Ancients Had Ariel Maps for Flight Navigation

To All:

I have been reading a book by Major Donald Keyhoe titled ‘Flying

Keyhoe. As you may know, Maj. Keyhoe was the Director of NICAP

(National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon) back in the

late 50’s and 60’s. I ran across a very interesting chapter,

Chapter 16, which deals with the Navy investigation of a map which

was discovered which caused them a great deal of concern. I am

reprinting part of that chapter here for information. I am also

interested in knowing if anyone might have further information on

this map for discussion.

Major Keyhoe is in a meeting with Captain John Brent and Commander

Larsen. Captain Brent was one of Major Keyhoe’s classmates at the

Naval Academy. Keyhoe has arranged the meeting to ask about reports

that there had been UFOs ‘observing rocket launchings at Cape

Canaveral. And another report, from a missile technician at a

different base, said they’d had to hold up launchings several times

because of UFO interference.’ During the discussion, the story

comes out about the map….

“Why do you think UFOs are watching us?” I asked.

“They may be afraid we’ll cause trouble out in space,” said

Larsen. “And they’d have reason to worry, if they were dealing

with Soviet space fleets.”

“Have you ever thought,” Captain Brent asked me quietly, “that

the earth might be a colony started by another world?”

I looked at him, startled. “I’ve heard it suggested, but–do

you actually believe it?”

“I’m certain of this much,” replied Brent. “A race far more

technically advanced than we are today was on earth thousands of

years ago.” He swung around to a cabinet, took out a folder.

“The Hydrographic Office of the Navy has verified an ancient

chart–it’s called the Piri Reis map–that goes back more than

5,000 years. It’s so accurate only one thing could explain it–

a worldwide aerial survey.”

“That’s almost incredible!” I said.

“The Hydrographic Office experts couldn’t believe it, either, at

first. But they no only proved the map genuine, it’s been used

to correct errors in some present day maps.”

Commander Larsen leaned forward. “Tell him about the seismic

soundings.”

“All right.” The captain turned back to me. “The Director of

Weston Observatory of Boston College is a top seismologist –

Reverend Daniel Linehan, Society of Jesuits. He’s so good that

the Navy got him to help in the Antarctic, to find where there

was land under the ice.

The coast lines they found were identical with those on the Piri

Reis map. So the map surveys would have to have been made

centuries ago, before the land was buried by that deep ice.

“Father Linehan revealed this on a Georgetown University Forum, as

proof that this map is genuine. The forum transcript also

contains statements by the Hydrographic Office engineer in charge

of the evaluation of the map — Mr. M.I. Walters.

Other significant points were made by A.H. Mallery, a retired sea

captain–he’s the man who persuaded the Navy to examine the Piri

Reis map, after he realized how important the old chart was.”

So far, Captain Brent told me, only part of the complete Piri

Reis map had been found, a section covering the coasts of South

America, Africa and a portion of Antarctica. He showed me a copy

of the ancient chart, then read the main points of the

transcript.

Early in the sixteenth century, Admiral Piri Reis, Turkish Navy, had

acquired a map used by Columbus. Combining it with Greek maps

dating back to Alexander the Great, he compiled a world chart in

1513.

In 1953, a Turkish naval officer sent the Piri Reis map to the Chief

Engineer of the United States Navy Hydrographic Office. To evaluate

it, the Chief Engineer asked the aid of Captain Mallery, an

authority on old maps, who had previously worked with him.

After a long study, Mallery discovered the projection method used.

Confirming this and other technical points, the Navy cartographers

came to these conclusions:

1. Columbus had a map, on his historic voyage to America, which

showed the coasts of Yucatan, Guatemala, South America to

the Straits of Magellan and a large part of the Antarctic

coast.

2. The original maps went back at least 5,000 years, and some

data shown went back even farther. Part of the land areas

shown had been buried under ice for twenty centuries or

more.

3. Only highly trained survey teams and cartographers could

have produced charts of such “amazing accuracy.” Their

operations must have covered the entire earth.

“We don’t know how they could do it so accurately without the

airplane,” Captain Mallery summed it up. Captain Brent put down the

transcript.

