A BRAND NEW MAGAZINE ON UFOLOGY & ALTERNATIVE THINKING TOP 10 UFOLOGY MOMENTS Lazar, Arnold & Rendlesham ISSUE #1 NOV/DEC 2017

NICK POPE THE From civil servant to the WELSH MoD’s UFO investigator TO THE STARS TRIANGLE Rockstar Tom Delonge Celebrating the 40th is shaping our future Anniversary of the Pembrokeshire sightings

DYATLOV PASS SNOW WHITE The mystery deaths of Does the beloved princess nine Russian hikers in 1959 have Egyptian origins?

THE PIRI REIS MAP ENIGMA Could this medieval map really show an ice-free Antarctica? MICHAEL CREMO Why human origins may go back further than we thought

S-4 DIGITAL PRESS Plus more great interviews and features inside! EDITOR’S LETTER WELCOME! “Something inside me has always been there… - then I was awake, and I need help.”

he above quote was featured feeling your IQ drop in front of the in the trailer for the upcoming television and smartphone watching TStar Wars: The Last Jedi, mind numbing talk shows and the which finds our hero Rey searching endless plague of vacuous ‘reality’ for guidance in helping her make celebrities. And that’s what the sense of her recent ‘awakening’. title itself refers to, the dark hidden The line stuck in our minds as we corners of the subconscious that were compiling this very first issue recognises there is a vast amount of Shadows Of Your Mind magazine, of information hidden just out of and it seemed pretty apt as interest view. Our hope is that Shadows… in what were previously fringe topics will act as the catalyst that fires up is on the rise. the synapses and instigates further personal investigation, wherever it This magazine is aimed squarely at may take you. Believe us when we the novice ufologist, the armchair say this is your introduction into a archaeologist and the generally fantastic world of hitherto unknown curious. A magazine dedicated to knowledge. those standing on the precipice of the rabbit-hole, unsure whether to We hope you enjoy this first issue, free fall like Alice or back slowly packed with great interviews and away, fearing whatever it is down features. From mysterious deaths in there or indeed what may come up the Urals and encounters with extra- Editor Bio from below. We don’t blame you in terrestrials in the Nevada desert to With his interest in UFOlogy the slightest if it’s the latter, we once your guide of the best radio shows dating back to flicking casually stood exactly where you are. and podcasts and an alternative through a copy of Carl Sagan’s view of a most beloved fairytale. Cosmos as a child, Dave has It just feels right to be launching this already been down and back magazine at this particular moment So take those first steps in to a up the rabbit hole more than in time. There was something deep wider world of alternative research, a few times. Having decided inside us that kept screaming “DO consciousness, the paranormal to return to the murky depths IT! DO IT NOW! COME ON!” with a and ufology, and don’t be afraid of ancient knowledge and Schwarzenegger accent - and who to get involved. Join us on Twitter, UFOlogy he has created are we to argue with Arnold? There’s Facebook and elsewhere, write to us Shadows Of Your Mind to been a perceptible increase in global and suggest a feature or even write share his discoveries and consciousness. People are slowly one for us! But, most importantly uncover the biggest mysteries. becoming aware to the fact that of all, talk about your interests with there is something more to life than others, it’s the perfect way to learn.

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A round-up of the latest What exactly was buzzing How a posting in the Nevada alternative news stories that above the skies of desert led to an encounter of made us prick up our ears. Pembrokeshire in 1977? the third kind. 7 FROM THE ARCHIVES 22 THE PIRI REIS MAP 38 DYATLOV PASS

Marking the 50th anniversary The irascible Doug McKay Our One Small Step… series of the infamous Patterson- has issues with the map of a kicks off in the frozen snow Gimlin Bigfoot footage. Turkish Admiral. capped Urals. 8 NICK POPE 28 WHO’S WHO 42 MICHAEL CREMO

We speak to the former MoD A beginners guide to the best Has evidence of extreme UFO investigator about his radio shows and podcasts. human antiquity been colourful career. covered up by science? 30 THE CELESTIAL 12 TOP 10: UFOLOGY SNOW WHITE 46 WORK WITH US The moments that defined What was the inspiration All the details you need to modern ufo history. behind the fairest of them all? contribute to the magazine.

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GET INVOLVED Have an opinion on any of our features? Is there a topic you want to see covered? Get in touch below

Our round up of the biggest news stories to hit the alternative community. EX-BLINK 182 FRONT MAN LAUNCHES TO THE STARS ACADEMY Rock star Tom Delonge announces an exciting new project alongside

former high ranking officials. of Arts & Sciences Academy Stars The ©To Concept illustration for a craft that will erase the current travel limits of emember the date October 12th distance and time. Said to mimic the capabilities observed in unidentified 2017, mark it down now because aerial phenomenon using a drive system that alters space-time metric. Rone day we could be looking back and say that’s when it all began. Having of non-fiction books, which was written with teased his Twitter followers and alternative the assistance of occult historian and author SEKRET news community for months that he had a Peter Levenda. MACHINES ‘huge announcement’, Tom Delonge, more Tom Delonge recognisable as the singer with rock bands Mr Delonge has quite the impressive team has been busy Blink 182 and Angels & Airwaves, finally working alongside him, having recruited a CHASING broke his silence in an online live-streaming group of like-minded individuals from the US SHADOWS press conference. Intelligence community who are frustrated An engaging by the secrecy and the lack of public sci-fi thriller The project, To The Stars Academy of progress in the fields of alternative energy, involving secret Arts & Sciences, aims to make public the research and scientific breakthroughs projects, shadow kind of projects and information that the which would benefit humanity rather than corporations and US Government has kept hidden from the the privileged few on unreported military a lost diary mixed world for at least the past 70 years - notably operations and ‘dark’ projects, a shadow with a sprinkling the existence and acknowledgment of the government if you will. of historical fact. unidentified aerial phenomenon and extra terrestrial visitations to Earth. The project is split in to three separate GODS components: Science - examining the We are all familiar Anyone who has been paying at least the best use of modern physics and human with the gods of minimum attention to what Mr Delonge consciousness; Aerospace - finding ancient Egypt, has been up to since he ‘retired’ from Blink breakthroughs in propulsion and energy; Greece and Rome 182 in 2015 is probably aware that this is and Entertainment - aiming to educate and but what do you the moment he has been building up to. inspire creativity and ignite curiosity. know of what If you aren’t aware I suggest you acquaint or who came yourselves with two of his recent books We shall be featuring To The Stars before that? And (see panel right). Sekret Machines: Chasing in a future issue but in the meantime visit how have they Shadows an action-packed collaboration https://dpo.tothestarsacademy.com for influenced the with science fiction author AJ Hartley, and more information or click on the image world today? Sekret Machines: Gods the first in a trilogy above for the press conference video.

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THE UNITY PROJECT: A NEW HUB FOR RESEARCH INTO ALTERNATIVE TOPICS

A new Wiki-style hub of information launches featuring all things paranormal and alternative.

inding relevant information on the internet on a number of alternative Ftopics has always been hit and miss. However a new co-operative and community Launched in conjunction with the folks website uniwiki.org was launched a couple at Fade To Black radio (see p28), and the STARDUST of months ago with the aim of being a people behind Modern Masters - a mystical RANCH UP resource centre for anybody who has game platform for co-creative spiritual FOR SALE the slightest interest in UFOlogy or the learning, and teaching - UniWiki will feature Notorious E.T. paranormal. hour-long podcasts alongside user created hotspot priced pages as part of an open-source project. at $5million UniWiki encourages unlimited participation by researchers and the public alike who Speaking back in August Jimmy Church, Fancy buying a have an interest in alternative and fringe host of Fade To Black, explained “This spacious working topics and are keen to impart knowledge [project] is about unifying - not only the farm where the which they think should be made available community - but gathering all of our neighbours are to benefit the public. The website states: information, in a positive way. Getting it all a bit more out “The Unity Project’s goal is to empower the centralized, with the correct contributors. of this world? individuals, organizations and campaigns And not go negative! This is the positive Stardust Ranch, a who seek positive change. At the moment, side of it, and unifying all of the knowledge. 10-acre property this community is loosely defined by Because it is out there, the community is out in Buckeye, separate names, such as: paranormal, there. We need a central depository of all of Arizona, US, has ufology, consciousness, wellness, healing, this knowledge, and that’s what Uniwiki is all made mainstream environmentalism, sustainability, holistic, about.” headlines due to magick, and spirituality. We believe that it’s reputation of we all share some fundamental beliefs and Click the monitor above for more being a popular goals.” information on this exciting project. haunt for extra- terrestrials. The owners, John and Joyce Edmonds, who run a horse- TRUMP RELEASES rescue centre on the ranch, have FILES RELATED TO being trying to sell the property JFK ASSASSINATION for eleven years, US President sticks to his promise over 1992 law. exasperated by the strange t’s probably one of the greatest, if not source of debate for over five decades. goings-on. Amid the greatest, conspiracy topics of our The release of these files by President talk of animal time, who shot JFK? While the official Trump aims to put to bed some of the myths mutilations by the I ‘Greys’, John explanation has always been pointed associated with the event, but interestingly squarely at a certain patsy by the name of they also divulge other secrets involving claims to have Lee Harvey Oswald, the evidence indicates Cuban plots, call-girls, the KGB, Frank killed around 18 of that may not be strictly true. Sure, it’s been Sinatra and the merest suggestion of a the alien beings, confirmed that Oswald did fire off three cover-up by party or parties unspecified who apparently shots from the sixth floor of the Texas at this time. At the behest of the CIA & FBI dissipate upon School Book Depository overlooking Dealey not all files have been released - the usual being struck Plaza on November 22nd, 1963. Whether “interests of national security” line being put down, using a all, one or indeed any of those shots hit forward. So, while we wait, we suggest you samurai sword.

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ECLIPSE DATA COULD LEAD TO A FEAR OF REVISION OF LIST OF PHARAOHS SNAKES OF SPIDERS Recorded Biblical solar eclipse accurately dates reign of Rameses II. INGRAINED FROM BIRTH esearchers at Cambridge University which recorded Pharoah Merneptah’s defeat A new study at the are said to have discovered the of the Israelites in Canaa,n now housed in Max Planck Institute specific date of the first recorded the Egyptian Museum in Cairo - has given in Leipzig, Germany R has suggested that solar eclipse. They believe that an an accurate date for the reign of Merneptah the natural human erroneously interpreted passage in the (1210-1200BC) and his father Rameses the apprehension when Old Testament Book of Joshua, which had Great (1276-1210BC) plus or minus a year, it comes to our previously baffled scholars, can pinpoint three to four years than previously thought. eight-legged and the celestial event precisely to a date of no-legged nemeses October 30th 1207 BC. In a report released This isn’t the first time this theory has been may be linked back to our evolutionary with astrophysicist Graeme Waddington posited however. In 1918, linguist Robert ancestors. In co- on October 1st 2017, Sir Colin Humphreys, a Wilson also made this suggestion based on operation with the Professor in the Cambridge Department of his reading of Babylonian cunieform tablets Uppsala University Materials Science & Metallurgy observes that but the calculations involved at the time in Sweden scientists the King James translation of Joshua 10:12- were deemed “too laborious” to confirm his at the MPI found 13 “Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and Moon, hypothesis. Now thought it looks as thought that images of in the Valley of Aijalon. And the Sun stood Wilson’s interpretation was correct and spiders and snakes invoke a ‘stress still, and the Moon stopped, until the nation it should only be a matter of time before reaction’ in infants took vengeance on their enemies.” rather mainstream Egyptologists start to revise the as young as six than suggesting they sun and moon literally pharoanic dates. months. They stopped moving is actually recording an concluded by saying annular eclipse. Correlating this new data Click here for the full report in the this fear could have with the Merneptah Stele - a granite block Astronomy and Geophysics Journal been hardwired into the human brain due to our elongated co- existence with those particular animal WORLD’S OLDEST GOVERNMENT groups spanning millions of years. MARITIME SUED OVER LACK Click here for the NAVIGATION OF BIGFOOT full report. DEVICE FOUND RESEARCH HIGH SPEED CRAFT Bronze astrolabe discovered in British Columbia authority faces FILMED AT 16th century shipwreck. civil lawsuit in Canada. ECETI RANCH At the end of September, footage diving exploration of a shipwreck n an unprecedented move the Ministries of a high velocity dated to 1503 off the coast of Oman of Fish & Wildlife and Environment are unknown object was Ahas resulted in a rare and exciting Ifacing court action over “dereliction of taken at the UFO discovery. According to various reports duty”. The Vancouver Sun reports that Todd hotspot of ECETI the Portuguese ship Esmerelda sank while Standing, a researcher and documentarian ranch in Washington returning along the trade route to India of the legendary Sasquatch, has accused state. Located near and was part of Vasco de Gama’s fleet. The the provincial government in British the foot of Mount astrolabe bears the seal of King Don Manuel Columbia of not doing enough to prove Adams and owned I, who acceded to the Lisbon throne in 1495. the existence of and protect the ‘wildman by contactee James Gililand, ECETI has Its discoverer David Mearns, to sent it to of the woods’. According to Standing he had it’s fair share of Professor Mark Williams at the University of has video evidence to back up his claims, mysterious goings Warwick for comprehensive scanning and (which you can watch at www.sylvanic.com on, ranging from dating and laser scans revealed a series of for a nominal fee) as well as photographic, apparitions, orbs, worn marks equally genetic and footprint analysis and Bigfoot sightings spaced every 5° eyewitness testimonies. Unsurprisingly his and some of the around the circular claims have amused the provincial Attorney best reported surface. For more General David Eby, who when asked about UFO activity ever information read any cover up said “I can’t talk about it. It’s recorded. Click here the story on the top secret.” See opposite for our tribute to to see the incredible footage or visit University of Warwick the notorious Pattinson Bigfoot footage www.eceti.org

©WMG/University of Warwick ©WMG/University website here. which turns 50 this year.

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FANCY It its considered one of the best pieces of evidence for the existence of DRESS? Bigfoot and celebrated its 50th anniversary in October. So what is the Let us know story behind the footage? Or was it just a man in a cheap gorilla suit? what you think? hile out in the northern California A video of original footage - click here IT’S BIGFOOT! woodlands Robert Patterson and to see it - shows the sighting in context. The footage is Bob Gimlin had an encounter Around two and a half minutes in, a large irrefutable. The W movement is which appeared put the question of bipedal hairy creature around six feet tall is whether the legend of Sasquatch was real seen coming out of the trees appearing to totally natural or not, to bed. Having already embarked be unperturbed by the cowboys presence and the shakiness on a few Bigfoot hunting expeditions as it walks calmly away. The money-shot is and filming speed based on reported sightings and footprints, undoubtedly where the creature turns to suggest it’s the the ranchers headed to the Six Rivers look straight at the camera and even at that real deal. The turn! National Forest with a 16mm Kodak movie distance, facial features are recognisable. camera and a couple of horses. As they GORILLA SUIT! Patterson was rode through the area of Bluff Creek the Patterson posted the film to his brother- desperate to camera was already rolling, filming Gimlin in-law for processing and called scientist find a Bigfoot riding a little further ahead up the canyon. Donald Abbot who wanted nothing to and there are When he panned back round Patterson do with the footage, as did most other claims he had saw a large humanoid creature walking scientists who called ‘hoax’, disputing the the suit specially near the opposite bank, around 30m away. creatures movements and suggesting it made. He chose He got down from his horse and stumbled could be a well-orchestrated stunt using an a location known momentarily as he tried to get a clearer man in a suit. Sadly, Robert Patterson died in for sightings and picture. Regaining his composure he 1972 from cancer, but Bob Gimlin has always pulled a fast one. managed to focus on the evidently female maintained that what he saw that day was creature and one of the most famous pieces the real thing. “I know what I saw,” he told of film was shot, lasting under a minute reporters “and I know it wasn’t a man in a

Stills from Robert Patterson & Bob Gimlin film via YouTube & Bob Gimlin film via Patterson Robert from Stills before she disappeared in to the woods. suit. It couldn’t have been.”

www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 7 issue 01 The Man from the Ministry From an obscure MOD department to the UK media’s ‘go-to’ guy for all things conspiracy.

