Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 01:27:00 BST From: James Easton Subject: Alleged Holographic Artifacts Alleged Holographic Artifacts _____________________________ The long awaited public appearance of these artifacts took place on "Schofield's Quest", last Sunday evening. Philip Schofield introduces the article: "A story of ancient artifacts, mysterious engravings and one man's belief that he has put his hands on a historical relic of enormous religious significance. That man's name is Jim Willis, he comes from Liverpool and I spoke to him earlier about his strange find." Program cuts to pre-recorded interview, with the infamous cups and saucers, 4 of each, sitting on a table in the background. A reflection from 2 of the saucers, which are at the rear of the table, is seen against a white screen placed behind the table. It is impossible to clearly see the image being generated. PS: Jim, what is so special about these cups? JW: "Well, I've asked myself that question many times before and I keep coming up with the same answers...the vessels themselves are "references", ...even though they resemble cups and saucers, there's no waste...there's ancient writing, holograms and picture writing. And that's as far as I've got. I'd like to think they were part of Genesis and the Ark 'cause no-one knows what they are." PS: Whereabouts did you get them from? The camera switches to the background reflections from the 2 saucers. There is no discernable image, simply a reflection of light. JW: "Well, it may weaken the story, but we bought them at a car boot sale." PS: "How did you discover that there was something different?" JW: "Well, my little boy discovered them, we were sitting at home when I brought them back, the T.V. was on, the lamp was on and I mention this because light's important and he was saying, "look at the little faces" and he was laughing. I said to my wife, "there's nothing on them", so he started getting upset and I said, "I'll tell you what, I'll sit where you are and I'll take it from there." And he was right." Five images, blown up images from the artifacts surface and _not_ reflections, are then shown as the dialogue continues. PS: "And how did he see the faces?" JW: "It was under the metal, it seems to be baked _under_ the metal and we just seen all the characters, all the people, all coming out of them. When I say people, it looks like cartoon drawings. I didn't know what that was 'till I started researching into it and then I realised we had something of great importance indeed." PS: "What do you think the significance is?" JW: "Well, I believe these vessels have the story of the deluge (the Biblical flood) on them...and of course when the people accumulated again..they were all given their calenders to separate up the language (sic) and that's very important, this is Genesis." Back to the live program. PS "So, is Jim right? With his co-operation we called in the expert services of David Miles, who is an archaeologist with the Oxford Archaeological Unit and he's with us know. So, you've looked at the cups themselves, what do you think?" DM: "That's right Philip, but people have been looking for the Holy Grail for, I suppose, a thousand years and so I was fairly sceptical about these when I first heard about them. When I examined them, it appeared to me they'd been made with a power glaze, which would mean that they were relatively modern. However, things are not always what they seem, so we decided to put them through the laboratories in Oxford which analyse archaeological material, and where the Turin Shroud was analysed, and from them we got more analytical detail." PS: "Which was?" DM: "Well, what we found was that these vessels are made out of brass. Now, brass has been around for about two and a half thousand years, when it was invented in north western India, so, they could be old. However, when you look at the composition of the brass, it contains 40% zinc and the actual mix of metal is a type of recipe that in fact was developed in 1832, when it was patented by George Munt (sp), who..." PS: (Interrupting): Is there anything unusual about them? DM: "Well, what's unusual about them is that they are in fact made in two layers, which is probably for insulation, and it's a peculiar material to make what appear to be cups and saucers, which I suspect were made somewhere like the Birmingham area in the nineteenth century." PS: "O.K., thank you very much indeed for that. So, we told Jim Willis in advance about David's opinion and Jim remains firmly convinced that his find is of much greater antiquity and significance. Is he right? Can you help him? Call us on......if you own anything similar, anything like these cups and saucers, have you ever seen their like before, are you the man who sold them to Jim?" And that was it. Well, actually, it wasn't. As the program was winding up, Philip Schofield says: "A couple of updates then, so, Jim's cups, we've got Shar Lou (sp), an architect based in Peking University, phoned in to say she assessed the photos of Jim's cups for the Liverpool Echo, she thought the Chinese mother and baby images are very like those she has seen on ancient Chinese temples." Whaaaaat? Which photos, where are they, why weren't they shown? Good grief. All in all, given the format of the program, it was no more than we could reasonably expect. On the plus side, there is a good chance someone may be able to solve this mystery and we will get to hear about it next week or sometime thereafter. On the down side....where to begin. No comment whatsoever on the engravings, no holographic images, not even photographs and no comment whatsoever on the magnified images shown. Fortunately, having taped this, I have been able to consider