Encounter with an Alien (excerpt) © Thothweb - http://www.thothweb.com

26 year old Fortunato Zanfretta, shortly before midnight on December 6th, 1978 had an encounter that was quite literally out of this world. Zanfretta came face to face with a tall reptilian creature and what appears to be its triangular shaped craft. The events of that night would change people’s perception of him forever and proved to be just the first of a series of bizarre abduction experiences that Zanfretta would be subject to over the next three years.

Working the late shift in his job as a private security guard for a large company, Zanfretta was carrying out a routine patrol of a remote residential area in the hills of Genova, Italy when his Fiat 126 patrol car mysteriously stopped dead.

Zanfretta caught sight of what appeared to be the movement of torchlight in the grounds of an unoccupied villa that his company was responsible for.

Unable to contact his headquarters on the radio due to the car’s unexplained electrical problems, Zanfretta drew his gun, grabbed a torch and went to investigate alone, fully expecting to be confronting burglars. Zanfretta began to search for the source of the lights. In the darkness, something pushed him hard from behind, knocking him off balance. Reacting instinctively he spun around and shone his torch in the direction the contact had come from, expecting to see the person responsible. What Zanfretta came face to face with, he later described as “An enormous green, ugly and frightful creature, with undulating skin, no less than ten feet tall.” Fleeing from the villa’s grounds in both shock and terror, he retreated back towards the relative safety of his vehicle. As he ran he became aware of a large and very bright light behind him. Glancing backwards, he saw what he later described as a huge, flat triangular vessel that emitted a hissing noise and a noticeable amount of heat as it rose in the air, apparently having taken off from the rear of the house.

Although the villa itself was a large property, according to Zanfretta, the craft loomed over it, revealing its imposing size, reinforcing the terror created through his brief encounter with the creature on the ground. His routine patrol had brought him face to face with something that was impossible to explain and which had left him very frightened indeed. Getting back to his car, Zanfretta was able to make a breathless and hysterical report of the incident to Carlo Toccalino, the radio operator, who testified to police that Zanfretta was highly agitated before radio contact was once again lost. Although his communication with his base had been fragmented and almost unintelligible, it was enough to cause deep concern amongst his colleagues who sent assistance to the villa and alerted their director of security. The remoteness of the hill-side village and difficult driving conditions on the frozen mountain road meant that it took almost an hour for back up to arrive.

When they finally reached the scene, Zanfretta’s colleagues found him still in a state of blind terror, pointing his weapon wildly at anyone who came close and unable to initially comprehend that his rescuers meant him no harm. There were no obvious indications of anything being amiss, whatever Zanfretta had encountered that cold December night was long gone but the experience had absolutely terrified him.

The Carabinieri, the Italian military police, immediately launched an investigation to ascertain what had transpired at the villa that night and if a crime had been committed.On the grounds, investigators discovered physical evidence that something strange had taken place in the grounds of the villa. Two horse shoe shaped depressions, each 9 feet in diameter had been left in the frozen earth. These marks could only have been created by a sizeable and very heavy object and no one, including the villa’s owners or the police, could explain what might have caused them; how they came to be there was a complete mystery. House to house enquiries seemed to validate Zanfretta’s account of events even further.

Despite the fact that the population of the village only amounted to a couple of thousand inhabitants, police amassed a total of 52 witness statements from people who claimed that they had observed a strange light phenomena in the area of the villa.

Zanfretta agreed to be hypnotized by Dr. Mauro Moretti, a psychotherapist and member of the Italian Association of Medical Hypnosis, in Genoa on December 23rd, just over two weeks after the encounter had taken place. Zanfretta described how he had not only seen these alien creatures, but had actually been abducted by them and taken aboard the triangular craft that he had described. He recalled how he was taken to a ‘hot, luminous place’ where the creatures interrogated and examined him.

According to Zanfretta’s description, his abductors were ten feet tall, had hornlike projections on their forehead and pointed spines on either side of their heads. The skin is variously described by different sources as being ‘hairy green skin’ or as being ‘dark green and marked by a series of horizontal ridges or folds’ - the discrepancy possibly being attributable to the translation from Italian to English, rather than any inconsistency on Zanfretta’s part. The creatures, he explained, had yellow triangular eyes and prominent red veins across their foreheads and came from ‘a third galaxy’. He recalled that his captors did not communicate with him in his native Italian but instead used what he described as a ‘luminous device’ to translate what they were saying.

