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Is there life on Mars? What are Chemtrails? Why are there a number of anomalies on Iaptus? How was Coral Castle Built? These 4 articles attempt to look at some of the evidence.
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4 Articles by Andrew Johnson, Published on Phenomena Magazine’s Website.
Life on Mars?²²²
A Moon, A Mystery²²²
Sky Lines and Cloud Busters²²²
A Lost Love, Coral Castle,
and the
Case for AntiGravityhttp://www.checktheevidence.com/
Life on Mars?Andrew Johnson ([email protected])
Sept 2005
“But the film is a saddening bore”
The conventional view of the solar system is, on the whole,somewhat dull to the average person. Certainly there are highpoints, such as Saturn’s incredible ring system, now beingstudied in superb detail by Cassini (the most complex roboticprobe ever built) and items such as Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (which has been present for atleast 300 years). For those people who move from the “science fiction worlds” portrayed inStar Trek, Star Wars and Babylon 5 to a study of our Solar System, however, unless they areexcited by weird geology or extreme weather systems, there seems to be little to “write homeabout”.
In recent months, however, I have begun to wonder if this “somewhat dull” view of the solarsystem is entirely justified. Certain people have pointed out a number of prominentanomalies – both on the Moon and elsewhere in the Solar System. These anomalies mightindicate that there may be more to our “local neighbourhood” than the randomised rockstructures and the exotic atmospheric chemistry, which are the “bread and butter” of thosewho study Astronomy and Planetary Science. I have now come to feel quite strongly that thepages of our Encyclopaedias and other reference books should include a more consideredanalysis of certain features, which have been photographed at sufficient resolution to showthat they do not seem to fit into a “standard picture” of geology.
“Take a Look at the Law Man Beating up the Wrong Guy… ”
If there is one anomaly in the Solar System that people seem to have heard of, it is the socalled “face” on the surface of Mars, discovered by the Viking 1 orbiter in 1976. The focusof this article, however, will not be on the face, even though there are many interestingfeatures that it possesses and, in my opinion, it should not merely be written off as a mesa orother “uninteresting geological feature”. Readers are encouraged to undertake their ownfurther research.
Unlike UFO or paranormal research, Mars Anomaly research gets the vast majority of itsdata from a well established and supposedly highly credentialed, governmentfundedorganisation – NASA. So, this immediately should remove one of the stumbling blocks thatare often used to criticise other research and researchers of anomalous phenomena.
“'Cause I wrote it ten times or more”
Another important consideration in a discussion of Martian Anomalies is the question of“Life on Mars”. I remember back in 1977 or 1978 the results of the Viking Soil SamplingExperiment (called “Labelled Release”) were announced – the experiment had successfullydetected Microbes in the Martian sand. This seemed significant but not all that exciting.Great – there were some microscopic bacteria metabolising chemicals in the Martian soil oratmosphere. Then, NASA “unannounced” this discovery, about 1 year later, saying thechemistry behind the lifedetection experiment was flawed and what had been detected wasthe result of some kind of inorganic oxidation effect. We were “back to square one” (or
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should that be ‘quadrat’ one). Mars was a dead world. What was not given wide exposurewere the later statements of Dr Gilbert Levin, the man who designed and created the MarsViking LifeDetection experiment, following what was probably simply the debunking of hisresults.
"The Viking LR experiment detected living microorganisms in the soil of Mars," He addedthat after years of tests, and over two dozen nonbiological explanations later, "none of themany attempts to establish the oxidant's mimicry of the LR data did so."(http://www.space.com/news/spacehistory/viking_life_0107281.html)
Recently, there has been resurgence of interest in exactly this type of experiment, followingthe discovery of Methane and Formaldehyde by the ESA Mars Express probe.(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4295475.stm)
One of the Project Scientists, Prof Vittorio Formisano, has also gone on to state that theFormaldehyde is present in measurable quantities in the Martian Atmosphere. Thesignificance of this is that if you were to put an amount of Formaldehyde in the atmosphere,say released from a bottle, it would decompose into other compounds, through the action ofsunlight, in only a few hours (http://www.inchem.org/documents/ehc/ehc/ehc89.htm). Thistherefore suggests that something on the surface or in the atmosphere of Mars is producingformaldehyde. Formaldehyde is an organic compound – thought only to be produced as a byproduct of active biological processes. Its presence, then, could indicate existing life on theRed Planet. Scientists, at least publicly, seem keener to focus on the “lifeless” explanation ofthis chemistry – generally hinting that these socalled “biomarker” gases could have formeddue to another hitherto undiscovered process. In one sense, for a scientist, this is a sensiblestatement to make – the full details of the chemistry at work on the Red Planet are notpublicly known, however, it is my opinion that Science never progresses very much when ithas a cautious intellectual outlook.
“It’s The Freakiest Show… ”
Let’s now look at what I think are some unquestionably odd pictures from Mars. There are anumber of Web Sites which have described these already such ashttp://www.metaresearch.org and http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/ . However, thesesites include a range of images, some of which, in my opinion, are difficult to “get excitedabout” – from vague outlines of a side view of a Nerfertitilike face to apparent grid
structures on the ground (which look to memore like JPEG image compression artefacts,although they could be something else).
In my deliberations on this topic, I initiallyfocused primarily on 2 images that were takenby Mars Global Surveyor several years ago. Itpuzzles me why I never heard about theseimages on a Science programme (such as theBBC’s Horizon series) because, to me, they aretruly, truly remarkable.
MGS Image M1501228
MGS ImageSP243004
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The first image was taken on 19th May 2000. The original image data can be found herehttp://ida.wr.usgs.gov/html/m15012/m1501228.html. In researching details for this article, Icame across the same image posted on Malin Space Science Systems. The comparison is aninteresting one – seehttp://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/m13_m18/images/M15/M1501228.html.
From the information on these pages, I calculated the crater to be roughly 530 meters across.There are 2 things which are clearly very curious about this image. Firstly, there appears tobe a welldefined dome structure and secondly there appear to be “ribs” on this dome. Canthis be a natural formation?
The second image was taken on 16th July 1998 and can also be found on Malin SpaceScience Systems.
http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/ab1_m04/images/SP243004.html
From the information on these pages, I calculated the line running in the "1 O'clock" positionto be roughly 4.8km – over 3 miles long! It then intersects at right angles with anotherfeature about 2 miles long! Why has this incredible feature not been analysed morethoroughly?
“Sailors Fighting in the Dance Hall”
To try and get a qualified opinion about how some of these features may have formed, I sentan email to someone on the Beagle2 team (the illfated UKbuilt Mars Lander) and Iincluded the original links to the dome structure, shown above and a fairly comprehensiveanalysis I had read elsewhere (http://palermoproject.com/lowell2004/grandcentral.htm).
