Palo Alto CARET Laboratory and Alien-Sourced Technology

Both names are suspiciously crude or even corny. We won't go into that, but just continue for the moment, pointing out that Isaac claims that this apparently non-governmental identity was a cover for an extraordinarily secret "DOD" program whose purpose actually was what was implied by its name -- which we suppose was never to be revealed.

Before concluding that all this could not possibly be authentic, we suggest you examine the images contained in the various links at the right. They, at least, are persuasive.

Now the purpose of this article is not to determine whether either the object or Isaac's illustrated story is authentic. Others are going to search for traces of Photoshop or other manipulations and we will be hearing the results. My purpose is different: to use this as a point with which to alter the very landscape in which these things are evaluated.

A striking feature of almost all of the photos is the presence of an "alien-looking" yet strangely familiar script written on virtually every artifact. Some will recall seeing a similar script on the so-called "I-beam" in the Roswell crash reports.

For some reason, Isaac and his co-workers and their managers concluded that this was not actually a "language" -- with a meaning to be deciphered -- but rather a functional aspect of the technology, because microscopic examination of the artifacts' materials revealed nothing but a uniform structure down to a very deep level. The script, then, being the only thing that was different, must have been what made it all "work".

I would say that this conclusion was premature, and that the script's similarity to those of a number of Earth's ancient languages was not a thing to be ignored. Not only was it not to be ignored, it was a perfectly reasonable thing, if not actually expected.

Here we run into an attitude problem that our entire culture has, and the "SETI community" has it the worst. On June 27 I performed an admittedly cursory search with Google and found no results from a combination of "SETI Institute" and terms relating to this story. In other words, this is a non-event to SETI; it has not been considered or even noticed.

Why is this?

It is because our official worldview, one promoted by all of our scientific institutions and in all of our educational institutions except for a few privately-funded maverick ones, is blind to, and diametrically opposed to recognition of, evidence of our true situation, that confronts us at every turn.

In terms of the official worldview, there is absolutely no reason for an ancient script or anything close to that to appear on an object that displays aspects of technology that are completely beyond our comprehension. Our ancient societies were technologically primitive. Humans developed here in isolation and through processes of evolution, regardless of how greatly discredited every model of evolution has become (itself a thing unrecognized in the official worldview). They had to be in isolation because travel across the galaxy or farther is impossible.

Because of all of that, not only is there no reason to connect exotic technology with ancient societies, there is no reason to accredit the technology itself. It cannot be, so any observations are hoaxes or dreams.

Now, those societies left records testifying to the powers and technology (weapons, crafts, seeds and the techniques of agriculture, languages...) of what we say that they called "gods". We smile at their superstition. We know that there were no gods. We are allowed or encouraged to believe in "God" but that is no mere superstition. That is authorized.

All of this is part of what we call the "SETI model" on these pages. But here we have, in opposition to that view, the "Open SETI model", though of course it is much more than that. In this model, based on what we observe around us, our planet did not develop in isolation and probably no planet does, because territory in the galaxy is as highly prized as places on this planet are among our societies. Colonization and territorial expansion, though they may not be universal, have dominated our experience: it is what we were born to, what we were made for, and what we are made of.

One of the greatest tools of colonization is genetics and that is what is responsible for our "evolution".

This means that societies have been under either the direct control of the colonizers or, in modern times, indirect control.

Knowledge of this comprises the true "family jewels" of the intelligence services and the inner governments of the world.

Would you like to learn more about this? We recommend a set of pages on our sister website, under the heading THE CHRONICLES OF THE GIRKU / Notes.

And... oh yes, since we were speaking of languages, you will see from THE CHRONICLES / Notes that ancient languages are indeed worthy of our study: they are the key to understanding.

June 29. Charles Hall has suggested privately that the script shown in the images is at least similar to Japanese Katakana. For an example of that, see the "Table of katakana" on the Wikipedia page Katakana.

It is true that at least one Katakana syllable appears prominently throughout these script examples. However, most of the "characters" on the artifact pieces do not seem to be examples of Katakana.

While perhaps a bit troubling, I don't think the resemblance damages the points I made in this article which, as stated, do not depend on the outcome of this particular "case". And after all, I welcomed the possibility that we were looking at something related to an "Earth" language. But you, the reader, can decide for yourself about that.

