4 June, 2015
MessageToEagle.com - Over the course of history many strange things
have fallen from the skies.
Still, what could be more
mysterious than suddenly encountering stones engraved with hieroglyphics from
outer space?
This is exactly what a
young man experienced back in 1908. The story is very intriguing and what makes
it even more exciting is that a similar "space stone" was found many
years earlier.
The first incident took
place in the vicinity of the Cowichan Valley, a region around the Cowichan
River and Cowichan Lake on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada and
the story was published as a front-page newspaper article of Sept. 5, 1908
entitled, "A Message From Mars".
"Willie McKinnon, the
14 year old son of Mr. Angus McKinnon underwent a most startling experience and
had a miraculous escape from death on last Thursday morning.
While working in his
father's garden about half past 11 o'clock, a meteor about 10 inches in
diameter was hurled through space and buried itself in the ground about eight
feet from where the boy was standing.
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The meteor could be
heard from for several minutes before it struck the earth, but the lad,
thinking it was a train passing, took no notice until the celestial visitor
struck the earth, sending the rocks flying in every direction and causing an
effect like an earthquake in that vicinity.
The boy was naturally
greatly alarmed at the occurrence and rushed into the house to acquaint his
parents with the very strange happening.
On visiting the spot it
was found that the meteor was intensely hot, and not for over half an hour
could it be handled.
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The meteor or whatever it
was that fell was almost as round as a marble and the surface was deeply scored
with what resembled hieroglyphics.
The meteor had passed
through the branches of two trees in its flight, snapping them off like
matches. It fell at an angle of about 45 degrees and was travelling in a
north-westerly direction when it struck the earth.
Mr. McKinnon has spent
most of the time since the incident in trying to interpret the meaning of the
markings on the stone and will be glad if someone who has a knowledge of these
things, will try to help him out."
This is not the stone
that was discovered in Cowichan Valley, but resembles it. This is a "Clay
seal AF12903 mp3h8659" made by Rama
A month later, it was
reported that the Dept. of Mines, Geological Survey, in Ottawa, was seeking
"fuller particulars than those contained in the [Cowichan Leader]
despatch: the time of day, the nature of the sounds emitted by the falling
body, their duration and the direction from which they seemed to come, the
depth of the hole and the nature of the soil as well as the direction in which
the earth was thrown by the impact."
Quite an order for young
Willie who must have been startled out of his wits at having escaped death by a
mere eight feet. The questionnaire included an offer of purchase if terms could
be arranged. Whether, in fact, this meteor did make it to Ottawa and public
preservation, I can't say, alas, other than that it's a matter of record that
Willie's father, Angus McKinnon, was known to be, at the very least,
argumentative, and this suggests that negotiations would be challenging.
As for the so-called
hieroglyphics? Was it, in fact, a Rosetta Stone from Outer Space?
Logically, the markings on
the surface of the meteor were just the finished product of its melt-down as it
soared through space.
Whatever the case, did it
find its way to some cubbyhole in Ottawa? Or is it still in a family descendant's
possession? That 10-inchround "marble" with its strange markings
would be a great conversation piece all these years."
Whatever happened to the
"space stone" remains a mystery. It appears it was never examined and
its present location is unknown.
However, what we do know
is that on November 14, 1865, "The Brooklyn Daily Eagle" also
published a story about a similar stone falling from the skies.
The stone was also covered
with strange engravings.
The story reads as
follows.
"Mr. James Lumley, an
old Rocky Mountain trapper, who has been stopping at the Everett House for
several days, makes a most remarkable statement to us, and one if
authenticated, will produce the greatest excitement in the scientific world.
Mr. Lumley states that
about the middle of last September he was engaged in trapping in the mountains,
about seventy-five or one hundred miles above the Great Falls of the Upper
Missouri, and in the neighborhood of what is known as Codette Paass. Just after
sunset one veering he beheld a bright luminous body in the heavens, which was
moving with great rapidity in an easterly direction.
Did Mr. Lumley
witness a UFO explosion?
It was plainly visible for
at least five seconds, when it suddenly separated into particles, resembling,
as Mr. Lumley describes, the bursting of a sky-rocket in the air. A few minutes
later he heard a heavy explosion, which jarred the earth very perceptibly, and
this was shortly after followed by a rushing sound, like a tornado rushing
through the forest. A strong wind sprang up about the same time, but suddenly
subsided. The air was also filled with a peculiar odor of a sulphurous
character.
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These incidents would have
made but slight impression on the mind of Mr. Lumley, but for the fact that the
ensuing day be discovered at a distance of about two miles from his camping
place, that, so far as he could see in either direction, a path had been cut
through the forest, several rods wide, giant trees uprooted or broken off near
the ground, the tops of hills shaved off and the earth plowed up in many
places. Great and widespread havoc was everywhere visible. Following this track
of desolation, he soon ascertained the cause of it in the shape of an immense
stone that had been driven into the side of a mountain. But now comes the most
remarkable part of the story.
An examination of this
stone, or so much of it as was visible, showed that it had been divided into
compartments, and was that is various places it was carved with the curious
hieroglyphics.
Meteor flash - Image
credit: Ed Sweeney
More than this, Mr. Lumley
also discovered fragments of a substance resembling glass, and here and there
dark stains, as though caused by a liquid. He is confident that the
hieroglyphics were the work of human hands, and that the stone itself, although
but a fragment of an immense body, must have been used for some purpose by
animated beings.
Strange as this story may
appear, Mr. Lumley relates it with so much sincerity that we are forced to
accept it as true. It is evident that the stone he discovered was a fragment of
the meteor which was visible in this section in September. It will be
remembered that is was seen in Leavenworth, in Galena, and in this city, by
Colonel Booneville. At Leavenworth it was seen to separate in particles or
explode.
This curious incident was
reported back in 1865 and is still intriguing. Did Mr.Lumley see a UFO
explosion? Where did stone carved with hieroglyphics stone come from? Both
related incident give us a lot to ponder…
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