I asked could they explain the features of the Dome Structure, or even provide a model(briefly) for how it may have formed. First, I got this response:
“They look like longitudinal dunes to me. It would be nice to get the topography, butMars Express will only have about one third of the resolution at this latitude.”
Then I got this response:
“…these are natural features, as with 'the face', which was subsequently shown tobe a collection of hills. The human mind is of course preprogrammed by evolutionto identify patterns and assimilate them in to 'pictures' we recognise. More data isrequired of such features to fully identify.”
It seemed to me that there was not much information in theseresponses, so I persevered a little more. I sent these picturesto 42 geologists picked at random from University Geologydepartments in the USA and the UK. 3 of them actually werekind enough to respond. This response came from anAssociate Professor of Geology:
These two images from the surface of Mars are certainlypuzzling and have been floating around UFO web pagesfor some time. I am sorry but I do not believe in bigconspiracy theories and that the government is trying to
1979 Viking Water Ice Frost onMars
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hide something from us concerning Mars or any other planet. I believe that we stillhave a lot to learn from Mars and that we should keep our minds as open aspossible for interpretations that do not necessarily conform with what we are usedto on Earth…
I do not regard the above as being an explanation – it does not make any arguments based onpoints of data, or science, so was rather disappointing in this regard. A friend suggested thatthe dome may have formed from some kind of lava tube. Clearly, this is not an explanationthat is based on a rigorous analysis of the available data – but then again, my friend is not aprofessional scientist (and neither am I). However, it is at least an idea a starting point onwhich a model could be built – possibly taking into account that vulcanism on Mars is,according to existing models, much different than that at work on Earth. (On Mars, there isno visible evidence of platetectonics. This has allowed the highest volcano in the SolarSystem to form Olympus Mons, which is approximately 27km high!)
“It's about to be writ again”
In researching other anomalous Mars images, I came across a number of separate analyses ofNASA image data which seem to strongly suggest that the colour of the Martian Sky couldbe quite different from the murky red colour which appears in the vast majority of the photoswe have seen from the surface of the planet. One of these analyses was coauthored by DrGilbert Levin – who developed the Labelled Release life detection experiment mentioned
earlier.
(Seehttp://mars.spherix.com/spie2003/SPIE_2003_Color_Paper.htm)
Another analysis, by Holger Isenberg, draws similar conclusions(http://marsnews.de/color/blue.html). Isenberg’s page hasanother fascinating image (whichever colour palette it isrendered with) which shows something that NASA describes as“a thin layer of water ice frost”
(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/vl2_p21873.html). One begins towonder why there has been such a debate about the presence of surface water (liquid orfrozen) on Mars in the 26 years since this photograph wastaken. Further questions about both the amount of waterand the colour of the sky on Mars are raised by an ESAphoto published on 28th July 2005. (Seehttp://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMGKA808BE_0.html) Why is the ice blue in colour? Could it bereflecting the colour of the sky on Mars?
“Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know”
Even some of the most recent Spirit and Opportunitypictures seem to show yet more anomalies. I had alwaysthought, like most people, that Mars was a cold, desertworld. I was then intrigued to read this report in January2004, on the BBC News website:
Rover Tracks on the Martian Surface
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Scientists are intrigued by the marks Spirit's airbags left on the surface. The soil shows an unusualcohesiveness, almost as if the soil grains were stuck together like mud. Jim Bell says that they see"scratch marks from where the airbags were retracted and there are places where rocks were actuallydragged through the soil and the soil was kind of stripped up and folded in some places in veryinteresting and quite alien textures". Steve Squyres is also puzzled: "The way in which the surface hasresponded is bizarre. It looks like mud, but it can't be mud. We're going to have a real interesting timetrying to figure this stuff out." (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3387903.stm)
Later images from the rover (e.g. http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/jplimages/web/opportunity/pancam/20041220/1P150975152EFF36CBP2693L2M1.JPG)seem to show there is another puzzle here. If you examine the image closely, you can seeridges in the sand. If you were to consider the impressions left by a child’s toy (which hadcaterpillar tracks) on the dry, sandy portion of a beach, you may be given to wonder “howcould the ridges seen in the photograph form in dry, dusty sand?” It would be nice if, inhelping us all to figure the mystery out, NASA would provide us with more colour images –the rovers can produce them, as shown by the back drop in various press conferences andsome of the other rover pictures.
“Look at those Cavemen go”
Further photo anomalies have been highlighted by SirCharles Shults III, a US Scientist and researcher. Heworked at Martin Marietta Aerospace for 10 years onsoftware for Cruise Missiles. He has spoken at length,several times, on the US Coast to Coast talk showabout his analysis of a number of photos from the MarsRovers. (e.g. http://www.xenotechresearch.com/mk505a.htm
and http://www.xenotechresearch.com/mk507a.htm) He seems to have found what look likesmall, fossilised sea creatures. He has not been able toget anyone at NASA to publicly engage in the debateabout his findings, and he states he was recently“bounced” from a scheduled conference appearance,where he would have presented these findings. SirCharles has also documented evidence of imagetampering, and other image evidence for liquid surfacewater on mars being shown by noticeable changes insurface features during a sequence of rover images.
“Is there Life on Mars?”
In summary, then, I have tried to present evidence which shows:
1) There are nonnatural structures on Mars.
2) Surface water ice was photographed 26 years ago, in some detail.
3) Dr Gilbert Levin, creator of the Viking Life Detection Experiment says his experimentworked.
4) There is evidence of biomarker gases being present in the Martian atmosphere.
Martian Fossilised Sea Shell?
Martian Fossilised Sea Urchin?
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5) There is some evidence that photos that NASA have presented to the public have notalways shown appropriate colours.
6) A number of the recent rover pictures show evidence of soil moisture.
7) Some rover pictures appear, following some close analysis, to show fossils.
There is also a fair amount of other additional evidence which strongly supports the view thatthings on Mars do not seem to be quite as we have been lead to believe by our standardreference works. The reader may wish to peruse articles onhttp://www.enterprisemission.com/ which give a further analysis and information about datapresented in this article, along with a substantial amount more. Readers can then draw theirown conclusions about what, if anything, seems to be happening with the data coming fromthe various Mars probes.
In a followup article I hope to present more evidence, from another part of the solar systemwhich seems to indicate, again, that the “colddeadandneverwasalive” view that we areused to may not be entirely appropriate.