According to researchers such as John Rhodes, these reptilian races are a subterranean species that have always shared our world, hence their prolific contribution to the mythology of so many ancient civilisations from the Sumerians to the Zulu.

There are other reptoid races according to Rhodes, who live off world. This belief is shared by other researchers such as Zecharia Sitchin who has suggested that according to ancient texts, the Annunaki are either reptilian or quasi-reptilian beings that created man as a slave race. Could it be that these were the creatures that Zanfretta had encountered?

Moreover Zanfretta is not alone in his description of his abductors; there are a great many other abductees who report similar encounters with reptile-like aliens. It seems that the most common reptile encountered is described as very tall (around 6-10 feet), with a snout like face, red or yellow slit or snake-like eyes and clawed hands, often wearing black robes.

On the night of December 26th, just three days after his session with Dr. Moretti, Zanfretta was at the centre of yet another unexplained event while on patrol. As he was driving through a tunnel near a place called the Scoffera Pass, control of his patrol car was taken away from him. It was as if unseen forces had taken control of his vehicle, which was completely unresponsive to Zanfretta’s efforts to either stop or steer it. Over the radio, Zanfretta reported that he was having problems controlling the car. According to Zanfretta, the car simply turned around in the tunnel by itself and carried on travelling up the steep mountain road for about a mile without any input from him. Zanfretta’s next contact with the radio controller came a few minutes later when he calmly announced ‘The car has stopped. I saw a bright light. Now I am getting out.’ It was over an hour later that Sergeant Emanuele Travenzoli finally located Zanfretta in a field by the road, close to his patrol car. Once again Zanfretta was terrified, shaking with fear, crying “They say I must leave with them. What about my children? I don't want to, I don't want to...”

Although it was raining, his clothes were warm and dry, as if he’d just been dropped off there, moreover the patrol car itself was hot to the touch, despite the cold dark December weather.

Police were quickly on the scene and began to comb the area for clues. Again, the scene was not without physical evidence. Around the car were a series of massive footprints measuring some 20 inches by 8 inches with a strange space between the sole of the foot and the heal. On examining Zanfretta’s Smith & Wesson gun, police were alarmed to discover that it had been fired five times, but Zanfretta couldn’t recall having fired it. Once again, to try and establish what had happened, a second hypnotic regression was quickly arranged. This time the entire country was so taken by the strange events that had befallen Zanfretta, that the regression was actually televised live.

To ascertain his state of mind, Zanfretta was also examined by a series of highly respected medical professionals.

One, Dr. Giorgio Gianniotti, a prominent neurologist at San Martino Hospital in Genoa confirmed that “The man is in a state of shock, but he is perfectly sane.” Dr. Cesare Musatti, Italy’s most highly regarded psychoanalyst, also examined Zanfretta and observed that he “spoke in good faith” even if it was hard to differentiate objective facts from subjective experiences.

For the next seven months, Zanfretta’s life returned almost to normal, but on the night of July 30th, 1979, while patrolling a residential quarter of Genoa on his motorcycle, he was abducted for a third time. He was discovered two hours later on the top of Mount Fasce, a summit with just one road that lead to it; a road that was patrolled by the security company that employed Zanfretta.

Despite there being security personnel on duty that night, no one could explain how he had got to the top of the mountain unseen; he hadn’t used the road to reach the summit.

Determined to dispel the persistent rumours that he was either making the abductions up or was completely delusional, Zanfretta requested that he be injected with a truth serum. This treatment was duly carried out at the International Centre of Medical and Psychological Hypnosis in Milan by Prof. Marco Marchesan. Whilst under the effects of the drug, Zanfretta confirmed the same facts that had come out previously under hypnosis. He added that that this time, he had actually been ‘lifted from the ground’ into the alien spaceship by a mysterious green light.

During the next eighteen months, Zanfretta experienced at least half a dozen more abductions. On at least one occasion he had witnesses to corroborate his story.