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ick Pope has been in the UK defence of the UK, or for anything with more media a lot recently, talking general security interest. about conspiracy theories. You can almost sense the TALK SOYM: Can you remember the tired resignation in the printed words as ABOUT THIS circumstances surrounding the press giving once more he’s asked about the existence INTERVIEW you the nickname “the real Fox Mulder”? of Nibiru or Planet X by an increasingly AND MORE NP: The MoD is such a vast organisation unimaginative UK tabloid press. And ONLINE that some people weren’t even aware that when he’s not replying to journalist after the Department had been researching and sniggering journalist trying to make sense of investigating the UFO phenomenon since tin-foil hat topics, he can be found embroiled 1953. I was constantly being stopped in the in social media battles debating followers corridors and the canteen by people who of that great medieval fantasy - flat earth wanted to know what I knew about subjects theory - when he’s not being mistaken for a such as Roswell, and Area 51. Colleagues Premier League goalkeeper anyway. nicknamed me Spooky – Mulder’s nickname – as soon as The X-Files aired on TV, but I Now a resident of the US state of Arizona, don’t think the media started referring to me Nick Pope left the MOD in 2006 after a in this way until my first book, Open Skies distinguished service spanning over two Closed Minds was published in 1996, which is decades. But in 1993, a couple of years into when I became a public figure. a new post, the advent of a certain UFO and conspiracy-themed tv-show suddenly At first I was somewhat irritated, because I propelled Nick in to the media spotlight. thought it trivialized my government work, The unexpected popularity of The X-Files but I came to appreciate it, and indeed I’ve saw the MOD inundated with requests for met David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson and information regarding whether UFO files Chris Carter, and have had some involvement existed in their archives. Pope was given the with The X-Files movies, TV show, and the unofficial designated role of press liaison recently produced X-Files audiobooks Cold which subsequently earned him the public Cases and Stolen Lives. nickname ‘the real Fox Mulder’. We spoke to Nick about his MOD career, his writing and SOYM: What was your favourite his contribution to the release of the UK’s investigation during your time there? UFO files into the public . NP: Probably a wave of sightings that occurred over a six hour period on 30/31st SOYM: When did you first join the MOD? March 1993, all around the UK, collectively Nick Pope: I joined the Ministry of Defence known as the Cosford incident. A cluster in 1985 and served there for 21 years, in a of sightings turned out to be caused by number of different posts, at increasingly the re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere senior grades as my career progressed. I of debris from a Russian rocket, but others was assigned to the MoD’s UFO project in remained unexplained and involved a large, 1991 and held this position until 1994, when I triangular-shaped craft. The UFO flew over was promoted to the next grade up. Before two airbases in the Midlands – RAF Cosford being assigned to this position I had no and RAF Shawbury – and one RAF officer interest in UFOs and no particular beliefs described how the craft was emitting a on the subject. To me, it was just another low frequency humming sound, firing a government job – albeit a bizarre and narrow beam of light at the ground and fascinating one! then, from a very slow speed, accelerated to the horizon in an instant. This man had 8 SOYM: How did the MOD approach the years’ experience in the RAF and said that subject of UFOs or other unexplained he’d never seen anything like it. His voice incidents? was still shaking when I interviewed him the NP: There was no official fixed position following morning. The incident remains on UFOs at the MOD – or indeed the unexplained to this day. unexplained more generally. While most civil servants tend to be quite conservative, and incline towards scepticism, we had to IT WAS DIFFICULT TO LOSE take a neutral position and go into each investigation with an open-mind. It was THE ‘MORE LIKELY RUSSIAN difficult to lose the ‘more likely Russian than Martian’ mindset, but we had to go where the data took us. Our focus was looking THAN MARTIAN’ MINDSET for evidence of any potential threat to the www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 9 issue 01 NICK POPE

SOYM: All but three UFO files have now Nick Pope: at the been released in to the public domain, forefront of the push for albeit heavily redacted. Do you think the the release of UFO files general public will ever be privy to the original un-redacted files? NP: Most of the redactions are fairly innocuous, and I say that as someone who not only wrote many of the files being released, but also as someone who’s been involved in the release project itself, as its public face. The usual reason why material has been redacted is to protect the personal details of witnesses, such as names, addresses, etc. This is a standard part of the UK’s Freedom of Information Act, though other exemptions cover areas such as national security and intelligence.

SOYM: You co-wrote Encounter in space programs and interaction with a Rendlesham Forest about the 1980 incident multitude of extra-terrestrial species. Most (see p15) with two of the USAF Officers of our readers would no doubt find this talk stationed there at the time. incredulous - are you of the same opinion? NP: Yes, John Burroughs and Jim Penniston. NP: Let me start by saying that as someone The book is really the synthesis of all my who spent much of my government career research into these extraordinary events. handling classified information, I don’t agree The Rendlesham Forest incident is certainly with whistleblowing. The reason I say this is the UK’s best known and most compelling because in almost every case I’ve seen, the series of UFO sightings. As with the Cosford whistleblower wasn’t in a position to make incident, mentioned earlier, the incident an informed assessment of the damage to remains unexplained to this day, despite the national interest done by compromising exhaustive official investigations. The the information. There’s a certain arrogance various Rendlesham sightings occurred about someone other than the SME (Subject before my time on the MoD’s UFO project, Matter Expert) setting themselves up as the but I conducted a cold case review in judge and jury on what the public has a right 1994, reviewing all the USAF and MoD to know. People seem to forget that when documentation, and met and interviewed all they disclose information, it’s not just being the key witnesses. I remain interested in the exposed to the media and the public, but to case, and stay up with developments. foreign governments, as well as to terrorist groups. That said, UFO whistleblowers SOYM: You’ve spoken at Contact in the are invariably fabricators, telling tall tales Desert in Joshua Tree, California (annual that can’t be verified. Richard Dolan wrote UFO conference) on a number of occasions, a very good essay about this recently, in are you able to spend any time watching relation to some of the increasingly bizarre the other speakers or go on the night sky stories being told about the secret space watches? program. Is there a NP: Contact in the Desert is a great kernel of truth there conference, and there are lots of interesting somewhere? Maybe, speakers. I try to catch as many of the other but probably only in presentations as I can and enjoy listening to the sense that some I’VE BEEN ON people like historian Richard Dolan, and the space missions – such incomparable Linda Moulton Howe, even if as those involving the SKYWATCHES, I don’t always agree with their views. But launch of classified that’s the whole point – to expose oneself to CIA/NSA satellites – WITH AND WITHOUT new information, and different viewpoints. aren’t publicized. I’ve even been on the odd skywatch, sometimes with the naked eye, other times SOYM: Which is NIGHT VISION with night vision goggles. It was interesting more harmful to the and fun, but sadly, I’ve never seen a UFO. UFO community in GOGGLES, SADLY your opinion, ego or SOYM: Recently the UFO community seems fabrication? I’VE NEVER to be over-saturated with various self- NP: Fabrication publicized ‘whistleblowers’ claiming secret certainly. There’s SEEN A UFO. issue 01 10 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk UFO INVESTIGATOR

nothing wrong with a bit of ego, as admirers deep space travel etc.. than when you of great historical figures such as Winston THE worked at the MOD? Churchill know. Arguably one needs a strong, ROSWELL NP: Disclosure is like tomorrow: it always forceful personality to navigate the sea of SLIDES seems to be just around the corner, but it charlatans, nut jobs and haters who poison never comes! I don’t think it’ll ever unfold this field of study, often overshadowing HOAX quite as the UFO community hope or expect. the efforts of the genuine researchers and The tale of how Ultimately, this will be events-led. I suspect enthusiasts. Frauds and hoaxers are a huge a blurry photo the most likely scenario is that things will problem in ufology. Look at the amount of fooled UFO happen in small steps. First, maybe we’ll time wasted, for example, on the Roswell investigators discover microbial life in the solar system, Slides hoax (see box right), or the Larry In 2014 the world perhaps on Mars, Europa or Enceladus. Then, Warren fraud. About the only benefit of was teased with perhaps, we’ll detect a signal from another hoaxing is that it keeps researchers on their the release of civilisation, via a radio telescope. After that, toes, but that’s a pessimistic view, and it’s undeniable proof who knows? essentially just trying to find a silver lining in that the Roswell a very big cloud. crash of 1947 had SOYM: What was the last book on Ufology, contained bodies or similar, you read that grabbed your SOYM: Do you think the general public is of alien entities. attention drip fed information through television and UFO researchers NP: In a field where people continually movies? Are there any examples which you had been privy make false claims about having worked think are close to the truth? to pre-release on the subject, UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, NP: I’ve written two science fiction novels information and and Realities by John Alexander is the real [Operation Thunder Child and Operation Kodak historians deal. Indeed, there are similarities between Lightning Strike] myself, and worked with had allegedly the work he did in the US and work I did in various Hollywood film companies on some verified the date the UK. So, if you want an insight into how of the biggest sci-fi movies and TV shows of the film to government, the military and the intelligence ever made. I don’t believe there is any truth 1947. The eventual community view and handle this subject, I’d to rumours that the film and TV industry public release was highly recommend John’s book. is part of a conspiracy to drip-feed UFO/ hyped for months. alien information to the public as part of Finally on May 5th SOYM: Are you currently working a follow an acclimatization campaign. Hollywood 2015, and at a cost up to Operation Lightning Strike? is simply about telling stories, entertaining of $20, two grainy NP: I’m working on various different projects people and making money. As for what’s images were at present. I’ve just completed a thriller closest to the truth, we can’t avoid taking an disclosed to the about counter-terrorism in the UK, and I’ve anthropocentric view of this, and perhaps public, through co-created a TV drama series about fringe the truth is unknowable until we see it. a tempremental science which I hope will go into production However, the two movies that probably online event. The shortly. Also, I’m consultant/political adviser handle the extraterrestrial issue best in terms focus of these on another TV drama (nothing to do with of how things might unfold and what issues images was a UFOs!), as well as doing a steady stream of would arise are Contact (1997) and Arrival small mummified TV documentaries. I hope I can get around (2016). body in a glass to writing a follow-up to my two sci-fi novels case. When it was at some stage, but this isn’t something I SOYM: There’s a lot of talk about noticed that it have time for at present, due to the pressure ‘disclosure’ being imminent. Do you appeared to be a of other commitments. And if I return to this, think we are any closer to any sort of museum setting my priority would be to get the first two

Arrival © 2016 Paramount Pictures Paramount © 2016 Arrival official acknowledgement of ET contact, alarm bells were novels made into a movie or a TV series. immediately Oscar-botherer movie raised. Within 48 SOYM: Finally, what piece of personal work Arrival. Is this how hours the whole would you recommend as a starting point contact with an alien display had been to interested readers? specie would pan out? deemed a farcical NP: Of my five books I’d recommend hoax and this was Encounter in Rendlesham Forest, not least confirmed a few because it’s the most recent. While the focus days later when is on the Rendlesham Forest incident itself, that conveniently there’s enough background information on blurry placard the MoD’s UFO project and on other cases that lay with to make it a good introduction to the subject the exhibit was more generally. disclosed to read ‘Mummified body If you want to find out more about Nick of a four year old and his work on the UFO phenomenon visit child’. www.nickpope.net

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MOMENTS IN UFOLOGY Words: Nick Cracknell

Like ghosts and vampires, UFO’s have captivated the public for generations - we look at the some of the pivotal moments in the modern era of ufology.

FO sightings (or if you Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting prefer, unidentified aerial phenomena - UAPs) have 10 Mount Rainier, USA June 24th 1947 captivated humankind for Udecades, centuries even, recorded If it weren’t for a downed Marine as far back as the Biblical era and Corps C-46 aircraft six weeks beyond. With 2017 being the 70th previously, the term ‘Flying Saucer’ anniversary of the introduction might have never existed. Kenneth of the term ‘flying saucer’ we Arnold was a private pilot with really couldn’t have contemplated over 9,000 flying hours - many of anything else for our first issue than which were as part of Search and the stand out moments in modern Rescue Mercy Flyers. On his way to Artist’s impression UFO history. a business meeting in Washington, of the craft based on USA, he learned of a $5,000 reward Arnold’s description It wasn’t easy mark you, this could for discovering the crashed C-46 and sketches. easily have been the sort of top and diverted towards Mt Rainier. 50 moments you’d see on sunday Suddenly out of the clear blue skies Such was the hype and the volume evening television. Eventually, after he saw nine “pie-plate” shaped of subsequent sightings all over the much deliberation and more than objects whizzing by in formation at States that the US Army launched a few arguments we agreed to 9,000 ft and at what he claimed to an investigation (Project Sign), disagree on certain events - such as be at least twice the speed of sound, ultimately dismissing the sightings the 1897 crash in Aurora, Texas, or around 1,200 mph. It was the first as a mirage. Arnold himself became the MJ-12 documents, leaving them viral story of the modern age, and a minor celebrity and spent years for another day. the press leapt on Arnold’s story and defending his claims in books and coined the objects ‘flying saucers’. interviews until his death in 1984. These are the events that shaped UFOlogy as we know it today and while the top entry may not come Condon Report released as a surprise, a few others on the list may well do. So let’s start with the 9 USA, January 1969 famous sighting over Mount Rainier in Washington state, USA that kicked Such was the level of public UFO Book’s main aim was to determine everything off back in June 1947… fever in the 1960s that the US Air whether UFOs posed any threat to Force decided to launch an official US national security, but following investigation into the possibility of the Condon Report it was shut down Author Bio their existence. Led by an outspoken and the majority of UFO sightings Nick Cracknell is a nuclear physicist, Dr Edward Condon were broadly dismissed as mass British author and at the University of Colorado, the hysteria or publicity-seeking hoaxes, voice over artist. notorious report took three years a stance that continues to this day. A journalist for to compile and ran to almost 1,000 20 years, before pages in length. Condon ultimately Edward Condon turning to voice acting and came to the conclusion that there writing full time, he has just was nothing to be learned from the released his debut novel study of UFOs, drawing criticism Island Zero, and is currently that he had been of that opinion all working on several other novel along. The report also signalled the projects. Nick lives in Devon death knell for Project Blue Book, with his wife and two children, the military’s own UFO bible that and a number of chickens. had examined over 12,000 sightings

since the early 1950s. Project Blue and Technology of Standard Institute © National MD20899 Gaithersburg Digital Collection,

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Washington D.C. UFO flap Foo Fighters 8 USA, July 22-29th 1952 7 skies over mainland Europe, 1942-45 In 2005 a program called UFO’s The Secret Evidence Before rockstar and all round speculated how the craft may have flown over Washington good guy Dave Grohl launched with a bit of CGI - which many his band, making the term even believe to be genuine footage! more famous, ‘Foo Fighters’ were originally a series of odd bright balls which seemed to pursue fighter planes during the Second World War. Initially both warring sides thought the other had developed a secret weapon, and many flyers described being followed by highly polished silver objects without wings and which moved with a slight wobble. The strange lights seemed to mimic any evasive moves UFO fever reached its peak in radar lost sight of them. However, the planes made, even at over 200 1952 when there were over 300 two stayed long enough to hover mph, which led pilots to believe they unexplained sightings in the first some 1,700ft above the White House were intelligently controlled. Anti- six months of the year. But it prompting President Harry Truman aircraft guns from the ground also crescendo’d in July when for two to take notice. The next evening they proved ineffective. After the war weeks all eyes were on the US were back performing extraordinary both RAF and CIA-commissioned capital as air traffic controllers “gyrations and reversals” at over investigations concluded that they and jet pilots picked up a series of 900 mph. Despite eye witness had to be comprised of plain light strange, repeated phenomenon on testimony from Air and civilian pilots as they were never detected on any their screens in what became known in the air, the blips were ultimately radar. Sceptics claim the pilots could as the Washington Flap. Controller explained away as temperature have been hallucinating with fatigue, boss Harry Barnes described the inversions on the radar screens a theory the pilots roundly rejected. odd blips as “completely radical during unusual weather conditions, There is still no official explanation compared to those of ordinary but it did not quell public talk of an other than electrostatic discharges aircraft,” and they were so fast that alien invasion. or reflections from ice crystals.

