ASKIES 1974 Ancient Skies 1974 A

Department of Aerospace Engineering UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND The photo at right is of a drawing reduced from the life-size cave drawing discovered by Bradshaw at Upper Prince Regent's River, Kimberly, Western Australia.

The photo at right is of a drawing reduced from the life-size cave drawing discovered by Bradshaw at Upper Prince Regent's River, Kimberly, Western Australia. A LONELY MARTIAN ASTRONAUT,

sheltering from one of the storms that can sweep across the northern part of Western Australia, occupies his time by doodling on a cave wall. His mission - to study the animal life of the region. The kangaroo particularly

Zurich, Switzerland is the site for the Second World Congress on Ancient Astronauts on May 29, 30, 31, 1975, at the Hotel Movenpick-Holiday Inn. Instantaneous translation has been arranged for English, French, and German. If you wish to be in our charter flight from Chicago, contact us now. FIRST WO

ASTRONAUTS AND MONSTCRS FROM Tl![ BRONZE AGE The Ancient Astronaut Society's First World Conference on Ancient Astronauts was held on April 26, 27, and 28, 1974 in Arlington Heights, Ill. The Society's Journal, ANCIENT LIFE, will present

The Ancient Astronaut Society's First World Conference on Ancient Astronauts was held on April 26, 27, and 28, 1974 in Arlington Heights, Ill. The Society's Journal, ANCIENT LIFE, will present photos and reviews of some of the lectures in the first issue to be published this fall.

Mary Ann Kresin, the Society's official photographer, has many black and white photos of the Conference speakers and candid shots of the events. The photos are available for sale, and Mary Ann will display them at our first general meeting, Blast-Off I, on July 27, 1974. If you are interested in par

Santiag'.) del Estero El Comercio, Lima, Peru, July 15, 1974, reports the following: (Translated from the Spanish by Doris L. Phillips) Buenos Aires.- The presence of UFO's and extraterrestrial beings in the Argentinian territory

Erich von Daniken will host our Second World Conference, which will be held in Zurich, Switzerland on May 29, 30, 31, 1975 at the Holliday InnMovenpick, a modern first class hotel near Airport THE STONES WERE LIGHT AS CORK! Pedro de Cieza de Leon, the Chronicler of the Incas, writing in the year 155

Pedro de Cieza de Leon, the Chronicler of the Incas, writing in the year 1553, reports the According to Indian legend, long before the Incas arrived in Peru, a very long time passed during which they did not see the sun, resulting in much suffering and hardship to the inhabitants. After a long perio

I found the May-June issue of "Ancient Skies" most fascinating and informative. I particularly was intrigued by the feature article on the Australian cave drawing. Stuart Greenwood's interpretation is both logical and fascinating. It seems that whoever drew that cave painting must have been thinking

PLEA TO SAVE UTAH PETROGLYPHS In Capital Reef National Park in southern Utah, a third of the way up the face of a cliff

In Capital Reef National Park in southern Utah, a third of the way up the face of a cliff wall, lie one of the few remnants of a vanished American Indian tribe. Carved and scratched on the rock are figures drawn by these ancient people. Portrayed in these petroglyphs are people in strange ceremonial

As a public service to members and friends across the country, the Society will conduct a clearing house for lecturers on various aspects of the ancient astronaut and ancient mystery theories. If you wish to engage a speaker for your school, club or organization, please let us know and we will put y

TULA (Tollan or Teollan) , called "The Way of the Gods," is located sixty miles north of Mexico City, the capital of the TOLTECS. The ruins at Tula impress everyone - scientist and layman alike - and have always been heretofore observed according to the traditional archaeological descriptions and ex

(Many readers have asked about physical evidence of ancient astronauts in the United States. We are pleased to reprint the following article which was published in the July 25, 1974 issue of Associated Weeklies, Franklin Press, Stoughton,

