The Temple of Nim Newsletter

of

Blue Mountains UFO Research Club.

Vol. 2 Issue No 7

July 2006

Inside:
Special thanks. Out of the Dreamtime The Search for Australasias Unknown Animals. Spaniards were here before Cook. Return of the giant Mystery Space Station. Blue Mountains Triangle.

Newsletter of the Blue Mountains UFO Research Club July 2006.

Blue Mountains UFO Research Club News. Our meeting to be held Saturday 15th July 2006 at the Gilroy residence, 12 Kamillaroi Road, South Katoomba, from 2pm onwards.
We are situated on the corner of Kamillaroi Road and Ficus Street, and as we always say, park in Ficus Street where there is safer parking.

PLEASE NO SMOKING ON THE PREMISES. ALSO, NO LARGE BAGS IN THE CINEMA OR THE HOUSE. PLEASE NOTE. As this gathering is now by invitation only please contact us
prior to bringing along any new friends interested in UFOlogy and the mysteries generally. Anyone with any personal experiences involving UFOs or the unexplained are invited to share them with us all.
Contact Information: Phone: 02 4782 3441, Email: randhgilroy@optusnet.com.au

[or catch our website on www.google and type in Rex Gilroy.]. Bring a plate of food to share for afternoon tea. Our meetings are usually held on the third Saturday of each month.

Program for the 15th July.

UFO Documentaries. Archaeology Documentaries. Latest UFO Reports from the Blue Mountains. Any reports by members. As usual, weather permitting, there will be a Skywatch out on nearby Narrow Neck Peninsula.

And other surprises...

Rex and Heather Gilroy, Australias top UFO and Unexplained Mysteries Research team. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2004.

Special thanks to Heather Gilroy and all those who have helped in the production of Out of the Dreamtime The Search for Australasias Unknown Animals.
By Rex Gilroy. As the release of our landmark book on Australian Cryptozoology draws near I would like to extend my thanks to everyone who has assisted us in this monumental project which has taken up so much of our time for the past five years. Firstly, the creation of this book has been largely the work of my devoted wife and Number One field assistant, Heather, who has manned the computer daily to transfer my typed manuscripts for each chapter to disk. And then there have been the placing of 830 photos and the typing up of all the often lengthy captions that I had prepared to accompany all these photos. These captions contain extra sightings reports to go with the well over 3,000 case histories dealing with a wide variety of creatures, both land, sea and air. Heather has shown her expertise in recreating giant moas feeding on the Eglinton Valley grassland in New Zealands South Island, only the scene in the photo is real. Who knows, perhaps one day we just might snap the picture of a lifetime of a living extinct moa in a similar situation on one of our New Zealand expeditions! She accomplished a similar job, creating a mysterious New Guinea giant emu beside a native figure sketched by me. And then there have been field searches, both to obtain locality photos as well as any fresh evidence on a host of mystery land and coastal creatures. On a number of these searches, assisted by our other field assistant, our webmaster, Greg Foster. We have been lucky in turning up Australian panther tracks which we have produced plaster casts of. Together with Greg we have accomplished an incredible amount of field work. Greg and I have uncovered giant and other fossil hominid footprints in the Blue Mountains and Greg recently discovered fresh Yowie footprints at a Central Coast location, after which we made plaster casts of these. Were it not for Gregs much valued assistance many discoveries important to this and other books of ours to appear in the not too distant future, would not have been possible. Greg is assisting us in other aspects of our work of course, but these concern our other forthcoming books on the Yowie and other mystery creatures, Uru megalithic sites and other archaeological work. Greg has accomplished fantastic results in his creation of our Websites, which have brought much overseas attention to the Gilroys and their researches, demonstrating at the same time to overseas researchers, the wealth of Cryptozoological, Relict hominological, palaeoanthropological and archaeological evidence to be found throughout Australia and its island neighbours. Andrew Leese is another computer wizard who has done some highly appreciated book cover designs for the Gilroys [including some future books]. His cover design for Out of the Dreamtime The search for Australasias Unknown Animals, based upon an idea of mine, is superb. Our south coast New South Wales field assistants, Antji and Allan Westrip, have been of immense assistance, taking heather and I into the far south coast backblocks to investigate localities of mystery animal and hominid sightings, in the course of which Antji and I have uncovered such important relics as the endocast of a giant hominid at least 350,000 years old in the Wadbilliga wilderness. This was the first [almost complete] endocast skull-type found anywhere in the world and was later followed by a second equally huge example in the same vicinity as the first. These are to be seen in the relict hominid section of our book. If there is anyone we have forgotten, please accept this big THANK YOU, for helping to make our latest and important book the success that it will become