Crop Circle Phenomenon A geometric formation reported on July 18th 2017 near UFO 6 Worldwide hotspot Cley HIll in Wiltshire. There was no evidence of human entry to the field. Some say they are the work of aliens, some elaborate hoaxes, even electrically charged currents from underground. But crop circles, patterns created by the flattening (though not breaking) of, er, crops, have been reported since the 17th century. Most appear overnight, and in the UK at least, many are found in close proximity to sites of ancient cultural heritage like Stonehenge and Avebury, prompting many UFOlogists to speculate that they are actually messages of communication from alien civilisations to one another. The so-called ‘Galaxy’ formation remains the largest ever recorded - measuring over 900ft in diameter and was made up of more than 400 separate circles! In the 1990s, at the behest of the UK tabloid media, two pranksters named Doug Bower and Dave Chorley claimed to be behind their construction and demonstrated how in front of the amused press using planks of wood and lengths of rope. That doesn’t explain the fact that they still appear all over the world from Australia to Russia to this day. Science has also failed to explain the molecular changes of crops within non man-made formations and also the meanings behind complex astronomical or mathematical patterns. For a plausible theory we recommend you

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Betty & Barney Hill Incident 5 New Hampshire, USA, September 19/20 1961

The mystery surrounding flying independently confirmed that they saucers took a sharp turn towards had been taken on board an alien reality in 1961 when a married couple aircraft, describing their captors as from the US claimed to have had “bald-headed alien beings, about a very personal interaction with five foot tall, with greyish skin, pear one in rural New Hampshire. Betty shaped heads and slanting cat-like and Barney Hill were driving back eyes.” They claimed the beings had late at night from their vacation in told the Hills not to fear them, but a Canada when they realised they series of experiments were carried were being tailed by a “white star.” out on their bodies including sperm Stopping by the roadside, Barney samples and anal probes. Barney pulled out his binoculars and saw died in 1969, but Betty continued what appeared to be a banana- to go on UFO vigils for years shaped aircraft with a group of afterwards until she passed away people in black uniforms staring at in October 2004. Despite evidence him out of its window. Panicking and to the contrary psychiatrists later screaming at Betty to get back in suggested that the abduction was the car, they then both experienced an hallucination brought on by the an altered state of consciousness stress of being an interracial couple and when they came to they were in the early 1960s. 35 miles down the road. Two hours later than expected they arrived In 1975 a TV movie was released home in a daze. The following day called The UFO Incident, an they noticed a series of strange, adaptation of John G. Fuller’s book magnetized gouges in their car’s Interrupted Journey, starring James paintwork, and when Betty reported Earl Jones and Oscar-winning the sighting to the local air force actress Estelle Parsons as Barney base the military confirmed they had and Betty. While it’s difficult to find picked up a UFO on their radar. Both an original copy on DVD or Blu-Ray, Hills began having strange dreams, less than passable quality versions of and during regressive hypnosis they it can be found YouTube. via Wikimedia

The Phoenix Lights 4 Phoenix, Arizona, USA, March 13 1997

Up until 1997 most UFO sightings over three months later, and many were reported by lone individuals witnesses claim to have been without corroboration. But on March affected by temporary amnesia 13th that all changed with the first immediately afterwards. There is no mass sighting of unidentified flying shortage of footage of the events, objects in the skies. Thousands of captured by many different amateur people reported seeing equidistantly photographers and camcorders. spaced bright lights in huge Eye-witness testimonies say that the triangular, V and boomerang orange-red lights seemed to indicate formations that glided at low “running lights” along the leading altitude throughout Arizona for edge of a large craft estimated to over a dozens hours on March 13, be as large as a mile in diameter. flares don’t fly in formation.” Further 1997 (and on many occasions since, The US military has always insisted similar sightings have been reported see thephoenixlights.net for more). that they were merely flares set since but twenty years later the Witnesses also claimed to have off during training exercises at an Phoenix Lights remain a mystery… seen an actual spacecraft, black or air force range south of Phoenix. gun-metal coloured, with reports Arizona Governor Fife Symington coming from as far away as Las however, who also witnessed the Above pic: This V shaped anomalous Vegas, New Mexico and California. event, argued on CNN, “As a pilot aerial phenomena was reported by air The most common theories range and a former Air Force Officer, I can traffic controllers at Sky Harbor IAP. from an extra-terrestrial flyover to definitively say that this craft did It appeared at an altitude of 1,000ft a new super craft developed by not resemble any man-made object over Class B restricted airspace on 23rd January 1997 and again on 13th March the military. Strangely, the event I’d ever seen. And it was certainly during the mass sighting. didn’t receive much publicity until not high-altitude flares because © Dr Lynne Kitei/thephoenixlights.net issue 01 14 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk TOP 10

Rendlesham Forest case 3 Rendlesham Forest, Norfolk, UK December 25th 1980

weapons were rumoured to be stored at the base. But several have since spoken out, convinced that they saw and even - according to Sgt. Jim Penniston - touched a glowing, metallic alien spacecraft. Upon revisiting the area the next morning a triangle of three small impressions was found as well as burn marks and broken branches on nearby trees. Sceptics claimed it was either a hoax or beams of light from a lighthouse around five miles away, but Halt gave a signed statement years later in which he No bread crumbs or yellow bricks but asserted that the British government you can now follow had covered up an extra-terrestrial in the footsteps of encounter. The MoD in response has Halt, Penniston, consistently dismissed claims of a and others.

©Draco2008 via Flickr ©Draco2008 cover-up saying there was no threat to national security, and that it was Britain’s very own ‘Roswell Incident’ Forest, and on investigation saw “a most likely a series of nocturnal occurred over several nights during light that looked like a large eye, red lights. In 2005 the Forestry Christmas 1980, when US Air Force in colour, moving through the trees,” Commission used National Lottery men reported a series of strange according to base commander cash to set up a UFO tourist trail lights in the forest outside two RAF Colonel Charles Halt. At the time through the forest. stations in Sussex. Around 3am on soldiers claimed military bosses Boxing Day security personal at had sworn them to silence due to Want to listen to the audio of RAF Woodbridge observed lights escalating Cold War tensions with Colonel Halt’s investigation that descending into nearby Rendlesham Russia and the fact that nuclear night? Then click here.

Bob Lazar interviews 2 Las Vegas, Nevada, US May/November 1989

Ask any layman what the most 2003), and which had technology famous secret UFO base in the hundreds of years more advanced world is and nine times out of ten than human. He even revealed he they will say Area 51. This is mostly was told that the aliens came from down to one man, a young physicist a remote binary stellar system named Robert Lazar, who blew called Zeta Reticuli 2 - the same the UFO world apart in 1989 with system mentioned by Betty Hill. his claims that he had worked for Unfortunately, his credibility suffered five months on a secret project to when he claimed to be an alumnus reverse-engineer alien spacecraft of two prestigious universities, but technology in remote Nevada. It no records of him exist at these all started when Lazar gave a now establishments. Naturally, Ufologists famous televised interview to a local leapt on the story, but because S-4 Las Vegas TV station*, claiming that is a restricted area nobody was able he had worked for the US Navy at to confirm or debunk his story. Lazar S-4, a hidden hangar complex built rarely gives interviews and lives into the mountainside just south in remote Michigan, but his story of Area 51. He claimed there were was so richly detailed, including at least nine flying discs which information about the craft, the site were tested and stored at the site and his co-workers, that many find it which could generate their own hard to disbelieve to this day. gravitational field, powered by what he called Element 115 (now known *The interviewer was Emmy-Award as Moscovium on the periodic winning journalist George Knapp, Groom Lake and Area 51

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Roswell Incident NEXT 1 nr Corona/Roswell, Nevada, US, June/July 1947 ISSUE We’ll be asking a Roswell novice for Did little green men actually crash But it was too late. UFO fever had their honest opinion their craft near the town of Corona gripped the nation, and the world. next issue in the in July 1947? And are they still Then like Keyser Sozé, the story second of our One Small Step here? If so, where are they and their vanished, for a while anyway. More series wreckage being kept? Chances than 30 years later after the release are that even if you have only a of the book The Roswell Incident remote interest in UFOs you will by Charles Berlitz and William have heard of the Roswell Incident Moore conspiracy theories started 5 Honourable and the conspiracy theories that to abound that the whole thing mentions claim it is the most startling alien had been a government cover up. discovery of all time. It started Many theories suggest that a craft • WOW Signal discovered when a rancher named Mac Brazel and alien remains had in fact been Strange radio signal received discovered a pile of strange debris recovered and secreted at Area 51 on August 15th 1977 by Ohio on his employer’s land south east (see #2) in Nevada. State University’s ‘Big Ear’ radio of Corona, New Mexico, a mess of telescope in the United States, metallic poles, plastic chunks and Up until his death Major Marcel supposedly came from the foil reflectors. The discovery came always insisted the debris he was constellation Sagittarius. just three weeks after the Kenneth pictured holding wasn’t the same Arnold sighting (see #10) when stuff he’d found while Lt. Haut later • George Adamski flying saucer fever was at its dizzy admitted to having seen small alien First of the so-called post-war heights, and rumours corpses with huge heads and an ‘contactees’ of the 1950s, who started to circulate that it was egg-shaped craft about 15 feet claimed to have met friendly the remains of an extra-terrestrial long at the base shortly afterwards. Venusians and flown with them craft. Following a preliminary Multiple other witnesses have to the Moon and other planets. investigation, an excited Major Jesse stepped forward claiming to have • Battle Of Los Angeles Marcel spoke with Colonel William seen, and held, the wreckage of the US forces launch a barrage of Blanchard, commander of The craft. Some theories even suggest anti-aircraft missiles in to the Roswell Army base, who instructed that there were two craft, with skies above Los Angeles on base spokesman, Lt. Walter Haut bodies being recovered at a second the night of June 24-25th 1942 to release a hastily drafted press crash site north of the original site. directed at an unknown object. release describing the wreckage as Local Roswell undertaker Glen a “flying disk” thus stirring up the Dennis also recounted how he had • Travis Walton mother of all hornet’s nests. The been asked for a number of child- American logger who went statement was quickly retracted and size coffins and been asked some missing for five days in Arizona the theory put forward that it was in curious questions about preservation on November 5th 1975 and fact a crashed weather balloon by methods by unknown military claimed to have been abducted General Roger Ramey at Fort Worth persons. Hype peaked in 1995 when in a flying saucer by short bald in Texas who cajoled Major Marcel a film was released that purported to alien creatures on his return. to pose with some tin foil and balsa show actual footage of an autopsy wood. Debris which the General said being performed on an alien from • Shag Harbour Incident had fooled Major Marcel. the crash, but the film was later On October 4th, 1967 multiple revealed as a fake. But speculation witnesses filed a report with the RCMP in Nova Scotia of an Major Jesse Marcel increased as signs started going up and the Roswell at the government’s most secretive ‘aircraft’ crashing into the lake. ‘debris’. of sites threatening use of deadly A rescue mission was organised force against trespassers… within the hour but no debris, survivors or bodies were ever Nevertheless, the Roswell incident found. has become known as “the world’s most famous, most exhaustively Did we miss something investigated, and most thoroughly glaringly obvious? Or included debated UFO claim.” Today, the town something we shouldn’t have? of Roswell (although nearly 60 miles Let us know by clicking one of from the alleged crash site as the the icons below... crow flies!) has naturally cashed in on the incident with the International UFO Museum and Research Centre, and you can’t walk down Main Street without being confronted by toy NEXT ISSUE: aliens and flying saucers in every Top 10 Haunted locations

shop window. Special Collections, Collection, Photograph Star-Telegram Worth © Fort Texas Arlington, Library, Arlington at of Texas University The issue 01 16 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk GET INVOLVED ONLINE! become part of the Shadows… family and spread the word We’d love to hear your comments, click on an icon below and get in touch! THE WELSH TRI NGLE Between 1976 and 1978 a small corner of Wales became a UFO hotspot with reports of sightings, landings, giants and even bovine teleportation!

