Phenomena magazine april 2016 by Steve Mera

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EDITORIAL This month sees the first of an exclusive series of articles by the near legendry founder of ancient astronaut research, Erich von Daniken, to appear in the magazine and we also have the first re‐ port concerning what occurred when the Phenomena Project in the form of Don Phillips and Steve Mera paid its first visit overseas, in this case to Bothell, which is a suburb of Seattle in the good old U.S.A. Although Don and Steve had originally gone to investigate the goings on at the home of one of Bothell’s residents; they inadvertently became involved in a potentially much more alarming (and possibly deadly) encounter. What occurred makes for fascinating, if a little worrying, reading; be sure to keep the lights on! Apart from that The Project continues to forge ahead with more valuable information being gathered all the time. Mr Nick Kyle, who heads up the Scottish Society for Psychical Research (SSPR), is now on board as an independent observer, so the team is getting stronger all the time. Soon those who continue to deny the reality of other states of existence are going to have to take cover, because the truth is closer than they think...

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Erich Von Daniken Page 03: Undesirable Change: By Erich Von Daniken. 25 years ago, the American author Budd Hopkins presented the results of a long‐term study, in which sev‐ eral other U.S. scientists assisted. Hopkins claimed some people had been abducted by aliens and even carried extra‐terrestrial implants. The scientific response to Hopkins revelations was uniform. Abducted by aliens? All nonsense... Multiple publications on the same subject emerged in the following years. Public opinion remained unchanged. However, nowadays it’s more openly excepted. Erich Von Daniken explains. Brian Allan Page 09: The Phenomena Project ‐ Demons in Seattle Uncovered ‐ The Tree: By Brian Allan. What I have learned over the past four years, has caused me to radically re‐evaluate just about every as‐ sumption I had made regarding an afterlife and what it might look like. Based on my previous research and encounters I had more or less assumed that there had to be one, although not necessarily the one ascribed to by a religious belief system. My conclusions on the matter tended to gravitate around physics, especially the laws of thermodynamics. That is until I became aware of Phenomena Project. Brain Allan explains. Piotr Cielebias & Michal Kusnierz Page 15: Wave of Flying Triangles and Boomerangs over Poland: By Piotr Cielebias, and Michal Kusnierz. In 2013‐14 Polish UFO researchers received numerous reports about unidentified aerial devices in form of triangles and boomerangs. Being silent, often camouflaged and active only at night, those objects were breaking basic safety rules and posing potential danger to citizens. Numerous anomalous elements men‐ tioned by witnesses are paired with fact that most sightings took place in vicinity of large military installa‐ tions. Piotr Cielebias, and Michal Kusnierz ask the question, where are these strange objects from?... Archie Lawrie Page 23: The Case of the Naughty Boy: By Archie Lawrie. Happily, fewer children than adults have their little lives cut short and those lives, while they are being lived, are not usually as complicated and traumatic as those of we adults. So‐called “mature grown‐ups” seem to get themselves into all sorts of intrigues and nonsense before they finally “shuffle off this mortal coil”. Such things are reflected in the percentage of times a child entity will be brought to my notice as opposed to an adult one. Perhaps the ratio is about 30 to 1 or thereabouts. Archie Lawrie explains... Sean Casteel & Timothy Green Beckley Page 29: UFO Repeaters ‐ Part 1: By Sean Casteel & Timothy Green Beckley. The term “UFO Repeater” was coined early on in the history of the modern UFO era to describe individuals who seemed to have nonrandom UFO encounters and who had even established an ongoing “relationship” with the flying saucer occupants. Why these Repeaters were separated from the pack, so to speak, and granted a kind of cross‐species friendship – as well as the invitation to repeatedly photograph the ships and some occupants – remains a big unknown. Sean Casteel & Timothy Green Beckley explain... Dr. Brett I. Cohen, Ph.D. Page 35: Unraveling the Mystery of Roman Flexible Glass or Unbreakable Glass (Vitrum Flexile): A Chemical Perspective: By Dr. Brett I. Cohen, Ph.D. The first known description in history for the invention of flexible glass or unbreakable glass (vitrum flexile) was during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius Caesar (from 14 A.D. to 37 A.D.). Saint Isidore of Seville recounted the stories by Petronius (ca. 27 A.D.–66 A.D) and Pliny the Elder (23 A.D.–79 A.D). Dr. Brett I. Cohen, Ph.D. describes this incredible discovery...

Page 45: Conscious Consideration V Conspiracy Theory ‐ Miracles in Manhattan: By Richard R. Richie. Anyone who open‐mindedly investigates the events of September the eleventh 2001 must wonder if those that still accept the so called; 'official explanations', also ponder in disbelief at the pile of unclaimed teeth below their pillows, along with those rotting carrots and mouldy mince pies below their empty sock be‐ decked mantelpiece. This is one of the most glaringly, egregious examples of Governmental 'False Flags' in modern times, along with the most moronic attempts to obfuscate the obvious. Richard R. Richie explains.. Page 51: UFO and Paranormal News from around the world: By Varied Authors. Each month Phenomena Magazine picks some of the most interesting news items that have appeared throughout the world, such as UFO sightings, Crop Circles, Ghostly encounters, Science and NASA news, Conspiracies, Supernatural occurrences, mysteries, strange creatures and cryptozoology, fortean events and the profound. If you have an interesting news item, then please feel free to send it over to Phenomena Magazine and we would be pleased to include it.

Richard R. Richie

45 Various Authors

51 And much more!

Also Featured: Latest UFO AND paranormal news from around the World. Book and DVD reviews. Events and Conferences, Astronomical DATA, Advertisements and much more. 02

Undesirable Change: By Erich Von Daniken

25 years ago, the American author Budd Hopkins presented the results of a long‐ term study, in which several other U.S. scientists assisted. Hopkins claimed some people had been abducted by aliens and even carried extra‐terrestrial implants. The scientific response to Hopkins revelations was uniform. Abducted by aliens? All non‐ sense...

Multiple publications on the same subject emerged in the following years. Public opin‐ ion remained unchanged. In the German‐ speaking world, we received the spotless documented work of Dr. Johannes Fiebag regarding abducted people. There was no significant societal reaction. Next, Dr. John E. Mack followed with the stunning title: Abductions. One could not ignore Dr. Mack. He was not only a Professor of psychiatry and medicine at the most prestigious uni‐ versity in America, Harvard University in Boston, but also a coveted American Pulit‐ zer Prize winner. John Mack’s response to his scientific colleagues and all the sceptics of the world was devastating: yes, this was the result of his research. The abductees are not lying, sperm samples were taken from several men, artificial insemination occurred, and the occurrences were not wishful thinking of the victims. Obviously, the Harvard scholar admits, “we are partici‐ pants in a universe that is teeming with intelligent life forms, from which we have cut ourselves off.” I personally knew John Mack quite well. We were speakers at the same conferences and privately discussed many issues.

