(...Continued
from Alien Autopsy Film Part 1)
(See also Alien Autopsy Pictures...)
The hieroglyphs
When I first saw the hieroglyphs on the I-beams, I immediately
recognised a similarity with the Greek and Phoenician alphabets.
Indeed, both of them have a common origin and belong to the
same 'family' as the many different Semitic alphabets-Aramaic,
Sabaeic, Samaritan, Hebrew, Protocanaanitic, Nabataeic and
Arabic-which all originate from the hieroglyphic alphabet,
one of the four main groups of Egyptian hieroglyphs (the others
being two- and three-syllable signs and ideograms).40
Interestingly
enough, inscriptions which clearly belong to the same family
of alphabets, but pre-date the Phoenician or even the Egyptian
culture, have been found all over the world-in Peru (Ylo),41
Ecuador (Cuenca),42 Brazil (Piedra Pintada),43
France (Glozel, Maz d'Azil),44 on the
Canary Islands,45 and elsewhere. Because
of their similarity with the Phoenician alphabet, I call them
"Proto-Phoenician".
In
this context I was able to decipher both I-beams and translate
their inscriptions using languages from the same context and
language families as the alphabets. They say: "DIREQH
ELE/ECE" and "OSNI". "DIREQH" is
related to the Hebrew "Derekh", meaning "way,
path, journey". "ELE" could be a plural of
"El", meaning "God", like the Hebrew "Elohim",
and "ECE" is related to the Egyptian "ase",
meaning "to introduce" or "to approach".
So, depending on whether we read the second sign as a "lambda/lamed"
or a "gamma/gimel", we can translate it alternatively
(since we don't know the grammar) as "the journey of
the gods", a prayer, like "Go with God", or
"a journey to approach/ introduce". I translate
"OSNI" as the Egyptian "asni", meaning
"to make to open",46 either philosophically, as
in "to open for a contact" or "to open the
consciousness", or, in a practical sense, as in "Open
here".
But
why would extraterrestrials speak and write like Phoenician,
Hebrew or Egyptian? Maybe because it's the language of the
gods, who introduced it on Earth. In fact, the ancient Egyptians
believed their hieroglyphic system had been brought to them
by Thoth or Tehuti, the God of Wisdom, one of the Neteru ("Watchers")
who travelled in the celestial barks on the celestial Nile-the
Milky Way.47
Is
it a coincidence that the mathematical system of both ancient
Sumer and Egypt was based on 12, when here we meet beings
with 12 fingers? We find twelve-toed footprints on Anasazi
petroglyphs in the Canyonlands of Utah, USA,48
and a twelve-fingered Sky Kachina in the tradition
of the Laguna, Hopi and other Pueblo Indians.49
The Brazilian Ugha Mongulala believe their "Ancient Fathers",
who came from the stars, had "six fingers and six toes
as signs of their divine origin".50
Roswell
or Socorro?
Ray Santilli's claim that the film was "the Roswell footage"
caused a lot of controversy, since none of the witnesses to
the July 1947 UFO crash/retrieval event had confirmed either
the bodies or the debris. Indeed, the corpses found in Roswell
were smaller, more slender, and had four or five fingers,
according to eyewitnesses.51 None ever
mentioned six fingers. In any case, if the film were a fake,
why did those responsible for it not care to read at least
one of the many books on this subject or see the excellent
TV mini-series, Roswell, by Paul Davies, as shown on Showtime?
The
very first information I got from Santilli about the source
of the film made me wonder if it actually had anything to
do with Roswell at all. Ray already insisted on 5th May 1995
that the autopsies had been filmed on 1st and 2nd July 1947,
and that the recovery had taken place "in the beginning
of June"-one month too early for Roswell.
When
I went to Roswell on 30th June 1995 to confront the eyewitnesses
(including Robert Shirkey, Glenn Dennis and Frank Kaufmann)
with the just-released stills from the film, I asked Santilli
for details about the crash site. He could only tell me it
was "about four-and-a-half hours away", "close
to White Sands test site" and "an Apache reservation",
and "at the northern shore of a small dry lake at the
end of a small canyon". I asked him to call the cameraman
to obtain more detailed instructions, which, indeed, he did.
He said the crash site was "between Socorro" (Ray
said "Sorocco") "and Magdalena".
By
the end of July 1995, Santilli released the full story of
the cameraman who confirmed he had learnt of the crash on
1st June 1947-which dates the event back to the late hours
of 31st May 1947. Date, location and everything we see on
the film didn't fit with Roswell. Conclusion: it was a different
event.
The
fact that the cameraman had been flown into Roswell and brought
to the crash site by car, caused him to believe he'd been
involved in "the Roswell incident" that he'd heard
about-and Santilli believed him.
