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CONTENTS WATCH OUT! SPACE

BROTHERS WARN WE WILL
NOT BE ALLOWED TO SET
6 FOOT ON THE MOON!................ 6
Some disturbing revelations from Mr
UFO, a.k.a Tim Green Beckley, concerning
warnings about our efforts to get into space.

THE DOUBLE CROSS OF

HENDAYE AND SARE..................12
Investigator Dan Green takes a close look
at the carvings and decorations used in
religious practises, particularly the notorious
‘Double Cross of Hendaye and Sare’, on the
French/Spanish border.

ANDREW BASIAGO:
TIME TRAVELLER...........................18
In this article, Jason Wood considers the
possibility of time travel and the tale of
Andrew Basiago, who claims to have done
just that.

THE HAUNTING OF
RECTORY COTTAGE...................24
Nigel Wright shares some of his boyhood
experiences when he encountered a ghost
in his grandparent’s abundantly haunted
house.

12 UNRAVELLING THE
MYSTERY OF
THE SPHINX............................................30
In this fascinating item, Brian Haughton
takes yet another look at the enduring
mystery surrounding the of construction the
Sphinx.

18 BOOK REVIEWS.................................34
THIS MONTH: The King In Yellow;
Poltergeist: The Night Side of Physics; The

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Shadows Out Of Time; The Dream-Quest of
The Unknown Kadath.

DVD REVIEWS......................................36
THIS MONTH: The Land of The Dead; The
Buddy Holly Story; 8 Mile; Van Helsing

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SPAC E B R O T H E R S
W I L L N OT B E
WARN WE
A L LO W E D TO
S E T F O O T O N
THE MOON!
Some disturbing revelations from Mr UFO, a.k.a Tim Green
Beckley, concerning warnings about our efforts to get into space.
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E
ver really wonder why we
have not been back to the
moon? Why we haven’t set
up a base or even a colony by
now? Maybe my warning had been
taken to heart — for after all it had
been a stern one. “Alien beings, using
the moon as a flying saucer base,
are warning us to watch our step in
space. If we try to colonize the moon,
these outer space intelligence, will
stop us!”
The New York Daily News and the
Sunday Gazette Mail of Charleston,
West Virginia carried my message
throughout the country, since the
Daily News had a circulation of about
3 million at the time, the WV paper a
lot less of course.Even the prestigious
New York Daily News thought the
topic was hot enough to award it
ample media space.
It was June of 1969, and I was in
Charleston to speak at a large “flying
saucer show,” organized by J. Ralph
Jarrett acting as that years sponsor of
the Congress of Scientific UFOlogists
a group of which I was on the national
board of director, along with stalwarts
James Moseley, Cleveland’s Rick
Hilberg and Al Manning, a Korean War
vet who had had an up close, personal
encounter with a Foo Fighter.
I pointed out at a press conference,
held before the event in the Daniel
Boone Hotel, that I had been
instructed by my “planetary guides”
to tell the media that if we attempted
to return to the moon there would
be serious repercussions on earth
— in the form of earthquakes, power
failures and other headline making
disasters. I should point out that the
space people didn’t necessary say that
they were going to cause these events
(except for Ted Owens who said the
SI’s could be very vindictive). Instead it
was a sort of what you sow you reap
sort of thing. Tim’s predictions of a
lunar “no fly zone,” based on channeled
information made headlines.
After I explained that my source for
these warnings was a group of UFO
contactees, who had been in regular
touch with some pretty powerful
extraterrestrial friends, they pretty
much accurately quoted me as having
said: “Whatever they are, these beings
are more highly advanced. They are
primarily concerned that we might
use the moon for military purposes.
They’re warning us not to do that.” Fat
chance I would have to say, even at
this late date!?
To bolster my point, I revealed that
many of our space missions had been
closely monitored by “strange lights,”
which followed our astronauts out in
space in order to show us that they
“meant business.” I also told how
they might go so far as to “quarantine
the earth until we have cleaned up
our act.” I confess I was going for
Many of our space
missions had been
closely monitored by
‘strange lights’.
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the sensationalist factor, hoping the
event would get more than a blurb in
the back of the paper. My approach
resulted in wide coverage. I had said
a mouthful and I would have to live
with it.
MICHAEL X’S THE COSMIC GURU
Though I have never considered
myself a staunch supporter of the
New Age wing of the UFO community,
I had established a co existing
friendship with numerous channelers
and contactees as I do believe they
have the right to be heard. And from
time to time what they have to say is
right on the money!
Above all else, there was one
particular individual from the “cosmic
no fly zone” whom I thought was
one cut above the rest when it
came to expressing the theme of
the Space Brothers arrival here on
earth, and what they would like to
see accomplished by our society
before we joined with our galactic
breathern. He was very articulate, and
my gut feeling was that his messages
were more than gossamer “New
Age cotton candy,” He influenced me
pretty much to the point where I felt
I could be a conduit for some of the
space people’s messages, without
getting involved on a personal level
as if I were claiming to receive such
predictions on my own. I felt I had to
separate my “serious” UFO research
efforts from the more “extreme”
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elements that were hiding in the
shadows, but were looking to guide
the rest of us toward the light.
One of the most influential individuals
in the UFO contact movement of the
Nineteen Fifties and Sixties was a
gentleman named Michael Barton
(right) whose moniker was an easy,
breezy, Michael X, a nom de plum.
He chose it so that he could hang
out under cover and not be so easily
identified. He was not interested in
a cult following, but had some very
important information to give out
which he said had been given to him
by his Space Brother friends from
“Venus.” Every year, Michael X. would
mount the speaker’s platform at the
Giant Rock UFO Convention, held
just outside the town of Landers,
California, in the Mojave Desert.
He would address the throng of
up to ten thousand who would sit
in the hot sun all day to hear the
latest message transmitted to the
earthly representatives of the Ashtar
Command and the followers of other
“star fleets” captains.
Specifically, Michael said his contacts
were from the planet Venus. None of
the Giant Rock presenters received a
speaker’s fee from promoter George
Above: Giant Rock UFO Convention was the Contact In The Desert of its day.
Van Tassel, so most of them hawked
their self-published books and stapled
tracks. The material that Michael
X disseminated, however, was a
cut above the rest. Such titles as
Venusian Health Science, Venusian
Secret Science, Release Your Cosmic
Power, Amazing Visions of the End
Times and Rainbow City and the Inner
Earth People, were highly sought
after, as the teachings they contained
were of a higher caliber than most of
the material that was being spread
around in the name of the space
aliens. The transmissions Michael X
received were direct and “non filtered.”
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They were not as poetic or flowery as
some of what I call “New Age fluff”
that was being passed about to the
hard core believers via mimeographed
leaflets. The material he was coming
forth with was a combination of
ancient wisdom bestowed upon him
and channeled information which he
was receiving while in an altered state.
Truth is, his books were presented
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as inspirational courses, suitable for
study groups (which there were a
lot of in the Fifties and into the mid
Seventies. This was especially true
on the west coast, where some were
even organized by celebrities who
would order books from me over the
phone. I have one here in front of me
now. “Secrets of Higher Contacts,”
which was one of his best…and dig
the list of enlightening chapters,
presented with pzazz:
Saucer Mystery Unveiled.
Brothers of the Higher Arc.
Contacting Your Secret X.
Will You Be A Contactee?
Your Most Important Role.
The Space Brothers Need You Now!
In fact, as far as it is known, Michael
published the first book in the U.S.
on the Nazi UFO connection. It was
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titled, We Want You — Is Hitler Alive?
Later on he published, The German
Saucer Story, Both were to bring him
a great deal of trouble as we shall see.
The little booklet We Want You — Is
Hitler Alive? — seems to have gotten
Michael X into a whirl wind of trouble.
Suddenly, Michael X disappeared
from the scene. He did not want to
talk about UFOs or the space people
any longer. Something had frightened
him dreadfully. According to the late
Frank Stranges, a personal friend of
both Michael X and myself, it had
something to do with Barton’s belief
that at least some UFOs were being
manufactured right here on earth by
members of an elite Fourth Reich
who had manufactured disc shaped
devices. The plans for these devices
had come from a negative race of
Nordic-like extraterrestrials who
sympathized with Hitler and his Aryan
supremacy views.
Michael X had claimed telepathic
contact with his space “friends.” One
day they told him to go to a particular
spot in the desert to meet with them
face to face. He did not feel this was
an unusual suggestion as he had
followed their commands to meet
several time before without incident.
This time the results were not to his
liking. He had parked his vehicle and
had gotten out to see if there was
a ship approaching, when suddenly
he saw something glittering in the
sunlight. He looked off to his side, and
there partially hidden behind a sand
dune was a would be assassin, a man
with a rifle whose metallic barrel was
reflecting the sun’s rays giving their
hiding spot away.
Author, researcher and guru, Michael
X fled the scene as quickly as possible
realizing that he had been “set upon”
by entities he had no desire to deal
with. His wisdom was no match for
a firearm with a scope. From what
we later heard, Michael canceled all
of his forthcoming speaking dates
and went into seclusion not knowing
how to deal with this very unnerving
situation which had never confronted
him before. Even as a teenager I
was in the business of selling UFO
books to finance my research. Long
distance phone calls to witnesses
were expensive in those days (maybe
$10 for a 3 minute conversation from
east coast to west). And one had to
buy gas and rent hotel rooms while on
the road. Michael X books always sold
well because of their catchy titles, and
they were inexpensive, at $10 or less.
Michael would drop ship the orders
to my customers. We didn’t have a
lengthy conversation but we were
doing business together.
When Michael folded his tent, he
had cartons of unsold books. I
took maybe 50 of each of the “best
sellers,” figuring I would sell them
over a period of time. And Gray
Barker’s Saucerian Press took the
rest. Somewhere along the line I
had asked him if it was ok for me to
reprint the various tomes if need be
and he had no objections However,
he in effect warned me to stay away
from the book on Nazi UFOs which
had been so troubling. Gray Barker
was doing so well with the Michael
X material that he wanted to publish
more titles by the author, but any offer
he made to Michael was refused. He
wanted no more dealings with the
space brothers, be they legit friends
from “Venus.” or potential Nazi “space
Aryans” whose intentions were “not of
the light.”
Acting under the Michael X banner,
Beckley now admits he was
responsible for this book on Tesla.
So I took up the helm. I wrote 3
books under the Michael X plume.
They were, Nikola Tesla — Man or
Spaceman. Before inking this little
booklet there had only been two other
volumes on Tesla, and nothing about
his UFO — outer space — connection.
Now there over 700 Tesla titles being
sold on Amazon. Then there was
Gone Forever in the Blink of An Eye,
which dealt with the disappearance
of one of Michael’s close friend,
Dr Halsey whom might have been
scooped up by aliens.
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Most important of all, and this is
the fist time I am confessing to this,
I penned Danger On The Moon, a
32 page discourse which I feel is
still very relevant to this day due
to the timeliness of its contents,
even though it came out in the
late Sixties. In short, this booklet
explained how even though we had
landed on the moon, because of our
warlike activities and general chaos,
the space people would prevent us
from returning to the lunar surface.
They would take whatever measures
necessary to see that we did not
establish our own bases or colonies
there, which had long been on our
space agencies agenda.
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DOUBLE CROSS
OF HENDAYE & SARE
Investigator Dan Green takes a close look at the carvings and
decorations used in religious practises, particularly the notorious
‘Double Cross of Hendaye and Sare’, on the French/Spanish border.
N
ow, if I were a sculptor
and had crafted my own
work replete with many
curious symbology and
metaphors relevant to my very own
experiences, bias, and knowledge,
and perhaps known only to me, and
decades later, when I would be no
longer contactable or alive, it was
left to other people to ‘decode’ or
understand what I had left them, the
chances are they could only tackle
the issue with guesswork. Could
any one person actually work out
precisely what had been in my mind,
in particularly if what I had done was
just personal reflection or even for
my own amusement? The odds are
that nobody would be successful, but
because the brain perceives things
in a different fashion from person
to person, lobe to lobe, some might
come up with some pretty convincing
alternatives.
And so, this brings me to the subject
of the infamous Cross of Hendaye,
found right on the border between
France and Spain, reasonably reliably
dated as 1698 and first tackled by the
mysterious figure of Fulcanelli author
of ‘The Mystery of the Cathedrals’.
Its even unknown if he was indeed a
singular person or whether ‘Fulcanelli’
may have been the work of more than
one person or even a group, so the
plot thickens even before it has gotten
started! I’m indebted, however, to this
authorship for having found my own
THE
Mystery contained within a Gothic
Cathedral, that of Lincoln England,
at least I can quote him as a reliable
source.
Fulcanelli, the first to investigate,
decided that the 3 metre or so tall
Cross of Hendaye having finally
arrived at the graveyard at the church
of St Vincent, was telling of two
global catastrophes, one that would
announce itself skyward. Having
found that much of my own research
strongly hints at the possibility of
a cometary impact or endangering
close passing facing mankind, it was
natural that I took my own look and
take, and like so many others before
me, on any hidden meaning contained
within this structure. This time the
search would be a different approach
from others in that I had already
decided what I am going to look for.
Knowing that the expectation is one
of catastrophe doesn’t help if one is
Italian actress Laura
Lamberti discovered a
‘twin’ cross in the church
yard of St Martin, Sare.
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trying to erase anticipated bias and
so, looking out for an explanation to
match my own thoughts of a comet
intervention, I thought why not see if I
can make my own jigsaw pieces fit.
In 2015 Italian actress Laura Lamberti
added to the drama, acting on
some eventual assistance from two
originally reticent Basque locals at
Hendaye, to discover a ‘twin’ cross
(pic opposite) in the church yard of St
Martin, Sare, (pronounced ‘Sarah in
Basque’) only 10 miles away, although
it is less of a clone by the fact that
it appears unfinished, some of its
sides blank. if we reverse ‘Sare’ we
reveal the phonetic ‘erase’. Could this
erasure have even more worrying
implication than just blank sides?
Mysterious goings on indeed. How
had it taken so long for someone to
discover this secondary effort when
it was so near? The Hendaye Cross, it
has been inferred by some, points to
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Vincent’ were to metamorphose