***** And now a word about our new book Out of the Dreamtime is divided into parts, each containing varying numbers of chapters dealing with various mystery creatures. For example, there
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is the section dealing with marsupial mysteries, which covers the Australian panther, Blue mountains Lion and other mysterious marsupial carnivores, as well as the extinct Thylacine. There is a big section dealing with reptilian monsters both sea and land-dwelling, which includes sightings of the extinct Australian Monitor, Megalania prisca; giant size sea and land snakes; living plesiosaurs in Australian and west pacific waters, such as along our coastline, the Hawkesbury River etc., in New Zealand, island Melanesia, New Guinea and elsewhere, together with living neodinosaurs from the Malaysian region and New Guinea, as well as Australia where the reader will meet the dreaded Burrunjor of ancient Aboriginal tradition in northern Australia, and which modern-day people claim to have seen, or else found their tracks. What is Burrunjor? The descriptions of this/these reptiles is that of a bipedal creature who carries off cattle, Aborigines and other lone travellers in the wilds of our far north! The book also contains sections on mystery sea monsters such as the giant squid and octupi, and the extinct 80ft or so length giant shark, Carcharadon megalodon [ancestor of the White Pointer] ; there are other mystery sea creatures covered, such as the Coelocanth, giant rays, giant seals and other fishy mysteries; the section on giant flightless birds contains chapters on giant emus of Australia and New Guinea, the extinct moas of New Zealand and among other sections there is the one covering relict hominids which would make up a book on its own. This is all in this book; giant hominids, lost pygmy tribes of the Blue Mountains and elsewhere; Yowies and Rexbeast giants; giant reptiles; stillsurviving dinosaurs, giant eagles, nightmarish man-swallowing gigantic snakes, living giant New Zealand [and smaller] moas; panthers, lions, tigers [sorry no Drop Bears!] of our vast wildernesses and more, much more. Stand by for the release date and price details. -

Heather Gilroy scanning photos for the new book, Out of the dreamtime The Search for Australasias Unknown Animals. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

Out of the Dreamtime The Search for Australasias Unknown Animals.

By Rex and Heather Gilroy. Australias leading husband and wife research team It has been five years in the making, but this latest book from the Gilroys is finally about to go to the printers. The book contains chapters on our mystery marsupial carnivores giant
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flightless birds of Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand. There are chapters on giant eagles, giant land and sea snakes, the extinct giant Australian monitor lizard [Megalania prisca], plesiosaur-type sea creatures in Australasian waters, particularly along the Australian, New Guinea to New Zealand coasts, including the Hawkesbury River Monster [ie plesiosaur] encounters; neodinosaurs in New Guinea and southeast Asia. There are chapters of the giant extinct shark, Carcharodon megalodon, giant squids, giant octopi, and living coelacanth reports from the Australian east coast. The section on relict hominids of Australia, New Guinea,/island Melanesia and New Zealand covers enough chapters to make a book in itself, and there are many, many more surprises in this monster-size book, already seen as the bible of Australian Cryptozoology. No other book like it, for sheer size and scope has ever been published before. It will show Cryptozoologists worldwide what Australia and its island neighbours have to offer in way of mysterious unknown species. This book gives the reader some idea of the countless adventures shared by Rex and Heather in their Australia-wide and New Zealand field investigations, all of which have not been without their hardships, in order to uncover evidence of such creatures as living moas in New Zealand, the so-called big cats [ie giant marsupial cats] or the Blue Mountains and other parts of Australia; the extinct Tasmanian Tiger on the Australian mainland., lost pygmy tribes of Australia, giant-size hominids and of course the Yowie. The book carries a strong conservation message with good advice for future budding Cryptozoologists. It has been the most challenging and difficult book so far produced by the Gilroys, an exhausting undertaking which has paid off with what Rex sees as a masterpiece of Australian Cryptozoological research findings. URU Publications will announce the release date and price details soon. -0-