these at some length. And I can see what makes these artifacts so unusual. The magnified images contain an extraordinary amount of detail. They are very subjective in that you can see more than one thing and many people will see different images therein, which is consistent with the comments I have heard from people who have seen them previously. The brain will attempt to make sense out of any random sequence of patterns and that seems to be what is happening here. However, it's not as straightforward as that. Some of the apparent images are quite clear. For example, the third image looks like it shows a female Bhuddist icon, i.e. with the arms outstretched, forearm and hands pointing straight upwards and the legs splayed. This image appears to be enclosed within a triangle, beneath which is a mandala icon. At the bottom of the picture there seems to be a large crowd. It is noticeable that the right hand side of the picture appears to be bathed in a golden light. All in the mind? Perhaps, but I can understand the fascination with these artifacts. They really are remarkable. Some of the other images clearly seem to be bizarre and somewhat frightening creatures, one almost resembling a little "grey", others more sinister. Images blend into one another and any one image may also form part of a larger image. The most remarkable thing of all, and this applies to all five images shown, is their symmetry. They are almost completely symmetrical, i.e., if you cut each picture down the middle, deleted the right half of the picture and then copied a *mirror* image of the left half over to the right half, you would to all intents have the original picture you started with. Given the intricate detail and not forgetting we are talking about minute images, possibly numbering hundreds or even thousands, there seems to be more to these artifacts than is first obvious. I had recently come upon a posting mentioning the alleged Beacon Stone artifact and having read this again, I was somewhat taken aback by it's content. This is a copy of the original posting: [START] *@FROM :density4@aol.com Message-ID: <34di89$ba1@search01.news.aol.com> Newsgroups: alt.paranet.ufo Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Please be advised that an anonymous Orange County, CA gentleman has, some years ago, made a phenomenally fascinating archaeological discovery on the Island of Java which, in a display of uncommon brilliance amongst the naive souls of the scientific community who still trust our government, he decided to keep hidden from the terrestrial "powers that be". He alleges to have found an extraterrestrial artifact which possesses some incredible properties and has made a full-scale graphic video presentation which he has placed in the public domain. The Omni / Antimatter Files section of AOL contains these presentation files which are available for public d/l. The only caveat is that the files will correctly operate only on a PC (sorry, MacUsers) equipped with Windows and a 16-million color VGA card and driver. Since I only have a 256 color driver, I have only been able to observe small portions of the presentation before encountering countless GPFs, yet what little I have seen I find extremely convincing. Following is an excerpt of some of the text of the presentation: "Human perception has its limitation. To the casual viewer, the artifact looks like nothing more than a collage of lines. Looking closer it becomes obvious that the lines have symmetry. Nature, ancient humans nor computer graphics created these images. These images were created by a superior intelligence that wanted to preserve and convey a very important message. WARNING: some images may not be pleasant to look at, others may invoke fear and awe. "1) The artifact is an ancient image projector. The appearance of the artifact dramatically changes when light of different colors and intensities is passed through it. When light is passed through the gemstone, it illuminates and presents pictographs of animals, humans, humanoids and saucer-like shapes. "2) The artifact is as large as an adult's closed hand. The size of the artifact demands the use of macro photography. A Leica 35mm camera has been used with a macro lens to clearly capture and document the pictographs and other intelligent alterations. "3) The entire surface of the artifact has been "worked". The complete surface of the artifact is permeated with thousands of carved and inscribed micro-images. An area the size of a dime may have as many as 20 images inscribed within it. "4) A larger pictograph is the sum of many smaller pictographs. The pictographs are interwoven into each other. A large pictograph can be built of many smaller images. To an untrained observer, the artifact's surface appears as nothing more than a collage of intersecting lines." The anonymous gentleman may apparently be reached via the following addresses which he provided in the presentation: The Beacon Stone PO Box 18024 Anaheim Hills CA, 92807 Compuserve : 74224,3313 American On Line: Beconstone@aol.com [END] Similarly remarkable or remarkably similar? I am trying to get a copy of the Windows video file mentioned and I can get access to a professional graphics system. It would be an interesting comparison. In the meantime, I have faxed a copy of the Beacon Stone article to the program's producer and we will see what transpires. Whatever these cups and saucers may turn out to be, as a friend once remarked, "Why is it when I attend car boot sales, all I ever seem to find is broken Commodore 64's and Jimmy Osmond tapes." Such is life. Cheers, James. ///////\ _/_/_/_/_/_/ |||||||::| _/_/_/_/_/_/ E-Mail: TEXJE@VAXB.HW.AC.UK _/_/_/_/_/_/~~~||||||| ~~~_/_/_/_/_/_/ Internet: JAMES.EASTON@ABACUS.ORG \\\\\\\/