dives lasted 60 to 75 minutes; sometimes we made them from cheap inflatables, other times from rented boats.

We found clear evidence of deviations at four locations:

Fish Hotel, Lyford Cay, White Hole, near Nassau

Dogleg Reef, near Marathon, in South Florida

In the course of our dives, we recorded precise figures for what the compass readings were as compared to what they normally should have been.

Over the next few months, I communicated these figures to a number of physicists around the world. To a one, they told me that such magnetic field anomalies could be caused by briefly-appearing micro-wormholes. They could think of no other explanation for the deviations. Prof. John Wheeler, of Princeton University, in Princeton, NJ, has given the name of "wormhole" to what he believes may be "transit tunnels" between different dimensions of reality. According to Wheeler, these wormholes may be only a giga-fraction of a square inch in size-the number one preceded by 33 zeroes, preceded by a decimal point. Wheeler says these mini-black holes, constantly blinking in and out of the geometry of space, are thought to be bits of "virtual matter;" that is, they can exist for a limited time only. Their counterparts-so-called mini-white holes - are virtual anti-matter. Whenever these two kinds of virtual matter build up to any extent, they immediately destroy themselves. Wheeler can offer no explanation as to why mini-holes appear, disappear, then reappear.

Regarding my magnetic field anomaly readings, here are some typical responses, from some of the scientists-usually quantum physicists - to whom I spoke:

Dr. Werner Muller, physicist, Karlruhe, Germany, in a 1995 phone interview: "According to the figures you provided and the fact that no natural source was found in the bottom of the sea, there are just the quantum physical theories left to explain the phenomenon."
Professor Tsung-Min Gung, physicist, Tokyo, Japan, 1995; phone interviews: "If the theories of inter-dimensional connections are not completely wrong and can develop in the way I am expecting them to, the strong interdependencies with gravitation and the earth's magnetic field may be a way to track them down."
Grazyna Fosar, physicist, Berlin, Germany, in a radio discussion together with myself, in 1997: "From the physicist's point of view, gates to hyperspacecan be the only reasonable explanation for these mysterious deviation fields."

These startling results led me to investigate, tentatively at first, then with growing interest, some of the other "Bermuda Triangle" phenomena associated with the Bahamas area. I knew that the theory of compass deviations as being caused by "stargates" went back some way (though, as far as I knew, I was the first to come up with any figures); I was now told that the extremely high incidence of UFO sightings in the Bahamas archipelago had been associated by some researchers with these stargates.

I was further told that many of the sightings took place near the Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC), the American naval base on the Bahamas island of Andros, and that some researchers believed AUTEC might be an underwater "Area 51"- a place where secret research was being carried out on UFOs by the American government, and which, from time to time, was even visited by UFOs.

I decided, as a historian, to try to get to the bottom of these extraordinary speculations. The Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) possesses unique resources, including an underwater range for testing and research on acoustic equipment. It is located 177 miles southeast of West Palm Beach, Florida, at Andros Island and the Tongue of the Ocean, in Bahamas. The Andros Island AUTEC test facility-access to which must be obtained beforehand - covers only one square mile on land, but actually comprises 1,670 square miles of the surrounding Caribbean. This ocean area is a steep-sided deep-water embayment 100 miles long and 20 miles wide, with depths varying from 700 fathoms at the "rim" to 1,100 fathoms (more than a mile) at the northern end. By any reckoning, this is a huge amount of underwater space.

I learned from more than one source that the Andros base has an ultra-top secret caliber of security. Here is an illustration. In 1997, a group of duck-hunters - who, admittedly, had walked right by a PROHIBITED AREA sign less than a mile from the base - suddenly found themselves confronting an unusually thick wall of foliage. At that very moment, they were knocked off their feet and their faces thrust into the ground.

The hapless duck-hunters quickly discovered that the foliage contained sailors in heavy camouflage, and that other sailors, leaping out of the foliage behind them, had hurled them to the ground. Taken to a nearby tent, they were grilled by a colonel for hours, until they were certain they would be thrown into prison. Then, abruptly, the officer released them, declaring, "I believe your story."

In the waters off Andros island, strange craft have been seen from time to time which not only resemble UFOs, but which display the same unbelievable swiftness of motion and execute the same incredibly sharp turns. A Viennese businessman told me that, once, when he was yachting off the coast of Andros, he glimpsed, two miles away (it was a very clear day), in waters over a mile-and-a-half deep, a motionless object he thought was a whale. Coming to within almost half-a-mile of the object-which was now gleaming oddly-the yachter observed that it was some kind of man-made craft of ultramodern design.

Suddenly, the craft took off in a southerly direction at what my informant described as a "lunatic speed." It sped along the surface of the water. Then, abruptly, it disappeared beneath the waves, not to be seen again.

I have been told of conspiracy and suppression theories of a very dark nature which have been burgeoning around the subject of AUTEC as an "underwater Area 51," just as they have been around the subject of the real "Area 51."

Here is an example, passed along to me by an informant whom I interviewed in November, 1998, at NASA headquarters at Cape Kennedy, Florida.

I was told that highly respected and world-class British scuba diver Rob Palmer, who had been director of a "blue holes" research center in Bahamas for a number of years, had failed to surface after a dive in the Red Sea, in Israel, in mid-July, 1997, and was presumed dead. Blue holes are small underwater caves, apparently formed from within, which are found predominately in the area of the Bahamas archipelago. I think it possible that blue holes may, perhaps, have been formed by the popping in and out of existence of micro-wormholes.

Rob Palmer, apparently, had entertained a roughly analogous theory. In addition, he believed blue holes might be the transit points for UFOs arriving here from other dimensions, and his investigations were taking him closer and closer to the AUTEC base on Andros Island, where there is a very great proliferation of blue holes. My informant told me there was a rumor that Palmer might have been murdered by officials at AUTEC, probably because he knew too much, and possibly by a post-hypnotic suggestion which caused him to take his own life while he was under the waters of the Red Sea.

As a professional historian, I don't care to indulge in such lurid speculations. But their existence suggests there might well be significant clandestine activity taking place at the Andros island AUTEC facility.

Since so much of the far-fetched material I had investigated had turned out to have some basis in reality, however indirect, I now decided to investigate the story that the area of the Bahamas is the site of the (not completely sunken) continent of Atlantis.

Many have long believed that Bimini is a remnant of Atlantis. The idea was first mooted by trance-medium Edgar Cayce, who claimed that many of the people to whom he gave readings had lived past lives on Atlantis. Using the latest technology, scientists from the British Government's Building Research Establishment have even discovered tiny amounts of coal and gold in apparently man-made stone found on the seabed at Bimini.

As a historian interested in primary rather than secondary sources, I decided to read the single text upon which all of the thousands of books on Atlantis are based: the dialogue called the Critias, by the Greek philosopher Plato.

Moreover, I decided to read the dialogue, not, as so many have, as myth or metaphor, but as historical fact. And I bypassed most of Plato's detailed account of the splendors of this ancient kingdom, concentrating instead on its dimensions as reported by Plato: What shape did Atlantis have? How long and wide was it?

I learned something intriguing: that if you were to take the present-day Bahamas archipelago and raise the entire land-mass by 300 feet - or, to put it another way, lower the water level surrounding Bahamas by 300 feet (its level during the last Ice Age) - you would end up with a country that closely matched, in shape and size, the ancient Atlantis of Plato: The philosopher wrote in the Critias that the continent was larger than Egypt (as it was then known); that the center of the island, not far from the sea, was formed by a plain surrounded by shallow mountains to a distance of six miles; and that these mountains themselves were located in a large plain, surrounded by high mountains to a distance of 200 miles.

My conclusions regarding the so-called Bimini Wall, thought by many to be a remnant of Atlantis, were not nearly so "New Age." I believe that some of the stones making up the wall appear to be man-made, not because they came from Atlantis, but because they were left there during the American Civil War.

In those days, a great many ships ran the Union blockade to bring trade to Confederate harbors. Pursued by Union ships, these vessels often escaped into the shallow Bahamas waters where the big man-o-wars couldn't follow.

To navigate over the reefs that filled these waters, they frequently had to jettison weight so as to ride higher in the water. What easier way to do this than by dumping granite stones from the ship's ballast? That, I think, may account for a good many of the granite stones now found at such places as Bimini.

I pursued my investigations in a number of other areas. I found out, for instance, that Bahamas has its own legends of mysterious little monkey-like creatures that are almost never seen: the "chickcharnies". I discovered there are numerous "ghost stories" associated with Bahamas, and that the shamans of the area are reputed to have almost godlike-powers. I came away with the impression - one that can scarcely be proven scientifically - that there is high degree ofpsychic, even "interdimensional," energy in the Bahamas archipelago.

My attention, though, keeps returning to the "underwater stargates of the Caribbean," which I discovered with my friends Al Miller and Joel Green. I continue to wonder what might be the next step in researching these "stargates." I have a proposal. It would be interesting to actually try to enter one of these "stargates", except that they are usually microscopic to an extreme degree, and they tend to fluctuate in and out of existence.

Therefore, I would like to suggest that one or a number of psychics descend to the sites of some of these underwater anomalies, perhaps those near Nassau, which are shallow, and not far from shore, and not far from the Bahamas capitol, which could make an excellent host to a world press tempted to attend this unusual "Underwater Splashdown to the Stargates of the Caribbean." Jeanne Dixon may be too old for such a venture; but there must be many youngish, athletic and gifted psychics who could be persuaded to don scuba diving gear and venture to the bottom of the ocean to see what telepathic feelings and messages they might be able to pick up, filtering ever so briefly through these on-again, off-again, underwater micro-wormholes.

My proposal may seem outlandish. But I and my scuba diving colleagues would be glad to train as divers any prospective psychics, and descend with them to the ocean bottom off Bahamas. We could do it during the coolest month of the year in Bahamas-January. January 1, 2000, seems like a propitious date. Do I have any takers?

It's no accident that many ships, especially before the 1950s, sunk in that area. The reason can be found in the weather patterns that affect that area. A perfect example of the volatile weather in that area came in the form of Hurricane Andrew. This devastating hurricane passed right through the heart of the Bermuda Triangle, and caused incredible amounts of damage in the northernmost Bahamas, and also in south Florida.

Many other devastating hurricanes have passed through this area over the past 30 years, and have caused several ships to sink, even in modern times. Storm systems exiting the United States usually strengthen in the Bermuda Triangle during the fall and winter because the very warm water in that area helps to develop those storms very quickly and sometimes without warning.

The legend of the Bermuda Triangle actually started in the 1500s during the height of trading between Spain and the Americas. The peak trading season was between June and October, which is also during Hurricane Season in the Atlantic Ocean. Many ships, loaded with gold and jewels for Spain, would set out into the Bermuda Triangle, and would either never return, or would arrive in Spain badly mauled by terrible storms, which the people on the ships claimed were attacked by sea monsters. Actually, many of the ships sunk because the captains had no idea how powerful hurricanes could be, or how quickly storms could develop in that area. Today, with weather satellites, advanced radar, reconnaissance planes, and other observation methods, hurricanes and other storms are much more detectable and predictable. Ships can be turned away from them before they get into trouble.

BERMUDA TRIANGLE:
This area extends from Bermuda to the Southern tip of Florida, through the Bahamas past Puerto Rico, and then back to Bermuda. Is best known for over 100 airplane disappearances and over 1000 lives lost since 1945. Critics argue that sea piracy or bad weather is often to blame; however not allot of bodies or debris has been recovered. Some of the more interesting aspects of this area include: great ocean trenches of up to seven miles in depth, violent storms and hurricanes, unpredictable tidal like waves on calm seas generated by underground earthquakes, curious false bottom readings, and glowing streaks of luminescent fish or minerals. One general and common distress message which has been received during loss of ships and planes has been the reported observation of a spinning compass. Ivan Sanderson another serious researcher mapped twelve areas on the earth with abnormal electromagnetic aberrations shown by the map below:

The Bermuda Triangle is supposedly a "gateway to other dimensions" (Carnegie), but it is not. The Bermuda Triangle stretches from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Bermuda, and then to Miami, Florida. It is 14,000 square miles(36,260 square kilometers). Some say that planes, boats, and people have "disappeared." In fact about 50 people have supposedly "disappeared." Although, most of this can be explained by waterspouts, extreme air turbulence, electromagneticstorms, and powerful ocean currents, there are two major occurrences that started the myth: the major one, Flight 19, and the minor one, Mary Celeste.

A Brief History of the Devil's Triangle Limbo of the Lost. The Twilight Zone. Hoodoo Sea. The Devil's Triangle. The vast three-sided segment of the Atlantic Ocean bordered by Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, did not receive its most famous nickname until 1964, but reports of bizarre happenings there, or nearby, have been recorded for centuries. In fact, many claim that Christopher Columbus bore witness to the Bermuda Triangle's weirdness.

As the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria sailed through the area in 1492, it is reported that Columbus's compass went haywire and that he and his crew saw weird lights in the sky, but these events have mundane explanations. From the account in Columbus's journal, it is thought that his compass's slight inaccuracy stemmed from nothing more than the discrepancy between true north and magnetic north. As for the lights, Columbus wrote of seeing "a great flame of fire" that crashed into the ocean -- probably a meteor. He saw lights in the sky again on October 11, which, of course, was the day before his famous landing. The lights, brief flashes near the horizon, were spotted in the area where dry land turned out to be.

Supposedly five Navy Avengers and one Martin Mariner flight-bo disappeared without a trace. After that people started to blame the Bermuda Triangle, thinking, "Twenty-seven men lost in the Bermuda Triangle. This cannot be a coincidence. Also, isn't that the place where Mary Celeste was abandoned. This is weird." So, that is mainly how the rumor got started. In fact, the Martin Mariner flight-bo was never lost. It actually blew up 23 minutes after it took off, but still, they sent some more planes out to look for them.