For an Online Version of this Article and more pictures., visithttp://www.checktheevidence.com/
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A Moon, A MysteryAndrew Johnson ([email protected]), Sept 2005
To Coldly Go…
For some people, the unmanned Space Exploration Programme has been far more interestingand exciting than the manned space programme. In the last 35 years, those who have takenan interest in the Solar System have witnessed the discovery of new Planetary Ring Systems,many new moons orbiting Saturn and Jupiter, activevolcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io, Neptune’s dark spot,Aurorae in the polar regions of Jupiter and Saturn andhundreds of bewilderingly beautiful images from the HubbleSpace Telescope. One of the objects in the Solar System thatthe Hubble Space telescope does not appear to havephotographed in any detail, however, is Iapetus – the thirdlargest moon of Saturn. In Greek mythology, Iapetus was aTitan – a God the son of Uranus and Gaiaand the ancestor of mankind.
Moon Light / Shadow
From the time it was discovered in 1671 byGiovanni Domenico Cassini, Iapetus hasalways been something of a mystery. One ofthe amazing things to consider is thatCassini observed Iapetus, over 740 millionmiles distant, using a 17th century refractingtelescope whose main lens was only twoinches in diameter! (A refracting telescopeis one in which only lenses are used, ratherthan a combination of lenses and mirrors.) WhenCassini observed Iapetus over a period of time, he waspuzzled – every 40 days or so, it seemed to disappearfrom view, then reappear 40 days later. He suggestedthat Iapetus had a light side and a dark side, and that italways kept the same face turned to Saturn (in the sameway that our moon always keeps the same face turnedto the Earth).
The orbit of Iapetus around Saturn is somewhat unusual– all but one of Saturn’s other moons orbit “at the samelevel” as the Ring System (i.e. “in the same plane”) –Iapetus orbits at an angle inclined to the ring system ofabout 15º. (Phoebe’s orbit is inclined at about 5º in theopposite direction).
The reason for such an orbital inclination is generally assumed to be because the object hasbeen “captured” by the gravitational attraction of the body that it orbits. In other words, it is
Orbitof
Orbits of OtherMoons
Saturn
Orbits of Saturn’s Moons (Size of Moons not to Scale)
Voyager 2 Composite Image August 22, 1981
An Early Sketch of Saturn by Cassini
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thought that the object (Iapetus in this case) did not form out of the same cloud of material asthe rest of the system. (Similar theories are used to explain the orbit of Pluto, which is alsoinclined to the plane of all the other planetary orbits).
“Fly Me to That Moon”
Just over 300 years after the discovery of Iapetus on August 20th, 1977, Voyager 2 blastedoff from the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral, Florida. A 4year journey of fabulousdiscoveries took the probe to the Saturnian System. In August 1981, we got our first closeupview of this orbiting oddity. Not surprisingly, little fanfare was made of this event, becauseIapetus is a relatively obscure object.
As Cassini had predicted, Iapetus’s surface was half dark and half light – the dark half wasabout 10 times darker than the light half. No explanation was found or given for this.
Voyager pictures seemed to show that the other features of the moon, however, were “run ofthe mill” – just consisting of cratered rocky features.
The Voyager Spacecraft was used to make more accurate measurements of this unusualmoon – to calculate its mass and density. Certainoptical measurements were also made and theseseemed to indicate that there was another potentialmystery – the moon was not a perfect sphere – or atleast, it was less spherical than it should be, whencompared to other large Saturnian moons such asTitan and Enceladus.
The relative density of Iapetus was also calculated –and found to be about 1.1 or 1.2 (This means it isabout 20 or 30% heavier than a similar sized bodymade of ice). The consensus of opinion is thatIapetus, and many of the moons of similar density,is/are made mainly from water ice.
After taking about 18,000 pictures in the Saturniansystem, Voyager was bound for Uranus, and it wouldbe over 20 years before we got our next “eyeball onIapetus”.
Moon Safari
Following the priceless data gathered by the Voyagerprobes, more spacecraft were designed, built andlaunched to both Saturn and Jupiter to get higherresolution pictures and better data. The GalileoMission launched to Jupiter in 1989, was a hugesuccess and featured a pod which was ejected intothe Jovian Atmosphere. In the latter days of thismission, the probe flew through sulphurous cloudsonly about 200 miles above the surface of the
Cassini Image July 2004
Equatorial Ridge Cassini Image Jan 2005
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volcanically active moon, Io.
In 1997, an advanced new probe, Cassini (named after the person who discovered Iapetus)was launched. By July 2004, Cassini had reached Iapetus in the Saturnian system. Thepicture it sent back showed the same ellipticallyshaped dark region on the surface of Iapetus
(http://saturn1.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/imagedetails.cfm?imageID=1036), but later,on December 31st 2004, Cassini had a much closer encounter – passing at a distance of40,000 miles.
Dark Side of the Moon
The high resolution pictures returned were posted on the JPL Cassini Mission Website on 7th
Jan 2005 (http://saturn1.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/imagedetails.cfm?imageID=1270)and they included an astounding discovery:
The most unique, and perhaps most remarkable feature discovered on Iapetus inCassini images is a topographic ridge that coincides almost exactly with thegeographic equator. The ridge is conspicuous in the picture as anapproximately 20kilometer wide (12 miles) band that extends from the western(left) side of the disc almost to the day/night boundary on the right. On the lefthorizon, the peak of the ridge reaches at least 13 kilometers (8 miles) above thesurrounding terrain. Along the roughly 1,300 kilometer (800 mile) length overwhich it can be traced in this picture, it remains almost exactly parallel to theequator within a couple of degrees. The physical origin of the ridge has yet to beexplained.
Only the following explanations of this extraordinary feature were suggested:
It is not yet clear whether the ridge is a mountain belt that has folded upward,or an extensional crack in the surface through which material from insideIapetus erupted onto the surface and accumulated locally, forming the ridge.
So they are suggesting that it is either an extensive mountain range or a long crack, fromwhich material has been ejected. At first glance, these ideas seem acceptable. However, asmall amount of further consideration seems to show they are very unlikely as suitableexplanations.
The first “problem” is that the ridge is linear – it runs in a straight line for 800 miles. I canthink of no other natural geological features either on Earth or elsewhere in the Solar Systemwhich are on this scale, and have such a regular structure. As with anomalies on Mars, itseems difficult to accept that features which exhibit some kind of regular geometry arewholly natural. Indeed, some scientists would agree that evidence of civilisation on a planetcan be found in the geometry of surface features.
Natural processes of planet formation are generally chaotic. Clearly, they do not alwaysresult in complete irregularity – planets are spherical, for example, and seem to have alayered structure of an atmosphere, a crust, a mantle and so on. But lifeless processes such asvulcanism and tectonic activity create, without exception, features which are irregular andrandom (on a scale of miles, at least).
