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THE WINGMAKERS TRAVELLERS Our FUTURE? TIME FROM Are the strange paintings and artifacts found in a New Mexico cave part of a time capsule left by visitors from our future, or part of an elaborate hoax? When I first came across this story on the Internet, I was awestruck—but I also had to wonder whether it could all be a hoax. If it is a hoax, someone has certainly spent a lot of time and thought on it, and for no apparent reason. The story is unverifiable and the con - tacts are uncontactable—at least for the moment—but, as you will see, it is very com - pelling and some of the information dovetails with other tidbits you may have read in NEXUS. To get the full picture, I urge you to visit the WingMakers website at , view the artwork and pictographs, listen to the music, digest the philosophy, and take the time to read the reams of supporting material. If anyone has any further information on this remarkable story, we would like to hear from them. — Editor PROJECT BRIEFING AND BACKGROUND n 1972, in a remote section of northern New Mexico, a group of hikers discovered an unusual artifact and pictographs within an obscure canyon. An archaeologist from the University of New Mexico analysed the artifact and searched the area where it was discovered, but found no signs that a prehistoric culture had established any per- manent site in the canyon. It was presumed that a nomadic, Native American Indian tribe had occasionally used the canyon as a temporary settlement and had left behind a few arti- facts of their presence as a consequence. 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 from any of the other native petroglyphs or rock art found in the southwest, or the entire continent for that matter. Because of these two anomalies, the artifacts and the entire project quickly became the property of the US Government or, more specifically, the National Security Agency (NSA). 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 initi- ate a full-scale, scientific expedition to determine the nature and significance of the site. The site was completely searched by a secret department of the NSA in 1973, but this only resulted in a few additional findings and none of these was designated as technolo- gies or evidence of an extraterrestrial presence. Additional pictographic symbols were found, but decoding them was a difficult and frustrating process. Experts were called in to help, but it was impossible to reach a consensus as to what the pictographs meant. As quickly as the project had risen as a priority investigation, it fell into the archives of the NSA under the code name, Ancient Arrow. Twenty-one years later, in 1994, a series of rockslides opened up a section of the Ancient Arrow site. The canyon is in a naturally obscure section of parkland held by the state of New Mexico. After its discovery in 1972, it was officially sanctioned ‘off limits’ to hikers and campers and was to be left in its natural state. From time to time, scien- tists—sponsored by the NSA—would visit the site, hoping to uncover new evidence, but were invariably disappointed. Shortly after the rockslide occurrence, a small team of operatives from the NSA visited Ancient Arrow canyon to do some follow-up research. They discovered the rockslide had exposed an entrance to a hidden cavern that led deep within the canyon walls. At the back of this cavern, the research team discovered a well-hidden entrance into the APRIL — MAY 1999 NEXUS - 35