Now here is some more about the myth. Supposedly, all the pilots were experienced. It was a "clear" day when Flight 19 took off. Their route was "160 miles east, 40 miles north, and 120 miles straight." Each plane took three people, but one person did not come. There were five planes. Five times three equals fifteen, minus one equals fourteen men. Twenty-seven minus fourteen equals thirteen. That means that about thirteen men went searching for fourteen men, and never came back, or so we think.

Here are some more facts. Lt. Charles Taylor was the Patrol leader of Flight 19. He was the only experienced pilot on the flight. He was leading the flight, and also had a hangover. So, when his compass went out, he thought he would fly by "Pilotage," and "dead reckoning." Later he thought he saw the Florida Keys, but it was actually an island of the Bahamas. So, then he flew north. It was raining, and after an hour he said to fly east. He had though that they were above the Gulf of Mexico, but they were heading to a very deep part of the Atlantic Ocean. Taylor also refused to switch to an emergency radio channel. By now the rain had turned into a huge storm. The planes could float for two minutes, if you had a perfect landing. You might even be able to get out of the planes, but that is only if the sea is calm. Flight 19 probably sank over the Continental Shelf, which is over thousands of feet deep. It is very hard to find practically anything in that water.

Mary Celeste Mary Celeste was a boat from the 1870's. It was abandoned, and no one, even to this day, knows why. It is supposed that the captain thought that there was going to be a huge storm, launched the lifeboat, and left. It supposedly was in the Bermuda Triangle, but it really was not anywhere near the Bermuda Triangle. It has been over 100 years, and still no one knows why, they just guess.

Other Disappearances

1609: mate Henry Ravens sailed in a long boat with a volunteer crew of 7 men. never made it to his destination

1812: the ship Patriot and its main passenger Theodosia Burr Alston, wife of the Governor Joseph Alston of South Carolina and daughter of the Former Vice President Aaron Burr.

1814: US Navy vessel the Wasp, commanded by Johnston Blakely.

1918: The USS Cyclops, captained by the eccentric Lieutenant Commander George W. Worley who frequented the bridge of the ship wearing long underwear and a bowler hat, left Barbados on March 4, 1918 to Baltimore. On March 13, when the ship was long overdue, a massive search ensued but no trace of the largest ship in the Navy or the 300 people on board were ever found.

1941: In late November and early December 1941, two the USS Cyclops's sister ships, Proteus and Nereus both vanished on separate runs from the Virgin Islands to the USA.

1945- Flight 19, 5 Navy Torpedo Bombers, 14 crewmen disappeared without a trace. A rescue plane with 13 crewmen was sent out and also disappeared without a trace.

1945: at Cecil Field in Jacksonville, Florida 24 skilled pilots A few hours later 10 planes returned out of the 12.

1947: Army C-45 Superfort vanishes 100 miles off Bermuda.

1948: Four-engined Tudor IV luxury liner lost with 31 lives. On January 30, 1948 the aircraft Star Tiger disappeared without a trace en route toBermuda with 31 people on board, moments later the pilot radioed to ground crew that they would be shortly arriving on schedule.

1948: DC-3 lost with 32 passengers and crew. On December 28, 1948, a DC-3 carrying 35 people from Puerto Rico also disappeared shortly after the pilot radioed a similar message that it was just 80 kms south of Miami.

1949: Second Tudor IV vanishes. Almost to the year, on January 17, 1949, the Star Tiger's sister, the Star Ariel, was about to switch from radio contact with its departure point in Bermuda to radio contact with its destination Jamaica, when it vanished. The pilot had reported perfect weather.

1949: a DC-3 carrying 30 men and women and 2 babies,

1950: Giant US Air Force Globemaster lost.

1950: American freighter, SS Sandra, 350 ft long, sinks without trace. The vessel and her 28-man crew were never heard from again.

1951- C-124 Globemaster with 53 passengers

1952: British York transport plane lost with 33 aboard.

1954: US Navy Lockheed Constellation vanishes with 42 aboard.

1956: US Navy seaplane, Martin P5M, disappears with crew of ten.

1962: US Air Force KB-50 tanker plane lost. A giant air force tanker took off from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia and never came back.

1963: Marine Sulphur Queen, 425-ft-long American freighter, vanishes with entire crew. No Mayday signals and no wreckage ever found. Two US Air Force giant stratotankers disappear on simple exercise. She routinely radioed her position and was not heard from again. Only one life jacket was found from the disappearance. C-132 Cargomaster also vanishes.

1967: Military YC-122, converted to cargo plane, lost.

1970: French freighter Milton Iatrides disappears.

1972: German freighter Anita, 20,000 tons, lost with crew of 32.

1973: the 33,000 ton German freighter

*An area called the "Devil's Sea" by Japanese and Filipino seamen, located off the East Coast of Japan, also exhibits the same magnetic characteristics. It is also known for its mysterious disappearances.

These were just a few of the disappearances that have been reported over the Bermuda Triangle but even if one were to accept the reasonable explanations purported about mutinies and bad weather and accidents and poor navigation, other occurrences in the same region are more hard to explain. For instance, a National Airlines 727 passenger flight disappeared from radar screens at Miami International Airport for 10 minutes. On arrival the crew denied that anything odd had happened to them except that they had flown through a light fog for 10 minutes. All the timepieces on the plane were ten minutes slow though they had matched up in a time check with the airport shortly before their disappearance. Several other pilots have related experiences of gaining impossible time after flying through sudden hazes.

Which of course, gives rise to other explanations, and ones that might better explain the Bermuda Triangle mystery, even if they go contrary to the natural laws of physics. That of an aberrant energy field that creates time warps or gaps. Another case that strengthens this theory is of a less fortunate pilot called Carolyn Casico and her passenger. Carolyn, a licensed pilot, took a charter flight to Turk Island in the Bermuda triangle. As she approached the island, ground staff saw her circling aimlessly. The airport manager received no response to radio contact, when he heard her exchange words with her passenger. "I can’t understand it. This should be Grand Turk but there is nothing there. It’s the right place on the map, the shape is right, but this island looks uninhabited - no buildings... roads ...nothing”. After a few more circles, she turned back and flew away. Carolyn and her passenger were never seen or heard from again ......

Also known as the "Devil's Triangle", this unexplained phenomena has provided an ample battlefield for a fierce controversy that has raged since the early 60's.

First reported as an AP dispatch in 1950 by E.V.W. Jones as a side note to the many ships lost in the area, and reiterated two years later in an Fate magazine article, by George X. Sand. Books on UFOs in the late 50's also spoke of the triangle, suggesting that it was alien in nature. The term "Bermuda Triangle" was not coined until 1964, when it was brought to light as "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle", an article in Argosy magazine by Vincent H. Gaddis. Bermuda Triangle fever peaked in 1974, with a number of books (mostly just re-written versions of the older books) getting national press.

Some believe that the Bermuda Triangle Phenomena is caused by the Lost City of Atlantis, sunk thousands of feet below the water's surface. The advanced state of Atlantis at the time of it's submersion, relied on the power of energy crystals. It is possible that these crystals are still at the bottom of the ocean, in a somewhat altered state, sending out rays of energy that either confuses the instrumentation of vehicles, or disintegrates them all together.

Lastly, many believe the Bermuda Triangle to be a man-made energy field using Tesla based technologies. A VLF-Resonance transmitter (a technology many believe to be in use by the North American Air Defense Command, or NORAD) would have an antipode directly in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle. This hypothetical system would be capable of recharging speculated secret electric-powered submarine classes, and would definitely provide enough interference to scramble signals that airplanes and boats rely upon.

The Lost Blue Hole Perhaps the most unusual dive site in the Bahamas, this natural hole extends about 100' across, drops to about 200', with its perimeter, dotted with isolated coral heads, starting at a depth of 40'. Most shops permit a maximum 80' depth. Along the perimeter divers may see large schools of reef fish, including Chromis, Angelfish, and Sergeant Majors, each circling around each coral head. Also found nearby will be large Groupers, giant Southern Stingray, eels and numerous sharks.

Nearby are these:

The Shark Buoy / Deer Island Buoy - used by the U.S. Navy for submarine exercises, tethered in 6,000 feet of water. Its mass floating on the surface attracts a wide variety of pelagic marine life such as Dolphinfish, jacks, Rainbow Runner, and Silky Sharks. Visibility usually in excess of 150 feet, offering great u/w photography.

The Vulcan Bomber - used in "Thunderball", is now a simple framework draped with a kaleidoscope of colorful gorgonians and sponges.

Tears of Allah - wrecked freighter where James Bond eluded the Tiger Shark in "Never Say Never, Again"; sits in 40 feet of water; good u/w photography site.

Tunnel Wall - network of crevices and tunnels, starts in 30 feet, exits along the vertical precipice at 70 or 80 feet.

Cay Sal Bank
There are few places in the world that can equal the diving you will find in Cay Sal. With pristine water and unparalleled wall diving it's no wonder so many people going there every year. Typically these trips last seven days, although six days trips can be arranged.

Upon clearing Bahamian Customs & Immigration in Bimini we journey south, diving as we go. Stopping at sites like Tuna Alley, Victory Reef, Hogfish City and finishing with Wanyes Shark Hole where it is not unusual to find sleeping reef sharks, or a pod of spotted dolphins

The Captains drive late into the night making way to remote Cay Sal. Anchoring at the Blue Hole, starting at 25 to 30 feet deep this hole cuts back then opens into huge bowl which extends beyond sight. The Red Hole, another dive site, is small enough to swim around and has an interesting cave off to one side. After a day of blue hole diving you head for Elbow Cay. where lush wall dives await you. You will spend the next few days doing wall dives, exploring deserted islands, enjoying super snorkeling with all the swim through and hidden caves. The Fire Demon is one such cave; viewed at the right time of day pillars of fire appear to dance across the cave floor.

But the walls are why you came. Elephant Rock, Eagle, Last Rock & The Chimney, wall dives that are teaming with marine life. This is no accident; because the gulf stream passes so close by there is a constant supply of fresh water circulating. This clean water also produces 150' plus visibility. Beginning at 65' these walls then drop off to ??? Often you will find the wall to be inverted, so lush is the overgrowth. As you drift along the wall be sure to watch for eagle rays, sharks, tuna or even mammals like ocean dolphins off in the distance. Amongst the coral you will find colorful tropical fish, eels, and huge lobster. Take time to explore the many chimneys that start at the top of the reef and open somewhere on the wall.

Edgar Cayce, who was know as a healer and psychic, and also as the father of holistic medicine, claimed that he was, in a former life, a citizen of Atlantis.Cayce told of an advanced civilization, with all the inventions of our modern day life including weapons of mass destruction. The most notable weapon being the "death ray". Death rays came in all sizes, but a giant death ray machine, which was the largest of all their weapons is said to be the weapon that destroyedAtlantis. Cayce also predicted that the western ridge of Atlantis would be discovered off the coast of the Bimini islands. In The 1960's a startling discovery was made in that same place. It was that of an ancient roadway built out of large stones which was under the ocean off the coast of Bimini. Could this be an ancient highway of Atlantis?

THE SCOTT STONES

The possible accuracy of Aaron Du Val’s claims about the "Scott Stones" near Bimini certainly appears to fit this criteria quite nicely. If the Edgar Caycereadings are correct, the sinking of the West Coast will rise this area above sea level in due course, making the ruins much easier to explore.

Before Du Val, Charles Berlitz had already given pictorial and radar – based evidence for submerged step pyramids, megalithic walls and walkways, as well as a fantastic – sized tower, which Hermann believes to be the Tower of Ilta that is referred to in the Edgar Cayce readings.

The ruins of temples dated at 12,000 years old have been found near Bimini, Bahamas. Preliminary analysis has revealed that the original structures, although smaller in size than the Great Pyramid of Giza, appear to have been more advanced. Casing stones have been measured which are of the same unique angle as those at the Great Pyramid.

The ruins are megalithic and bear a remarkable resemblance to ancient sites in Egypt. So called "quarry marks" found in the Aswan quarries and also on theGreat Pyramid, itself, appear to be identical matches with those found on the Bimini temple stones. Other characteristics closely match features at megalithic sites in Peru, the Yucatan, Ireland and Scandinavia. The stones are already drawing international attention and aggressive research and analysis projects are being set up which hope to commence more involved investigations shortly.

Analysis of these enigmatic ancient temples built near Bimini over 12,000 years ago has only just begun. Although many maps of the heavenly realm adorn various walls of these mysterious Bimini temples, there is an almost complete lack of other markings. Of the limited glyphs that do exist, however, several match those found in the famous Altamira Cave (known as the Sistine Chapel of pre-history) in Spain which contains the well-known bison painting. In addition, there are exact orbital plots of the planets and what seem to have been intricate star shafts, metal-coated walls, and intermingled stones of various colors. (including red, white, and black.)

Preliminary analysis has revealed that the original structures, although smaller in size, appear to have been more advanced than the Great Pyramid of Giza. Casing stones have been measured which are of the same unique angle as those at the Great Pyramid.

Other characteristics either closely match or are identical to features at megalithic sites in Peru, Mexico, the Yucatan, Ireland, and Scandinavia.

It appears that the most important or revered numbers associated with these ruins were the numbers five and nine. These numbers were also of great significance to the ancients of Egypt and Mesoamerica. Evidence indicates that a "checkerboard" calculator system was being used. Examples of this system were found on top of the Great Pyramid and were long used for numerical calculations in Mesoamerica. This same checkerboard pattern shows up on the lintel stones of temples built by Celts of Iberian origin. Also, according to some astronomers, this pattern served as a calendar regulator to measure the sunrise and sunset directions on solstices and equinoxes.