The
crash / retrieval site
Following the instructions given by the cameraman, I was able
to find the small dry lake at the end of a canyon by following
"the last dirt road before the (Magdalena) mountains".
It was about 15 miles away from the White Sands Proving Grounds
and the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Resort, a former
reservation.
On
the third visit to the site, Ted Loman was even able to find
the ruins of a (railway) bridge mentioned by the cameraman.
After we sent photographs to the cameraman, he was able to
confirm the site.
In
September 1995 Santilli released the cameraman's drawings,
enhanced by a graphic artist, showing the crash scene. Although
the scenery in our photographs looked different, we found
that, coming from the canyon, it looked exactly like it was
in his drawings. Right where he drew the craft crashed into
a cliff, we found an area, 20 metres in diameter, where someone
had deliberately sizzled off the rock as if trying to remove
traces. Above the dry lake bed we located an old mine. According
to the New Mexico Office of Mining & Technology in Socorro
it was a manganese mine, called "Niggerhead Mine",
which was closed in 1938, reopened during the war when manganese
was precious and needed, and closed down again in 1945. According
to the cameraman, it was again reopened by the US Government
(Department of the Interior), but with no further mining,
on the very day the retrieval began: 1st June 1947.52
Mining operations were used as cover events for the Manhattan
Project and maybe also here. Isn't the reopening of a mine
a perfect excuse for moving in heavy equipment-cranes, flatbed
trucks-and personnel, and cordoning off of an area?
An
Air Accident Report, allegedly written by General Nathan Twining
of the Air Materiel Command at Wright Field and published
by the late Len Stringfield, mentions a "Flying Disc
Aircraft found near White Sands Proving Grounds" at some
time before 16th July 1947, the date of the report. Since
the report covers the full technical evaluation of the craft,
we can assume the crash happened at least one month beforehand,
if not more.53 Stringfield quoted another
witness, Major V. A. Postleweith of US Army Intelligence,
who had seen a classified telex mentioning a disc crash "in
the vicinity of the White Sands Proving Grounds".54
Crash
and retrieval witnesses
We located several witnesses to a 'crash' that very day in
question: 31st May 1947, in the evening hours. Fred Strozzi,
a local rancher who lived just a few miles away from the crash
site, claimed to have seen a meteorite "bigger than a
basketball" falling during that time and in the area
in question, according to Betty and Smoky Pound, another local
rancher couple.55 Unfortunately, Strozzi passed away years
ago, so we couldn't ask him for details.
But
the same 'meteorite' had also been seen by a group of Native
American children of the Acoma tribe who went to school in
Gallup, New Mexico. That day, 31st May-which one of them remembered
quite clearly because it was just before her birthday-was
a very hot day, so they played in the evening when it had
cooled down. "Suddenly the whole sky was lit up as if
it was daytime," one of them recalled. "In less
than four seconds, a big ball of fire glided silently over
our heads from left to right, i.e., northwest to southeast"-which
is the direction of Socorro. "The light was so bright
that we kids held our hands before our faces to protect our
eyes."56
Two
days later, most of the children had blisters on their hands
and arms-"itchies" as they called them. We received
a letter from the daughter of one of the witnesses and interviewed
two others, one on the phone, the other on camera.57
A meteorite wouldn't cause blistering like this. According
to the cameraman, when he moved in about 24 hours later, the
crashed disc was still hot and there was the danger of a fire,
so we can indeed assume that the craft was a 'fireball' when
it crashed in the late hours of 31st May 1947.
Did
the local newspapers cover the 'meteorite' sighting? Ted Loman
tried to find out, and visited the office of the Socorro Chieftain.
He was told that in the late 1960s a fire destroyed some of
the papers and that, in fact, some were missing-those between
10th May and 15th June 1947. At the suggestion of the editorial
assistant he spoke to, Ted tried at the library of the local
mining university, where he found microfilms of all the issues
of the paper-with the exception of those between 10th May
and 15th June 1947. His attempt to find them in the Rio Grande
Collection of the New Mexico State University at Las Cruces,
New Mexico, was also unsuccessful. Bob Shell tried at the
neighbouring town of Magdalena. Again, all papers from that
period were missing. He was told, "You won't find them.
I have been looking for them for years and nobody has them."
He also tried at the Zimmerman Library of New Mexico, without
success.
According
to the cameraman, the craft was delivered on the back of a
flatbed truck to Wright Field, Ohio, by the middle of June
1947. A witness, Howard Marston, a civilian engineer who worked
at a testing laboratory at Wright Field in the summer of 1947,
claims he was present "when they brought in a disc...
It was on the trailer of a truck, covered with tarpaulins.
