Puma Punku is truly a wonderful place, not only is it an incredible temple complex filled with mysteries that baffle one’s mind, it is a place where one loses the notion of space and time. This temple complex located near Tiahuanaco, Bolivia is one of the most incredible ancient ruins you will find in South America.

At Puma Punku or “The Door of the Puma” as the Aymara people call it, we find incredible evidence of precision cuts, precise engineering, and evidence of high level of geometry and mathematics. It is a treasure for anyone who has knowledge in Mathematics, geology, engineering and astronomy.

Surveys done, using ground-penetrating radar, magnetometry, induced electrical conductivity, and magnetic susceptibility reveal the presence of numerous man-made structures such as wall foundations of buildings and compounds, water conduits, pool-like features, revetments, terraces, residential compounds, and widespread gravel pavements all of which now lie buried and hidden beneath the modern ground’s surface and all that within a kilometer between Pumapunku and Kalasasaya — another incredible archaeological structure.

Perhaps the biggest mystery involving Puma Punku is, how did ancient mankind manage to transport these huge blocks of stone from quarries within 10 to 100 km. How did they manage to achieve this type of precision cuts and how did they place the blocks in such a perfect manner. Engineers and constructors around the world today cannot answer nor replicate these achievements done by ancient mankind thousands of years ago.

Archaeologists cannot come to a conclusion and answer how were these amazing blocks of stone transported. Some of them believe that it was accomplished by the large labor force of ancient Tiahuanaco. Several theories have been proposed as to how this labor force transported the stones from the quarries to Puma Punku but these theories remain speculative. It is believed that the builders of Puma Punku used llama skin ropes and ramps and inclined planes to move these incredible blocks to the site. But this explanation is not accepted widely, at least in our opinion it takes more than llama skin rope and ramps to move stones of block that weigh over 100 metric tons through distances of 10 – 100 kilometers.

Among the largest stone blocks found at Puma Punku we can find one with the following characteristics: 7.81 meters long, 5.17 meters wide, averages 1.07 meters thick, and is estimated to weigh about 131 metric tons. Incredible right? And this was done with ropes and ramps? OK, right. The second largest stone block found within the Puma Punku is 7.90 meters long, 2.50 meters wide, and averages 1.86 meters thick. Its weight has been estimated to be 85.21 metric tons. Researches believe that these two blocks of stone were quarried near Lake Titicaca approx. 10 km from Puma Punku. Other stone blocks found at Puma Punku have been quarried  near the Copacabana Peninsula about 90 km away from and across Lake Titicaca. So perhaps this is one of the biggest mysteries at Puma Punku. How did Ancient man do this?

 

 

 

Another puzzling mystery at Puma Punku is the assembly of the walls. Each stone was finely cut to interlock with the surrounding stones and the blocks fit together like a puzzle, forming load-bearing joints without the use of mortar. The precision challenges today’s engineering abilities. A common engineering technique is to cut the top of the lower stone at a certain angle and placing another stone on top of it which was cut at the same angle. What baffles scientists, engineers and archaeologists is the precision with which this was achieved. The precision with which these angles have been utilized to create flush joints is indicative of a highly sophisticated knowledge of stone-cutting and a thorough understanding of descriptive geometry. Some of the joins we find at Puma Punku are so well placed, and so precisely locked into place that you wouldn’t be able to fit a paper in between them. The level of masonry we find at Puma Punku is just amazing. These stones look like as if they were cut with a “laser”. They are so precise and so smooth that you cannot come up with a logical explanation on how ancient man could have achieved this without the use of modern day equipment. It is a mystery.

Ancient Engineers at Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco should be considered masterminds. Their knowledge in mathematics, geometry and geology is something that most of today’s engineers lack.  These Ancient Engineers were truly great, they developed complex civic infrastructure, they invented waterproof sewage lines, hydraulic mechanisms and functional irrigation systems.

Friday, September 21, 2007

The Ford Administration’s 1975 Rockefeller Commission and the Senate’s 1975 Church Committee unveiled dozens of illegal intelligence operations, including MK-ULTRA. Activities also included the infiltration of all major newsrooms in the U.S with CIA agents, assassinating world leaders and secretly giving military personnel acid – just to name a few.

