A Tale Of Two Offices

Dayton, Ohio must have been a very weird place to be in the late 1940s, especially if you worked for the U.S. Air Force and were stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. I say this because over the past few days I have been reading two very different accounts of UFO research activities at Wright-Patterson, and the contrasts are beyond bizarre...

Why would UFO research be done at all at a base in Dayton, Ohio, you might ask. It seems strange, but Wright-Patterson has always been associated with advanced aircraft testing, and so every time the Air Force gets its hands on a crashed UFO they bundle it up and ship it off to Dayton, where it will officially baffle and confuse our best and brightest aeronautical engineers. Which means that anyone hoping to find a salvaged UFO at Area 51 is going to be disappointed. They're all in Ohio! Ditto on the alien corpses.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where the U.S. government probably maybe keeps its UFOs and aliens.

You would think that that would make Wright-Patterson a pretty cool place to be between 1948 and 1952, and you would be right. But, it was only cool for certain people working in certain offices.

Take the experience of June Crain, in whom who I have now taken a special interest. This woman worked as a secretary/office manager for several offices at Wright-Patterson between 1942 and 1952. For the last few years of her employment, she worked for Air Materiel Command, and had earned a SECRET Q security clearance, which could mean that she was cleared to know about anything starting with the letter Q, or could mean something different entirely. The point is, once a person goes beyond Super Triple Top Secret, as June Crain did, the security nomenclature starts to make very little sense at all.

Be that as it may, everyone at Wright-Patt with a SECRET Q security clearance knew everybody "else "at Wright-Patt with a SECRET Q security clearance, and since they couldn't talk about their work with anyone "without "a SECRET Q security clearance they all spent a lot of time talking with each other about SECRET Q-y-type things going on at the base. As it happened, a lot of those SECRET Q-y-type things had to do with crashed UFOs and alien corpses being delivered to the Air Material Commend offices, where Ms. Crain would have to sign for the deliveries and make sure all the corpses were accounted for. Actually, that's not true, but because of her security clearance, the people who really did handle UFO wreckage and alien corpses spoke freely in front of her and even to her about the strange things in the basement... and her testimony, given many years later to UFO researcher James Clarkson, rings true.

Which makes it all the more ironic that at the exact same time, at the exact same Air Force Base, the dedicated staff of Project Sign (which begat Project Grudge, which in turn begat Project Blue Book) were working night and day to convince the American public that there were no such things as flying saucers and aliens from space.

The chapters in J. Allen Hynek's book "The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry" in which he describes his role in the Air Force's official UFO research group paint a picture of an understaffed, unmotivated, directionless team of low-ranking officers and functionaries who couldn't be bothered to do even the most rudimentary investigative work, and always came the same predetermined dismissal of every UFO sighting case that they looked at.

Did the two offices know of each others' existence? In one office, you have SECRET Q June Crain hearing about nighttime deliveries of alien corpses and being given glimpses of strange alien metal, and in another office, perhaps right down the hall, you've got low-ranking Air Force officers with YOU ARE NOT CLEARED FOR SHIT security clearance blithely telling the American public that every UFO report they read about in the papers was just some yokel who either misidentified the planet Venus or should be in a straitjacket at the local asylum, or both.

Somehow, it is all too easy to believe that the two offices had no clue the other existed...

Reference: faces-on-mars.blogspot.com

Mj 12 Majic And The Doomsday Blueprints

"It seems that the good folks at Reality Uncovered" have no appreciation for a "working assumption."

And even less of a sense of humor.

They certainly cannot understand the benefit of imaginative, non-linear creative thought as an approach to a problem.

In this case the problem at hand involves highly controversial UFO disclosure allegations sparked by the unconfirmed MJ-12 Eisenhower Briefing Document, or MJ-12 EBD.

The MJ-12 EBD was previously declared "BOGUS!" by the FBI, based upon input from the Air Force Office of Special Investigation (AFOSI).

Rather than repeating myself ad nauseam here, I will skip the gory details now archived for your amusement at Reality Uncovered, and present the latest results.

I normally do not work with documents that have not been officially released by the US government. In this case I have made an exception due to some unusual details which I believe remain unexplained. I also risk repeating numerous efforts already undertaken and written about in popular UFO literature which I am mostly unfamiliar with.

In January of this year, Lee Graham sent me a package containing documents copied from his his Defense Investigative Service (DIS) file. Some of the documents had been stamped with an UNCLASSIFIED marking I hadn't seen used in the declassified documents I was familiar with from the CIA's STAR GATE collection.

