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and YOUR MONEY OR YOUR SATELLITE! “Was anyone skywatching on Friday last, SATELLITE! Archaeologists have discovered a pair of September 4, around 9.30 pm, and did they — New Scientist recently reported that his-and-her curses, the oldest ever found in see anything unusual? NASA could have a new lead in its search Egypt and perhaps in the world. They were A friend called to see me at about 9.20 for the missing Mars Observer, the probe located ina pharaonic cemetery, in distant pm, asking if we had seen the flashing poised to enter Martian orbit to commence View of the Giza pyramids, which contains lights in the sky. Going into the garden, we its mapping mission when its radio trans- ‘tombs and artefacts belonging to ancient watched the sky to see if the two lights miter ceased functioning last August. overseers, artisans and workers. would reappear. Suddenly I noticed in the —_4 ransom note has been received by sci- , Antiquities inspector Mansour Bauriak east a pale golden light which came silently entists at the agency's Jet Propuision has headed more than three years of exca- towards us, and drew our friend's attention Laboratory in Pasadena, California. We Vations in the ancient graveyard. So far, to it. We watched, fascinated, as it contin- reproduce this below for your interest. only one among 23 large tombs and 600 ued to glide in our direction, with a con- smaller burials contained a -curse. stant, steady glow—a huge bird! However, there was an aura of the unusual As it passed directly over our heads, at a even as the excavators approached the still- height I would say of 100 feet, we quite : : buried tomb. "From the first moment we found this tomb, there was a strange feeling,” Mr Bauriak said. "The tomb owner changed the tomb's design several times. Perhaps he was experimenting with different ways to outsmart robbers." The first of the main curses was found just to the left of the tomb's entrance. The hieroglyphs read: "To all people, the god- dess Hathor will strike you twice if you enter the tomb or do it harm." The burial chamber husband-and-wife curses were inside, at the rear. His curse summons crocodiles, lions and hippopota- clearly saw the great wings and body of what appeared to be a glowing bird, though there was no wing movement as far as we could make out. The nearest shape I could think of was that of an owl, but the size at that distance would have far surpassed any owl. And why was it glowing all over as it continued on its path until out of sight going west? The wings were very wide and remained outspread in the whole of the time we watched it. The sky was quite clear and stars fully visible, though the moon had some cloud across it. mi to eat anyone who dares violate the What on earth (or in heaven) was the tomb. P beautiful, fascinating glowing bird? In Her curse summons the same animal over 20 years of skywatching, I have never According to NASA spokeswoman Paula spirits but adds two more—scorpions and seen anything like it. Did anyone else see Cegget-Haleim, however, the Martian ran- snakes—to the warning. what we saw? som hypothesis is not among those under, "T think this ~~ that ladies ed Marilyn Preston Evans consideration by the independent investi- E ae gihey ~—. sai iin sid Ehoweaye, . =o ne ‘View Sates gating Sl + ? the chief antiquities official in charge of the (Source: BUFORA UFO Newsfile#10, _ Still, we're not so convinced there's nO gy avation October 1992, Western Morning News, 10 funny business going on! . : - The curses were designed to protect the September 1992) _ (Source: New Scientist, 25 September 1993) .-ri:fe of an official, Pet-et-ty, who served the pyramid-building pharaohs of Giza, and his wife Nesey-seker. The tomb had not been entered for 4,600 years—until last October. Since then, according to Mr Bauriak, there has been trouble surrounding the excavation site. "When anything bad hap- pens, we just blame it on the curse,” he said. Some of the strange coincidences include: * an antiquities inspector working at the tomb had to abandon his home after the major earthquake struck south of the pyra- mids on 12 October 1992; * an elderly photographer who has spent decades photographing tombs was injured when his ladder collapsed into a chamber of Pet-et-ty's tomb; * a small train carrying debris from the tomb derailed; 60eNFXUS DECEMBER 1993 - IANUARY 1994 New Scientist recently reported that NASA could have a new lead in its search for the missing Mars Observer, the probe poised to enter Martian orbit to commence its mapping mission when its radio trans- mitter ceased functioning last August. A ransom note has been received by sci- entists at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. We reproduce this below for your interest. & 60°NEXUS GLOW-IN-THE-DARK GLIDER THE CURSE OF HISTORY DECEMBER 1993 - JANUARY 1994