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The other two oddities with this 12milehigh ridge are that it runs round the equator and thatit divides the darker region on Iapetus’s surface neatly into 2 halves. The equatorialpositioning of the ridge could possibly be explained by some effect of centripetal(“spinning”) force as the moon was forming, but if this was true, why don’t we see aremotely similar feature on any other rocky moon of Saturn or Jupiter? Why don’t we see alight/dark colouration for that matter?
According to http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050418iapetus.htm
The pronounced ridge around its equator has no place in the theory ofgravitationally collapsing clouds.
In other words, assuming the accepted models of how planets and satellites form, there is nopart of any theory (that I am aware of) that accounts for the existence of the ridge. So, thequestions remain how can a ridge form which is 800 miles long and 812 miles high andwhich runs almost precisely along the equator of this moon? What natural processes couldcause this? Isn’t this a fabulous discovery? Why have NASA shown no public interest in itand decided not to try and photograph it again until 2007? It seems like there is a similarattitude to the data about Mars anomalies – NASA will not publicly acknowledge the extentof its strangeness and neither have they attempted to produce coherent models to explain howsuch features could form naturally.
The discovery of the ridge seems to me to be one which demands a vigorous application ofScience rather than a casual discardment of the data. There is still the 300yearold mysteryof the dark colouration of approximately half of Iapetus’s surface. What answers have NASAgiven for this? From http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/imagedetails.cfm?imageID=1270
“The origin of Cassini Regio is a longstanding debate among scientists. Onetheory proposes that its dark material may have erupted onto Iapetus's icy surfacefrom the interior. Another theory holds that the dark material representedaccumulated debris ejected by impact events on dark, outer satellites of Saturn.Details of this Cassini image mosaic do not definitively rule out either of thetheories.”
These statements do not mention the curious fact that the ridge bisects the dark region (calledCassini Regio) on Iapetus – this would seem an important observation if anyone wanted toexplain one feature or the other.
“Radar, Love”
Another of the instruments which the Cassini probe is equipped with is a sophisticated radarsystem, capable of several modes of operation. This instrument was used to good effect tomap the surface of Titan (which has a thick orange coloured atmosphere mainly of Nitrogenand Methane, which hides the surface) and in view of the discovery of the ridge could havebeen used to obtain more data about its structure.
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Iapetus had already been “radar scanned” from Earth in 2002 using the newlyupgradedArecibo Radio Telescope and the results obtained were described by Gregory Black, of theUniversity of Virginia:
It is known that the bright [trailing] side is mostly water ice, but we find it doesnot reflect the radar like other icy satellites that we've studied with the radarbefore. The ice on Iapetus appears much less reflective.
In June 2004, preliminary radar scan data for another Saturnian Moon, Phoebe, wasdiscussed and a detailed Scientific Paper about it was released about 5 months later, fordiscussion at a Planetary Science Conference that November 2005. In this paper, referencewas specifically made to intended future radar measurements of Iapetus during the Decemberencounter. So where is this radar data? Doing a Google search of “radar Iapetus” reveals verylittle in the way of detailed information. A similar exercise for “Phoebe Radar” did produce amore meaningful set of information. Did some malfunction of the Cassini probe preventsuccessful operation of the radar equipment at the appropriate time when scanning Iapetus?
A Rock and a Hard Place
Whilst it would be quite difficult for ordinarypeople to interpret radar data and come up with anysensible questions, there are other glaring oddities inthe Iapetus photos that are on the NASA/JPLWebsites. A closer look at the Iapetus imagesreveals some highly unusual craters. 2 Craters inparticular are clearly not round. At least one crateris hexagonal in shape, with a raised mound in thecentre. Another has an irregular shape (arguablymore angular rather than circular) but it too, has anextraordinary linear ridge, roughly in the centre ofthe crater. Whether this crater formed as a result ofan impact or through volcanic action, how can a
linear ridge form approximately 24 miles (by my calculation) in length? Again, theseextremely odd features are not addressed in NASA’s main description of the photograph.
Another question we can ponder is that if the density of Iapetus indicates it is mainlycomposed of water ice, wouldn’t this mean that the craters are more likely to be round, or atleast, not hexagonal?
Marquee Moon?
Having looked objectively at the data presented here, it seems difficult, from a certain pointof view, rather difficult to understand why NASA, and many scientists who work on the datathat NASA gather on their behalf, are not more willing to answer questions about Iapetus in amore rigorous fashion. Simple questions such as “Why the linear ridge? Why so long? Whyso high?” In everyday life, “political correctness” is something most of us experience orencounter at one level or another. With the failure to engage with the anomalous data from
Unusual Crater Features on Iapetus
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Iapetus (and Mars), it seems all too clear to me now that mainstream science is stronglyinfluenced by a form of “Intellectual Correctness”. This seems to stifle honest debate anddiscourage curious people (like me) from asking serious questions.
Richard Hoagland looks more deeply at the Iapetus mystery in a series of detailed articles,starting at http://www.enterprisemission.com/moon1.htm. He is often lambasted for hisconclusions – more so than other commentators, perhaps, because he straddles the fields ofwhat might be called “Alternative Astronomy” and its mainstream counterpart. Somecriticise his conclusions, his style, or both. However, there seems to be no denying theanomalous nature of the data he presents. One has to consider carefully whether the datashows for sure that Iapetus is a wholly natural body, with features formed entirely by naturalgeological processes. The choice is a simple one. I believe that the data, even when taken inisolation, supports the idea that Iapetus is wholly or partly artificial in nature – is it thisconclusion which gives NASA such cold shivers that they simply ignore the most interestingdata and hope that no one will notice? It is my view that when the data from Iapetus isconsidered in a wider context, it is even less safe to assume that it was formed entirely bynatural processes. As ever, you the reader, are left to decide this for yourself.
For the Coral Castle Article: Other Sources of AntiGravity Information
n JL Naudin’s marvellous site http://www.jlnlabs.org/
n Nick Cook’s The Hunt For Zero Point (2002) (Available from Amazon etc)
n American Antigravity http://www.americanantigravity.com/
n Jeff Rense sound archives http://www.rense.com/
n Flying Triangle Pictures fromhttp://www.deepspace4.com/pages/science/flayingtriangle/flayingtriangle3tr3b.htm
n UFO Casebook http://www.ufocasebook.com/
n Fouche Presentation http://www.ufomind.com/misc/1998/aug/d26001.shtml
n Thomas Townsend Brown – http://www.soteria.com/
n Coral Castle – http://www.coralcastle.com/
n Massive Collection here:http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/gravity/gravitsapa.htm
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Sky Lines and Cloud BustersBy Andrew Johnson ([email protected]), June 2005
Watch the Skies…
Many people are very muchconcerned with their lives “atground level” and so it is quite arare thing for them to look at thesky. This is not all that surprisingwhen one considers thatmeteorologists, pilots andastronomers only make up a smallproportion of the total population.
