ALIEN ARTIFACTS: HAS THE HARD EVIDENCE BEEN HERE ALL ALONG? – #ufo #unusual
By Sean Casteel
Within the greater than 70 years since pilot Kenneth Arnold first sighted an odd formation of 9 shiny airborne objects close to Mount Rainier in Washington State, normally cited as the start of the fashionable UFO period, skeptics have relentlessly claimed that no “laborious proof” for the UFO phenomenon has ever been produced. Sightings, they declare, are likely to occur in backwoods swamps the place no credible witnesses are current and no dependable images are taken. How will you show the existence of one thing with solely skinny air with which to argue your case?
However a brand new e-book from the just lately fashioned publishing imprint Zontar Press dares to vary. The lengthy overdue tome known as “Alien Artifacts: Unbelievable Proof of Unique Materials from UFO Encounters.” Drawing on the contributions of greater than ten topnotch researchers, work on the e-book started some months earlier than the premature passing of writer, editor and creator Timothy Inexperienced Beckley, to whom the finished work is fondly devoted.
WHAT ARE ALIEN ARTIFACTS?
Beckley’s preliminary idea was deceptively easy: We all know that all through the final a number of a long time, UFOs have landed or crashed, their occupants have made contact with human experiencers, and the visiting strangers have at instances left behind supplies of assorted sorts that defy evaluation. Why not collect collectively tales and legends about that side of the UFO phenomenon right into a single quantity that gives an outline of a number of the most compelling of such incidents?
In his introduction, writer and author Tim R. Swartz explains the concept this manner:
“Now we have named it ‘Alien Artifacts,’” Swartz writes, “however truly we’re utilizing this time period not a lot to say that we imagine that we’ve got recovered issues from ‘extraterrestrial spaceships,’ however as a result of what we’re discussing on this e-book is ‘alien’ as they don’t seem to have a ‘regular’ rationalization for his or her origins. On high of that, we’re additionally going past the unusual bits of metallic which have surfaced following UFO encounters. An ‘alien artifact’ will be a whole lot of various things, and we need to open your eyes to that truth.”
AN ALIEN BREAKFAST TREAT
For example, Swartz tells the story of Wisconsin farmer Joe Simonton, who was shocked to see a metallic UFO land outdoors his home. He rushed outdoors and noticed a hatch opening from the craft, wanting “identical to the trunk of your automotive.” Inside have been three “little males” about 5 toes tall and carrying darkish turtleneck shirts and helmets. One of many creatures held up a metallic jug, gesturing that he wish to have it stuffed up with water. Simonton stuffed up the jug and returned it to the little man.
Simonton appeared contained in the ship and noticed one other little man cooking “pancakes” on a easy, sq., grill-like floor. Hoping to begin a dialog, the farmer gestured that he wish to strive the meals. The person handed him 4 of the pancakes, which Simonton mentioned have been “sizzling and greasy.” Out of politeness, Simonton tried one of many pancakes, which he mentioned tasted like cardboard. The meals was so unappetizing that he speculated it would account for the creatures’ diminutive dimension.
The pilot then indicated that Simonton ought to step again and closed the hatch. The craft rose up vertically, “like an elevator,” shot off into the sky and rapidly disappeared.
Swartz goes on to put in writing that, not like hundreds of different UFO studies, this one got here with precise bodily proof within the type of unusual, bubbly textured pancakes. After the story bought out, the Air Power despatched their high UFO investigator, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, to look into the case. In response to Hynek, there was little question the Simonton felt his encounter was an actual expertise. The Air Power had the pancake pattern examined and located they have been unusual “buckwheat pancakes” consisting of fats, starch, buckwheat hulls and soybean hulls. Despite the earthly origin of the pancakes, the Air Power labeled the case as “unknown.” “Alien Artifacts” features a photograph of Simonton holding one of many pancakes.