Mack was disappointed with the reactions among the public and particularly in scien‐ tific journals. He said abductions of people by UFOs were too crazy to believe, they strained our reason. Scientists and jour‐ nalists, who generally don't believe in UFOs, were also unconvinced by the facts. The brain denied ‐ displaced ‐ the uncom‐ fortable truths. The sceptics know the usual arguments against UFOs and, with the certainty of a sleepwalker, that there are no UFOs ‐ it cannot be. The indoctri‐ nating shield is perfect, the brain blockade is total. And people who, after all, can believe in UFO kidnappings are considered utterly absurd. They see no reason for such behaviour by UFO crews, if they exist at all. On page 42 of his book (American Edi‐ tion), Dr. Mack mentions several tiny im‐ plants with a kind of glassy fibrous coat‐ ing. Although the curious items were ana‐ lysed chemically and physically, you could not do anything with it. We do not know the function of the implants. The scientific analyses of the small items revealed noth‐ ing about the implants’ internal character‐ istics. At a restaurant in Istanbul, Dr. Mack told me that it seemed similar to how we mark or tag the earlobe of a wild bear with a ring. Other animals see this ring, marvel at and sniff it, but do not know what it is. You need to come to terms with the existence of the ring. What happens now? Are we actually just some kind of giant zoo’s inhabitants, being watched by guards? This idea was developed by Dr. James Deardorff and is called the Zoo Hypothesis. The more I discover, the more irrational our behaviour seems.

Both YouTube and Google circulate UFO films en masse. Some of the fake ones are obvious – others are simply real and sensa‐ tional. As are those in which scientists, veteran politicians, and high‐ranking ex‐ military officers stand before the camera to personally confess that they lied to the public when they were still in service. The top space experts add to this by explaining their changes of mind in the latest spotless documented UFO literature. Like Monsieur Yves Sillard, the former General Director of the French space agency CNES (similar to NASA in the U.S.). In 1998, Mr. Sillard was NATO’s Secretary General of Science and the Environment. Truly, no lightweight. Today, he admits: “The objective reality of undefined air phenomena, better known as UFOs, can no longer be doubted...the climate of distrust and misinformation, not to mention the ridicule surrounding report collection, reveals a surprising form of intellectual blindness.” Or Major‐General Denis Letty, a former fighter pilot and later Chief of French air defence: “the UFO phe‐ nomenon is real and not a figment of imagination…sometimes totally unknown and noiseless objects enter our air space and exhibit properties that our technical resources on earth cannot imitate. And these objects appear steered by a kind of intelligence.” In one online film, a former U.S. Air Force Colonel, Robert Salas, confesses that he served as an officer on Echo Flight sites at an Air Force base in Malmstrom, Montana (USA). Echo Flight sites were very unique ‐ they were the launching point for intercon‐ tinental nuclear missiles. On March 16, 1967, a red object appeared near the base

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and every nuclear warhead went from on‐ alert status to off. Every indicator light in the base turned red, one by one. All this occurred, despite every missile silo being half a kilometre away from the next and each site had an independent power source. Now Colonel Salas has confirmed the close encounter of 1967 on‐camera and reveals that everyone on base was ordered to speak to no one about the incident. One man, Mr. John Fife Symington III, who served as the Governor of Arizona (USA) from 1991‐1997, tells an even more dra‐ matic tale. On March 13, 1997 (not so long ago!), he and many others observed a huge delta‐shaped UFO near Phoenix, Arizona that moved silently and slowly above their heads toward Squaw Peak Mountain. Gov‐ ernor Symington exclaimed, “as a pilot and former Air Force officer, I can say with cer‐ tainty that human hands have built nothing remotely similar to that object.” Despite the clear indicators and hundreds of wit‐ nesses throughout Arizona, the governor lied to the public for months prior ‐ and with brazen language and local media sup‐ port. Why? Today he admits on‐camera that he wanted to dampen nascent hys‐ teria. Similar UFO confessions have been viewed worldwide millions of times. The scientific community seems entirely disinterested. Then there is the 100‐part series, Ancient Aliens, on the U.S. History Channel with an additional audience of millions. This show has been running since the end of 2010 in many countries, and the History Channel has confirmed that Ancient Aliens was the most successful TV series they have ever produced.

Does this change anything? Finally, there are about 200 million books on the subject of extraterrestrial visitors in the past and present times. Plus, hundreds of millions of magazine pages that report extraterrestrial sightings around the world. These have triggered a resounding chorus: is this an

actual phenomenal controversy in reputa‐ ble print media? Are these TV programs factual? Recently, a group of scientists at the Har‐ vard‐Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) announced that roughly 4.5 billion Earth‐like planets exist in our galaxy alone. Until then, many believed that the chance to discover any Earth‐like planets ‐ not too hot but not too cold ‐ was mini‐ mal. Astrophysicist Dr. Courtney Dressing, Director of the CFA team, said at a press conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA):

“We have always thought that we would have to scour vast distances before finding an Earth‐like planet. Now, we re‐ alize that another Earth is probably already in our cosmic neighborhood, waiting to be discovered.” Those who want the truth now know. We are not alone in our universe. Aliens vis‐ ited Earth thousands of years ago and they are watching us today. But the offi‐ cial scientific establishment does not want to know. What is wrong with our society? Are we becoming that lazy? Or engorged with information? Is the human race blind to both history and reality? Journalists typically pounce on sensations when they can be proven. This is both sensational and provable. Why have no big magazines reported on it? Why are no

television news outlet debates taking place? On television, day in and day out, more absurd things than aliens are dis‐ cussed. But the extra‐terrestrial issue, whether in the past or today, is excluded from the media. Despite varying contra‐ dictions in the abductees’ tales that Dr. 04

