U.S. space agency NASA will conduct a conference about the possibility of other creatures on Planet Earth. This is surprising because the first time NASA held a meeting about aliens. The meeting itself is planned to be held on Thursday, December 2, 2010, local time. NASA did not say bluntly about the possibility of a meeting that discussed the alien problem.
Because the invitation received by journalists in the U.S., they will discuss about the related science fields Astrobiology. Astrobiology is the science dealing with his own study of life in places other than Earth. NASA officials will discuss this issue itself consists of the director of the Astrobiology program, Mary Voytek, USGS research Astrobiology Felisa Wolfe-Simon, Goddard astrobiologist Pamela Conrad, ASU professor James Elser, and founder of Applied Molecular Evolution Steven Benner.
Picture of ET found on wall mural in Egyptian Tomb of Ptah-Hotep dating back to 5th Dynasty!!!
Cosmic Conspiracies were recently searching the web for pictures of ancient Egypt for a forthcoming T Shirt project for this site. Whilst we were visiting various Egyptology sites we came across this picture that was taken inside the Tomb of Ptah-Hotep, at Saqqara, Egypt, which dates back to the 5th Dynasty. The picture shows servants offering food to the Egyptian sage and Philosopher Ptah-Hotep (who is sat at a table to the left of this part of the picture). Ptah-hotep served during the reign of Izezi as a sage. His maxims are in the Prisse Papyrus which are in the Louvre. Izezi was the eighth king of the 5th Dynasty and ruled Egypt from 2388 till 2356 BC.
We were flabbergasted to say the least when we took a closer look at this image and could make out an 'alien grey' in the bottom of the picture! Does this prove that the building and placement of the Pyramids were aided by alien intelligence?
We have only been able to find the three images of this picture that you see here and have learned that this particular wall mural does not appear in any official guidebooks!... I wonder why? I have found out however that a picture showing this same mural is in an old book called 'In The Shadow Of The Pyramids - Egypt during the Old Kingdom'.
The implications of the discovery of this ancient stone picture that includes the alien are absolutely huge! and could be one of the most important clues to alien intervention into our ancient history ever made!
Here is an enlargement of 'The Grey'. This picture could explain why the Egyptians appeared to be so technically advanced, and how they were able to build the Pyramids with such precision. For instance the coffin in The Great Pyramid was cut so accurately that we could not even recreate a similar coffin out of rock today - even with our laser technology!
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Face it, great discoveries have been made while looking for a good T-shirt design, and there are likely plenty of earth-shaking revelations to be found while excavating the Internet. But is this "alien grey" one of them? The most striking feature of this website is the poor quality of the photographs. They are blurry and murky, and details are difficult to distinguish. The figure identified as the "alien grey" is of an ambiguous shape, but it does look like there might be eyes, and perhaps a frowning mouth, and possibly arms folded upon the chest, as if in a rather cross demeanor. But this is a subjective interpretation, much as one might describe the shape of an ink-blot, and it is helped along by the suggestion of the authors. The text informs us that "the picture shows servants offering food" to Ptah-Hotep, the owner of the tomb in which the relief is found. One might well wonder at the presence of an alien among a collection of food offerings. It is also notable that if the figure is indeed an alien, it is shown in a frontal view -- face on -- quite unlike the other figure in the scene and, indeed, quite unlike Egyptian artistic conventions in general.
While the figure might bear some similarity to what we today think extraterrestrial beings look like, an open mind would reserve judgment until better quality photographs could be examined, as photographic evidence appears to be the single basis of the authors' theory. As it turns out, those authors might well hope that you do not have the resources to try to find them, and as a further discouragement they cite an "old book,"
In the Shadow of the Pyramids. Neither the author nor the date is cited. Fortunately, it is not hard to find information about a book from its title, and one needn't go to too much trouble to find that the author is Jaromír Málek, and that the book was first published in 1986 (it isn't all
that old, after all, but it
is out of print).
The authors of the website claim to "have only been able to find the three images of this picture that you see here and have learned that this particular wall mural does not appear in any official guidebooks!... I wonder why?" The implication is that there is some conspiracy afoot trying to suppress the "absolutely huge" implications of this tomb relief. Is it such a secret? A look in any general tourist guidebook to Egypt reveals that "the double mastaba of Akhti-Hotep and Ptah-Hotep" is open to visitors (and photographs may be made if a flash is not used). If the relief is a secret, it doesn't seem to be a very well-kept one.
