OUR COSMIC ANCESTORS MAURICE CHATELAIN Cover Art "The Astronaut" and Illustrations Thierry Chatelain Foreword Charles Berlitz Temple Golden Publications Sedona, Arizona OUR COSMIC ANCESTORS: Copyright © La Caravelle, 1987 Temple Golden Publications, 1988 P. 0. Box 10501, Sedona, Arizona, 86336 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of publisher, except for brief quotations for review. Parts of this book have already been published by Robert Laffont, Paris, 1975 Doubleday, New York, 1978 Dell, New York, 1979 Pan Books, London, 1980 Arthur Barker, London, 1981 ISBN 0-929686-00-4 CONTENTS Foreword 1 Introduction 5 The Apollo Spacecraft 9 The Constant of Nineveh 27 The Mayan Calendar 47 The Secret of the Pyramid 59 The Maltese Cross 77 The Rhodes Calculator 91 The Kings of the Sea 105 The Signs of the Zodiac 117 The Polar Mysteries 129 The Universal Calendar 143 The Four Moons 157 The Mystery of Atlantis 173 Extraterrestrial Civilizations 185 Mysterious Visitors 193 Conclusion 205 Bibliography 215 FOREWORD by Charles Berlitz As the Earth approaches what we might term planetary maturity, perhaps recognizable by the capacity of its inhabitants to discover and contact the elemental forces of the universe, intelligent forces from other parts of the cosmos seem to have discovered, and to be observing, Earth. These observers, commonly referred to for the last thirty years as UFOs, which may previously have been visitors to our air space for thousands or millions of years before their increased visitations in the present period, have in the past been afforded a variety of explanations by those who saw them. They were gods, dragons, ghosts, devils, signs of doom and portent, or messages and even messengers from God. Prophets from Earth have thought that they had conversed with such messengers and relayed their warnings to their people. Since the 1950's, a cresting new wave of unidentified earthly visitations has been reported in the skies, in the seas, and on the lands of almost all areas of Earth. Despite the ironical reporting of such phenomena in the local press and tendencies to discredit or a reluctance to follow up initial reports, both of which suggest a form of censorship from official sources, the actuality of these unidentified visitations will not vanish. No one among the millions who have personally observed UFOs will forget their convincing presence, and these include heads of state, astronomers, air force and navy personnel of many countries, civilian pilots, ship captains, police investigators, and countless other observers who would normally hesitate, because of their professional careers, before reporting a UFO. These witnesses are likely not to be swayed by superstition or popular emotion. As public credence begins to accept the invasion of UFOs in the skies of Earth, the frustrating question continues to pose itself with increasing frequency as to what those who direct the flights of UFOs desire from this planet. Are they looking for planetary living space? 1 For minerals? For water? Or, perhaps for food? Or are they looking or waiting for something that is not yet clear to us? UFOs, while demonstrating considerable curiosity about activities on Earth, especially atomic, space research, communication centers, and war zones, have not yet sent messages to representatives of the powers of Earth that we have been able to perceive; and, as there have been well-authenticated cases where UFOs have been fired upon in flight or even after landing by the local military, it is unlikely that those who send them, unless they are bent on conquest, will continue to risk the danger of direct contact with the suspicious and warlike inhabitants of Earth. However, landings continue to be made, many in isolated areas. The most recent count lists 1925 cases in 66 countries where physical traces of observed landings have been found imprinted or burned on the ground. More than 20% of these landing reports have included the sighting of crews or "humanoid creatures" from the UFOs by human observers. A notable observer of the UFO phenomenon, Maurice Chatelain, space scientist, a designer of the Apollo space craft, NASA Chief of Communications for the Apollo lunar missions, is of the opinion that there are messages to be read, for those able to read them, within the UFO landing patterns themselves and within the traces left by UFOs on the ground. Maurice Chatelain, working with other French researchers, has developed, with typical French dedication to innovative theories, convincing proof that advanced mathematical information is contained within the patterns of landing and also the imprints on the earth left by UFOs at the time of landing. It is their theory that this information is an