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Historic John Anthony West Speech
Shipping Out to Mars - Philadelphia Experiment and Invisibility
Solar Catastrophe Did An Outburst End the Last Ice Age and Destroy a Forgotten Civilization?
What Could the Moon be Hiding?
Mega-Engineering in the Stars? By Dr. Robert Schoch
Navel of the World or Stargate? The Argument over the Real Purpose of the Giza Pyramids Rages On.
Who Were the Olmecs? New Discoveries Put the Spot light on Some Very Ancient People.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngrm9PZuU5A&t=888s
Zecharia Sitchin - On Location - Atlantis Rising Conversation
PREVIEW - Clash of the Geniuses
PREVIEW - English Sacred Sites
PREVIEW - Technologies of the Gods
Conversations with Robert Schoch, Ph.D.
Conversations with Michael Cremo
Conversations - Steven Sora - Templar Treasure_Forbidden_Island
Conversations - Frank Joseph - Atlantis in the Azores
Conversations - William Stoecker - Beasts of Beringia
Conversations with Dr. Susan Martinez
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Historic John Anthony West Speech
A few years ago, during a late summer weekend, some of today’s most provocative scientists, writers and researchers gathered on the banks of the Yellowstone river to consider evidence for and against impending Earth changes. In very funny remarks at the Earth Changes 2000 conference, the late John Anthony West told the story of his battle with mainstream Egyptology over the true age of the Great Sphinx, as proven by water weathering. The audience loved it. The maverick Egyptologist and author of Serpent in the Sky, offered unique insights into the hopeful meaning of ancient myths of death and resurrection as expressed in symbolist egyptology. West also took on the establishment over his case for a much more ancient Egyptian order than is acknowledged by academia. -
Shipping Out to Mars - Philadelphia Experiment and Invisibility
Atlantis Rising magazine has long sought to unearth and discuss what some have gone to extremes to conceal and which most—having been carefully kept ignorant of the most fundamental awarenesses and scientific discoveries—couldn’t even imagine. Now a plan’s afoot to get the American public to fork out over a trillion dollars to send a manned mission to Mars, using conventional propulsion technology no less. Right? Suppose we’ve not only already sent people to Mars, but it has become routine? What if no rockets were needed? What if the technologies presented to us as science fiction in the old TV series, Time Tunnel, and Stargate SG-1 and spinoffs are in fact real and have been in use for decades? What follows draws upon a series of accounts to set forth a truly astonishing scenario of a scientific breakthrough so staggering in its import and sweep as to richly merit the characterization “epoch making.” And the scientists reportedly involved are giants in their own right: Tesla, Einstein, and Von Neumann—to name but three. Foggy, Foggy Philadelphia Our story begins in a sense (has many beginnings in truth) in the dark days of World War II as the U.S. mounts a desperate search for ways to overcome a shipping loss rate so severe that sinkings are outpacing the building of replacement ships. The Battle of the Atlantic is in full cry, the Allies are losing, and Great Britain is on the verge of being starved out of the war, being critically dependent on outside shipments not just for war materiel but also food. The best brains in the country convene under the aegis of Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Studies to seek a breakthrough technical solution in the farthest reaches of mathematics, physics, and electromagnetics. The result? According to some insiders, the Philadelphia Experiment (technically Project Rainbow), a successful demonstration, although with multiple fatalities, of ship invisibility and inadvertent teleportation. According to the U.S. Navy on its official web site, nothing happened, and the whole thing is a myth. There sure are some strange things going on if it’s just a myth, though. Why, for example, did the U.S. government completely block the U.S. showing of the Thorn-EMI film, “The Philadelphia Experiment,” for three years? Why did one of the key people in the film’s creation choose to remain uncredited? Why did the producer of a Philadelphia Experiment episode of A&E’s former program “The Unexplained” reportedly flatly refuse to let part of a segment, which demonstrated optical invisibility be shown? Why were certain Tesla videos also kept out of the U.S. for years? What is it we’re not supposed to know? Project Rainbow—a Short Course The basic concept was that the juxtaposition of powerful rotating electromagnetic fields (created by generators running demagnetizing coils normally used to protect ships against German magnetically triggered mines) and microwaves (from reworked radar transmitters) would dimensionally shift the vessel just far enough out of this set of Space-Time references as to be optically invisible. This was all that was needed, since the German U-Boats had no radar and couldn’t torpedo what they couldn’t see. The story goes that Tesla spearheaded the initial development work, with planned installation aboard a battleship, to allow plenty of room for customarily bulky, crude prototype equipment, but resigned in dismay after Navy officials refused to heed his warning that while the ship would indeed become invisible, the crew would be in mortal jeopardy. Enter Von Neumann, mathematical genius and the father of cybernetics. He takes over Tesla’s role, and the project goes forward. Tesla’s precipitous departure is bad enough, but a much worse blow is the diversion of the planned test bed vessel to combat. The replacement ship is a tiny destroyer escort, the DE-143 U.S.S. Eldridge, aboard which there is so little space that much of the interior is gutted, certain weapons are removed, and lots of the equipment which used to be on the battleship has to be installed dockside. Work proceeds at breakneck speed until one fateful day of testing arrives in 1943, with results, or a lack thereof, hotly debated to this day. What is known, though, is that the Ship’s Log, the primary record of every happening of importance aboard the ship from initial commissioning to decommissioning, is missing the log pages covering precisely the dates in which some claim the ship was used for Project Rainbow. Mutilating a logbook is a serious offense, yet no one was ever brought to brook for it. Why? -
Solar Catastrophe Did An Outburst End the Last Ice Age and Destroy a Forgotten Civilization?
By Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D. The conventional status quo view is that true civilization and high culture dates back to the period of approximately 3500 BC to 3000 BC in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus region. In the early 1990s, my work on the Great Sphinx of Egypt broke this barrier when I demonstrated, using geological data, that the great statue’s origins go back thousands of years earlier than previously believed. Egyptologists had dated the Sphinx to the Fourth Dynasty, circa 2500 BC. Initially I “conservatively” (although not so conservative according to my critics) suggested that the core body of the Sphinx dates back to 5000 BC or a bit earlier. Over the years, as I continued my studies and collected more data, I slowly revised my estimate, considering progressively earlier possible dates for the statue. I am now more comfortable considering the notion that possibly the Sphinx’s earliest origins go back 10,000 years or more, perhaps even to the period of circa 10,000 BC to 9,000 BC; that is, the end of the last Ice Age. For many years one of the harshest criticisms of the re-dating of the Great Sphinx was that it apparently stood in grand isolation at such a remote period in time. The people who carved it must have been extremely sophisticated culturally and technologically. They were civilized. But where was corroborative evidence of such sophistication, of true civilization, at such an early time? Recently such evidence has been found not in Egypt, but in southeastern Turkey at a site known as Göbekli Tepe. Here immense finely carved, T-shaped, limestone pillars, many in the range of two to five and one-half meters tall and weighing up to an estimated ten to fifteen tons, form Stonehenge-like circles. Various pillars at Göbekli Tepe are decorated with bas-reliefs of animals, including foxes, boars, snakes, aurochs (wild cattle), birds, and arthropods (a scorpion, ants, and/or spiders). The level of sophistication seen at Göbekli Tepe clearly, in my opinion, indicates that a true civilization existed here. What is really amazing, and confirms my work on the re-dating of the Great Sphinx, is the age of Göbekli Tepe. Based on radiocarbon techniques and geological studies, the site dates back an astounding 12,000 to 10,000 years ago. Four of the circles at Göbekli Tepe were aligned to the region of the sky containing Orion, Taurus, and the Pleiades on the morning of the Vernal Equinox. Due to precession of the equinoxes, such orientations change over time, with the entire cycle taking close to 26,000 years. The builders of Göbekli Tepe took such changes into account, reorienting their structures between the years 10,000 BC to 8000 BC, indicative of an added level of sophistication: a scientific orientation. Then suddenly circa 8000 BC, the people of Göbekli Tepe disappeared, but first they intentionally buried the site! Why? Were they attempting to protect the site, either so that they might some day return, or so that it would be preserved for future generations? With my re-dating of the Great Sphinx and the early date of Göbekli Tepe, we now have clear evidence of sophisticated culture and civilization circa 10,000 BC to 8000 BC. But then this forgotten civilization disappears! There is a decline and hiatus for thousands of years, until the rise once again of civilization in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and elsewhere circa 3500 BC to 3000 BC. What happened? In order to explain the demise of this forgotten civilization, represented by the original Sphinx and Göbekli Tepe, we need to turn to geology. The early forgotten civilization collapsed during the end of the last Ice Age when Earth experienced dramatic cataclysmic changes. Something very sudden and very unusual took place, unlike anything we have experienced since. The peoples and cultures of that remote time were utterly devastated. Knowledge was lost, order devolved to chaos, and a dark age lasting thousands of years ensued. The end of the last Ice Age was not simply a matter of the climate warming and glaciers melting. Earth experienced a series of climatic fluctuations. It had been extremely cold, with continental glaciers extending much further than they do today, but the climate started to warm. However, temperatures reverted back, and there was a short cold spell, known as the Younger Dryas, before the final warming and the official end of the last Ice Age. Studying Greenland ice core data, scientists have determined that the Younger Dryas began and ended very abruptly. Its start dates to circa 10,900 BC, and its ending (the final warming) began circa 9700 BC and may have occurred within an incredible three years; given our inability to resolve the finest details of something that happened so long ago, it may have literally happened overnight. -
What Could the Moon be Hiding?