It is also not that surprising thatpeople think little or nothing of thepollution of the air it is anaccepted, if unwelcome, part ofmodern life.
Is it any wonder then, that when people actually notice trails in the sky, they automaticallythink “oh yeah – those are just aircraft trails”, and carry on doing whatever they were doing.However, when one actually stops, thinks and begins to study these trails more closely, aonce clear “black and white” picture quickly fades from view.
Winter Days
If one studies the Physics of the vapour trails of aircraft, the basics would seem to be fairlystraightforward. In fact, the basics are something we often personally experience, at least inthe United Kingdom, on every cold winter’s day.
On such days, when we breathe out, we can see our breath. It’s one of those signs that“winter is really here”. What causes our breath to become visible? Very simply, it is that ourbreath is warm and the winter air is cold. Tiny droplets of water vapour condense out of thewarm air to form “clouds of visible breath”, before the warm air quickly cools and the“clouds” disappear again.
It is a very similar process that is happening about 30,000 feet in the air, when hot exhaustgases from jet engines heat the air. Water droplets condense out of the cooler surrounding airand form a contrail – an abbreviation of condensation trail. I used to watch aircraft trailswhen I was a child and I remember seeing how the almost solidlooking lines of “stuff”would slowly fade into wispy curls, then disappear completely. Being as curious as I was, Iprobably observed this process through binoculars on more than one occasion. The trailswould become invisible after perhaps 1 or 2 minutes.
On the Trail of the Trails
Looking at more recent aircraft trails, there seems to be a general trend that many of the trailsno longer disappear in such a short time period. Indeed, in researching a little into these
Borrowash, England. 29th April (Left) & 11th May (Right), 2005
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aircraft trails, I came across an observational study, which was done in 2002, by Amy Foy atLancaster University (UK) (http://www.es.lancs.ac.uk/hazelrigg/amy/Home.htm). Here, aclassification of the type of Aircraft Trails observed was used:
1. “Persistent and Dispersed” (they hang around and spread out).
2. “Persistent and Non Dispersed” (they hang around but don’t spread out).
3. “Non Persistent and Dispersed” (they don’t hang around, but they do spread out).
4. “Non Persistent and Non Dispersed” (they don’t hang around and they don’t spreadout).
The Lancaster study does not attempt to explain why some trails should be persistent or seenwhen dispersed, but it does show that someone else has observed these trails enough to seethat some of them do persist for more than 5 minutes.
Aircraft Fuel – Burn, Baby, Burn
Before we explore some of the chemistry of the burning of Kerosene (aircraft fuel), let usstop and think for a moment. If, on a cold day, we breathed out, and our clouds of breathhung around for several 10’s of seconds or even minutes, would we regard this as unusual?
If aircraft trails are visible for several minutes, there must either be some component in themthat is visible when cool or some visible compound must be forming in the atmosphere,following a chemical reaction of some kind. Let us explore this idea.
Kerosene is classed as a “Hydrocarbon” – it mainly contains alkanes – which are made up ofcarbon (approximately 85%) and hydrogen (approximately 12%). There are some othercompounds in kerosene which contain nitrogen and sulphur (approximately 1% or 2% eachrespectively). When Kerosene burns, therefore, it can only form compounds that containelements that were originally in the Kerosene, or in the air it burns in. Not surprisingly, then,the main compounds that form when Kerosene burns are:
• Carbon Dioxide (the infamous “greenhouse gas”, which we all breathe out)
• Sulphur Dioxide (in small quantities – a toxic, greenhouse gas, which mixes withwater to form acid rain – sulphurous and sulphuric acid)
• Carbon Monoxide – a toxic, flammable gas, responsible for some deaths whichhappen when gas heating equipment is faulty.
• Water.
When we look at each of these compounds in turn, we find that they are all colourless. So,when kerosene burns, it would seem that the only visible thing we should see in the sky is thecondensation – which, like our breath, should disappear in a few tensofseconds. Indeed,when a jet takes off, we can see that only colourless compounds come out of back – all thatwe see is “hot air”. There are no sooty or reflective compounds coming out as the jet racesdown the runway. Whilst these observations may not be true of all the jet engines that arecurrently flying, it should be true of all those used on regular flights, otherwise they arefaulty.
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So, whenever we see a contrail lasting for more than a few 10’s of seconds, we should, at thevery least, be curious, and wonder what is causing this to happen? When we see a lot of thesetrails together, we should become very concerned. They should not be there in the first place,but accepting the fact they are, we should realise they are a very visible form of pollution,which few people seem to be paying attention to.
I recently started observing these trails more closely and found that, like many of thoseobserved in the Lancaster University study, they persist for quite a few minutes. They seemto be dissipated by air movements rather than just “fading away”. I recently had one of myphotos of Contrails posted on a popular website (Figure 3 below) and I received about30 messages in response to it! A few of these emails thought that the pattern in the photowas not that surprising maybe just coincidence, but the majority of the messages weresimilar to those shown below:
“I live in Nebraska and this has become a familiar scene here. It boggles my mind how fewpeople seem to take any notice.”
“In Los Angeles we get them more then 80% of the year. Wish I knew what it was all aboutbecause I, like many others, think I know what’s up but it’s like taking a stab in the dark.”
“We get these over our house in Rochester WA several times a year. I've taken pictures thatlook just like yours.”
“Those are chem. trails and you need to understand whatthey are. Please contact me unless you have already beencontacted by the ‘educate yourself’ website.”
The last message in the list above was one of severalwhich referred to “Chemtrails” (presumably anabbreviation of “Chemical Trails”). Whilst some peopleseem reluctant to call them anything other than“contrails”, the name “Chemtrails” seems to be anappropriate one. Ordinary contrails from modern airlinersshould, as illustrated with the chemistry and physicsoutlined above, disappear in less than about 2 minutes, butmany of them persist for many minutes. Therefore, theremust either be some additive in the Jet fuel or, somecompounds are being introduced into the air during the flights of certain planes.
Redding CaliforniaJune 6th (Top) & June11th 2004 (Bottom). Photos–Steve Lint
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Trails on Trial
Now that is has been deduced that these additional chemicals are being introduced (byaccident or design) into air, it then makes sense to try and analyse what these chemicals are.This is rather a difficult task – because it is difficult to collect air from 30,000 feet and evenwhen one has collected some of this air, one needs skill and equipment if you are going tocomplete an analysis which yields useful data.