into the Priory of Sion, that shadowy
organisation mostly associated
with Rennes-le-Chateau, whom
most consider entirely fictional.One
more connection with this saint and
Rennes-le-chateau is that another
devil like figure holding up a water
stoup can be found at the St Vincent
Collegiate church in Montreal, a short
distance from the chateau. Given
that the biblical figure of Jesus refers
to himself as ‘I am the true Vine..’ in
John 15:1, I considered it a worthwhile
thought that we phonetically re-
interpret St Vincent as ‘Vine Sent’
relating to Christ’s anticipated return.

Hendaye’s Cross has at it its head the

Above: The Cross at Hendaye
INRI inscription from his crucifixion.
Alchemical understanding of INRI
claims it to read ‘Igne Natura
Renovatar Integra’ - ‘By fire nature
is renewed whole’ – a reference,
some believe, to a returning Christ
destroying and renewing the world
by fire. Already I am thinking comet.
Contrastingly perhaps, the cross at
Sare, pronounced Sarah in Basque
recall, reminded me of the phrase
‘Ce Sera Sera’ - in Spanish, ‘It will be’.
What will? An inevitable catastrophe?

A broken Latin inscription on the

a clock face at a church in Cornwall
England, which announces ‘Watch
and pray, time hastes away’ with a
similar inscription, I understand, to be
found at St Martin’s.
Okay then, not to be left out, here goes
my own inspection based on my usual
modus operandi of utilising a depth
psychology approach which takes the
unconscious mind into account and
its relationship to the conscious.
Firstly, there is the place name of
where we find this cross, in the
churchyard of St Vincent. It is
postulated that the ‘Children of St
Cross, with a curious misplaced ‘S’ at
the end of OCRUXAVES reads;
OCRUXAVES
PESUNICA
Some previous researchers point
out that this curious ‘S’ reminds one
of a twisting snake and that ‘Spes,’
hope, in reverse is ‘seps’, or snake.
What I reminded myself of, was
the Aegypto-Greek Ouroboros, the
ancient symbol of a snake eating
its own tail (interesting, as comets
have a tail) or ‘coming back on
itself,’ interpreted symbolically as
Top: The inscription INRI is said to read ‘Igne
Natura Renovatar Integra - By fire nature is
renewed whole’.
Above: The broken Latin inscription on the
Hendaye cross.
cyclic renewal of life and death. Its
ancient global meaning is ‘The end
is the beginning’, reproducing itself,
mating,impregnating,and destroying
itself. The word means ‘life conflict’.
When death comes the end meets the
beginning, reminding one of Jesus as
both Alpha and the Omega.

In some cultures the

In some cultures the snake was
a fertility symbol symbolising the
umbilical cord to join humans

snake was a fertility

to Mother Earth. Ancient Crete
worshipped them as guardians of
the Mother Goddess’ mysteries of
birth and regeneration. Snakes can

symbol symbolising the be poisonous but they can also be

used for medicinal purpose – and so,
life and death. The Cosmic Serpent,

umbilical chord.
the 1982 Clube and Napier book,
writes of a giant comet that terrorised
mankind millennia ago and they cite it

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in their theories concerning cometary
catastrophes.
Utilising this thought about the
Ouroboros ‘coming back on itself’ I
tried it out on the anomalous ‘S’ of the
SPESUNICA by taking the last letter,
an ‘A’,and placing it before it to show
ASPESUNICA, revealing ‘ASP’ – the
poisonous snake of Egypt. Note, that
the core of a comet contains the
poison cyanide.Cometary impact is
not all bad news in a cosmic sense.
There is a growing scientific opinion
that such an event may well have
seeded life on earth, and if necessary
after any extinction it could happen
again, havingcaused amino acids to
turn into peptides, the first building
blocks of life. I wondered if the
SPESUNICA from ‘Ave Crux, Spes
Unica, the Latin pious motto meaning
‘Hail to the cross, our only hope,’ may
have actually meant our only hope
was for a comet to cross safely in
the sky at a safe distance away from
earth so not to cause upheaval.
There are two crosses at the head of
the Hendaye cross – could these be a
reference to how a comet crosses the
earth’s orbit and the earth crosses the
comets?
Using my preferred depth psychology,
I decided to look into the carved
pictorials on the crosswith a
difference mind set. This time, I knew
what I would be looking for and would
be trying to make the jigsaw pieces
fit a comet. Looking at ‘Ocruxaves
Spesunica’ with the modus operandi
of ‘Say what you see’,the punning
play on words system employed by
numerous ‘secret’ societies,’ I read;
‘Ochre rocks, a vesper, snake.’
Above: The early alchemical Ouroboros
Above: Is it a star, or a compass?
A comet can comprise of the colour
ochre, Vesper relates to the evening
when they are best seen and SUNICA
is a phonetic for ‘Snake’. Slightly
unsure of some of my phonetics,
I tried them out by consulting the
natural voice recognitionservice
of Alexa with SUNICA and the
appropriate response was to direct
me to ‘snake’ as she did ‘Vesper’ for
‘Vespe’ If it’s good enough for AI its
good enough for me!
Looking at the carving of The Star,
I resisted the temptation to view it
as a compass, I instead settled for
compass being a covert reference
to ‘Come Pass’ in respect of an
arriving comet. The phrase ‘Come to
Pass’ means ‘To happen’, and often
Above left: ‘I see’ = ICY; Above right: The ‘Aching’ sun = a snake?
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indicates that what is happening is
the result of a course of events.
Next, The curious half-moon with an
eye. Here, I suggest an ‘Eye see’ which
I will then morph into ‘Icy’ (a comet is
an icy body), and if I daringly corrupt
the moon as a satellite into ‘set light’,
on fire as a comet, we have a fair
description of one. I also directed ‘set
alight’ at Alexa, and she accepted and
responded to it as ‘satellite.’ Thirdly,
we see what almost all commentators
want to call ‘The angry sun’. At first I
wondered, if so, is it angry because it
cannot swallow up the comet to avert
disaster, as sun’s do? To differ, I tried
seeing an ‘Aching’ sun – A sun ache =
phonetic‘snake.’
Finally, saying what I see, there is
the carving of a pictorial set of four
‘A’s as in the arms of a cross. Again,
the crossing of a comet? These
4 A’s brought into play both the
phonetic ‘For Razes’ – Razes being
the name of the county of which the
later Rennes-le-Chateau was part
founded,and ‘Four A’ = Foray, which,
when used as a noun means ‘A
short, sudden attack’. From a comet?
Wouldn’t it indeed be short and
sudden?
Author Cort Lindahl who has
done amazing work on all thing
navigational has pointed out that the
both Cross of Hendaye and the chapel
next to the ‘twin’ cross point to the
Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
(Should his be read as‘Compass
Stellar’?), historically a place of
pilgrimage on the Way of St James
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Above: The Four ‘A’s. Above: Model symbol of The Way & Ochre rock comet.

