397 lines
18 KiB
Plaintext
397 lines
18 KiB
Plaintext
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(word processor parameters LM=8, RM=75, TM=2, BM=2)
|
|
Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
|
|
Sponsored by Vangard Sciences
|
|
PO BOX 1031
|
|
Mesquite, TX 75150
|
|
|
|
There are ABSOLUTELY NO RESTRICTIONS
|
|
on duplicating, publishing or distributing the
|
|
files on KeelyNet except where noted!
|
|
|
|
November 26, 1991
|
|
|
|
AERO4.ASC
|
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
This file shared with KeelyNet courtesy of Chuck Henderson.
|
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
The source for this file is the February 1965 issue of
|
|
Flying Saucers magazine, published and edited by
|
|
Ray Palmer. Flying Saucers magazine is now
|
|
out-of-print.
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Flying Saucers magazine was, towards the end of the '70s,
|
|
incorporated into Palmer Publication's SEARCH magazine.
|
|
Then SEARCH magazine was sold to Owl Press.
|
|
If you might be interested in subscribing to this interesting
|
|
journal, their mailing address, etc...is:
|
|
|
|
Owl Press
|
|
PO Box 81
|
|
Rosholt, WI 54473
|
|
(715) 677-3420
|
|
|
|
Please mention that you found this on KeelyNet, thanks.
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
from Flying Saucers, February 1965
|
|
|
|
1896 SKY SHOW
|
|
|
|
By Ted Rathbone
|
|
|
|
In November of 1896, the astonished citizenry up and down the
|
|
Sacramento Valley of California were favored with a manifestation
|
|
of scientific achievement the like of which was not to gain public
|
|
notice again for three quarters of a century.
|
|
|
|
A "flying machine"' whose origin is still in dispute, maneuvered
|
|
purposefully and mysteriously from Oroville to San Francisco,
|
|
and from Oakland to Sacramento, unrestrained by darkness, rain,
|
|
wind, or the hue and cry of aroused observers.
|
|
|
|
The astute San Francisco Call ran a full front page on the 19th
|
|
of November on the sightings. A couple of scooped rival newspapers
|
|
questioned the veracity of the many reports, but only for a day.
|
|
|
|
As their offices became overrun with subscribers and others who
|
|
"saw it with (their) own eyes," the two papers changed their minds,
|
|
investigated, and were forced to take the story seriously. But
|
|
none of the papers discovered anything at all about the history,
|
|
|
|
Page 1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
workings, or the purpose of the strange craft. 1896 was no different
|
|
from any other year in history in that unknown objects explored the
|
|
skies of earth and been observed, wondered at, and reported; and in
|
|
the thrust and squeeze of mortal progress, generally forgotten.
|
|
|
|
There was great talk at the time of the strange machine being of
|
|
local invention, originating in the Table Mountain area above
|
|
Oroville. This is so highly a proposition as to be called
|
|
impossible, although the top of Table Mountain would certainly have
|
|
provided a secluded and safe temporary landing site for an alien
|
|
visitor from the sky.
|
|
|
|
Names were inevitably associated with the advent of the strange
|
|
craft. There was a Dr. Benjamin who allegedly did the inventing.
|
|
Then there was one George Collins, his attorney, who offered to
|
|
the press a description of the sky machine although he obviously
|
|
had not as yet seen the actual vehicle. But one is forced to
|
|
question which came first, the advent or the association.
|
|
|
|
The sky vehicle which visited Northern California in 1896 employed
|
|
the vertical maneuverability and hover ability of a present day
|
|
helicopter, but without a sign of the ungainly and hungry rotor. It
|
|
swooped and soared over the roof tops of San Francisco and glided
|
|
neatly and precisely over the mining shacks of Cherokee in Butte
|
|
County, without benefit of wings.
|
|
|
|
The Collins story has the airship with crude, inept flappers. In all
|
|
pictures, however, the background is rain swept and cloud torn, and
|
|
although the craft was undoubtedly wingless, the 1896 outlook would
|
|
most certainly have added wings in the recounting. To be sure, there
|
|
were lighter-than-air craft in operation at the time on an
|
|
experimental basis, but the movements of these were about as
|
|
decisive and determined as the wanderings of the spider watching the
|
|
treetops slip by below her as she clings to her strands of silken
|
|
web.
|
|
|
|
Some of these pictures in which wings are shown not only have a
|
|
stormy backdrop, but all pictures clearly delineate powerful
|
|
searchlights. On this all witnesses agree, even to the extent that
|
|
with the Sacramento (1896) observations some hundreds of citizens
|
|
who gaped, open mouthed and startled, were partially and temporarily
|
|
blinded by the brilliance of the "great lights" emanating from the
|
|
sky object.
|
|
|
|
The ship obviously had access to a source of power incompatible with
|
|
the heavy glass jar batteries and even heavier dynamos with which
|
|
the world prided itself in that day.
|
|
|
|
It seems that November of 1896 in Northern California, there was
|
|
manifestation of the same type of phenomena which startled Kenneth
|
|
Arnold near Mt. Ranier in 1947. Call it or them what you will, but
|
|
their existence cannot be denied.