Indeed, luckily for the casual visitor to Egypt, Bonechi's
All of Egypt, a glossy tourist photo paperback hawked by vendors at popular sites throughout the country, has a picture of this very relief on page 45:
© Photo copyright BonechiSeen more clearly, the little "alien grey" takes on quite a different perspective. The figure looked much more alien-like in the fuzzy picture, but here it looks rather like something else altogether. But what is it?
Detail
© Photo copyright Bonechi What before looked like a mouth now looks like the neck of a bottle, perhaps, and the head doesn't look like a head at all, but more like a flower or some plant-like thing, sprouting spiny projections. The "eyes" here no longer resemble eyes. What is this thing? Recall that the context in which this relief is found is that of an offering scene. Might this be an offering of some plant, perhaps a flower? Consulting a general reference on ancient Egyptian culture, and looking specifically for flowers, it could be found that the lotus represents Upper Egypt and also is symbolic of rebirth. This seems a reasonable image to be found in a tomb. Further, a casual library researcher would discover that there are two types of lotus, one with "pointed buds and petals." This seems to better describe the mysterious figure than its being in the likeness of an alien from some other planet.
It seems much more logical to suppose that the peculiar figure pictured is the image of a lotus blossom, with a bud on each side of it, placed in a vase or jar as an offering. Is it possible to confirm this alternate theory? Another relief in the same tomb depicts a man gathering lotus blossoms as he places them in a basket:
© Photo copyright Alberto SiliottiClearly, we may now say that what looked like eyes were in reality flower buds, and what in a very poor photograph looked something like an "alien grey" looks exactly like that which it was meant to represent: An offering of a lotus blossom.
This particular exercise was fairly easy, especially with an elementary knowledge of Egyptian art and a few references at hand. The following (from the same website) may require a little more detective work:
The above wall mural resides in a temple in the goldmines of Kush. Notice the rocket and figures standing by it!
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The first thing to note is that this time the exact location isn't given. We are told that this is found "in a temple in the goldmines of Kush." Kush, or Nubia, is a rather large area that includes southern Egypt and part of the Sudan (some of it is now submerged under Lake Nasser). We are also told that this relief is found in a temple. We may safely assume that it is a mortuary temple, associated with a tomb, because the architectural design is that of a
false door. These were imitation doorways through which the soul of the deceased could pass in order to receive offerings of food and other goods. But trying to find this particular tomb in all of Nubia (the issue of "goldmines" aside) would prove a daunting task to the casual researcher. A more fruitful pursuit might be to closely examine the pictorial evidence without the advantage of further specific information.
Notice that the figures next to the "rocket" are shown frontally, unlike the other figures on this wall. The anatomical position of the figures is also very unusual, with the arms straight and to the side like gingerbread men. The figures themselves are without detail. Art in tombs tends to be very formal, and conventions are seldom flouted. There seems to be a problem with style where the figures are concerned.
Reliefs are carved into stone in two basic ways: raised and sunk. To produce a raised relief, the material is cut away from around a figure, so that the figure stands out from the matrix (surrounding background). A sunk relief is achieved when the body of the figure is cut into the matrix so that it is incised. Very often sunk reliefs were used on the outside of buildings so that the sun would cast sharp shadows in them for better definition. But sunk reliefs were also easier and quicker to sculpt, so they were sometimes used indoors as well.
A close examination of the larger photograph will reveal that the figures are in raised relief and the hieroglyphics are in sunk relief. Note the man's arm at the far right. The left edge is dark, in shadow, while the right edge is white (the source of light is to the right of the observer -- note the shadows at the bottom center). The glyphs, on the other hand, are dark on the right edge and light on the left, indicating that they are in sunk relief. Now look at the figures next to the "rocket." They are in sunk relief, unlike the other figures on the wall. They are inconsistent in several respects to the general style of the reliefs as a whole.
Modern graffiti (better described as
vandalism) is universally executed in sunk relief, mainly because this method is fast and easy and it takes little talent or planning. It would not be illogical to conclude that the two small figures standing beside the "rocket" are products of modern vandalism. But what about the "rocket" itself? It is hard to tell if it is in sunk or raised relief; it almost looks outlined in black. The texture inside the outline is different than the texture surrounding the form, which is not truly vertical (nor does it share a baseline with the two "human" figures). The "rocket" looks as out of place as the two figures. If the purpose of the
false door was to provide a portal for the spirit of the deceased to pass in order to receive offerings, then why would these figures appear here?
A critical examination of the evidence, while keeping in mind the context in which it appears, would lead the rational mind to discount unlikely theories of space alien intervention in favor of more prosaic interpretations. Ironically, the truth is always more interesting than falsehood, though some would discard the former in support of the latter.