route in Galicia, Spain, and housing cross reminds me of the French form It is safe to say that one day a comet
his shrine.The Cross of St James, is of the Patriarchal Cross, the Cross WILL inevitably again impact and
a charge in the form of a cross, the of Lorraine, the heraldic two barred consequently reseed earth as it has
lower limb pointed as if to be driven cross – which is coincidently the done in the past. Whether in ten years,
into the ground. Or a person, if we shape of Lincoln cathedral as viewed five hundred, five thousand, I cannot
care to see it as a dagger and I have from the air – which brings us back say. The late author and investigator
shown in earlier Blogs how comets to our asp discovery as it has an David Wood’s research into the
have historically been described in occult association with poison and message of Rennes-le-Chateau
their flight as flaming swords and can was used as an icon by chemists predicted 2085. Graham Hancock in
also be viewed as a dagger. Depth (originally alchemists) on their bottles his ‘Magicians of the Gods’ potentially
psychology appears to be at work yet of poisonous substances. It was even anytime between 2020 and 2040.
again. used in memory of poison gas used Either or neither might be right but
in the Lorraine area during world war both can’t be.
The scallop shell, or clam, is a symbol one. Remember how the core of a
of the Camino and St James. The comet contains the poison cyanide. I originally thought any likely
Camino de Santiago is a network of
pilgrims’ ways or pilgrimages leading
to the shrine of James. The word
‘pilgrim’ comes from ‘peregrine’ and
travelling about, and ‘peregrination’
means a complete and systematic
course or round. This is also
describing the course of a returning
comet. The model symbol of the Way,
not only of my rock coloured ochre,
might also be matched as a pictorial
for a streaking comet in the heavens.
Might not ‘clam’ be too close to home
ironically for ‘calamity’?

So, we have the two ‘Hendaye’

crosses, one in the village of Hendaye,
the other a fifteen minute drive away
at Sare. Is this an intimation of a
double cross? That hope for a safe
double crossing of the comet in
earth’s orbit and vice versa? A double Above: Ouroboros at Tutankhamun shrine.

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Above: Swift-Tuttle and it’s tail.
culpritwould be the enormous icy,
periodic comet Swift-Tuttle, twice
the size of the object thought to
have demised the dinosaurs and
responsible for our annual Perseids
meteor shower, due to pass close
to the earth or moon next in August
2126. There were once fears that
this comet was definitely on a crash
course with earth. I based my choice
on the inscription placed near the
door of Tutankhamun’s tomb ‘Death
shall come on swift wings to him
who disturbs the peace of the King’.
King Tut, Tuttle, a reference to Swift;
it’s all a bit ominous. The first known
representation of the Ouroboros,
incidentally, is on one of the shrines
enclosing the sarcophagus of
Tutankhamun. We are now assured
that this comet won’t impact. Let’s
hope the calculations are accurate
or, worse still, nobody is lying to us
for that would surely be the ultimate
‘double cross’ of betrayal.
Now I don’t do time calculations as
I am aware of Time as an illusionary
concept but I couldn’t help noticing
one last thing with the Ouroboros.
There are 26 letters in the alphabet.
If we return to the OCRUXAVES
PESUNICA inscription and count the
number of letters there are 17 but if
we employ our ‘swallowing its tail’ and
continue around from the end to again
include the OCRU that halts at the X,
we have the number 21. Place this
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before the 26 and we arrive at 2126
the year of the return of Swift-Tuttle.
I appreciate that some will view
what I have presented here as far-
fetched, but then isn’t a comet also
far-fetched? I still find it surprising
that nobody seems to have pointed
out that the word ‘Hendaye’ can’t help
pronouncing ‘End day’. The whole
genre of doomsday style predictions
can even be entertaining in their
inventiveness; however, it would be
helpful if there was some sort of
clincher for me to reinforce all that I
have imaginatively suggested. And
maybe there is. NASA’s Earth Science
Disaster Programme has a title. Its
name - ASP. n
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ANDREW BASIAGO:
TRAVELLER
In this article, Jason Wood considers the possibility of time travel
and the tale of Andrew Basiago, who claims to have done just that.
T
he subject of time travel is
problematic, but is thought to
be achievable by transferring
consciousness using non-
physical means, such as those
used in the CIA sponsored Stargate
Project. Or it might be achieved
for physical objects and people by
the use of advanced technology of
some kind. Many claims have been
made about the phenomenon and
there have been several people and
organisations claiming to have been
part of experiments in physical and
non-physical time travel, in some
cases building devices to permit
individuals and objects to physically
travel through the dimension of time.
There have even been individuals who
claimed that they actually travelled
in time and these claims rely on
the possibility that there naturally
occurring weaknesses exist in space/
time; portals that, depending on
many factors, permit transit to the
past and of course the future. These
portals are not just one-way options
and allow beings from the future or
the past access to our own version of
reality. Perhaps the best known of the
non-technical time travellers were the
academics Anne Moberly and Eleanor
Jourdain who, in August, 1901 while
visiting France, spent some time at
the Palace of Versailles.
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They were looking for a feature called he reached the light he found that he
the ‘Petit Trianon’, a beautiful, small had travelled into the future, to the
château located in the grounds, when year 2042. It was here that he met
they became lost and started to feel his future self now aged seventy two,
what they later described as ‘strange’ they were both amazed, but were
and ‘uneasy’. They asked directions able to establish each others identity
from two men who were wearing by comparing tattoos and also their
long green coats and tri-corn hats. family history; things like where they
The men directed them to a bridge, had hidden possessions in childhood.
where Anne Moberly saw a woman
wearing 18th-century clothing sitting Then there are the technology-based
on a stool, sketching. Once back in cases of time travel, such as the
England they did some research and alleged time traveller, or perhaps ‘time
to their surprise found that the woman viewer’ would be a more accurate
they has seen sketching was identical description, Father Pellegrino Ernetti
to a portrait of Marie Antoinette, they who was a Benedictine monk and
also discovered that she had been an authority on Gregorian chants
sketching the Petit Trianon when she and other forms of ancient music.
learned that a mob was marching on He claimed to have co-invented the
Versailles. “chronovisor,” a device that resembled
Another time traveller who did not
use any obvious form of technology
was a 36 year-old Swedish man called
Håkan Nordkvist who, in 2006, found
pools of water on his kitchen floor. He
assumed that there was a plumbing
leak from the kitchen sink so he got
his tools and crawled under the sink,
but for some reason he could not see
or reach the pipe work. Instead, to
his astonishment what he saw was a
tunnel of some kind.
He began crawling down this tunnel
and saw a light and kept going, when
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a television set, but had the ability to

‘tune in’ to events from the past.

He said that he developing this device

while worked with the physicist Enrico
Fermi and rocket scientist Werner
von Braun. Ernetti allegedly used
the chronovisor to observe the Last
Supper and also Christ’s crucifixion.
A decision was eventually taken to
completely destroy the device in
case it created serious problems in
the present by supplying an accurate
version of history, and this could be
extremely dangerous because of the
many mistakes that have been made,
some of them deliberately.

Another claimant for technology

based time travel was John Titor, a
supposed future soldier, however,
despite an impressive knowledge of
science, Titor was never actually seen
and all his information came from
posts on the internet However, one
of very few people who have come
out, face-to-face, and claimed to have
time travelled is Andrew Basagio. He
claims to have been part of a project
operated by the US Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency, a highly
secretive weapons development
organisation also known by the
acronym, ‘DARPA’.

All of this contradicts observations

made by the late Stephen Hawking,
when he said that saying time travel
to the past is impossible, because the
universe would not allow paradoxes
that entail the destruction of
something that exists in the future.
Perhaps, but then again if what
Basagio is true, perhaps not. Despite
this, Basagio, a Seattle attorney,
claimed that as a child he became
what he called a ‘chrononaut’ as part
of Project Pegasus, which was the
name of an alleged CIA/DARPA time-
travel project that lasted from 1968
until 1972. This particular programme
was based on the concept of the
holographic nature of space/time
and involved training groups of
gifted youngsters to become the first
generation of time explorers. There
were said to around 140 youngsters
involved in the project.
The reason that youngsters were
considered ideal for this project was
because they were seen as naive
and their minds were less fixed in the
views, but probably more importantly
it was found that older participants in
Top: The alleged ‘chronovisor’ built by Father Pellegrino Ernetti (opposite). Above: An alleged
image from the crucifixion of Jesus Christ (left) with comaprable artwork (right).
the initial experiments suffered severe
psychological issues after repeated
exposure to the fields created by the
device. In order to avoid the time
paradoxes that could arise from their
visits to the past, Basagio said that
they were sent back on alternate
time lines, rather like the proposed by
the ‘many worlds theory’ developed
by the American physicist, Hugh
Everett. This controversial theory also
proposes alternate universes as well.
He claimed that this project had
three purposes; one was to protect
planet Earth from perceived threats
from space, to establish a base, and
with it territory, on the planet Mars.
According to Basagio there have
been US military bases on Mars since
1976 and they are still there under
constant development. The project
was allegedly based on a technique
called ‘quantum access’ originally
developed as a result of much earlier
work conducted by Nikola Tesla and
this exotic technology may have been
in use as early as 1967.
There has been speculation that the
experiments conducted by Tesla
were contained in the vast number
of documents seized by the US
Alien Property Control after Tesla’s
death, this government department
were looking for evidence of various
devices, such as the much rumoured