ANCIENT SCALE MODEL AIRCRAFT
I contribute a chapter known as “The Alien Glittering of True Gold” by which I talk about artistic endeavors created by the Quimbaya, natives of Columbia, South America, who have been believed to inhabit the area from 300 to 1550 CE and are greatest identified for his or her exact gold and metallic work. A lot of the Quimbaya items found by archeologists have been an alloy of gold and 30 % copper, known as “tumbaga,” and similar to a metallic talked about by Plato in his dialogues in regards to the Misplaced Metropolis of Atlantis. The objects included golden fashions of a number of kinds of bugs together with units which might be aerodynamic in nature and formed like no insect identified to exist.
A few of the historical items look very very similar to the designs of recent airplanes and incorporate various options that basically show that the Quimbaya knew and understood ideas of flight. A few of the fashions embrace tail rudders and propellers. The existence of so many similarities to modern-day airplanes helps the “Out-of-Place-Artifact” principle: they appear too superior for the Quimbaya.
It has been theorized for years that a number of the Quimbaya objects are scale fashions of airplanes or flying machines. Two aeronautical engineers, Peter Belting and Conrad Lubbers, used the scale of the Quimbaya artifacts to create large-scale fashions which proved profitable in flight testing. They proved that the designs fly with each easy single-propeller energy and jet energy. It’s greater than only a coincidence that the artifacts will be scaled up and truly fly.
There’s one other intriguing phenomenon at play right here, which occurs after a distant tradition is visited for the primary time with know-how current. Remoted tribes visited in each Africa and South America by airplanes have demonstrated shifts in non secular beliefs after the go to. One of many tribes welcomed the aircraft on its second go to with ceremonial fireplace and statues constructed within the form of the airplane. Tribal individuals even went as far as to line themselves alongside a runway to greet the guests.
If distant cultures exhibit this type of conduct through the world’s fashionable technological period, then possible the identical idea has performed out earlier than. From this angle of pondering, theories then recommend that the Quimbaya could have been influenced by one other historical tradition, or, maybe, some type of alien civilization.
THE ENCOUNTERS OF JOHN LENNON
The artifacts phenomenon additionally has connections to not simply distant and historical cultures however to present day popular culture as nicely. In a chapter by Nigel Watson, known as “John Lennon’s Egg,” the story is instructed of how the aliens gifted a metallic egg to the late lamented Beatle and solo artist rocker.
Lennon introduced he had seen a UFO on the sleeve of his “Partitions and Bridges” album, writing on the again cowl: “On 23 August 1974, I noticed a UFO. J.L.”
Lennon was estranged from Yoko Ono on the time and was residing with girlfriend Could Pang in a New York house. It was a sizzling night time and Could was having a shower when Lennon known as to her from the terrace, the place she discovered him bare and pointing at an odd object within the sky.
Could mentioned it appeared like a big flattened cone with a shiny pink mild on high of it at a distance of solely 100 toes away. As the thing got here nearer, it revealed a stunning row of flashing white lights alongside its rim. The couple made an unsuccessful try to {photograph} the thing earlier than it moved off out of sight. The UFO returned a bit later and, though they have been ready this time with a telescope, the thing was too shiny to discern any additional particulars.
On one other event, Lennon was in mattress with Yoko when he woke up abruptly to see a robust searchlight shining outdoors the bed room door. On opening the door, he discovered 4 skinny, human-sized bug-like entities whom he tried to drive out of his dwelling. However earlier than he might even contact them, some invisible type of energy held him again. They gently held his arms and pushed his legs right into a tunnel of sunshine the place he was proven an “outstandingly lovely” film of his life. Then his thoughts went clean and he woke to search out himself mendacity in mattress with Yoko once more.
Lennon was positive he had not been tripping or dreaming. As proof of this encounter he discovered an egg-like metallic object in his arms when he awakened subsequent to Yoko. The stable object with no markings was too bizarre even for Lennon. He speculated that it was a ticket to an alien planet however he was fairly proud of New York.
