In December of 1980, a number of U.S. military
personnel, including airmen Jim Penniston and John Burroughs, were stationed at
the Woodbridge Royal Air Force base in Britain. At the time, the installation
was being used by the U.S. Air Force.
On December 26, military personnel spotted
strange lights in the Rendlesham Forest, just outside the base's boundary. Some
40 military personnel and area residents witnessed the lights. It was initially
assumed that an airplane had crashed in the forest. Penniston, Burroughs and
others were sent into the forest to investigate the lights.
Penniston and Burroughs spotted a 9-by-6 foot
triangular craft with swirling yellow and blue lights, hovering a couple of
feet off the ground. Their radios malfunctioned and they could feel static
electricity emanating from the craft.
They approached the object and took detailed
notes of symbols etched on the surface of the craft, which appeared to resemble
Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Penniston also touched the craft, causing him to
receive subliminal coded messages.
After about 45 minutes, the craft
"brightened" and began to rise above the trees, then took off at an
"impossible" speed and disappeared.
When they returned to the base, both of their
watches were off by 45 minutes.
Later, Burroughs attached sketches of the craft,
and Penniston attached sketches of the strange markings displayed on the craft,
to their official U.S. Air Force witness statements.
The following night, the mysterious light
returned to the forest area whereupon a female base security officer and her
partner entered the area to investigate. The craft shot a beam of light at
their vehicle, disabling it, then flew off
The strange lights returned for a third night in a row. The
Deputy Base Commander, Lt Col Charles Halt, was informed and together with a
small group of men went out into the forest to investigate. As they entered the
area, radio communications were subjected to interference and mobile generators
that the group had brought to illuminate the forest began to black out. Halt
and his team then encountered the UFO craft, which at one point fired beams of
light down at his party and at the Woodbridge facility.
Lt. Col. Hall had initially assumed he would be able to
debunk the reports of a UFO craft, but wound up in a situation he was unable to
explain.
Follow-up investigations revealed three small soil imprints
in a triangular pattern beneath where the craft had hovered and possibly
landed. Plus, radiation levels in the area were high.
Three weeks after the incident, Penniston
and Burroughs became seriously ill from what appeared to be radiation exposure.
During this period, Penniston felt compelled to
write out the coded message he had received, which consisted of an extensive
series of ones and zeros, in a notebook. Once he had recorded the entire string
of ones and zeros he was somehow mysteriously able to recall, he was then
finally able to sleep well. The notes made no sense to him but he kept them
anyway.
Some 30 years later, as the History Channel was
making a documentary of the UFO incident in Rendlesham Forest, Penniston's notebook
of ones and zeros were discovered to be a message in binary code (commonly used
by computers) and was deciphered by submitting the sequence to a binary code
interpreter through Internet programmer Nick Ciske.
With very few minor flaws, part of the message
reads:
EXPLORATION OF HUMANITY
52^ 09' 42.532" N
13^ 13' 12.69" W
CONTINUOUS FOR PLANETARY ADVANCE
It was
soon determined that the two lines of "numbers" in the message were
global map coordinates.
Ironically, this is the map coordinate of the "lost"
island of Hy Brasil, an island west of Ireland that seems to mysteriously exist
and disappear over time.
The accounts of Hy-Brasil are similar to those of Atlantis
but whereas Atlantis was reported by one or two ancient historians, Hy-Brasil
has been documented in many first person accounts. Thought to be the home of a
highly advanced civilization led by an enclave of high priests, accounts of
Hy-Brasil tell tales of advanced technologies, giant cattle, and city towers. Led
by priests who proclaimed to have a universal knowledge, the citizens of
Hy-Brasil were reported to be highly intelligent and wealthy beyond
imagination.
That the island was difficult to find is not hard to
envision. Legends of Hy-Brasil tell of an island that was shrouded in fog
for much of the time.
The book, IRELAND -- A JOURNEY INTO LOST TIME,
by P.A. O'Siochan, refers to knowledge of a lost island inherent throughout
Celtic history and literature, off the west coast of Ireland, called Hy Brasil
-- Hy meaning "island" and Brasil meaning "mighty" in
Gaelic.
Hy Brasil has appeared on maps as early as 1325
when Italian mapmaker Angelino Dulcert, included the island of Hy Brasil some
200 miles west of Ireland, southwest of Galway Bay. The island was circular,
with a river (or strait) running east-west across the diameter.
Hy Brasil had appeared on maps in the 15th
century. The island has been documented by many first-person accounts over the
course of time.
In 1480, men from Bristol, England, searched for
the island.
In 1497, explorer John Cabot found the island
and reported that the island had been discovered in the past men from Bristol.
In the 1500s, famed navigator Pedro Alvarez
Cabral claimed to have reached the island during one of his voyages.
In 1674, Captain John Nisbet claimed to have
seen the island on a voyage from France to Ireland. His ship was in familiar waters when a fog
rolled in. As the fog lifted, the ship appeared to be dangerously close to some
rocks, so they anchored in three fathoms of water to get their bearings,
whereupon four crew members rowed ashore to visit Hy Brasil They spent the day
on the island and returned to the ship with gold and silver, claiming an old
man who lived on the island had given it to them as a gift.
Upon return to Ireland, Nisbet reported that the
island was inhabited by large black rabbits and a magician who lived alone in a
stone castle whereupon a second ship, under the command of Alexander Johnson,
sailed to Hy Brasil and returned to port stating they had also found the
island, confirming the reports from the Nesbit experience.
In 1872, author T.J. Westropp and several
friends claimed to have seen the island appear, then disappear.
According to local legend, Hy Brasil is shrouded
in fog and the mist lifts for only one day every seven years. It is believed to
be occupied by a highly advanced civilization of priests and monks.
In February of 2012, A private pilot named Niger
Gosseur filed a report that there was a huge blanket of fog over the ocean off
the western side of Ireland. As he flew over the area, his flight instruments
became eratic for a period of three minutes. When he looked below, he observed
a green land mass, where there should not be a land mass. The fog then engulfed
the land mass as he continued toward Ireland. He believes he saw the island of
Hy Brasil.
There were a total of seven global map
coordinates deciphered within the binary coded message that Penniston had recorded
-- the other six coordinates pinpoint a location in South America, a location
in China, an island in Greece, an ancient city in Central America, Giza in
Egypt and Sedona, Arizona.
All six of these additional locations are
considered by many to be global grid energy vortexes -- perhaps Hy Brasil is
also a global grid energy vortex.
Perhaps it may be a key to the lost island of
Atlantis or perhaps it is some sort of base for extraterrestrial activity or
perhaps it's simply a mysterious island that appears one day every seven years.
Or perhaps all of the above.
Very mysterious, indeed.
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Quote for the Day -- “Under the thinning fog the surf curled
and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form itself on the
edge of consciousness.” Raymond Chandler (THE BIG SLEEP)
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Bret Burquest is the author of 10 books. He
lives in the Ozark Mountains with a dog named Buddy Lee and occasionally disappears
in a thick fog even when no fog is present.
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