avid Davies was just your metal cross-T-piece bent out average pupil at Broad of shape. Sceptics claimed that Broad Haven Haven Primary School, but the children had just seen a Primary School on 4th February 1977, while helicopter or a chrome tanker out playing football in the school field, from the local sewage plant not Landing a glint of silver in the nearby trees far from the school, however upon point caught his eye and caused him to stop checking the plant said no tankers and watch. He described seeing a cigar arrived that day. Turnbull then shaped craft rising then descending justified that by remarking that behind some nearby trees. He wasn’t the “these are children from a farming Sewerage only one either, other play mates also background, they know what a plant saw the object but by the time one of tanker looks like.” One of the school them had run in to the school to fetch teachers, Mrs Morgan, disclosed that a teacher, it had gone. The headmaster she too had seen the craft out of the at the time, Ralph Llewellyn, sat the window followed by a little whirlwind of children down inside and under exam dust that came across the playground as conditions, asked them to draw what it ascended. they had seen. Each picture showed a variation of a semi-elliptical craft with a We got in touch with Peter Paget, red flashing light on top of a small raised author of the book The Welsh Triangle, dome, while some pictures even had a who spent a lot of time in the area silver-suited occupant descending from following the incident for further the craft. Estimates of the size averaged information. He spoke to children at the around 45ft long. The story made the school in the playing field, 200 yards national news and even the famous John from where the craft had been spotted. Craven’s Newsround a popular children’s David Davies, Michael Webb, Tudor television programme. Hugh Turnbull Jones, Paul Williams, David Ward, Philip of the local Western Telegraph was Rees and Shaun Garrison all recalled first on the scene to talk to the pupils seeing a silvery coloured disc with an along with local vet Randall James Pugh occupant holding some sort of camera- who knew some of the children. They sized object. Headmaster Llewellyn told also took a look at the area where the Peter that although personally he was children had said the craft had landed sceptical of such craft himself there was but the ground was extremely muddy no reason to believe that the children and there was no way of distinguishing had conspired to produce a “sustained, if anything had landed. They did notice sophisticated hoax”. As it transpired it however that a nearby telegraph pole wasn’t the only sighting in the area as had been damaged near the top, the Peter soon found out. St Brides Bay © Michael Charles/123rf.com Brides Bay St

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Looking out across St Brides Bay from the village of Broad Haven

He’d been told of an incident at about 14-20ft diameter with Ripperston Farm, near to the Atlantic an antenna sticking out of the coast, which was owned by the Coombs top. She reiterated that given family. Pauline Coombs claimed she had her experience with different been chased by a football-sized object types of farm vehicles she Author Peter Paget while driving back home one night. A couldn’t possibly have made a few nights later her and her husband misidentification. A little while Billy were watching a late night Western after the craft had left and flown out on the television when Pauline noticed towards the Atlantic, Pauline and her a silvery glow outside in the dark. At husband inspected the field and that point the television started to suffer discovered a burnt circular from interference and Billy leapt up from mark in the grass. The couples Broad his chair as he saw something outside children also had their own Haven the window. As the pair stood clinging experiences in a field near to Stacks Rock Haven Fort to each other, both of them were now the beach. On one occasion a Hotel staring at a huge spacesuited individual large silver-suited figure walked a few feet beyond through the window. past within 12 feet seemingly They described the ‘man’ to Peter as unconcerned with their over 7ft tall, clad completely in a one- presence. The other instance Ripperston Farm piece silver aluminium-looking suit, involved the sighting of three capped by a square, solid-looking helmet hovering UFOs, the lowest of fronted by an opaque, black square visor. which dropped a metal ladder, Coming from the helmet was a thick, which a figure descended, and a dark-coloured pipe which went back bright red fluorescent ‘box’. After over his shoulder. As Pauline and Billy they had flown off the Coombs’ stood there too terrified to move, their farm dog Blackie, who would refuse to go out of the house after the incident, circled his tail and whimpered in a corner of the room. BOTH OF THEM WERE A few weeks later in May 1977, Pauline NOW STARING AT A HUGE related to Peter a further incident. From her kitchen window she had seen a landed UFO in a field towards the coast. SPACESUITED INDIVIDUAL It was 400-500 yards away and was resting on a tripod configuration. She THROUGH THE WINDOW estimated the silvery craft size to be

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children ran into the field to locate the box Ripperston Farm continued to be a hive of without success. The next day blotchy red RAF unexplained activity throughout the year but patches appeared on the arms and legs of BAWDY they weren’t the only family experiencing the children who had never suffered from Just up and something mysterious. Between Broad allergies, and often played in the long grassy around the coast Haven and Little Haven lies the Haven fields that surrounded their farm. from Broad Fort Hotel which at the time was owned Haven was and run by Rose Granville and her family. DUDE, WHERE’S MY COWS? RAF Bawdy, a Their experiences first started in April 1977 These incidents also had an effect on the designated flight when husband Hayden noticed a strange Coombs’ livestock. The two fields where training school. procession of lights over St Brides Bay with the UFO’s had been sighted were now off Once a Navy some of the hotel guests. “It was just like limits as far as their herd of Fresians were base the area watching a train in the sky.” he later told concerned with the anxious bovine refusing was reknowned Peter Paget. to enter either field and their milk yield for bad weather was down 15%. One night something truly with locals UFO HAVEN bizarre occurred at the farm. Billy Coombs wondering why A few nights later Rose had finished doing was tending to a couple of heifers in the the RAF would her late night checks in the hotel before milking complex where the cattle were be training going to bed around 2.30am. As she walked housed for the night, when he decided to pilots in such down the long corridor to the rear of the pop back to the house for a quick cup of conditions. hotel, the passage was suddenly lit up as tea. Around midnight, leaving the shed Further on was day. Rushing to a nearby window Rose was locked and secure with the gates bolted, a secretive US shocked to see a strange craft hovering Billy made his way up to the farmhouse. As Underwater about 200 yards away lit up underneath by soon as he approached the door he heard Radar Research a brilliant white-blue flame. She described the phone ringing and went to answer it. Station which the machine as dome-shaped and watched On the other end of the line was an irate was running in terrified silence as two huge silver-suited neighbouring farmer who was insisting that hundreds of figures emerged wearing a similar dark- Billy come down to his farm and retrieve his feet of cables tinted visor that the Coombs family had cows who were eating his crops. Amazed at under St Brides witnessed. These two figures walked a short the accusation Billy informed his neighbour Bay and out into distance away from the craft and separated that he’d left the cows all locked and secure the Atlantic to before they both bent down as if looking for in the milking shed less than a minute ago detect ‘Russian something on the ground. Moments later so there was no way they were his cows. submarines’. A one of them stood and looked in Rose’s His neighbour was equally insistent though more detailed direction who then ran to her bedroom so Billy told him to wait while he checked look at these two to wake her husband. When the couple on his herd. When he got there, to his utter bases can be returned to the window, the craft had gone. amazement, all 158 head of cattle, which found in Peter’s A few nights after Rose again witnessed a he’d left contentedly munching hay, had book The Welsh strange light having locked up for the night. disappeared! The shed was completely Triangle. This time she watched as it moved up and devoid of any signs of life. According to down the coast and to and from the nearby Coombs there is no way, in the time it Stack Rocks for forty-five minutes or more. took him to walk from the shed to the The Granvilles experienced many more farmhouse, that a whole herd of cows could sightings with one particularly extraordinary have negotiated not only a locked gate but event seen concurrently by Pauline Coombs. also walked to a farm a mile away while negotiating hedges and more shut gates. Stack Rocks (not be confused with the Returning to the phone, a stunned Billy formation south of Castlemartin about 20 apologised profusely to his neighbour and miles away) is a rugged island, owned by rallied his sons to help him herd the cattle Rose Granville at the time, situated half a back to Ripperston Farm. mile offshore. It’s uninhabited except for local seabirds and the strong currents and heavy swell around the rocks dissuade anyone from venturing out for recreation or WHEN HE RETURNED TO exploration. On October 30th, 1977, Pauline Coombs was driving an alternative route back to Ripperston Farm with her mother THE MILKING SHED, TO BILLY’S and other family members so they could appreciate the view across St Brides Bay UTTER AMAZEMENT, HIS on the clear autumn afternoon. Without warning a disc-shaped craft, between 40- 158 HEAD OF CATTLE 50 feet, flew over the car and out toward the rocks. In Pauline’s words, after the craft HAD DISAPPEARED! went behind the rocks, “…we saw it reappear, issue 01 20 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk THE WELSH TRIANGLE

PETER Stack Rocks in St Brides Bay PAGET Before his investigation into the Dyfed Triangle Peter Paget lived near Warminster in Wiltshire. Peter, with his wife Jane, was editor of the Fountain Journal in the 1970s which covered the infamous Warminster UFO flap. He has recently The Haven Fort Hotel, published his the scene of many a sighting in the late 1970s memoirs Secret Life Of A Spook which details his circle the rock and it vanished into the rock wife Jane, will ensure that the mystery will life working at between two doors that seemed to slide always be well recorded. Earlier this year, Mi5 but his early open!” she continued “We couldn’t believe former pupil David Davies appeared at a books on UFOs our eyes. We saw it fly straight into those 40th Anniversary conference organised by capture some of rocks. We winced, expecting an enormous the Swansea UFO Network to talk about the greatest UK explosion, but nothing happened.” Pauline that day in the school field. Davies has never encounters of later related to Peter Paget how they parked sought to make money out of his story and the 20th Century. at a vantage point on the clifftop where neither have the other children, after all they Click the covers they all saw the ‘door’ again but this time came from a simple country background and below for more two silvery figures appeared walking along as their headmaster related, had no reason information, the edge of the rock, down what appeared to construct such a complex hoax. they’re worth to be steps, to examine something near reading. the shoreline before returning back ‘inside’. The Welsh Triangle is certainly one of the The craft was no longer visible and Pauline most intriguing UFO cases from the UK and confirmed that these figures were similar we asked former MoD UFO investigator to the one that had stood outside of her Nick Pope whether the Ministry had any window. The family were stunned and on information on the Broad Haven sightings. their return to Ripperston Farm, Pauline He informed us “I’m aware of the various had a telephone call from none other than Broad Haven UFO sightings, and indeed Rose Granville. Rose told Pauline that she’d the wider series of sightings and other been sitting in the lounge at the hotel odd events that occurred at the time in when her attention had been drawn to the area - dubbed the Dyfed Triangle. sunlight glinting off what happened to be I suspect that multiple factors were at the same craft as it headed to Stack Rocks. work here and - as a result - there isn’t a Rose had fetched her binoculars and had single, neat solution to the mystery. Some seen the same figures emerge and make of the incidents were probably caused their way down to the water’s edge. Her by a combination of pranksters and mass daughter Francine and husband Hayden also hysteria. I know that was the suspicion of witnessed the pair, amazed as the figures my predecessors on the MoD’s UFO project, retreated deep into the rocks. as can be seen from some of the original MoD documentation, now declassified and So what exactly was happening out in that released to The National Archives. But some remote corner of Wales in the late 1970’s? of these documents show that behind the We’ll never know for sure but the witness scenes, despite putting out the usual “no testimonies of the Broad Haven Primary defence significance” line, the MoD took this School pupils, the Coombs and Granville seriously enough to order the military police families as well as host of other credible to undertake a discreet investigation. So I and respectable residents of the area who keep an open mind, and don’t entirely rule

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TALK ABOUT...#1 The Piri Reis Map Could a Turkish map from the 16th century really portray a temperate ice-free Antarctica?

Introduction eing your typical irate Depressing as it sounds, Scotsman I naturally somewhere an ego-inflated have many a bug to bear. millennial in a suit is sitting in Apart from the obvious a clinical non-descript office, political grudges this ranges from drawing up a marketing plan smartphone obsessed numpties and for the next topic everyone will their Instagram-filtered selfies, to be talking about. Drumming those cretins who think the world is up a storm so people can #this flat. Aye, that’s right, I went there. and #that just for online clicks I don't do social media, at all, and and giggles and the projected the only reason I have email is so I explosion of social media sheep. don't have to buy stamps. My Nokia mobile phone is over ten years The conscious mainstream old, but it works, and that's fine by exposure of President Trump’s me. So when I was asked by this favourite mot d’année - and Collins magazine's illustrious editor to “pick Dictionary Word of the Year - ‘fake a fight” we discussed a couple of news’, has seen bloggers and things. One thing jumped out at me media alike create, sorry, report straight away - The Piri Reis map. the news they think we should be For those of you who have never paying attention to. From global heard of the cursed thing we’ll start election interference, rocket with a wee history lesson. launches from pantomime villains or the latest airbrushed duck- In 1929, as Turkish scholars were faced selfie from any member working to convert the former of the Kardashian clan, we're Imperial Topkapi Palace, Istanbul into The man himself, Admiral Piri Reis in the being told what’s important. The a museum, when they came across Istanbul Naval Museum via Wikimedia fringe community is no different. a section of a 16th Century Ottoman Commentators, researchers and map which showed the coast of the Following a pretty decent amount ‘insiders’ alike keen to latch on Americas. One of the notations on of research, it was discovered that to the latest topic and suddenly the map stirred up a right old bees in 1501 an Ottoman captain by the everyone is an expert screaming nest as when it was translated read name of Kemal Reis had captured a “Hey, look at me!” “The coasts and islands on this map fleet of ships off the Spanish coast. are taken from Columbus’s map”. A sailor one of those boats bragged One of the more curious stories Aye, 1492 and all that pish, the great he’d actually sailed with Columbus. that the all-knowing continually slave-trading, re-discoverer of the and he had in his possession a map refer is that of a 500 year old New World, not the discoverer. drawn by the man hi'self. The good Turkish map which, they say, shows We know that my spiritual ancestors, captain Kemal left it to his nephew Antarctica as a tropical paradise the Vikings, had already been there Piri in his will and in 1511, using this rather than a frozen wasteland. In more than 500 years before and map and others Piri Reis began the first of a regular series our old set up camp, while the indigenous to draw a new map of the world friend Doug McKay sticks his size people had been there for millennia to incorporate new Spanish and 12s in and says enough is enough. before the Europeans ever thought Portuguese discoveries - a bit like about using them as target practice. updating a medieval Google Earth. issue 01 22 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk THE PIRI REIS MAP

DOES THE MAP SHOW ANTARCTICA? DISCUSS ONLINE

The fabled map itself, drawn on gazelle skin, which the Ottoman-Turkish Admiral Piri Reis himself said was a composite of numerous maps and charts including those of the West Indies that Christopher Columbus thought was Asia. www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 23 issue 01 THE PIRI REIS MAP