He gave the egg to psychic spoon-bender Uri Geller, who has saved it ever since. Geller would later say, “After I maintain the chilly metallic egg in my fist, I’ve a robust sensation that John knew extra about this object than he instructed me. Perhaps it didn’t include an instruction handbook, however I feel John knew what it was for.” Geller mentioned he has by no means submitted the egg for scientific evaluation as a result of he desires to take care of its “mysticism.”
GOING HAND-IN-GLOVE
Earlier than he died in 2021, Timothy Inexperienced Beckley had been within the UFO sport for 60 years and it was laborious to impress him with anybody claiming to have the “actual factor,” or concrete proof that aliens had visited Earth and left behind artifacts that irrefutably demonstrated that actuality.
In an interview Beckley performed, alongside together with his cohost Tim R. Swartz, on their podcast “Exploring the Weird,” one of many rarest examples of simply such an artifact was the topic of their dialog with John Peele, a well being meals restauranteur and lengthy distance runner, whose story was spine-tingling within the excessive.
“It’s a really unusual and odd case,” Beckley started. “One of the vital peculiar I’ve been concerned in. It consists of assembly Mr. John Peele in late 1978 or early 1979 in Florida. On the time, he owned a well being meals retailer and restaurant and had a really uncommon artifact that he had situated whereas working throughout the Arizona desert. It is without doubt one of the few alien artifacts that we are able to truly level to as current.
“We hear in regards to the Roswell UFO crash,” Beckley continued, “and deceased alien our bodies strewn throughout the desert, however there’s little or no proof – Roswell fanatics will go for the jugular on this one – there may be little or no proof that any of that occurred.”
Beckley was modifying “UFO Evaluation,” a tabloid newspaper targeted on the titular phenomenon, and had printed a small variety of books, when he first met Peele whereas on a promotional tour and fact-finding mission in Florida. Alongside the best way, Beckley bought Peele’s telephone quantity and Peele invited him to go to his dwelling.
BECKLEY SEES THE ARTIFACT
“He confirmed me this – nicely, I name it an alien artifact – I don’t know what else you’d name it – and it took my breath away,” Beckley recalled. “There’s been nothing like this earlier than.”
Beckley mentioned he has mentioned the discover with a number of individuals and has been greeted every so often by complete disbelief. The place is the artifact? The place is the witness? Many years later, Beckley discovered Peele on Fb and invited him to look on “Exploring the Weird.”
Peele discovered the artifact in 1977, whereas on a long-distance run from Daytona Seaside, Florida, to Santa Monica, California. (Peele is such a well known cross nation runner that he was consulted by the makers of the hit film “Forrest Gump,” who wished firsthand info on what it’s wish to run the sort of distances portrayed within the film by actor Tom Hanks.) Peele and his working companion averaged 48 miles a day.
In Arizona, Peele and his companion parted methods, which they usually did, having run out of dialog after spending a lot time side-by-side.
“You go your alternative ways and talk about it later,” Peele defined.
PEELE STUMBLES INTO RESTRICTED TERRITORY
Peele mentioned he had unknowingly run right into a authorities restricted space, the place he stumbled on railroad tracks that resembled a curler coaster trip.
“It was pulled out,” he mentioned, “and due to the best way that railroads are linked, one rail to the subsequent, it actually made loops. It was fairly weird and I didn’t know what I used to be seeing on the time. I’m nonetheless not 100% positive. However I went over in the direction of that and began following it. And at one level I stumbled on a big – what appeared to me, and I’m a fighter pilot, so I say this with some data – I noticed what appeared like a wing.”
The “wing” was extraordinarily skinny and, although it was eight-feet lengthy, it was so mild that Peele was in a position to make use of two fingers and from the tip maintain it horizontally with no issues. The wing was additionally very robust but it surely was nonetheless doable to bend it. He started to assemble different little “remnants” of what he felt was an apparent crash. There was a sort of Plexiglas or carbon glass current that was unbreakable, though a few of it had shattered from affect into the rocks within the desert.