They unloaded it in a hangar. I saw it from a distance when
they uncovered it. It was a metallic disc, about 30 to 40
feet in diameter," Marston told me when I interviewed
him.58
Witnesses
to the film's origin
We located four eyewitnesses who had seen footage from the
same stock as the Santilli film in the possession of the US
military and intelligence-a fact recently confirmed by USAF
Capt. John McAndrews.59
Master
Sgt Bob Allen was security coordinator at a top-secret test
site near Tonapah, Nevada. When he was briefed for his work,
he was shown films for about two-and-a-half hours. When he
saw the Santilli film on TV he immediately recognised them
as part of the same stock. "I saw three autopsies,"
he told me. "During one, Truman stood behind the glass
screen in the autopsy room. He wore a surgeon's face-mask,
but one could see it was Truman. After a few days the first
one died, then the second. They said, 'Damn, they are dying
like flies and we have to find out if they have any hostile
intentions and what they are doing here. We must find a way
to keep the fourth alive.' That's why the autopsies were done.
The fourth extraterrestrial lived for another two years..."60
Sgt
Clifford Stone, US Army, was stationed at Fort Ley, Virginia,
in 1969. He was part of a Nuclear/Biological/Chemical Accident
(NBC) Quick Reaction Team. He said, "My mission on that
was to be the NBC NCO, the communications NCO. I had the opportunity
to take our Lieutenant to Fort Belvoir, Virginia. At Fort
Belvoir, myself and another person, a person from the Air
Force, an airman, went to gallivant around and went up the
stairs in an auditorium there, and we went into one room and
sat down, and there was this plexiglass window down into the
theatre...and they were watching down there what we believed
to be trailers of science-fiction movies.
"There
were these common saucer-shaped UFOs, cigar-shaped UFOs...and
you also had bodies. The airman and I went ahead and tried
to figure out what movies these came from because we had an
interest in SF... There were several types of bodies... When
we did this, some people came in and told us to follow, in
no uncertain terms." Both were arrested and underwent
an "intensified debriefing" which took four nights
and five days. "When I saw the Santilli tape, I saw the
pictures first: they were haunting, because they took me back
to this day in 1969, to these movies that they were watching.
There were bodies that looked very, very, very close to that
one. And there were alive ones, also. I have knowledge that
there is footage within a tent. I have knowledge of a film
with-if that is not Truman in the film, it is a very convincing
double."61
On
26th June 1995, the British researcher Colin Andrews visited
Ray Santilli in the presence of the Japanese researcher Johsen
Takano, who advises the Japanese Government in UFO matters,
and Dr Hoang-Yung Chiang of the National Research Centre for
Biotechnology in Taipeh, Taiwan. Dr Hoang-Yung teaches at
the Cultural University and the Medical University of Taipeh
and, through his initiative, ufology is now officially recognised
by the Taiwanese Government as a scientific discipline.
After
a private viewing, both Takano and Hoang-Yung told Andrews
they had seen the film before: Johsen, when his government
had requested UFO information from the US Government, which
was then brought to Tokyo by a CIA courier; Hoang-Yung, when
he had visited the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia.62
Conclusion
While nobody has been able to present any proof that the Santilli
autopsy footage was faked, we have some convincing indications
that the film might very well be genuine. If it is a hoax,
it is definitely the most ingenious fake of the century.
Instead
of continuing the polemic of the last year or so, serious
UFO researchers should continue to evaluate the evidence and
search for the truth, in what might turn out to be the most
provocative proof yet that we are not alone in the Universe.
Endnotes
1. Jeffrey, Kent, "Santilli's Controversial Autopsy Movie",
MUFON UFO Journal, Seguin, Texas, USA, no. 335, March 1996.
2. (a) Mantle, Philip (ed.), "The Roswell Film Footage",
UFO Times, BUFORA,
Batley, England, no. 36, Jul/Aug 1995;
(b) Santilli, Ray (ed.), "Operation Anvil" (press
release), London, England,
1995.
3. Shell, Bob, personal communication, December 1995.
4. Santilli, Ray, "My Story" (press release), London,
1995.
5. Santilli, Ray, Conference on the CompuServe Encounters
Forum, 25 March
1996.
6. Shell, Bob, personal communication, 18 April 1996.
7. Kiviat, B. and D. Roehring, Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction?,
TV
broadcast, Fox Network, USA, 29 August 1995.
8. VonKeviczky, Colman, "Autopsy of a Human-like 'Freak'
Body" (report), New
York, USA, 23 October 1995.
9. ibid.
10. (a) Letter from Eastman Kodak Co., Hollywood, USA, June
1995 (without
date);
(b) Letter from Kodak Ltd., London, UK, 14 June 1995.