Mack investigated 20 years ago, all agree on one point. The extra‐terrestrials made them understand that our science has developed a twisted causality principle. It has hampered what we classify as ordinary citizen’s logic. The picture that scholars give us is sometimes totally wrong. That does not surprise me. One merely has to recall religious sciences or the nonsense that human‐produced carbon dioxide is to blame for climate change. As if climates have not been changing continuously for millennia, without car exhaust or factory gasses or our planet’s almost eight billion inhabitants. Yes yes! The “Establishment” is to blame. This society is organized into hierarchies. It’s the very top layer of the hierarchy that does not allow us to explore the extra‐ terrestrial issue. They see themselves as guardians of reason. For them, any extra‐ terrestrial intelligence is unreasonable. Their ego ‐ screaming, “we are the great‐ est!” ‐ cannot tolerate extra‐terrestrials. UFOs harm their fragile brains. Alien visi‐ tors from past millennia are their anath‐ ema. Why? They believe we super humans emerged from a long evolutionary process, how could we have heavenly teachers? Give me the penitent’s cloth! Out into the rains of ridicule! All religions, new and old, proclaim the return of their divine teach‐ ers. Even if it wasn’t exactly on December 21, 2012 as the Maya thought. The intellectual elite, the top scientists, the editors‐in‐chief, they all know that we have long been observed by aliens, that there is very real documentation on UFOs, and that our blue planet has been visited at least once in the distant past by extra‐ terrestrials. Then why the silence? It is a lack of moral courage that does not allow anyone to publicly admit to previous er‐ rors, even in the face of new findings. Psy‐ chological studies call this behaviour “displacement.” Their alpha animal minds must enforce their own rationality. Al‐ though they speak of the freedom of the press, it only applies to their limited rea‐ son. Dear God, forgive them not, for they know very well what they do. Very warmly yours, Erich von Däniken. Relevant Reading... Hopkins, B.: Intruders. Hamburg 1991. Strieber, W.: Communion. New York 1987. Strieber, W.: Transformation – The Breakthrough. New York 1988. Fiebag, J.: Contact – UFO Abductions in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Munich 1994. Mack, E. Abductions – Human Encounters with Aliens. New York 1994. Deardorff, J.W.: Examination of the Embargo Hypothesis as an Explanation of the Great Silence. Journal of the British Inter‐ planetary Society 40, P. 373‐379. 1987. Kean, Leslie: UFOs – Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Break Their Silence. Rottenburg 2010. Press Conference, Feb. 6, 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dpa‐Meldung. Däniken, Erich von: Twilight of the Gods. Rottenburg 2009.

Erich von Daniken Bio

Erich von Däniken Bio Erich von Däniken was born on April 14, 1935 in Zofingen, Switzerland. Raised in a religious family, Erich von Daniken was educated at the renowned Collège St-Michel in Fribourg, Switzerland. It was there that his quest for truth commenced as he started to question the nature of god, belief and religion.

citizenship from the city of Nazca, where he extensively researched the world famous Nazca Lines. Thru this time, he continued his writings and was published widely across the globe. In the fall of 1987, he became an honorary member of the Cordon bleu du SaintEsprit Order together with the German astronaut Ulf Merbold. Shortly thereafter, Erich von Däniken received the Premio Lourenço Filho in gold and platinum in Brazil. (Lurenço Filho was a Brazilian educator comparable to the Swiss Heinrich Pestalozzi).

After his schooling, Erich von Däniken began a bustling career in the hospitality industry – all while staying immersed in ancient holy writings and unsolved archaeological puzzles. In between shifts at hotels and restaurants, Erich’s time was completely occupied with travel, research and writing articles on his findings. His diligence paid off and his early writings gained an audience in European and Canadian magazines. In 1966, Erich was promoted to become the director of a first-class hotel in Davos, Switzerland. During this time, completed his first book manuscript. Two years and many rejection letters later, Chariots of the Gods was published in 1968 and subsequently syndicated in the German weekly magazine Die Zeit via instalments.

All thru the 1990s and 2000s, Erich von Däniken kept exceptionally active by expanding his writing and exploring new media. Subsequently, his ideas gave birth to myriad films, documentaries and television series. Most notably, in 2009, the US television channel History began a revolutionary series, entitled Ancient Aliens, about Erich’s hypotheses. The Ancient Aliens series garnered the highest audience rating History has ever received. This success launched continued filming and by March of 2016, this series will boast a total of 120 shows while running in many languages throughout the world.

The success of this initial work was seemingly contagious: with over 800,000 copies sold within the first year, The New York Times wrote that a new virus - “Dänikenitis” - had broken out. Carrying this momentum through 1974, Erich authored four additional books that expounded on the initial theories in Chariots of the Gods. In 1975, Erich von Däniken received an honorary doctorate (Dr.h.c.) from the University of Bolivia, as well as honorary

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The Phenomena Project ‐ Demons in Seattle Uncovered ‐ The Tree: By Brian Allan

Authors Note: What I have learned over the worlds theory’, originally formulated by the effectively act as his ‘guardian’ during inves‐ tigations, it would certainly fit. As it hap‐ past four years, especially in relation to physicist Hugh Everitt. what follows, has caused me to radically re‐ pens, during the Skype call because Don, via evaluate just about every assumption I had This implies that a virtually limitless num‐ a digital voice recorder, was asking Becky made regarding an afterlife and what it bers of possibilities result from every single questions on my behalf, for the first time might look like. Based on my previous re‐ action we either take or don’t take. In other rather than have to be prompted I was able search and encounters I had more or less words reality is like tree with many to decipher for myself the replies that assumed that there had to be one, although branches where every quantum outcome emerged. The words I heard were, ‘That is not necessarily the one ascribed to by any possible is simultaneously realised. These correct’ and I heard this twice within a few religious belief system. Formerly my conclu‐ possibilities fan out like the strands of an minutes in response to questions that Don sions on the matter tended asked: it goes without to gravitate around physics, saying that I was greatly especially the laws of ther‐ impressed. modynamics and the notion that consciousness, which is There are also a few things after all a form of energy, about the choice of name simply changed state after Becky’s uses, is this her death and carried on. How‐ own name? Because if ever, when I met Don Phil‐ ‘she’ really is an angelic ips that changed and this entity, then why use the has caused me to re‐ name of a human being evaluate my thoughts on rather then ‘her’ own? To this matter, not in the con‐ make her more acceptable tinuation of consciousness to us perhaps? Evidently It was discovered that this old wooden lodge situated close to the as such, but rather in what this will be revealed in due ominous looking tree used to be a mortuary... that form may take. course. I now believe it to be a much more fluid and invisible spider’s web reaching far into the I did suggest to Don and Steve that maybe subtle state of existence, which in some future. Some theorists even go as far as to her identity was hidden in plain sight in the ways mirrors our own. After I accepted that imply that at the quantum level at least, the name she used, i.e. ‘Becky Michaels’ with universe literally splits in two with each the emphasis on the surname, ‘Michaels’. Is what Don was doing was valid, demonstra‐ ble and repeatable it allowed me to accept action taken to give all possible outcomes. this a reference to the archangel St Michael, that there are several possibilities. This something that Don has already encoun‐ change of opinion was also due to some of If Becky has access to that information, tered in one of his earlier exchanges with the answers he received from the beings on (which might be a possible source for the Becky? So far this has not been clarified, if the non‐physical side of reality with whom Akashic Records) then she must be aware indeed it ever will be. In addition there is he is in regular communication. It also of all the possible outcomes and tries to the name of the location they visited in made me aware that, based on personal guide Don into making the correct choice. Seattle, i.e. Bothell, might this be broken experience, there are some very real dan‐ This however also leads to the question, down into two syllables, Bot and Hell, espe‐ gers there and the subject is not one to be best outcome for whom, Becky or Don? It cially ‘Hell’. Is there also a message here, or trifled with or taken lightly. I am not by any also invites further questions regarding just a chance joining of letters? Perhaps, but means a religious person, but as you will Becky’s true nature and what kind of infor‐ it has also been suggested that it appears see, some of what occurred left me with no mation the other, non‐physical side is able there is nothing random about anything choice other than draw comparisons with to access. In other words, and providing of that has happened so far. scripture. course that the theory is correct, everything we do will already have occurred. It is also true that during his investigations Demons in Seattle Uncovered Don has had more than his fair share of Following Don and Steve’s return from Se‐ Regarding the real nature of Becky, this encounters with entities that could well be attle there was a lengthy three‐way Skype might well have been answered now be‐ defined as either ‘hellish’ or demonic, some‐ call between the three of us and the impli‐ cause Don has determined that Becky may thing that is clearly illustrated in what fol‐ cations of what was said are both fascinat‐ be an angelic being! This came about when, lows. Don has said that Becky mentioned ing and extremely far reaching. By implica‐ a few months ago towards the end of 2015, beings called ‘the witnesses’ who were tion, ‘Becky’, the entity with whom Don Don lost contact with Becky for a while, the sometimes present, could this be a refer‐ communicates, is apparently able to see break lasted for around two weeks. When ence to The Watchers and by inference to into the future and may even have the abil‐ contact was re‐established he asked Becky the Nephilim and the Annunaki? I asked this ity to either arrange the order in which where she had been and the answer that and Don once again referred the question to events occur, or perhaps she already came back was ‘Heaven’. This was not what Becky. The response that came back is as‐ knows. This possibility seems to create he expected to hear, and again the implica‐ tonishing, albeit enigmatic, because accord‐ resonances with some of the more outré tions are staggering, but astonishing as it ing to Don the reply was, “He is on the right theories of quantum physics and the bizarre was and based on his past experiences with lines”. I could actually hear something being proposition called the ‘many worlds this being and how she seemed to said on the recorder, but due to the lack of 09

