The Source Field Investigations (57 page)

Supposedly, three men and a woman were witnessed emerging from “aerial ships” that were powered by beings called sylphs, who showed them many great wonders. They were told the human-looking beings came from “Magonia.” The fearful locals turned on them and felt they were now evil magicians. The witnesses were about to be burned alive when Agobard saved their lives by denying that sylphs existed—as well as the idea that anyone could be a magician. Agobard’s written notes from the event reveal the same level of sarcasm we would come to expect from skeptics 1,200 years later.

In Richard Thompson’s epic research work
Alien Identities: Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Phenomena,
we hear about the traditional European legends of fairy rings, which appear to be crop circles.
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In these legends, however, these are not merely interesting patterns in the crops—they also feature direct portals into time-space. In one traditional Celtic story, a hero named Ossian was enticed into a mystical land by a beautiful fairy princess. He married her and spent three hundred years living in the mystical land of Tir na nog. When he eventually felt like he wanted to return to Ireland, he traveled back on the same horse—and his wife warned him not to ever set foot on the ground. All of his friends had long since passed away once he came back, and the country seemed quite different. He eventually had an incident that caused him to get off of his horse and touch the ground, and he immediately turned into a blind and feeble old man.
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In another case from the early 1800s, two farm workers named Rhys and Llewellyn were walking home in the Vale of Neath, Wales. Rhys heard strange music along the way and decided to stay back and explore it, but Llewellyn couldn’t hear anything. Rhys never returned, and Llewellyn was thrown in jail on suspicion of murder after an investigation. Two weeks later, a man familiar with fairy legends felt there might be an explanation. He advised them to return to the area where Rhys was last seen, and look for a fairy ring. Indeed, Llewellyn found such a circle in the grass—and when his foot touched the circle, he could hear the music of harps. As each man in the party put his foot on Llewellyn’s, they were all able to hear the music—and they saw a variety of short but otherwise human-looking people dancing in a circle. Rhys was dancing with these little people at his normal height, and Llewellyn pulled him out. Rhys then said he’d only been in there for five minutes—but when he found out how long he had apparently been missing, he went into a depression, took on an illness and soon passed away.
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Thompson went into detail about this parallel reality in Celtic lore.

France, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, Scandinavia and the Philippines all have legends of “fairy rings”—crop circles that marked portals into parallel realities inhabited by small humans with mystical abilities.

At least not until now.

Thompson also notes that the harvest of grain was often associated with fairies—and pulls a quote from Robert Rickard, who says, “Throughout the range of Indo-European cultures, the fairies were given their tithes of corn and milk at harvesting, over which they presided.”
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This raises the possibility that some people actually live in this parallel reality of time-space as their normal existence, rather than here in spacetime—and may well have their own traditions and customs. Over time, these reports have become mythologized, and the stories get stranger and stranger—but there may well be a seed of truth in them.

Could these time portals occasionally create a bridge that spans millions of years of time—and allow living creatures to pass through? Maybe so. We already discussed the Lazarus Effect, in which extinct species suddenly reappear in the fossil record—sometimes after millions of years. This may be the result of a DNA-wave effect that rearranges existing organisms into earlier forms, or creates life out of inanimate matter—but it may also be the result of portals that allow these creatures to pass directly from one time to another.

There have been many reports of lake monsters that have long necks, long tails and flippers instead of legs. The anatomical details of these sightings are almost identical to fossil records of the plesiosaurus. The most popular example is the Loch Ness Monster, a legend that originated in the seventh century with Saint Columba. There are many eyewitness reports—some estimate over three thousand just since 1933.
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In 2010,
The Times
in the U.K. published an article asserting that William Fraser, one of Scotland’s most senior police officers, considered the existence of Nessie to be “beyond doubt” in the 1930s.
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George Spicer and his wife saw a dinosaur-type creature cross the road in front of their car on July 22, 1933. It was about twenty-five feet long, with a long neck that was a little thicker than an elephant’s trunk. They did not see any lower limbs. It lurched across the road toward the loch some twenty meters away.
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Intriguing photographic and video evidence has been extensively scrutinized.
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Loch Ness is also situated directly above a major geological fault line known as The Great Glen
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—and we have already seen poltergeist cases and vortex activity associated with seismically active regions.