|
|
|
|
The strange sky craft visited Oakland. On Monday the 23rd of
|
|
November of that year when the bare electric bulb in the kitchen was
|
|
still a novelty and a marvel, horses, buggies and spellbound people
|
|
mingled in the confusion and wonderment on dark streets as the
|
|
"monster of the air" swung low over the housetops.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Page 2
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
It inspected building, street, and the startled life of the
|
|
metropolis in the glare of its blinding light beams. And of course,
|
|
the revealing lights were made still more dramatic as the unknown
|
|
vehicle came down through the clouds of a rainy, stormy night to
|
|
view the city.
|
|
|
|
Among the many reputable observers of the unknown machine were
|
|
Oakland's Mayor Davies, and Mayor Sutro of San Francisco. Mayor
|
|
Sutro witnessed the slow approach of the sky vehicle as it sailed
|
|
toward the Golden Gate from somewhere above the Pacific Ocean.
|
|
|
|
He and his family and all the servants made their way hastily out
|
|
onto the lawn at Sutro Heights Manor to watch the progress of the
|
|
object coming in from the direction of the sea. This, too, was an
|
|
evening visit, and San Franciscans hurriedly climbed ladders and
|
|
stairs to get a roof top view as the light beams from the sky played
|
|
about over their city.
|
|
|
|
The seals on Seal Rocks found themselves illuminated, causing them
|
|
to protest with grunts and squeals and retreat into the water. The
|
|
sky car cruised leisurely past the eminences of Twin Peaks, its
|
|
bright rays passing lightly over the pines and rhododendron, and the
|
|
formal gardens of the area.
|
|
|
|
Brakes on the cable cars were locked and destinations forgotten as
|
|
passengers and crew piled off to wonder at this dark sky chariot
|
|
with the bright lights which was passing through the sky above them.
|
|
|
|
One newspaper account said its "frame" was like "the body of a
|
|
bird," yet still no mention of anything even resembling wings as we
|
|
know them. Undoubtedly because the ship had no wings, nor had any
|
|
need of them.
|
|
|
|
At about 9:15 of that same evening, Van Ness Avenue was treated to a
|
|
little longer display as the "glowing giant" hovered at about 400
|
|
feet above the thoroughfare while the people on the street looked. A
|
|
few no doubt gazed in fear, others in boiling curiosity.
|
|
|
|
The next morning the city hall and all municipal offices were
|
|
besieged by excited men and women, all demanding an explanation of
|
|
just what it was they had seen the night before flying around over
|
|
the city, shining its lights everywhere and scaring horses and
|
|
people half out of their wits.
|
|
|
|
A special meeting of The Board of Supervisors was called to cope
|
|
with the questions of the populace. In the matter of an unknown sky
|
|
vehicle however, it is not known just what The Board's answers were,
|
|
but we can be sure that in this instance they saw the limits of
|
|
their supervision.
|
|
|
|
One 1896 newspaper cut shows the strangely familiar rounded outline
|
|
of the ship inspecting St. Mary's College, Oakland. The shape of the
|
|
object in the air is remindful of other, more recent phenomena which
|
|
a government department have found highly unpalatable, and to whom
|
|
the UFO and its viewing has become anathema and grounds for
|
|
excommunication.
|
|
|
|
The illustration shows four air screws arranged around the lower rim
|
|
of the oval, hanging from the underside, which would certainly be an
|
|
|
|
Page 3
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
unhandy place for them. The propellers can be nothing but the
|
|
viewer's assumption that such were necessary for propulsion because
|
|
the ship was flying and something had to make it fly.
|
|
|
|
But if whirling propellers were the motivation it would have
|
|
required an eye faster than human to identify them and determine
|
|
they had four blades. Notable in the description is the absence of
|
|
any reference to a roar, whir, or sound of any sort coming from the
|
|
strange machine, whereas in any propeller driven aircraft most of
|
|
the noise heard on the ground comes from the blades churning the
|
|
air.
|
|
|
|
The propellers go with the wings: ready answers for the unknown.
|
|
|
|
During this same time, over in Camptonville which lies a couple of
|
|
ridges and a river to the west of Oroville, one of Camptonville's
|
|
leading citizens, a Mr. Meek, reported on a landing made by, it is
|
|
presumed, this same ship. The unknown craft settled to the earth on
|
|
a level spot just out of town, whereupon five of the strongest and
|
|
bravest of the town's young men ventured out to investigate.
|
|
|
|
There was no hostility from the only crew member they saw, but
|
|
unfortunately conversation lagged because neither party understood
|
|
the other.
|
|
|
|
No doubt there were many on those wet windy November evenings in
|
|
Oakland and San Francisco who knew an unvoiced longing as they
|
|
watched the departure of the strange craft heading out. Then as now,
|
|
the new and wonderful possibilities of which they had been given a
|
|
glimpse must have sent a surge to the hearts and inflamed the
|
|
imaginations of many of those observers.