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Above: Andrew Basiago
death ray and a teleportation device.
Tesla’s papers refer to something
called ‘radiant energy,’ which is alleged
to be a universal force (perhaps
similar to chi and other natural
energies) which bends space-time
and permits “real time” teleportation.
This would obviously have been of
great interest to the US Government
and it is known that Tesla had worked
on all sorts of bizarre technologies.
According to Basagio, since the device
was practical and could be used with
relative safety, many projects were
being undertaken in the future so that
there could be no possibility of spying
by hostile forces who could gain an
advantage.
He also stated that the technology
was also being used for political
purposes where individuals who rose
to prominence were made aware of
what their futures held and how they
should prepare for this. He said that
in the 1970s in Albuquerque, New
Mexico he was present at a meeting
According to Basiago
there have been U.S.
military bases on Mars
since 1976.
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Above: Former President Obama who Basiago claims was also a fellow time traveller.
with George H.W. Bush and his son
George W. Bush, who were informed
that they would both be presidents of
the USA. Basagio has also claimed
that he had prior knowledge that
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama
would also become presidents.
This foreknowledge also extends to
the election Donald Trump who, he
said, would have a fairly tumultuous
presidency. Basaigo stood as a
candidate in the 2016 US presidential
election, the one that found Trump in
the White House, Basagio was what
is called ‘write in’ candidate and never
stood any chance of being elected.
‘Write-in candidates’ are peculiar
to the US political system and are
would-be candidates whose name
does not appear on the ballot, but for
whom voters may vote nonetheless
by writing the person’s name on
the ballot paper. Perhaps one of the
strangest claims made by Basiago
was that one of his fellow time-
travellers was none other than the
then future president Barack Obama,
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who, at the time, was nineteen years
old and called Barry Soetero.
These claims led to the White House
having to issue an official denial
that this ever took place, but might
this be part of a wider and ongoing
misinformation campaign? He said
that as part of the mars training
class they travelled by means of
‘jump room’ located at College of the
Siskiyous, which is a genuine public
community college with campuses
located in Weed and Yreka in Siskiyou
County, Northern California.
The ‘jumps’ took place through what
he called a ‘field of radiant energy’,
which became a tunnel that allow
them through and when they arrived
at their destination it immediately
closed behind them. This sounds very
similar to an old TV show called The
Time Tunnel which used a similar
sounding kind of technology. Does
this mean that information about this
kind of technology was being drip
fed to the general public to get them
acclimatised? More worrying was his
claim that the US government knew
about the atrocity of 9/11 as early
as 1971, but refused to act on the
information. Is there any legitimacy to
back up his remarkable claims? The
answer is perhaps, because physicists
working at the Large Hadron Collider
(LHC) located at CERN on the Swiss/
France border have identified a
potentially dangerous new particle
called The Higgs Singlet that may
have the ability to send messages
between the future and the past.
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In fact there are some prominent
physicists who have publically stated
that the setbacks and problems
that occurred at CERN were due to
deliberate interference from the future
to prevent ill-advised meddling with
natural processes. If has also been
asserted that in 2009, during a test of
the LHC, that the immense burst of
power it created produced a time warp
that resulted in an Iberworld Airbus
A330-300 that was ready to begin
its descent into Santa Cruz, Bolivia
suddenly appearing in the skies above
Santa Cruz, in Tenerife, over 5,500
miles from its intended destination.
It may be coincidental, but the collider
was shut down for an extended
maintenance work immediately after
this occurred. The authorities at CERN
have never publically mentioned this
incident. Then, in 2010, a man who
claimed to have travelled from the
far future was arrested at CERN.
He claimed he was there in order to
persuade those in charge stop the
LHC from destroying the world. He
asserted that the countries we know
at present do not exist where he was
from. He was confined to a psychiatric
In 2010, a man who
claimed to have travelled
from the far future was
arrested at CERN.
institution, but disappeared overnight
from his locked ward and has not
been seen or heard from since. Was
he deliberately silenced, or did his
associates in the future judge that
he had done his best and simply
transported him back to his own
time Strange as it may seen, the
alleged time traveller did not seem
intent on damaging or interfering
with the experiment but, instead, to
facilitate and ensure that it continued
satisfactorily and future events
occurred as they should, or occurred
in the way they did in this particular
travellers world.
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What does this tell us about the time
travel claims of Andrew Basagio?
Are they fact or pure fiction? What
this does show is that the paradoxes,
oddities and consequences created
by time travel are stranger than
we can possibly imagine. Perhaps
once we fully understand the range
and scope of what goes on behind
the closed doors of lavishly funded
government facilities and the range of
exotic technologies being worked on,
then perhaps we will find that what
Basagio and others have claimed
is true and if it is, should we all be
concerned? Sadly, only time will tell. n
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The
HAUNTING
of Rectory Cottage
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Nigel Wright shares some of his boyhood experiences when he

encountered a ghost in his grandparent’s abundantly haunted house.

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O
ur perception of this world in
which we live is often shaped
by the childhood homes
in which we take our first,
tentative steps towards adulthood.
If, like me, you just happened to move
into a very haunted cottage at the age
of 10 years, then this move would,
I suggest, lead one into a life-long
obsession with ghosts and all things
paranormal! Thus it was with yours
truly…
That year, so long ago now, was an
exciting one for me! After a long
period of living in small caravans,
due to my father’s job of being a
site warden, my mother landed a
job as a housekeeper to the rector
of Powderham, on the edge of the
Powderham Castle Estate, in Devon.
A three bedroom cottage came with
the job, and so it was that I found
myself moving into this very old, and,
as we were to discover, very haunted
cottage. Rectory cottage dated from
at least the English civil war. It stood
in its own two acres of gardens,
standing, as it did, beside the main
road that led to the small church at
Powderham. For me, coming from
my old life it was truly paradise! All
that surrounded the cottage was
countryside. Next door, to one side,
was the pheasant hatchery for the
estate, on the other the rectory itself.
Opposite lay open fields, it really was a
countryside haven, or so we thought!
For me, as young lad used to living
beside the sea and in small towns,
to find myself living in such a rural
location was truly a liberating time!
Hours were spent exploring the large,
dark woods that lay all around our
new home. My child’s imagination
was opened up, and I found myself
living out the adventures of my
childhood hero’s such as Robin Hood
as I ran in the woods, this was the
time of my young life!
I could hear the loud,
regular ticking of a
grandfather clock.
We had no such clock!
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However, all this innocent excitement
was about to be changed, by the
weird, and sometimes really scary
things, that were about to happen,
right in my very own home. Events
that were to shape the rest of my
adult life. Little did I realise that these
paranormal occurrences would alter
my ambitions and that they would
inspire me to seek out the real truth
behind such happenings. My bedroom
was placed in the front of the cottage,
and my window overlooked the main
road, that led to the church. Outside
my bedroom window large trees
grew, and at night, if the wind was
strong, the branches of these trees
would scratch menacingly against
the window panes, as I lay in bed,
and imagined hordes of fearsome,
horrendous monsters, trying to get in
the window to get me!
The experiences of paranormal
activity in the cottage began one
dark, winters evening. As I lay in bed
I could hear the loud, regular ticking
of a grandfather-type clock. The odd
thing about this was that we had no
such clock in the cottage! For nights
I heard this sound. I told my father
about it, he was dismissive to begin
with “childhood imagination” was
his verdict on the matter. But, as I
continued to report the same noise to
my parents night after night, he began
to take the situation seriously. Fearing
an infestation of death-watch beetle,
in the roof beams, ticking being a
typical sign of such an infestation, he
climbed up into the loft to investigate
the beams. They were brand new!
The reason for this was that the
cottage had suffered a very serious
fire, a few years before, in which the
entire top floor had burnt away, along
with the roof. In this fire local rumour
stated that an old lady had died. My
father even placed a reel-to-reel tape
recorder in my room one night and he
indeed captured the sound on tape!
One of my childhood games was that
of being an archaeologist. I would dig
countless deep holes in my parent’s
gardens, hoping to find anything that
smacked of history! During these digs
I was thrilled to find small items of
some interest; they included civil war
musket balls, and various shards of
broken Victorian pottery. The most
interesting find was that of a small,
round coin, the origin of which was
a total mystery. It had a hole in the
middle and the picture of an old
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sailing ship on one side. Eventually,
beaten as to the origin of such a coin,
my parents sent it to Exeter museum.
The experts there discovered that
it was a 15th century trading piece!
What a find!
Auditory phenomena were the first
sign of a haunting occurring. Then,
on a bright sunny summer morning,
quite early, my father awoke to find
the fully-dressed figure of a civil war
cavalier standing at the foot of their
bed smiling at him! After my father
shouted at the figure, enquiring none
too politely what this man was doing
in my parent’s room, the figure merely
faded away! I suppose looking back
now; this particular type of figure
really does make sense, given the
history of the area.
Powderham was the location of many
battles during that period. Indeed, if
one visit’s the church that is located
at the bottom of the main drive, you
will find blocks of wood inserted into
the door that overlooks the park that
surrounds Powderham Castle, the
home of the Courtney family, the Earls
of Devon. These blocks were inserted
to mend holes that were made in the
door, so that parliamentary soldiers
who had taken refuge in the church,
could fire their muskets into the
park at the royalist troops as they
advanced.
Now we had full-body manifestation
as well to contend with, things
continued apace. My sister, who
was five years older than me, had
a fascination for Egyptology; her
bedroom had pictures of pyramids
and mummies, etc, all over her walls.
Her room was furnished with heavy,
old oak wardrobes that my parents
had bought at auction. Indeed, these
wardrobes were so heavy that two
men had to lift them into the room.
The heavy wardrobes
had managed to turn
themselves completely
around during the night.
This bedroom was really weird! It had
a certain atmosphere, our family’s
dogs, a Labrador called Bruce, and a
Manchester terrier-cross called Judy,
would not enter this room, not even
when dragged on a lead towards it!
They seemed to have no problem with
any other room in the house. Then,
one morning, my sister called out
loudly to my parents. Mum rushed
to see what was the matter, she had
a job entering the bedroom because
the heavy wardrobes had somehow
managed to turn themselves
completely around during the night,
and now semi-blocked the doorway!
There was no way my sister could
have moved them herself, they were
far too heavy for that, and no-one else
had been in the room that night. So
now we also had poltergeist activity as
well! Full house!
Determined to find out what the
cause of this sudden movement of
the wardrobes was caused by, my
sister and I decided to hold a séance.
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We waited until one night when both
my parents had to go out, so that
my father, who was a professional
photographer, could work at a dinner
and dance. My sister, who had far
more knowledge of such things than
I, set up the small bedside table in
her room. She and I taped up the
door gaps and the window frames to
exclude draughts. She then lit a large
candle on the table and we touched
hands as we sat on each side, then
she called out to any spirits that may
have been in the room. After calling
out twice nothing had happened! I
started to giggle, as any youngster
would I suppose. Then the room went
very cold and the flame shot up about
two foot in the air and went out! My
screams could have been heard miles
away! I ran downstairs and stayed
shivering by the front room fire until
my parents returned. Needless to say
my sister got into real trouble for that
escapade!
Now, one would imagine that for
whatever was haunting this cottage,
such a combination of activity would
be suffice. No! Yet more was to
happen. In the kitchen one morning
during breakfast, salt and pepper pots
floated down onto the table in front
of the whole family from a high shelf,
right in front of our eyes! Then, as I
took a bath one evening, a Victorian-
dressed lady, dressed entirely in black,
proceeded to float out of the wall to
my right and go through me and into
the wall to my left! All I can remember,
apart from the awful sense of total
embarrassment at a lady seeing
me in the nude, is the horrible sense
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of shivering as the apparition went
through my body.
All this paranormal activity would,
you would assume, really put the fear
of God up a small boy, such as I. But,
to be really truthful, it only added to
my, by now, growing fascination with
all things weird and strange. After
getting over our fright regarding the
séance, my sister and I decided to
try and witness the alleged ghost
of a previous Lady Courtney, which
was supposed to ride on a horse
down the main road to the church
at the bottom of the driveway every
night. Our opportunity to carry out
our investigations came a few weeks
later. Again my parents had to go out
and my sister was trusted to baby sit
(surprising really given the fuss that
had happened last time!)
We waited until midnight (the
supposed time of the haunting), we
then went outside to the double gates
that fronted our driveway. As we stood
there, getting colder by the minute,
we observed a white mist floating
down from the top of the drive in the
direction of the old castle folly that
stood in a wood at the top of a hill.
As this mist went past us we saw that
it contained the outline of a lady on
a horse, only thing was….she had no
head. It continued down the road and
disappeared into the church gates
then vanished.
These odd events carried on
happening all the time we lived
at Rectory Cottage. Did it put me
off living in such a place? Not at
all! In fact it made me all the more
determined to devote my spare
time to exploring all aspects of the
paranormal. As things have panned
out in my life since, I have finally
achieved my life-long ambition to
devote all my energies to this quest.
I sincerely believe, looking back now,
that these childhood experiences of
weird events, have had a really good
effect on me. It taught me, at a very
young age, to have a totally open
mind.
I have experienced a wide variety of
paranormal events since, from UFO’s
(my specialist subject) to ghosts and
poltergeists. Black cats and attacks
by phantoms. Am I ever scared by
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such events? Yes I am! Will I ever
stop? No, never! Because whenever I
hear of any new happening that falls
into the realm of the paranormal then
I feel an almost irresistible urge to go
and investigate it. I sometimes feel
as if I am cursed to live in haunted
houses, because, years later, I lived
in a haunted ex-council house with
my wife and children. For a full time
paranormal journalist it was like being
a child let loose in a candy shop! It
was a fascinating place, but that is
another story!
And what happened to Rectory
Cottage? Well, the story ends this way:
after a couple of years at the cottage,
my grandparents died and my father
inherited their bungalow. And so we
moved away. Eventually the cottage
was demolished and now there stands
a brand new large house where this
beautiful, yet fearfully haunted cottage
once stood. The one remaining
question stays in my mind. If it is true
that if one disturbs a haunted house
then the haunting increases, then
what, if any, events of a paranormal
kind occur in that new house today? It
would be very interesting to find out. n
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Helpful Research Information: April Celestial Events (Info Courtesy of Sea Sky)
April 12 after midnight. Meteors will radiate from appearance of the moss pink, or wild
New Moon the constellation Lyra, but can appear ground phlox, which is one of the first
The Moon will located on the same side anywhere in the sky. spring flowers. This moon has also been
of the Earth as the Sun and will not be known as the Sprouting Grass Moon, the
visible in the night sky. This phase occurs April 27 Growing Moon, and the Egg Moon. Many
at 02:32 UTC. This is the best time of the Full Moon, Supermoon coastal tribes called it the Fish Moon
month to observe faint objects such as The Moon will be located on the opposite because this was the time that the shad
galaxies and star clusters because there is side of the Earth as the Sun and its face swam upstream to spawn. This is also the
no moonlight to interfere. will be will be fully illuminated. This phase first of three supermoons for 2021. The
occurs at 03:33 UTC. This full moon was Moon will be near its closest approach to
April 22, 23 known by early Native American tribes the Earth and may look slightly larger and
Lyrids Meteor Shower as the Pink Moon because it marked the brighter than usual.
The Lyrids is an average shower, usually
producing about 20 meteors per hour at
its peak. It is produced by dust particles
left behind by comet C/1861 G1 Thatcher,
which was discovered in 1861. The
shower runs annually from April 16-25. It
peaks this year on the night of the night of
the 22nd and morning of the 23rd. These
meteors can sometimes produce bright
dust trails that last for several seconds.
The nearly full moon will
be a problem this year. Its
glare will block out all but
the brightest meteors.
But if you are patient
you may still be able
to catch a few good
ones. Best viewing will
be from a dark location