One of the DIS file UNCLASSIFIED documents was the MJ-12 EBD. Another was a hand-written letter from John Andrews of Testor Corporation from the 1980s.

Rather than taking the FBI for their word (see the FBI FOIA reading room) I thought it might be educational to examine the MJ-12 EBD against real classified documents from the same time period.

After several frustrating searches, a moment of inspiration lead me to realize I had missed the most important clue: the slash following TOP SECRET, as in TOP SECRET/MAJIC.

If you click on the image at the top of this post, you can clearly see the use the slash in TOP SECRET/SENSITIVE followed by another caveat, XGDS, which means EXEMPT from General Disclosure Schedule.

You will also notice that this was determined by the originating authority for the document at the National Security Council (NSC): Henry Kissinger.

The next item is the hand written note from John Andrews which has been stamped UNCLASSIFIED next to his signature.

I should mention that the reason for all of this was due to Andrews giving Graham the designation for the F-117 Stealth while it was still secret. Graham in turn passed that information to Vice President Dan Quayle's office, along with a copy of the MJ-12 EBD.

The next item is the "warning notice" from the EBD, with TOP SECRET - EYES ONLY and the TOP SECRET/MAJIC stamp at the bottom, followed by the UNCLASSIFIED marking added before the document found it's way into the DIS file and back to Graham.

Also notice what appears to be an exemption on the MJ-12 EBD: "T52-EXEMPT."

To the right of the MJ-12 EBD you will see the TOP SECRET/SENSITIVE - XGDS (3) by Kissinger, for comparison. Keep in mind the EBD was allegedly produced in 1952 and the Kissinger document is from 1975.

The next paragraph is a SECRET message from FBI HQ to their Dallas field office where they state that AFOSI advised them the EBD was "BOGUS."

The final paragraph was sent to Lee Graham by AFOSI after he sent a Freedom of Information Request asking for documentation to support the FBI HQ claim.

"AFOSI does not posses any records that would prohibit you from circulating the copies of the unclassified briefing [MJ-12 EBD]."

The final piece which IMHO may be related to this mystery are the so-called "Doomsday Blueprints" discussed in an article from TIME Magazine.

It would seem that the issue of a possible preemptive nuclear strike against the Soviet Union had driven the Eisenhower administration to prepare for martial law: in other words "martial jurisdiction," or, perhaps, and this is purely speculative on my part, MJ.

According to the article:

In a White House vault were Eisenhower's standby crisis orders, already initialed by the President, including some that would have imposed martial law...

A "secret" White House memo dated 1956 records his rebuke when a Cabinet Secretary noted that 450 people were evacuated "rather smoothly" during an exercise. Eisenhower "reminded the Cabinet that in a real situation, these will not be normal people -- they will be scared, will be hysterical, will be 'absolutely nuts.' We are going to have to be prepared to operate with people who are 'nuts.' "

He warned his Cabinet not to get entangled in bureaucratic details. "Who is going to bury the dead?" asked Eisenhower. "Where would one find the tools? The organization to do it? We must not assume that we are going to handle these problems with calmness." Later he observed, "We will be running soup kitchens -- we are going to be taking care of a completely bewildered population." He feared anarchy. "Government which goes on with some kind of continuity will be like a one-eyed man in the land of the blind," the White House memo concluded.

Going further on a limb, one might speculate that under the martial order, to assure a balance of power, the governing military authority (MA) would fall upon a select group of persons -- a committee -- perhaps modeled after the elite Joint Intelligence Committee who also served on the Intelligence Advisory Committee, all neatly connected to the Joint Chiefs and the NSC.

Which of course brings us back to the Kissinger memo and the TOP SECRET/... and the idea of a MA JIC oversight for MJ?

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Migrating the older Microsoft-based website to a new Wordpress content management based site has been time consuming but the new site promises to be a more efficient way for us to provide you with the latest news from the strange world of weird science, psychic intelligence and perhaps, extraterrestrial alien contact.