The major concern of the mysterious ancient civilization that produced these heavenly maps seems to have been Saturn and Jupiter -- with the oldest records reflecting and emphasis on Saturn.
The stones are already drawing international attention and aggressive research and analysis projects are being set up which hope to commence more involved investigations shortly. The unnamed discoverers have given the temple ruins the title of "The Scott Stones" -- in honor of the Professor who laid down the clues which made the discovery possible.

The exact location of the site is being withheld, for the present, until the proper government officials and museums can be notified.

To begin with, the area in which they were built, geologists tell us, has been underwater for about 12,000 years. There are also instances in which lava has flowed in between some of the temple stones which may give scientists an approximate date when submitted to testing. The antiquity of the stones almost leaps out at you upon first glance. There are hollows which have been left in certain broken stones which have undergone such an extensive amount of crystal growth upon their inner surfaces that they now look like the inside of a geode! In many cases, the cement that once held the huge stones together is now completely crystallized. Even more telling is the fact that, some of the massive granite blocks, themselves, now exhibit significant portions which have metamorphosed over the ages to the point where they are no longer even granite.

But perhaps, the most significant of all is the fact that organic matter has been found within an hermetic seal; along with unrusted, worked iron. The iron began to rust soon after the seal was opened, however; which would indicate that the seal had prevented the entry of oxygen for thousands of years. The organic matter was in pristine condition and should prove to be an interesting target for dating procedures. Other hermetic seals, which have yet to be opened, are known to exist, as well.

EXACTLY how old are the Scott Stones? will this ancient megalithic site be one of the first to yield an accurate account of its true age? Did men work iron before the Iron Age? We may soon know!

On the 23rd of September, 1998, by carefully following guidelines laid out by Professor Scott, the explorers were finally able to vault a formidable barrier, making it possible to begin deciphering an ancient form of writing which apparently goes all the way back to Atlantis, itself! The explorers say they are "thrilled, awed, and humbled" by the information they are recovering. They warn, however, that there may be many who will see this information as quite "shocking or up-setting."
The explorers also say that the unthinking and inconsiderate attitudes of some, to both the relevance and the fragility of these discoveries (not to mention the inevitable complications involved with governmental entanglements) leave them little room to reveal much more at this time and still insure the responsible protection of these sites. It is for this most obvious reason that the exact location of both of these sites MUST, for the time being, remain a secret; pending the institution of proper protection and supervision. Until such time, the explorers who discovered these matching sets of ancient records say they will continue to decode them and leave the rash and irresponsible thrill-seekers to their frantic antics of helpless envy.

As progress continued in translating an ancient form of writing found in Egypt, it was realized, to the surprise (and joy) of the explorers, that at some point in time, a SIMILAR SET OF RECORDS had actually been carried to the area of the Yucatan! A full explanation of how this was determined from actual records in Egypt will have to wait. But the important news, for now, is that by matching the available clues, the explorers were able to locate (on the 23rd of October) aMATCHING SET OF RECORDS IN THE YUCATAN AREA! This latest find is very exciting; and the explorers say that as translations continue, it may be possible to locate other sites with matching records, as well.

Records which have been translated, so far, deal with prophecy, historical events, dimensional shifts in time, and the religion of Atlantis. It is estimated that a full translation of records found, to date, could take years to accomplish. But the fact that the very same information is found in both hemispheres can only be seen as a RESOUNDING VERIFICATION as to the authenticity and intention of these records.

According to the explorers, however, without the actual records which were discovered at the Scott Stones site, these current researchers stand little to no chance of being able to locate the Egyptian set of records which has proven so helpful. Also, they say that without the Egyptian set of records, it will be virtually impossible to locate the matching set of records in the Yucatan area. The explorers explain that these three sets of records, though NOT identical, ARE intricately and indisputably linked; and they DO absolutely corroborate each other!! What's more, the explorers (although independent and having no connections whatsoever with the A.R.E.) are saying that:

"It cannot even be debated (probably much to the rancor or chagrin of some) that the actual INFORMATION contained in these records DOES POSITIVELY CONFIRM things which Edgar Cayce supposedly saw, including: startling new information concerning a predicted RETURN!"

Pyramid Found Under The Sea

SOURCE: Janet Ann Spencer extracts from "The Planetary Connections", British Edition, distributed by Roger Brown of "Fountain Adelaide", Issue No. 6, Winter 1994/5--

Newsweek reports the discovery of a pyramid under the Bermuda Triangle. "And not, just any pyramid, sonar tracing has mapped the pyramid's outline, and shows it rising to a height of some 780 feet from the otherwise flat ocean floor 1,200 feet below the surface of the Atlantic.

The discovery was made and then confirmed by Captain Don Henry, who discovered the puzzling phenomenon while making sonar tracings of the sea floor in an area of the Atlantic between South Bimini Island and the north end of the Cay Sal Bank. He was staggered when he realized that this undersea pyramidwas some three hundred feet higher than the Cheops Pyramid, with a base of a thousand feet square.

Dr. J. Manson Valentine, anthropologist and zoologist at the Miami Museum of Science, is convinced and points out that the area where the pyramid is located was once dry sand. The area has long been suggested as the site of Atlantis.

Christopher Dunn reports - I was intrigued by this report and immediately called DuVal to get more information. Surprised when DuVal answered the phone, I was more surprised when he immediately recognized who I was, having read my articles in Atlantis Rising and on the Internet. He stated emphatically that the quarry marks he had witnessed on the stones were identical to those I had taken in Egypt and published in my article. I asked him if there was evidence of precision machining with small corner radii where a tool was used. He responded that the radius on the stone he had seen was larger than the one I had published. He told me about petal-shaped holes that were drilled through 12 feet of granite. He claimed emphatically that if I came to Florida, I wouldn't be disappointed. He said that if anyone should view this site, I should. Upon further questioning he said that the stones were not a part of a recognizable structure, and wouldn't answer when asked if they were in their original location.

I asked DuVal where the site was located, but he refused to reveal its whereabouts, saying that the site needed to be protected. He also wouldn't tell me what kind of transportation I would take to get to the site. He did say that people have not recognized it for what it truly is. I told him I couldn't make it to his conference on July 25th, because I was moving into a new house. I told him I could probably make it at an earlier date.

After e-mailing the information to Atlantis Rising editor Doug Kenyon, I followed up with a telephone call. We both agreed that if DuVal's analysis of the site could be verified, it might indeed be a remarkable discovery. Doug had already talked to DuVal and, while keeping an open mind, he had his own reservations. He then told me about Richard Wingate, another researcher, and friend of his, who had worked in that area. One premise put forward by Wingate was that theMoselle Shoals (formerly the Moselle Reef) near Bimini are the ruins of a prehistoric structure. Many of the blocks of stone that make up the First Street Jetty and others in Miami were taken from the Moselle Reef and brought over on barges in the 1920s. In support of his premise that these are the stones of Atlantis,Wingate described petal-shaped holes drilled through 12 feet of granite, a feat that he says would require sonic drills.

Even though skeptical of DuVal, I was mindful of the experience I had while in Egypt in 1995. I came across and was able to inspect evidence of advanced methods of machining granite. The item I studied on the Giza Plateau had been overlooked for centuries, with thousands of tourists passing it by. Doug and I agreed that it may be worth checking out, and if I was shown an ancient artifact that was identified as being 12,000 years old with the same precision as the stones in Egypt, then we may have indications of a prehistoric advanced culture. We were both exceedingly curious, but suspicious that DuVal's discovery was actually the jetties in Miami.

On July 13 I received the following e-mail from DuVal.

Mr. Dunn, We have decided that it would be good for you to see the Scott Stones right away. We would be most pleased to spend 2 - 3 days in showing them to you, if that would give you enough time to get the pictures and measurements you might need. The best time for us would be anytime between 15 July and 21 July. Please make a short call to us, if this might be suitable for you. Or e-mail us if you would like to set a different date-time.

Thank you for your interest in this matter, Aaron Du Val.

When I called DuVal again, he extended his hospitality and offered accommodation if I would come to Miami. He stated emphatically that I would not be disappointed by what I saw. The following day, Tuesday, July 15th, I booked a flight to Miami for July 18th and called DuVal with my arrival time. He promised to pick me up at the airport.

We then talked further about the site and I told him I was going to write an article for Atlantis Rising on my visit. He said that they would probably reveal the location of the site at the conference, because once the photographs and video were shown, the site might be recognized. I asked if the site was on the mainland. He didn't answer. I asked him if the site was indeed one of the jetties in Miami, and described to him Richard Wingate's research. Again there was silence. He wanted me to promise two things: that I would not reveal the location of the site and that credit for the discovery of the site would go to Professor Scott, who laid the groundwork for their discovery. I assured him that I would not reveal the location of any site he showed me that had not been similarly identified in the past and that credit would most certainly go where it is deserved.

On July 16, 1997, at 10:30 P.M. I received a call from DuVal. He nervously apologized and informed me that he couldn't show me the site as planned. I told him I had already bought the plane ticket and on such short notice I couldn't get a refund. He indicated that he would reimburse me and asked how much it was. He gulped when I told him and said he would send me an e-mail the following day.

Needless to say, I received no e-mail or reimbursement, but I did have an enjoyable weekend in Miami. I spent quite a bit of time clambering over the rocks in the Miami jetties seeking evidence of advanced machining technology. I know there are people who would like to believe that eventually some hard evidence would be found to support Edgar Cayce's prediction that Atlantis would be found in the Bahamas, but I couldn't find it.

Interestingly, on this great Atlantean caper, I did locate much of what Mr. DuVal describes in his several press releases. The concrete curbs taken from the streets and thrown on the jetty were made up of red and white concrete. They also had the large radius that DuVal described. One large piece of concrete had a piece of steel running through a channel. There were many blocks of granite that had intriguing hole patterns drilled into them. I suppose with a little imagination, one could make something of them. I was looking for precision, and couldn't find it. The quarry marks were nothing like the quarry marks found in Egypt.

I stopped in the Miami Museum on the way back from Coral Castle in Homestead, and learned that the Egyptology Society was indeed scheduled to give a presentation on July 25th. I also learned that they are not affiliated with the museum as Mr. DuVal claimed, but meet periodically in their auditorium.

Just as anyone can rent a hall, anyone can publish on the Internet. All you need is a PC, a modem, access to an Internet service and, suddenly, you are an instant author! Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily, as it allows for greater freedom of expression. With this freedom, though, comes responsibility. We are responsible for how we influence others, as well as how we permit ourselves to be influenced. Obviously, after this experience, our major concern should be how other authors influence us.

The Egyptology Society of Miami still has not presented their findings to the public. Their originally scheduled date of July 25, 1997, was, to the disappointment of attendees, rescheduled for August 8, 1997. On September 27, 1997 DuVal apologized for treating me rudely and told me that they are waiting for lab results before revealing anything to the public, expressing, again, a concern for the protection of the site. Given that I specifically gave DuVal the opportunity to deny that the site was the jetties in Miami and he didn't, I can only conclude, by what I have observed, and given the circumstances leading up to my observations, that this may be the case.

If my assumptions are incorrect, Doug Kenyon, I'm sure, will give him some space and the opportunity to identify the correct site so that his claims can be checked and verified.

Let's not forget the story about the boy who cried wolf. Unsubstantiated reports such as these can harm serious researchers who accept the evidence that prove advanced civilizations existed in prehistory. They tend to muddy the water and give strength to the orthodox status quo.

by D. Trull
Enigma Editor

The island of Bimini in the Bahamas has long been a favorite hotspot in the search for Atlantis. Speculation has centered around a supposed "Bimini Road" (or "Bimini Wall"), a structure often said to have been paved on the ocean floor by Atlanteans, which is actually a natural formation of limestone. There have also been unfounded reports of stone columns and giant pyramids in the island's waters. Now another claim has surfaced of a great discovery at Bimini, and it appears that it will prove just as insubstantial as the Atlantis theories that have come and gone before.

Aaron DuVal, president of the Miami-based Egyptology Society, recently announced that a team of underwater explorers has found the ruins of 12,000-year-old temples off the coast of Bimini. DuVal claimed the structures bear markings and architectural specifications that match well-known megaliths in Egypt, South America and other parts of the world. The noted similarities to Egyptian ruins included distinctive quarry marks on the rocks and the same geometric angles present in the Great Pyramid of Giza. Other markings were said to match the Altamira cave paintings of Spain. To make his claims even more fantastic,DuVal said the Bimini ruins contained "exact orbital plots of the planets and what seem to have been intricate star shafts, metal-coated walls, and intermingled stones of various colors."

In the initial press release, dated July 6, 1997, DuVal made no specific reference to Atlantis. Later, in an interview conducted by a new age organization called New Heaven New Earth, he stopped short of claiming that these ruins were evidence of the legendary sunken city, although he seemed to relish the possibility.

"Atlantis is a pretty touchy subject," DuVal said. "Maybe this will be the trigger to bring more people forth to explore ideas that have been taboo in the past. Megalithic structures are not supposed to be in the Bahamas. These are closer to what you would find at Giza than what you would find in Mexico or Peru, which is very strange. People are saying unbelievable things like it could force the re-interpretation of the course of human history."

DuVal was quick to agree when the interviewer noted how his announcement seemed to fulfill the predictions of alleged prophet Edgar Cayce, one of the topAtlantis advocates of all time.

"This discovery fits right with his predictions," DuVal said. "Now we are not saying it is Atlantis, but it sure is strange how these findings not only match Cayce's predictions but Plato's writings as well, even to the metal-coated walls."

In fact, Cayce actually prophesied -- among other things -- that Atlantis would rise again to the surface in 1968 or 1969. Plato's description of Atlantis was most likely a reference to the Minoan island of Santorini, near Crete, which was devastated by a volcano.