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What is a section about aliens doing in a website about
cryptozoology? Aliens are only of peripheral interest in the science of cryptozoology. For the most part, cryptozoologists are interested in finding new species of animal here on earth. Aliens do not seem to be animals, and they presumably are not from Earth. Yet, despite these problems with fitting aliens into the field of cryptozoology, we know that aliens are unconfirmed, controversial creatures whose existence has not yet been proven to the satisfaction of mainstream science, which is a pretty good description of what a cryptid is. This fact manages to draw the interest of some scientists who work in the field of cryptozoology.
Cryptozoology does investigate legendary humanoids, including a number of creatures whose intelligence seems high enough that they probably would not qualify as animals, such as
marked hominids. In addition to this argument, there seems to be no reason to absolutely confine cryptozoology to earthly creatures. Although aliens do fall near the fringes of cryptozoology, they do not fall entirely outside its possible sphere of inquiry.
Depending on what explanation you propose for them, aliens could even fall entirely within the rightful realm of cryptozoological inquiry. There are five general explanations that have been used for the alien/UFO fad:
Theory #1: These things are not real (i.e. hoaxes, misidentification or hallucination).
Theory #2: These things are from another planet.
Theory #3: These things are actually advanced technology secretly created by modern governments.
Theory #4: These things are from some other dimension of reality (usually explained as paranormal, sometimes explained with weird physics).
Theory #5: Aliens are actually a species of human, a species that developed high technology ages ago and then retreated to a secluded life in underground or underwater bases or on other planets.
At present, theories #1 and #2 are most popular, but over the entire course of the alien/UFO fad, the popularity of different theories have waxed and waned, with nearly all of them having their day in the sun at some point in time. If aliens are real and theory #5 is true, then aliens would be a sort of converse to
Bigfoot. Instead of being more primitive humanoids, they would be more advanced humanoids. People who believe theory #5 tend to lump aliens together with
fairies, demons, and
angels, using nearly every myth about powerful humanoids to support their claims of an ancient technological race. Sometimes
reptoids are also thrown into this mix.
There is a different sort of theory that would also bring aliens more firmly into the cryptozoological fold. Some cryptids are so odd that cryptozoologists have been entirely stumped as to what sort of creatures they might be. Sometimes, researchers theorize that the most bizarre cryptids, such as
chupacabras and
air rods, are escaped alien pets or genetic experiments. To many people, such a theory would make more sense than the idea that such weird animals have always been here and evolved naturally on Earth. A few people think that nearly every cryptid was seeded here by aliens, or that every cryptid is part of some vast psychological experiment being conducted by aliens.
Along these lines of thought, the most radical ideas on this subject claim that cryptids such as Bigfoot are cleverly-disguised robots of some sort, possibly with biological components, that aliens send to do their bidding. This idea sounds silly to me. If you must disguise your robots as living creatures, why not make them look like real humans or animals that are native to the area? Either you want to hide your robots or you don't.
Some of the above theories linking aliens and cryptids sound nice, but have only the slimmest bits of evidence to support them. One piece of evidence is sightings of
hairy dwarfs and other UFO Bigfoot-type creatures. These reports are rare, and seem to be getting rarer. People are seldom claiming that they saw
Bigfoot get on a UFO today, and they did not claim it that often in the past either. Still, there are enough well-documented reports of this type to tantalyze some cryptozoologists.
The only other piece of evidence for these theories is suggestive of something, but too unclear to be much use in proving anything. This is the fact that when you make maps of places where cryptids are frequently sighted and places where UFOs are frequently sighted, these places usually match, and often bursts of cryptid sightings and UFO sightings also coincide roughly in time. To some people, this means that cryptids come from UFOs. To other people, it means something else entirely.
You see, these high-cryptid, high-UFO areas (and, to some extent, the times when there are high numbers of sightings) also correspond to those places with the highest levels of ghost sightings and paranormal activity of all sorts. It could be that people from certain areas are more open-minded and less sensitive to ridicule, so that they report all sorts of bizarre things more frequently, from aliens to Bigfoot to ghosts.
As to the times when sightings are high, it may be that, when people are coming forward in large numbers with bizarre tales, it emboldens other people to come forward with other bizarre tales. These matching patterns between UFOs, cryptids and the paranormal are fascinating, but they could be interpreted in so many different ways that it is almost impossible to use them to try to prove anything.
Despite all these theories, you do really have to stretch in order to include aliens among the suitable subjects for
cryptozoology. They might be real, and they certainly seem worthy of investigation, but those investigations will probably be left to people other than cryptozoologists.
The informant, whose name is redacted in the file, said he thought the saucer was spotted in New Mexico because a high-powered government radar in the area interfered with the saucer's controlling mechanism. 