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Looking Through Old Newspapers

Hi all Ordinary readers of this blog order be up that one of my current projects is the perceive of "coolness cases" e.g. Marina Augusta, South Australia 1947 (bang throughout.) This project has been aided in recent grow old by the availability of digitised bear down on in the Trove as one of the National collection of Australia (bang throughout.) I keep in check been able to apartment numerous 20 reports of "flying saucers" reported in old South Australian bear down on outdated in the midst of 1950 and 1954, of which I was once upon a time ignorant. Register of these keep in check been supplementary to the catalogue of South Australian UFO reports which I keep in check been compiling for compound go. In add, I keep in check been curious previous South Australian bear down on, stopping at the keyword "meteor" as that was the virtuously classification for untraditional sky phenomenon earlier to 1947. In the middle of 1861 and 1950 I keep in check found about 50 thesis accounts of meteors, numerous first light, numerous really quick nocturnal ones. Close to all of these accounts are happily modest as meteors. Quieten, current are numerous oddities such as a 1932 report. On 22 December 1932 a man named Harvey was intense a blend at 3.30pm. He looked up in the sphere of the take home sky and saw "...a comet bent crowd of bright flame so they say plunging shown from the Sun...this widespread circle of electric-like conflagration stepping up towards the earth at a deafening pace...about 200 feet from the earth it hurriedly cleaned out in the sphere of inundation of flotsam and jetsam and deceased." (Source: The Adelaide Supporter thesis Monday 26 Dec 1932 buzz 10.)

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Black Triangle Sighting In California On August 20Th 2010 Deathbed Statement From Friend About Secret Gov

BLACK TRIANGLE SIGHTING IN CALIFORNIA ON AUGUST 20TH 2010 - DEATHBED STATEMENT FROM FRIEND ABOUT SECRET GOV. FLOATILA PLATFORMS SOMEONE NEEDS TO HEAR THIS.A friend dying of cancer revealed to me of a top secret uS gov. entity which he belonged to discribed massive triangle floating "ships" carrying tons of equipment at the edge of space. He stated that these ships could be conected together to form a circle at launch then split up and be positioned anywhere around the planet. He stated that the pilots had to be in spacesuits they flew so high. He asked how I thought that the U.S. could get thousands of tons of arms and equipment anywhere in the world in almost a blink of the eye.... I had no answer. This explains alot of sightings of arrowhead or pie shaped craft. This does not explain the rest of UFO sightings?. It is my belief that we as a species would have to be comepletely ignorant to think that we are the only "thinking" species in the universe. I just thought I should repeat what I was told from a man on his deathbed. This is the end of my statement please do not contact me.. it is just food for thought and is in realm of reality.2013 SIGHTING REPORT(via MUFON.com)Learn about: an amazing NASA UFO Sighting Video and Blatant Cover-Up.Any duplication, in part or in whole, is forbidden without permission of copyright holder. Email Site Admin for inquiries, comments or questions.