DuVal remained tight-lipped on crucial details of the Bimini ruins, including the exact location of the findings and the names of the explorers who found them. He explained that he needed to work out arrangements with museums and the Bahamian government to protect the site before its location was made public.DuVal planned a press conference for July 25, promising full disclosure and presentation of video tapes and photographs of the ruins. He also stated that he had never claimed the ruins were Atlantis, apparently to combat the "Atlantis fever" word of his announcement had triggered on the Internet.

DuVal's claims garnered a stern rebuke from Dr. Paul Pettennude, an underwater archaeologist with the Maya Underwater Research Center, who is intimately familiar with the waters around Bimini. In a statement issued to New Heaven New Earth, he listed several reasons why nothing like the ruins DuVal describes could possibly exist. Among the points of Pettennude's argument:

-- "Bimini is not the lost world. It is a very, very popular resort destination and thousands of divers visit it every year. Every available reef is dived frequently and nothing else has turned up."

-- Equipment used by the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute of Melbourne, Florida, and the Rosenteil School of Oceanography at the University of Miami "is very sophisticated and there is nothing but known wrecks being found."

-- "In 1986, NASA had the Navy scour everything north of Cuba to north of North Carolina looking for pieces of the exploded Challenger shuttle. Every square foot of bottom down to 6,000 feet was examined and every piece of the wreck larger than a dinner plate was recovered."

-- "The U.S. Navy maintains a system called SOSUS which cost $16 billion to secure the ocean floor from foreign subs. It paints a picture of everything from the bottom up."

-- "The reefs off Bimini from 300 feet up to the surface are less than 14,000 years old. This is the level to which the water rose at the end of the last ice age. There could not be a sunken city because the Bahama Islands are not shrinking but actually growing inches per year. This would have made any ancient city unstable."

-- "Divers could not have found a city below 250 feet without special diving gases.... There are only a handful of people in the world trained and certified to dive these research blends. I am one of them and the group is a close knit family. No one has any knowledge nor has been asked to find an ancient city."

Pettennude also mentioned the spurious "Bimini Road" and noted that the man who discovered it in 1968, J. Manson Valentine, was one of his professors at the University of Miami. Another red herring that has thrown off Atlantis seekers at Bimini are stone pillars on the ocean floor that resemble shattered marble columns. These artifacts were actually formed by barrels of cement and similar materials that sunk from ships and hardened underwater, leaving stone casts after the wood staves of the barrels rotted away.

The weight of the evidence certainly seems to be stacked against DuVal. As it turned out, he canceled the July 25th, 1997 press conference at the last minute. He indicated that more time was necessary to ensure the safety of the ruins, lest they fall victim to looters and vandals. DuVal rescheduled the press conference for August 8, '97 but it was postponed a second time.

After extensive research, ParaScope has found no further information on this supposed discovery or any subsequent public remarks from DuVal. Obviously, the mass media has made no announcement on the discovery of Atlantis. The only news outlet that seems to be following the story is the web site of New Heaven New Earth, whose news bulletins are available to members only -- at a cost of $100 a year. News concerning the Bimini discovery is to be posted by NHNE "four weeks after our subscribers have received it." At ParaScope, where we believe the news should always be free for everyone, we may have more to report on this story after all the details have surfaced.

Extract from Plato's Timaeus and Critias This extract from the work of Plato (circa 427 - 347 BC) is the first appearance in classical literature of the Atlantis myth. It is supposed to be part of a story told by Plato's great grandfather (Critias), who heard it from his great-grandfather (Dropides), who heard it from an Athenian traveller (Solon). The narrator is an Egyptian priest talking to Solon. It is supposed to describe a historical war between the ancient Athenians and the legendary Atlantis.

'Our records show how your city checked a great power which arrogantly advanced from its base in the Atlantic Ocean to attack the cities of Europe and Asia. For in those days the Atlantic was navigable. There was an island opposite the strait which you call the Pillars of Hercules(Straits of Gibraltar), an island larger than Libya (Africa) and Asia combined; from it travelers could in those days reach the other islands, and from them the whole opposite continent which surrounds what can truly be called the ocean. For the sea within the strait we were talking about is like a lake with a narrow entrance (the Mediterranean sea); the outer ocean is the real ocean and the land which entirely surrounds it is properly termed continent. On this island of Atlantis had arisen a powerful and remarkable dynasty of kings, who ruled the whole island, and many other islands as well and parts of the continent; in addition it controlled, within the strait, Libya up to the borders of Egypt and Europe as far as Tyrrhenia (Italy).

This dynasty, gathering its whole power together, attempted to enslave, at a single stroke, your country and ours and all the territory within the strait. It was then, Solon, that the power and courage and strength of your city became clear for all men to see. Her bravery and military skill were outstanding; she led an alliance of the Greeks, and then when they deserted her and she was forced to fight alone, after running into direst peril, she overcame the invaders and celebrated a victory; she rescued those not yet enslaved from the slavery threatening them, and she generously freed all others living within the Pillars of Hercules. At a later time there were earthquakes and floods of extraordinary violence, and in a single dreadful day and night all your fighting men were swallowed up by the earth, and the island of Atlantis was similarly swallowed up by the sea and vanished; this is why the sea in that area is to this day impassable to navigation, which is hindered by mud just below the surface, the remains of the sunken island'

Translation by Sir Desmond Lee

first published 1965

Penguin Classics

Although Plato describes Atlantis as an island in the Atlantic Ocean, and some Canarian writers have associated Atlantis with the Canaries, it is now generally believed that the Atlantis myth is a memory of Minoan Crete, a civilization which was overwhelmed by the volcanic explosion of the Mediterraneanisland of Santorini in the fifteenth century BC.

Atlantis: Timaeus and Critias - Complete Text

Ivan Sanderson The professional biologist who founded the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in Columbia, New Jersey, wrote "The Twelve Devil’s Graveyards Around the World" for Saga magazine in 1972. Reprinted in Paradox, by Nicholas R. Nelson, Dorrance & Co., Ardmore, Penn. 1980.

"... with several associates, he set out to 'pattern the mysteries' by taking full advantage of modern communication technology and statistical data analysis. His success was startling. "The Twelve Devil’s Graveyards Around the World," plotted ship and plane disappearances worldwide, focusing attention on 12 areas, equally spaced over the globe, in which magnetic anomalies and other energy aberrations were linked to a full spectrum of strange physical phenomena.

Highest on Sanderson’s statistical priority list was a lozenge-shaped area east of Miami, in the Bahamas, on the western tip of the infamousBermuda Triangle. This area’s "high profile" of strange events, Sanderson concluded, was mostly due to the enormous flow of air/ sea traffic in the area. Other zones of anomaly, though less familiar, were equally rich in disappearances and space-time shift occurrences. ...

Another area of continuing disappearances and mysterious time-warps is the Devil’s Sea located east of Japan between Iwo Jima and Marcus Island. Here events have become so sinister that the Japanese government has officially designated the area a danger zone. Sanderson theorized that the tremendous hot and cold currents crossing his most active zones might create the electromagnetic gymnastics affecting instruments and vehicles. His theory is now being balanced against several."

by Eleanor Van Zandt and Roy Stemman
circa - 1976

The riddle of Atlantis is among the greatest of the world's unsolved mysteries. Where, for a start, was the exact site of this huge island civilization? did it really, as early historians reported, vanish from the earth in a day and a night? Small wonder that since the earliest times scholars, archaeologists, historians, and occultists have kept up an almost ceaseless search for its precise whereabouts. Beginning with the Greek philosopher Plato's first description of the lost land that was apparently "the nearest thing to paradise on Earth," this chapter examines in detail the basic evidence for the existence and cataclysmic destruction ofAtlantis.

(Note: Plato was not the first one to know about Atlantis. He was the first to describe it in detail. Pythagoras taught Plato what he knew)

Of all the world's unsolved mysteries, Atlantis is probably the biggest. Said to have been a huge island continent with an extraordinary civilization, situated in the Atlantic Ocean, it is reported to have vanished from the face of the earth in a day and a night. So complete was this devastation that Atlantis sank beneath the sea, taking with it every trace of its existence. Despite this colossal vanishing trick, the lost continent of Atlantis has exerted a mysterious influence over the human race for thousands of years. It is almost as though a primitive memory of the glorious days of Atlantis lingers on in the deepest recesses of the human mind. The passage of time has not diminished interest in the fabled continent, nor have centuries of skepticism by scientists succeeded in banishing Atlantis to obscurity in its watery grave. Thousands of books and articles have been written about the lost continent. It has inspired the authors of novels, short stories, poems, and movies. Its name has been used for ships, restaurants, magazines, and even a region of the planet Mars. Atlantean societies have been formed to theorize and speculate about a great lost land. Atlantis has come to symbolize our dream of a once golden past. It appeals to our nostalgic longing for a better, happier world; it feeds out hunger for knowledge of mankind's true origins; and above all it offers the challenge of a genuinely sensational detective story.

Today the search for evidence of the existence of Atlantis continues with renewed vigor, using 20th century man's most sophisticated tools in the hope of discovering the continent that is said to have disappeared around 11,600 years ago. did Atlantis exist, or is it just a myth? Ours may be the generation that finally solves this tantalizing and ancient enigma.

Atlantis is said to have been the nearest thing to paradise that the earth has seen. Fruits and vegetables grew in abundance in its rich soil. Fragrant flowers and herbs bloomed n the wooded slopes of its many beautiful mountains. All kinds of tame and wild animals roamed its meadows and magnificent forests, and drank from its rivers and lakes. Underground streams of wonderfully sweet water were used to irrigate the soil, to provide hot and cold fountains and baths for all the inhabitants. - There were even baths for the horses. The earth was rich in precious metals, and the Atlanteans were wealthier than any people before or after with gold, silver, brass, tin, and ivory, and their principal royal palace was a marvel of size and beauty. Besides being skilled metallurgists, the Atlanteans were accomplished engineers. A huge and complex system of canals and bridges linked their capital city with the sea and the surrounding countryside, and there were magnificent docks and harbors for the fleets of vessels that carried on a flourishing trade with overseas countries.

Whether they lived in the city or the country, the people of Atlantis had everything they could possibly want for their comfort and happiness. They were a gentle, wise, and loving people, unaffected by their great wealth and prizing virtue above all things. In time, however, their noble nature became debased. No longer satisfied with ruling their own great land of plenty, they set about waging war on others. Their vast armies swept through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean region, conquering large areas of North Africa and Europe. The Atlanteans were poised to strike against Athens and Egypt when the Athenian army rose up, drove them back to Gibraltar, and defeated them. Hardly had the Athenians tasted victory when a terrible cataclysm wiped out their entire army in a single day and night, and caused Atlantis to sink forever beneath the waves. Perhaps a few survivors were left to tell what happened. At all events, the story is said to have been passed down through many generations until, more than 9200 years later, it was made known to the world for the first time.

The man who first committed the legend to paper was the Greek philosopher Plato, who in about 355 B.C. wrote about Atlantis in two of his famous dialogues, the Timaeus and the Critias. Although Plato claimed that the story of the lost continent was derived from ancient Egyptian records, no such records have ever come to light, nor has any direct mention of Atlantis been found in any surviving records made before Plato's time. Every book and article on Atlantis that has ever been published has been based on Plato's account; subsequent authors have merely interpreted or added to it.

Plato was a master storyteller who put his philosophical ideas across in the form of apparently real-life events with well-known characters, and his Atlantis story might well have been firmly relegated to the realms of fiction. The very fact that it is still widely relegated as a factual account 2300 years after he wrote it shows the extraordinary power of Plato's story. It has inspired scholars to stake their reputation on the former existence of the lost continent, and explorers to go in search of its remains. Their actions were prompted not by the Greek story alone, bit also by their own discoveries, which seemed to indicate that there must once have been a great landmass that acted as a bridge between our existing continents.

Why, ask the scholars, are there so many remarkable similarities between the ancient cultures of the Old and New Worlds? Why do we find the same plants and animals on continents thousands of miles apart when there is no known way for them to have been transported there?

How did the primitive peoples of many lands construct technological marvels, such as Stonehenge in Britain, the huge statues of Easter Island in the Pacific and the strange sacred cities of the Andes? Were they helped by a technically sophisticated race that has since disappeared?

Above all, why do the legends of people the world over tell the same story of an overwhelming natural disaster and the arrival or godlike beings who brought with them a new culture from a far? could the catastrophe that sank Atlantis have sent tidal waves throughout the glove, causing terrible havoc and destruction?

And were the 'gods' the remnants of the Atlantean race - the few survivors who were not on or near the island continent when it was engulfed?

Map of Atlantis by the 17th-century German scholar Athanasius Kircher. Kircher based his map on Plato's description of Atlantis as an island west of the Pillars of Hercules - the Strait of Gibraltar - and situated Atlantis in the ocean that has since been named after the legendary land. Unlike modern cartographers, he placed south at the top of the map, which puts America at the right.

Even without Plato's account, the quest for answers to these mysteries might have led to the belief by some in a 'missing link' between the continents - a land-bridge populated by a highly evolved people in the distant past. Nevertheless, it is the Greek philosopher's story that lies at the heart of all arguments for or against the existence of such a lost continent.

Plato intended writing a trilogy in which the Atlantis story plays an important part, but he completed only one of the works, Timaeus, and part of the second,Critias. Like Plato's other writings, they take the form of dialogues or playlets in which a group of individuals discuss various political and moral issues. Leading the discussion is Plato's old teacher, the Greek philosopher Socrates. His debating companions are Timaeus, an astronomer from Italy, Critias, a poet and historian who was a distant relative of Plato, and Hermocrates, a general from Syracuse. Plato had already used the same cat of real-life characters in his most famous dialogue, The Republic, written some years previously, and he planned his trilogy as a sequel to that debate, in which the four men had talked at some length about ideal government.

