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Unexcavated Mayan Ruins in Izamal Yucatan

In yesterday’s blog post I said that University of New Mexico anthropologists are using laser technology and remote sensing from aircraft to search in Belize for unexcavated Mayan ruins that they may choose to explore in the future.

In the Yucatan Travel Movie, we videotaped vegetation-covered mounds that appeared to be unexcavated Mayan ruins in the lovely colonial town of Izamal. We could see the mounds from the summit of Kinich Kak Moo, the tallest pyramid in the state of Yucatan, which is in the town of Izamal.

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Mayan Ruin in Belize Excavated by UNM Students

An article by Karen Wentworth says that Keith Prufer, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico will be taking students to study a relatively small but active Mayan ruin in the lowlands of Belize. This ruin, called Uxbenka, like Tulum in the Yucatan Travel Movie, traded with other Mayan centers.

This year, thanks to a grant from the Alphawood Foundation, they will have electronic equipment to analyze the com position of artifacts they find in the Mayan ruin. “It should tell us where materials like the obsidian we are finding came from, because it was traded a long way. Some came from Mexico, some from Guatemala,” Prufer said. “We can work out trade routes and sources of materials with it.”

Professor Uses High Tech to Uncover Mayan Ruins

Gone are the days when anthropologists relied on the knowledge of modern-day Maya and chicklet harvesters to direct them to unexcavated Mayan ruins. Today, they can also use airplanes equipped with LIDAR or laser technology that allows them to comb the Yucatan jungle from above using remote sensing.

International UFO Symposium to Meet in Denver July 22 to 25

If you’re interested in UFOs, crop circles, and alien abductions, this is the place for you to be on July 22 to 25: the International UFO Symposium.

The 41st International UFO Symposium will be held in Denver at the Marriott Denver Tech Center from July 22 – 25. The symposium is an annual gathering of some of the top speakers in their respective fields presenting evidence and research concerning the history and ongoing research in the UFO phenomenon. Presentation topics will include: a history of alien craft crash retrievals, the crop circle phenomenon, the ongoing nature of UFO abductions and shocking new UFO case files.

41st International UFO Symposium Lands in Denver – Presented by The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)

UFO Follows Jet Over Virginia

According to an online UFO Examiner report by Roger Marsh, a UFOologist and independent filmmaker:

A Virginia witness watched a teardrop-shaped object following in the vapor trail of a jet on June 12, 2010, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The object seemed to keep pace with the jet, but stayed a good distance behind, the witness stated. The object was shorter than the plane, but larger in diameter.

Teardrop-shaped UFO follows in jet’s vapor trail over Virginia

The witness said that:

IT WAS KEEPING PACE AND WOULD MOVE ABOVE, BELOW AND TO THE SIDE OF THE PLANE BUT KEEPING A GOOD DISTANCE BEHIND.

IT MOVED ABOVE THE PLANES TRAIL AND THEN MADE A SUDDEN AND STEEP ARC LIKE CLIMB AND VANISHED INTO THIN AIR. GONE!! THERE WAS NOT A CLOUD IN THE SKY. THE OBJECT WAS NOT REFLECTING LIGHT LIKE THE PLANE WAS. IT SEEMED TO BE VERY OPAQUE AND VERY TEAR DROPPED IN SHAPE.

Teardrop-shaped UFO follows in jet’s vapor trail over Virginia

Pyramid Builders’ Tombs Discovered in Giza

Another important discovery on the Giza Plateau in Egypt, which is the location of the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx, is interpreted as a the discovery of the graves of the builders of the Great Pyramid.

Graves of the pyramid builders were first discovered in the area in 1990 when a tourist on horseback stumbled over a wall that later proved to be a tomb. Egypt’s archaeology chief Zahi Hawass said that discovery and the latest finds last week show that the workers were paid laborers, rather than the slaves of popular imagination.

Great Pyramids of Giza

New Discovery Shows Slaves Didn’t Build Pyramids, Egypt Says

The discovery was announced on December 16, 2009.

Delightful Message from Crop Circle Makers

When I first saw this post, I assumed the crop circle makers were human beings and the article would be about exposing a crop circle hoax. Well, I was mistaken! They are from Arcturus. How wonderful! Following, please find an excerpt:

We are from Arcturus and we agreed a long time ago that part of our contribution to humanity would be to bring forth these patterns, that would assist the uplifting of the vibration of humanity and these are done in several ways. Firstly there is the pattern itself which I am describing to you. Secondly there is the energy that the pattern contains. Many have experienced the extraordinary changes which happen when you meditate in these patterns. So the patterns themselves contain an energy.

Background to the crop circle makers

Isn’t that lovely! For more, just click on the link above. The article is by Richard Presser who much channel the Arcturians. There are also gorgeous crop circle photographs. My favorite is the one with swirly arms that looks like a spiral galaxy.

Guatemalan Mayan Priests Comment on New Age 2012 Prophecies

How unusual! How delightful!

Following, please find a reference to the opinions of actual living Mayan priests in Guatemala on New Agers’ 2012 predictions which, according to this quote the priests call, “twaddle.” Read for yourself:

However, Mayan priests living and working in Guatemala aver that the so-called Mayan Prophecy for 2012, as touted by various foreign New Agers who have no knowledge of Mayan culture, language, or religion, is twaddle.

2012 Doomsday

I don’t know who the author of the article is or whether this quote is authentic. But, I enjoy including it as a balance for all the wild extravagant claims of either utopia or annihilation by numerous New Age authors.

“Twaddle” is a nice amusing word for taking the wind out of extravagant claims.

A New Look at Reincarnation

A blog post by Krishna Bill on the California Psychics website quotes Psychic Tammy who has a unique perspective on reincarnation. She says that:

“what we may think of as “past lives” are actually being lived simultaneously to this one – that they may, in fact, be lives that we are living at the same time as this one in other dimensions.”

Parallel Lives, Parallel Dimensions

Who ya gonna call? 2 ghosthunters groups to inspect ‘secret city’ inn

By Associated Press
1:47 PM CDT, June 9, 2010

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) — The Alexander Inn in Oak Ridge will be inspected by two paranormal investigation groups this summer.

The inn, also known as the Guest House, was used by notable figures during the Manhattan Project when Oak Ridge was known as “the secret city” while the atomic bomb was developed.

The two groups are the Tennessee Division Office of Paranormal Studies, based out of Crossville and Chattanooga, and Secret City Paranormal, headed by Oak Ridge area residents Scott McGill and Greg Murr.

According to The Oak Ridger newspaper, speculation has endured that the inn is haunted.

The Office of Paranormal Studies will do its investigation at the end of this month, the Secret City group in late July.

Who ya gonna call? 2 ghosthunters groups to inspect ‘secret city’ inn
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Information from: The Oak Ridger, http://www.oakridger.com

Guatemala Landslide Result from Tropical Storm Agatha

Miriam Balsley, the narrator of the Yucatan Travel Movie is presently in Guatemala doing a Spanish Language Intensive. Tropical Storm Agatha, the first of the season’s possible hurricanes, has just swept through Guatemala. In her blog, Miriam writes:

Walking up through the main center path from the boat dock, it is shocking to see where the center of town got swept into the lake.

Jaibalita, Guatemala, landslide devastation.

People and dogs use a boardwalk over the hole where the city center of Jaibalita once was.

Jaibalito . . . the aftermath

For more photographs, click on the link above.