To say that Earth’s moon is ‘strange’ is an understatement. In fact, the more we learn about our glowing satellite, the stranger and more mysterious it becomes. Relative to the size of the planet it orbits, Earth, it is the largest moon in the Solar System. It is the second densest, after Jupiter’s Io. Moreover, our moon is in synchronous rotation around Earth, meaning that it always presents the same face to us. Prior to the space program, the far side was often referred to as the “dark side,” not because it is dark (any spot on our Moon, save for the polar regions, experiences roughly two weeks of daylight, alternating with about two weeks of night) but because we never see it. The average density of the Moon is 3.344 grams per cubic centimeter, about 60 percent of Earth’s, which means it is not an artificial, hollow spaceship as some have believed, although there may well be vast caverns in its crust, including lava tubes dwarfing those on Earth (see sidebar). NASA is already considering the astronaut housing possibilities in such immense spaces beneath the surface. These natural caverns have roofs estimated to be tens of meters thick, which would provide protection from the extreme conditions existing above the surface. The habitat would be protected from solar radiation, micro-meteorites, extreme temperature fluctuations—believed to be stable in lava tubes—as well as winds, and regolith dust storms that could threaten human health and technology. These naturally occurring shelters would also reduce the landed payload mass for manned missions and save on the costs of any mining. More on lava tubes later. The Moon’s relatively low density means that it has fewer heavy elements than Earth, a slightly different chemical composition. But within each element, like oxygen or iron, there are certain ratios of different isotopes, chemically the same but with different numbers of neutrons in their atomic nuclei. The Moon’s isotope ratios are slightly different than those on Earth, making it possible to identify meteorites of lunar origin, presumably blasted off the Moon by asteroid impacts and found on Earth in places like Antarctica, where they are easy to spot and where we also find meteorites from Mars, with a much different isotope ratio. The Moon’s formation is a mystery yet to be solved. If Earth and Moon had formed from the same accretion disk, they would have a near identical mix of elements and hence a near identical density, but they don’t. Furthermore, the Earth/Moon system has too much angular momentum to have been formed this way. The Moon orbits Earth west to east (the way the Earth turns on its axis) at just 5.14 degrees off our ecliptic—a plane passing through Earth’s equator. Astronomers believe that the odds against Earth capturing a satellite like the Moon are, well, astronomical. For it to be in its west-to-east equatorial orbit as well, though, is just about impossible. The latest theory to explain the Moon postulates that a Mars-sized object collided with the young Earth after our planet’s nickel-iron core had formed and blasted a mass of our crust and mantle into orbit, where the material gradually cooled and accreted to form the Moon. It turns out, however, that the Moon’s crust on the side facing us is thinner than on the “dark” side, so astronomers have revised the theory and suggested that two satellites formed, and the smaller of the two collided at a low relative velocity with the larger, producing a thicker crust on one side and, as the Moon became tide-locked in synchronous rotation, that side happened to be the far side. But the velocities and angles would have had to be just right, making this formation theory about as improbable as the capture of a satellite. In addition, lava deposits on the Moon contain too much water, and the collision would have boiled off Earth’s water and the Moon’s, as well. Some suggest that the greater thickness of the crust on the far side may be due to more in-falling meteorites and space dust. Since the Moon has been in synchronous rotation for an estimated 3.8 billion years, Earth would likely block much of the material coming in from our side. -
Mega-Engineering in the Stars? By Dr. Robert Schoch