Plato set the meeting of the four men in Critia's house in June 421 B.C. Timaeus begins on the day following the debate recorded in The Republic, and the men start by recalling their previous conversation. Then Hermocrates mentions "a story derived from ancient tradition" that Critias knows. Pressed for details, Critiasrecalls how, a century and a half earlier, the great Athenian statesman Solon had visited Egypt (Solon was a real person and he did visit Egypt, although his trip took place around 590 B.C., so 20 years earlier than the date given by Plato.) Critias says that while Solon was in Sais, an Egyptian city having close ties with Athens, a group of priests told him the story of Atlantis - "a tale that, though strange, is certainly true." Solon made notes of the conversation, and intended recording the story for posterity, but he did not do so. Instead he told it to a relative, Dropides, who passed it on to his son, Critias the elder, who eventually told his grandson, another Critias - the man who features in Plato's dialogues.

In Timaeus Critias gives a brief account of what the priests had told Solon. According to ancient Egyptian records there had been a great Athenian empire 9000 years earlier (that is, in about 9600 B.C.) At the same time there had been a mighty empire of Atlantis based on an island or continent west of the Pillars of Hercules (the Strait of Gibraltar) that was larger than North Africa and Asia Minor combined. Beyond it lay a chain of islands that stretched across the ocean to another huge continent.

The Atlanteans ruled over their central island and several others, and over parts of the great continent on the other side of the ocean. Then their armies struck eastward into the Mediterranean region, conquering North Africa as far as Egypt and southern Europe up to the Greek borders. "This vast power, gathered into one, endeavored to subdue at one blow our country and yours," said the Egyptian priests, "and the whole of the region within the strait. . ."Athens, standing alone, defeated the Atlanteans. "But afterward there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of destruction all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in a like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea. For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is so much shallow mud in the way, caused by the subsidence of the island."

Socrates is delighted with Critias' story, which as "the very great advantage of being a fact and not a fiction." However, the rest of Timaeus is taken up with a discourse on science, and the the story of Atlantis is continued in Plato's next dialogue, the Critias, where Critias gives a much fuller description of the island continent. He goes back to the island's very beginning when the gods were apportioned parts of the earth, as is usual in ancient histories. Poseidon, Greek god of the sea and also of earthquakes, was given Atlantis, and there he fell in love with a mortal maiden called Cleito. Cleito dwelled on a hill in Atlantis, and to prevent anyone reaching her home, Poseidon encircled the hill with alternate rings of land and water, "two of land and three of water, which he turned as with a lathe." He also laid on abundant supplies of food and water to the hill, "bringing up two springs of water from beneath the earth, one of warm water and the other of cold, and making every variety of food to spring up abundantly from the soil."

Poseidon and Cleito produced 10 children - five pairs of male twins - and Poseidon divided Atlantis and its adjacent islands among these 10 sons to rule as a confederacy of kings. the first born of the eldest twins, Atlas (after whom atlantis was named), was made chief king. The kinds in turn had numerous children, and their descendants ruled for many generations.

Ass the population of Atlantis grew and developed, the people accomplished great feats of engineering and architecture. They accomplished great feats of engineering and architecture. The built palaces and temples, harbors and docks, and reaped the rich harvest of their agricultural and mineral resources. The kings and their descendants built the city of Atlantis around Cleito's hill on the southern coast of the island continent. It was a circular city, about 11 miles in diameter, and Cleito's hill, surrounded by its concentric rings of land and water, formed a citadel about three miles in diameter, situated at the very center of the impressive city.

The kings built bridges to connect the land rings, and tunnels through which ships could pass from one ring of water to the next. The rings of land were surrounded by stone walls plated with precious metals, and another wall ran around the entire city. The outermost ring of water became a great harbor, crowded with shipping.

A huge canal, 300 feet wide and 100 feet deep, linked the great harbor with the sea at the southern end, and joined the city to a vast irrigated plain, sheltered by lofty mountains, which lay beyond the city walls in the north. This rectangular plain, measuring 230 by 340 miles, was divided into 60,000 square lots, assigned to farmers. The mountains beyond housed "many wealthy villages of country folk, and rivers, and lakes, and meadows, supplying food for every animal, wild or tame, and much wood of various sorts, abundant for each and every kind of work." the inhabitants of the mountains and of the rest of the country were "a vast multitude having leaders to whom they were assigned according to their dwellings and villages." These leaders and the farmers on the plane were each required to supply men for the Atlantean army, which included light and heavy infantry, cavalry, and chariots.

Plato and Critias paint a vivid picture of Atlantean engineering and architecture with an attention to detail that bears the hallmark of a very factual account.Critias tells how the stone used for the city's buildings was quarried from beneath the island (Cleito's hill) and from beneath the outer and inner circles of land.

"One kind of stone was white, another black, and third red, and as they quarried they at the same time hollowed out docks within, having roofs formed of the native rock. Some of their buildings were simple, but in others they put together different stones, which they intermingled for the sake of ornament, to be a natural source of delight."

But it was into their magnificent temples that the Atlanteans poured their greatest artistic and technical skills. In the center of the citadel was a holy artistic and technical skills. In the center of the citadel was a holy temple dedicated to Cleito and Poseidon and this was surrounded by an enclosure of gold. Nearby stood Poseidon's own temple, a superb structure covered in silver, with pinnacles of gold. The roof's interior was covered with ivory, and lavishly decorated with gold, silver, and orichate - probably a fine grade of brass or bronze - which "glowed like fire." Inside the temple was a massive gold statue of Poseidon driving a chariot drawn by six winged horses and surrounded by 100 sea nymphs on dolphins. This was so high that its head touched the temple roof. Gold statues of Atlantis'original 10 kings and their wives stood outside the temple.

Critias tells of the beautiful buildings that were constructed around the warm and cold fountains in the center of the city. Trees were planted between the buildings, and cisterns were designed - some open to the heavens, others roofed over - to be used as baths.

"There were the kinds' baths, and the baths of private persons, which were kept apart; and there were separate baths for women, and for horses and cattle , and to each of them they gave as much adornment as was suitable. Of the water that ran off they carried some to the grove of Poseidon, where were growing all manner of trees of wonderful height and beauty, owing to the excellence of the soil, while the remainder was conveyed by aqueducts along the bridges to the the outer circles; and there were many temples built and dedicated to many gods; also gardens and places of exercise, some for men, and others for horses in both of the two islands formed by the zones (rings of water) ; and in the center of the larger of the two there was set apart a racecourse of a stadium (about 607 feet) in width, and in length allowed to extend all around the island, for horses to race in."

At alternate intervals of five and six years the 10 kings of Atlantis met in the temple of Poseidon to consult on matters of government and to administer justice. During this meeting a strange ritual was enacted. After offering up prayers to the gods, the kings were required to hunt bulls, which roamed freely within the temple, and to capture one of them for sacrifice, using only staves and nooses. The captured animal was led to a bronze column in the temple, on which the laws of Atlantis were inscribed, and was slain so that its blood ran over the sacred inscription. After further ceremony, the kings partook of a banquet and when darkness fell they wrapped themselves in beautiful dark-blue robes, sitting in a circle they gave their judgments, which were recorded at daybreak on tablets of gold.

In the course of time, the people of Atlantis began to lose the love of wisdom and virtue that they had inherited from Poseidon. As their divine nature was diluted and human nature got the upper hand, they became greedy, corrupt, and domineering. Whereupon, says Plato,

"Zeus, the god of gods, who rules by law, and is able to see into such things, perceiving that an honorable race was in a most wretched state, and wanting to punish them that they might be chastened and improve, collected all the gods into his most holy abode, which, being placed into his most holy abode, which, being placed in the center of the universe, sees all things that partake of generation. And when he had called them together he spoke as follows..."

And there, enigmatically, and frustratingly, Plato's story of Atlantis breaks off, never to be completed. Some regard the Critias dialogue as a rough draft thatPlato abandoned. Others assume he intended to continue the story in the third part of his trilogy, but he never even started that work. He went on, instead, to write his last dialogue, The Laws.

Controversy has raged over Plato's story ever since he wrote it 2300 years ago. Was his account fact, part-fact, or total fiction? Each explanation has its inherents, and each has been hotly defended over the centuries. Plato's story certainly presents a number of problems. Critics of the Atlantis theory claim that these invalidate the story as a factual account. Supporters maintain that they can be accepted as poetic license, exaggeration, or understandable mistakes that have crept in during the telling and retelling of the story over many centuries before Plato reported it.

The greatest stumbling block is the date that the Greek philosopher gives for the destruction of Atlantis. The Egyptian priests are said to have told Solon that Atlantis was destroyed 9000 years before his visit, in about 9600 B.C., which is far earlier than any known evidence of civilization. Supporters of Atlantis point out that modern discoveries are constantly pushing back the boundaries of human prehistory and we may yet discover that civilization is far older than we think. However, Plato makes it clear that in 9600 B.C., Athens was also the home of a mighty civilization that defeated the Atlanteans. Archaeologists claim that their knowledge of Greece in the early days of its development is sufficiently complete to rule out the possibility of highly developed people in that country as early as 9600 B.C. Their evidence suggests that either Plato's story is an invention or he has the date wrong.

Assuming that Plato's facts are right but his date wrong, what evidence do we have to support his account of the origin of the Atlantis story? Bearing in mind that the war was principally between Atlantis and Athens, it seems odd that there were no Greek records of the battle, and that the account would have originated in Egypt. However Plato has an explanation for this. The Egyptian priests are said to have told Solon that a series of catastrophes had destroyed the Greek records, whereas their own had been preserved. The problem here is that if the Egyptian disappeared as completely as Atlantis itself.

Supposing that Solon did hear about Atlantis during his Egyptian trip, is it credible that such a detailed story could have been passed down through the generations as Plato asks us to believe? This is not impossible, because the art of accurate oral transmission was highly developed in the ancient world. Moreover, Solon is said to have taken notes of his conversation with the priests, and Critias claims that these were handed down to his relatives. However, here again we encounter a difficulty. For whereas in one place Critias states that he is still in possession of Solon's notes, in another he declares that he lay awake all night ransacking his memory for details of the Atlantis story that his grandfather had told him. Why didn't he simply refresh his memory from Solon's notes? And why didn't he show the notes to his three companions as incontrovertible proof of the truth of his rather unlikely story?

Yet another problem is that Plato dates the meeting of Socrates, Timaeus, Critias, and Hermocrates, during which Atlantis is discussed, as 421 B.C. Platomay have been present during their conversation, but as he was only six years old at the time, he could hardly have taken in much of their discussion, let alone made detailed notes of it. Either his account is based on records made my someone else, or the date is wrong, or this part of his story at least is an invention.

Critics of the Atlantis story believe that it is simply a myth invented to put across the great philosopher's views on war and corruption. Plato used real people in his other dialogues, and put his words into their mouths, too, as a dramatic device to present his ideas. There is no reason say the detractors, to assume thatTimaeus and Critias are different in this respect, but Plato seems to expect his readers to draw different conclusions. He is at great pains to stress the truth of his account, tracing it back to Solon, a highly respected statesman with a reputation for being 'straight-tongues,' and having Critias declare that the Atlantisstory, "though strange, is certainly true." And why, if his sole intention was to deliver a philosophical treatise, did Plato fill his account with remarkable detail and then stop abruptly at the very point where we would expect the "message" to be delivered? In spite of the errors and contradictions that have found their way intoPlato's account, his story of Atlantis can still be viewed as an exciting recollection of previously unrecorded events.

History provides us with many examples of supposedly mythical places and subsequently being discovered. For example, Homer wrote about the Trojan Warand subsequent research has shown that it was based on real historical events. Troy has since been found and dug up. In 1871, the German archaeologistHeinrich Schlieman excavated in Hissarlik and uncovered Troy just where Homer had placed it over 1000 years previously in his epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. As the Irish scholar J.V. Luce observes in his book The End of Atlantis: "classical scholars laughed at Schlieman when he set out with Homer in one hand and a spade in the other, but he dug up Troy and thereby demonstrated the inestimable value of folk memory Sir Arthur Evans did much the same thing when he found the labyrinthine home of the Minotaur at Knossos." Indeed, Sir Arthur Evans revealed that a highly advanced European civilization had flourished on the island of Crete long before the time of Homer, some 4500 years ago.

This should be justification enough to keep an open mind on Plato's account. The problem is that whereas Troy and Knossos were simply buried. Atlantis could be submerged hundred or even thousands of feet beneath the waves. And the force of the destruction may have destroyed the remains beyond recognition. However, if Plato's account is based on fact, then we know that the Atlanteans traded with their neighbors.. In this case there would be some evidence of their influence and culture in lands that survived the catastrophe. Believers in Atlantis have furnished us with a formidable array of such "proofs". Certainly there are scattered around the glove to lend support to the idea of a highly advanced, Atlantean-type civilization that was responsible.

Although Plato appears to place Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean and early cartographers did likewise, numerous scholars and other Atlantis enthusiasts have since scoured the globe for more likely sites. Surprisingly, these have not always been in the ocean. The lost kingdom of Atlantis has been "found" at various times in the Pacific Ocean, the North Sea, the Sahara desert, Sweden, southern Spain, Palestine, Cyprus, Crete, the West Indies, and Peru, but to name a few.

In 1940 the American psychic healer and prophet Edgar Cayce predicted that Atlantis would 'rise again' in 1968 or 19969. So, in 19968, when it seemed that the site of the world's most famous lost land had finally been located in the eastern Mediterranean, news that underwater vast building off the Bahamas shook Atlantist everywhere. The question of Atlantis was reopened. Could this be Poseidia, described by Cayce as the 'western' section of Atlantis? Were Plato and the other Atlantists right after all when they placed their lost civilization way out in the Atlantic Ocean?