In the creation of his great 'mappa day of the US Election, second southern portion of the map in an mundi' the other maps he referenced man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin, attempt to accurately pinpoint the were said to consist of eight charts had to be airlifted to New Zealand coast of Queen Maud Land and the drawn during the time of Alexander while on an organized expedition surrounding environs. In the process the Great, Portuguese maps of the in Antarctica after supposedly of writing his 1966 book Maps Of Indian Ocean - spice trade routes tweeting about something of The Ancient Sea Kings, Hapgood no doubt - and six other unknown 'pure evil' then succumbing to even wrote to the US Air Force for sources of indeterminate age. Many poor health, and Patriarch Kirill an evaluation of his Antarctic claims of these probably feature on a of the Russian Orthodox Church to which they responded “The claim hitherto missing piece of the larger conducted some sort of mystical that the lower part of the map map. Acknowledging himself that ritual after a rumoured meeting portrays the Princess Martha Coast he had no first-hand knowledge with Pope Francis in Cuba. Then of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica is of the lands he’d just drawn, Piri there were rumours of the discovery reasonable.” Reasonable?! They went Reis completed his map in 1517 and of extreme ancient ruins buried on to say “We find that this is the donated it to the reigning Sultan under the ice and the flash-frozen most logical and in all probability the Selim, in exchange for an Admiralty mummified bodies of something correct interpretation of the map.” There’s a joke in there somewhere about Americans and geographical WE FIND THAT THIS IS THE knowledge but this isn’t the place. Take a look at the typical global view MOST LOGICAL AND IN ALL below and you'll see we've marked Queen Maud Land and Princess PROBABILITY THE CORRECT Martha coast. Now look back at the Piri Reis map and you can sort of see why Captain Mallery made that INTERPRETATION OF THE MAP. comment and why he believed it could represent the coastline under by all accounts. Reis continued with of humanoid form but not entirely the ice. If Hapgood hadn't put so his cartography, eventually releasing as we'd recognise. Put together much stock in that one idea that no the Kitab-i Bahriye, or Book of the with reports of a group of petrified one else had suggested up to that Mariner, a collection of his finest scientists having to be evac’d point he could have saved himself work. That's it, lesson over back to from the middle of nowhere and seven years. Then again, he wouldn’t the Topkapi. After the initial hub- engineering behemoth Lockheed have had a book to promote either. bub of it’s discovery the map was Martin advertising for 1,000 jobs The other problem I have with this largely forgotten until a throw away in Antarctica and you could see is that the area Mallery was talking comment by a Captain Arlington how things may have gotten out about lies directly south of Africa H. Mallery of the US Navy, in 1953, of hand! Getting on to my point rather than South America so you suggested publicly that the map though. Among all this chatter were have to wonder at the absence of seemed to show a portion of the the references made by ufologists the great expanse of wide turbulent Antarctic coast. This was confirmed, and alternative researchers to the ocean that lies between the three he said, by a joint Swedish-British aforementioned map of Piri Reis and continents. Surely there'd be a chain expedition in 1949 using sonar to the research of Charles Hapgood. detect land mass under the thick ice. The Professor's book Maps Of The After reading this in 1954, a college Ancient Sea Kings had been quoted professor in New Hampshire called extensively in the past by such Charles Hapgood began to dig a controversial authors such as Erich little deeper and study it with his Von Däniken in Chariots of the Gods students. For seven years. and the esteemed Graham Hancock in his book Fingerprints of the Gods, THE HAPGOOD EFFECT both of which mentioned Hapgood’s Before we begin with the good research as ‘proven’. Researchers professors research I need to skip Rand & Rose Flem Ath also looked forward in time a bit so bear with on the research favorably in their me. At the back end of 2016 a compelling and book on Atlantis, lot of noise in certain circles was When The Sky Fell. Princess Martha coast being made about certain high- ranking people visiting a certain During his prolonged research on Queen Maud Land snow and ice covered continent, the Piri Reis map, Hapgood and and it wasn’t to study the breeding his students spent a long time on habits of the resident penguin unnecessarily complex mathematical Recognisable cartographical view of the population. Former US Secretary equations trying to determine globe with Antarctica stretched all the of State John Kerry visited on the the longitude and latitude of the way across the bottom. via Wikimedia issue 01 24 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk THE PIRI REIS MAP

of islands as a rough estimation of represents Hispaniola (today Haiti Antarctic Peninsula as well, no? and the Dominican Republic) may actually be the island of Cipango, EXAMINING THE MAP prominent on many maps of the As expected when using various 15th and 16th century. When the sources the scales of certain areas world was thought be a lot smaller are completely to pot, although the it was believed the east coast of Iberian Peninsula and west coast of Cathay (China) and Asia lay just Africa seem to be pretty accurate, across the Atlantic, as did the Spice as accurate as 15th and 16th century Islands which was the original reason Western European maps were for Columbus' voyage. So by that anyway. I’d go in to the history of reckoning this means Cipango is… the different kinds of maps of the wait for it… Japan! Don’t believe me, period here, but it bored me to eh? Check the globe right from 1492. tears if I’m honest so I won’t. If you It was drawn by Martin Berheim, a are interested feel free to look up German mariner and also featured The Martin Berheim global view of 1492. the science behind portolan charts the mythical isle of Saint Brendan, The Atlantic Ocean was believed to and other maps full of rhumbs but because it was drawn before stretch all the way to the east coast of and compass roses covered in Columbus returned, the American the known Asian continent and Spice sea beasties and ‘Terra Australis continent is missing entirely! Islands. via Wikimedia Incognito’. Anyway let's start looking at the work of Piri Reis... Return to that part of the map again As we go further down the map the whole Yucatan Peninsula and we approach the familiar territorial The upper left portion of the map Central America seem totally out of outline of South America reaching is the part drawn by Christopher whack too. That’s because Columbus right round Brazil, where the River Columbus, and is supposed to be thought Cuba was part of the Asian Amazon is marked, twice, but that’s representative of the Caribbean mainland and it is labelled as such. In no bother, I’ll let the Admiral off islands. Except it’s not. The scale total there are 116 other place names that one. Below what looks like a and position of the islands is totally in Europe, Africa, South America dog dancing with a monkey, we also skewed. What is interesting though, and various islands all of which are have a mountain range in the middle and reflects the thinking of the time, in the Turkish language which brings of the continent with a big ginger is that they do bear a similarity to up the further point of Hapgood's giant sat a top with what could be the islands described by Marco Polo theory which is if these maps were a flaming torch. Charles Hapgood to his future biographer Rustichello based on pre-Egyptian charts why and his students puzzled over this, da Pisa when they were both cell aren't the place names written in concluding it was the Andes due buddies in a Genoese prison. The big their original tongue if they were to previous claims that one of the red island which some people think unknown to Admiral Reis? creatures to the right of the red- headed eejit was a llama as the only natural habitat of the llama is in those eastern peaks. When was the last time you saw a llama with spots, horns and tusks? Eh? Nor me. It looks more like a deer. Not only that but a notation on the map reads “In the mountains of this territory were creatures like this, and the humans came out on the seacoast…” The east coast of Brazil is a long, long way from the Andes, that’s all I’m saying. Up to that point in history, outside of the local populace and the best part of a decade before Magellan's circumnavigation expedition, the Andes may have only been known to the Chinese seafarers. Their Treasure Fleet expeditions of the 1420's led by Admiral Zheng We, are described by Gavin Menzies in his book 1421: The Year China Discovered The World A map from 1544 by Genoese cartographer Battista Agnese, note the greater accuracy than the Piri Reis map in relation to the American continental coastline Right then, continue round the nose and Caribbean islands after just 30 years. via Wikimedia of Brazil and head down past where www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 25 issue 01 THE PIRI REIS MAP

Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo sit Battista Agnese, a Genoese today and we arrive at what looks cartographer who produced an like Rio De La Plata, the border atlas of the world which you can between Uruguay and Argentina. It’s view by clicking here. Then there here where Hapgood went totally was the Gerardus Mercator map left field and decided that South (opposite) whose accurate method America joined up with the Antarctic of projecting a globe on to a flat coastline. His further justification chart formed the basis of the maps was that the islands towards the that we use today. There was also right hand corner of the map are the mental Oronteus Finaeus map the Falklands Islands (or Malvinas published in 1531 which is remarkable depending on your nationality) and for it’s alleged similarity to a map of he might have a point, even though Antarctica today and the Planisferio those islands weren’t officially de Caneiro map of 1506 which discovered until 1592, therefore any portrays a more realistic illustration land to the south of that must be of the Caribbean and the northern Antarctica... see what he did there? coast of South America and can be seen here. There were many mappa mundi’s floating around at the time of Piri In the middle ages it was a common South America, yesterday. According to Reis and some of the most famous belief that there was a southern Charles Hapgood, Argentina didn’t exist surviving examples can be found continent below the Americas and on the Piri Reis map. online including the works of Africa due to the old flood myths

All you need to discern the Piri Reis map for SOUTH AMERICA: what it truly shows is a map of modern day South America and your own eyeballs. It’s really THEN AND NOW that simple, no convoluted maths needed. Our useful numbered guide will help you correlate the coastline on the Piri Reis map with the actual South American coastline. You’re welcome.

1. This area looks as though it covers Lagoa dos Patos and Lagoa Mirim which are now enclosed to accommodate the cities of Rio Grande and Pelotas 1 2. The three rivers marked on the Piri Reis 2 map could feasibly be the Rio Taquai, Rio Camaquã and Uruguay River meaning this area is Uruguay/Argentine borderlands of Rio Del La Plata. 3 3. It wouldn’t be unreasonable to associate 5 this area with the Bahaí Blanca estuary 6 4. Which would mean this is the Valdés 4 Peninsula 5. These islands could feasibly be the Falklands/Malvinas as they are the only land mass in the Argentine Sea remotely close to this size and were also shown in the 1 Argentina, rotated 90° Waldseemuller cart of 1507 and the Circulus Antarcticus map by Pedro Reinel in 1522 2 5 6. The area mentioned by Piri Reis as having 3 no cultivation and big snakes (anacondas?) bears more than a striking resemblance 4 6 to the Golfo San Jorge whose coastline is pretty desolate.

If you follow the coastline a little further, there may have been an adjacent section of map and that could easily have included the Magellan Strait and Tierra Del Fuego.

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The Mercator World Map of 1569, or to give it’s full title “New and more complete Antarctica, as represented on Google representation of the terrestrial globe properly adapted for use in navigation”. Earth, has been covered with ice for a Mercator was also indebted to Spanish and Portuguese charts. via Wikimedia good few thousand years. ©Google Earth and legend of Atlantis. However is anything but exotic. Here goes. those drawn up by the Spanish and what seems increasingly bizarre Piri Reis simply ran out of room on Portuguese after Columbus realised is that as an author of a book on his gazelle hide and had to turn it he’d never made it to Asia after crustal displacement theory on sideways to fit on the rest of the all, and until Ferdinand Magellan’s Earth, one of Hapgood's arguments map. Aye, really! It’s Occam’s Razor. circumnavigation expedition in 1520 was that Antarctica was originally It’s the only way he could finish a no one had really mapped down as Atlantis and had floated down to it's more complete representation of far south as Tierra Del Fuego. So, current position at the pole. This has the known world and ‘rediscovers’ why is it any researcher worth his been parroted more than once by the 900 miles of Argentine coastline salt would continually claim Admiral 'celebrity' researchers on a certain that Charles Hapgood and his Reis had unique access to ancient online subscription channel. And it hoodwinked students conveniently satellite imagery or alien maps, was mapped by aliens. But that's ignored during their research. except to give themselves a bit more a story I have neither the time or publicity. Because basically that is inclination to give credence to here. So, there you have it. Does the map utter and absolute pish. o drawn by Piri Reis and presented to If you take a look at the panel below the Ottoman Sultan Selim portray Next issue Doug will be we’ll demonstrate some other key an ice-free Antarctica? The answer discussing the multi-timeline, multi- points on the map that prove that is categorically no, no and thrice universe phenomenon that is known not only is the land mass NOT more, no. The most accurate charts as the Mandela Effect and why he Antarctica but that the explanation of the New World in those days were thinks it is all just a bad memory.

THERE IS NO TRACE Author Bio Douglas McKay is OF CULTIVATION IN THIS a grumpy Scottish native whose COUNTRY. BIG SNAKES interest in ancient history has been ARE SAID TO BE THERE. ingrained from being dragged round almost every stone circle in the Scottish islands THE PORTUGUESE DID by his father. A keen biker he likes nothing more than riding NOT LAND ON THESE through the Highlands just to get away from the technology SHORES. obsessed masses. Admiral Piri Reis www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 27 issue 01 WHO’S WHO SHOWGUIDE As we all know the internet is a digital minefield of information, both good and bad, real and fake, so how do you know who to trust?

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The Celestial

Snow WhiteWords: Ralph Ellis

Could the fairy he fairy tale of Snow During their research into German White was written by the language and culture the Brothers tale favourite, Brothers Grimm during Grimm came across many Pagan the mid 19th Century, and folk tales that appeared to contain Snow White, like all of their fables it was written similar hidden meanings, and they as a parable and therefore infused were determined to preserve them actually have with layers of hidden meaning. for future generations. They even The Brothers Grimm were not simply included heretical stories about foundations storytellers, they were academics, New Testament events - the kind of lexicographers and linguists who heretical elements that have been in Egyptian were deeply immersed in historical explored in The King Jesus Trilogy. and cultural research. They not only Surprisingly, the innocent-sounding mythology? knew of the literary usage of the Snow White (or The Magic Mirror) Gospel parable and the Talmudic was one of these heretical stories. pesher, they wanted to emulate This story not only contained cosmic these tried and tested techniques. and astrological elements but, Author Bio And the deliberately cryptic nature just like Rapunzel, Cinderella and Ralph Ellis is a well of the Gospel parables is made Sleeping Beauty, it also contained travelled historian perfectly clear by Jesus himself, distinct Gospel overtones. and is a successful when he says: published author. The fable of Snow White begins His research for the “The disciples came to Jesus and with an evil queen who is jealous last three decades has focused said: Why do you speak in parables? of the radiant beauty of her young on the similarities between He answered: Because it is given stepdaughter, and arranges for history and theology and has unto you to know the mysteries of a huntsman to take her into a made many new fundamental the kingdom of heaven, but to them deep forest and have her killed. discoveries - mostly in Egypt - it is not given… Therefore I speak Significantly, in the first edition of regarding the true identity and to them in parables, because they the story the jealous queen was genealogy of the biblical Jesus seeing see not and hearing they hear actually the biological mother of in the historical record. not, not do they understand.” Snow White. But this was not a story

Matthew 13:10-13 that mothers wanted to read to their ©Dmitrii Kotin/123rf.com

issue 01 30 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk Above Left: The Egyptian goddess Nut arches her body across the night sky with her partner Geb (the Earth) prostrate below her and the solar barque of Ra-Helios sailing across the celestial sea, the cosmos. Above right: The Milky Way. In strikingly similar fashion also arches across the night sky.

young daughters, so in later editions asked who was the fairest queen was an image of Orion, armed with the evil mother became an evil of the heavens. As Nut arches her his great axe, his bow, plus a sword stepmother. In cosmic terms there body across the heavens and looks hanging from his belt. The Greeks were three queens in the heavens down upon the Earth, the great devised a very a similar iconography who might correspond with this mirror of Nut corresponds with the but they depicted Orion as the evil queen, and these are Venus, the Mediterranean Sea, reflecting the mighty Hercules, armed with a great Moon and the Milky Way. And in this entire vista of the heavens above. club, the shield made from the hide case, the most likely candidate for As above, so below. But the answer of the Nemean lion, plus a sword the jealous goddess-queen is the from the Mediterranean mirror was hanging from his belt. And it was Milky Way. not encouraging, for the serene Orion-Gilgamesh-Hercules who waters below observed that there maintained order in the cosmos. AS ABOVE, SO BELOW was a much brighter and more So in the Gilgamesh epic it was he The foundations of this fairy tale radiant Snow White goddess in who oversaw the transition from the were explored in my books Mary the heavens above - Selene, the Great Year of Taurus to the Great Magdelene, Princess of Orange and full Moon. The horror Nut felt was Year of Aries, by killing the Bull of King Jesus which identified the palpable, for she was being eclipsed Heaven (Taurus). Respectively, in Egyptian goddess Nut as being the and outshone by her own goddess- Greek mythology it was Hercules Milky Way - the faintly glistening princess daughter who was far more who performed twelve labours outline of our own galaxy. Notice radiant. Imagine the beautiful white pertaining to the twelve zodiac how the goddess Nut arches her orb, gleaming in the Mediterranean constellations. body across the night sky, and mirror, how could the translucent compare that with how the Milky spectre of Nut compete with such The great huntsman, took pity upon Way is arched across the night sky. a bright young goddess as Selene- the young and radiant Snow White, If you look at the ends of the Milky Moon? While she may have been the and rather than kill her he allowed Way, they do indeed appear to split daughter of Nut, jealousy got the her to escape after which she found into arms and legs. Quite clearly, better of the old queen and so she a small house in the forest, home the Egyptian goddess Nut was a asked the huntsman of the heavens to the seven dwarfs. And so the graphic representation of the Milky to take Selene into the great forest cosmic foundation of the continuing Way. Which is why the Sun was said and dispose of her. story are becoming clearer now. to have been swallowed and then reborn by Nut, tracing the course of In Egyptian terms the the Sun during the year. cosmos was a great sea, In a similar fashion, in Greek upon which the solar barque HOW COULD mythology Aphrodite (Venus) of Ra-Helios sailed each was said to have been born in the day. So the great seas of THE TRANSLUCENT ‘foam of the sea’, which is another the terrestrial oceans were reference to the foaming silvery mirrored by the great seas in SPECTRE OF NUT filaments of the Milky Way. the heavens above. However, in the Babylonian epic of The great goddess-queen Nut, Gilgamesh, the cosmos was COMPETE WITH the Milky Way, only appears as said to be a great forest, a faint gossamer of lace arching and no doubt each pinprick SUCH A BRIGHT the night sky, and she was greatly of starlight was seen as a afraid of being outshone by the tree. The great huntsman YOUNG other goddesses. So the jealous of this heavenly forest was

©Wikipedia / Macbrian Mun/123rf.com ©Wikipedia Nut looked into her mirror and Gilgamesh, who himself GODDESS?

www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 31 issue 01 Above left & right: The popular incarnation of Snow White before Disney got their Above: The authors of Snow White, mouse paws on the story as featured in Franz Jüttner’s Schneewiitchen. the Brothers Grimm.

