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- January 29, 1992
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- PIRI.ASC
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- This file shared with KeelyNet courtesy of Brian Murphy.
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- 189/190 05 Aug 89 16:46:00
- From: Michael Corbin
- To: All
- Subj: Flying Saucers-Top Secret
- Attr:
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- To All:
-
- I have been reading a book by Major Donald Keyhoe titled 'Flying
- Saucers - Top Secret'. This book was copyrighted (C) 1960 by Donald
- Keyhoe. As you may know, Maj. Keyhoe was the Director of NICAP
- (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon) back in the
- late 50's and 60's. I ran across a very interesting chapter,
- Chapter 16, which deals with the Navy investigation of a map which
- was discovered which caused them a great deal of concern. I am
- reprinting part of that chapter here for information. I am also
- interested in knowing if anyone might have further information on
- this map for discussion.
-
- Major Keyhoe is in a meeting with Captain John Brent and Commander
- Larsen. Captain Brent was one of Major Keyhoe's classmates at the
- Naval Academy. Keyhoe has arranged the meeting to ask about reports
- that there had been UFOs 'observing rocket launchings at Cape
- Canaveral. And another report, from a missile technician at a
- different base, said they'd had to hold up launchings several times
- because of UFO interference.' During the discussion, the story
- comes out about the map....
-
- "Why do you think UFOs are watching us?" I asked.
- "They may be afraid we'll cause trouble out in space," said
- Larsen. "And they'd have reason to worry, if they were dealing
- with Soviet space fleets."
-
- "Have you ever thought," Captain Brent asked me quietly, "that
- the earth might be a colony started by another world?"
- I looked at him, startled. "I've heard it suggested, but--do
- you actually believe it?"
-
- "I'm certain of this much," replied Brent. "A race far more
- technically advanced than we are today was on earth thousands of
- years ago." He swung around to a cabinet, took out a folder.
-
- Page 1
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- "The Hydrographic Office of the Navy has verified an ancient
- chart--it's called the Piri Reis map--that goes back more than
- 5,000 years. It's so accurate only one thing could explain it--
- a worldwide aerial survey."
- "That's almost incredible!" I said.
-
- "The Hydrographic Office experts couldn't believe it, either, at
- first. But they no only proved the map genuine, it's been used
- to correct errors in some present day maps."
-
- Commander Larsen leaned forward. "Tell him about the seismic
- soundings."
-
- "All right." The captain turned back to me. "The Director of
- Weston Observatory of Boston College is a top seismologist -
- Reverend Daniel Linehan, Society of Jesuits. He's so good that
- the Navy got him to help in the Antarctic, to find where there
- was land under the ice.
-
- The coast lines they found were identical with those on the Piri
- Reis map. So the map surveys would have to have been made
- centuries ago, before the land was buried by that deep ice.
-
- "Father Linehan revealed this on a Georgetown University Forum, as
- proof that this map is genuine. The forum transcript also
- contains statements by the Hydrographic Office engineer in charge
- of the evaluation of the map -- Mr. M.I. Walters.
-
- Other significant points were made by A.H. Mallery, a retired sea
- captain--he's the man who persuaded the Navy to examine the Piri
- Reis map, after he realized how important the old chart was."
-
- So far, Captain Brent told me, only part of the complete Piri
- Reis map had been found, a section covering the coasts of South
- America, Africa and a portion of Antarctica. He showed me a copy
- of the ancient chart, then read the main points of the
- transcript.
-
- Early in the sixteenth century, Admiral Piri Reis, Turkish Navy, had
- acquired a map used by Columbus. Combining it with Greek maps
- dating back to Alexander the Great, he compiled a world chart in
- 1513.
-
- In 1953, a Turkish naval officer sent the Piri Reis map to the Chief
- Engineer of the United States Navy Hydrographic Office. To evaluate
- it, the Chief Engineer asked the aid of Captain Mallery, an
- authority on old maps, who had previously worked with him.
-
- After a long study, Mallery discovered the projection method used.
- Confirming this and other technical points, the Navy cartographers
- came to these conclusions:
-
- 1. Columbus had a map, on his historic voyage to America, which
- showed the coasts of Yucatan, Guatemala, South America to
- the Straits of Magellan and a large part of the Antarctic
- coast.
- 2. The original maps went back at least 5,000 years, and some
- data shown went back even farther. Part of the land areas
- shown had been buried under ice for twenty centuries or
-
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- more.
- 3. Only highly trained survey teams and cartographers could
- have produced charts of such "amazing accuracy." Their
- operations must have covered the entire earth.