opening gambit offered to the inhabitants of Earth for future communication. This information, when run through computers, has surprisingly and correctly given basic mathematical ratios which indicate a knowledge and sophisticated use of advanced mathematics. A message left by space visitors using mathematics as an international or interspatial language has a certain logic, since a knowledge of mathematics would be a necessity for space travel and would be recognized by some member of a planetary population such as ours, 2 just now preparing for the exploration of the cosmos. Maurice Chatelain, with his unique experience in space communications and data processing, is ideally suited to recognize such messages and their importance. The engrossing book that he has written traces a pattern of attempted contact by space travelers on what must seem to them the unfriendly surface of a minor planet, whose inhabitants have constantly misunderstood their motives and considered them enemies to be feared. Therefore, instead of direct contact, a series of mathematical messages are being offered to the people of Earth. If these messages are recognized and answered, it may prove to be the first step to finding intelligent allies in what many of us have feared to be an empty universe -- perhaps with as much reason as Europeans considered, before Columbus, that travel westward would lead to a pouring precipice of the waters over the flat edge of the world. Communications with UFOs may be more important than we presently realize, since there seems to be a continuing effort on their part to tell us something, if a key can be found to understanding them. Almost two centuries ago a key was discovered in Egypt, the Rosetta Stone which, through the efforts of Champollion, another Frenchman, unlocked much of the mystery of the distant past and opened the door to the surprising civilization of ancient Egypt. The key that will unlock the secret of extraterrestrial civilizations will undoubtedly open up information that will be even more surprising and considerably more important, since it will deal not with a segment of our past, but with the future of the world, and will concern us all. 3 INTRODUCTION Most American space flights, from Mercury and Gemini to Apollo, were followed by unknown spacecraft that could have come from another civilization in outer space and have already established bases on the Moon. The recent decoding of strange radio signals received from outer space seems to indicate that astronauts from Epsilon Bootis could have been in orbit around the Earth, at the same distance as the Moon, for the last 12,600 years. A clay tablet covered with cuneiform script and discovered in the ruins of Nineveh shows a huge number, 195,955,200 million, which represents expressed in seconds, an enormous period of time of 2268 million days or 6.3 million years. This period of time, which seems to have been computed 64,800 years ago, is an exact multiple of any astronomical cycle known so far and must, therefore, have been an astronomical constant of the universe. Mayan astronomers, whose chronology appears to go back to 49,611 BC, had computed enormous periods of time of 93 and 403 million years corresponding to cosmic cycles that we have just recently dis- covered. They had computed a long calendar of 5163 years based on the con- junctions of Jupiter and Saturn, and a shorter one of 104 years based on Mars and Venus. They knew that these conjunctions occurred exactly behind the Sun every 2,383 years, and that the same solar eclipse happened every 521 years on the same day of the year and the same point on the zodiac. The Mayan calendar of 14,040 days or 39 years was based on the coincidence of Mercury years of 117 days, sacred years of 260 days, solar years of 360 days, Venus years of 585 days, Mars years of 780 days, and Mars-Uranus conjunction cycles of 702 days. 5 The Great Pyramid was built according to the two mathematical fac- tors Pi of 22/7 and Phi of 89/55. Its volume and weight were exact fractions of those of the Earth, and all of its dimensions are related to astronomical cycles and conjunction periods. With the Sphinx and the other two pyramids, it clearly indicates the exact point where the treasure of the Pharaohs could be located. The Egyptian calendar, which seems to be related to the Mayan one, was established in 49,214 BC. It was based on the coincidence of solar years of 365 days, with Sirius years of 365 1/4 days every 1460 years and with Venus years of 584 days every 2336 years. A huge Maltese Cross made of thirteen ancient Greek temples and covering 540 kilometers across the Aegean Sea, has recently been discovered. It shows the perfect division of a circle into 28 equal sectors.