One might think that official enquiries could be made about such analyses, either throughgovernment organisations or environmental groups. However, as most people are not open tothe idea that someone is either accidentally or deliberately spraying something into theatmosphere, those bodies and groups generally do not take such requests seriously –believing the problem to be illusory. The problem is real, as witness testimony tells us:
“We used to routinely have what appeared to be very long single strands of spider weblikematerial hanging from the phone and electric wires and barb wire fences in the morning.They were everywhere and far too long and numerous to be made by spiders. Besides, youwould see them in temperatures too cold for spiders anyway.”
Fortunately, there are certain talented and tenacious individuals who have taken it uponthemselves to do the collection and analysis tasks outlined above. Not only have they spentconsiderable time and money doing this, they have published their findings for all of us toinspect – for free. Clifford Carnicom, a selfemployed Computer Consultant, has publishedvoluminous data at http://www.carnicom.com. His previous employment as a researchscientist for the US Department of Defense, the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S.Forest Service, coupled with his technical background in the fields of advanced mathematicsand the physical sciences would seem to give him very strong credentials for undertakingsuch tasks. This seems to be evident on his Website. His analyses have shown thatChemtrails contain particles of Barium (http://www.carnicom.com/flame1.htm) and thatsamples of air from Los Angeles, for example, contain increased levels of Potassium andCalcium (http://www.carnicom.com/labtest.htm). Carnicom tries to establish the purpose ofthe presence of these ions and notes, among other things, the effect of metal ions on humanhealth. Barium, Potassium and Calcium are, in their elemental state, fairly reactive metals,and form compounds easily. Another component of the trails that Carnicom has identified isbiological (it grows on agar jelly) – and resembles human red blood cells (erythrocytes seehttp://www.carnicom.com/bio11.htm).
One instance where spraying of “biologically inert” gases into the air was disclosed inOkalahoma city 2003, in what could be called a "bioterror simulation experiment"(http://ju2003.pnl.gov/pdfs/JURBANQ&Asheet61003.pdf). This experiment wasconducted using a “combined budget from the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S.Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Defense Defense ThreatReduction Agency and other participating federal agencies” of $6.5M.
A MultiPurpose Programme?
We have established that someone is spraying something into the atmosphere accidentally ordeliberately – this statement is not really one which can be debated, for the reasons givenabove. So what is the purpose of this spraying? The analyses of Carnicom above seem to
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suggest there is an attempt to adversely affect human health. This, too, seems difficult torefute when the data has been analysed.
It has been difficult to pin down, but it seems that many people began to notice Chemtrails inthe midtolate 1990’s.
In the hundreds – possibly thousands – of Websites which feature information aboutChemtrails, it is quite common to come across something called HAARP. This is the HighFrequency Active Auroral Research Program (http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/). Theprogramme is described as “… a scientific endeavor aimed at studying the properties andbehavior of the ionosphere, with particular emphasis on being able to understand and use itto enhance communications and surveillance systems for both civilian and defensepurposes.” The site that the HAARP facility is built on is owned by the US Department ofDefence and a “2.5 MW diesel generator [which] will be used to power the HF transmitters.”That’s a lot of energy (http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/haarpFactSheet.html).
The reason I mention HAARP is that it is a very large project, whose purpose is to “inject”large quantities of energy into the atmosphere. No official link to Chemtrails is stated (this isobvious Chemtrails do not officially exist) and maybe it is too easy a link to make betweenionising energy and reactive metal ions being deliberately or accidentally introduced into theatmosphere. It is interesting to note, however, “The first HAARP research experiment wasconducted in cooperation with the NASA WIND Satellite on November 1617, 1996. The firstcomprehensive research campaign was conducted during early March 1997.”(http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/haarpFactSheet.html). These dates seems to match quitewell with the time when the trails started to appear.
If the purpose of the Chemtrail programmewas just to affect human health, then it wouldnot seem to matter what path the aircraft tookrelative to one another – they can just “dumpthe stuff on people”. However, if the purposewas “energy related”, and they were trying toexperiment with some kind of “resonanceeffect” or “field effect” in the atmosphere,then it would make sense that the ion trailsmight be arranged in a particular manner.This is exactly what I saw – right outside mywindow and what prompted me to write thisarticle.
So, we then speculate about energy, resonance and field effects – what could be theirpurpose? Mind Control? Weather Control? Both? Like many things discussed in articles suchas this one, many people dismiss them as a fantasy – usually because they are unaware of theevidence which shows these things are real. Mind Control is not so easy to define, butdeclassified CIA documents show that it has been employed on many occasions as part ofcovert programmes (http://www.wanttoknow.info/mindcontrol). Dr Michael Persinger’s(mainstream) research has shown that he can influence what a person experiences when they
Borrowash, 10th June 2005
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wear a helmet and he switches on a magnetic field – “Persinger calls one of the commonsensations a 'sensed presence'”(http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/godonbrain.shtml).
Until quite recently, I myself was not aware of the evidence for weather control, whichcomes from radar images from weather satellites such as those at:http://members.tripod.com/~DELTA_9/ and those documented by Idaho Weatherman ScottStevens at www.weatherwars.info. Other information about Weather Control and “ScalarWeapons” is documented be exUS Military Physicist Tom Bearden (www.cheniere.org).
Like all of this sort of information, we cannot make good scientific deductions because inmost cases, the exact nature of their use is not disclosed, even though their existencesometimes is. Therefore, we are left to try and make sense of it all by “zooming out” and“joining the dots”, once we have established the validity of the evidence that we do have.Once we have become aware of certain truths, however, it empowers us to act.
Cloudbusting – “I still dream of organon”
It is well known that Wilhelm Reich conductedexperiments with Weather Control in the 1950’s (thiswas the inspiration behind Kate Bush’s“Cloudbusting” song) and Reich discoveredsomething he called “orgone energy”, which hasbeen demonstrated in the laboratory to be real. Somepeople have taken these ideas and developed theminto a Chemtrail Buster, which it is said, can harnessand direct orgone energy to dissipate the Chemtrails
(http://educateyourself.org/ct/goodbyects10jan02.shtml). When I
mentioned this to people that emailed me, one person said that he had built a small one andit does work.
