A piece of ‘treasure’ found on my first go-out. Anyone recognize the pattern?
I got my Ace 250 Metal Detector two days ago and fired it up yesterday. Within 10 minutes I had me a find (see image); a brass pendant two inches deep and pretty much right under my hammock (this is an example of something). It’s not that it’s worth a lot but looking at it you know there’s a story here, and how it came to rest underground in the desert.
So I’m launched in my beneath-the-surface quest for stories and maybe even history. I’ll especially be looking for vertical erosion walls so I can scan, horizontally, the layers of time represented by the continual laying down of the surface grit. You don’t see other treasure hunters doing this (I also asked the detector-woman down the way), which is good news: Virgin territory!
By scanning vertical erosion walls I can go back to the deep past.
There’s a dry wash with some nice erosion walls just behind my site, and today I’ll give it try. My goal is to find artifacts of historical worth. Or story-telling worth, insofar as there is a distinction. In a way, my finds could be relevant to some of the deeper issues we talk about here.
One example just popped into my head: Recall that I’ve wondered about the total lack of Civil War photographs that show real carnage, i.e., the many high body count images that should be a part of the historical record but are not.
Addendum: I viewed Ken Burns’s Civil War epic and could not find even one photographic image with more than about a score of after-battle corpses; most had no more than a half dozen. Given that at least three Yankee photogs were at the Battle of Gettysburg alone, and that tens of thousands were mowed down, how is that no one thought to capture an aftermath? How about, say, Picket’s Charge?
Seriously, how do you explain that?
This would not be much of an issue but for the high strangeness of matters like… well, here’s my list of possibly related phenomena:
Watch the video, but for now compare this image with the next one.
UFOs
Paranormal Phenomena (which may be closely related to UFOs)
Star Visibility Anomalies
Historical Anomalies
The ‘Moon Numbers’ (Statistical evidence of a ‘higher power’)
Intelligent Design (I speak of bio-evolution and the ‘fine-tuning’ of the cosmos)
Simulation Theory (SH)
That bright sky lasted from about 4 AM to 7 AM, and I have no idea what caused it. Check out the video for more.
The Mandela Effect
I’ll surely be coming back to the list in future posts, but for this one my point is that we — many of us if not all of us — tend to spend our educational/research time staring at (and listening to) the device now in front of us. Yep, the Internet is… fuck… It’s our gateway to virtually all the knowledge mankind has gleaned, from the very beginning, at least that which can be communicated via words and visual images. That 99% of this ‘knowledge’ is incorrect, untrue, misleading, based on deceit, or irrelevant to any thinking mind is not the point. (Even the deceit incorporates truth, if you know how to read it.)
No, my point is that to really contribute to the true knowledge base, we have to get out of Netland, into the real world and… and dig, so to speak… and look at that world. See, it now occurs to me that with my new pastime, i.e., literally digging up the past, combined with my nightly sky-lapses, I’m doing my part in creating knowledge (in the ‘As above, so below’ sense), rather than re-interpreting it (which is what even valuable Net-research amounts to).
From last night, a ‘one-framer,’ meaning it only showed up in one (10 second) image. This is significant (more to come), as is the length of the artifact. Depending on distance, this baby was hauling ass; 2,000 mph is my estimate, as compared to the known speed of commercial aircrafts, which leave a much shorter trace.
If you’re thinking, ‘What kind of knowledge creation is digging holes and filming empty skies?’ then, well, we think differently. Or, rather: let’s wait and see what I dig up or make an image of.
Depending on your level of interest and time availability, I would ask you all to consider getting into this sort of thing. If the cost of a metal detector is daunting (under $300, plus a little shovel) and maybe you already have a camera, why not do your own sky-lapses? It’s easy, once you understand what photographs really are.
It’s also nice at night to be reading or watching a (hopefully) good story on my iPad or fast asleep or whatever, knowing that my two cameras are catching anything that might happen in the heavens, at least in the visual area of the electromagnetic spectrum.
I’ve gotten so serious about it that it does take a bit of time, post-production-wise. See, when you capture 10 or 12 hours of time, you have to view it to see what wild-ass stuff might have transpired, and you can’t hurry that too much. You’ll surely miss something.
This is from February 2 is another ‘one-framer.’ I get a lot of these and will be analyzig what they might be in an upcoming post. (Click it!)
