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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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Sponsored by Vangard Sciences
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PO BOX 1031
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Mesquite, TX 75150
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February 15, 1992
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AERO7.ASC
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This file courteously shared with KeelyNet through the research
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efforts of Pete Navarro and Jimmy Ward.
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If you might wish to correspond directly with Jimmy or Pete, you may
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do so at the following address:
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Jimmy Ward
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1511 Summer St.
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Houston, TX 77007
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The Riddle of Dellschau and His Esoteric Books
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by J. Ward and P.G. Navarro
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"The year was 1910, the first gasoline-electric combustion auto was
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in use. Aviator W. R. Brookins flew to a height of one mile. A
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woman made a public flight as a pilot. The first moving picture
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newsreel was exhibited and Father's Day was celebrated for the first
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time.
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"In Houston, a man began drawing detailed models of air machines.
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Technically the machines probably would never the ground, nor the
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drawing board for that matter. But the mind of C.A.A. Dellschau was
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soaring.
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"In the next fifteen years, Dellschau, with the help of a friend,
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would complete enough drawings to fill a dozen scrap books. Each
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drawing was carefully laid out, drawn on a grid, and water-colored.
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A page of newsclippings of the day might be included along with the
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sketches. These pages he entitled 'Press Blooms' and they often
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included stories from a German paper which was probably published in
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New York.
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"About a year ago eleven of these scrapbooks were discovered in a
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dump yard. Fred Washington, who describes himself as a scrounger,
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bought them from the man who found them. They sat in his furniture
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and antique shop gathering dust until some University of St. Thomas
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students happened on them. Two were selected to be part of their
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present display, 'The Sky is the Limit'".
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So began the article in the Houston Chronicle written by Ms. Sarah
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Peterson that fine June day of 1969. One must forgive her for the
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Page 1
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many small errors in the story. She reported what she had been told
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and no one really knew much about Dellschau or his books. After
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nearly 14 years, a great deal has been learned about them, but they
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still remain as enigmatic as ever.
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The books are about 22" X 22" and varying thicknesses. The "plates"
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or pages are bound between covers of heavy cardboard, reinforced
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with more cardboard along the edges, and sewn together with heavy
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thread. The binding is held together with shoelace material. One
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of the books has a heavy string with a metal washer tied to the end
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and may have intended as a book marker.
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The covers, inside and out, were lined with purple or green-colored
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cheese-cloth (which was later removed as it had deteriorated
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completely). The material in the covers came from cardboard boxes
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and corrugated cardboard. In some books, the laces were inserted on
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the covers, near the binding, for use as a handle. Shoe laces were
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also used for keeping the books closed by tying them at several
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places along the edges of the covers. Though crude, the
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construction is very reminiscent of Elizabethan portfolios.
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Because of their fragile condition, they were displayed at the
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university under glass and each day a new set of pages were shown
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for the amazement of the visitors. And amazed they were, for they
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saw bizarre aircraft exhibiting minute details of construction,
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including, in some drawings, flaps and sections that could be opened
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up to show both exterior and interior views, respectively. Yet the
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viewers were unaware of the most amazing aspects of these books.
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Each page was numbered and dated. And upon examination of the 12
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discovered books, it was found that the earliest date was January
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24, 1908 and the lowest page or plate number was 1,601. The latest
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date was July 24, 1921, on page number 5,230. There was a gap in
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the sequence from January 24, 1908 to July 24, 1921 with 1,600 pages
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missing. This meant that 3,200 pages were still undiscovered, which
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amounts to about 18 to 20 more books! Assuming the dates on each
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drawing meant the date he started working on it, Dellschau must have
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worked and produced his drawings at the rate of approximately 23
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drawings per month or 276 per year. More amazing still is that the
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books extant contained multiple drawings of over 100 DIFFERENT
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craft. This means the missing books may have contained an equally
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large number of other aircraft designs.
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Designing 100 craft of any nature is a monumental task; yet
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Dellschau designed and drew over 200 of these craft within a period
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of just 20 years, which is a relatively short period of time
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considering all the details of design and patterning that was
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involved in producgin each of his drawings. Not only were the
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general shapes and layout of the interior different in each case,
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but these designs show dozens of different techniques for
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transferring the "supe", or liquid propellant to the converter which
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changed it into a hot gas. There were also dozens of different
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styles and constructions of converters. There were different
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methods of inflating and deflating the gas bags. And even before
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the gas reached the gas storage bags, it was used in later designs
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to operate various and sundry pieces of equipment including "air-
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press motors", navigational devices, powered wheels for land travel,
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inflatable pontoons and/or side paddle-wheels for water travel.