A Standup Comedian
Some years ago, Billy Connolly, a now famous Comedianturnedactor, was asked in aninterview how he came to choose a career in comedy. He said that he had started crackingjokes while working as a welder in Glasgow shipyards, but then said that "well, comedychooses you", meaning that he did not feel he made the decision by himself. The picture ofthe Chemtrail grid that I took appeared right outside my window at 9:45 pm on Friday 10th
June 2005. For this reason, I felt that I, too, was “chosen” – chosen to write about the issueand get people to look at evidence and facts, and ask their own questions. Only when thisprocess is undertaken are we likely to find out the undisclosed reason – benign or malign for the deliberate pollution of our atmosphere. In certain ways, however, I found myselfagreeing with the sentiments expressed in another email I received:
At first I got really mad and felt like taking aim at the Jets, when I first heard about what theycould be spraying us with. But now I don't pay any attention to them and just affirm tomyself ‘nothing can harm me, even the government’.
Fighting Back
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A Lost Love, Coral Castle, and the Case for AntiGravityBy Andrew Johnson ([email protected])
March 2004
For many of us interested in the paranormal, we may still besurprised to find there may be a link between the AncientEgyptians, a Tourist Attraction in Florida and the Flying SaucerPhenomenon. At least, this was what I thought when someonesent me a web link to an article about Coral Castle the work ofa man called Edward Leedskalnin. A great name to conjurewith already!
Ancient Egyptians
I was fortunate enough to enjoy a holiday in Cairo in 1997, and realised a lifelong dream ofentering the Great Pyramid at Giza, but we also saw other magnificent sites in the area. Likemany sites in Rome, Egypt is a place where Ancient History is palpable. One particular site,about 10 miles from Cairo is called Saqqara. In Saqqara, there is an underground burialchamber complex called The Serapeum, where sacred Bulls were buried. Here is the entryfrom the diary I kept at the time:
In one of these chambers, we view an enormous sarcophagus, made of basalt. Its surface ismarblesmooth and on one side are etched hieroglyphics and pictures. The top of thesarcophagus rises about 6 and a half feet above the ground and the lid is about 1½ feetthick. I begin to imagine the work it took to carve out the chamber from the solid rock, thento make the enormous sarcophagus and then place it centrally in the chamber. Myimagination fails me when I walk past the other 24 identical chambers and look upon theirsarcophagi, looted long ago.
As with the Pyramids and similar structures, one asks “how was this made?”Can it be correct that these things were constructed using only simple stonetools, rollers, piles of earth, huge numbers of men and brute force? Theoriesthat this was not the case are never taken very seriously. But could a placelike Coral Castle (which was originally called “Rock Gate Park”) ever betaken as proof that such theories about “bruteforce” methods of construction are not necessarilycorrect in all cases?
Edward Leedskalnin
Edward Leedskalnin was born on August 10th,1887 to a farming family at Stramereens Pogosta, asmall village near Riga, Latvia, but he emigrated toNorth America in about 1913.
While working in a Canadian lumber camp,Leedskalnin contracted tuberculosis and, in 1918,moved to the warmer climate of Florida. There, he purchased an acre of landnear Florida City, for $12. He had no formal education.
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Lost Love
The reason why Ed emigrated seems to be related to the fact that, when he as 26 years old, hewas engaged to be married to his one true Love, Agnes Scuffs. Agnes was ten years youngerthan Ed; he affectionately referred to Agnes as his “Sweet Sixteen”. Agnes cancelled thewedding just one day before the ceremony – apparently saying Ed was too poor and too old!Ed was heartbroken. After settling in Florida, some 5 years after this great disappointment,he began a “project” which is said to be the result of his will to create a monument to his lostlove – to show her what he was capable of. Like the Taj Mahal, Coral Castle was built as atestament to his loved one.
Coral Castle A Tourist Attaction
Coral Castle is now a tourist attraction and the story of its construction seems to beremarkable and mysterious. Unlike many other stories and phenomena we hear of, CoralCastle can be visited any day of the year. It opens at 7 am and closes at 9 pm. The currentadult admission price is only $9.75 – I can’t wait to see it myself! The Website(http://www.coralcastle.com/) has directions and a map.
Before this article begins to sound too much like one from a travel magazine, let’s look atsome of the curious things about Coral Castle.
Ed started to build Coral Castle where he originally lived, inFlorida City, in about 1924. It is called Coral Castle, becauseCoral is the material from which it is made. Ed had acquiredsome skills working in lumber camps and some stone mason’sskills whilst he was still in Latvia. His blocks were carved at theoriginal Florida City site, as he constructed the place.
The construction work continued untilabout 1936, when he found out thatsomeone planned to start buildinghousing (or at least some kind ofbuilding) next to him. Being intenselyprivate and reclusive, Ed decided to “upbricks” and leave, and he transported thenearlycomplete Coral Castle to a newsite, which was 10 acres of land he hadpurchased at Homestead (still in Florida),
10 miles away from the original site. This move took him 3 years tocomplete.
This story doesn’t sound so unusual, until you realise that Ed built the whole of Coral Castlehimself, using only tools and equipment that he made. Ed was 5 ft. tall and weighed about100 lbs – a diminutive 7 stone! This tale still doesn’t sound very unusual until you realisethat the abode he constructed was no maisonette, bungalow or 3bed semi. the blocks Edused to build Coral Castle weighed up to 30 tons!
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There are quite a number of intriguing structures at Coral Castle. One such structure calledThe Great Obelisk is over 25 feet high and weighs over 28 tons taller than the GreatUpright at Stonehenge. Carved on its surface is the year of completion, the year it was movedand the year and country of Ed's birth. The hole near the top is carved in the shape of theLatvian star.
Among its other oddities is a scattering of oversized chairs alsomade of coral, each one weighing half a ton. Although they
look extremelyuncomfortable, the chairsare said to beexceptionally restful andbalanced into perfect rockers. Another unusualconstruction is a heartshaped table – which is estimatedto weigh about 5 tons. Always practical, even inromance, Ed decided it would be too difficult to keepfresh flowers on his feast of Love Table. His solutionwas to plant an Ixora bush in the centre of the table. Ed'soriginal plant has been in place for almost 50 years.
When Ed moved the site, many people saw the coral carvings being transported along theDixie Highway, but no one had actually ever seen Ed loading or unloading the trailer. In1940, after the carvings were in place, Ed finished erecting the walls. The coral walls weighabout 125 pounds per cubic foot. Each section of wall is 8 feet tall, 4 feet wide, 3 foot thick,and weighs more than 58 tons!
It has been estimated that 1,000 tons of coral rock were used in construction of the walls andtowers, and an additional 100 tons of it were carved into furniture and art objects, whichadorn the site.