I get up in the morning, first thing I do is collect the cameras and plug the chips into the Mac. It then takes ten or so minutes to create a video from the 4,000 or so photographs. But you can’t just then watch the video as is; the night would go by in less than two minutes (depending on your time lapse interval), and you’d likely miss a ‘one-framer’, i.e., an interesting ‘artifact’ that only shows up on one discreet image. (Which means it represents, say, 10 seconds of real time, if that’s your exposure time/interval setting).
So you slow down the video and stare at an essentially unchanging photograph for twenty or so minutes. It’s simultaneously interesting as hell and boring as hell. Just as your eyelids are starting to droop, BAM!, something weird flashes and you’re asking yourself, ‘What could have caused that?’ Once you understand how photography works, and with a basic understanding of physics and optics, you rule out stuff until there are only one or two possibilities. It’s a classic example of ‘When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable,
It occurs to me that my Ace 250 is my version of Gus’s nose.
must be the truth.’ You get better at it as you exercise your thinking.
A good example of this is from two nights ago… actually, yesterday morning, between 4 and 7 AM. (Between the ‘treasure find’ and the sky-lapse, a great ‘as above, so below’ day.) Take a look at the video and see what you think caused that ‘sky-bright’ effect. I posted the video yesterday and already have some people on the case, including a former army grunt who helped narrow down the possibilities:
The treasure hunting likewise involves various subtleties. I’m already halfway to learning how to tell a pop top tab from a genuine relic, via the sound-frequency the Ace 250 makes when it’s over something. And there’s a bit of an art to digging/sifting too.
This was yesterday, Feb. 4th, 8:01 PM. This is no doubt a meteor. (A 10 second exposure but the burn could have taken less time; no way of telling. Click for a good look at the details.)
Okay, if anyone needs some sky-lapse or treasure hunting advice, put your questions in the comments.
Allan
And don’t forget about the Glossary post. I’ll be adding to it and refining it so give it an occasional look. (Thanks again to Joe Antos for his collaboration.)
I did a google image search for that pendant/token thing, but nothing very similar.
I even did a pretty big search on it’s pattern/symbol, and came up with zilch.
I thought I was barking up the right tree with ancient Viking symbols among other things too 😀
For anyone interested in the simulation theory, here is a very interesting interview of Tom Campbell of the Monroe Institute by George Noori on Gaia TV. I can gift it with this link so I hope it works.
https://www.gaia.com/share/ck6atwz24001c0iqz8ixv57em?language%5B%5D=en
It worked cheers . This physicist makes some interesting points . He describes the universe as a virtual reality world made from information generated through our consciousness and the outer world is basically the direct result of our inner world , like a living – changing organism .
This is fundamentally what the ptb don’t want us to realize and why they work so hard in keeping people trapped in fear and the material world .
Correct. Just eliminate the irrelevant terms ‘virtual’, ‘reality’, and ‘outer’, and you’ve got it 😉 All shamans, sorcerers, wizards, C_A, satanic witches and warlocks, political science professors, and propagandists KNOW this. ”There is no ‘out there’ out there” is a perennial truism. ALL Creation(s) is an infinity of Matrices, just as it was directly revealed in the epic movie Dr. Strange (you know the scene). WE, as Creator-Beings, ‘project’ our Creations moment-to-moment onto a ‘screen’ which we perceive as ‘outside our Selves’. This is why ‘the ptw (WERE, no longer ‘are’ btw) don’t want us to realize’ this Ultimate Truth, so they can inDEED ‘keep us trapped in fear’, completely oblivious to THEIR thought/reality-shaping projections. Go watch a few YT videos by Bashar (Darryl Anka), and you’ll ‘see’ exactly what I mean. And how absolutely LOGICAL it actually is…once you get past your built-in, programmed FEAR of ‘strange ideas’ that has been bred deeeeeeeply into the Collective Unconscious over the many millennia of Dark Shaman (Elite Bloodline Family) Rule — and horrific traumatic punishments delivered to those who ‘dared’ to ‘question the official/ruling class/dominant paradigm narrative’ — over our species and planet….. Bottom line?? REAL-ize your INTRINSIC POWER to create the ‘reality’ YOU desire!! Once you de-program yourself, you shed the Chains of that Ancient Embedded Psycho-Emotional Bondage, and can re-create a REAL Life for your Self 🙂
Thanks for this reply Alexander . Not seen Bashar , I’ll check him out .
