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Twilight Reflectivity
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Calendar, p. 12
UFO Marketplace, p. 23
Night Sky, p. 24
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sure the audience would like to hear field of view of a telescope is very Francis Barwood to find out more. Ten
the story. small and the time during which a years later, Symington admitted that he
He told us that he had been flying flying object, plane, bird, or UFO had seen the triangle that night. He was
an Air Force plane over the Pacific would be within view is very brief. also a pilot and generally familiar with
when another plane, 20 miles ahead, When I lived in Pittsburgh, Penn- the sky. At the time he had legal
radioed that there was a saucer sylvania, 40 years ago, I was told that problems and didn’t want the attention
heading his way. Gun cameras were of 100,000 pictures taken of the sky by a positive report would have brought
used to take pictures as it approached. the Allegheny Observatory, only five him.
The pilot radioed the base to which gave an indication of a bird or plane, One must also remember General
they were headed. Upon arrival the despite the probable large number of Bolender’s 1969 comment that reports
film was taken from the gun cameras, birds and planes flying by. People are of UFOs which could affect national
the crew was debriefed and told to often quite surprised when I point out security were not part of the Blue
never say anything about it. I should that an aspirin tablet held at arm’s Book system. One wonders whether
stress that the pilot didn’t get a chance length can cover the moon. They often the files of the French government’s
to see the footage. He had “no need to guess it would take a quarter or half UFO investigations (recently placed
know.” dollar. The moon seems large but how on the internet) include reports of
A similar situation exists for many of us have observed a plane aircraft chasing UFOs or being
footage taken of rocket launches by flying across the face of the moon? attacked by them.
high performance cameras to assure The field of view is actually small and
that problems are noted, but which crossing time is very short. Stan Friedman fsphys@rogers.com
also have on occasion recorded www.stantonfriedman.com
It’s Human Nature to Watch
saucers near the rocket. This data is
born classified. The film taken by spy Another problem standing in the * I still have a few CDs with 10 scans of
satellites is also born classified as is way of getting good pictures is human the original negative and prints available for
any interested parties for only $15 from
footage taken by cameras recording nature. I talked to a California police
UFORI, POB 958, Houlton, ME 04730-0958.
military radar screens. Yes, we do officer who had been standing next to
have cameras capable of reading his patrol car when a UFO went over.
license plates on cars in the parking lot It was only after it was gone that he
of the Kremlin. That film is obviously remembered that he had a camera in
off limits. the car. An engineer told me he was
on the sidewalk in front of his house
It’s Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a UFO
when he spotted a saucer in the sky.
What about all those astronomers He stood there gawking at it, not
using fancy telescopes? People seem thinking to call a neighbor down the
to think that astronomers at an obser- street who always had a loaded
vatory are walking around looking for camera. Curiosity and the desire to
something to observe with their observe as much as he could pre-
telescopes. In truth, essentially all vented him from seeking another
telescopes have their viewing witness, even one with a camera.
preplanned and controlled by comput- Furthermore, I would bet that
ers. Rarely do astronomers look there are lots of pictures that have
through telescopes. Film and CCDs never seen the light of day because
(charge-coupled devices, a type of the photographer did not want any MUFON Members
image sensor) are used. It’s important attention or may have been concerned
to understand that telescopes are about ridicule or notoriety. It is inter- Message Board
normally focused on objects such as esting that Fife Symington, the Arizona
planets, stars and galaxies at a great governor during the 1997 Phoenix mufonmembers.proboards55.com
distance, and are not focused at points Lights sightings, ridiculed the reports Password: Hynek1947
within the atmosphere. Obviously the and the efforts of City Councilman (case sensitive)
Other Ancient Artifacts formations of erratic, unusual stones.) Ancient Songs of Edda tell the tale
A photograph of one of the balls is
Part Five Jan Hurnik has developed a theory
presented here. Obviously this area is on
about the Ancient Songs of Edda, the
The region near the Cave of the my list of places to visit when I return to
oldest known historical records, which
Half Moon presents a number of inter- the Moonshaft area.
came from Iceland. The songs are writ-
esting artifacts dating back beyond 4,000 Wall of the Giants, Fossa Giganteum ten in Old Icelandic, considered to be the
BC. My good friends Robert
The stone balls are just 20 miles from remnant of an ancient world language.
Lesniakiewicz and Dr. Milos Jesensky
the north end of the Wall of the Giants (The Slovak language is also very simi-
have alerted me to artifacts located west
(Fossa Giganteum). The wall begins at lar to this ancient language, perhaps
of the Moonshaft area.
the hill Sitno in the Stiavince Mountains more similar than the Old Icelandic.)