MANKIND-CHILD OF THE STARS is a startling new

(All available in Paperback) CHARIOTS OF THE GODS? GODS FROM OUTER SPACE

GODS FROM OUTER SPACE

The emergence of astroarcheology has given rise to a number of reactions in scientific and academic circles, and the number of reviews and critical evaluations grows every day. Since the publication of Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods? only a few years ago, a great deal of discussion about t

Open Letter to David Krouse and all others who think that the space program is too introspective : I could not agree with you more. Unfortunately, those who appropriate the funds do not think as we do . We must find a way to change this. Josef Blumrich's The S~aceships of Ezekiel proves the propriet

Reservations are pouring in from all over the world for our Second World Conference on Ancient Astronauts to be held in Zurich, Switzerland on May 29-31, 1975. Seating is limited to 350 people and the public is invited to attend . If you wish to be a part of this historic event, send your reservatio

Robert R. Kramer, Assistant Professor of German at Mars !!ill College (North Carolina), and Society member has announced that the College will conduct a symposium from June 23 to July 3, with speakers , discussions, experiments, films, and brainstorming sessions entitled Today, Tomorrow and Beyond .

We are pleased to announce that the Society has received a ruling from the United States Internal Revenue Service that it is exempt from tax . The importance of this ruling is that gifts and contributions to the Society are deductible for income tax purposes . Your gifts are welcome because we inten

JACQUES BERGIER (Morning of the Magicians, et.al.) will speak at our Zurich Conference in May, CHARLES BERLITZ (Mysteries from Forgotten Worlds), has a number one best seller in The Bermuda Triangle. The Ancient Astronaut Society will present Mr. Berlitz in a lecture and slide

IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT GODS - Erich von Daniken EXPLORING THE UNKNOWN

JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1975 LOOKING AT OLD EVIDEllCE WITH TODAY'S SCIENTIFIC EYES REVEALS PROOF OF ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY It is somewhat ironic that the proof of remote civilization for which we have been eagerly searching has been with us always - we simply failed to recognize it because of our own limited

It is somewhat ironic that the proof of remote civilization for which we have been eagerly searching has been with us always - we simply failed to recognize it because of our own limited knowledge. But when scientifically trained people look at the old evidence with "today's eyes," the veil of ignor

Line Drawing of Santa Barbara Cave Painting as presented in von Daniken's "Gods from Outer Space." (Continued on backlma~e) SECOND WORLD CoNFE NE ON ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS Zurich, Switzerland, May 29-31, 1975

Zurich, Switzerland, May 29-31, 1975 (Continued from first page) and electron microscopes. Seen in this light, it is not impossible that one-celled organisms, and among them especially the trichocysts, were investigated. If we analyze the visual as well as the literary documents stetmning from the e

by Corley P. McDarment, Eau Gallie, Florida I was excited by a recent picture of a UFO which was round and had a dark narrow band around the middle. The exciting part to me was that the photographer who took the picture did not see it. He was photographing something else but the object showed up on

Andrew Litavsky, Chicago artist, presented to the Society his painting of an Ancient Astronaut baseci upon a drawing in Erich von Daniken's book "The Go!d of The Gods", which depicts what appears to be an astronaut holding a disc which may have been a record or computer activator . The original is a

The logo on the masthead was drawn by Editor Richard T. Crowe, and depicts a gold trinket discovered in Colombia, South America, which bears an uncanny resemblance to a modern delta-wing jet fighter. The problem, however, is that this trinket was made one thousand years before the Wright Brothers hi

On January 16th, Richard T. Crowe delivered a lecture and slide presentation on the Mysteries of :reland, at Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Ill. Mr. Crowe based his talk on both actual experiences

"My great, grandfather was a member of a small group of people living in the far reaches of Siberia - even further north than the arctic circle. They called themselves 'Aztecs'. At the time that he lived there (about 1840), the settlement had dwindled down to about fifty souls. They eked out a preca