Over a thousand years ago, while European civilization stagnated during the Dark Ages, did a race of advanced extraterrestrials in a distant part of our galaxy build a huge energy-capturing mega structure around their sun? This may be the story behind an anomalous star known to astronomers as KIC 8462852 (KIC = Kepler Input Catalog of the Kepler space observatory). Informally dubbed “Tabby’s Star,” “Boyajian’s Star” (Tabetha S. Boyajian spearheaded initial analyses of the star), and “WTF Star” (after the title of the paper authored by Boyajian, et al., 2015 [revised 2016], “Planet Hunters X. KIC 8462852 – Where’s the Flux?”, arXiv), this mysterious object continues to elude a satisfactory and wholly convincing “natural” explanation. Launched in March 2009, the Kepler space observatory was designed to survey the Milky Way searching for exoplanets (planets orbiting around stars other than our Sun). Despite some setbacks, Kepler has been extraordinarily successful in its mission; thousands of exoplanets have been discovered. Extrapolating from the data thus far, possibly our Milky Way Galaxy contains tens of billions of Earth-size planets orbiting stars within habitable zones. The primary method of detecting such exoplanets is by the periodic dimming of a star as an orbiting exoplanet crosses in front, blocking light. Kepler can continuously monitor approximately 150,000 stars. This brings us to the strangeness of KIC 8462852. KIC 8462852 has dimmed and then brightened again on numerous occasions, but not in the systematic way that a star typically dims due to an orbiting planet or planets. The dimming, the dips in brightness detected coming from KIC 8462852, occur in a manner that appears random. For instance, after hundreds of days of relative stability, the star dimmed by 15% over several days. Then, after having come back to approximately its original brightness, about 725 or so days later, the star suddenly dimmed by 22% over just a few days, subsequently returning to its previous brightness. Three weeks later, it dimmed by 3% or so. After returning to its previous brightness, not quite a month later it dimmed by 8% for a few days, only to return to its previous brightness once again. To put these levels of dimming into perspective, if our Sun were being observed by an observatory on a distant planet, as Jupiter crossed, the dimming effect would only amount to about 1%. “Citizen scientists” participating in the “Planet Hunters” project discovered KIC 8462852 collectively. These volunteers sifted through data from Kepler looking for patterns potentially indicative of planets orbiting stars, as well as other interesting or unusual phenomena. Tabetha Boyajian, then a postdoc researcher at Yale University (currently on the faculty of Louisiana State University) was overseeing the Planet Hunters when various participants noticed the strangeness of KIC 8462852. Boyajian became the lead author (along with 48 co-authors) on the initial paper that brought KIC 8462852 to the attention of the general astronomical community and to the world at large. Other than its odd behavior, KIC 8462852 is not a remarkable star; in fact, it is a rather ordinary F-type main sequence star (our Sun is a G-type main sequence star; stars are classified based on factors such as surface temperature—F-type stars are slightly hotter than G-type stars). Located in the region of the constellation Cygnus at a distance of around 1200 to 1500 light-years from us (estimates vary), KIC 8462852 has an apparent magnitude of about 11 or 12 (far too dim to be seen with the naked eye), an estimated radius of 1.6 times that of our Sun and a mass of about 1.4 times that of our Sun. Once brought to the awareness of the scientific community, other astronomers began studying KIC 8462852 from different perspectives. Although KIC 8462852 cannot be seen with the naked eye, it has been viewed through telescopes, and photographed, since the late nineteenth century. Analyzing old records and photographic plates, Bradley Schaefer (Louisiana State University) determined that it had dimmed by about 20% in overall brightness during the century from 1890 to 1989. But could this incredibly strange dimming be nothing more than an artifact of the diverse instrumentation used to photograph the star? Despite Schaefer’s careful work, there were doubts. However, using Kepler space observatory data collected from 2009 to 2013, Benjamin Montet (California Institute of Technology and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and Joshua Simon (Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington) found that KIC 8462852 had dimmed by about 3% overall during this period, with 2% to 2.5% of the dimming occurring during an approximately 200-day stretch. -
Navel of the World or Stargate? The Argument over the Real Purpose of the Giza Pyramids Rages On.
Navel of the World or Stargate? The Argument over the Real Purpose of the Giza Pyramids Rages On. -
Who Were the Olmecs? New Discoveries Put the Spot light on Some Very Ancient People.