The seven small companions of And this relates to what the fairy tale Selene-Moon now black and lifeless, Selene, the Snow White Moon, are of Snow White says. The evil queen, she was once again the most radiant the seven known planets of that Nut the Milky Way, looked into her goddess in the heavens above. And era that trail in a long line behind Mediterranean mirror and saw that her Mediterranean mirror confirmed as they appear to orbit the Earth. If the Snow White Selene was still alive this, because everywhere she looked the great forest was representative - the great huntsman Orion-Hercules in her great watery mirror the only of the cosmos, then this house in had deceived her. So Nut dressed as reflection she could see was of the forest must be one of the twelve a peddler and sold her a beautiful herself. houses of the zodiac constellations. lace corset, which she did up so And if the seven dwarf-planets were tightly that Snow White Selene grew Despite the gloom that now all in one zodiacal house, then this pale and fainted. And this is exactly pervaded the heavens help was must represent a rare conjunction what happens in the heavens above. at hand, because a planetary of Selene-Moon and all the planets When Selene the Moon approaches conjunction involving Venus and within a small quadrant of the a conjunction with Venus (and the Selene-Moon has to be at dawn heavens. Venus was one of these other six planets in this particular or dusk. And so Selene-Moon was seven dwarf-planets, so this rare case), by the very nature of the a New Moon at this time, she was conjunction with the Moon must planetary orbits she is waning and dark and lifeless as if entombed in have taken place in the morning her waist is getting thinner and a crystal casket - one of the crystal or evening, given that Venus is the thinner as each day passes. It is spheres of the heavens - and she morning or evening star. If Selene- almost as if someone is tightening a was lost from this world. But a Moon had joined the planets in a corset around her waist, until Snow dawn or dusk conjunction must be dawn or dusk conjunction then the White Selene becomes just a sliver adjacent to the sun so when the Snow White goddess must have of her former self. handsome Prince Helios looked been waning, as she does when she down upon the dark and lifeless approaches Helios the Sun. AFTER DEATH, LIFE Selene-Moon, he thought she was When the seven dwarf planets the most beautiful princess in the returned from their labours and heavens. As Helios-Sun approached saw Snow White Selene so thin and Selene-Moon he kissed her lifeless faint, they thought she was dead. body. And then, being conveniently And within a few more days she the exact same apparent size, they did indeed die, turning from her formed a cosmic diamond marriage usual brilliant Snow White radiance ring in the heavens above as they into a black and lifeless husk. (Editor’s note - the Grimms tale also continues that the evil Queen gifted Snow White a SELENE-MOON poisoned comb and the familiar rosy red apple however the WAS DARK AND corset is a perfect analogy for the waning moon). The Snow White princess-goddess was LIFELESS AS IF dead and a great sorrow fell Above: Mary as the goddess Selene, in upon the seven dwarf planets, ENTOMBED a church dedicated to Mary Magdalene who adored her and followed in Gornji Grad, Slovenia, with the moon her in a long line in the night IN A CRYSTAL beneath her feet and the twelve stars of sky. But the evil Nut Milky Way the constellations around her head. was jubilant, because with CASKET / Mary Magdelene © Ralph Ellis Grimm ©Wikimedia & Brothers Schneewitchen issue 01 32 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk consummated their love for another. A marriage made in heaven so to speak, and again, as above, so below.

Following this celestial marriage, Snow White Selene Moon gradually came back to life. Her corset was slackened, her image began to swell again, and the Snow White Selene once more became the most radiant princess-goddess in the night sky. When Nut Milky Way looked down upon her Mediterranean mirror Above left & right: Helios-Sun first kisses Selen-Moon to awaken her. Then he gives once again, she was aghast to see her a diamond ring and consummate their marriage made in heaven. Selene alive and radiant once more shining in all her radiant glory, while Nut could only manage a ghostly my book Cleopatra to Christ, later which lies a few kilometres to the glimmer in comparison. All the Renaissance artists closely identified north at Tiberias. And yet Jesus and scheming and plotting had been for both Mary the Virgin and Mary Mary are portrayed here as Helios- nothing because the celestial royal Magdelene with Selene, standing Sun and Selene-Moon in a cosmic couple, Helios and Selene, reigned upon the Moon and wearing a halo conjunction - an impending eclipse. supreme once more. of stars (see pic opposite). Snow White and her Prince Charming consummating their love for each This was the celestial story that the Both the biblical Marys were icons other - as above, so below. G Brothers Grimm wished to convey. of Snow White, sacred royals who The fairy tale of Snow White was were venerated as incarnations of Next issue Ralph will be actually a story of a cosmic wedding Isis-Selene, the Snow White celestial discussing his research into the between the Sun and the Moon. goddess. While Jesus was seen as an true origins of King Arthur and the And the reason why this story was incarnation of Helios, the Sun of God absence of strange women lying in deemed to be heretical, was that (sic). And this assertion is confirmed ponds distributing swords. it also told the story of the biblical by the imagery on the Lady Mary For more info visit his website royal family. This is why the son Zodiac at Beit Shean, a 6th century www.edfu-books.uk and daughter of Queen Cleopatra monastery just south of the Sea of of Egypt were named Helios and Galilee in Israel. We see what can Selene, the Sun and Moon. As above, only be Jesus and Mary surrounded READ MORE so below. And since the biblical by the twelve disciple-constellations Ralph has spent over 30 years royal family were descended from of the zodiac. It is almost exactly the researching the similarities of Queen Cleopatra, as I explain in same as the Hamat Teverya zodiac biblical and historical records. His research is well received outside of mainstream theology. Click the covers for more info.

Above: The Lady Mary zodiac at Beit Shean, a 6th Century monastery just south of the Sea of Galilee. The calnderical zodiac depicts Jesus and Mary at the centre of

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INTERVIEW Charles James Hall How a fortuitous administration error paved the way for a life-changing encounter in the desert.

harles James Hall, is a man This generated two sets of orders, one for with an interesting tale to tell. RIA locked in a safe, and, the “cover” for Having enlisted in the United Weather Observer training, in the ordinary States Air Force in 1964, a mix assignment file. On the day I went to collect up in his orders saw him posted to Nellis my orders, the officer who knew about the Air Force base in Nevada. Once there, RIA orders, was absent from his desk, and, being a qualified weather observer, he was the person manning the desk, not privy to required to man a station in the desert hills the special assignment, gave me the “cover” at nearby Indian Springs Gunnery ranges orders. When the mistake was noticed, providing information to the Testing ground. the Pentagon, not wanting to waste my It was during this time he had a number projected “talent”, decided the best use of of encounters which would change his life me, after Weather school, would be to send forever. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves me to Nellis. I can only guess they already just yet. had plans to have my duty take place on the Indian Springs gunnery ranges. Following a stint of more than two years at Nellis AFB, Charles served during the SOYM: What was your first interaction with Vietnam war before receiving an honourable the ‘Tall Whites’? discharge and marrying Marie, his wife of CH: My first interaction with the Tall Whites, nearly 50 years, on the proviso that he was not so much “inter”, as merely noticing enrolled in college. It was while successfully they had come into my barracks alone at studying for a Bachelor’s Degree in Thermal night; an experience which caused me to Physics and a Masters in Applied Nuclear question whether what I was seeing, could Physics, at San Diego State University, be real. In the experiences that followed I that Charles decided to relate his Indian saw them with military personnel on several Springs experiences to his new wife, who occasions. surprisingly, was rather nonchalant about it. SOYM: Were you When Charles started to write his memoirs aware of any of your NELLIS & INDIAN as a future gift for his grandchildren, Marie fellow servicemen SPRINGS AFB, NEVADA discovered what he’d been writing and having similar Originally a dirt runway north of encouraged him to publish them in a series experiences at that Las Vegas, the landing strips were of books called Millennial Hospitality. Their time? expanded and added to creating the subsequent release saw Charles become a CH: The service Las Vegas Army Airfield in the 1940s. household name and sought after guest on a log book, which In 1950 this was renamed Nellis Air number of radio and TV shows. Speaking to dated back to Force Base, after a celebrated WWII Charles, we asked him about the Millennial 1957, made it clear fighter pilot, and quickly became Hospitality series, more specifically the race that the weather a pivotal location for the training of extra terrestrial humanoids known as observers before me, of USAF pilots for the Korean and ‘the Tall Whites’ that he encountered while obviously had some Vietnam wars. stationed in the Indian Springs desert. experiences with the Tall Whites. A Today Nellis AFB sprawls across SOYM: You were based at Nellis Air Force number of entries nearly 6,000 acres and is one of the base, Nevada, near what is now known as are recorded in my primary USAF training installations in Area 51, how did you get that post? Millennial Hospitality the US, playing host to a number of Charles Hall: It is interesting to recall the books, and clearly air combat exercises. mistakes made, which resulted in my being indicate the terror Indian Springs gunnery range, where sent to Weather Observation school in which caused at least Charles was stationed is now the the first place. I was under consideration 41 previous weather Nevada Test & Training Range while for Radio Intercept Analysis school (spy observers to either Indian Springs Air Force base is now school 101) as a result of my scoring on abandon their post, known as Creech Air Force Base. a number of tests given to new recruits. ask for a transfer, www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 35 issue 01 CHARLES J HALL

obtain psychiatric discharge, or even go AWOL. Here is an example from the log TALL book: “The lights from up the valley came WHITES again last night… They came in closer than & MORE ever before… For an hour ½ I can’t remember Whether you what I was doing… Even the ground out here believe in E.T. or terrifies me… This is my last entry.” not, here is the Shadows… guide SOYM: You had a religious upbringing, did to five of the your experience have any lasting effect on more common your beliefs? descriptions CH: I wouldn’t say my experiences changed of off-planet my perception of my Roman Catholic Faith. visitors Why would I place limits on God? My real THE GREYS shock was in realizing Albert Einstein’s The stereotypical notion regarding whether it was possible small, child-like to travel faster than the speed of light, was being with large inadequate. black, almond shaped eyes. The SOYM: What were the main physical most familiar of all differences between Earth humans and the extra-terrestrials Tall Whites? Did they allude to how Earth largely thanks to differs from their planet of origin? Hollywood. CH: The Tall Whites live ten times longer than humans, are frail physically, have REPTILIANS speedier reflexes and handle emotions such Tall lizard-like as fear, love, hate a little differently. They species with Charles in his USAF days age differently too, growing taller when they a propensity reach middle age, after about 400 years. towards violence present on the base assigned them names Unfortunately their organs remain the same and war. Have related to their particular purpose on Earth. size and can’t support the body anymore, at enslaved humanity I communicated with a being called The which point they die. in misery for years Teacher who was the daughter of a Tall according to some White Ambassador and was therefore held They can and do learn to speak English, in highest regard. Her job was to accompany but, if they are not wearing their equipment THE NORDICS the children of their species on their which allows them to read our thoughts, Slightly taller than excursions and also to conduct orientation and place thoughts in our minds, they have humans, so-called sessions for first-time visitors to Earth. to resort to hand signals if they don’t speak because of their English. They did not tell me much about similarity to the SOYM: You’ve mentioned in your books that their planet of origin, but in their words they Scandinavian they have a community of sorts around the considered the earth to be a “cold, desolate stereotype. Indian Springs area, did they give you any wilderness”. They hear and speak in sound indication as to how long they have been THE ANNUNAKI frequencies outside of our audible range so there? The Gods of they never tried to tell me what they called CH: The Tall Whites have been in the Indian Sumerian myth themselves as we would never be able to Springs area at least as far back as U.S. who created man understand or pronounce it. The CIA agents President James Madison (1809-1817). as a labour force. According to the legend of the Ghost of Closely associated Dona Ana county, in New Mexico, they were with the perennial here a very long time before the Spanish planet of doom, explorers arrived in the early 1500s. I believe Nibiru. the Tall Whites first begin visiting Earth THE TALL THE MANTIDS possibly as early as 5000 B.C. A praying mantis in human form They were very selective about answering WHITES CONSIDER without the large questions but the women were generally forelegs. Prefers more talkative than the men. When I asked EARTH TO BE A contact through the Teacher about their home, she asked if I telepathy. Former would even recognize the name they called COLD, DESOLATE Labour Councillor their planet. She thought her answer to be a Simon Parkes bit humorous! WILDERNESS… spoke of them on This Morning. SOYM: In the Millennial Hospitality series you suggest that the Tall Whites are very issue 01 36 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk CHARLES J HALL

interested in our way of living and our interactions with other life on Earth. What is it about us that piques their curiosity? CH: The Tall Whites found our ways puzzling in that we kept lower forms of life as pets. They said on other planets, the higher life forms had for the most part, eliminated animals and lower life forms because they considered them dangerous, and as they were vegetarian they had no need to breed them for food.