“Mallery was right. They couldn’t have done it without some type of

flying machine. And there are other indications of a highly

advanced technology thousands of years before Christ.”

“But couldn’t there have been an advanced earth race?” I inquired.

“Archaeologists have found evidence of other lost civilizations.”

“Yes, but no trace of factories, laboratories or fuel plants. It

would have taken a huge industry to build and maintain such an air

fleet. But spaceships from another world wouldn’t require any of

that–they’d bring what they needed, just as we intend to do in our

own space explorations.

“For the first stages, our men will live aboard their ships, after

landing on the moon and Mars. This unknown space race could have

done the same thing, and from that point we’ve worked out several

possible developments.”

Using the Piri Reis map evaluations, Captain Brent and Larsen had

assumed spaceship landings at least 10,000 years ago. Before

deciding on a colony, said Brent, the unknown explorers undoubtedly

would have tested our atmosphere, gravity and other living

conditions, to make sure their race could adjust to life on earth.

If overpopulation on their own planet had led them to plan a large

scale migration, they would plan a civilization like their own, as

far as possible. Technically trained groups would be brought in

first, then basic equipment, just as we plan for our own space

colonies. Following this, emigrants from their own world would be

ferried to earth in huge spaceships.

“That’s simple logic,” said Captain Brent. “Our own planners expect

giant spaceships, for this same purpose, within a century or two.”

“Yes,” I said, “but if this had happened there’d surely be signs of

advanced construction–different and better than anything we have

today.”

Captain Brent agreed. “That’s why we think something must have

stopped them during the early stages. Possibly it was disaster on

their own planet–accidental nuclear explosions, or an epidemic, or

interplanetary war.

Even if their world survived, the earth colony might be almost

forgotten as they rebuilt. It could be centuries before their

descendants got around to checking up.”

Meantime, Captain Brent continued, descendants of the first colony

on earth would have developed on entirely different lines. When the

spaceships failed to return, the colony members would be concerned

mainly with survival.

Lacking machines and other technical equipment, they would be forced

into a primitive life, their advanced civilization but an unhappy

memory. To later generations, struggling for existence, the link

with another world would seem only a myth–if thought of at all.

“And the net result,” concluded Brent, “would be the same if the

first group was deliberately abandoned here.”

“Abandoned?” I said. “But why should they be?”

“To get rid of undesirables.”

“That’s an ugly thought.”

“I don’t mean criminals necessarily,” replied the captain. “Though

turning a planet into a Devil’s Island isn’t impossible.”

Commander Larsen grimaced. “Being banished like that – most people

would prefer a death sentence.”

Further….

As I went out to the parking lot, I thought of another angle to the

colony theory. What effect would this have upon religion?

At first, it appeared to deny the Biblical story of man’s creation.

But the landing of spaceships on an already inhabited world would

pose no such problem, and the space race still could have played a

vital part in our civilization. Ten thousand years ago, spaceships

could have landed with no opposition. The primitive tribes then on

earth would have been awed, probably frightened into hiding. ….

…More and more, I realized the difficulties of preparing the

public. The most peaceful contact, even with beings like ourselves,

would have a tremendous impact, raising a hundred questions.

Why wasn’t the CIA, or whatever agency was in control, already at

work on a program of prepartion?

Perhaps they were working on preparation. Recently, Don Ecker

uploaded a file (USAFTXT.FIL) which contains the chapter removed

from USAF training manuals dealing with the subject of UFOs. In

this manual, there is discussion of possible involvement with UFOs

going back as far as 50,000 years.

This material was being widely taught to cadets in prepartion for

their military careers until publicity after the Condon Committee’s

recommendation to disband Project Bluebook brought unfavorable

criticism to the Air Force for teaching this despite the findings

that UFOs are not real.

The main point here is that apparently there was enough concern and

curiousity on the part of the military to study the Piri Reis maps

and conclude that they were authentic and the other conclusions that

were derived from that study to indicate that they were sufficiently

concerned about the UFO phenomenon to connect them with the maps.

Another interesting note in this material is the conclusions that

the military was drawing out of it in regards to the ancient

civilizations.

Mike

— FD 2.00

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