June 30. It has begun. A widely-read writer on UFO topics who claims to have suffered intrusive penetrations by something that is either alien or military or a nefarious mixture of each, and who has risen above that in the grand Stockholm tradition, is now suggesting to his readers/listeners/followers that the script on Isaac's artifacts reminds him of crop circles and that his people therefore should all now meditate on crop circles. His idea is that just as Isaac believes the script made the objects work (levitate, become invisible, etc.) so the script might work on the brain of the meditator -- either on the brain's cells or its electromagnetic field -- so that the meditator might achieve flight or invisibility or whatever he or she wishes. Or, he says, if Isaac's report is a hoax, maybe nothing will happen; this would be a way to test the authenticity of the report.

The writer believes, in other words, that the presence of strange language implies the potential of great rewards from entities with godlike powers.

I suggest that this enthusiasm is unfounded and dangerous. It is an attempt to introduce a new religious power structure, with the writer as guide, if not actually priest, and to bring about a society or a group within our society that is dedicated to the worship of it knows not what.

Not that meditating on a thing, almost any thing, might not be a way to learn about its ultimate true nature... if the practice is undertaken with no preconceptions and no agenda. If done in this way, meditation could actually be empowering, as it adds a new and very personal vehicle for obtaining knowledge. If done as the writer is suggesting, it is disempowering as it places the seeker into a position of subservience to the unknown, in the quest for power, ironically.

Incidentally, the point about the connection between the "Isaac" script and crop circles is worth noting. Whatever crop circles are, manmade or otherwise, there has been an observed propensity in them to reflect society's presently hot icons. If the characters in the "Isaac" script have not yet appeared in crop circles, one can almost guarantee that they will do so.

What is an Extraterrestrial? In the context of the present discussion and the "extraterrestrial" target of the SETI program, one really should examine the meaning of the term. Readers of The Chronicles will be confronted with depictions of beings who were on this Earth prior to the appearance of the first humans... who, in fact, were created by these beings. Who is the outsider in this equation?

Does being engendered on this planet make the cut between Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial?

We will learn that some of the invading group -- because that is what they (the "gods") are -- were not "born" or cloned until after their arrival here. The "goddess" Isis was one of these. Isis was not human. Was she an extraterrestrial?

Just asking, and while we're at it, I wonder if "SETI" has thought about the meaning of "intelligence". As Ingo Swann points out, our definition of "intelligence" has progressively shifted from a useful one to a mere list of acquired skills. SETI's definition, of course, is that intelligence is that certain skill that gives the ability to create monochromatic radio signals (assuming that there is also reason and intention to do it).

Just thought this would be a good place to point that out.

July 2. An article on Earthfiles.com -- Dragonfly "Drone" Seen October 1995 in Arizona (see link at right) -- documents an important historical sighting but also sets up a spurious link to the Clementine project. This is based on a reader's misidentification of some of those Japanese-like characters on the underside of a vane with our conventional characters "yx7", and then finding the sequence "yx7" in the ASCII representation of a binary PDF file that may be related to Project Clementine.

But a close examination of the provided image reveals that the "7" is actually one of the Katakana characters discussed earlier.

There is also mention of a demonstration of a magnetic coil floating on the cushion of its own magnetic field -- an experiment that any child can do, which will also either blow a fuse or circuit breaker or set fire to the house.

July 3. The widespread use of hieroglyphics, cartouches, and possibly even spoken Egyptian, has been mentioned in these pages. Charles Hall saw them in use by his "Tall Whites" (see http://www.openseti.org/Hall.html#Tech). Anton Parks discusses the use of hieroglyphics by races based in this solar system in Possible Extended Encounter with Imdugud.

These links also provide brief but revealing information on cooperation between ET races and the U.S. government and corporations.

For those puzzled by the mention of various races -- I realize many of the names are unfamiliar -- a capsule summary is provided at http://www.zeitlin.net/EndEnchantment/Secret1.html#Races.

July 13. For the benefit of anyone monitoring this page for my comments on ongoing developments... thanks for your interest. I am in fact watching for significant new information on the "drone". As of today there have been offerings from "creative thinkers" but nothing worthy of discussion.

There is one aspect of these images that seems very striking: in every image that I have seen, the strange birdcage array at the top of the "drone" appears to just fade out of existence at its top. One observer noticed this in an early photograph, ascribing it to an atmospheric effect. This seems extremely unlikely, and moreover the feature, as mentioned, is persistent.

It suggests that if the entire series is not in fact a hoax, then we need to be thinking about what we know and do not know concerning "dimensions" and kinds of technology that would make use of them.

Aug 29. But that's a big "if". In fact, it is elementary to create this fade-out effect in 3D modeling software. If indeed the object has been created in such software, one inserts a gray-scale gradient wedge filter into the transparency channel for the object, and voilą.