The Phenomena Project ‐ Demons in Seattle Uncovered ‐ The Tree: By Brian Allan

clarity on the Skype connection I could not decipher it for myself. It should be pointed out that both the Nephilim and the Annunaki have biblical (angelic) relevance, especially in the Old Testament and the Jewish Midrash (a means of interpreting words in the Torah) and given the enigmatic nature of Becky and her associates on the ‘other side’ this opens up a range of possibilities. Previously when mentioning beings such as these, Becky has also told Don about yet another race she called ‘The Lightertons’, although who or what they are remains a mystery. Even the spelling is a phonetic best guess. As already alluded to, the encounters Don has had with demonic entities in the past finds particular relevance with what re‐ cently occurred during the Seattle trip un‐ der the aegis of the Phenomena Project.

The Tree The day before they were due to return to the UK, Don and Steve went to a diner along with Keith Liner (home owner), to meet a lady who was an expert on the local Native American tribe that used to inhabit this area. After they had talked for a while the woman, Jenny, mentioned that there was a Native American burial ground out‐ side the diner, so they made their way out‐ side. There were number of headstones there, but Don sensed that no one was buried there; these stones were purely symbolic and partly ornamental. Jenny was surprised that he knew this and revealed that some time ago, when the area was being developed the bodies were disin‐ terred and moved to another location, but the stones were left ‘in situ’. As they walked a little further, a matter of only a few yards, Don felt a powerful blast of energy emanat‐ ing from a tree, so powerful in fact that it almost floored him. Although surprised, he stepped back a pace then re‐entered the area, he did this several times and each time he felt the same blast of energy. He said to Steve and Jenny that he could sense something here, he then asked Becky why he was feeling this energy and she replied that there were people under here, or words to that effect. After that they drove back to the house where they were staying, Don asked Becky to be more specific, asking when the bodies were interred there. He half‐expected this to be some considerable time ago, but she was very specific, saying “20th Century”. At the time they accepted this and went about making preparation for their return home.

With only a matter of hours before the flight, Don knew he had to return to the tree from which he had sensed the energy radiating, so they got back into the car and returned to the diner and the tree. When they pulled into the car park and were around 20 feet from the tree, even inside the car Don could still sense the powerful energy emanating from it. As they emerged from the car Don picked up a voice on his recorder; the voice said with remarkable clarity, “Come to us”. The three of them, Don, Steve and Patty (a close friend), looked at one another be‐ cause what was said was coming from more than one voice; there were several and all saying the same thing, “Come to us”. At this point Don felt compelled to drop to his knees and take hold of the underbrush, which he did, and as he did so the tremendous rush of energy came back. Then the voices said, “Kneel down before us”. This barrage of voices continued for some considerable time and among the re‐ sponses that Don recorded were such statements as, “You can have the best of it” and “You can levitate”. These were so clear that Steve, who was standing around 15 feet away, could also hear what was being said, Patty, perhaps wisely, returned to the car. Then the voices said, “Up, up”, and Steve commented, “Don, this does not seem to be paranormal, this is super‐ natural and it is not what I study”. He then added that if anything of that nature did occur he was not going to hang around to watch it. The voices were still being re‐ corded and such statements as, “You should be with us” and “You should be one of us”, were heard. The loudest of these was the rather worrying comment that said, “Beelzebub wants you”. This was followed by another statement, “We want your power for ourselves”. The odd thing about the recordings was not what was being said, but more the way in which the entities said it; it was not normal conver‐ sational speech, but oddly staccato, as if each word was being enunciated quite separately. Don is candid that these ‘conversations’ are not unusual and pretty much par for the course having occurred many times during his previous investiga‐ tions. They comprise the same baleful invita‐ tions to join and/or become a part of whatever he is communicating with and it is evidently Becky that helps keep him safe. This is probably much needed, be‐ cause the implications of the responses coming from more than one voice are extremely worrying. If you think about it, the bible even mentions this in Luke 8:30, when Jesus specifically asks for the name of a entity that is possessing a man and the response was, ‘My name is legion for 10

we are many’, because many demons had entered him. I’m not saying that this actu‐ ally is the case here, but it’s worth bearing in mind. After they returned to the car Don realised that he could not just walk away from this and leave things as they were, so he got back out again and went back to the tree where he performed what can only be described as a ‘super exorcism’. This is a powerful ability that Don possesses when he is able to summon up what can be de‐ scribed as a ‘wild talent’ or perhaps ‘power’, which may or may not be derived from Becky and her associates. Whatever it is, it is able to drive out whatever entity (or entities) it is aimed at and up till now it has worked every single time, although Don does admit that it is extremely draining on him: Steve was a witness to all this.