On December 2nd, 1979, Zanfretta was abducted once again, on this occasion four security guards that had been sent to find him actually witnessed the UFO themselves.

Without realising it, the men had made themselves unwitting targets for this extraterrestrial attention. Without warning, two beams of light came down, one over each car, immobilising the vehicles by killing their electrical systems in the same way that Zanfretta had described in the past. Terrified, the men got out of their vehicles. The senior officer, a Lt. Cassiba, fired a warning shot at the craft which have stopped them from continuing their search; the craft simply disappeared in the clouds. One of the four men, a guard by the name of Germano Zanardi, was so traumatised by what he had experienced, that he killed himself within a few months of the incident taking place. In 1980, two years after Zanfretta’s abductions first started, without warning they simply stopped. clip..
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The Coming Era of Magical Physics (excerpt)

In 2007 three breakthrough discoveries occurred. They were: invisibility, anti-gravity and perpetual motion.
Invisibility
A new category of materials called metamaterials exhibit an unusual "left-hand rule" and by doing so seem to turn everything on its head. If such a "left-hand rule" were the norm then the whistle of an approaching train would decrease in pitch and, as it passes by, increase -- the opposite of what normally happens due to the Doppler Effect.

But metamaterials aren't just for creating parlor tricks. Theorized in the 1960s, metamaterials are composed of repeating structures of tiny metal nanorods and rings. They have the ability to capture elusive "evanescent" light waves lost to traditional optical material. Capturing these waves would create for the first time a perfect image without loss of resolution. In 2003 that Xiang Zhang of UC Berkeley demonstrated improved optical imaging with such a "superlens." Superlenses could lead to DVDs capable of storing the entire contents of the Library of Congress.

David Smith (a former colleague of Pendry's) and David Schurig of Duke University have now shown in experimental settings that a 2D array of metamaterials are capable of guiding microwave photons around a hole in it and recombine as if the hole was not there. And that hole could contain an object -- or a person --- that would become invisible to outside observers.

You could use the shield to hide yourself, a vehicle, even a building. Hide a garage or shed when it blocks the view from your house.Technology demonstrations employing a wrap-around 3D shield refracting microwaves is expected as early as 2007. As for visible wavelengths of light, the research team from Duke says that they are not yet feasible.
Anti-gravity
In March of this year the European Space Agency announced that Dr. Tajmar, ARC Seibersdorf Research GmbH, Austria and colleagues, and Dr. Clovis de Matos, ESA-HQ, Paris had succeeded in creating artificial gravity in their laboratory. This new chapter on gravity could "form the basis for a new technological domain" according to its discoverers. The discovery was guaranteed to create controversy in physics circles... and it has not disappointed.

Just as a moving electrical charge creates a magnetic field, a rotating superconductor generates a gravitomagnetic field as predicted by Einstein's Theory of General Relativity (GR).

However, GR predicts that the gravitomagnetic effect is virtually negligible, less than one part in a trillion. The effects measured by Tajmar were a million trillion trillion times (30 orders of magnitude) stronger than predicted by GR. "We ran more than 250 experiments, improved the facility over 3 years and discussed the validity of the results for 8 months before making this announcement. Now we are confident about the measurement, " says Tajmar, who summarizes and refines their results in a recent article. It was funded jointly by ESA and the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

Demonstrating a gravity-modifying generator today would be the equivalent of unveiling an electric dynamo in the era of steam power. It changes the rules. What will the everyday applications of this technology be?

A cover story in New Scientist magazine (Nov. 11-17, 2006) suggested as outcomes for this technology, "Levitating cars, zero-g playgrounds, tractor beams to pull objects towards you, glassless windows that use repulsive fields to prevent things passing through. Let your imagination run riot..."
Perpetual Motion
This past summer a small Dublin-based firm challenged the scientific community. In an advertisement in The Economist the technology management firm Steorn challenged scientists and engineers to test the firm's free-energy technology and then publish their findings. Steorn claims to have built a self-powered constantly spinning permanent magnet motor. They claim no new exotic materials nor previously undiscovered subatomic particle in play, just a smart design by talented engineers. Mostly, the scientific community has been saying, "impossible! " clip.