One of the worst abuses revealed was the “suicide” of Frank Olson in 1953. Olson was one of the Army’s top biological-weapons and mind-control scientists. According to the government’s version of events, as part of the MK-ULTRA experiments, Olson was secretly given hallucinogens by his colleagues until he went insane. Agents then took him to see a CIA psychiatrists in New York, where Olson supposedly jumped to his death from his high-rise hotel room.

Kathryn Olmstead discovered documents at the Gerald Ford library that two senior members of the Ford Administration conspired to keep the story from the Rockefeller report and refused to make amends to Olson’s family. Those two men were Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.

The following excerpt is from the family of Frank Olsen:

The President assured us that the White House would support our efforts to obtain justice. Almost immediately we were advised by White House attorneys that a law suit would be risky, as the law was not on our side. Accordingly the government attorneys strongly recommended that we pursue a settlement via a Private Bill in Congress, which they said the White House would support.

In 1976 our family received a financial settlement from Congress for far less than the White House, CIA Director George Bush, the Justice Department, the Labor Department, and the Treasury Department had recommended. A single Congressman had decided to oppose the settlement, so it was enacted in drastically reduced form.

Read more about Frank Olsen HERE

posted by John at 2:31 PM

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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Things that make you stop and think. These Naval barrack buildings in Corondo California were designed to form a swastika.

Though the symbol was noted after groundbreaking in 1967 Navy officials made a decision to leave it as it was designed, despite the fact that from the air it is clearly visible. Another picture shows a helicopter landing pad to the right of the swastika shaped buildings. Therefore, perhaps daily, the Naval barracks swastika was seen from the air.

United States ties to Nazi Germany go back to World War II, in the form of Operation Paperclip. From the looks of this Naval Base, perhaps they even continue today.

posted by John at 10:24 AM

Many of the unidentified flying objects (UFOs) spotted by people in the middle of the last century were actually high-flying spy planes, officials from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency say.

On Dec. 29, CIA officials said the following via Twitter: “#1 most read on our ?#Bestof2014list: Reports of unusual activity in the skies in the ’50s? It was us.”Attached to the tweet was a PDF of “The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974,” a report about the United States’ manned U-2 spy plane written by agency historians and published in 1998.

That document notes that “high-altitude testing of the U-2 soon led to an unexpected side effect — a tremendous increase in reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs).” [Where to Spot ‘UFOs’ (Infographic)]

In the mid-1950s, most commercial airliners flew at altitudes between 10,000 and 20,000 feet (3,048 to 6,096 meters). But once U-2s started flying at much higher altitudes — above 60,000 feet (18,288 m) — “air traffic controllers began receiving increasing numbers of UFO reports,” the report explains.

Airline pilots also wrote letters to the Air Force Unit at Wright Air Development Command in Dayton, Ohio, a group charged with investigating UFO phenomena.

“This, in turn, led to the Air Force’s Operation Blue Book. Based at Wright-Patterson, the operation collected all reports of UFO sightings,” the document states.

Blue Book officials regularly called on the CIA to help investigators eliminate the majority of UFO reports, the document explains, “although they could not reveal to the letter writers the true cause of the UFO sightings.”

Claims court

The CIA tweet has sparked its own UFO flap: Several analysts dispute the CIA assertion that U-2 flights really caused upward of half of UFO sightings.

“One thing this CIA UFO claim has accomplished: It has united UFO skeptics and proponents in proclaiming it untrue,” Robert Sheaffer, author and well-known UFO cynic, wrote in a blog post last week. “We might agree on little else, except that this claim is nonsense.”

Sheaffer explains that the Project Blue Book files are now public records, allowing anyone to verify when and where sightings were reported.

“The bottom line is: There is absolutely no correlation between the times and places of UFO reports and U-2 flights,” he wrote.

Blue book look

A similar view about the CIA assertion is held by UFO photo analyst Bruce Maccabee, who analyzed the data and concluded that the CIA’s explanation is “preposterous.”

The statistics “do not bear out the claim that there was a large increase in sightings by any segment of the population, pilots and air traffic controllers included, once the U-2 aircraft started flying,” Maccabee wrote in a recent blog post.

Sheaffer also argues that the CIA’s claim that the U-2 flights led to the creation of Project Blue Book does not hold water, “because Blue Book predates the U-2 flights by several years. Other Air Force projects to investigate ‘flying saucer’ sightings were created several years earlier still.”

The U-2 is still flying all these years later, despite advances in robotic aircraft technology that have led to the deployment of surveillance drones such as the United States’ Global Hawk.