by Len Kasten
The 1964 rendezvous occurred almost exactly as planned. Two Eben craft entered our atmosphere during the afternoon of April 24, 1964. After an initial mix-up, one landed just west of Holloman Air Force Base, near the southern entrance to the White Sands Army Base, precisely at the designated location. The alien visitors were greeted by sixteen senior U.S. government officials. It is not known whether President Lyndon Johnson was among them. The Ebens brought electronic translating devices with them to facilitate communications. The remains of the eleven dead aliens were taken on board. Anonymous does not give the agenda of the meeting, but it is believed they presented us with the “Yellow Book,” a complete history of planet Earth.
The twelve astronauts were ready to board at that meeting and waited on a bus, but the aliens decided then that the exchange should wait until 1965. Then, in July 1965, an alien craft returned, this time to a prearranged location on the Nevada Test Site (NTS), a huge Department of Energy reservation about 95 miles north of Las Vegas previously used for testing atomic weapons. Very much like the scene in Close Encounters, this was a simple, unceremonious, working meeting. The twelve courageous astronauts boarded the Eben craft along with forty-five tons of supplies for an intended stay of ten years. Four of them would never see Mother Earth again. Two would die, and two would choose to remain on Serpo. The others would not return until thirteen years later.
“WE SEE TWO SUNS”
The following information is taken from selections from the diary of the team commander that were included in the original twenty-one e-mail release from Anonymous. The trip to Serpo took ten months, during which the astronauts experienced considerable discomfort. They were offered Eben food, but all agreed that it tasted like paper, and they stuck with the C rations they had brought along. The commander recounts the second day on board: “We sat in the chairs and a clear container was placed over us and the chair. We were isolated in this bubble or sphere. We could breath [sic] OK and could see out, but we really felt dizzy and confused. I think I fell asleep or fainted. I think this is another day, but my watch says one hour since we sat.” They used small metal containers for elimination, which the Ebens emptied for them. Eventually, they were able and allowed to wander freely around the enormous ship. The team was able to communicate with Earth HQ at Kirtland Air Force Base using the alien device for the entire trip. Prior to reaching Serpo, the team member known as 308 had some sort of accident and died of a pulmonary embolism. The Ebens were respectful of the funerary rites of the astronauts but then took possession of the body.
The team commander’s account of the landing is memorable. “We see the planet for the first time. We walk down the ramp. Large number of ebens waiting for us. We see a large eben, largest one we have seen yet . . . I guess this guy is the leader. About one foot taller than the others. The leader tells us we are welcome to planet . . . we are lead [sic] to an open arena. Looks like a parade field. The ground is dirt. Looking up, I see blue skies. The sky is very clear. We see two suns. One brighter than the other. The landscape looks like a desert, Arizona or New Mexico. No vegetation that we can see. There are rolling hills but nothing but dirt . . . The brightness is almost too much for our eyes without sunglasses . . . What a planet.” They were quartered in four huts that appeared to be adobe-like, and all their gear was stored in an underground facility. The temperature was 107°F. The buildings all had lights and electricity generated by a small box. They were able to plug their electrical devices into the box, and they all worked.
THE CLONING OF 308
The one they called EBE #2 was a female and spoke English well. The team commander asked her for the body of 308. They were taken to a large building where they met an Eben doctor who spoke English. The commander’s diary describes the confrontation: “This doctor told us that 308s body was not inside the container. The Ebens have done experiments with 308s body because they considered it an honor to have such a specimen to work with. The doctor told us they have used 308s body to create a type of cloned human being. I stopped the doctor at this point. I told the doctor that the body of my teammate was the property of the United States of America, planet Earth. The body did not belong to the Ebens. I did not authorized [sic] any experiments on the body of 308.” It was a tense situation. The Ebens were upset with the team’s reaction, and EBE #2 told them that “everyone should be nice,” and repeated it several times. The astronauts had to back off to prevent a major escalation of the incident.
Astronaut habitat on Serpo?
The commander and the scientists (700 and 754) were given permission to view what was left of the body of 308. This brought them into a building where biological experiments were being carried out. They were shocked by what they saw. The commander said they viewed “strange looking bodies . . . not human bodies, at least not all of them” from other planets being grown and maintained in tubs. The Eben doctor tried to explain the science behind their work, but the earthlings didn’t comprehend because they didn’t really understand DNA biotechnology in 1965. The team commander concluded that it was all evil stuff. He said, “I saw the dark side of this civilization.”
The population of Serpo is about 650,000. Anonymous says that the Eben civilization is about ten thousand years old, originating on another planet that they were forced to leave five thousand years ago because of volcanic destruction. The Ebens fought a devastating interplanetary war about three thousand years ago and wiped out their enemies using particle beam weapons. The war lasted about one hundred years. The Ebens have a council of governors that is in complete control of the population, with membership for life. The astronauts observed no crime, but there is an army, which also acts as a police force. No guns or weapons of any type were seen by the team. There is one large community, which is the center of the civilization. All the industry is concentrated there. The Ebens do not use any type of currency; they are all issued whatever they need from central distribution centers. All adult Ebens do some type of work.