|
|
|
|
But the Spanish-American War was even then a-brewing, and the never
|
|
neglected direction of public sentiment was under way. The
|
|
excitement caused by the unknown visitor from the sky was crowded
|
|
out by the induced fever of mundane strife and politics, and the
|
|
story then, as similar stories now, became officially forgotten.
|
|
|
|
If such effortless and manageable power were available as that
|
|
demonstrated by the unknown vehicle, it is difficult to conceive of
|
|
it being immune to exploitation. In fact, a powerful California
|
|
Railroad Entity threw money and manpower into an effort to discover
|
|
the origin and workings of the sky vehicle, but in vain.
|
|
|
|
The "in vain" is as conclusive proof as any of the unassailability
|
|
of the secret of this ungravitating visitor from the sky. Or of it
|
|
not being "local invention."
|
|
|
|
Besides the railroad, the government investigated also, thinking
|
|
perhaps it was An Implement of Spanish Aggression. Here too, as with
|
|
so many other authenticated UFO sightings, all they found was
|
|
mystery, and no answers, but a lot of eyewitnesses.
|
|
|
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Page 4
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Vangard note...
|
|
|
|
The AERO series on KeelyNet has some people asking why we would
|
|
"waste" our time on such old and "unproveable" information.
|
|
|
|
For those who choose to look beyond the blinders and with an
|
|
"integrating" eye, there are many interesting leads and tie-ins
|
|
with Keely (most publicly available on KeelyNet, others as we
|
|
find time to place them on the system).
|
|
|
|
For starters, we are finding that there were apparently two main
|
|
(possibly three) groups working on aerial devices in the 1800's.
|
|
|
|
The Western group was based on the work of the German immigrants
|
|
who founded the Aero Club (controlled or influenced by the
|
|
mysterious NYMZA group from the East).
|
|
|
|
Someone in that group had discovered a (currently unknown) gas
|
|
with incredible lifting power. We at Vangard Sciences believe
|
|
this gas to be a COMPONENT of hydrogen or more precisely a
|
|
direct indication of elements with LESS MASS than hydrogen.
|
|
|
|
The Eastern group (Keely Country) had aerial devices and
|
|
technologies using magnetic or neutral center principles as
|
|
discovered by Keely and possibly others who might have been
|
|
either in association with him or working independent of Keely.
|
|
|
|
Comments from the Western group indicate that attempts were made
|
|
to join forces with the Eastern group since the Eastern group
|
|
had the greatest potential for military uses.
|
|
|
|
The Western group was Pacificist to the extreme which forced
|
|
secrecy and even death to members who even hinted of any desires
|
|
to capitalize, release or otherwise promote their discoveries as
|
|
a group.
|
|
|
|
Both the Eastern and Western groups DID NOT confine their
|
|
researches to aerial technologies alone.
|
|
|
|
Unfortunately, because of the secrecy involved, much of the
|
|
information is lost or intentionally destroyed to prevent its
|
|
use for "negative" purposes.
|
|
|
|
There is a great possibility that the groups survived into
|
|
modern times and might still be playing a part in many of the
|
|
UFO-type phenomena that continues today.
|
|
|
|
If such is the case, that the groups did not die out but in fact
|
|
continued to advance their researches, they could by this time
|
|
be at a point in their developments which would make them appear
|
|
to us as advanced beings.
|
|
|
|
Would it not be to this mysterious group or groups advantage to
|
|
intentionally influence those working in such areas to create
|
|
outlandish stories in order to help discredit the real
|
|
researchers? And would you not also take the necessary steps to
|
|
silence those coming too close to the truth?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Page 5
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Airships of 1897 have long been of interest to us here at
|
|
Vangard Sciences and was further accelerated by Wally Chariton's
|
|
book "The Great Texas Airship Mystery." We had the privilege of
|
|
meeting with Wally and discussing the subject.
|
|
|
|
Wally had never heard of Keely or his airship or aerial
|
|
navigation experiments at that time. A recent call to Wally
|
|
about the Dellschau notebooks was received excitedly and he
|
|
wants to be kept abreast of what turns up.
|
|
|
|
At this point, we are looking into gas properties, Russell's
|
|
Octave Periodic Table of the Elements and such diverse areas
|
|
as diffusion, osmosis and catalysts.
|
|
|
|
Thanks to the sharing of information from people like Jim
|
|
Shaffer, Jimmy Ward and Pete Navarro, this information will not
|
|
be relegated to the wastebasket and might indeed lead to new
|
|
discoveries.
|
|
|
|
We at Vangard Sciences will continue to integrate and distribute
|
|
what we find on the AEROS and other related subjects through
|
|
KeelyNet.
|
|
|
|
Thanks for your support!
|
|
|
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
If you have comments or other information relating to such topics
|
|
as this paper covers, please upload to KeelyNet or send to the
|
|
Vangard Sciences address as listed on the first page.
|
|
Thank you for your consideration, interest and support.
|
|
|
|
Jerry W. Decker.........Ron Barker...........Chuck Henderson
|
|
Vangard Sciences/KeelyNet
|
|
|
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
If we can be of service, you may contact
|
|
Jerry at (214) 324-8741 or Ron at (214) 242-9346
|
|
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Page 6
|
|
|
|
|