Devilish Balls and runs from the northern to southern Hurnik theorizes that the Edda songs
borders of Slovakia through the villages allude to events that occurred in the loca-
The villagers call one area the Place
Pecenice and Dudince to the River Ipel. tion of present Slovakia. Later people
of Devilish Rocks and Balls. It is located
some 60 miles from the Moonshaft site, Part of the Wall forms a
near the Slovakian-Czech border in the “natural” border be-
Javorniky Mountains. The stone balls tween the two counties
found there measures from 1.0 meter of Zvolen and Levice,
to 3.05 meters in diameter. and is clearly recogniz-
Lesniakiewicz reports: “They are able today. Another well
from the Tertiary period, but nobody preserved part of the
knows how these balls originated. Other Wall is in Dudince east
strange artifacts called the “spherical from Levice.
negatives” are empty spaces in the rock Stones forming the
bodies with a very regular ball shape. Wall appear to have
Dr. Jesensky and I presented our favor- been fused together by
ite theory, that these balls are remnants of intense heat.
an ancient civilization(s), which had ex- The length of the
isted there for many thousands of years. Wall is 80 km and its
“The problem of the devilish stones width is 8 meters. It is
has been researched by Polish ufologists believed the prehistoric
since the 1970s, when they realized that Wall is at least 7,000
UFOs very often appeared in the vicin- years old. It is men-
ity of those erratic stones and other tioned as Fossa
megalithic constructions, such as rings Giganteum in manu-
of alles stones in the Diry, Wesiory and scripts from the 13 th
Grzybnica-Rosnowo villages. They are century. Ancient Edda
not so impressive as Stonehenge, but songs also mention the
they were erected 6,000 or even 8,000 Wall.
Stone ball—“devilish ball”— in Tatra Cave
years ago.” (Alles stones are ring-shaped area of Slovakia
20 MUFON UFO Journal April 2007
Atlas Almon Mathis and family in 1928. Mathis’s statement about what he saw in the coal
mine near Heavener, Oklahoma.
abandoned their homeland and traveled Herald wrote: “Capt. Lacy of signed statement describing the find:
elsewhere and in this way the songs Hammondsville, Ohio, had some men “In the year 1928, I, Atlas Almon
reached Iceland. engaged in making an entry into his coal Mathis, was working in coal mine No. 5
These events must have happened bank, when a huge mass of coal fell located two miles north of Heavener,
prior to the Neolithic revolution (5000 down, disclosing a large, smooth wall, Oklahoma. This was a shaft mine and
BC in the Slovakian region), because the upon the surface of which were plainly they told us it was two miles deep. The
Old Icelandic language did not include carved several lines of hieroglyphics. No mine was so deep that they let us down
agronomical terminology. one has yet been able to tell in what lan- into it on an elevator. The elevator was
Stonehenge-like Structure guage the words are written. The let- released at the top and fell so fast that I
ters are raised; the first line contains 25.” was weightless and my dinner bucket
On my second trip to Slovakia I was The men discovered this wall about would turn upside down and the bail
taken by the director of the Kezmarsky 100 feet below the surface. Consider- would hold it to my arm, however, the
Hrad into the underground chambers ing its location beneath the coal the age gallon of water in the bottom of it would
beneath the castle. I was allowed to see must be considerable. The Scientific not spill out. This elevator would fall at
many photographs from World War II American for January 14, 1886, carries least several seconds at this rate and then
which have not been released to the a report from the Lexington (Kentucky) they gradually slowed the elevator till it
public. In one small chamber were old pho- Weekly Press that tells of the massive stopped at the bottom. They pumped air
tographs of a structure very similar to wall: “It had every appearance of hav- down to us, it was so deep.
Stonehenge. I was not allowed to copy ing been built by human hands. Above it “Tom Davidson was in charge of the
these images but was told the structure about ten feet of drift and twenty feet mine. Lu Elders, Monti Claiborn, ?
still stands not too far east of the castle. of rock had been removed by the work- Dawes, Bill Gresky, John Raiborn and a
When I return I plan to try to get per- men, and on the side exposed the men young fellow by the name of Mattox
mission to visit this site. had advanced fully forty feet from where were working there also.
Unexplained Walls in the USA they first struck rock. Thus it was firmly “One night I shot 4 shots in room 24
embedded in a solid limestone quarry which of the mine and the next morning there
Much closer to home I have located certainly was formed about it since the were several concrete blocks laying in
two underground walls. When funding wall was built.” the floor.” Atlas A. Mathis
is available I plan to investigate these The second wall, located in south- Atlas told his grandson the wall was
sites personally. The first site is near ern Oklahoma, was discovered deep in highly polished and that another miner
Hammondsville, Ohio. a coal mine in 1928. One of the miners struck this same wall about 100 to 150
Writing from Wellsville, Ohio, in present when the wall was found left a
1868, a correspondent of the Cleveland Continued on page 22
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