When Don was finished it became clear that whatever had been there had either been moved on or forced out, although just what he is doing and how he does it is a matter for conjecture. Don himself likens it to a build up of energy and he can feel it building up within him and then he re‐ leases the ‘energy’ at whatever he is trying to remove. He has done this on physical objects as well, when he caused two dows‐ ing rods to move without touching them. After this the group drove back to the house they were staying in and after a short wait said their goodbyes and re‐ turned to Seattle airport and the flight home. What occurred at the tree beside the diner is startling example of the strange, almost unreal nature of the world we live in and just how tenuous reality is. If these entities are around us on what must be a semi‐ permanent basis and can observe us too, then we have reason to be very cautious when we get involved in paranormal re‐ search. This is simply because, to quote Nietzsche, ‘Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you’. I know from personal experience that in‐ deed it does and sometimes it does much more than simply gaze, so, perhaps when Don gazes into the abyss, which is effec‐ tively what he does in each and every in‐ vestigation, then the beings that dwell there can and do become aware of him. In that case it is just as well that he has some‐ one on his side to take care of his wellbe‐ ing, his soul if you like, and Becky seems capable of doing just that...

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I have written here previously about the newly published book from Timothy Green Beckley’s Global Communications, “UFO Repeaters: Seeing Is Believing! The Camera Doesn’t Lie!” But there remain several exciting case histories in the book that deserve coverage. The term “UFO Repeater” was coined early on in the history of the modern UFO era to describe individuals who seemed to have nonrandom UFO encounters and who had even established an ongoing “relationship” with the flying saucer occupants. Why these Repeaters were separated from the pack, so to speak, and granted a kind of cross‐ species friendship – as well as the invitation to repeatedly photograph the ships and some occupants – remains a big unknown. This is one of many mysteries the book “UFO Repeaters” presents to us, the UFO community. It includes the case histories of some specially selected shutterbugs PLUS many of the photographs the “chosen ones” were given to take. In every case, proof that the images were a simple matter of camera trickery has never been forthcoming and one can take the photos at face value in good conscience. None of the people behind the camera ever sought publicity, fame or money from the photos. All they wanted was to understand the mystery they found themselves bound up in. Sean Casteel with Timothy Green Beckley 29

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ELLEN CRYSTALL Ellen Crystall’s initial experience with UFOs happened in 1971, shortly after she had moved from her native New Jersey to Holly‐ wood, California, to begin a career in music. On her very first day in her new apartment, some of the other residents informed her that UFOs appeared nightly and they made a habit of sitting outside to watch. Though Ellen considered herself to be a nominal believer in the phenomenon, she was nev‐ ertheless surprised to hear about real‐world UFOs from her neighbors. The ships did indeed show up on a regular basis, sometimes with as many as 30 ob‐ jects moving in the nighttime sky. One night Ellen decided to go to a small hill about a mile from her apartment complex and try to photograph the ships. The UFOs dutifully appeared, and Ellen snapped off four shots and then another three from the same loca‐ tion the next night. Ellen writes that she quickly regretted not taking more photos; she had hesitated to take any at all because her neighbors had said the aliens might be offended. After Ellen had a frightening encounter with what seemed to be a low‐flying ship chasing her down a Hollywood street, she flew home to New Jersey the next day and did not discuss her experiences with anyone. In spite of her terror, she continued to study the subject. When Ellen read an article in the now‐defunct “OMNI Magazine” about UFOs, she contacted writer Harry Lebelson and told him about her California experi‐ ences and the photos she had taken. Lebel‐ son invited her to accompany him to Pine Bush, a rural Orange County, New York, community nestled in the hills and valleys some 60 miles upstate from Manhattan. He said a couple who had frequent UFO sight‐ ings lived there and might have something in common with Ellen. “Thus began my most intensive, revealing – and continuing – field study of UFOs through direct observation,” Ellen would later write in her book, “Invasion: They Come In Silence.” “And when I say ‘field,’ I mean precisely that. I was to find myself in various fields and farm pastures in pursuit of elusive, wily but seemingly playful UFOs – and in search of answers to some very serious questions,” she added. After that first visit to Pine Bush in July of 1980, Ellen would return there many times to photograph the ships. The UFO occu‐ pants always “greeted” her in their ambigu‐ ous but playful ways and obligingly let her take photos to her heart’s content. But when Ellen took her first roll of film from Pine Bush to a local Fotomat store, the pictures showed bizarre bursts of multicol‐ ored lights, and “sprays” of shooting dis‐ charges and splashes of different hues were all over the film. Where were the triangular

ships she had seen so clearly? It would take two years before Ellen came to un‐ derstand what had likely happened with the photos. “Photography is a ‘two‐edged sword’ for UFOlogists,” she writes. “Everyone keeps hoping for a ‘definitive’ photo – the clear‐cut ‘real’ picture of a craft in the sky. I understand and share those hopes, but I have to say, after my years of UFO photography and research, I’ve come up with some starting informa‐ tion.” In an effort to understand why the ships she had seen were not in the actual pho‐ tos, she consulted several expert scien‐ tists. Scientists who specialized in radia‐ tion physics finally provided a possible answer. All film sold over the counter is sensitive to shortwave radiation that is outside of the visible spectrum of the naked human eye. She deduced that the sprays or bursts of light in the photos must be due to shortwave radiation be‐ tween what she and the others had seen and the film’s level of sensitivity. Also, Ellen learned from textbooks on physics that any object surrounded by ultraviolet rays will, when photographed, be blurred on the film as well as show up as bluish, globule‐type patterns of light. This explains why so many UFO photos are often disappointing flashes of light. Even other UFO Repeaters who seem chosen by the aliens to regularly take such photos are sometimes subject to these same limitations, and Ellen has done the field a service by helping to catalog some of the details of the radiation spectrum problem for the non‐physicists in the UFO community. Ellen also writes that she once felt over‐ come with waves of love and compassion coming from the UFO occupants; this sense of a caring bond is another factor that unites many UFO Repeaters. Under regressive hypnosis, Ellen recalled a 30