These facts, then, present us with several puzzles. Firstly, how did Ed singlehandedly carveout these blocks? Secondly, how on earth did he move them, and lift them into place withoutlarge cranes or other heavyduty equipment? Even if you decide that he must have used somekind of crane, as a comparison, consider this story about a modern construction project:
“My company recently installed a hydraulic press that weighed 65 tons. In order to lift it anddrop it through the roof, they had to bring in a special crane. The crane was brought to thesite in pieces and was transported from 80 miles away over a period of five days. After 15semitrailer loads, the crane was finally assembled and ready for use.
As the press was lowered into its specially prepared pit, I asked one of the riggers about theheaviest weight he had lifted. He claimed that it was a 110ton nuclear power plant vessel.When I related to him the 70 and 200 ton weights of the blocks of stone used inside the GreatPyramid and the Valley Temple, he expressed amazement and disbelief at the primitivemethods that are promoted by Egyptologists.”
Thirdly, how can he possibly have moved these blocks a distance of 10 miles? It is reportedthat Ed had the chassis of an old truck on which he laid two rails. Ed would load the trailer
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himself. He had a friend with a tractor move the loaded trailer from Florida City toHomestead. Ed lived a very simple life, and did not own a car. Instead, Ed would ride hisbike 3½ miles into town, to do his shopping! So somehow, Ed managed to construct coralCastle and move it a distance of 10 miles, apparently with no special equipment at all!
The details of how he did it are not clear. If it was done by some kind of trickery or as a“magician’s stunt”, then it must surely rank as the greatest (and longest) ever performed. Itcertainly does not seem to be possible that the blocks are hollowed out – unless someone hascarefully replaced them one by one, as they must have crumbled over the years.
Ed Leedskalnin worked in secrecy, after sundown by lantern light, when he was certain noone was watching him. It was reported that some curious neighbours did see Ed move thestones. They say he placed his hands on the stone to be lifted... but what was in his hands?Somehow this levitated the blocks. According to an article in Fate magazine, "someteenagers spying on him one evening claimed they saw him 'float coral blocks through the airlike hydrogen balloons,' but no one took them seriously. When he was personally asked how
he managed the feat, Leedskalnin replied only that he understood thelaws of weight and leverage. He is also quoted as saying, "I havediscovered the secrets of the pyramids. I have found out how theEgyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan, and Asia, withonly primitive tools, raised and set in place blocks of stone weighingmany tons." The very stones of Coral Castle support his story at anaverage of six tons, they are twice the weight of the blocks in Egypt'sGreat Pyramid at Giza. According to The Enigma of Coral Castle, Eddisagreed with modern science, and claimed that the scientists werewrong, 'that nature is simple.'
What other evidence is there that he did not use cranes or other heavyequipment to build his masterpiece?
The Case for AntiGravity
At the castle, you can see the tool room where some of Ed’s equipment is on show. One item(pictured right) is said to be an AC generator he built, though how he used this is not reallyknown. At one time Ed erected a massive grid of copper wire poised above his quarriedstones – there is quite a lot of copper wire in his workshop. Pictures also show Ed workingwith tripods, though none of these are seen anywhere on the site.
A man called Christopher Dunn suggests that the device shown above is not an AC(“alternating current”) generator, but an “alternating magnetism” generator. He proved thisby holding a bar magnet near the device and setting the “generator” in motion and found thatthe North end of the magnet was alternately repelled and attracted. Dunn goes on to suggestthat gravity may not be a “real” force – it arises due to an object’s own magnetic fieldinteracting with the Earth’s magnetic field. He also suggests that Ed had devised a methodfor making the magnetic fields within the coral blocks line up in opposition to the Earth’smagnetic field. As a guess, Ed wrapped the blocks with a copper wire grid and thenconnected this wire to his magnetic field generator. Starting up the generator then had theeffect of changing the magnetic field in or around the block in such a way that it waslevitated. It is therefore suggested that the tripods were used merely as a way of supporting
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the wires and chains which were used on the copper grid – or maybe they were used in thephotographs as a “decoy”, to throw people off the scent of how he actually did it (i.e. theymay not have been used in the lifting procedure at all). Carrol A. Lake, a colonel in the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers, stated, "Leedskalnin proved for all the world to see today that heknew the construction secrets of the ancients." Vincent H. Gaddis, who wrote a number ofarticles for Amazing Stories magazine, said of the mysterious Latvian immigrant, "There isno doubt that he applied some principle in weight lifting that remains a secret today." Or is itjust the case that no one has understood the articles Ed Leedskalnin wrote in 1945 about“Magnetic Current” and no one has developed them into a working method?(http://www.fortunecity.com/ greenfield/bp/16/leed1.htm).
The idea of gravity and magnetism being interrelatedis certainly not new. Wilbert Smith and, more recently,John Hutchison (the “Hutchison Effect”) have carriedout experiments that seem to strongly indicate that anonmagnetic (or nonferrous) object’s weight can beinfluenced by magnetic fields. It has been stated manytimes that this interrelation is at least partlyresponsible for various phenomena associated withFlying Saucers – including propulsion. ThomasTownsendBrown was also quite a prominent figure to
have worked on theories such as these, and whose work has been reportedly developed into“ARV’s” (Alien Reproduction Vehicles) in “Black Projects” in the USA such as the TR3B.Sightings, photographs and videos of strange objects over Area 51 and similar facilities donothing to disprove these ideas. Such ideas are also supported by a number of witnesses whostate they have either directly seen or been involved in such projects.
Returning to the story of Coral Castle, in December 1951 Ed fell ill. He put a sign on thedoor of his Castle saying “Going to the Hospital” and bussed himself to Jackson MemorialHospital in Miami. Three days later he died in his sleep, of malnutrition and kidney failure, atthe age of 64. After his death, his only surviving relative, Harry who lived in Michigan,inherited the Castle. In 1953, shortly before Harry’s own death, he sold the Castle to a familyfrom Chicago, who gave it its present name. During the takeover, a box of Ed’s personaleffects was found. It contained a set of instructions that led to the discovery of 35 $100 bills,Ed’s life savings which he made by giving tours of the castle for 10¢ or 25¢, sellingpamphlets and from the sale of the land where U.S. Highway 1 passes the Castle.
One would have thought that because Coral Castle was built and still exists – a testament to“lost love” people might take the theories of someone like Leedskalnin much moreseriously. Perhaps people again have developed methods similar to Ed’s, but they have beensuppressed. He was either onto something, or he pulled off perhaps the greatest civilengineering hoax in history.Sources: http://www.coralcastle.com/, http://www.rense.com/general10/geo.htm, http://www.rense.com/general39/coral.htm,http://www.bercilak.com/bercilak_046.htm