Post by Laurance on Sept 1, 2010 18:00:27 GMT 1
Writings from Space
First we’ll take a look at the John Reeves Case, it has be denounced a hoax in many circles but it cannot be 100% confirmed. It does have some interesting features.
John Reeves lived near Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida, and his first encounter took place on March 2nd 1965, while he was walking in a near by woods. He saw a landed UFO and hid in the bushes. He observed an entity walking around and came within 15 feet of where Reeves was hiding. The entity then looked in his direction, take something from his left side, lifted it to his chin and then there was a flash. Reeves guessed he had his photo taken. The entity took another before walking back to the craft and climbed inside. Reeves described the ‘Robot’ as follows:-
“He was about five foot tall. He wore a grey-silver suit, some kind of a canvas suit, and on his head he had a glass dome, sitting right up on top of his shoulders, and I could see right inside that… The skin was a very dark skin… But his eyes were further apart than a human being. His nose and mouth was the same as ours, but the chin was a little bit pointy. He had some kind of a thing up over his head, something very thin that went over the top of his head to cover his hair. It came down past his ears and you could see his eyebrows. I called him Robot because he is from outer space, but he was a human being just the same as we are.”
After the craft had taken off, Reeves found two pieces of folded paper like tissue paper where the craft had stood. They bore strange writing like ‘Oriental writings or shorthand writing’. This was later deciphered, and it read: “Planet Mars- Are you coming home soon- We miss you very much- Why did you stay away too long’.
This was not the only time Reeves was to have an encounter, on December 4th 1966 Reeves was disturbed by his dog barking, when he got up and looked outside his window he saw a craft with its lights blinking. He called local UFO investigators, who came out immediately, and they found ‘alien footprints’ in the sand, together with holes left by the ‘four legs of the craft’s landing gear’. The ‘footprints’ were followed for about a quarter of a mile and they were 11 inches long and dumbbell shaped. According to the investigators, similar tracks were left at the site of the first landing Reeves had witnessed. Strange metal objects were also picked up and were taken for analysing, which found out they contain titanium. This is similar to another case in where ‘Venusians’ spoke to a Mrs Cynthia Appleton in the 1950’s looking for a substance called ‘titium’.
An intriguing footnote on this case though is provided by Dr Berthold Eric Schwarz, who reported that in 1957 (eight years before the first Reeves contact) a nine year old girl without warning scribbled indecipherable script on the nearest piece of paper. Her father saved the paper and then years later came across a magazine with pictures of Reeves space message. He was shocked to realise that the first thirteen characters of the message were exactly the same as what his daughter had written. Dr Schwarz also interviewed John Reeves and became aware of the complexities in the case, realising as a psychiatrist, that to label such a case as a hoax was far too simplistic an answer.
There are not many UFO event where as much physical evidence is left as a writing, footprints and metal objects such as the Reeves case. There have been a few other instances where written messages were found, but these are usually dismissed as hoaxes. One such case was the Silpho Moor disc, a metallic object 18 inches in diameter which allegedly landed on the moor near Scarborough, North Yorkshire in November 1957. Hieroglyphics were inscribed on the outside, and when the object was cut open a copper tube containing seventeen thin copper foil sheets with more hieroglyphs were found. The message inscribed on the outside read: “Friends. Message inside to be dealt with by philosophers, not officials. Good wishes, Ulo.” The inside message began:
“My name is Ulo and I write this message to you my Friends on the Planet of the Sun you call Earth. Where I live I will not say. You are a fierce race and prepare travel. No one from any other planet ever has landed on earth, and your reports to the contrary are faulty. Men cannot travel far in space vehicles owing to sudden changes in speed direction and many other reasons. They are machines, part at our ‘control’, part ‘auto-control’ to avoid objects in the way. It is impossible to receive radio over far distances owing to natural waves in space unless key of several frequencies is used, but we can receive single frequencies from near transmitter recorder in space vehicles.”
Another correspondent called Tarngee continued the message, which was very long. She included warnings about atomic weapons.
“The message I give you is of atomic energy for destruction. The bombs which the two main powers made when exploded will destroy most animal life on earth and to make it not for long habit by survivors. Any small argument may result in full war then one side after long war will wish to finish it and use atomic bombs… Also testing bombs is dangerous. You say it is no danger at present rate after thirty years but rate increases and that time is short. Our recording vehicles on return are sometimes found to have atoms radiating and we can’t touch except by machine.”
Although the case is generally accepted to be a hoax, it seems an elaborate and purposeless once, and the perpetrator has never been identified (Even though some have said they admitted it to a select few ‘officials’). The translator of the message, Philip Longbottom, who devoted many hours to the task, concluded:
“The whole thing is not just a simple substitution code, but is a very complicated effort. To make up a complete ‘language’ like this would seem to be out of all proportion to a hoax, however elaborate. Like any other translator, one tends to get ‘inside’ the thoughts and feelings of the person who wrote the original, and I firmly believe that this is not a ‘made-up’ language, but one in constant use. The whole thing flows so easily, and yet contains the natural mistakes that one would expect, considering the difference between our written and spoken word.”