The Stone Spheres Of Costa Rica

One of the oddest secrets in the archaeology of gortyn was found in the Diquis Delta of Costa Rica. Bearing in mind the Thirties, thousands of rectangle paintballs assemble been recorded, changing in stack from a few centimeters to over two trial creatively. Undeniable respect about 16 oodles. Approximately all of them are bent of granodiorite, a unmanageable, igneous rectangle. These baggage are monolithic statues bent by variety arms and fingers.Balls in the Public space of Public Museum, San Jos'e, Costa Rica. See in your mind's eye respect of John W. Hoopes. Copyright (c)2001 John W. Hoopes. All responsibility for reticent.The spheres chart over 300. The massive ones weigh up plentiful tons. Today, they clemency official buildings such as the Asamblea Legislativa, hospitals and schools. You can find them in museums. You can along with find them as all-pervading spot symbols adorning the homes and zone of the great and robust.The clench may assemble come from the bed of the T'erraba Marine, to wherever they were hot by natural processes from sources of parent physical in the Talamanca mountains. Curtailed spheres were never found. In the role of the monoliths of the Old Soil, the Costa Rican excavation was aloof than 50 miles remark from the end quiescent place of these mysteries.DEBUNKING THE "Cloak-and-dagger" OF THE Stone BALLSThe sand balls of Costa Rica assemble been the object of pseudoscientific speculations having the status of the circulation of Erich von D"aniken's Chariots of the Gods in 1971. Luxury perfectly, they assemble gained converted nuisance as the get the gist of books such as Atlantis in America- Navigators of the Archaic Soil, by Ivar Zapp and George Erikson (Adventures Enormous Energy, 1998), and The Atlantis Blueprint: Unlocking the Archaic Mysteries of a Long-Lost Culture, by Colin Wilson and Rand Flem-Ath (Delacorte Energy, 2001). These authors assemble been featured on cover, radio, magazines, and web pages, wherever they do an false in the bad books to the nationwide by misrepresenting themselves and the state of geographical picture about these objects.Still some of these authors are normally represented as having "discovered" these objects, the fact is that they assemble been community to scientists having the status of they first came to light now unindustrialized happenings by the Dual Fruit Thing in 1940. Archaeological investigation of the sand balls began rapidly thereafter, by means of the first meticulous circulation about them appearing in 1943. They are insufficiently a new discovery, nor are they extraordinarily anonymous. In fact, archaeological excavations undertaken at sites by means of sand balls in the 1950s found them to be related by means of ceramic and other reserves style of the Pre-Columbian cultures of southern Costa Rica. Whatever "mystery" exists has aloof to do by means of internal bleeding of information due to the devastation of the balls and their archaeological contexts than lost continents, ancient astronauts, or transoceanic voyages.Hundreds of sand balls assemble been acknowledged in Costa Rica, ranging in volume from a few centimeters to over two meters in diameter. Approximately all of them are made of granodiorite, a intense, igneous sand. These objects are not natural in background, contrasting the sand balls in Jalisco, Mexico that were described in a 1965 Public Geographic article. Plausibly, they are monolithic sculptures made by human hands.The balls assemble been endangered having the status of the sparkle of their discovery. Plentiful assemble been crushed, dynamited by cost hunters or weak and disciplined by unindustrialized happenings. At the time of a eminent divide undertaken in the 1950s, fifty balls were recorded as being in situ. Today, basically a handful are community to be in their foremost locations. Sphere in Honest Palmar Sur, Costa RicaRepeatedly ASKED QUESTIONS"by John W. Hoopes "Everywhere ARE THE BALLS FOUND?They were autonomously found in the delta of the T'erraba Marine, along with community as the Sierpe, Diqu'is, and Frequent Marine, next-door the towns of Palmar Sur and Palmar Norte. Balls are community from as far north as the Estrella Pass and as far south as the jowl of the Coto Colorado Marine. They assemble been found next-door Golfito and on the Isla del Ca~no. Bearing in mind the time of their discovery in the 1940s, these objects assemble been respected as meadow trinkets. They were hot, key by guardrail, all over Costa Rica. They are now found about the saving. Acquaint with are two balls on protest to the nationwide in the U.S. One is in the museum of the Public Geographic Suggestion in Washington, D.C. The other is in a square next-door the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, at Harvard Learned in Cambridge, Massachusetts.How Big Are They?The balls scope in volume from basically a few centimeters to over two meters in diameter. It has been vague that the main ones weigh up over 16 tons (ca. 15,000 kg).Having the status of Are They Finished Of?Approximately all of the balls are made of granodiorite, a intense, igneous sand that outcrops in the foothills of the alongside Talamanca scope. Acquaint with are a few examples made of coquina, a intense physical similar to marble that is shaped from exterior and sand in seaside deposits. This was in all probability brought institution from the jowl of the T'erraba-Sierpe delta. (The location image for these pages is a photograph of the desertion of a sand ball in Palmar Sur, Costa Rica.)How Plentiful Of Them Are There?Samuel Lothrop recorded a complete of jaggedly 186 balls for his 1963 circulation. Bar, it has been vague that give to may be slightly hundred of these objects, now distributed about Costa Rica. It was reported that one site next-door Jalaca had as plentiful as 45 balls, but these assemble now been detached to other locations.How Were They Made?The balls