Who Were the Olmecs? New Discoveries Put the Spotlight on Some Very Ancient People. BY DAVID H. CHILDRESS In January of 2007, it was announced that the ruins of a lost city had been discovered in the Valley of Mexico, just 25 miles south of Mexico City. Dubbed Zazacatla, the city was found near Xochitepec by Mexican archaeologist Giselle Canto. The ruins, it was said, had been left by the Olmecs—the strange and ancient culture believed to be the mother culture of Central America. Reports at the time, however, expressed surprise that this “new” Olmec city was not on the Gulf Coast, where most previous Olmec sites had been located, but was instead hundreds of miles inland. Once again, the contradictions of the Olmecs were confounding and confusing conventional archaeology. The oldest, and possibly greatest enigma of early Mexico and North America is that of the Olmecs. Olmecs are now often referred to as Proto- Mayans by academic archaeologists, or Olcans, meaning inhabitants of Olcan, the “Olmec Land” as it is now being called. -
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Viking Runes: More Ancient than Imagined. Taking a New Look at these Enigmatic Messages from a Forgotten Past. BY FRANK JOSEPH The well-known “runes” used by medieval Scandinavians make up a syllabary known as Futhark from its first seven letters. It is composed of phonetic symbols belonging to an all-purpose alphabet, with commemorative, recording, identifying, as well as magical purposes. Runes have been found from Iceland and Greenland to the Isle of Man, Athens, and the Black Sea. Some were carved into the floor of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia Cathedral. About a dozen others, far more controversial, appear in North America. Foremost among these is the Kensington Runestone, a long inscription which recounts the early 14th century voyage of Christian Vikings to Minnesota, and Oklahoma’s Heavener Runestone, emblazoned with a single name: Gnomedal, possibly “Valley of the Gnomes,” perhaps a deprecatory reference to local tribal Indians a thousand years ago. Scholars have identified about five hundred runes in Denmark, compared to an estimated seven hundred fifty in Norway. Sweden has the largest collection, with approximately three thousand examples. More than a thousand runes may be found in the province of Uppland alone. Virtually all of these inscriptions date from the late 8th to the mid 13th centuries, mostly commemorating the deeds and deaths of royalty. -
Zecharia Sitchin - On Location - Atlantis Rising Conversation
The late Zecharia Sitchin was author of the Earth Chronicles series, including the Twelfth Planet and many other books. He was famous for his theory that human origins on Earth resulted from intervention by advanced extraterrestrial beings, identified in ancient Sumerian cuneiform texts as the Anunnaki. His books sold many millions, and have been translated into at least 25 languages. In 1996 he spent some time in a New York studio answering questions from Atlantis Rising Magazine. -
PREVIEW - Clash of the Geniuses
Preview of the Atlantis Rising Documentary CLASH OF THE GENIUSES - INVENTING THE IMPOSSIBLE -
PREVIEW - English Sacred Sites
Preview of the Atlantis Rising Documentary ENGLISH SACRED SITES - THE ATLANTIS CONNECTION -
PREVIEW - Technologies of the Gods
Preview of the Atlantis Rising Documentary TECHNOLOGIES OF THE GODS - The Case For Pre-Historic High Technology -
Conversations with Robert Schoch, Ph.D.
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Conversations with Michael Cremo
At a talk at the University of Oklahoma, in addition to mentioning cases from my book Forbidden Archeology, I mentioned a case from Oklahoma that had come to my attention after Forbidden Archeology was published. In the 1920s, A. H. Holloman discovered human artifacts and fossils of extinct animals in a gravel pit he owned near Frederick, Oklahoma. He showed some of his finds to F. G. Priestly, a local medical doctor. Priestly had recently read in Scientific American an article by Harold J. Cook about human antiquity in America. -
Conversations - Steven Sora - Templar Treasure_Forbidden_Island
The legendary Sinclairs, of Templar and Masonic lore, have long been regarded as Lords of the Isles. At one time they controlled Europe's largest navy and, indeed, the family ruled supreme over Caithness, Scotland's northernmost territory; and, from there, its fleet kept watch on the Orkneys, their island holdings just north of Scotland. While the Orkney's might have been the first isles ruled by Sinclairs, they were by no means the last. The family history would ultimately be intwined with that of other singular islands including Madeira, Oak Island in Nova Scotia, New Zealand, and, most recently, in Hawaii with Kauai and Niihau, the so-called Forbidden Island. Some now speculate that Hawaii's Niihau could actually be the 'treasure island' of a family long connected to both ancient treasure and mystery. -
Conversations - Frank Joseph - Atlantis in the Azores
Dr. David Zink (1927-2008) was among the very few world-class scholars in the United States with personal courage enough to publicly state that Atlantis was real. His years of research at the Bimini Wall -- a 1200 foot long, stone structure lying under 19 feet of water 55 miles east of Miami, Florida -- not only established its man made provenance, but strongly suggested an Atlantean identity. Although he persuasively argued on behalf of the Wall's original function as a harbor facility, Dr. Zink concluded that Bimini was only an outpost, not Atlantis itself. The sunken city was out of place in the Bahamas, but must lie, he believed, among the Azores. -
Conversations - William Stoecker - Beasts of Beringia
William Stoecker on the Beasts of Beringia from Issue104. How Could Earth's Many Species Get to Where We Find Them? -
Conversations with Dr. Susan Martinez
Susan Martinez on Global Drying from Issue104 Doesn't Drying Mean Cooling? Maybe It's Not Warming that Should Most Alarm Us.
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