contact experience from early childhood that made her wonder if she was another alien abductee with a lifetime of encoun‐ ters behind her. With or without conclu‐ sive photographic evidence, Ellen was un‐ deniably caught up in the UFO phenome‐ non in a way that few others can claim to equal. Though many of Ellen Crystall's pho‐ tos may at first seem to be ill‐defined, if you spend enough time looking you will find that the meandering lights take on a form and shape of their own. This is a pic‐ ture of two alien beings standing in front of a portal that had been opened to either their home planet or another dimension. UFO Repeater Ed Walters took “responsibility” for the UFOs that ap‐ peared over Gulf Breeze, Florida. The late WOON Radio talk show host, Joe Ferriere, holds a strip of film showing some pretty weird heavenly strangers in the sky. He had the uncanny ability to show up where UFOs were being seen. This cigar‐shaped object hovered over a wooded area just outside of Cumberland, Rhode Island. ELIZABETH KLARER Another female voice in the choir of Re‐ peaters is Elizabeth Klarer, who was born in 1910 in Mooi River, Natal, which was at the time a province of South Africa. Eliza‐ beth was a well‐respected member of high society in South Africa, and her husband was a major in the South African Air Force. Elizabeth herself worked for Air Force In‐ telligence. After reading about the experiences of legendary contactee George Adamski in the 1950s, Elizabeth recalled that she had been receiving occasional telepathic mes‐ sages from a friendly space alien named “Akon” since her childhood. While her sudden return of memory has been mocked as “all‐too‐convenient,” it is never‐ theless true that contactees and abductees often experience such recall after their memories have been “reactivated” by

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some triggering mechanism, such as read‐ ing Adamski’s books in Elizabeth’s case. Sometime around 1955, Elizabeth, using a Brownie Box Camera, took a series of pho‐ tos – in the presence of two witnesses – of a metallic disc‐shaped object slowly ap‐ proaching in the darkening South African sky. Some of these photos are included in “UFO Repeaters,” and they are remarkably sharp. Elizabeth claimed to have been carried up to a mother ship and taken to the home planet of Akon, her childhood alien contact. She became pregnant after intercourse with Akon and gave birth to a son. Her son was unable to return to Earth with her and stayed behind to be raised and educated on the aliens’ planet. The entire process – the trip, lovemaking, pregnancy, delivery, and return voyage – is said to have required less than four months. While her Akon/pregnancy story was en‐ thusiastically received in South Africa when she told the tale at lectures, most North American and European UFO researchers found it too farfetched to take seriously. It wasn’t until the 1980s and 90s that such stories became rather commonplace and the existence of an extraterrestrial genetics program that produced human/alien hybrid babies was firmly established as perhaps the primary alien motive for abducting hu‐ mans in the first place. ED WALTERS The photos of what could be alien space‐ craft taken by Gulf Breeze, Florida, building contractor Ed Walters continue to be con‐ troversial. Photo analysis experts have ex‐ amined the photos in minute detail, often using computer enhancement techniques and a darkroom method called “light blast‐ ing” that brings the sometimes hazy images into sharper focus. If Ed’s photos are real, they rank as some of the most dramatically clear UFO photos ever captured on film. It was November 1987, and Ed was sitting alone in his home office when he happened to glance out the window and saw an un‐ usual light across the street that was par‐ tially obscured by a 30‐foot pine tree in his front yard. Unable to see whatever was there clearly enough, Ed went to his front door and opened it. He saw a bluish‐gray craft that was “right out of a Spielberg movie that had somehow escaped the film studio.” Ed saw the craft glowing and gliding along like a cloud in total silence. He realized this was no movie prop gone astray, and his first thought was to call the police. Thinking that no one would believe him without any proof, he went back inside and grabbed the old Polaroid camera he frequently used on his construction job sites. Ed took his first photo as the craft came from behind a

small tree. He recalls that he felt a mind‐ numbing sense of shock and awe as he struggled with his camera. He was next rendered unable to move and was told, “We will not harm you. Calm down.” He remembers feeling like he was suspended four feet off the ground and then abruptly dropped back down on the pavement. Feeling confused and wonder‐ ing if he was suffering some kind of hallu‐ cination, he saw his Polaroid photos scat‐ tered on the ground where they fell as he took them. “There it was, on the film,” Ed would later write in his book “The Gulf Breeze Sight‐ ings.” “It hadn’t been my imagination or some sort of hallucination. What I had seen was real. It wasn’t a comforting thought.” For Ed, it was the beginning of a long or‐ deal for him and his family. He submitted the photos anonymously to the local newspaper, “The Gulf Breeze Sentinel,” hoping to find out if others had also seen the UFO. As his true identity began to emerge, the publicity the photos received would result in interest from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), who would con‐ duct an official investigation and supply Ed with a special “tamper proof” camera in the hope of proving any future photos to be genuine. Well‐known optical physi‐ cist Bruce Maccabee suggested that Ed also use a “stereo camera” setup to cap‐ ture better quality photos that would prove the distances and sizes of the craft and thus silence the naysayers. An accusation surfaced that Ed had faked the photos using a model that was found in a home he and his family had vacated months before in an attempt to shield themselves from constant public scrutiny. 31

MUFON again stepped in to investigate the charges and found that the alleged model did not correspond exactly to the ships in Ed’s photos. Meanwhile, the UFOs continued to make themselves apparent to Ed, putting Ed in the category of UFO Repeaters who have an ongoing photographic “relationship” with the ships. Several of Ed’s photos are included in “UFO Repeaters.” “I can’t believe that Ed Walters was a phony,” Tim Beckley comments in the new book. “I don’t for one second think that he stuck a model into the walls of his attic so that someone would find it later and he would have the last laugh. He just wasn’t that sort of guy. And, besides, others did see the UFOs in close proximity to where Ed lived. He caused quite a hubbub for a number of years.” JOE FERRIERE Woonsocket, Rhode Island’s Joe Ferriere is another case of a UFO Repeater who re‐ ports positive encounters with the UFO occupants that began in childhood. “I am approximately four years old,” Joe recalled. “This memory is so clear, even though most people cannot remember that far back. It’s precise, but it’s short. It’s just a brief glimpse. I am sitting in the backyard and I am playing in a sandbox with my little pail and my little shovel when all of a sudden I am aware of the presence of a huge silver colored – I want to call it a rocket ship. It looked like some‐ thing out of a Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon movie. It had no wings. It was enormous and very, very low to the ground. I was a little bit afraid of it, but then I noticed that there were a lot of windows on this thing and that there were people smiling and waving and apparently having a great old

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time. I called to my grandmother to come out and see it, but by that time it was gone.” Joe has a second childhood memory from a few years later, this time of a group of UFOs that overflew his schoolyard and were seen by his schoolmates as well. He recalls even the teachers pointing at the UFOs as they passed through the sky. When Joe told his grandfather what had happened, the old man replied that there was life on other planets and someday Joe would meet them. His grandfather seemed to be speak‐ ing from personal knowledge, which dem‐ onstrates the familiar pattern of UFO and other sorts of paranormal experiences run‐ ning along family lines. In 1962, when Joe was an adult and work‐ ing at a dye factory, he observed, along with three coworkers, a fleet of silent UFOs flying in a V‐formation. This sighting trig‐ gered a compulsive urge in Joe to study the subject of UFOs, and he began to search for people who could give him answers, includ‐ ing UFOlogist Tim Beckley. A few years later, Joe sighted a tube‐ or cigar‐shaped ship at a moment when he had his camera handy; he began to take his first of what would come to be many UFO photos. After he had taken a couple of shots, a door fell open in the craft, expelling a spherical object from within. He was un‐ decided about which object he should fol‐ low when the small sphere moved away swiftly. He then took two more photos of the larger object.