In 1968 two commercial pilots flying over the Bahamas spotted what appeared to be several underwater buildings coming to the surface. The pilots made their sightings just off the coast of Bimini and photographed the underwater formations from the air. Their discovery was immediately hailed by some as the fulfillment of a 28 year-old prophecy concerning the reappearance of Atlantis. Indeed one of the pilots had been keeping a lookout for underwater structures while flying his regular assignments because he believed Atlantis was about to reemerge from the Atlantic in this very area.

The man concerned is a member of the Association for Research and Enlightenment, an organization based in Virginia Beach, VA, which is dedicated to the study of the teachings and "psychic readings" of the late Edgar Cayce, the "sleeping prophet" and psychic healer. Between 1923 and 1944 Cayce made numerous references to Atlantis in the course of trance interviews concerning the alleged former lives of the people who consulted him. These interviews were recorded verbatim, and much of the material about Atlantis has been published in a book called Edgar Cayce on Atlantis, by Cayce's son Edgar Cayce. It includes this prediction, made in June 1940:

"Poseidia will be among the first portions of Atlantis to rise again. Expect it in ''68 and '69; not so far away!"

According to the Cayce readings, Poseidia was the "western section of Atlantis," and the area off Bimini is the highest point of this sunken land.

Map of Bimini Road drawn after aerial and underwater surveys carried out by the Poseidia 75 expedition, sponsored by the A.R.E. The road is magnified to approximately twice its actual size in relation to the island of Bimini.
Shaped roughly like a letter J, it is some three quarters of a mile long and composed of huge stone blocks, often 15 feet square. On this map, the X marking the discovery of a stone artifact relates to a fragment of what appeared to be tongue and groove masonry discovered on the Poseidia 75 expedition by one of its member - Dr. David Zink.

So the A.R.E. is naturally delighted about the underwater find in the Bahamas, just where and when the famous prophet said something would appear. Until this and similar discoveries have been thoroughly explored, we have to admit that There may yet have an equally plausible rival for the title of Atlantis, right where most people always considered the long-lost continent to be - in the Atlantic.

In his book 'The Mystery of Atlantis' Charles Berlitz comments that,

"Other underwater ruins have subsequently been found near other Caribbean islands, including what appears to be an entire city submerged off the coast of Haiti, and still another at the bottom of a lake. What appears to be an underwater road (or perhaps a series of plazas or foundations) was discovered in 1968 off north Bimini beneath several fathoms of water. From these numerous findings, it would appear that par of the continental shelf of the Atlantic and Caribbean was once dry land, sunk or flooded during a period when man was already civilized".

Not everyone accepts these underwater features as being of man-made origin. The so-called "Bimini road" is dismissed by skeptics as nothing more than beach rock that just happens to have produced an unusual effect. Berlitz and Dr. Manson Valentine, the American archaeologist and oceanographer who discovered the "road", do not agree.

"It should be pointed out." writes Berlitz, "that beach rock does not form great blocks which fit together in a pattern, that haphazardly splitting rock does not make 90- degree turns, nor does it normally have regularly laid-out passageways running between sections of it. Nor, above all, are 'natural' beach rocks, lying on the ocean floor, likely to be found supported by stone pillars precisely placed beneath them!"

Other sightings made off Bimini, at distances up to 100 miles from the shore, include what appear to be vertical walls, a great arch, and pyramids or bases for pyramids under the sea. some 10 miles north of Andros, another island in the Bahamas, pilots have photographed formations on the seabed that look like great circles of standing stones, reminiscent of Stonehenge. Off the coasts of eastern Yucatan and British Honduras seemingly man-made roads stretch far out to sea, and off Venezuela a 100-mile 'wall' runs along the ocean bottom. However, geologists have declared many of these to be natural features, and deem the Venezuelan wall "too big to be considered man-made". According to Berlitz, the Russians have explored an underwater building complex covering over 10 acres of the sea floor north of Cuba, and the French bathyscape Archimede has reported sighting flights of steps carved in the steep continental shelf off northern Puerto Rico.

Do these intriguing finds indicate that Atlantis was, after all, in the Atlantic? it seems we must keep an open mind until they have been investigated more thoroughly. Meanwhile, let us take a fresh look at the Atlantic Ocean to see if the theory of continental drift might still leave room for a missing continent there. When a computer was used to reassemble the continental jigsaw, the fit across the Atlantic was found, with some adjustment, to be fairly satisfactory. But that picture does not take account of a fascinating underwater feature known as the mid-Atlantic Ridge. This mountainous ridge, nearly two miles high and hundreds of miles wide, runs in an S-curve down the Atlantic midway between the Americas and Africa and Europe, following the contours of those continents and marking its course above water with a number of islands, such as the Azores, Ascension Island, and Tristan da Cunha.

As early as 1883 Ignatius Donnelly suggested that the mid-Atlantic Ridge was a remnant of Atlantis. But most modern geologists and oceanographers consider that, far from being the relic of a continent that sank beneath the sea, the ridge was forced upward from the ocean floor, probably by volcanic activity. One theory is that as the continents drifted apart they produce a huge fault line that is a center of earthquake and produce a huge fault line that is a center of earthquake and volcanic action. Some of the earth's molten center has erupted through this crack and built up into a ridge, even rising above the waves in several places. However, there is evidence that this explanation may have to reviewed before too long.

A diver taking part in A.R.E.s Poseidia 75 expedition to Bimini in the Bahamas examines an encrusted marble column found about a mile south of the Bimini Road. In 1968, what appeared to be a vast underwater road was discovered off Bimini, and the next year the columns, of which this is one, were found.

Seabed cores taken from the mid-Atlantic Ridge in 1957 brought up freshwater plants from a depth of two miles. And in one of the deep valleys, known as Romanche, sands have been found that appear to have been formed by weathering when that part of the ridge was above water level. In a 1969 a Duke University research expedition dredged 50 sites along an underwater ridge running from Venezuela to the Virgin Islands, and brought up granitic rocks, which are normally found only on continents. Commenting on this discovery, Dr. Bruce Heezen of the Lamont Geological Observatory said:

"Up to now, geologists generally believed that light granitic or acid igneous rocks are confined to the continents and that the crust of the earth beneath the sea is composed of heavier, dark-colored basaltic rock... Thus, the occurrence of light-colored granitic rocks may support an old theory that a continent formerly existed in the region of the eastern Caribbean and that these rocks may represent the core of a subsided, lost continent."

A recent report on the nature of the Atlantic seabed appears to confirm that there is at least part of a former continent lying beneath the ocean. Under the heading "Concrete Evidence for Atlantis?" the British Journal New Scientist of June 5, 1975 reported, "Although they make no such fanciful claim from their results as to have discovered the mythical mid-Atlantic landmass, an international group of oceanographers has now convincingly confirmed preliminary findings that a sunken block of continent lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The discovery comes from analyzing dredge samples taken along the line of the Vema offset fault, a long east-west fracture zone lying between Africaand South America close to latitude 11º "N".

The report goes on to state that in 1971 two researchers from the University of Miami recovered some shallow-water limestone fragments from deep water in the area. Minerals in the limestone indicated that they came from a nearby source of granite that was unlikely to occur on the ocean floor. More exhaustive analysis of the dredge samples revealed that the limestones included traces of shallow-water fossils, implying formation in very shallow water indeed, a view confirmed by the ratios of oxygen and carbon isotopes found in the fragments. One piece of limestone was pitted and showed evidence of tidal action.

The researchers believe that the limestone dates from the Mesozoic era (between 70 and 220 million years ago) and forms a cap "on a residual continental block left behind as the Atlantic spread out into an ocean." the New Scientist observes that

"The granitic minerals could thus have come from the bordering continents while the ocean was still in it infancy. Vertical movements made by the block appear to have raised it above sea level at some period during it's history.

It would therefore seem that there is a lost continent in the Atlantic, but unfortunately for Atlantists, it evidently disappeared long before man appeared on earth. Most scientist remain convinced that there is no likelihood of finding the Atlantis described by Plato in the area of the mid-Atlantic Ridge. As L. Sprague de Camp comments in his Lost Continents, nearly all of the ridge, except for the small and mountainous Azores region, is under two or three miles of water, "and there is no known way to get a large island down to that depth in anything like the 10,000 years required to fit in with Plato's date for the sinking of Atlantis." He also points to a report published in 1967 by Dr. Maurice Ewing of Columbia University, who announced that "after 13 years of exploring the mid-Atlantic Ridge, he had "found no trace of sunken cities."

Atlantists reply that Dr. Ewing could have been looking in the wrong places, or perhaps too close to the center of the destructive forces that plunged Atlantisinto the ocean. Some Atlantists have suggested that the original Atlantic landmass broke up into a least two parts, one of which sank long after the other. Perhaps Plato's Atlantis was a remnant of the continent that oceanographers now appear to have detected in the Atlantic, and perhaps it was not submerged until very much more recent times. The bed of the Atlantic is, after all, an unstable are and one that has given birth to numerous islands, then swallowed them up again. In 1811, for example, volcanic activity in the Azores resulted in the emergence of a new island called Sammrina, which shortly sank back again into the sea. In our own time, the island of Surtsey, 20 miles southwest of Iceland, has slowly risen from the ocean. Surtsey was formed during a continuous underwater eruption between 1963 and 1966.

If Atlantis did exist in the Atlantic above the great fault line that runs between the present continents, it would certainly have been plagued by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Is it mere coincidence that Plato should have situated his lost continent in an ocean that does apparently contain such a continent, and in an area subject to the very kind of catastrophe he describes? Atlantists think not.

NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE

On the other hand, there are some Atlantists who believe that the destruction of Atlantis was brought about not by geological events but by a man-made disaster, such as a nuclear explosion. According to the Cayce readings, the Atlanteans achieved an astonishingly high level of technology before the continent sank, around 10,000 B.C. They invented the laser, aircraft, television, death rays, atomic energy, and cybernetic control of human beings, and it was the misuse of the tremendously powerful natural forces they had developed that caused their destruction.

Cayce is best-known for his apparent ability to diagnose illness even in people whom he had never met. This ability was tested by a group of physicians from Hopkinsville and Bowling Green, Kentucky. They discovered that when Cayce was in a state of trance, it was sufficient to give him the name and address of a patient for him to supply a wealth of information about that person, often drawing attention to medical conditions of which the physicians were then unaware, but that subsequent tests on the patient proved to be correct.

This work alone would appear to justify the description of Cayce as America's most talented psychic. And if one aspect of his clairvoyant powers could prove so successful, it seems reasonable to give a fair hearing to other psychic statements he made, however, fantastic.

Cayce's sons, who help run the organization set up to study his work, admit that their life would be far simpler if Edgar Cayce had never mentioned Atlantis. Hugh Lynn Cayce comments:

"It would be very easy to present a very tight evidential picture of Edgar Cayce's psychic ability and the helpfulness of his readings if we selected only those which are confirmed and completely validated. This would not be fair in total, overall evaluation of his life's work. My brother and I know that Edgar Cayce did not read Plato's material on Atlantis, or books on Atlantis, and that he, so far as we know, had absolutely no knowledge of this subject. If his unconscious fabricated this material or wove it together from existing legends and stories in print or the minds of persons dealing with the Atlantis theory."

Edgar Evans Cayce makes the comment that,

"unless proof of the existence of Atlantis is one day discovered, Edgar Cayce is in a very unenviable position. On the other hand, if he proves accurate on this score he may become as famous an archaeologist or historian as he was a medical clairvoyant."

If, as his sons and thousands of followers believe, Edgar Cayce's readings were supernormal and not the product of reading the works of others, it is certainly an intriguing case. There are, for example, some fascinating similarities between Cayce's descriptions of Atlantis and those of occultists such as Madame Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner, and W. Scott-Elliott, including references to the Atlanteans telepathic and other supernormal powers, their advanced technology, their moral disintegration, and the civil strife and misuse of their powers that finally caused their demise. Cayce's readings also mention Lemuria, or Mu. EitherCayce was psychically readings the works of these earlier writers, or he - the they - really were 'tuning in' to the past.

Whatever the result of future investigations around the splendid temples and palaces of Crete, or in the depths of the Thera basin, there will still be people who continue to look for convincing case for the identification of Plato's Atlantis with the Minoan civilization of the Aegean, but their opponents argue that the existence of such a civilization - however striking it similarities with Atlantis - does not preclude the existence of an even great civilization in the Atlantic. The finds in the Bahamas remain to be verified, and the discovery of what appears to be a submerged continent in the Atlantic adds a new dimension to the Atlantismystery.

Whatever prompted Plato to write about Atlantis, he could never have dreamed that he would start a worldwide quest for the lost continent. Perhaps, as his pupilAristotle hinted, "he who invented it, also destroyed it." Yet through a fortuitous accident - or a canny understanding of the human spirit - Plato hit upon a story that has struck a responsive chord in people's minds and hearts down the centuries. Whether his story was fact or fiction, a distorted version of real events or a fable that just happened to tie in with reality, it has managed to enchant, baffle, and challenge mankind for over 2000 years.

The persistence of the Atlantis legend is almost as intriguing as the lost continent itself. What is it that keeps the Atlantis debate alive? Is it a longing for reassurance that men and women once knew the secret of happiness, and really did inhabit a Garden of Eden? Is it the thrill of the search - the hope of finding a master key to unlock the secrets of the past? Or is it simply man's thirst for mystery itself - for something grand and inexplicable, larger than himself? Certainly popular interest in the mystical side of Atlantis is always most intense when the life of the spirit is in the greatest disarray - during the latter half of the 19th Century, in the aftermath of Darwin's bombshell, for example, and during our own time.