The Hawkesbury River, as seen from the expressway heading north towards the road bridge at Moonee Moonee. This stretch of river continues to be the locale of sightings by fishermen and others, and encounters with the mysterious longnecks by Europeans date back to the early 19th century. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

Plesiosaurs of the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ago. Are these the longnecks of the Hawkesbury River?

The Hawkesbury River, as seen from the expressway heading north towards the road bridge at Moonee Moonee. This stretch of river continues to be the locale of sightings of fishermen and others as well as encounters with the mysterious longnecks by Europeans dating back to the early 19th century. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006. 5

A cast of a track of the giant form of the Blue Mountains Panther. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006. Rex Gilroy attempting to prepare plaster casts of two of the tracks. Grass made the preparation of good casts impossible. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

Rex Gilroy with a Yowie foot cast and a cast of one of his own foot for comparison. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

Heather Gilroy points towards the Wolgan Valley, Newnes where old shale mines, timber getters and farmers in the early days of the valleys history spoke frequently of encounters with the hairy giants that frequented the region. Photo The Giant Moa, dinornis giganteus. The Gilroys believe some may still survive in New Zealands South Island. Photo reconstruction by Heather Gilroy 2006.

The extinct giant flightless bird of Fiji, Ngani-vatu.

Spaniards Were Here Before Cook!

By Rex Gilroy.

Copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

Tales of a great southern continent rich in gold and other treasures, already many centuries old, inspired kings of Spain to equip expeditions to locate, and claim it for Holy Spain throughout the 16th century. In past club bulletins I have written of various finds made in Australia for generations supporting Spanish contacts, even long-term colonisation attempts. Greg Foster discovered a set of Spanish Latin doodle inscriptions [a form of shorthand used by Spanish and Portuguese during the 15th to 17th centuries] on a creek leading into the Parramatta River in 2002 bearing the year 1595, suggesting Spanish explorer-colonists had ventured up the Parramatta River. The translation of the inscription read: We of the galleon Santa Barbara, of 51 crew for Holy Spain, in search of gold, together with the San Felippe, with 51 crewmen, San Jeronimo, with 57 crew, Santa Catalina and Santa Isabel with 57 crew each, sailed in search of the West Land* of gold, on April 9th 1595, Alvaro Mendana de Neyra of the San Jeronimo our leader [Separated we sailed on]. We claim this land for Holy Spain. Santa Barbara and Santa Isabel were the names of two of Mendanas five ship leet which became separated in the Ellis Islands during his search for Australia. The fate of these vessels is unknown to historians, although Gregs find suggests that they found our shores, entering Sydney Harbour 178 years before Cooks voyage of discovery to our east coast [1770]. Other finds made by the author well before that, in the Willoughby area, suggested that a colony had been established in Sydney harbour well before 1595. A Latin inscription, with the image of a galleon, was found on Monday 3rd February 2003 at this site it reads: Lopes de Vega landed here in the Santa Isabel. Our gold we buried inland to the west [of here] in a deep hole. This implies that the Spaniards had sailed somewhere along our coast to locate gold-bearing deposits, either somewhere to our north, or south coasts, and for some reason buried their wealth somewhere in the Willoughby area. If this is so some wealthy North Shore residents house probably now sits on top of it! On that same day, I located another inscription beside a creek, it read: Isabel and Barbara viva! The Galleons dropped anchor three years ago in this land, claimed by the sign of the Cross, by Lopez de Vega of the ship Isabel for Holy Spain. Engraved by Nunez. Lopez de Vega is famous as Mendanas second in command who vanished with the Santa Isabel. It is now very likely that the Santa Isabel and Santa Barbara found they had been preceded by an earlier colonisation expedition, which had established itself on the Parramatta River, but which had been abandoned for some reason prior to de Vegas arrival. On Thursday 6th July 2006 Heather , myself and Greg visited a site in the Parramatta region discovered by him recently, and which contains an unknown number of Spanish letterings, ship engravings and other traces of an earlier settlement attempt. Upon a sandstone slab I uncovered fading Latin script in archaic letterings and a date. I afterwards translated it to read: Upon this place on the river [this message declares] homes are to be built for the settlement. Declared by Juan Eolla on the 5th day of June 1551 in the presence of the people. While exploring rocks for further script Greg stumbled upon a large human face, carved in relief out of a cliffside. It measured 50cm in height by 27cm in width and stands near further Spanish script. As the Spanish inscriptions are
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scattered up to a mile in length it is certain that a large settlement of men, women and children had been established here. Greg and I have already established the existence of a Spanish colony, founded at Gosford in 1515, as from a discovery in March 2003 on a mountain summit. This convinces us that the Spaniards were no mere casual or accidental visitors to our shores, and that they came vary close to permanently settling Australia. How different our history might have been had this happened. But what made them abandon these settlements? The fact is that the Spanish government had over-extended its resources and it was expensive to operate their colonies in the Americas, particularly in the wake of European wars that they had to fight. In Australias case their colonies became more and more isolated from their South American government, which gradually lost interest in establishing far-flung colonies. These they appear to have abandoned in favour of the Philippines. It is likely also that the growing number of Aborigines gradually led to the abandonment of these farming colonies of the Central Coast and Sydney region, in the wake of continuing attacks by the tribesmen, the colonists heading for the Philippines. Greg and I are still a long way from learning the full story from all the rock inscriptions we have yet to record, but whatever we find will only strengthen the evidence for the presence of Spanish colonists in the Sydney district generations before the birth of Captain James Cook RN! -0-