A THREE-THOUSAND-PAGE BOOK
Timekeeping was a problem for the astronauts since the batteries controlling the timepieces brought by the team eventually ran out. This meant they could not keep track of the calendar, so they eventually relied on Serpo time, which was governed by the movement of its suns. So they lost track of Earth time and ended up staying thirteen years instead of ten. It was determined by Earth scientists that Kepler’s law of planetary motion did not apply to Serpo. Carl Sagan was consulted on this and wrote about sixty pages of opinion on the subject, but ultimately he had to acknowledge that earthly laws of physics do not necessarily apply out of this solar system.
The eight astronauts returned in 1978 and were debriefed for a solid year by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, which resulted in a three-thousand-page book. Anonymous claims to have a copy of this book. They were then released into civilian life. The last survivor of this brave and historic band of pioneers passed away in 2002. They had all absorbed large doses of radiation while on Serpo, and it is believed that this shortened their lives.
In retrospect, it seems a shame that President Kennedy didn’t live to see his initiative become a reality. He was assassinated only five months before the first landing. Because Kennedy was strongly opposed to government secrecy, it seems very likely that he would have used the occasion to reveal the extraterrestrial connection, perhaps with worldwide TV coverage, and that was probably his plan from the beginning. Perhaps some powerful insiders didn’t want that to happen. In any case, we can thank Spielberg for at least giving us the staged version of that momentous event. We all got to see it after all.
For complete information on Project Serpo, with many related links, visit www.serpo.org.
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Circles of Mystery
A FACE IN THE WHEAT
On the morning of August 16, 2002, a farmer in Crabwood, England, a few miles from Winchester, the ancient capital of England, awoke to find a very strange crop formation in his wheat field. While the configura
tion itself was not discernible from the ground, it was clear even from that angle that something very different from all the hundreds of circles that had preceded it had been created. When crop circle investigators later flew over the site, what they saw startled even those hardened researchers because this formation represented an entirely new turn in the long and incredible crop circle saga. Staring at them from the ground below was the clear face of an alien, one we have learned to recognize as a “Grey.”
The face was enclosed in a precise rectangular frame 250 × 360 feet in dimension. The alien had an angry, scowling expression, as if it were saying, “Maybe this will wake you all up!” Thrust out in front of it, clutched in its four-fingered hand, was a circular disc, obviously representing a CD, encoded with a circular progression of “dots” (i.e., bunches of wheat) and spaces radiating out from the center in a spiral pattern. Upon close inspection, it was obvious that all the spaces and dots were of equal size, but there was a smaller space after each group of eight. To anyone with a computer background, it was very evident that the dots represented 1’s and the spaces were 0’s. In other words, this was binary code. The space after each group of eight digits made it clear that this was hexadecimal code, the most widely used representation of data within modern computers. In hexadecimal code, each group of four digits is one character, but each pair of characters can be translated to one unique American Standard Code for Information Exchange (ASCII) letter or number or character in English.
Alien face in the wheat at Crabwood
After a photo of the crop formation was posted on the website of Linda Moulton Howe (www.earthfiles.com), it didn’t take long for a computer whiz cryptographer to come up with the decoded message. He sent the solution to Linda’s site on August 18, and she promptly posted it to Art Bell’s website. Bell’s personal website no longer exists as of this writing, but the website for his radio show, now hosted by George Noory, is up and running at www.coasttocoastam.com. The decoded message may still exist in the archives of that site. According to the perceptive decoder, who later gave his name as Richard Brain, the message says, “Beware the bearers of FALSE gifts & their BROKEN PROMISES. Much PAIN but still time. (Damaged Word). There is GOOD out there. We OPpose DECEPTION. Conduit CLOSING (BELL SOUND).” The damaged word was the sequence of letters “EELRIJUE,” which Brain considered damaged because it made no apparent sense. ASCII hexadecimal code uses different combinations for uppercase and lowercase letters, hence the mixed cases. (Perhaps there is a message within a message here, and the capitalized letters are a clue.) The “BELL SOUND” was shown in the message because it has a hexadecimal representation of 0 × 07, which was the last character in the message.
The CD image, with hexadecimal code
According to longtime crop circle researcher Dr. Chet Snow, who takes a small group to England to view crop circles every year, the formation “displayed new and unusual characteristics that gave it a digital look, as if imprinted on the field from above.” Snow reports that British researcher Paul Vigay says this formation “may signal a new ‘high-tech’ kind of circle-making using airborne lasers or satellites.” But Vigay claims that the encoded message is as banal as the Disney movie Signs starring Mel Gibson. In fact, the face in the formation bears an uncanny resemblance to the alien in the movie. Could it be that we are witnessing a startling new Hollywood technique for promoting movies? Since the crop picture appeared at right about the time the movie was in its first run, the timing was fortuitous.