SOYM: How long was your experience with them? Are you still in contact? CH: I was with the Tall Whites for a little over two years. During that time, I also had a number of short TDYs (temporary duty assignment, a bit like helping out in another department - Ed.) where the ‘Greys’ are. While Area 51 has been widely referred to, the actual location of the ‘Greys’, is held in much greater secrecy. I am not in contact with the Tall Whites at this time. However, after I had given my first presentation to a large audience in 2005, two people, unrelated, and not given to prevarication as far as we know, approached to tell us that as the doors were being shut and lights turned down in the auditorium, a very tall, very thin, heavily made up woman in a wig, Charles with wife Marie at a UFO conference, Blackpool in 2014. sunglasses & gloves, slipped in and stood at the back, listening to my talk. They asked if I thought it could have been the Teacher. My series! At the moment I am working on the response; “It could have been.” My wife said, audio book versions of Millennial Hospitality. WANT TO “Well, it would have been nice if she’d come KNOW and greeted you.” My response; “That really SOYM: Finally do you have a piece of MORE? wasn’t how they were. Many times, they advice for anyone hovering at the entrance If you’ve enjoyed would come and observe me, without saying of the rabbit hole? this introduction hello or goodbye.” My wife appreciated the CH: My advice to anyone discovering an to Charles’ response, likening it to when we go to a zoo, interest in ETs: Use discernment, as there experience with she said she never talks to the animals, just are a plethora of hoaxes and hoaxers out the Tall Whites, observes. there. Some are perpetuated by sincere the Millennial people, but, whether simply gullible, or Hospitality series misinformed, are nevertheless false. SOYM: Some other experiencers have is available to suggested that we should be extremely preview online Charles will be speaking in Las Vegas, wary of the Tall Whites to the point of and is available in Nevada at the Palace Station Casino and almost being fearful of them. What are your various formats. Hotel in February 2018. Click below for more thoughts on this? Click on the CH: The Tall Whites respond in a slightly details and ticket information. cover image to different manner to some things. There is learn more. always an uneasiness during interactions with humans. They are afraid of us as well. When either relaxes, and forgets we are different, accidents can happen. Such an accident occurred in my case, which almost resulted in my death, and is accounted in TALK ABOUT THIS Millennial Hospitality III, The Road Home. FIND INTERVIEW AND MORE SOYM: What are you currently working on? OUT ONLINE Should readers begin with Volume 1? CH: Many people begin reading one book MORE in the series over another, for whatever reason. My wife says, just read the whole www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 37 issue 01 Dytalov hiking group - January 1959

via Wikimedia #1 The Dyatlov Pass Incident, 1959 The Dyatlov Pass Incident is one of the more mysterious events in the alternative community so we asked writer Simon Bradley who had no prior knowledge of the event to examine the evidence and draw his conclusions…

n January 1959, ten young SIMON’S JOURNEY BEGINS Sverdlovsk Oblast it’s approximately experienced hikers left the “I didn’t know a single thing about 2,100km north east of Moscow, relative comforts of the town of the incident that took place on the 550km or so north of Yekaterinberg, Sverdlovsk, and headed across eastern slopes of Kholat Syakhl, the nearest town of any size, and Isnow-covered country to Mount or the ‘Mountain of the Dead’, over 50km into the wilderness Otorten in the northern Urals. One in the Northern Russian Urals in from the team’s ultimate starting member had to turn back through early 1959. What happened to nine point, the frozen hamlet of Vizhay. illness but the remaining nine never accomplished winter hikers just 16 At 1,234m it’s not even as tall as made it and their badly damaged km from their Mount Otorten goal, in Britain’s loftiest peak, Ben Nevis, tent was finally found on February an area made so notorious by events but no doubt contributing to the 27th Five bodies in various states of that it’s subsequently been named mystery of the unfolding events, undress were found nearby. The four after the expedition’s doomed leader ‘otorten’, in the local Mansi people’s remaining bodies weren’t found until Igor Dyatlov? language, apparently translates as a thaw two months later. Some of ‘don’t go there’... the bodies had unexplainable injuries Whilst chewing the story over and and despite an increasing number embarking on some background The daytime temperatures in of theories the causes of their death research I was, perhaps due to the January wouldn’t have coaxed has never been determined. similarly sub-zero nature of the the mercury much above -25°C; tragic events, drawn to the tale add in the wind chill and you’d be So what happened on the slopes of of polar explorer Captain Robert dicing with hypothermia at every Kholat Syakhl on the night of 2nd Falcon Scott whose heartbreaking turn. That is, unless you know what February 1959? Let’s find out… demise in 1912, and that of his you’re doing and what’s in little team, is eloquently yet harrowingly doubt is that all ten of the team, described in his Sledging Journals including the magically-fortunate Author Bio liberated from that final camp a year Yuri Yudin who fell ill mere days Now living in Bath, later. The fact that no comparable into the initial trek and returned to journalist and writer testimonies from any of the nine civilisation thus avoiding whatever Simon Bradley has victims of Dyatlov Pass were made occurred, were well-prepared spent over 25 years shows, at the outset, that their for, and acclimatised to, such low experience delving deaths were hardly something they temperatures. Dyatlov himself was into the world of guitars, music expected: they were enthusiastic an experienced mountain hiker and and, strangely, fitness. He has diarists up to the night of 1st he even designed and built his own contributed to a number of February. stove that accompanied him on trips, diverse publications, including while another member of the team, a book with Queen guitarist Let’s just take a minute to establish Yuri Doroshenko, had made name Brian May, and equates the Mount Otorten’s location. Like a name for himself by supposedly rigours of freelance writing to anywhere in Siberia the distances chasing a huge brown bear away ‘juggling flaming bandicoots.’ involved are awe-inspiring. Situated from a previous camp armed with in the northern province of just a geologists hammer.

issue 01 38 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk THE DYATLOV They had suitable clothes and GROUP equipment, had prepared for These are the ten students of their return by leaving a supply the Ural Polytechnic Institute of food behind them and all, save in Sverdlovsk that began the 37 year old Semyon Zolotaryov, expedition to Mount Otorten. were in their early twenties and, presumably, fit and well. Unlike IGOR DYATLOV Scott’s fateful trip, though, there Experienced hiker and leader of are no eye-witness accounts, the group. A highly talented radio which has led to all manner engineer and athlete. Aged 23. of speculation and given the YURI DOROSHENKO oppressive nature of life in the Also a radio engineering student USSR in the late fifties, this isn’t like Dyatlov. Once scared off surprising. This natural paranoia a giant bear with a geologist’s has formed the basis of some of hammer. Aged 21. the more fanciful suggestions, that the team had been LYUDMILA DUBININA infiltrated by three KGB agents Engineering and Economics major but were mistaken for CIA at URI. Youngest of the group, she operatives by another group took many of the photos of the and killed there and then; or trip. Aged 20. the KGB agents ensconced within the team did meet The body of Rustem Slobodin via Wikimedia YURI KRIVONISCHENKO individuals from the CIA, only Helped clean up a radiation leak for the Americans to dispatch in 1957 at a secret nuclear facility. everyone after their business, Joker of the group and talented whatever it may have been, had mandolin player. Aged 23. been concluded. Alternatively, did injury, the clothing of two of them, the team see something that Lyudmila Dubinina and Alexander ALEXANDER KOLEVATOV they couldn’t possibly have Kolevatov, was also found to be Student of Nuclear Physics who expected to, something secret, radioactive. had knowledge of metallurgy and and been killed outright by forces had worked at a secret facility in unknown? Maybe, but what on A STATE COVER-UP? Moscow. Aged 24. earth were the authorities trying to The official version of events as ZINAIDA KOLMOGOROVA protect up there? given by the Criminal Prosecutor of The popular girl of the school and Sverdlovsk who led the investigation, a talented radio engineer. Was What’s certainly true is the condition a man named Lev Ivanov, begins dating Dyatlov at the time. Aged of the nine bodies, a number of with the rather damning statement: 22. which were discovered on 27th “The deaths of the expedition February by a team comprising members were due to a series RUSTEM SLOBODIN fellow students and teachers from of mistakes by Dyatlov...” before The quiet one of the group. the Ural Polytechnic Institute. The going into somewhat greater detail, Athletic and regarded as honets first two were in states of undress all the while never failing to miss and decent. Also played the and had died of hypothermia whilst an opportunity to lay the blame mandolin. Aged 23. huddled around an inconsequential squarely at the team leader’s door. fire, while another three including By concluding that “...the cause NICOLAI THIBEAUX- Dyatlov, who’d also all succumbed of their deaths was calamity or an BRIGNOLLES to the cold, were discovered unknown compelling force...”, he Civil Engineer who looked after between 300 and 600m from the actually doesn’t give a definitive the group on the trip. The son of camp several days later. It’s going answer and the case was closed on a French-Communist, he was born to be difficult for anyone to try and 28th May 1959. Funny that... in a concentration camp. Aged 23. understand just what made them leave their shelter in such a fatal Just some of the theories I’ve SEMYON ZOLOTARYOV state of undress, but evidence points come across range from the group Oldest and most mysterious to the fact that their tent had been being scared by the appearance member of the group. Former slashed open from the inside... of a UFO, disorientation due to Siberian tourist guide and infrasound caused by the unceasing ex-military who joined the trip by The remaining four were eventually wind being forced through a the name Sasha. Aged 37. found, three months later, in a hole uniquely-shaped path in the area’s that had been dug out of the snow topography forming what’s known YURI YUDIN at the bottom of a shallow valley as a ‘von Kármán vortex street’, Fortunately left the group not 75m from camp. This seems to and hallucination thanks to the long after departing Vizhay due suggest that the quartet knew what ingestion, deliberately or otherwise, to chronic back and leg pain. was coming and not only did the of the toxic fly agaric mushrooms Died April 27 2013, aged 75 bodies bear evidence of significant that were often harvested by the

www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 39 issue 01 native Mansi people and hung on low tree branches to dry out. And don’t get me started on the Russian THEORIES RANGE FROM yeti. Most have a certain amount of credibility but they also demonstrate THE APPEARANCE OF A UFO, that, with the lack of genuine and compelling evidence to the contrary, HALLUCINATIONS, OR KILLED imagination, when left to run riot, can be an inventive thing. BY EITHER THE LOCALS, So, let me begin to clarify what I think happened and, lest we forget, THE KGB, OR EVEN A YETI! we’re talking about the untimely deaths of nine people here. The damage to the four bodies found There’s even a surviving shot taken the cause was ‘...radioactive dust in the snowhole – missing eyes, the day before that shows a member [falling] from the atmosphere...’, so fractured and broken skulls and of the team sporting a badly why the vagueness? And dust from bones, and severe damage to the burned jacket: caused by the stove, what? Well, there was a plutonium- mouth and tongue of one of the perhaps? producing facility based in the city team (Lyudmila Dubinina) – is of at Kyshtym, albeit one that was surely down to either falls due Another compelling suggestion, sited 150km south of Yekaterinberg, to disorientation or the influence and one that could explain the which reportedly suffered some sort of local carnivorous wildlife post elevated levels of radioactivity of major accident in 1957 causing mortem. These would also have on the clothing of two of the the contamination of a huge area been disfigured by frost damage and foursome found in the snowhole, of the surrounding countryside general decay. is that team stumbled upon – or with radiation. Krivonischenko was got too close to - some sort of apparently part of the clean-up crew, Remember Dyaltov’s homemade military facility, one that was part and I feel this is by far the most stove I mentioned a few paragraphs of indulging the Soviets’ fascination convincing rationalisation. ago? I do find myself drawn to with nuclear technology. This is the theory that it malfunctioned certainly plausible considering Needless to say, sifting through the in some way, maybe filling the the aforementioned paranoia that swathes of material does mean I tent with smoke and embers as a permeated Khruschev’s Russia at had to read or listen to the same consequence. If this happened to a this time and, if the commander increasingly recycled theories over tent I was in, all snug and warm, I’d of this facility felt in any way and over. As an introduction to the certainly panic and, in an effort to threatened or that security had been story I did find Renny Harlin’s Devil’s escape the choking fumes, can see compromised by the team’s sudden Pass, starring current Strictly Come myself blindly slicing the material appearance, they could conceivably Dancing star Gemma Atkinson no open from the inside. Once out in have killed them all and simply made less, an acceptable place to start, the open, exposed to what has been up the reason why. despite the frankly silly ending stated as a -30° chill and bereft of and ‘Blair Witch Project On Ice’ boots, gloves and, in some cases, IT’S ALL IN THE DETAILS vibe, and I should also mention the socks, hypothermia will have begun I have been able to establish a dissection from Scandinavian You to set in almost immediately, with satisfying explanation for the Tuber Lemmino, who offers, for me death a virtual certainty. radioactivity, though. Sources even at any rate, plausible reasonings that appear to offer conflicting dispel just about all supernatural or information as to the identity confrontational theories. The go-to of the two team members site dyatlov-pass.com sets out the whose clothes showed signs facts alongside a comprehensive of elevated radioactivity too, rundown of all circulating theories, naming Lyudmila Dubinina, including all the images from the Yuri Krivonischenko and search and rescue party, and is the Alexander Kolevatov. place to begin an online journey. That’s probably cleared up by reports that state Mountain Of The Dead, first that Dubinina was found published in 2013 and written wearing a sweater owned by by Keith McCloskey, goes into Krivonischenko, and several compelling detail about virtually online resources somewhat all conceivable theories and even conveniently suggest that those with a passing interest will messers Krivonischenko and find themselves quickly absorbed. I Kolevatov had had exposure know I was. The book also provides to radioactivity in previous engrossing detail concerning not employment. The official only the personal lives of the team explanation is imprecise - the fact that Zolotaryov’s birthday at best, stating that was 2nd February makes the events

issue 01 via Wikimedia 40 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk The tent is discovered even more terrible – but also the journey to, first Vizhay, and then HAVE A onwards out into the wild, thanks DIFFERENT in part to the adaptation of entries THEORY? SHARE IT WITH made in the team’s diaries, both US ONLINE personal and shared.