Allan, you might want to keep an eye on relative humidity levels at your location. High humidity levels would create more reflective surfaces (water droplets) for lights to reflect off of – whether mining ops or something clandestine. Humidity levels here in the upper Midwest for some reason, have exploded over the last 20 years or so. It’s not at all unusual to see humidity readings of 80, 90 and 100 % IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WINTER at this latitude….and this is throughout the entire northern hemisphere (I’ve been watching this for the last 3-4 years, via the internet) Fifty years ago, I clearly recall winter humidity levels of only 30, 40 or 50 % with the occasional foray into higher levels…all winter long. Not any more. Winter humidity is now routinely 80-100%…and nobody seems to notice (which sorta freaks me out.) I know that the desert is supposed to be drier, but this might be something to keep an eye on…
The treasure pendant looks kinda familiar
but dunno. I think the lighting up of the
Sky could be caused by car and other lights
Being reflected by developing evening desert fog.
Looking forward to your new ground and sky expedition
adventures, Allan. I’ve had thoughts that humans
Are in the middle of everything large and small.
Hope you find a giant gold nugget along a wash or
A falling star…
The fog explanation might be it. I didn’t know they ever had fog in the desert. Have you seen it before?
Ya, it can happen at different dew points in the desert.
I rescued a friend in the high desert on the way up
the mountains recently.
Came around a curve and was blinded
By fog, then drove through it. Really scary
On a mountain cloudless night when driving on
A curvy road, then all of sudden nothing
but white reflection from the headlights.
I read where Phoenix recently on 1/22/20 had really
bad night fog.
Got to hand it to you, Cat. Fog is the best theory by far. Probably no high strangeness with this one.
Allan New Discovery’s await Blessings and aloha
I added a photo from last night at the end of the post. This is a classic meteor (I have one in the ‘Busy UFO Night’ video). It starts burning gradually in the upper atmosphere, gains momentum (the line thickens), hits the high temp at the little bright bulge, then peters out. No way of knowing (from the photo) how long it took but I would estimate from the length at least 3 – 4 seconds. (The average ‘shooting star’ is less than a second.)
This is the biggest, brightest one I’ve gotten so far. I’ll keep you guys abreast of anything interesting, so hang in.
By the way, someone asked why I waste space by including the rig. This is why. It’s actually a perfectly balanced photo. I could not have put the meteor in a better place, compositionally. Besides, with the two cameras (a fisheye on the Canon and a super wide Gopro) I actually cover the zenith with both of them, so a little ground loses nothing in the sky.
That’s a good metal detector. Make sure you get one of those inexpensive coil covers that are made for those coils exactly, and slip on the bottom of them, keeping the the coil from being scraped up on the bottom and sides. And if you hit too many hard things with it, accidentally, the coil can break. But they (Garrett) are nice and replaced my ace250 coil several years ago, when it was pretty new, and I kind of smacked a rock. I wish I had more time to mess around with it. Get a fairly large mesh (1/8”-1/4”) strainer to scoop sand into, to get the goodies better at sandy beaches. They have ones on a stick, made for that, too, but they cost a lot more. Don’t use it in a national park. They will take it away from you permanently, as they are banned. Read up on metal detecting rules and laws so you don’t end up with some bs problem.
Thanks. Yeah, I got the scoop and a belt and so forth. I look like a serious geek out there. Will be hitting the dry wash in a few minutes.
WHAT!?!?….why on hell’s earth would it be illegal to use a metal detector??…my god that smacks of false bullshit red tape invented by NWO Bureaucrats.
Because they want to survey the area at some time in the future, and they want all of the artifacts/fossils/whatever left in the ground, and not stolen by individuals. They are owned collectively by the citizens. Don’t worry, by the time Trump is done there won’t be any National Parks left.
That’s ridiculous, and if I have lost something, I am going out to find it. Also It wouldn’t be stealing, that’s nuts.
Make sure you take your drone and fly it around the national parks whilst metal detecting there, I’m sure it will be fine with the park rangers. They will take both permanently. Kinda disappointing, I’ll admit.
Chris, I would do most searching after hours at night, while those NWO schmucks are at home grogging in front of the goggle box.
Anyway, I wonder how many times Allan’s detector friends have been buzzed & robbed by them??
I found an old brass belt buckle today, at about 4 inches down.
Allan, the late night skylight could be night time mining operations or 24×7 operations of something behind the cluster of lights that were present at the horizon just to the left of the moon as it was setting.