The day may yet come when the key is found and the mystery of Atlantis is solved once and for all. The solution may be simple or complex. It could be sensational or disappointingly dull. We may already suspect the answer, or it may surprise us. Either way, it would rob the world of one of its most fascinating enigmas. Atlantis has intrigued and inspired people for a very long time. Perhaps, for the time being, we should be glad that the answer has not yet been found, and that Plato's lost continent remains just beyond our grasp.

Chocolates

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Worldwide consumers spend more than $20 billion per year on chocolate products.

Women crave chocolate more than men.

White chocolate has no caffeine. In fact, white chocolate isn't chocolate at all. White chocolate is based on fat (vegetable oil or cocoa butter) and sugar, without any cocoa solids.

The preferred ice cream topping is chocolate fudge or syrup.

The popular belief that chocolate causes acne is a myth.

The largest chocolate bar ever manufactured was in Italy in 2000. The bar had a weight of 5,000 lbs.

The Hershey Factory was founded in Pennsylvania in 1871.

The first bar of chocolate was produced by Cadbury in England in 1842 For more fun candy bar trivia, click here.

Scientific research can prove that chocolate is not addictive.

It takes about 400 cacao beans to create 1 lb of chocolate.

In the U.S., 25% of all peanuts and 40% of all almonds are used in chocolate making.

In America, 71% of consumers favor milk chocolate over other variants.

Eating just one chocolate chip will give an average adult the needed energy to walk 150 feet.

Chocolate, especially the dark variety, is rich in anti-oxidants, which reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer. Chocolate also has copper, iron, zinc and magnesium -nutrients essential to the body.

Chocolate syrup was used to depict blood in the iconic shower scene of Hitchcock's film, "Psycho."

Chocolate melts in your moth because its cocoa butter component has a melting point that is slightly below the human body's average temperature.

Chocolate literally is the Food of the Gods. The cacao beans that are harvested come from a tree species with a genus name of Theobroma, which translates to (you guessed it) food of the gods.

Chocolate is harmful to dogs. It is poisonous actually. The theobromine in chocolate is a stimulant and can be hazardous to dogs and other animals. It can cause seizures and even death.

Chocolate is an aphrodisiac. It contains the chemical phenylethylamine, which is the same chemical that the brain produces when you're in love.

Chocolate is a natural form if anti-depressant. It produces serotonin –a chemical that elevates the mood. It is also referred to as the "happy chemical." Now that is a happy fun chocolate fact.

Cacao beans taste bitter in their natural state. In fact, the term "chocolate" originated from an Aztec word, Xocolatl, which means "bitter water."

An average Swiss will eat about 21 lbs of chocolate a year. The Swiss, however, have one of the lowest heart failure rates and obesity cases in the world.

An average American will eat about 10-12 lbs of chocolate per year.

A dark chocolate bar has approximately 10-15g of sugar. A glass of orange juice has about 22g of sugar.

A 6oz cup of milk chocolate contains approximately 5mg of caffeine.

600,000 tons is the average global consumption of cocoa beans per year.

50% of Americans will choose chocolate over other flavors such as vanilla.

23 million Hershey kisses are approximately produced each day.

2000 years ago, chocolate was first consumed as a beverage by the Mayan Indians from southern Mexico. Even before the people began brewing the cacao, the beans were used as a form of currency.

France

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The Tour de France is a well-recognized sport and one of the most popular bicycle races in the world. Over 2,200 miles of road is covered as cyclists race over a 21-day period. Until 1985, France and Belgium dominated the race. From then on, the United States and Spain have won most of the Tours. France has the most wins, with 36.

The Eiffel Tower is one of the most recognized structures in the world. With a height of over 950 feet, the Eiffel Tower houses two restaurants a post office and an observation deck. The tower contains elevators that carry people to the first three platforms.

One-fifth of France sits outside the boundaries of what is Europe. About 2.5 million citizens live in this area called "Dom-Tom," which is considered overseas.

One of the Unites States' famous structures was built in France. The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to celebrate the U.S.'s centennial.

On average, 70 to 90 million tourists visit France, which his much more than the population of France, which is about 55 million.

Jeans and clothing made from denim actually came from the city of Nimes. Levi Strauss saw the value and imported the concept to California so that gold diggers could wear sturdy clothing.

In France, beer is considered a luxury and expensive to purchase. However, wine is usually given free at most restaurants for lunch and dinner. The French love cheese with their wine. The country produces over 400 types of cheese, but you can find over 1,000 different varieties of cheeses in grocery stores.

Hot Chocolate is a popular drink in France, though they like to drink it from bowls and dip various types of bread into the liquid.

France is the most visited destinations in the world. Popular attractions are the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and the Cathedral of Notre Dame, which can be seen from the Seine River. The Louvre museum contains one of the largest art collections in the world. You can find the Mona Lisa and other works by Money and Renoir. Gothic art is said to have been born in France, and some consider it an offshoot of French Art. The Baroque style of architecture also came from France and you can see much of the influence in cathedrals around the world.

England and France are connected. This underwater tunnel is called the Eurotunnel. You can get from Great Britain to France in about 30-40 minutes. The tunnel railway carries passengers and freight with diesel and electric cars.

Depending on where you go for wines, you will find that different regions use different amounts and types of grapes. For example, the Northern part of France uses one type of grape while wines from the South use multiple blends of grapes. The types and techniques are never mentioned on the wine labels of French wines.

April Fool's Day began in France in the mid-1500's, when France started to follow the Gregorian calendar. The change was not communicated very well because normally, April 1st was the first day of the French New Year, but the Gregorian calendar moves the day around. Those in the know made fun of those who still thought the French New Year was on April 1st…according to their previous calendar.

Germany

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With over 5,000 different brands and kind of beer in Germany, you might spend a lot of time trying all the types, but since beer is extremely inexpensive to buy in the country, you won't spend a lot of money. The most popular type of beer in Germany is dark beer, which is preferred served colder than most beers.

The Germany highways, commonly called Autobahns, contain no speed limit.

The famous beer festival, Oktoberfest, is held in Munich, Bavaria.

So in the noisy pubs and taverns in Germany, how do you request a beer? For one beer, you use your thumb, as if you were hitchhiking. For two beers, you raise your thumb and forefinger, or just your forefinger. If you only use your forefinger, then you will get two beers, which is only a problem if you wanted one!

Schools are not all day affairs. In the United States, the school day would be considered a "half day" since German schools release kids at one p.m. The reason is that teachers instruct during the morning and hand out enough homework for the afternoon, which children can finish at home.

Over 150 castles exist in Germany, making it one of the most castle-populated countries in the world. Many are used as hotels, but most are still being habited by the rich.

One strange, but fun fact about Germany is that you can find over 1,000 different kinds of sausages that range in flavor, consistency and spiciness.

In Bavaria around 1040 A.D., a group of Benedictine monks started the Weihenstephan Brewery, which is still in operation and is the oldest brewery in existence that produces beer.

In 1963, John F Kennedy visited Germany and proclaimed "Ich bin ein Berliner," which wasn't a problem to say, but many Germans found the statement amusing because a "Berliner" is also a kind jelly doughnut.

Germany is the birthplace of the Garden gnome. They were first crafted and displayed sometime in the 1800's in Germany and soon spread across Europe and eventually around the world.

Germany is second behind Ireland in amount of beer consumed per person. Beer or "Beir" is listed as a food in some menus in the Bayern region and is served in larger servings.

Germany has more than 400 officially recognized zoos, which is the most in the world. If you included wildlife parks, aquariums and other natural reserves or parks, you can visit almost 700 registered zoos and gardens.

Do you wear Adidas shoes? This brand of shoe had its start in Germany. In fact, "Adidas" is made from the beginning six letters of the designer's name, Adi Dassler.

Daylight savings time was first adopted in Germany in the middle of World War I. It is still considered DST, or "Summer Time."

Beginning in 1248, the Cologne Cathedral took 632 years to construct, finally completed in 1880.

Across the country, a workweek is six days, as oppose to a five-day workweek in most countries. Called "Werktage," (or workdays) the week consists of Monday through Friday and Saturday. Many stores close before two p.m. anyway, so it's not a complete workday for most workers.

Great Wall of China

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When the Great Wall was under construction, locals referred to it as the longest cemetery because so many lives were lost while it was built.

Watchtowers are placed intermittently along the Great Wall. These housed garrisons and supplies.

Watchtowers along the Wall were used to protect traders on China's "silk road."

Voltaire, an eighteenth century French philosopher and writer, called The Great Wall of China a monument to Fear.

Visitors to Beijing will find the closest section of the Great Wall in the province of Badaling.

Torches could be lit from one watchtower to another as a way of sending signals.

Tianwang, the God of the Heavens, can be found in reliefs all along the Great Wall.

The wheelbarrow is actually a Chinese invention and was used during the construction of the Great Wall.

The wall was constructed from stone, brick, and rice flour mortar.

The main wall is approximately 2,145 miles long with more than 1,700 miles of spurs.

The legend that the mortar was constructed from human bone is a myth.

The last great battles fought at the Great Wall occurred in the twentieth century.

The Great Wall is the longest man-made structure in the world.

The Badaling segment was the first section to open to tourists in 1957.

The Badaling section marked the end of the 2008 Summer Olympics cycling course.

Nixon visited the Great Wall in Badaling when he was in China.

Kafka, an early twentieth century novelist, praised the Great Wall in his short story aptly titled The Great Wall of China.

Genghis Khan circumvented the discontinuous sections of the wall when he and his Mongol Horde invaded china in 1211.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, convicts were sent to build the wall as part of their punishment.

Despite a persistent myth, the Wall cannot be seen from the moon without visual aid.

Bullet marks can still be seen on the Wall in the province of Gubeikou, a remnant of the Sino-Japanese war in 1938.

Arthur Walden, a historian, popularized the concept that the Great Wall was one continuous wall.

Another legend suggests that a dragon traced out the course of the Great Wall, which is why it weaves.

Among the manpower to build the wall were peasants, frontier guardsmen, intellectuals, and disgraced noblemen.

A million men defended the Wall during the Ming dynasty.

Immune System

2012-07-11T00:26:00.002-07:00

White blood cells are the cells designed to seek out and eliminate invading organisms. White blood cells are called leukocytes. These cells are found throughout the body and are primarily produced and stored in the thymus, spleen and bone marrow. You may have heard the term lymph node used by your doctor. Lymph nodes are clumps of tissue that contain leukocytes and can be found in different locations throughout the body.

White blood cells are not all the same. While all white blood cells have common characteristics, these cells are also diversified to efficiently target different types of disease and invading organisms.

The lungs and intestines secrete mucus, which can trap microorganisms, preventing them from entering the bloodstream and tissues.

The human body is an amazing machine designed to be self-sufficient when it comes to well-being. The Microbial World gives great examples of how the body's built-in defense system responds to the invading pathogens that occur on a daily basis:

The gastric acid produced by the stomach not only aids in digestion but is also a chemical barrier that destroys many forms of ingested pathogens. Vomiting and diarrhea results when your body is trying to rid itself of a harmful bacterial infection.

Saliva, tears and breast milk contain antibacterial enzymes to help fight off harmful bacteria.

One of the most vital systems in the human body is the immune system, which is a network of specialized cells, tissues and organs that protect our bodies from potentially lethal invaders such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, microorganisms, parasites and other pathogens. The human body is constantly waging war against a barrage of invading microorganisms.

One of the first responses to infection by the immune system is inflammation.

Natural immunity - this is the type of immunity that human beings are born with. Every baby is born with antibodies that were passed on through its mother. Natural barriers such as the skin and protective substances in mucous membranes such as the mouth and eyes prevent harmful substances from entering the body.

Lymphocytes are important cells in the body's immune system defense. Lymphocytes are formed in bone marrow. The cells that remain in the marrow will become known as B lymphocytes. Other lymphocytes migrate to the thymus and become T lymphocytes. The B cells main function is to gather intelligence on any invading microorganisms or pathogens. Once the B cells have identified and "locked on" (creating antibodies) to the invaders, the T cells are released to help destroy the pathogens. The specialized antibodies remain in the body, ready to fight the same infection should it ever return.

Kids Health.org provides a clear picture about which cells in the body gather the intelligence information needed to carry out a tactical assault against any invading organisms and which cells are sent to the battle zone to swiftly and efficiently destroy the enemy.

Fever can sometimes help the immune system fight off infection because certain pathogens are unable to tolerate higher temperatures, which can also increase the mobility of leukocytes and the proliferation of T cells.

Coughing and sneezing are part of the natural immunity system where the body is trying to eject pathogens and irritants from the respiratory system.

As normal, healthy adult ages, he or she will catch fewer colds and flus as his or her immune system strengthens from repeated exposure.

Acquired immunity - this type of immunity develops over time. As a person is exposed to certain diseases and illness, the body produces antibodies that will fight off whatever bacterial or viral infection that the person was previously exposed to. This is how vaccinations work.

According to Ohio State University Medical Center, the immune system works in a couple of different ways to help protect your body from sickness and disease.

Ireland

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The word “quiz” may have gotten its meaning from Ireland. As the anecdote goes: Theater proprietor Richard Daly made a bet that he could make a nonsense word the talk of the town within 48 hours. To do so, he and his staff posted cards with the word “quiz” all over Dublin. Within a short while, everyone was buzzing about it, wondering what it could mean? Hence, the word’s meaning of “to question or interrogate” was born. Though the word existed prior to Mr. Daly’s stunt, locals will tell you that the word’s meaning wasn’t truly born until Ireland defined it.

The unrest that characterized the 1960s in Northern Ireland was known as “The Troubles”

The shamrock, the harp, and Celtic cross are the three most famous symbols of Ireland

The original Guinness Brewery remains the largest brewer of stout in the world. In 1759, Arthur Guinness secured the brewery’s location for 9,000 years for 45 Irish pounds/year (in perpetuity)!