The Spanish face carving found by Greg Foster, Parramatta river area. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

Greg foster with the 1551 Spanish rock inscription found by him and Rex. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

Return of the Mystery Giant Space Station. Following our last meeting a number of club members carried out a Skywatch, which for the first time I decided would be on the grounds of the nearby Katoomba golf club. So together with cuddles John Lodge, Warren Jenkins and other we braved the cold to keep an eye on the eastern sky where I have seen a number of strange lights lately, and as reported in a previous bulletin, a light aircraft disappeared into a cloud and did not emerge. We split into two groups [or did certain people get lost in the dark?]. The time was around 7.30pm when we spotted a bright object beyond the earths atmosphere in the western sky. My binoculars picked it up clearly, it was the mysterious gigantic space station not seen for some months, and which often carries out manoeuvrers in the heavens covering considerable distances, as reported in previous club bulletins. Our enthusiasm was to be quickly dampened however, as clouds closed in from the east and we had to abandon the Skywatch. Better luck [with the weather] next time! Meanwhile Greg foster has been having some luck lately from his home in Blacktown. If anyone else has had any sightings lately, we all would like to hear about them at the meeting. -0Blue Mountains Triangle
by Rex Gilroy. As just about everyone knows by now, I will be speaking at the Queensland UFO Conference in Brisbane, to be held on Saturday-Sunday September 30th/1st October, organised by Sheryl and Martin Gottschall. [I am speaking on the Saturday]. The subject of my talk will be Blue Mountains Triangle and I am preparing the talk now with new illustrations for the slide I will be presenting. This talk will concern the many mysterious alien abductions, disappearances of people and aircraft over the years within the vast region covered by the Triangle and the great underground Blue Mountains top-secret US-Australian Advanced space travel technology research base will be shown to be playing a part in much of the mysterious phenomena going on throughout the region. Much new material will be used by me in this talk. The forthcoming UFO book is a complete departure from our first, and is the first of others I plan to produce in the future on various aspects of the Australian UFO scene. You can expect some big surprises. ***** Despite denials from defence officials over the years, mystery lights still appear in the Burragorang and Wollemi wildernesses, and strange craft are seen to emerge from, or fly into certain parts of these areas. My talk will reveal among other things, that these entrances are well camouflaged with sliding doors which slide open and close. Some campers in recent yeas have reported having observed saucer and other strange craft to emerge from, or fly into certain gullies, but which upon inspection showed nothing. Obviously these craft disappear into underground camouflaged entrances.
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The vast underground complexes are far more extensive than previously suspected, and every effort is being made by both the Australian and American military to keep people well clear of these areas. That patrols by armed troops ensure that no unauthorised people get anywhere near these operations is well known, and some hikers and campers who have inadvertently met up with these armed troops have been fired upon. Some who have been caught have been taken away never to be seen again. There is the recent case of the UFO which passed over Narrow Neck Plateau coming in from the north at low altitude, and which crashed into the north side of the ridge, behind which lies one of the Burragorang entrances. This incident, which occurred at night, was observed by sightseers out on the narrow Neck dirt road as it flew low over them, to crash in the distance. At first light military