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Some craft even displayed gas nozzles for propelling the craft
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Page 2
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along. And this was long before jet propulsion, as used by our
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modern aircraft, was even envisioned.
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It seems impossible that one man could have possibly done all of
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this, yet the most amazing part is still to be covered!
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Each of these drawings and "press-blooms" are framed with an ornate
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and colorful border and no two are alike. Within these borders are
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names, dates, and other data, some printed, some in illuminated type
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script, and some in code and other forms of symbols. Predominantly
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displayed on almost every page, are the code symbols for the acronym
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NYMZA - nowhere is this acronym in "clear"; ALWAYS in code.
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Scattered throughout the drawings is the letter X surrounded by one
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or two circles, sometimes alone and sometimes with other letters and
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numerals also circled. While the X is a code symbol for the letter
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Z, it is believed that the circled X means AERO. This conclusion
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was reached because of such notations as "KEEP THE X", "WORTH X HOW
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MUCH X", and others that indicate a word or object rather than a
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letter. In several places the circled X is given special prominence
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by its insertion within the ciphers which designate the Society name
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or initials. But most often it is found in conjunction with circled
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V's.
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This last combination is especially intriguing since the skull is a
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symbol for death and there are notations that several members of the
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Sonora Aero Club had met their deaths in some way related to the
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aeros. The skull can be found in several places throughout his
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books and seems to indicate danger or death in connection with an
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Aero or someone involved with its desing. In one instance, the
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skull and cross-bones was associated with the symbols for NYMZA and
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there was a vertical line of ciphers which contained the word "todt"
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which is the German word for death. Very little is clearly stated
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and must be interpreted.
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One would expect that his enciphered messages would be clearly
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stated, but such is not the case. Even after his code was broken
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and the messages decoded, trouble was encountered. His English
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words were misspelled and his grammar was very bad. His German was
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even worse. It was "archaic" German, stilted and containing words
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no one had seen before and whose meaning was unclear. Even his
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written messages were done in old-style German script and difficult
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to read. It was as though neither English or German was his native
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tongue.
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The following are examples of attempted translations:
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In the old times...the warrior used a circle, a man lance,
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and...in the country the bow and arrow. When war say deathknell
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was upon land and water! And today are censored.
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You Christian beings haters. Cannon and small guns in war, on
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land and wave! Give me quick an airplane sublime..the enemy's
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might destroy.
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You Christian love - hard to understand on violent Earth. The
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enemy "thrashed".
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It if happens from under or above, the bad middle let us praise!
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Page 3
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So it was as long as there were people! You Christian love reach
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for the wanderplace, and wander away from Earth. Planets there
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are enough where Christian love shall be as they say so nicely in
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Book SELAG.
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The trip costs a lot of money, and often also borrowed money. We
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go when it please us and when it is safe. Whoever goes...and
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that is our way...For over and through the blue there is no way.
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There is no way, FOR YOU are alone. Being alone you sit at the
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rudder. Say you long for the world, dear Luder. Show the line
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before you. You pull it hard and so it shall be. Then down it
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will come to Mother Earth.
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Let the big men beat themselves with clubs or air balloons.
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There we have nothing to say. Then each makes the living from
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it. I must have my say so. The little people will stay with
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us..and the good says the teaching. Money quiets the fight, and
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first with war balloons.
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Ah, the very fine cannon has spared us dear people. What fright
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I have received. Luder, we are safe now that we have been spared
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by the bullets. Yes, the clouds weakened their path.
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Sir, the sailor here Gekisher (was hysterical). He was loud, but
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not as the crow of a rooster. Now, after a few years, this will
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become a legend. The noble men will know what an Aero they have
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flown. Not us. The fog-horn (?) has saved many a word.
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Again....on....up to heaven's path!
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These passages may be interpreted as either the ravings of a mad-man
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or the words of an alien being from a crippled space-craft that
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crashed here on Earth, depending on your response to the following
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questions. Dellschau spoke "good German", why did he write such
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"bad German"? Why did he use an archaic form? Why the old and very
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difficult to read German script for passages like these and modern
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script normally? And why were some of the above also encoded in
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cipher to make them unreadable? He often annotated that his
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knowledge of open secrets were not for profane eyes. What "open
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secrets" can the above reveal?
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C.A.A. Dellschau was not alone in his obsession of drawing strange
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aircraft and writing in code. Several papers in 1897 mentioned that
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the Mystery Airships had flown over Omaha and hovered over a house a
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few miles from the city. The house was the home of John O. Preast,
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a German immigrant and "loner". After his death, his home was found
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filled with drawings of strange airships, models, and piles of coded
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writings. Coincidence, or connection?
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