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velling
unra ery of the
the myst
SPHINX
In this fascinating item, Brian Haughton takes yet another look at
the enduring mystery surrounding the of construction the Sphinx
B
uried for most of its life in the
desert sand, an air of mystery
has always surrounded
the Great Sphinx, causing
speculation about its age and
purpose, method of construction,
concealed chambers, role in
prophesy, and relationship to the
equally mysterious pyramids. Much
of this theorizing is to the despair of
Egyptologists and archaeologists,
who, reasonably it seems to me; only
give credence to theories that are
backed up by tangible evidence.
Facing the rising sun, the Great Sphinx
is located on the Giza plateau, about
10km west of Cairo, on the west
bank of the Nile River. Later Egyptian
rulers worshipped it as an aspect of
the sun god, calling it Hor-Em-Akhet
(“Horus of the Horizon”). The Sphinx
sits in part of the necropolis of ancient
Memphis, the seat of power for the
pharaohs, a short distance from three
large pyramids – the Great Pyramid
of Khufu (Cheops), Khafre (Chephren)
and Menkaura (Mycerinus).
The monument is the largest surviving
sculpture from the ancient world,
measuring 73.5m in length and in
parts 20m in height. Part of the
uraeus (sacred cobra which protected
from evil forces), the nose and the
ritual beard are missing; the beard is
now displayed in the British Museum.
The extensions at the side of the
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head are part of the royal headcloth.
Although the head of the Sphinx has
been badly affected by thousands of
years of erosion, traces of the original
paint can still be seen near one ear. It
is thought that originally the Sphinx’s
face was painted dark red. A small
temple between its paws contained
dozens of inscribed stelae placed by
the Pharaohs in honour of the Sun
god.
The Sphinx has suffered greatly from
the ravages of time, man and modern
pollution. In fact, what has saved it
from complete destruction is the fact
that it has been submerged beneath
the desert sand for most of its life.
There have been various attempts
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to restore the Great Sphinx over the
millennia, beginning in c1400 BC with
the pharaoh Tuthmosis IV. After falling
asleep in the shade of the Sphinx
when out hunting, the pharaoh dreamt
that the great beast was choking
from the sand engulfing it, and that
it told him if he cleared the sand he
would obtain the crown of Upper and
Lower Egypt. In between the front
paws of the Sphinx is a granite stelae,
now called the “Dream Stelae”, which
is inscribed with the story of the
pharaoh’s dream.
Towards the end of 2010, during
routine excavation work in the
area of the monument, Egyptian
archaeologists discovered large
sections of mud-brick walls which
were part of a larger wall which
stretched for 132 meters (433
feet) around the Great Sphinx. The
archaeologists believe that the wall
The mystery of the
Sphinx’s origin and
purpose has often
given rise to mystical
interpretations.
was built by Tuthmosis IV after his
dream to protect the Sphinx from the
desert winds.
After the clearing ordered by
Tuthmosis IV, and despite the wall,
the colossal sculpture once again
found itself beneath the sand. When
Napoleon arrived in Egypt in 1798, he
found the Sphinx without its nose.
18th century drawings reveal that
the nose was missing long before
Napoleon’s arrival; one story goes that
it was the victim of target practice
in the Turkish period. Another and
perhaps the most likely explanation,
is that it was pried off by chisels in
the 8th century AD, by a Sufi who
considered the Sphinx a sacrilegious
idol. In 1858, some of the sand around
the sculpture was cleared by Auguste
Mariette, the founder of the Egyptian
Antiquities Service, and between
1925 and 1936, French engineer
Emile Baraize excavated the Sphinx
on behalf of the Antiquities Service.
Possibly for the first time since
antiquity, the Great Sphinx was once
again exposed to the elements.
WHO DOES THE GREAT
SPHINX DEPICT?
The explanation for the enigmatic
sculpture favoured by most
Egyptologists is that Chephren, a
Fourth Dynasty pharaoh, had the
stone shaped into a lion with his
own face at the same time as the
construction of the nearby Pyramid
of Chephren, around 2540 BC.
However, there are no inscriptions
anywhere that identify Chephren with
the Sphinx, neither is there mention
anywhere of its construction, which is
somewhat puzzling when considering
the grandness of the monument.
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Despite many Egyptologists claims
to the contrary no-one knows for
sure when the Sphinx was built or by
whom.
In 1996, a New York detective and
expert in identification concluded that
the visage of the Great sphinx did
not match known representations of
Chephren’s face. He maintained that
there was a greater resemblance to
Chephren’s elder brother Djedefre. The
debate is still continuing. The mystery
of the Sphinx’s origin and purpose
has often given rise to mystical
interpretations, such as those of
English occultist Paul Brunton and,
in the 1940’s, controversial American
psychic and prophet Edgar Cayce.
The Great Sphinx was excavated from
a relatively soft, natural limestone,
left over in the quarry used to build
the Pyramids; the forepaws being
separately made from blocks of
limestone.
One of the main oddities about the
sculpture is that the head is out of
proportion to its body. It could be
that the head was re-carved several
times by subsequent pharaohs
since the first visage was created,
though on stylistic grounds this is
unlikely to have been done after
the Old Kingdom period in Egypt
(ending around 2181 BC). Perhaps
the original head was that of a ram
or hawk and was recut into a human
shape later. Various repairs to the
damaged head over thousands of
years might have reduced or altered
the facial proportions. Any of these
explanations could account for the
small size of the head in relation to the
body, particularly if the Great Sphinx is
older than traditionally believed.
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There has been lively debate in
recent years over the dating of the
monument. Author John Anthony
West first noticed weathering patterns
on the Sphinx that were consistent
with water erosion rather than wind
and sand erosion. These patterns
seemed peculiar to the Sphinx and
were not found on other structures on
the plateau. West called in Geologist
and Boston University professor
Robert Schoch, who, after examining
the new findings, agreed that there
was evidence for water erosion.
Although Egypt is arid today, around
10,000 years ago the land was wet
and rainy. Consequently West and
Schoch concluded that in order to
have the effects of water erosion they
found, the Sphinx would have to be
between 7,000 and 10,000 years old.
Egyptologist’s dismissed Schoch’s
theory as highly flawed; pointing out
that the once prevalent great rain
storms over Egypt had stopped long
before the Sphinx was built. More
seriously, why were there no other
signs of water erosion found on the
Giza plateau to validate West and
Schoch’s theory? The rain could not
have been restricted to this single
monument. West and Schoch have
also been criticised for ignoring
the high level of local atmospheric
industrial pollution over the last
century, which have severely damaged
the Giza monuments.
Someone else with his own theory
behind the Sphinx’s date is author
Robert Bauval. Bauval published a
paper in 1989 showing that the three
Great Pyramids at Giza, and their
relative position to the Nile, formed a
kind of 3-D ‘hologram’ on the ground,
of the three stars of Orion’s belt and
their relative position to the Milky Way.
Along with Fingerprints of the Gods
author Graham Hancock, Bauval
developed an elaborate theory that
the Sphinx, its neighbouring pyramids
and various ancient writings,
constitute some sort of astronomical
map connected with the constellation
Orion. Their conclusion is that the
best fit for this hypothetical map is
the position of the stars in 10,500
BC, so pushing the origin of the
Sphinx even further back in time.
This date is understandably disputed
by Egyptologists, as not a single
archaeological artefact dated to that
period has ever been discovered in the
area.
There are various legends of secret
passages associated with the Great
Sphinx. Investigations by Florida
State University, Waseda University
in Japan, and Boston University, have
located various anomalies in the area
around the monument, although these
could be natural features. In 1995,
workers renovating a nearby parking
lot uncovered a series of tunnels and
pathways, two of which plunge further
underground close to the Sphinx.
Robert Bauval believes these are
contemporaneous with the Sphinx
itself. Between 1991 and 1993, while
examining evidence for erosion at
the monument using a seismograph,
Anthony West’s team found evidence
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of anomalies in the form of hollow,
regularly shaped spaces or chambers,
a few metres below the ground,
between the paws and at either side
of the Sphinx. No further examination
has been allowed.
Today, the great statue is crumbling
because of wind, humidity and the
smog from Cairo. A huge and costly
restoration and preservation project
has been underway since 1950,
but in the early days of this project
cement was used for repairs which
was incompatible with the limestone,
and so caused additional damage
to the structure. Over a period of 6
years over 2,000 limestone blocks
were added to the structure and
chemicals were injected into it, but
the treatment failed. By 1988 the
sphinx’s left shoulder was in such a
state of deterioration that blocks were
falling off. At present the restoration
is still an ongoing project under the
control of the Supreme Council of
Antiquities, who are making repairs to
the damaged shoulder and attempting
to drain away some of the subsoil.
Consequently, today the focus is
on preservation rather than further
explorations or excavations, so we will
have to wait a long time yet before the
Great Sphinx gives up her secrets. n
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I SURVIVED BEYOND
AND BACK
TRUE ACCOUNTS OF NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES
FROM THOSE WHO HAVE GLIMPSED THE AFTERLIFE
by Tracie Austin
I Survived Beyond and Back takes you on a
journey of firsthand Near-Death experiences, as
reported by those who experience cede them.
Time and time again, people have asked these
questions with curiosity - What really happens
when we die? What lies on the other side? Is
death the end?