-
- "We don't know how they could do it so accurately without the
- airplane," Captain Mallery summed it up. Captain Brent put down the
- transcript.
-
- "Mallery was right. They couldn't have done it without some type of
- flying machine. And there are other indications of a highly
- advanced technology thousands of years before Christ."
-
- "But couldn't there have been an advanced earth race?" I inquired.
-
- "Archaeologists have found evidence of other lost civilizations."
-
- "Yes, but no trace of factories, laboratories or fuel plants. It
- would have taken a huge industry to build and maintain such an air
- fleet. But spaceships from another world wouldn't require any of
- that--they'd bring what they needed, just as we intend to do in our
- own space explorations.
-
- "For the first stages, our men will live aboard their ships, after
- landing on the moon and Mars. This unknown space race could have
- done the same thing, and from that point we've worked out several
- possible developments."
-
- Using the Piri Reis map evaluations, Captain Brent and Larsen had
- assumed spaceship landings at least 10,000 years ago. Before
- deciding on a colony, said Brent, the unknown explorers undoubtedly
- would have tested our atmosphere, gravity and other living
-
- conditions, to make sure their race could adjust to life on earth.
-
- If overpopulation on their own planet had led them to plan a large
- scale migration, they would plan a civilization like their own, as
- far as possible. Technically trained groups would be brought in
- first, then basic equipment, just as we plan for our own space
- colonies. Following this, emigrants from their own world would be
- ferried to earth in huge spaceships.
-
- "That's simple logic," said Captain Brent. "Our own planners expect
- giant spaceships, for this same purpose, within a century or two."
-
- "Yes," I said, "but if this had happened there'd surely be signs of
- advanced construction--different and better than anything we have
- today."
-
- Captain Brent agreed. "That's why we think something must have
- stopped them during the early stages. Possibly it was disaster on
- their own planet--accidental nuclear explosions, or an epidemic, or
- interplanetary war.
-
- Even if their world survived, the earth colony might be almost
- forgotten as they rebuilt. It could be centuries before their
- descendants got around to checking up."
-
- Meantime, Captain Brent continued, descendants of the first colony
- on earth would have developed on entirely different lines. When the
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- spaceships failed to return, the colony members would be concerned
- mainly with survival.
-
- Lacking machines and other technical equipment, they would be forced
- into a primitive life, their advanced civilization but an unhappy
- memory. To later generations, struggling for existence, the link
- with another world would seem only a myth--if thought of at all.
-
- "And the net result," concluded Brent, "would be the same if the
- first group was deliberately abandoned here."
-
- "Abandoned?" I said. "But why should they be?"
-
- "To get rid of undesirables."
-
- "That's an ugly thought."
-
- "I don't mean criminals necessarily," replied the captain. "Though
- turning a planet into a Devil's Island isn't impossible."
-
- Commander Larsen grimaced. "Being banished like that - most people
- would prefer a death sentence."
-
- Further....
-
- As I went out to the parking lot, I thought of another angle to the
- colony theory. What effect would this have upon religion?
-
- At first, it appeared to deny the Biblical story of man's creation.
- But the landing of spaceships on an already inhabited world would
- pose no such problem, and the space race still could have played a
- vital part in our civilization. Ten thousand years ago, spaceships
- could have landed with no opposition. The primitive tribes then on
- earth would have been awed, probably frightened into hiding. ....
-
- ...More and more, I realized the difficulties of preparing the
- public. The most peaceful contact, even with beings like ourselves,
- would have a tremendous impact, raising a hundred questions.
-
- Why wasn't the CIA, or whatever agency was in control, already at
- work on a program of prepartion?
-
- Perhaps they were working on preparation. Recently, Don Ecker
- uploaded a file (USAFTXT.FIL) which contains the chapter removed
- from USAF training manuals dealing with the subject of UFOs. In
- this manual, there is discussion of possible involvement with UFOs
- going back as far as 50,000 years.
-
- This material was being widely taught to cadets in prepartion for
- their military careers until publicity after the Condon Committee's
- recommendation to disband Project Bluebook brought unfavorable
- criticism to the Air Force for teaching this despite the findings
- that UFOs are not real.
-
- The main point here is that apparently there was enough concern and
- curiousity on the part of the military to study the Piri Reis maps
- and conclude that they were authentic and the other conclusions that
- were derived from that study to indicate that they were sufficiently
- concerned about the UFO phenomenon to connect them with the maps.
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- Another interesting note in this material is the conclusions that
- the military was drawing out of it in regards to the ancient
- civilizations.
-
- Mike
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