However this crop formation was made, it required a very high degree of precision to literally “paint” the face in the wheat, and therefore some very advanced technology was clearly used. Consequently, I talked to Colin Andrews to get a twenty-first-century update on the crop circle phenomenon in general and, specifically, his weighty opinion about this marvel. Way back in 1996, when the crop circle phenomenon was still relatively obscure and was getting little or no publicity, Andrews and his pilot cohort Busty Taylor understood the enormous significance of these creations and were buzzing all over the English countryside snapping pictures. Since that time, as the formations have become increasingly sophisticated and as public awareness has mushroomed, Andrews has emerged as the most recognized and respected crop circle investigator and researcher in the world and is now a consultant on the circles to high government officials all over the world and to Hollywood moviemakers.
ON THE QUEEN’S LIST
Andrews’s interest in crop circles began at the very outset of the phenomenon in the early 1980s, although some say the circles had already been appearing for hundreds of years. He is an electrical engineer by profession and a former senior officer in British regional government. He first became attracted to the circle phenomenon in 1983 when he saw an arrangement of five circles in a wheat field near Winchester, England. He was fascinated by the engineering aspects of this creation, and so he was moved to begin investigating. He was joined by Pat Delgado, a retired engineer, and Taylor, a light-aircraft pilot. Meteorologist Dr. Terence Meaden joined the team shortly thereafter, and they all decided to dedicate part of their lives to solving this mystery. Thanks to Taylor’s piloting skills, they were able to fly over the fields while the circles were fresh and capture them on film for posterity before the harvest.
This team founded an organization called Circles Phenomenon Research, and as early as 1983, they sent wheat plants from the circles to biophysicist Dr. W. C. Leavengood in the United States, who told them that the plants showed evidence of cellular alteration and the involvement of microwave energy. This was a breakthrough and seemed to indicate the application of some advanced techniques. In 1987, they enlisted the help of HSC Labs in Stroud, England. This lab agreed with Leavengood and confirmed the evidence of cellular changes in the plants. In 1988, Andrews and Meaden met with Japan’s foremost plasma scientist, Professor Hiroshi Kikuchi. Meaden and Kikuchi concluded that plasma vortices were involved in the formation of the circles.
In 1989, Andrews and Delgado coauthored Circular Evidence: A Detailed Investigation of the Flattened Swirled Crops Phenomenon, the first book written on the subject, which became an international best-seller and was chosen by Queen Elizabeth for her prestigious Summer Reading Listing. It was the first time such a speculative, new age–type book had ever been chosen by the royal family for this list. This was followed by their equally successful book Crop Circles: The Latest Evidence, in 1990. Then, in 2003, Andrews wrote Crop Circles: Signs of Contact, coauthored by Stephen J. Spignesi.
Also in 1990, evidently now realizing the possible defense aspects of the phenomenon, the British military got into the act. The Ministry of Defense asked Andrews to coordinate an initiative called Operation Blackbird to stake out some of the fields most often used for circles in an attempt to catch the circle makers in the act. The project was partially funded by Nippon Television and the BBC and involved bringing in some very high-tech equipment to keep a watch on those fields continuously for a ten-day period during the prime growing season. Using special low-light and thermal-imaging cameras, they filmed every movement in the fields for that period. Unfortunately, the results were never made public. But it is known that something happened that was important enough to cause the Ministry of Defense to clamp a censorship order on the BBC to cease transmissions from the Blackbird site for a period of several hours. Andrews has now made the entire story public on his website.
A SHOCKING REPORT
In 2000, Andrews stunned the crop-circle-watcher community with a startling announcement following a two-year special investigative project funded by Laurance Rockefeller.*18 Andrews claimed that he had determined, after some careful and thorough detective work, that 80 percent of the crop circles created during 1999 and 2000, and therefore presumably, by extrapolation, all those preceding that period, were man-made. Coming from Andrews, the most respected crop circle researcher in the world, this was indeed a shocker, since by 2000 the world was marveling at the increasingly intricate and complex formations th
at were taking place, and most people had concluded that they were of ET origin. For many of them, this was too bitter a pill to swallow. They could not and would not believe that some guys with trample boards were creating those wonderful, mystical designs, and Andrews came under heavy attack. But he stuck to his guns and has maintained his position. I asked him about this finding.
Andrews says, “At ground level the detectives and myself looked for entry points, plant damage, soil compression, and key evidence found at places where humans would have to stand to construct the geometries concerned. This evidence was found in the human-made circles . . . With experience, and now in possession of a lot of new data, it became alarmingly easy to see the same ‘telltale’ evidence when viewing the aerial photographs taken during the project period.” Furthermore, Andrews claimed that the man-made circles did not exhibit any of the strange magnetic disturbances within the circles that were present in the mysterious other 20 percent, which always have a strong magnetic signature as measured with a magnetometer. I asked him about the techniques used. He said, “These individuals can pull off very impressive designs and use computers to design the geometries, and some use small pencil lasers to help spot and lay out the patterns at night. The primary kit used is very basic—string, measuring tape, stomper boards, drawing, and away they go.”