“No one can doubt that these are wonder‐ ful pictures of an unknown craft,” writes Beckley about his old friend Joe. “And Joe has taken others in the Woonsocket area,

including spherical blasts of light in the sky bear that out. Perhaps the most heralded as well as a top‐shaped UFO. He has also Mexican contactee of the 1950s was taxi had his share of strange experiences that driver Salvador Villanueva. In late August would seem to indicate even more that he 1953, Salvador was trying to repair his was ‘hand‐selected’ to get the word out. I broken down cab out in the country near know there are many other photos that Ciudad Valles. He was joined unexpectedly Joe took that I hope will surface eventu‐ by two pleasant looking men, 4.5 feet tall, ally.” Some of Joe’s remarkable photos wearing one‐piece gray corduroy garments are – you guessed it! – reprinted in “UFO that covered even their feet and wide Repeaters.” shiny belts. They had metal collars and small, black, shiny boxes on the back of MEXICAN AND their necks. They carried football‐type SOUTH AMERICAN REPEATERS helmets under their arms. As it was rain‐ Mexico and South America are not with‐ ing, Salvador invited them to take shelter out their fair share of repeat UFO in his cab. The two visitors accepted his offer, and a strange conversation ensued that lasted all night. The visitors told Salva‐ dor they were from another planet, which Salvador scarcely believed. But he agreed to accompany them to their craft. He noticed that the mud puddles did not wet their feet and that their belts glowed whenever the mud was repelled. The UFO looked like two soup plates joined at the rim, with a shallow dome with portholes, and rested on three spheres. Salvador was invited in, but he refused. Glowing white, the vessel zigzagged upwards and then shot off vertically with only a faint whis‐ tling sound. A 40‐foot circle of broken bushes was later found at the site. Because of the novelty of the incident, Salvador was propelled into the media spotlight in a country only just becoming aware of OVNIs, the Mexican acronym for UFOs. Hispanic UFO researcher Scott Cor‐ rales contributes a chapter to “UFO Re‐ peaters” in which he discusses the UFO phenomenon as it impacts the lives of everyday people in the Latin regions of the Western Hemisphere. Those people often witnesses. The flying saucer occupants do “repeat business” with the aliens, who seem to be just as interested in our cross all borders as they “contact their neighbors to the south, and a multitude of own...” still and camera images from the region End of Part 1 32

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Unraveling the Mystery of Roman Flexible Glass or Unbreakable Glass (Vitrum Flexile): A Chemical Perspective: By Dr. Brett I. Cohen, Ph.D.

The first known description in history for the invention of flexible glass or unbreak‐ able glass (vitrum flexile) was during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius Cae‐ sar (from 14 A.D. to 37 A.D.). Saint Isidore of Seville recounted the stories by Petronius (ca. 27 A.D.–66 A.D) and Pliny the Elder (23 A.D.–79 A.D) of an unknown inventor who brought to Tiberius Caesar a drinking bowl made of a flexible glass (Vitrum flexile) ma‐ terial. Caesar threw the flexible glass (vitrum flexile) bowl to the floor and the glass bowl was dented but not shattered or broken. For over 1500 years, this story re‐ counted by Saint Isidore of Seville has been con‐ sidered a myth since no flexible glass artifact has ever been discovered. In this article, it will be demonstrated that the invention of flexible glass or unbreakable glass (vitrum flexile) during Roman times was possible and feasible with the technology that was available to the Romans. The chemistry used by the Romans to produce this material will also be discussed. It was feasible that boron trioxide (borax) was available to the ancient world and to the Romans. Since, borax contains both boron and sodium (Na2B4O7∙10H2O) it is proposed here, that the ancient Roman inventor could have produced a earlier type of Borosilicate glass where after heating (SiO2 with borax) at extreme temperatures over 1,600°C or 2,912°F, a combined borosilicate glass of SiO2. B2O3.Na2O could have been obtained. The resultant compound produced (SiO2. B2O3.Na2O ) would have similar properties to modern day Borosilicates and be consid‐ ered an unbreakable or shatter‐proof glass. Introduction The first known description in history for the invention of flexible glass or unbreak‐ able glass (vitrum flexile) was during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius Cae‐ sar (from 14 A.D. to 37 A.D.). Saint Isidore of Seville { (born Ca. 560 A.D. – died April 4, 636 A.D.) served as Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and is considered the last scholar of the ancient world}

recounted the stories by Petronius {(ca. 27 A.D.–66 A.D.), a Roman courtier during the reign of Nero and Pliny the Elder (23 A.D.– 79 A.D.), a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher} of an unknown inven‐ tor who brought to Tiberius Caesar a drink‐ ing bowl made of a flexible glass (Vitrum flexile) material. As the story was told by Petronius and Pliny the Elder, Caesar threw the flexible glass (vitrum flexile) bowl to the floor and the glass bowl was dented but not shattered or

broken. The inventor then repaired the bowl using a small hammer. Fearing that this new flexible glass or unbreakable glass (vitrum flexile) material would undermine the value of gold and silver, Caesar (after the inventor swore that he was the only person to know about the secret of manu‐ facturing the flexible glass material) had the inventor beheaded. For over the 1500 years, this story recounted by Saint Isidore of Seville has been considered a myth since no flexible glass artifact has ever been dis‐ covered. In this paper, however, it will be demonstrated that the invention of flexible glass or unbreakable glass (vitrum flexile) during Roman times was possible and feasi‐ ble with the technology that was available to the Romans. The chemistry used by the Romans to produce this material will also be discussed.