Only happened that one night. Also, the heavier road traffic (you can see the lights on the left side of frame) was headed in that direction. This tells me something was up but no one here has a clue.
Pop top tabs are genuine relics.
http://westerndigs.org/ring-tab-beer-cans-are-now-officially-historic-artifacts/
Cigarette butts not so much.
Beeeeeep…Meteorite!
i love that you’re doing the night sky time lapses. i think you’re getting closer to discovering HTURW (Universe). i think it’s the place to be looking. it seems important to know how the Universe really works before trying to understand how the “World” really works HTWRW. The BIG PICTURE view includes the smaller and it probably “determines” the smaller?
I could easily be wrong though. Maybe the sub atomic realm holds the key to HTURW? Anyway, thanks for looking and sharing. I really need to get a camera that will shoot time lapses and do some of my own looking. Does anyone do time lapse photography of the sub atomic realm? It is interesting that they’re both infinite… that tells us something very important right there. From the poet’s perspective, it tells us everything… from the scientist’s perspective, …not so much.
Allan,
Forgive me if you’ve addressed this before, but have you noticed any patterns regarding the photographed lights?
Do they tend to “arrive” at certain times of the night, and/or in certain “parts” of the sky?
Or is it seemingly “random”?
(very cool, re: the metal detector, btw. I agree with you about getting out in the world and doing your own investigating/exploring.)
That’s a really good question. I just finished a book on UFOs from 1970 called Operation Trojan Horse, wherein the author figures that there is a pattern to UFO sightings. (Time and place patterns). I tend to catch them before midnight, but should be writing down exact times and places.
Lots of archaeologists working out there
What’s your point? Since there is none, you don’t even put a point (a period) at the end…
i think mary louise’s point was that you’re not the only one looking for historical artifacts buried in the ground in arizona. there are many ruins and ghost towns. perhaps they might have some interesting info for you. no reason to get testy about her punctuation
i could be rong
Look back (if you have the patience) at her comments. Try to find even one that is not negative or ignorant. See what I’m saying? My patience wears thin…
>>See what I’m saying?
yeah. that’s why i said, “i could be rong”… and no… (i don’t have the patience – otherwise i’d have done that before posting). thanks for the explanation… i understand. i WAS rong. disregard my comment. i really appreciate your work and sharing of the night sky videos. IOU two free episodes of impatience for not jumping on me for not being more aware of past posts by some of the regulars. 😉
i agree with the fog theory explanation of the bright sky. that would be my guess too.
[i]disclaimer: i could be wrong again. LOL[/i]
am i starting to ramble? okay, okay… i’ll stop, i’ll stop.
-the end
Most of photographic archive from the civil war finished as greenhouse glass…
I’ve heard that but you would think that really shocking images would have been saved. Or at least one.
http://www.tesoro.com/info/about/staff.html
My cousin, Rusty Henry, is service manager at tesoro in Prescott… He spent YEARS in the Australian outback with metal detectors hunting gold and other treasures.
He moved back here and retired to Arizona. You should look him up!
Tell him Martha squared sent you. His mother is Martha to the first power.
Maggie 1 and Maggie 2.
When I visited him in Virginia as a kid, I combed beaches with metal detectors too!
Maggie, did he retire to Arizona on his gold & treasure findings?…
Yes… he built a really unique home on Thumb Butte that had a special room “Down Under” that you had to walk around the edge of the hillside and enter from down under.
And, the displays of the treasure he didn’t sell? Incredible.
Oh… AND? He drove a school bus after he moved there because he loved doing it!
Wow! , Thank you :-).
I reckon Allan (and Guss!) is going to run into some precious metals too!.
Who knows, even that Pendant and belt buckle should have some value for collectors.
Wow Mr!, fancy finding that Pendant especially, and so fast on your first search, and straight under your hammock!…(everyone rushes out the door to get a metal detector! :-D).
Exciting, and I bet you find a ton of stuff. I wonder how deep down in the ground will it detect something?. At the moment (and have been for some years), I am searching around in the micro world.
Allan, why can’t those light streaks you picture here, be meteors??.
You are very lucky to be able to film like that, if you came out in the morning here, there would be a very high chance the camera’s would be gone, – stolen.
Some could be meteors but i have compared a known meteor to them (in a video) and they don’t look the same. Also they don’t tend to be on courses that make sense for a meteor.