Journey with us as we discover Glimpses of the

Afterlife; The Science of Dying; NDEs vs. OBEs;
The Physician Who Tried to Weigh the Soul, and
my radio interview with Dr. Laurin Bellg, M.D., who
talks about her role as a board-certified critical
care physician and ICU director for two busy
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her about their personal near-death experiences
while inn the ICU. Read about Near-Death
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THE KING IN YELLOW
This work from SelfMadeHero, which astonishingly was
first published in 1895, features the always excellent
artwork of I.N.J. Culbard and obviously influenced a
similarly themed Japanese film, ‘The Ring’, concerning
a cursed video tape that ensured all who watched it
died seven days later. In this adaptation, ‘The King
in Yellow’, which is one of a series of short tales, is a
play that causes madness in all who read it and the
book carries resonances with a variety of writers in
this genre, everyone from H.P. Lovecraft (who greatly
admired the subtle terror of the original) to Steven King
and beyond. Some of the images are truly imaginative
and really bring the book to life and it’s a pity that only
the first few stories are depicted here. Never mind
though, for this is a must-read for all who are interested
in the graphic horror genre.
Author: Robert W Chambers
Publisher: Self Made Hero Price: £9.99 / $13.99
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POLTERGEIST: THE NIGHT SIDE OF PHYSICS
This is a truly remarkable book, written by the man
who was at the centre of the notorious poltergeist
attack in a modern and otherwise normal house in the
Seattle suburb of Bothell. The title just about says it
all, because this is the very darkest example of ‘The
Night Side of Physics’ and the author, who has already
written two successful books about the same eerie
and frequently terrifying event, attempts to explain the
poltergeist phenomenon in terms of science. He has
obviously gone down the same road that this reviewer
has trodden, and a whole range of scientific disciplines
are brought to bear on the phenomenon, starting with
infrasound and continuing though quantum physics
and ending up in the logical end result of multiple
dimensions. The research and evidence presented is
almost overwhelming in its sheer volume and scope,
and poltergeist infestations from around the world,
dating from the earliest times right up to the present,
are also discussed, but the real puzzle is why do they
do it? Because the phenomena that occur seem to
be both random and often malicious, there seems to
be no point in these occurrences, other than for the
gratification of the polt, or simply to annoy and or terrify
the people who experience them. Does the author draw
any conclusions? Well, of course he does and he also
reveals the remarkable point of origin from where he
believes these malignant entities originate, but you
will have to read the book to find out where this is.
Authors: Keith Linder
Publisher: Self Published via Amazon Price: £14.04
ISBN: 979-8-58355-806-3
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This is one of the last books written by the inimitable
H.P. Lovecraft and its eldritch wonders have been
beautifully illustrated in a commendably understated
fashion by I.N.J. Culbard. Culbard seems to have a
natural talent for interpreting Lovecraft’s works and
it really does show. The plot involves Prof. Nathaniel
Peaslee from the Miskatonic University (another
Lovecraftian theme) who collapses in front of his class
and regains consciousness some five years later. He
finds that he has not been lying still during this time
and sets out to discover what occurred. This leads
him to discover that his body was taken over by a race
of time and space travellers called The Yith. They do
this using a ‘body swap’ with hosts from the intended
temporal destination. The illustrations paint an eerie
picture of what this process and the destinations are
like. As befits anything from Lovecraft, the reader is
mesmerised as the story develops in the voids between
the spatial dimensions of the universe the recesses of
the human mind: great stuff.
Author: H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher: Self Made Hero Price: £9.99 / $13.99
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THE DREAM-QUEST OF
THE UNKNOWN KADATH
In this splendid retelling of the Lovecraft classic we find
the protagonist Randolph Carter (a recurring character
in the strange universe created by Lovecraft) seeking
the mysterious home of the Gods (or at least the gods
of Lovecraft’s eerie and unsettling universe) via the
medium of dreams. It is here that the illustrator I.N.J.
Culbard really excels as he recreates these images
on the page, for they range from the beautiful to the
terrifying. However, as Carter carries out his quest
there is another, much darker force also watching and
this one has its own malign agenda. In fact this kind of
logic-free subject really allowed the author to express
his ideas in a mix of fantasy and reality that frequently
really is the very stuff of dreams, where anything
is possible. For anyone who is a fan of Lovecraft,
especially in this graphic format, they could do much
worse than this. Highly recommended.
Author: H.P. Lovecraft
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ISBN: 978-1-910593-96-7
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REVIEWS
MAIN CAST: Dennis Hopper,
Asia Argento, Simon Baker,
Robert Joy,
DIRECTOR: George A Romero
PRICE: £19.99 (Blu-Ray)
MAIN CAST: Gary Busey, Don
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DIRECTOR: Steve Rash
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Land Of The Dead (18)
FABULOUS FILMS
Oh boy! At last one of the main influences
on the Zombie genre lands on DVD and not
a moment too soon. This series of Romero
directed films were around many years
before the runaway success of The Walking
Dead and its clones were even thought of. In
fact Romero was asked to get involved with
the uber-successful TV series, but rejected
the offer on the grounds that it was, quote,
‘A soap opera with zombies’. As to the plot,
well, zombies have taken over the world and
those left alive live, including a fortunate
elite who live in a tower of steel and glass
called Fiddlers Green, live in a heavily
The Buddy Holly Story (PG)
FABULOUS FILMS
Talk about a film that helped define an era?
This is one of that genre, and it depicts the
life and times of one of the most influential
rockers of all time. The titular Buddy Holly,
who tragically died aged only 22 in a plane
crash in 1959 along with two others rockers,
what a real shame, because we will never
know what other gems might have emerged.
All the classic Buddy Holly tunes are here,
Peggy Sue, That’ll Be The Day, Rave On,
Maybe Baby and loads more. Best of all
Gary Busey as Holly (he was quite rightly
nominated for an Oscar for the part) is an
absolute knockout. He did his own singing
but did not play the guitar, although it looks
like he did. The film also accurately portrays
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guarded walled city that keeps the zombies
out. The elite are doing ok, but everyone
else has to do the best they can in the mean
streets of the compound. However the dead
are starting to evolve and progress from
being shambling, brain eating hulks and
are becoming organised, they even have
leader of sorts. In the city those in charge
are becoming complacent and anarchy
has started rule the streets, and a group of
scavengers decide to even things out and
the outcome is a delight for lovers of blood-
spattered zombie-themed action. Well worth
a watch.
the racists, redneck vibe of 1950’s America,
where Holly and his band were castigated
by the church for playing this ‘jungle devils
music’ and none-to-subtle record producers
who did not like the fact that Holly’s music
sounded too ‘black’ for their liking. However
the fans thought differently and star was
born. In fact Holly and the Crickets (his
band) were the first all white group to play
the legendary Apollo Theatre in New York
and against all expectations proved a great
success there. So if you want to enjoy some
real, raw, truly great Rock ’n’ Roll, see a
portrayal of one of the all-time giants with a
bit of social commentary on the side, then
look no further, this film has it all.
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8 Mile (15)
FABULOUS FILMS
This film, which is set in 1995 Detroit, (yes, avoid the trap of being formulaic through
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played by Eminem and his attempt to launch who challenge him and all set in a grim,
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dominated by African-Americans especially Thoroughly watchable even if you don’t like
in the USA. It is very gritty and all too real rap music and Eminem is a real talent.
and it found a ready market and proved to
be a surprise hit when it was first released
in the cinema. Actually the film is really
enjoyable and successfully manages to