11. Shell, Bob, "Summary of Points in Physical Research
on Film Dating"
(report), Radford, Virginia, USA, 6 September 1995.
12. (a) Personal information from Terry Blanton, 31 October
1995; (b) Time
Magazine, New York, 18 December 1995.
13. ibid.
14. Santilli, Ray, statement published on the Internet, June
1995.
15. MUFON Section, CompuServe Encounters Forum, Library, September
1995.
16. Kiviat and Roehring, ibid.
17. Stokes, Trey, "Special Effects: The Fine Art of Fooling
People", UFO
Times, BUFORA, Batley, England, January 1996.
18. Jansen, T., "Der 'Roswell-Alien': Progerie",
Münch. Med. Wschr., no. 9,
Munich, Germany, 1996.
19. "Wie im Lehrbuch", in Der Spiegel, Hamburg,
Germany, 23 April 1996.
20. Milroy, Christopher (Dr), statement, 2 June 1995.
21. Wachter, Hanspeter, "Der Roswell-Film", Magazin
2000, Neuss, Germany,
no. 110, May 1996.
22. Kiviat and Roehring, ibid.
23. Roed, Odd-Gunnar, "Norwegian pathologist views the
Roswell footage"
(report), Oslo, Norway, March 1996.
24. Misterii (TV broadcast), RAI Due, Italy, 17 October 1995.
25. (a) Modern Scientists and Engineers, McGraw-Hill, New
York, vol. 1,
1980;
(b) Current Biography, New York, 1949.
26. Shell, Bob, personal communication, 25 January 1996.
27. Who was Who, p. 784 (copy without year given to Bob Shell).
28. Milroy, ibid.
29. Wachter, ibid.
30. Kiviat and Roehring, ibid.
31. Misterii, ibid.
32. Roswell footage TV broadcast, TF1, France, 23 October
1995.
33. Roed, ibid.
34. Santilli, "Operation Anvil", ibid.; personal
communications.
35. Murphy, Dennis, "Discussion of Debris Details: Santilli
Alien Dissection
Film" (report), published on CompuServe Encounters Forum,
1 March 1996.
36. Malanga, Corrado (Dr), lecture, Roswell Symposium of the
Republic of San
Marino, 7 September 1995.
37. Allen, Bob (M.Sgt), personal communication, 24 January
1996.
38. Shell, Bob, personal communication, 18 February 1996.
39. Uhouse, Bill, statement on the Roswell footage panel,
International UFO
Conference, Mesquite, Nevada, USA, 1 December 1995.
40. (a) Zauzich, Karl-Theodor, Hieroglyphs without Mystery,
University of
Texas Press, Austin, Texas, USA, 1992.
(b) Wallis Budge, E. A., Egyptian Language, Dover Publications,
New York,
reprinted 1983.
(c) Wallis Budge, E. A., An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary,
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(d) Watterson, Barbara, Introducing Egyptian Hieroglyphs,
Scottish Academic
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(e) Robinson, Andrews, Story of Writing, London, 1960.
(f) Naveh, Joseph, Die Etstehung des Alphabets ("The
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41. Charroux, Robert, Vergessene Welten, Econ, Düsseldorf,
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43. Homet, Marcel (Dr), Die Soehne der Sonne, Walter, Olten,
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45. Herrera, Salvador Lopez, The Canary Islands through History,
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2, ibid.
47. Hesemann, Michael, Cosmic Connections, Gateway Books,
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48. Morning Sky, Robert, personal communication, December
1995.
49. Shell, Bob, personal communication, February 1996.
50. Brugger, Karl, The Chronicle of Akakor, Delacorte Press,
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51. (a) Friedman, S. and D. Berliner, UFO Crash at Corono,
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52. (a) Document in the New Mexico Institute of Mining &
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(b) Wykel, L. and K. Kelly, "The Six Mile Canyon Crash
Site" (report),
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 24 September 1995.
53. Stringfield, Leonard, UFO Crash Retrievals: Search for
Proof in a Hall
of Mirrors, Cincinatti, Ohio, USA, 1994 (self-published).
54. Stringfield, Leonard, UFO Crash Retrievals: Amassing the
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55. Wykel and Kelly, ibid.
56. Letter to Art Bell (radio talk-show host), 10 September
1995.
57. Personal interviews, 19 February 1996.
58. Marston, Howard, personal interview, 2 December 1995.
59. Shell, Bob, personal communication, 18 April 1996.
60. Allen, Bob (M.Sgt), personal communication, 24 January
1996.
61. Stone, Clifford (Sgt), as interviewed by Ted Loman, 20
February 1996.
62. Andrews, Colin, personal communication, 28 June 1995.
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