helicopters were seen by other people, to drop troops into the crash site, cables were attached to wreckage, and after a number of flights back and forth over the ridge, the wreckage was obviously removed. This has happened with other aircraft which have mysteriously crashed when flying too close to the base area! A Mr Darren Griffin of Hornsby New South Wales, back in 1974 visited me at my then Mt York Natural History Museum at Mt Victoria. An avid bushwalker, he spoke of many things he had seen in the bush over the years. On one occasion, out in the Newnes forest country, camping one night with friends, they were woken from their sleeping bags at the sound of a very loud explosion. The treetops were lit up by a massive glowing object, which exploded in a deep swampland gully some distance away. At the time we thought a large passenger aircraft had crashed, but the density of the forest made any investigation at night impossible for us. We attempted to reach the crash site at first light. The whole area was silent, no bird sounds. Reaching a clifftop overlooking the gully, we were met by thick, swirling mist. It was eerie. We worked our way down a steep swampy slope but could see nothing in that mist, nor could we see any signs of burnt scrub or scorched earth, so we all got out of that place. Another thing, we discovered our compasses were going haywire. There were no newspaper or other media mention of any aircraft disappearing over the Blue Mountains at the time to my knowledge, he said. This incident, which happened in January 1964, occurred at the time of another flap of UFO reports on the Blue Mountains. About August 1970 a UFO was claimed to have crashed in the Wollemi scrub. People descended on the locality, which was inland from Putty, but apart from an extensive area of burnt trees and shrubbery on the edge of a swamp, nothing more was found. The late Don Boyd, former editor of Psychic Australian Magazine, once informed me of an incident which took place in 1978, between Denman and Muswellbrook, when a family visited a UFO next on a property. In the vicinity of a 30ft [about 9.14m] circular deep depression on a farmers back property, they found embedded in dried sandy soil, the indistinct impressions of three slim-looking bodies with portions of legs and arms visible, and the indistinct impressions of heads, which the people said later, sort of resembled those heads of space aliens you seen in books! The Denman-Muswellbrook area falls just within the northern border of the Blue Mountains Triangle. From about here it extends southward along Mulgoa and the southern highlands to Goulburn, from where its western border region extends northwards up to Mudgee. The epicentre of much of the activity to be covered in my Brisbane talk being concentrated in the Burragorang-Wollemi region. My talk will cover such mysteries as a swirling mass of mater with a back hole into which some light aircraft flyers have claimed to have been drawn, and which upon emerging on the other side, have found themselves hundreds of kilometres from where they should be! The Gilroy talk will cover time window abductions as well as revealing other startling disclosures. This talk will mark my 50th anniversary as an UFOlogist [it
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make me feel old!] so Heather and I hope to see everyone able to attend this conference, which promises to be enjoyable as all the Gottschall conferences are.

Copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

Rex Gilroys sketch of a saucer base in the Burragorang Valley. Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

.Next Issue:

More surprises, and of course your valuable reports.

Our previous meeting was a huge success and we look forward to seeing another big roll-up at our next one. There should be some good Skywatches ahead of us up here at Katoomba, weather permitting. Meanwhile, theres a lot happening up there at present so, until our next meeting Watch the Skies! Rex and Heather.

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