Ortelius is an important figure in the history of cartography. One of the most fun maps that I found was Abraham Ortelius' Islandia, Iceland. During the next few months, I'll put together a couple of less polished pieces so that I can share some off the more interesting tidbits that I found. I wasn't able to find excuses to use all of my research at the time. This was more fun than anyone deserves to have. Last fall while researching my article on images of walruses and possible mammoths on Renaissance maps, I looked at dozens of maps before finding the five I finally used. Fortunately, I have an old post about the sources of one of the more interesting maps. Had I known they were going to do this, I would have written something special about it. I just noticed that the Google Doodle of the day is Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and be good for goodness sake. Who has the ability to manage an intelligence network like that? Ask yourself: Who has the ability to travel everywhere, at any time, and even seemingly to appear in two places at once? Who has a special interest in protecting the polar regions? Who knows when you are sleeping? Who knows when you are awake? Who knows if you've been good or bad? They seem to actually know what is in the minds of the people they visit. They have a special interest in unidentified flying objects and in protecting the polar regions. Think for a moment about the men in black. No government has the ability to do what the MIBs do. The most mundane explanation that has been offered is that they work for the American government and that they are trying to hide the truth about the extraterrestrial origin of UFOs. My personal favorite version is that saucers and MIBs are Atlanteans from within the hollow earth, but the theory that they are Nazi refugees from super-scientific bases beneath the ice cap has its devotees, too. Bender told a different story in his own book in 1963.Įnough UFO stories end with the craft departing due north or south that Barker's version of Bender's visitors has been adopted by conspiracy theorists who believe in a decidedly terrestrial origin for saucers. They have bases in both polar regions and regularly fly between them. UFOs, they said, actually come from Antarctica. But before they did, the MIBs were good enough to explain at least part of the true secret of the flying saucers. We would like to print the full story in Space Review, but because of the nature of the information we are very sorry that we have been advised in the negative.Īccording to Barker, the reason Bender had so abruptly ended the group was that three mysterious men in black had visited Bender and warned him off. The source is already known, but any information about this is being withheld by order from a higher source. STATEMENT OF IMPORTANCE: The mystery of the flying saucers is no longer a mystery. The last issue of the news letter gave only this explanation. In 1953 the IFSB was about two years old with a few hundred dues paying members (called "investigators") who all received the Bureau's newsletter Space Review. The group was doing well enough when, in October 1953, Bender suddenly stopped publication of Space Review, and dissolved the IFSB. Though Barker's book dealt with a number of paranormal topics, the largest part of it dealt with his former boss, IFSB founder Albert Bender. The author was one Gray Barker who had been a member of one of the first American UFO groups, the rather ambitiously named International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB). The men in black (MIB) entered UFO lore in 1956 in a book entitled They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers. This is a rerun of a post I wrote for my other blog a few years ago.
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