MAIN CAST: Eminem,

Mekhi Phifer, Brittany Murphy
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Van Helsing (12)

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MAIN CAST: Hugh Jackman,
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DIRECTOR: Stephen
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This is one amazing mash-up that includes
the monster-slayer-for-hire van Helsing
(played by Hugh Jackman) who is sent
to Transylvania by the Vatican to destroy
Count Dracula assisted by a Gypsy
Princess (played by Kate Beckinsale) who
is determined to lift the curse on her family
by killing the evil count. The result, which is
reminiscent of The League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen (in a good way), is a glorious,
action-packed romp where you just switch
off your brain and enjoy the ride. It’s a real
CGI packed, adrenaline filled thrill ride. For
some reason it was panned by the critics
and I have no idea why, maybe they just did
not ‘get it’, but I did, so if you are a fan of
blood-soaked, non-stop fantasy fiction go
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THE US ARMY IS BUILDING THE

MOST POWERFUL LASER WEAPON
IN THE WORLD SOURCE: POPULARMECHANICS.COM

T he U.S. Army wants to develop

a new laser weapon that is more
powerful than existing weapons by
nearly three orders of magnitude, but
lasts just a fraction as long.
The service posted a notice for
the prospective new weapon at the
Pentagon’s Small Business Investment
Research website, calling the weapon
the Tactical Ultrashort Pulsed Laser for
Army Platforms. The Army believes it
can merely aim the laser at a drone to
both damage it and fry its electronic
guts.
Most military lasers are continuous
wave lasers, or those that blast a target
with a continuous beam of energy.
Continuous wave lasers need that
blast because they effectively work like
blowtorches, heating the surface of a
target—say, a flying drone—until a part
melts off, inducing aerodynamic failure
and a crash, or the fuel or explosive
payload explodes.
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The problem? Sometimes continuous

wave lasers, often in the kilowatt
class, need to focus on a single point
on a target for a few seconds to work
properly.
Ultrashort Pulse Lasers, however,
would trade duration for power, firing a
1-terawatt, 200-femtosecond-long burst
of laser energy. For context, 1 terawatt
is 1 trillion watts, while 1 femtosecond
is the equivalent of 1 quadrillionth of a
second.
An electromagnetic pulse is typically
Unlike continuous wave lasers, which
simply burn, the Army says USPL systems
can neutralize threats with three distinct
mechanisms:
[A]blation of material from the target, the
blinding of sensors through broadband
supercontinuum generation in the air, and
the generation of a localized electronic
interference used to overload a threat’s
internal electronics.
The last method of threat neutralization
is particularly interesting. Electromagnetic
pulse (EMP) is typically considered a side
effect of a nuclear detonation, a process
by which an exploding nuclear bomb
releases electromagnetic energy. The
energy builds up in electronic devices
near an explosion, shorting them out and

considered a side effect of a nuclear rendering them inoperable. But natural

events can cause EMPs, too: The 1859

detonation, a process by which the Carrington Event, for example, saw an

unusually large coronal mass ejection

explosion releases electromagnetic energy. from the sun release electromagnetic

energy that fried telegraph wires globally.