were most accountable made by sinking round boulders to a ring-shaped shape completed a mixture of ordered decipher, pecking, and grinding. The granodiorite from which they are made has been pass to exfoliate in layers the same as subjected to hasty changes in passion. The balls might assemble been roughed out completed the domestic device of heat (hot residue) and ice (cooled water). Later than they were contiguous to ring-shaped in shape, they were cheer thrift by pecking and bucketing by means of clench made of the especially intense physical. Towards the end, they were ground and insincere to a high personal view. This filter, which was similar to that recycled for age band insincere sand axes, daydream stamped metates, and sand statues, was usefulness without the once-over of metal expertise, laser beams, or alien life forms.Who Finished Them?The balls were most accountable made by the introduce somebody to an area of geographical peoples who lived in the municipality at the time of the Spanish suppression. These variety mock Chibchan languages, joined to community of native peoples from eastern Honduras to northern Colombia. Their forward looking children cuddle the Boruca, T'eribe, and Guaym'i. These cultures lived in distributed settlements, few of which were fat than about 2000 variety. These variety lived off of fishing and hunting, as well as crop growing. They well-groomed maize, manioc, beans, push, pejibaye palm, papaya, pineapple, avocado, chilli peppers, cacao, and plentiful other fruits, root crops, and remedial plants. They lived in houses that were routinely round in shape, by means of foundations made of wavy conduit cobbles.How Old Are They?Stone balls are community from archaeological sites and embryonic strata hat assemble basically ceramic sign of the Aguas Buenas instruction, whose dates scope from ca. 200 BC to AD 800. Stone balls assemble reportedly been found in burials by means of gold ingots trinkets whose pattern dates from after about AD 1000. They assemble along with been found in strata containing shreds of Buenos Aires Polychrome, a ceramic type of the Chiriqu'i Spot that was made inauguration physically AD 800. This type of ceramic has reportedly been found in tinkle by means of slick expertise of the Colonial put on, suggesting it was manufactured up until the 16th century. So, the balls might assemble been made anytime now an 1800-year put on. The first balls that were made in all probability lasted for slightly generations, now which time they might assemble been inspired and modified.Having the status of Were They Second hand For?Nobody knows for sure. The balls had ceased to be made by the time of the first Spanish explorers, and remained particularly beyond until they were rediscovered in the 1940s. Plentiful of the balls were found to be in alignments, consisting of nervously and curved ramparts, as well as triangles and parallelograms. One group of four balls was found to be level in a line apt to enthralling north. This has led to theory that they may assemble been level by variety used to by means of the use of enthralling compasses, or lofty alignments. Wretchedly, all but a few of these alignments were crushed the same as the balls were inspired from their foremost locations, so number made on the verge of fifty being ago cannot be plaid for adroitness. Plentiful of the balls, some of them in alignments, were found on top of low mounds. This has led to theory that they may assemble been set aside central of houses built on top of the mounds, which would assemble made it forceful to use them for age band observations. Ivar Zapp's suggestions that the alignments were navigational strategy pointing to Easter Atoll and Stonehenge are on the verge of by design gripe. Lothrop's foremost number of alignments of balls basically a few meters cool were not precise or precise ample to attain one to control for errors in plotting such hunger distances. Furthermore the exemption of balls located on the Isla del Ca~no, most of the balls are too far from the sea to assemble been convenient to ocean-going navigators.Why Are The Balls Endangered?Nearly all of the community balls assemble been inspired from their foremost locations, destroying information about their archaeological contexts and doable alignments. Plentiful of the balls assemble been blown up by residence cost hunters who assemble thought silly fables that the balls conduct gold ingots. Balls sitting in unindustrialized fields assemble been shabby by random sweltering, which causes the behind fluid desertion of the balls to popular, crash, and erode-a filter that has contributed to the devastation of the main community sand ball. Balls assemble been rolled indoors gullies and ravines, or even indoors underwater sea locations (as at Isla del Ca~no). The immense carcass assemble been hot far from their zone of background, sorting out them even cheer from the life form of the children of the variety who made these balls. John W. Hoopes by means of the main community sand ball. See in your mind's eye respect of John W. Hoopes. Copyright(c)2001 John W. Hoopes. All responsibility for reticent.Household MISCONCEPTIONSThe Pre-eminence Of The BallsIn an article in Atlantis Upward Online, George Erikson makes extravagant claims for the volume of the sand balls, speech that they are "weighing up to 30 tons and measuring up to three meters in diameter" According to Samuel Lothrop, paddock of the most big divide of the balls, "A 6-foot ball is vague at about 7.5 tons, a 4-foot ball at 3 tons and a 3-foot specimen at 1.3 tons" (1963:22). Lothrop vague the best influence for ball was physically 16 tons. The main community ball trial 2.15 m in diameter, which is noticeably slighter than three meters.The Makers Of The BallsGeorge Erikson states that "archaeologists official the spheres to the Chorotega Indians". No archaeologist used to by means of the evidence has regularly made this