There are any number of great websites out there in cyberspace which deal with such otherworldly issues as alien artifacts and other anomalous features on the moon and Mars, and with more mundane subjects like evidence of alien visitors and/or their presence on our very own planet by way of archaeological and other evidence. In fact, there is enough "evidence" out there to have one wondering whether this planet is indeed our own. We might very well be guests here, for all we know.
Well, we know quite a bit, and it is safe to say that we are very much at home here on Good Mother Earth, and even if we aren't indigenous to this world we can at the very least satisfy ourselves by claiming ownership by way of what any rational soul must concede to be a safely presumed statute of limitations.
Not that there aren't some very compelling reasons to think that we are not alone in this great and wondrous Universe. In fact, I have done enough research to conclude that there are pretty good odds to support the idea that we have been visited in the past by some far out of this world characters, and by that I mean from other sources in this galaxy, whether from within our own solar system or beyond. Here, for example, is incontrovertible evidence - pictures taken of a ceiling beam at a 3000-year old Temple at Abydos in Egypt...
And below is a closeup of that beam. It is evident from the fact that this was a carefully selected secluded site for these etchings and that the artist was without a doubt saving this information for posterity. It probably might very well have got him into trouble if he had carved them in a more prominent location.
Curiously enough, attempts to rationalize these hieroglyphs as 'palimpsests' by Egyptologists are defeated by evidence published by a respected Arab newspaper, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, of several photographs taken at another Egyptian temple, the Amon Ra Temple in Karnak, of similar hieroglyphs featuring flying machines, and which are also estimated to be around 3,000 years old. It is extremely unlikely that these artifacts are adultered hieroglyphs.
In 1898, in a tomb at Saqquara, Egypt, a very interesting and well-known artifact, among Egyptologists, was found - what seems to be a toy airplane. It was analysed and determined to have been created near 200 BCE. It is shown below.
This brings me to the reason for this current post. I remain very skeptical of most of the online evidence, often quite bizarre, which compare obscure images of surface features taken by Mars rovers and orbiters, and Apollo astronauts, as well as claims of secret Apollo missions of which the general public, by design, knows nothing about, because when seen in their true light reveal nothing more than rocks and retouched photographs. However, there is some pretty irrefutable evidence to the contrary - witness the link to the image at the bottom of the right sidebar on this site. Having said that, I turn your attention to the image below. It is of a dust devil on Mars, a whirlwind of dust and sand particles which are very common on the surface of that planet, and which can easily be misconstrued when taken out of context as a UFO. In fact, they have been interpreted as just that by overly enthusiastic ufologists.
My message is, "The evidence is out there, just be very discriminating."
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Life here, and "there"...
Monday, March 17, 2008
If it's from NASA, it must be true
The beauty with conspiracy theories is that we have the freedom to choose to believe them or not. A discriminating mind is able to judge whether some seemingly far-fetched evidence is real or whether it is a hoax. Ideally, that should not be a matter of choice. But often the evidence we are presented is of such an unbelievable nature that only the most liberated thinker can accept it as truth in the face of all objection to the contrary. You see, there is that element from the extreme right which holds sway over much of what we purport to call free thought. That huge and influential segment of the population is unwilling to entertain thoughts that there are civilizations in this Universe that do not have their origins on this world and that the people of those other worlds have the same innate propensity for exploration and discovery as we do and that in some cases they may even have crossed paths with our world in the process.
If the evidence comes from NASA in the form of images taken from an orbiting space craft and if NASA can confirm that they are unretouched and in their original format then we must prepare ourselves to experience a not too subtle reality check. Such evidence exists. Hundreds of thousands of images exist of the moon taken by unmanned satellites and by the astronauts on the Apollo spacecraft while awaiting the return of the astronauts from the surface. There are many which contain anomalous features which any enthusiastic UFO buff could describe as alien structures and are no doubt natural formations created by forces not always completely understood but there is evidence presented by an artifact in one location on the dark side of the moon which is more than just compelling and thought provoking. It is irrefutable.
Trapped in a crater and half buried by history lies what to any untrained observer appears to be a spaceship. It might be described as cigar-shaped. It is definitely not natural. The object was first detected by the Apollo 15 crew in 1971 as the command module passed over the Delporte region on the side turned away from the Earth.
Such is my desire for the undisputed truth that I cannot allow myself to take seriously reports of a secret Apollo 20 mission to the moon in 1976 to investigate the artifact. However, I will not discount that it is possible. The ostensible details of the purported mission are revealed in an amusing skeptics' site called Galaxiki, from which I have lifted a couple of the images on this post.
The original Apollo 15 image can be viewed at the Universities Space Research Association's affiliated website, the Lunar Planetary Institute. The image is given the mundane title AS15-P-9625. The object in question can clearly be seen when the image is panned to the right.
Of course this was considered to be a most intriguing site and subsequent passes were made over the area by other Apollo missions and lunar orbiting satellites. Improved photographic instruments and electronic photo enhancement reveal that this is no optical illusion.
Actual video of the Apollo mission flyovers are available for viewing on line. Additional images taken by Apollo 15 and 17 of the site can be found on the relevent pages at the Lunar Planetary Institute's site. Prepare to do some searching.
The web, as a rich resource of information, is bound to cause NASA and other government bodies to eventually rethink their policies regarding the dissemination of what they might consider to be sensitive information. I strongly believe that the public has a right to know developments generated by publicly funded organizations. I believe this right to be inherent and without restriction.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Domestic UFO's not so U anymore
It is not entirely inconceivable that so-called "UFO's" are actually experimental craft designed and built by extraordinary people, not just those in the employ of government sponsored research institutions but the hobbyist next door with money to burn.
Below is an actual image of the Avrocar, developed jointly by North Americans on both sides of the Canadian border with co-operation from the British, at the Avro-Canada plant in Malton, Ontario, taken from the The Toronto Star in a story published on February 11, 1953.
The project was abandoned when it was found that stability problems which occurred when trying to control the craft to altitudes over six feet could not be overcome. Nowadays such a problem would not be at all insurmountable. Here is an official looking AVRO Canada VZ-9A AVRO car site of sorts. Apparently, by 1960 there was no flying saucer design plan in trial production.