The probable discovery of an earlier form or type of Borosili‐ cate glass in Roman times. 35

Borosilicate glass is a very special type of glass that is manufactured with the use of silica (chemical compound that is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula SiO2) and boron trioxide (an oxide of boron and is a white, glassy solid with the formula B2O3). Borosilicate glass has a remarkable physical property that allows for a very low coeffi‐ cient of thermal expansion (the tendency of a material to change in volume in response to a change in temperature) of approxi‐ mately 3 × 10−6 /°C at 20 °C , which makes this glass very resistant to thermal shock as compared to other typical glass (that does not contain bo‐ ron trioxide). This glass is considered unbreakable or shat‐ ter‐proof because of this very special physi‐ cal property and it is sold today using the trade names Pyrex, Simax, and Kimax, etc. A german glass‐ maker Otto Schott was the first devel‐ oper of Borosilicate glass in modern times and sold these glass products using the brand name Duran in 1893. The Corning Glass Works in 1915 introduced Pyrex to the market and this name became synonymous with Borosili‐ cate glass in the English‐speaking world. Borosilicate glass is produced by the addi‐ tion of boron trioxide (B2O3) to traditional silica sand (SiO2), and soda (Sodium Carbon‐ ate with the chemical formula Na2CO3, is the sodium salt of carbonic acid and is very soluble in water). Prior to the production, each raw material (SiO2, B2O3 and Na2CO3) is pulverized and granulated to a uniform particle size. These materials are then mixed together and heated to tempera‐ tures over 1,600°C or 2,912°F. This ex‐ tremely high temperature melts the ingre‐ dients and allows them to thoroughly mix to create molten glass. The resultant mol‐ ten glass mixture typically requires longer heating (up to 24 hours) to remove excess bubbles that can lead to a weaker struc‐ ture. The combined chemical formula for Boro‐ silicate glass is SiO2.B2O3.Na2O. The typical weight percentages and chemical

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components that make‐up Borosilicate glasses are as follows: The major compo‐ nents are (silica) SiO2 with a weight per‐ centage of approximately 81% and (boron trioxide) B2O3 with a weight percentage of approximately 13% and a minor component of (Sodium Oxide) Na2O with a weight per‐ centage of approximately 4% (with other smaller weight percentage amounts of mi‐ nor components). It should be noted that, Borosilicate glasses melt at higher tempera‐ tures (820 °C or 1,510 °F) than typical ordi‐ nary glass (that do not contain boron triox‐ ide) (570°C or 1,058 °F). Therefore, it was feasible that boron triox‐ ide (borax) was available to the ancient world and to the Romans. Legend states that the Babylonians and Egyptians used borax four thousand years ago in metal‐ lurgy, mummification and medicine. The first written reference for borax can be found in the Indian text Arthasastra, about 300 B.C. (“Borax, which goldsmiths use for welding”). Borax glazes were used in China as early as 300 A.D.6 The Romans had extensive trade routes or trade links with countries such as India and the Indian sub‐continent. Medie‐ val (from about 1200 A.D. to 1500 A.D.) goldsmiths would later import the chemical borax. Borax is also known as sodium bo‐ rate (with the chemical formula of Na2B4O7∙10H2O) and is an important boron compound. It is a mineral and a salt of boric acid. Powdered borax is a white crys‐ talline material that is easily dissolved in water. Borax is naturally occurring boron trioxide. It should also be noted, that hot springs and vent streams around Rome also contained naturally occurring boron triox‐ ide. Interestingly, the invention of glassblowing coincided with the establishment of the Roman Empire in the 1st century B.C. The Romans enhanced the spread and domi‐ nance of this new technology. Glassblowing was greatly supported by the Roman gov‐ ernment and glass was being blown in many areas of the Roman world. An exam‐ ple of Roman high technology regarding blow glass is the Lycurgus cup. The Lycur‐ gus Cup is a 4th century Roman cut glass cage cup (a type of luxury late Roman glass vessel) made of a dichroic glass (a glass that displays two different colors by undergoing a color change in certain lighting condi‐ tions). The dichroic effect is achieved by making the glass with tiny proportions of nanopar‐ ticles of gold and silver. Nanoparticles of gold and silver are dispersed in colloidal form throughout the glass material. The Lycurgus cup shows a different color de‐ pending on whether or not light is passing through it (red when lit from behind and green when lit from in front). The cup is

About the Author: Dr. Brett I. Cohen, Ph.D holds a Ph.D. in inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry from the State Uni‐ versity of New York at Albany. He received his Ph.D. in November 1987 for his thesis entitled “Chemical Model Systems for Dioxygen‐ Activating Copper Proteins” and was a postdoc‐ toral fellow at Rutgers University in 1988–1989. His research at Rutgers was in the area of pep‐ tide synthesis utilising transition metal chemis‐ try.

composed mainly of a high weight percent‐ age of SiO2 (approximately 74%), Sodium Oxide (Na2O) (approximately 14%) and Cal‐ cium Oxide (CaO) (approximately 6%). The Lycurgus cup is considered "the pinnacle of Roman achievements in glass‐making" and is on display at the British Museum. Since, borax contains both boron and sodium (Na2B4O7∙10H2O) it is proposed here, that the ancient Roman inventor could have produced a earlier type or form of Borosili‐ cate glass where after heating (SiO2 with borax) at extreme temperatures over 1,600°C or 2,912°F, a combined borosilicate glass of SiO2.B2O3.Na2O could have been produced (with the required weight per‐ centages of approximately 80% SiO2, ap‐ proximately 13% B2O3 and approximately 4% Na2O). The resultant compound would have similar properties to modern day Borosilicates and be considered an un‐ breakable or shatter‐proof glass.

After his postdoctoral fellowship, from 1989 to 2003 Dr Cohen was one of the owners of Essen‐ tial Dental Systems (manufacturer of dental composites and dental materials) where he was Chief Executive Officer and Vice President of Dental Research. Dr. Cohen has had over 100 papers published in peer‐reviewed journals (such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Dental Research, Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry, Journal of Endo‐ dontics and Autism, etc.) and has obtained 16 US patents. These papers cover a variety of areas such as inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry, biomedicine, autism, physical chemistry, den‐ tistry and more. Dr. Cohen’s article “Debunking Element 115 (Ununpentium) as an Alien fuel Source for a Propulsion System: A Chemical Perspective.” was published in Phenomena Magazine Vol. 80, December 2015. Dr. Cohen can be reached via email at ebic‐ bis@aol.com.

Conclusion

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Saint Isidore of Seville recounted the sto‐ ries by Petronius (ca. 27 A.D.–66 A.D) and Pliny the Elder (23 A.D.–79 A.D) of an un‐ known inventor who brought to Tiberius Caesar a drinking bowl made of a flexible glass or unbreakable glass (Vitrum flexile) material. Caesar threw the flexible glass (vitrum flexile) bowl to the floor and the glass bowl was dented but not shattered or broken. For over 1500 years, this story re‐ counted by Saint Isidore of Seville is consid‐ ered a myth since no flexible glass artifact has ever been discovered. It is feasible that boron trioxide (borax) was available to the ancient world and to the Romans.

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