Ancient Arrow strikes home

Great, a story about a mysterious archaeological site with an alien connection. Right up our alley. But is it true or a hoax?

Probably the latter, but a complicated one. It’s different from our last post on the mass death of black birds, which was was clearly a satire fake newspaper web site. Like the stories in the Onion, you can be tricked once in a while, at least for a few minutes. Then you get it. It’s a joke.

Not so with the Ancient Arrow Project article, which I’ve linked here.  The author clearly wants you to believe. There’s nothing tongue in cheek about it.

In brief, the story is this: In 1972, a group of hikers exploring a remote canyon in New Mexico discovered peculiar pictographs and artifacts. An archaeologist from the University of New Mexico assumed the artifacts and wall paintings were made by a nomadic Native Americans since there was no evidence of a village.

“There were, however, two very puzzling questions. All but one of the artifacts could be dated to the 8th century AD. The exception, known as the ‘compass’ artifact, appeared to be an unusual form of technology, and was found among more typical artifacts like pottery and simple tools. The compass was covered in strange hieroglyphic symbols, some of which were also found on the pottery. Secondly, the pictographs that were found in the area had inexplicably appeared, and they were strikingly different than any of the other native petroglyphs or rock art found in the Southwest or the entire continent for that matter.”

Because of the two anomalies, the site was taken over by the National Security Agency, and the project was dubbed Ancient Arrow. “It was decided that these artifacts might suggest a pre-historical, extraterrestrial presence on earth, and that the NSA had the appropriate agenda and wherewithal to initiate a full-scale, scientific expedition to determine the nature and significance of the site.

None of the experts could decipher the pictographs and the project was soon sidelined and remained top secret. Then in 1994, a landslide exposed an entrance into a cavern containing 23 chambers. Each chamber featured more mysterious rock art messages and in the final chamber an object was discovered, an optical disc, that seemed to be dormant alien technology.

At that point the project was handed over to a secret ‘black bag’ group called Advanced Contact Intelligence Organization (ACIO), which “organized an inter-disciplinary research team to assess the exact nature of the site and attempt to discover additional artifacts or evidence of an extraterrestrial visitation.”

Eventually, the code was broken using the Sumarian language as the key, and the story came to light about the WingMakers,  a group of humans from 750 years in our future. “They claimed to be culture bearers, or ones that bring the seeds of art, science, and philosophy to humanity. They had left behind a total of seven time capsules in various parts of the world to be discovered according to a well-orchestrated plan. Their apparent goal was to help the next several generations of humans develop a global culture; a unified system of philosophy, science, and art.”

In early 1997, the ACIO scientist who had originally discovered the access code for the optical disc and translated 8,000 pages of information, became convinced that the ACIO would never share the discovery with the public, and he decided to take action. He provided documents to a journalist, who wrote the story as it appeared on the Internet in 1998.

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I was fascinated, but wondered why I’d never heard about it, why hadn’t it been the focus of  an episode of Ancient Aliens? Why hadn’t a book been published as was the case of Hunt for the Skinwalker,  regarding alien/paranormal encounters on a ranch in Utah linked to Native American culture.

The story is complicated because the WingMakers web site has created a new version, altering the original story. The new version has been called disinformation. But maybe the entire saga is just that…a fake story intended to misguide and mislead and keep the public believing that the idea of an alien presence is bogus.

I sent the article to a couple of friends with insight into intelligence programs.  Joe McMoneagle, a former government remote viewer (aka psychic spy), was kind enough to read the article and respond. Here’s what he had to say:

“What makes this totally unbelievable is the fact that this is so far outside the mission statement of the NSA that it isn’t even feasible in the wildest sense of the word. If anyone was involved with this stuff, it would be the same folks who are mixed up with the documents released from the late 1940’s, early 1950’s – MAGIC Documents. A group so secret no one knows they exist [now there is a surprising story.] I think this is a good tale, but totally bogus, Rob.”

I also sent it to Peter Levenda, author of the Sinister Forces series and a genuinely mysterious fellow who has shown up in our lives from time to time. Here is what Peter had to say:

“Yeah, this looks like a hoax.  There are no such ‘doctors’ that I can find, and their institute doesn’t seem to exist except on the Net. However, this dovetails with an email I received yesterday…about an archaeological find in the Grand Canyon….The whole thing is very hinky, but the archaeological site, etc seemed like we were talking about a similar phenomenon just from different angles. Weird!”