In 1993, Professor P. LeBlond of the University of British Columbia reported on many different sightings of “Caddy”—short for Cadborosaurus—off the coast of British Columbia, going as far south as Oregon. A whale allegedly swallowed a three-meter juvenile Caddy and the remains were found in its stomach. This story was covered in
Science Frontiers
and
New Scientist
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In 2010, Russian fishermen demanded an investigation into a creature that looked identical to descriptions of the Loch Ness Monster, but kept appearing in a remote Siberian lake—which is one of the largest in all of Russia. This hungry monster has apparently been responsible for nineteen deaths from 2007 to 2010 alone.
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In February 2011,
The Daily Mail
reported eight sightings in the past five years of a long, humpbacked creature known as “Bownessie” in the U.K.’s Lake Windermere—and revealed new photographic evidence.
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There are many documented sightings and/or local eyewitness reports of Mokele-Mbembe in the Congo—a four-legged dinosaur-type creature, similar to a brontosaurus but much smaller, known as a sauropod.
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Most of the sightings occur in the Likouala Swamp, which has been officially declared 80 percent unexplored, and is mostly inhabited by indigenous pygmies. Similar sightings have been reported in other nations near the Congo, including Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, Gabon and Cameroon.
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Similar or identical creatures have also been spotted in Papua New Guinea, above Australia.
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Nine people saw a dinosaur-type creature on Umbungi Island in West New Britain.
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One of the main vortex points on the global grid is in this same area—directly below Papua New Guinea. In 1993,
China Today
reported that more than one thousand people saw a dinosaur-like monster around Sayram Lake in Xinjang.
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And in Canada, a young Inuit Eskimo working with scientists from Memorial University in Newfoundland found a fresh bone on Bylot Island that was identified as belonging to part of the lower jaw of a duckbill dinosaur.
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The Geological Society of America and
The Journal of Paleontology
both reported on fresh bones found in Alaska that were identified, twenty years later, as belonging to horned dinosaurs, duckbill dinosaurs, and small carnivorous dinosaurs.
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Marco Polo’s own written records from his expeditions in China in the late 1200s reveal that the royal house kept living dragons in captivity for special ceremonies, and dragons were also hunted for meat and medicine in the province of Karazan. Polo reported seeing these menacing creatures himself.
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Herodotus, a Greek historian, and Josephus, a Jewish historian, both describe flying reptiles in ancient Egypt and Arabia. Many ancient legends, including Greek, Roman and Egyptian mythology, describe heroes killing these creatures.

Dragons appear in literature from England, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Scandinavia, Germany, Greece, Rome, Egypt and Babylon, as well as in American Indian legends, including the Cree, Algonquin, Onandaga, Ojibway, Huron, Chinook, Shoshone and Alaskan Eskimoes.
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Another interesting lead is that maps from as recent as the 1600s feature drawings of dragon-like monsters in unknown regions.
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There are a surprisingly large number of credible eyewitness sightings of what appear to be pterodactyls or pterosaurs in modern times.
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Traditional Native American legends of the Thunderbird bear remarkable similarity to modern pterosaur sightings as well. Forensic videographer Jonathan Whitcomb concluded that at least 1,400 Americans have seen what appear to be living pterosaurs between the early 1980s and the end of 2008. Whitcomb interviewed witnesses from nineteen different states across America. The statistical average estimate of the wingspan was eight to ten feet, but 27 percent of the estimates were over eighteen feet—much too large to be any form of bird in today’s world.
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Whitcomb also conducted extensive investigations of pterosaur sightings in Papua New Guinea, where they are called Ropens, and published the results on numerous Web sites as well as his book
Searching for Ropens.
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Witnesses such as David Woetzel reported seeing a Ropen that had a reddish orange glow when it first appeared—and others have confirmed sightings of such a “bioluminescent glow.” In 2007, Whitcomb issued a press release claiming that Paul Nation captured two pterosaurs on video in 2006, for fourteen seconds. Further analysis of the videotape revealed two tiny spots that were indeed glowing and slowly flickering. Cliff Paiva, a missile defense physicist working in Southern California, could not find any common explanation for what the footage showed.
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This slowly moving reddish orange glow could be easily interpreted by ancient cultures as fire—and this may very well be the root cause of the firebreathing dragon legends. Apparently, as these creatures first appear in our reality out of time-space, they haven’t fully solidified yet—and their bodies glow because they still partially exist in a wave state.

The Egyptians may have seen pterosaurs as well—and created their legends of the Bennu bird of fire, or phoenix, from these events. The Was staff is a very popular Egyptian symbol of power and authority—held by the gods and featured in hundreds of examples of ancient Egyptian art. The head at the top of each Was staff is nearly identical to a pterosaur in its shape and structure, and it cannot be associated with any other known living creature due to the unique spike that projects from the back of the head.
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