Missing negatives, photographs featuring shadowy figures in the trees and blurred smudges in the sky, and Mansi folk tales describing Now alone, and with Doroshenko lights above the trees all add fuel to and Krivonischenko already the fire, but I don’t really subscribe past the point of no return, I’d to their supposed significance. suggest that Dyatlov, Zinaida Kolmogorova and Rustem CASE SOLVED? Slobodin liberated what clothing I’m sad to say that I’ve concluded they could and made a futile that the nine were killed – murdered attempt to find a way out. This – by their own people, be they part theory explains why the bodies of the KGB or an even more sinister were found in different areas. underground organisation. The team left the tent in a panic, either due to I don’t believe that any the smoke and embers caused by supernatural forces were Dyatlov’s dodgy stove or unsettling involved, simply the very booming sounds caused by the familiar evil that Dytalov memorial via Wikimedia wind in a von Kármán resides within man vortex street that they himself. All the mistook for the approach available evidence is of a marauding avalanche, out there for anyone to some cutting their way out make their own crack at through the side material. solving the riddle, and MORE INFO such is the notoriety ON THE WEB As thoughts of death that still surrounds the dyatlov-pass.com by either incineration or story there’s even a PS4 LEMMINO concussive trauma and game, entitled Kholat, asphyxiation by avalanche to assist the armchair THE DYATLOV are hardly pleasant ones, familiarisation with that PASS CASE they were probably yelling in fear deadly and impossibly remote and this in turn spooked the team environment. KEITH MCCLOSKY Mountain Of The Dead of presumably military personnel Keith McClosky who’d been tracking them since With whispers suggesting that the (The History Press, Vizhay. The team were forced Russian government are still trying 2013) towards nearby woodland and to throw the many theory-hunters made to sit in the snow, although it off the scent refusing to go away, EXPLORING seems that their would-be captors we’re unlikely to have heard that HISTORY: were sufficiently humane to build last of Dyatlov’s Pass. However, a small fire. As attention wavered unless some new facts somehow THE DYATLOV due to the chilling temperatures come to light I fear a resolution PASS INCIDENT and the dire circumstances, four of to the mystery surrounding the VON KÁRMÁN the team made a run for it pursued, team members’ deaths will never VORTEX STREETS one assumes, by a number of the be fully known, merely guessed soldiers, any one of whom could at. So, rest in what peace you can KHOLAT (PS4) had had previous contact with Igor Dyatlov, Yuri Doroshenko, An atmospheric radioactive military materials. Yuri Krivonischenko, Zinaida video of the game Kolmogorova, Rustem Slobodin, provides a decent Provoked by this escape attempt Lyudmila Dubinina, Semyon synopsis of events these unidentified men undertook Zolotaryov, Alexander Kolevatov unnecessarily vicious actions. They and Nikolai Thibeaux-Brignolles: at ON DVD/BLU-RAY beat the foursome to death and least, with the unrelenting furore The Dyatlov Pass buried their bloodied bodies in a surrounding your fates, you won’t be Incident (2013) makeshift grave and, after having forgotten. 3 (Dir: Renny Harlin) carried out these murders, returned Click the cover to to the knot of humanity by the Next issue we’ll be asking a buy or you may be fire, made a report, and decided UFO novice for his thoughts as to able to find it on that they would simply leave the what, if anything, crashed on a New The Horror Channel remaining five to their frosty fate. Mexico ranch in July 1947. on Freeview

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INTERVIEW Michael Cremo Archaeological anomalies that challenge the accepted view of our human ancestry

n 1996, a book was released that of extreme human antiquity can be found posed serious questions about the in the writings of other ancient wisdom history of the human race. The book traditions. This was something very different was called Forbidden Archaeology: The than I had learned from my teachers in Hidden History of the Human Race and was school and university. So I wondered, are written by Michael Cremo and Dr. Richard these accounts of extreme human antiquity L Thompson. Within it’s pages was the simply mythology, or is there perhaps some hypothesis that modern man, Homo Sapiens, factual basis for them? That’s what inspired was not just tens of thousands years old but me to look into the history of archaeology. could possibly be millions of years old! This Of course if you look at the current theory proposed that modern-type humans textbooks you see only the discoveries that would have lived alongside our supposed are consistent with the currently accepted ape ancestors rather than be descended ideas about human origins and antiquity. But from them. I decided to look beyond the textbooks, into the original scientific reports, from the time Examining long-forgotten evidence of of Darwin up to the present. When I did that, Victorian-era discoveries, which went totally I found many reports of archaeologists and against the accepted Darwinian theories geologists finding human bones, footprints of the time, the book spanned over 900 and artifacts (of the kind normally attributed pages and certainly ruffled a few feathers to humans like us) that were far older than in mainstream academia and civilised 200,000 years. In many cases they were anthropology. Now, more than twenty years millions of years old. I collected those later and with a follow-up currently being reports in my book Forbidden Archaeology. written, we spoke to author Michael Cremo to ask why that same mainstream academia SOYM: There is indisputable evidence of continues to ignore that evidence and has hand-worked flint and stone hand tools yet to answer many of the questions raised - discovered in geological strata levels that although they do seem to be getting closer. date back millions of years, many of which you describe in the book. SOYM: How would you define the term MC: Yes, but the discoverers interpret them ‘Forbidden Archaeology’? in such a way as to fit modern evolutionary Michael Cremo: By “Forbidden Archaeology” expectations. For example, among the I mean archeological discoveries that are oldest stone tools recognized by modern dismissed by mainstream scientists. Primarily scientists are the crude stone tools found at because they show the existence of humans, the Lomekwi 3 site at West Turkana, Kenya, like us, predating the mainstream scientific which are 3.3 million consensus regarding the first appearance of years old. They modern humans nearly 200,000 years ago. were reported to *(since we spoke to Michael there have been ACADEMIA the scientific world a couple of interesting developments in this in 2015. Who made field. See panel opposite - Ed) IS DISMISSIVE OF them? According to mainstream SOYM: When did you first become ANY DISCOVERIES scientists it had to interested in the origins of humanity? be some variety of MC: As a young person, I explored different Australopithecus, the cultures and world views. I became THAT CONTRADICT apeman they believe especially attracted to the spiritual existed at that time. culture and world view of ancient India. THE DARWINIAN But archaeologists In the Puranas, the historical writings of have discovered that ancient India, I found accounts of human CONCEPT OF living populations populations existing in the very distant of humans in past, millions of years ago. Similar accounts EVOLUTION Ethiopia still make issue 01 42 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk FORBIDDEN ARCHAEOLOGY

similar crude stone tools. They strike flakes off of flint cores, and use them to scrape HUMANS: GETTING animal hides. So, regarding the Lomekwi OLDER ALL THE TIME stone tools, they could have been made by Following two significant discoveries in humans like us, not Australopithecus, 3.3 Africa this year, we asked Michael for his million years ago. comments on the recent developments in paleoanthropology. SOYM: Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace turned the biological world on it’s “In the years since Forbidden Archeology head in the 19th Century but Darwin himself was published scientists have been struggled to tie his theory of evolution to gradually pushing back the date of the the accepted human history of the time. first appearance of humans like us. In Why do think mainstream academia still 2017, scientists announced the discovery holds Darwinism with such esteem yet of Homo sapiens bones at Jebel Irhoud in seems to be unnecessarily dismissive of the Morocco, dated at 300,000 years. field of palaeoarchaeology? Although not yet universally accepted MC: Palaeoarchaeology means archaeology by archaeologists, the discovery is a tiny of the deep past, going back more than step in the right direction. But I believe ten thousand years. Mainstream academia scientists have a long way to go before is not dismissive of palaeoarchaeological they come to a correct understanding of discoveries per sé, as long as they are the extreme antiquity of our species.” consistent with the Darwinian evolutionary consensus on human origins, namely that Michael Cremo stands we were preceded by a sequence of more with Charles Darwin creatures intermediate between ancient primitive apelike creatures. They are, at the Natural History apes and modern humans. But they were however, dismissive of palaeoarchaeological Museum, Oxford not finding the intermediates. Throughout evidence for extreme human antiquity, the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s, archaeologists evidence showing that humans like us and geologists were finding evidence for existing long before 200,000 years ago. humans like us existing millions of years That is because this evidence goes so far ago. These discoveries were published in the back in time, it seems to contradict the mainstream scientific journals and displayed whole Darwinian evolutionary concept of not in the museums because at that early stage, only human life, but all life. That means some even for evolutionists, the timeline for the alternative is necessary, and the alternatives appearance of the first anatomically modern tend to involve the introduction of non- humans was not fixed. They had no reason material substances (such as consciousness to think that humans like us could not have existing independently from matter) and existed millions of years ago. That all some higher cosmic intelligence being changed with Eugéne Dubois’ discovery involved in our origins. But over the past few of Java Man in the 1890s in Indonesia. His centuries science has developed in such a discovery consisted of an ape-like skullcap way as to exclude non-material substance and a humanlike thighbone. So now and a higher guiding intelligence. And they scientists had their first missing link. It was want to keep it that way. It is interesting judged to be about 800,000 years old. that Alfred Russel Wallace, who along with From then on, scientists insisted that Darwin was the co-founder of the theory of humans like us had to come after that, long evolution, was a supporter of evidence for after that. As this became widely accepted, extreme human antiquity and introduced the same scientists had to decide what to non-material substance and intelligent do with the evidence for extreme human guidance into his ideas about our origins. antiquity that had been uncovered during Initially, the theory of evolution was called the previous decades. Naturally, it had to be the Wallace-Darwin theory. But after Wallace dismissed and if anyone else discovered any became involved with these other kinds of such evidence in the future, then that also ideas, his name was dropped. had to be dismissed or interpreted in such a way that it fit the evolutionary timeline. SOYM: So do you think the evidence for extreme human antiquity is more SOYM: Ocean levels are significantly higher suppressed now than in Victorian-era today e.g. with the UK being connected Britain? to the European continent as recent as MC: Yes. After Darwin published his Origin 8,000 years ago. Do you think there could of Species in 1859, scientists in Europe and be a wealth of information waiting to be elsewhere began to consider the idea that discovered under the coastal sea beds? humans like us evolved from primitive apes. MC: Yes. Actually marine archaeology is a So the search began for “missing links,” growing field. Some of the discoveries fit www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 43 issue 01 MICHAEL CREMO

THE GIRL WITH THE SUN IN HER EYES How the Beatles inspired the discovery of one of the world’s oldest hominid skeletons. Discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, ‘Lucy’ is a 3.2 million year old hominid belonging to the Australopethicus group. Found by Donald Johanson Java man - or what’s left of him, discovered in 1891-92 © Peter Mass via Commons Wikimedia and Tom Gray, in the remote Afar the conventional time line for human origins. pattern that emerges is one of coexistence region of Ethiopia, But some discoveries do not. Some years of all these types, not evolution of one from what turned out ago (2001 - Ed), some Canadian researchers another. to be an elbow reported sonar images of what appeared bone sticking to be the remains of a sunken city off the SOYM: There seems to be more opposition out of the desert western tip of Cuba. The remains were at a to ancient humans living in North America floor was quickly depth of about 2000 feet. The last time that than anywhere else in the world - with revealed to be an surface was dry land was many millions of the exception of Antarctica - with the almost complete years ago. Clovis culture still regarded as the origin skeleton of a point around 12,000 years ago despite hitherto unknown SOYM: With regards global discoveries overwhelming evidence to the contrary. upright-walking of ‘giants’ skeletons in the 19th and 20th Why do you think this is? species. Speaking centuries that were publicly displayed and MC: It could be it has something to do with to Scientific subsequently covered-up, where do you the politics of colonization of the Americas American in 2014 think they fit in the story of mankind? by the Europeans. Actually, the native Johanson related MC: Science tells us that in the past many American Indian populations, according how, in camp that kinds of plants and animals were bigger than to their own traditional histories, were night, the Beatles’ they are today. The deer were bigger, the always here. They were not recent arrivals. Lucy In The Sky bears were bigger, the trees were bigger. Acknowledging that might increase the With Diamonds So why not humans also? In the mountains legitimacy of their claims to the land. Also, was playing on of California you can see the California I think there is also some understanding the tape deck redwood trees. They are over 300 feet tall. among archaeologists that if discoveries while they were Some of them are thousands of years old. even slightly older than the Clovis culture are discussing with I think they are holdovers from that earlier colleagues age when living things, including humans, whether the find were bigger. was a female and the name stuck. SOYM: Do you think there’s something to SOME OF THE For the full article be said for the existence of similar larger click here. hominid species such as the Almas giants OLDEST STONE of Mongolia, or even Sasquatch (Bigfoot) in North America? TOOLS RECOGNIZED MC: In Forbidden Archaeology, I have a TALK chapter on evidence for the existence ABOUT THIS BY MODERN INTERVIEW of such creatures. It appears that today AND MORE humans like us are coexisting on this ONLINE planet not only with apes but also apemen SCIENTISTS ARE (hominids). And that was also true in the distant past. Apemen were there, apes 3.3 MILLION were there. And humans like us were also there. So if you look at all the evidence, the YEARS OLD issue 01 44 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk FORBIDDEN ARCHAEOLOGY

does get right, but the idea we evolved from WANT TO apes is not one of them. KNOW MORE? SOYM: Do you think there is any weight to Intrigued by our the theory of some kind of extraterrestrial introduction genetic intervention in our evolution as to Michael’s popularised elsewhere? MC: One common idea is that the process research into of human evolution went on pretty much ancient human as mainstream scientists say up to the ancestry? point of the apeman Homo erectus, about His books 400,000 years ago. Then they say some mentioned in the flesh and blood extraterrestrials came and article are widely manipulated the genes of Homo erectus to available. Click produce humans like us as a slave race. on the cover I do not accept that theory. There is images to buy or archaeological evidence that humans like us to learn more. The Laetoli footprints discovered in Tanzania are were present on earth long before 400,000 said to be around 3.6 million years old. years ago. I think the human presence goes © James St John via Flickr. Click the image to back to the very beginnings of life on earth. see more of his hominid photographs But I do believe our presence here is the result of an extraterrestrial intervention. accepted, then it will lead to acknowledging I have an expanded conception of what other even older discoveries that challenge extraterrestrial means. All bodies, including not just modern scientific ideas about the human bodies, are vehicles for conscious peopling of the Americas but also the whole selves. The conscious self is not produced by concept of human origins. The stone tools matter. It comes from another level of reality. found at the Calico site in California are The human body is a vehicle which we can about 250,000 years old. And then there use to transfer the conscious self back to the are the discoveries at Table Mountain in the higher level of reality from which we came. California gold mining region, reported to So in that sense, as conscious selves, we are the scientific world by Dr. J. D. Whitney in all extraterrestrials. I talk about this in my 1880s. These human bones and artifacts book Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative come from formations modern geologists to Darwin’s Theory. say are about 50 million years old. There are many other discoveries like this from North SOYM: What was the last book you read and South America. that grabbed your attention? MC: The Message of the Engraved Stones of SOYM: Is is fair to say that humanity is Ica by Javier Cabrera Daquera. I’ve known becoming more ignorant of our own history about the Ica stones from Peru for a long due to a reliance on technology and being time. These stones have engravings of spoon fed information? dinosaurs on them, among other things. The MC: It is a complex situation. The supporters engravings were allegedly made millions of of the dominant evolutionary theory of years ago, during the time of the dinosaurs. human origins have thus far continued I had my negative preconceptions about to maintain their complete control of the them. But reading the book I came to see educational institutions in most countries. them in a more favorable light. But at the same time they are not able to control all the ways that people get SOYM: The field of archaeology can be information through all the current pretty daunting by itself, do you have a channels of communication. Gallup surveys piece of advice for anyone who wants to have shown that the majority of people get started into alternative archaeology? in America do not accept the scientific MC: Alternative archaeology is a big field. establishment ideas about human origins My best advice is to pick an aspect of that and antiquity. It is an unstable situation, field. Do your research. Become expert in where you have an elite establishment it. And then communicate it, by writing, trying to force its views on a population that speaking, etc. Decide what audiences you does not really accept that view. Eventually, want to reach: the general public? People the people who are paying the taxes are interested in alternative ideas? Scientists? going to question why are we giving these Students? I try to reach them all. = people so much money to indoctrinate us in something we really don’t accept? Of For more information visit his website course, there are many things that science www.mcremo.com www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 45 issue 01 DO YOU WANT TO WORK WITH US? We’re always looking for talented writers, weird photos, paranormal stories and tales of UFO encounters Do you have a story to tell? Think you could write or recommend a feature for the magazine? Or know someone who could?

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