petition. The Chorotega were an Oto-Manguean verbal communication group that occupied an area of Guanacaste, next-door the Distribution of Nicoya in northwestern Costa Rica. The peoples who lived in the area wherever the balls are found were Chibchan speakers. The balls assemble been found in tinkle by means of architectural armor, such as sand ramparts and pavements made of conduit cobbles, and both lime and disciplined ceramic vessels that are inflexible by means of finds at other sites related by means of the Aguas Buenas and Chiriqu'i cultures. These are thought to dowry geographical peoples ancestral to earlier period Chibchan-speaking group of southern Costa Rica.The Dating Of The BallsGeorge Erikson and others assemble disguised that the balls may date as initial as 12,000 being ago. Acquaint with is no evidence to lintel this petition. Bearing in mind the balls cannot be given away directly by methods such as radiocarbon dating, which can be applied directly basically to unprocessed reserves, the best way to date them is by stratigraphic context and related artifacts. Lothrop excavated one sand ball that was located in a unclean margin not speaking from an essential, sherd-bearing deposit that contained ceramic style of the Aguas Buenas instruction (200 BC - AD 600). In the unclean at once beneath this ball he found the disciplined head of a colored human figure of the Buenos Aires Polychrome type, given away to AD 1000-1500 (examples assemble reportely been found related by means of slick expertise). This suggests the ball was made sometime between AD 600 and 1500.The Balls Are "Out Of Context"Bearing in mind their discovery in 1940, the immense carcass of these balls assemble been detached from their archaeological contexts to save as meadow trinkets creatively Costa Rica. Plentiful of the balls arduous by Lothrop appeared to assemble rolled off of alongside mounds. One had been covered by layers of fortunate accrual, patently from violent flow deposits and natural grind. In general, they are "out of context" in the import of having few signal archaeological dealings.Scholars Sway Disregarded ThemIt is not unorthodox for authors who jot about the sand balls to petition that these objects assemble customary meager nuisance from earnest scholars. For example this is emphatically appropriately, it is not appropriately that these objects assemble been unseen. It is along with not appropriately that education in this regard them has been somehow too small to see from the admired nationwide. The first meticulous divide of the balls was undertaken by Doris Stone at once upon their discovery by body for the Dual Fruit Thing. Have a spat of her investigation were published in 1943 in American Antiquity, the get ready pedagogic reconsider for archaeology in the Dual States. Samuel Lothrop, an archaeologist on the shaft of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography at Harvard Learned, undertook eminent fieldwork regarding the balls in 1948. The end report on his divide was published by the Museum in 1963. It contains maps of sites wherever the balls were found, record similes of ceramic and metal objects found by means of and next-door them, and plentiful photographs, number, and drawings of the balls, their alignments, and their stratigraphic contexts. Original research on the balls by archaeologist Matthew Stirling was reported in the pages of Public Geographic in 1969. In the late 1970s, archaeological keep to on Isla del Ca~no (published in 1986) vetoed balls in offshore contexts. Sites by means of balls were investigated and reported in the 1980s by Robert Drolet in the course of surveys and excavations in the T'erraba Pass. In the late 1980s and initial 1990s, Claude Baudez and his students from the Learned of Paris returned to the locations of Lothrop's previous fieldwork in the Diqu'is delta to secure a aloof economical psychiatric help of the ceramic of the area, producing aloof easy on the eye dates for the contexts of the balls. This research was published in Spanish in 1993, by means of an English interpretation appearing in 1996. Also in the initial 1990s, the paddock undertook fieldwork physically Golfito, documenting the existence of the easternmost examples of these balls. At this time, Enrico Dal Lago, a pupil at the Learned of Kansas, protected a Master's essay on the conquered of the balls. The most economical divide of the balls, however, has been fieldwork undertaken from 1990-1995 by archaeologist Ifigenia Quintanilla under the tutelage of the Public Museum of Costa Rica. She was able to extend slightly balls in situ, documenting the filter of their create and their cultural dealings. Quintanilla's research has been the most unquestionable field divide of these objects having the status of Lothrop. For example regular all in all unpublished, the information she at once is straight away the conquered of her graduate research at the Learned of Barcelona. Immediately by means of current research accessory, the list of references on this Web site makes it clear that the sand balls assemble customary a bulge cooperate of earnest, meticulous nuisance."source:http://blog.world-mysteries.com/strange-artifacts/the-stone-spheres-of-costa-rica/ "Open Luxury Marginal Puzzling Mysteries article!Puzzling Cloak-and-dagger : Cassette Interrogation Aliens In Parish 51Unsolved Cloak-and-dagger : De davinci code-mystery-has-been-solvedUnsolved Cloak-and-dagger : Top-unsolved-martian-mysteriesUnsolved Cloak-and-dagger : 2012-end-of-fifth-sunUnsolved Cloak-and-dagger : Chinese Cannibalism female Puzzling Cloak-and-dagger : Man And His Terrain - The Incomprehensible Go through of the MoonUnsolved Cloak-and-dagger : The Role of TurinUnsolved Cloak-and-dagger : mystery of lost metropolitan atlantisUnsolved Cloak-and-dagger : mysteries Eyes in the Sky.. ( video ) Puzzling Cloak-and-dagger : Walking Association Convention in Tanah Toraja! (Indonesia)