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RESEARCHERS LEVITATED A SMALL TRAY
USING NOTHING BUT LIGHT
I n the basement of a University of
Pennsylvania engineering building,
Mohsen Azadi and his labmates
huddled around a set of blinding
LEDs set beneath an acrylic vacuum
chamber. They stared at the lights,
their cameras, and what they hoped
would soon be some action from the
two tiny plastic plates sitting inside the
enclosure. “We didn’t know what we
were expecting to see,” says Azadi, a
mechanical engineering PhD candidate.
“But we hoped to see something.”
Let’s put it this way: They wanted to
see if those plates would levitate, lofted
solely by the power of light. Light-
induced flow, or photophoresis, isn’t a
breakthrough on its own. Researchers
have used this physical phenomenon
to float invisible aerosols and sort
particles in microfluidic devices. But
they have never before moved an object
big enough to grasp—much less lifted
anything that can carry objects itself.
And it worked. “When the two samples
lifted,” Azadi says, “there was this gasp
between all four of us.” The Mylar plates,
Researchers have used this physcial
phenomenon to float invisible aerosols,
but have never before moved an object big
enough to grasp.
each as wide as a pencil’s diameter,
hovered thanks to nothing but the energy
from the light below, according to a paper
published today in Science Advances.
Energy from the LEDs heats up the Mylar’s
specially-coated underbelly, energizing air
particles under the plastic and propelling
the plates away with a tiny, but mighty,
gust.
This engineered structure is the first
instance of stable photophoretic flight,
and Azadi’s accompanying theoretical
model can simulate how different flying
plates would behave in the atmosphere.
In particular, the model indicates that
a levitating plate could mosey 50 miles
overhead while carrying sensor-sized
cargo. It’s an idea the lab members have
floated as a way to study weather and
climate—although atmospheric scientists
say the idea is still preliminary and will
face some daunting meteorological
challenges.
There’s a reason why scientists would
want to get a tiny sensor into the under-
explored mesosphere, which lies between
31 and 53 miles above your head.
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“Sometimes it’s called ignorosphere, in
joke,” says Igor Bargatin, a mechanical
engineering professor at Penn and Azadi’s
adviser, who led the study. “We just don’t
have access to it. You can send a rocket
for a few minutes at a time, but that’s very
different from doing measurements using
airplanes or balloons.”
We haven’t ignored the mesosphere
because it’s uninteresting; we’ve ignored
it because it’s out of reach. The denser air
below it affords enough lift to planes and
balloons. And the thermosphere above
is thin enough that air drag doesn’t burn
orbiting satellites. The mesosphere gets
the worst of both worlds—it’s too thin for
lift but thick enough to burn an orbiter.
That’s a drag for scientists, because
the mesosphere is loaded with interesting
phenomena, like weird blue and red
lightning and the microscopic shrapnel
of millions of meteors—shooting stars—
scorching through it every day. The
chemistry in that layer is also valuable
for scientists interested in tracking ozone
damage, according to Daniel Marsh, an
atmospheric scientist at the National
Center for Atmospheric Research. “Solar
storms cause energetic particles to enter
the mesosphere, creating nitric oxide,”
Marsh wrote in an email to WIRED.
That nitric oxide seeps lower into the
atmosphere and eats away at Earth’s
protective stratospheric ozone.
Sending scientific feelers directly
into this zone requires engineering
a whole new way of flying, Bargatin
says. And using light makes sense
because of its intrinsic energy. Scientists
have tested the idea of catching light
particles’ momentum in solar sails to
travel into deep space at 10 percent of
lightspeed, but that idea collapses in
the mesosphere’s gravity. Over the last
century, physicists have gotten more
comfortable using light to move matter
in other ways. Lasers can nudge proteins
and beads, sort cells, and pluck molecules
like tweezers, for instance. “Pretty much
all the research that has been done so
far focused on microscopic particles,”
says Bargatin. His lab published a paper
in Advanced Materials last year reporting
a hollow aluminum-based sheet that
could hover over an air cushion. But this
new study comes with higher hopes—
©Mohsen Azadi
designing a flight system so stable that
researchers could simply let these devices
loose in the mesosphere.
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ARE UFOS ACTUALLY TRAVELLING BETWEEN
DIMENSIONS INSTEAD OF SPACE?
W hile most people – believers and
sceptics alike – almost certainly
imagine space travel and aliens when
they hear the term UFO, there are many
other theories on offer. Might these
strange sightings be of time-travellers for
example instead of aliens? Might they be
nothing more than “phantom” sightings
– some type of “rip” in space time that
allows us to peek into the future or the
distant past?
One particularly interesting alternative
theory is that what we are actually
witnessing are visitations from another
dimension, as opposed to from another
planet.
There have been many declassified FBI
documents relating to UFO activity, and at
least one refers to “beings” from another
dimension to ours.
What is interesting about the document
is that it is dated 8th July 1947 – the
same date as the Roswell UFO incident.
The document writer acknowledges that
the claims made within it are likely to be
ignored, but the fact that they are put in
front of the FBI in order to investigate is
intriguing enough.
Perhaps one of the key parts of the
declassified paper is the nine bullet points
that highlight key information regarding
“a very serious situation that may develop
at any time with regard to the “flying
saucers”. These can be found on page 22
of the declassified file in question. In full
these bullet points read:
Part of their disks carry crews, others
are under remote control
Their mission is peaceful. The visitors
contemplate settling on this planet.
These visitors are human-like but much
larger in size.
They are NOT excarnate earth people,
but come from their own world.
They do NOT come from any “planet”
as we use the word, but from an etheric
planet which interpenetrates with our
own and is not perceptible to us.
The bodies of the visitors, and the craft,
automatically materialize on entering
the vibratory rate of our dense matter.
The disks possess a type of radiant
energy or ray, which will easily
disintergrate any attacking ship. They
re-enter the etheric at will, and so simply
disappear from our vision without trace.
The region from which they come is not
the “astral plane”, but corresponds to
the Lokas or Talas. Students of osoteric
matters will understand these terms.
They probably can not be reached by
radio, but probably can be by radar, if a
signal system can be devised for that
(apparatus).
The idea that these UFOs are not
travelling through space to get here, but
simply materializing in to our plain of
perception upon hitting the “vibratory rate”
is one that has been theorised before this
document was made public.
The Interdimensional Hypothesis is one
that suggests UFO and alien sightings
are actually visits from beings from
different dimensions or realities. These
realities exist alongside the one which
we reside, and far from being a modern
phenomenon, they go back to the very
beginning of not only our planet, but the
universe.
There have been several modern
incidents that indeed appear to suggest
the opening of some kind of inter-
dimensional doorway or portal however.
Native Americans speak of such
legends, and state that even today these
doorways exist. One place in particular
is said to be in Sedona, in the Arizona
Mountains. Known as the “Doorway to the
Gods” an arch carved out of the stone is
claimed to transport anyone who walks
through it to another place in the universe.
Others have theorised that Stonehenge,
like other ancient sites, was built
intentionally on ley lines. When these ley
lines are tapped into, at least according
to the theory, they can produce enough
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vibrational energy to open a portal to
another place.
There are several accounts of
“doorways” or “portals” to other worlds
and dimensions that date back to ancient
times. Most speak of “visitors” entering
into or leaving our planet through these
doorways.
Abu Ghurab in Egypt for example is
known as the “Place of the Gods” where a
platform made from alabaster vibrates in
tune with the Earth and allows a person to
“be one” with higher energies. The “Gate
of the Sun” at Tiahuanco in Bolivia is also
said to be a portal to the land of the gods.
Perhaps one of the most famous of
these ancient sites though, is the “Gate
of the Gods” at Hayu Marca in Peru. In
solid rock there are carved two doorways
in a “T” shape. Measuring seven meters
high and seven meters across, inside this
gigantic “T” shaped doorway is carved
another door – this one much smaller at
two meters high. According to legend, the
large doorway is for the gods, while the
smaller one is for humans (or mortals)
who have performed heroic or noble
actions.
A further legend states of the doorway
last being opened in the sixteenth century
amid the arrival of Spanish explorers to
the land of the Inca. As the Spanish looted
anything of value they found – including
gold and valuables – an Inca priest, Amaru
Maru, escaped the pillaging, taking with
him an ancient golden disk.
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HERE IS WHAT THE PENTAGON IS NOT
ANSWERING ABOUT THE AIR FORCE AND
RECENT UFO ENCOUNTERS
O ne of the biggest questions
regarding the U.S. Navy’s recent
disclosures regarding strange
encounters with supposedly
unidentified flying craft is why are
we only hearing about this highly
concerning phenomenon from just one
service? A fact that isn’t commonly
understood is that it is not the Navy’s
job to maintain sovereignty over
America’s airspace, it is the U.S. Air
Force’s. If strange and unidentified
craft are being detected or seen, the
Air Force has the mission to respond
and investigate, not the Navy, and it
can do so at a moment’s notice. So far,
the Air Force has been totally mum on
this issue, which is extremely bizarre
considering the Navy’s own messaging
surrounding it.
With this in mind, last September,
Tyler Rogoway reached out to the Air
Force with a series of very pointed
questions regarding what seems like a
massive discrepancy in regards to the
military branch’s ability to execute its
homeland air defense mission. What
seemed like a good start to finding
answers to these key questions quickly
turned into something of a nightmare
that has made me lose all confidence
in the Defense Department’s ability
to address a subject, which they
themselves have actively helped elevate
within the public’s consciousness, in any
meaningful manner.
The Air Force has the homeland air
sovereignty mission. Fighter aircraft sit
on alert across the United States ready
to scramble within a matter of minutes
to intercept and investigate any unknown
craft flying in or near the nation’s airspace.
This includes what some may traditionally
call UFOs. The War Zone has incredibly
in-depth evidence of how such an action
is taken with regards to the presence of
transient unidentified flying objects, let
alone ones that are persistently operating
in restricted airspace, as was supposedly
the case off the east coast of the United
States in 2014 and 2015.
Air Force units that fulfill the homeland
air defense mission are spread across
the country, but those equipped with the
highest level of fighter aircraft capability
are scattered around the continental
United States’ maritime perimeter and are
also based in Alaska and Hawaii. F-15C/Ds
equipped with the most powerful fighter-
optimized active electronically scanned
array (AESA) radars in the world and
carrying Sniper targeting pods for long-
range visual target identification primarily
fulfill the maritime border defense role in
the lower 48 states, with F-22s in Hawaii
and Alaska doing the same.
F-16C/Ds, which are also now equipped
with AESA radars, based at Andrews Air
Force Base just outside of Washington
D.C., keep watch over the Capital Region.
Other F-16s from a handful of Air Force
units that patrol the central U.S. can also
help augment the country’s perimeter
aerial security, but the alert mission is
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one that must be specifically trained for,
with unique protocols and infrastructure
requirements. It is resource-intensive
and not cheap to execute, either. In
other words, it is not something just any
fighter squadron, especially a Navy one
that has a very different mission focus,
can just execute on the fly under normal
circumstances.
As such, his questions attempted to
fill in a missing part of the Navy’s recent
UFO-related accounts. If these flying
craft were indeed being detected, how
is it possible that the Air Force didn’t
scramble to investigate them, and do so
multiple times over the course of these
events? If incursions over installations
are ongoing, regardless of if they are
drones or something far more fantastical,
how isn’t the Air Force directly involved
with investigating and mitigating these
potential threats inside the airspace they
are responsible for defending?
This is not just a UFO issue, it comes
down to America’s ability, or willingness,
to defend its airspace from non-traditional
threats. The threat to the homeland posed
by cruise missiles is already palpable, but
we are now in an era where lower-end and
swarming drone warfare is becoming one
of the most preeminent security issues
of our time and the questions are just as
relevant to national security as they are
to simply finding out new details about
mysterious flying objects.
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CHIRAL WATER SUPER-
STRUCTURE FORMS
AROUND DNA
R esearchers at the University of Notre
Dame have observed for the first time
a chiral water superstructure templated
around a biomolecule. Although many
studies have demonstrated the direct
interaction of water with highly important
macromolecules like DNA, the latest study
is a final confirmation that water forms
a unique and enduring super-structure
around the DNA double helix -- stabilizing
the molecular conformation, mediating
its functionality and interaction with
important information intermediaries like
RNA polymerase.
Taken in consideration with other recent
reports, such as the direct mapping of
molecular couplings and energy exchange
between DNA backbone vibrations
and water with femtosecond infrared
spectroscopy, it is becoming increasingly
difficult to ignore the central role of
water in some of the most important
of biological functions. Water forms
hydration patterns around biomolecules
via hydrogen bond interactions -- and is so
crucial in organizing and orchestrating the
cellular environment that researchers like
Gerald Pollack have even highlighted its
importance as the possible progenitor to
the cellular membrane -- giving birth to the
first cells of life.
The latest study used coherent
nonlinear vibrational microscopy for
unprecedented vibrational imaging speeds
and molecular spatial resolution, allowing
DNA molecules and the associated
hydration patterns of water to be observed
in high detail at near-physiological
SOURCE: RESONANCESCIENCE.ORG
conditions (room temperature and 100
mM NaCl solution). The research team
found that DNA imprints its chirality
(think left-handed versus right-handed
orientations) on the surrounding water
molecules, causing the formation of a
macroscopic super-structure of water
template along the DNA double helix.
While it is known that the specific
template patterning of water molecules
along the DNA molecule is important for
recognition of gene promoter sequences
by interacting proteins (see for example
the study ‘interfacial water as a hydration
fingerprint’), the complete biological
relevance of a chiral spine of hydration
is unknown. Although, it does lend
support for controversial findings like
that of Luc Montagnier -- in which the
Nobel laureate and his research team,
including the theoretical physicist Emilio
Del Giudice who pioneered work on the
quantum field theory of condensed soft
matter, especially water -- performed a
series of experiments that suggests DNA
sequences can be reconstituted from
water memory. The study is detailed in the
report “transduction of DNA information
through water and electromagnetic
waves”.
The ability to directly detect water’s
interaction and pivotal role in biomolecular
functions is an exciting development of
advanced spectroscopic technologies
and molecular biology and will provide
revelatory insights into the biophysics
and physico-chemical properties at the
molecular level of life.
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NEW DOD
INFORMATION:
THEY’VE BEEN
HIDING UFO TEST
SITES?
SOURCE: FILMDAILY.CO
I ndependent writer & reporter Anthony
Bragalia caught people’s attention
with his February blog post. While it
certainly is interesting it looks as if
information has been sensationalized
by outlets and even Bragalia himself.
Bragalia submitted a FOIA (Freedom
of Information Act) request three years
ago and finally received 145 pages of
information from the Department of
Defense. His request was “concerning
Requesting all information on test
results from the UAP material from
Bigelow Aerospace”, according to the
FOIA response’s cover letter. (And yes,
the Defense Intelligence Agency did
randomly capitalize “requesting”.)
So, let’s talk about exactly what
the 145-page document is about,
why people are excited, and why the
excitement should perhaps be pointed
in a slightly different direction –
although perhaps not abated.
Anthony Bragalia requested UFO
information – specifically he requested
information about any test Bigelow
Aerospace may have conducted as part
of their government contract – tests
which were believed to be related to
UFO technology.
Now, the phrase UFO has come to
be synonymous with extraterrestrial
spaceships – that certainly does not
seem to be what the FOIA request
returned, despite some enthusiastic
claims from Braglia that other outlets
have repeated.
Bragalia received five different
documents in his FOIA return, which
included information about metallic
glasses, biomaterials, materials
for advanced aerospace platforms,
metallic spintronics, and metamaterials
for aerospace.
Bragalia mentions the use of a metal
with memory called nitinol and likens it
to reports of the famous Roswell UFO.
However, while not widely known nitinol
is not some big secret. It’s a metal alloy
composed of 45% titanium and 55%
nickel. When heated nitinol can return
back to its original shape, hence the
reference to memory metal. It’s very
cool.
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