The longest place name in Ireland is “Muckanagheder-

The Celtic knot signifies the “continuity of life”

Nicknamed the “Emerald Isle” due to its lush greenery, Ireland is also known as the “Celtic Tiger,” thanks to its progressive, fast-growing economy. Dublin, Ireland’s largest city, serves as the nation’s cultural, spiritual, and economic center. Its successes reverberate out to every other county.

Located in northwestern Europe, Ireland has been politically divided since 1920. Six of its 32 counties comprise Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. Today, both the Republic of Ireland and the UK continue to strive towards a peaceful coexistence, adhering to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.

Legend says that anyone who kisses the famous Blarney Stone (1446) will be given the “gift of gab” or rather, eloquence or ability to flatter. Suffice to say, countless admirers have kissed the five-centuries’ old block of bluestone.

It’s estimated that there are over 80 million people of Irish descent living elsewhere in the world

It’s believed there are more cell phones in Ireland than people. According to the Census (as of 2007), the most popular boy name in Ireland is “Jack,” followed by “Sean;” and the most popular girl names are “Sarah” and “Emma.”

Irish names ending with “Mac” or “O” mean “son of…” or “grandson of…” respectively

Irish castles from centuries ago are each fortified by a “murder-hole” – a hole in the ceiling where castle defenders could shoot incendiary devices or pour noxious liquid out onto attackers.

Ireland is famous for its writers. Among them are Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats, and James Joyce.

Ireland is a country with a unique, unmistakable charm. Its “Irish eyes are smiling” upon you, the moment you walk onto its historic ground. For anyone who wants to learn about Ireland, it’s not enough to know about dates and timelines. To really know the Emerald Isle, you need to learn about the “did you knows” – the curious anecdotes, tales, and fun facts about Ireland that make the country all the more real and indeed inimitable.

In 1997, Mary McAleese succeeded Mary Robinson – the first time in the world two female presidents held successive terms.

In 1990, Ireland elected its first woman president: Mary Robinson

For young children involves them being turned upside down with their heads “bumped” on the ground: Once for each year on their birthday cake and once more for good luck!

dauhaulia,” found in County Galway.

Ballygally Castle in County Antrium is today a hotel, but is famed for its castle past. Built by James Shaw (of Scotland) in 1625, the castle is said to be haunted by Lady Isobel Shaw, who leapt to her death from a top window after being locked in her room and starved by her husband. Today, her spirit knocks on the castle’s doors to let guests knows she’s still around.

Also in 1997, Ireland saw its first ever divorce granted

A port, its translation is “pig marsh between two seas.”

A banshee’s cry foretells a death in the family

Japan

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Japan is one of the most interesting, exotic and densely populated countries in Asia. This country is also a world leader in the area of technology and commerce. Many Americans share a love of the most popular icons in Japanese culture, such as Hello Kitty and Godzilla.

Yen is the currency in Japan. In 2011, 82 yen equaled one dollar. Coins come in one yen, five yen, ten yen, 50 yen, 100 yen and 500 yen. Bills come in 1000 yen, 2000 yen (rare) 5000 yen and 10,000 yen.

When meeting or greeting someone in Japan, people bow to each other in place of shaking hands.

Using chopsticks properly is considered good table manners.

Tokyo is the world's largest urban area with a population of 36 million people.

Toilets are never located in the same room as the bathtub.

This is perhaps one of the strangest superstitions. It is a bad idea to lie down right after eating because you will become a cow.

The most important agricultural crop is rice.

The Japanese do not sleep facing north because that is how bodies are laid out.

Taking a bath in Japan is more about soaking the body and relaxation. Before getting in the bath, you are supposed to rinse your body first with a washbowl. You then soak in the bath with really hot water. When it's time to clean, get it out of the tub, soap and rinse your body, then return for a final soak. The bathwater is reused by all members of the family.

Some people in Japan use their shoe to predict the weather. If a shoe thrown up in the air lands on its sole, it will be a pleasant day. If the shoe lines on its side, there will be clouds that day. If the shoe lands upside down, rain is on the way.

Several entrées are served with everyone sharing from each dish. When moving food from a shared dish onto your individual plate, you use the opposite end of your chopsticks or the provided serving chopsticks.

Over 70 percent of Japan is rugged, mountainous country. Only about 18 percent of the land is suitable for settlement and these areas are the narrow coastal plains where Japan's largest cities are located.

Meals in Japan are served on low tables with everyone sitting (or kneeling) on floor cushions.

March 11, 2011, an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.9 (the largest to ever hit Japan) struck with an epicenter just 373 kilometers from Tokyo.

Japan's top export is automobiles, followed by electronics and computers.

Japan is one of the top three exporters of manufactured goods in the world.

Japan is located in the Pacific "Ring of Fire", an arc of seismic and volcanic activity that lies along the border of the Pacific tectonic plate and has over 1500 earthquakes annually.

Japan is known as the "Land of The Rising Sun."

Japan is comprised of four main islands, Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku. There are over 4000 smaller islands that also belong to Japan.

Japan has the second largest economy in the world, after the U.S.

It is tradition at a Japanese funeral to stick chopsticks into the rice that is placed on the altar, therefore, you should never stick your chopsticks into your rice bowl when eating.

It is believed you should hide your thumb if a funeral car passes by.

It is believed if you cut your nails at night, you will not be with your parents when they die.

In America, the number 13 is considered bad luck or sometimes even evil. In Japan, the number four is considered unlucky, possibly because it is pronounced "shi", which is the same word for death. The Japanese avoid giving gifts in sets of four. Some buildings in Japan skip having a fourth floor, similar to American buildings not having a thirteenth floor.

In 1923, an earthquake occurred in Tokyo that killed 143,000 people.

If you want to thank someone in Japan, the tradition is to give them a gift such as sweets or sake. It is tradition to use both hands when giving or receiving a gift.

Home life in Japan is very different than what Americans are accustomed to. For example, when entering a Japanese home, outside shoes are always removed and slippers are put on. The homeowner will provide guests with slippers.

Being an island nation with intensely rugged terrain, Japan has few natural resources and relies on importing goods like food, wood and oil.

Another superstition the Japanese have in common with Americans is the belief that black cats crossing in front of your path may bring you bad luck.

About 80 percent of Japan's population is located on the biggest island of Honshu.

Paraguay

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The War of the Triple Alliance took place from 1865 to 1870. One of the most fun facts about Paraguay that you may read is that the country lost 66% of the adult males and a lot of the territory.

The term Guarani holds three important aspects in Paraguay. First, Guarani is the name of the tribe that lived in the region before the Europeans came to the land. Second, Guarani is the name of Paraguay's currency. Third, Guarani is one of the two official languages spoken in Paraguay: Spanish is the other.

The President and Vice President are freely elected for five year terms.

The legal system in the country is a combination of Argentine and French codes as well as Roman law.

The government climate has changed a few times since Paraguay's independence. Their laws and processes may be different from your own, but Paraguay has a deep understanding of struggles.

The Chaco War was Paraguay's most successful war because it won highly lucrative areas from Bolivia making recovery and rebuilding easier after the war.

The capital of Paraguay is Asuncion and was built and founded in 1537.

Some of Paraguay's economy is based on exporting goods to neighboring countries that are previously imported.

Paraguay's people are mainly involved in agriculture and cattle ranching. A small percentage of the population mine iron ore, manganese and limestone.

Paraguay's official name is Republic of Paraguay or Republica del Paraguay.

Paraguay's independence occurred in May of 1811 from Spanish rule and occupation.

Paraguay's first railroad was created and built in three years starting in 1858 by British engineers.

Paraguay was a dictatorship from 1955 to 1989 and was ruled by Alfredo Stroessner. A constitution wasn't instituted until June of 1992.

Paraguay owns the Itaipu Dam with Brazil. This dam is the largest hydroelectric power plant in the world and even though it is co-owned, Paraguay remains the largest maker and exporter of hydroelectric power.

Paraguay is a landlocked country (one of two in South America; the other is Bolivia) that is bordered by Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia.

Paraguay has been involved in a couple of wars and has been economically underdeveloped the majority of the time since its independence.

Paraguay has about six million people with an average age of 20 years-old for males and 21 years-old for females. Women will have an average of four children.

Much of the population lives east of the large Paraguay river that separates Paraguay into two sections. Two to three percent of the citizens live in western part of Paraguay while the rest live in the eastern section.

Most of the population, around 95%, is a mix of Spanish and Amerindian, which is commonly called Mestizo.

Flowers

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Tulips have a brief lifespan of only three to seven days.

Titan arums are the world's largest flowers at almost 10 feet in height.

There are over 15,000 species of roses cultivated across the world.

The rose family also includes pears, apples, cherries, plums, peaches, apricots, and almonds.

The first plant collectors date back 3,500 years to Egyptian Pharaoh Thothmes III's army. Depictions in the Temple of Karnak show soldiers delivering their booty of 200 plants collected from Syria.

Symbolism such as imagination, dreaminess, and a declaration of love is a big part of the allure of Tulips.

Sunflowers are able to soak up radiation.

Some orchids can grow over 65 feet in length.

Saffron is a spice that comes from a type of crocus flower.

Roses are valued for their romantic symbolism but their blooms are also edible and have the flavors of green apples and strawberries.

Most tulips have two to six leaves, but a few species can have up to 12 leaves.

Japan has a national chrysanthemum festival every year on September 9th. The flower is also portrayed on their imperial flags and weapons.

In the fifteenth century, roses symbolized two warring factions in England. Red roses symbolized the Lancaster faction while white roses symbolized the York faction. As such, the clash became known as the "War of the Roses."

In Malta, chrysanthemums are associated with funerals, making it unlucky to keep the flower indoors.

In a pinch, tulip bulbs make a passably good substitute for onions in recipes.

In 1996, Americans purchased about 1.2 billion cut roses, which is the equivalent of 4.67 roses for every person in the nation.

Helianthus is the scientific name for sunflowers, helia for sun and anthus for flower.

Feng shui buffs believe that chrysanthemums will bring happiness and laughter to any room.

During the 1600s, Tulips were so valuable that their bulbs were worth more than gold.

Due to their horrible aroma of rotting flesh, titan arums are also called corpse flowers.

Crossbreeding was common in the 1800s when Luther Burbank successfully crossed an oxeye field daisy with a Japanese daisy to produce the Shasta daisy, which is not a daisy at all but in fact a chrysanthemum.

Chrysanthemums are one of the few flowers that can be cultivated bonsai style.

Chrysanthemum blooms can be as small as 1 centimeter or as large as 25 centimeters.

Broccoli is a flower as well as a vegetable.

Barbara Streisand, Whoopi Goldberg, and Rosie O'Donnell each have a rose named for them.

Angiosperm is the scientific name for flowering plants. It means "seed bearing."

Ancient civilizations believed that the smell of burning Aster leaves provided protection and drove malicious serpents into hiding.

Amazingly, Tulips can continue to grow as much as an inch per day after being cut.

Although there are over 250,000 species of flowering plants in the world, most everyone has singled out one or two to call favorite. Below are some facts about a few of the world's most popular flowers.

Europe

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Three countries in Europe start with the letter "I": Ireland, Italy and Iceland.

There have been many countries created by the collapse of many unions that existed in the 1960's, 1970's and early 1980's. The smallest independent union that still exists is the Vatican City.

There are five peninsulas in Europe. The Iberian Peninsula contains Spain and Portugal; the Balkan Peninsula has Albania and Greece; the Scandinavian Peninsula has Norway and Sweden; the Jutland peninsula has Denmark and Germany; and the Apennines peninsula contains San Marino and Italy.

The Ural Mountains are a natural boundary that separates Northern Asian from Northern Europe.

The longest name for a town is located in Wales and named, Llanhyfryddawelllehyn-afolybarcudprindanfygy-thiadtrienusyrhafnauole. The name means "quiet beautiful village and a historic place with a rare kit under threat from wretched blades."

The largest country in Europe is Russia, even though many people think it is included in the continent of Asia because of the country's proximity to the other Asian countries.

The four smallest countries recognized as countries are Monaco, Liechtenstein, San Marino, and Estonia.

The country of Poland has generated four Peace Prizes and five Nobel prizes in Literature. A total of 17 Nobel prizes have come from Poland.

The Alps mountain system runs through Austria, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, France and Slovenia. The word "Alps" simply means "mountains." The Alps are usually separated into the Western and Eastern Alps.

Paris is the largest city in Europe with a population of about 10 million. There is a lot of competition with big cities like London, Istanbul and Moscow.

One fun fact about Europe that is usually unknown is that no deserts inhabit the continent of Europe.

Most of the countries of Europe use the universal currency called the Euro. The United Kingdom still use their proprietary unit of money, the British pound. The only country in Europe not part of the European Union, which formed in 1957, is Switzerland.

In the Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands and Holland are the same. About one-fourth of the Netherlands is underneath the sea level. Many of the Dutch people speak one foreign language; some speak two.

he thermometer was invented in Italy and the piano was created in Italy. Another small independent state, a little larger than the Vatican City, is San Marino. Both are located in Italy.

Germany is the country that is surrounded by the most countries (nine total). The countries are Switzerland, Poland, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Denmark, Czech Republic, Belgium, and Austria.

From Ireland, a scientist named John Tyndall answered the age-old question "Why is the sky blue?" The answer? A human's eyes are susceptible to the blue color, and even thought red molecules are also in the sky, the blue molecules are tossed about at a quick pace, which the eyes pick up better.

Europe received its name from a princess in Greek mythology. Europa was a Phoenician princess kidnapped by Zeus who had transformed into a white bull to take her.

Besides Germany, Austria also has German as their official language. The only country in Europe that does not have an official language named after the country is Yugoslavia. Their official language is Serbo-Croatian.

Another fun fact about Europe is that Greenland, an autonomous country, is also the world's largest island. The island is owned by the Kingdom of Denmark.