“However you can decide up a chunk of it and you can not break it,” he mentioned. “I didn’t convey any of that. I used to be somewhat bit involved that this may be radioactive. I didn’t know what I used to be coping with.”
AND THERE IS THE GLOVE
“After which I discovered the glove,” Peele mentioned.
There have been truly two gloves. Once more, not realizing if the objects have been radioactive, and whether or not he might need to sooner or later merely do away with the gloves, Peele hid one in a small cavern underneath some rocks. He acknowledges that the markings he used wouldn’t be there now, however he has sufficient of a visible reminiscence saved in his thoughts that he feels assured he might discover the glove and wreckage particles once more.
One of many two gloves was in significantly better situation than the opposite, so, in case he finally needed to do away with them, he most popular to maintain the one in good situation hidden away within the Arizona desert. Because it turned out he was capable of hold the glove, he mentioned, he ought to have introduced the nice one dwelling.
In any case, the gloves have been made with some type of a conceal. That they had a strain valve on the skin/bottom of the hand. There was a zipper that labored from the within and enclosed one thing similar to Nomex, a hearth retardant cloth first developed by DuPont within the Sixties.
The glove was so small that there was no means it might have match a human hand. There was a prehensile or “opposable” thumb, that means a thumb that may be positioned reverse the fingers of the identical hand, thus permitting the digits to understand and deal with objects. Opposable thumbs are attribute of primates, reminiscent of human beings, and have been an important step in our evolution.
“Whenever you maintain it,” Peele mentioned, “you perceive that it isn’t from Planet Earth. You may’t take a look at it and see the way it was made and see how detailed every thing is. However there’s no hand that might match it that may very well be used for any specific purpose that we all know.”
The glove additionally had what appeared like writing, primarily incomprehensible and probably nonhuman phrases. However Peele was capable of learn the English phrases “safe” and “massive.”
A ‘CHILLING’ FIND
At this level within the interview, Beckley interjected, “On this subject, bodily proof like an alien artifact is nearly unimaginable to return by and is all the time in dispute. However there’s something so unusual and peculiar about this that it virtually sends chills up and down one’s backbone. OK, right here’s the glove. We don’t know who it belonged to. Would an alien race be that near us that they might have a glove? And have 4 fingers and a prehensile thumb? It might point out to me that we may be speaking about one thing from the long run or one thing from a parallel universe.”
Peele replied, “I’ve definitely given the parallel universe idea a lot thought. However that’s what was so cool about this glove. Folks would maintain it and say, ‘Ooh, it’s like my arms are tingling.’ All people who noticed it – I don’t need to say they have been freaked out, however they WERE freaked out.
“Numerous individuals did see it,” he continued, “as a result of I might present it in my retailer. It was known as 21st Century Meals and was the primary vegetarian restaurant and well being meals retailer within the space. I might hold it within the restaurant there and folks would are available. That they had heard about it as a result of it did have some information media protection.”
Folks would ask to see the glove and it generally triggered a number of the curiosity seekers to turn into so unnerved that they might exit the restaurant.
“Most individuals watch ‘Star Trek’ or no matter,” Peele reasoned, “however they don’t really need that to be actual. Different individuals DO need it to be actual. I’ve all the time felt we can’t be egotistical sufficient to suppose we’re the one humanoid-type beings within the universe. Take into consideration the number of individuals on our planet after which develop that to over just a few thousand mild years away. Now we have to have others which might be just like us – extra superior, much less superior. Not as good, nicer. They’re on the market.”
“Alien Artifacts: Unbelievable Proof of Unique Materials from UFO Encounters” additionally options chapters on topics just like the falling of “angel hair” from the sky, a miniature UFO “captured” by younger boys in Japan, and rather more, making it a formidable assortment of paranormal lore and educated hypothesis on a few of what the aliens have left behind after their encounters with earthlings. The e-book fairly possible stands alone in that regard, approaching the UFO topic from a really distinctive vantage level that brings the scientific evaluation of the weird stays a minimum of into the realm of chance.
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