| Reasons for the Delay in Publishing Further | | | | appeared on my Blogger dashboard that I didn't |
| Translations: | | | | create. Evidently not only has the world gone |
| The main reason, quite frankly, is that I find | | | | blogging mad, even aliens are at it! (It will be PPC ads |
| translation from the Arcturian symbols into English | | | | for weekend breaks on Procyon IV or herbal |
| extremely difficult. The work is painstaking and slow | | | | remedies for flakey tentacles next!) |
| and gives me a ruddy headache. Imagine translating | | | | The aforementioned Phantom Blog contained posts |
| from Greek or Chinese when you have no prior | | | | that were the first communications from my alien |
| familiarity with either language or alphabet. | | | | source. Further posts appeared over the ensuing |
| I do have some limited clues provided by my source: | | | | weeks. At first I deleted the blog assuming it to be a |
| a lexicon of key alphabetical symbols and words and | | | | glitch of some kind, but it would always reappear. |
| some crudely drawn pictures that look like the work | | | | After a while I started to look more closely at the |
| of a three-year-old. Without these, the translation | | | | content, which I had at first assumed to be gibberish, |
| work would be impossible. There is not, let's face it, a | | | | and realised it may be some kind of coded |
| great deal of common ground experience-wise | | | | communication. Enough clues were provided for me |
| between me and someone from an alien planet! (My | | | | to be able to "decode" the messages, albeit rather |
| wife's opinion notwithstanding) I don't even know | | | | imperfectly. |
| what they look like! They could be more or less | | | | I have about one "post" a week appear on my |
| human or more or less Intelligent Mollusk for all I | | | | Phantom Blog, sometimes more. Some sections of |
| know! | | | | these posts are intact and some are corrupted for |
| Here are some answers to some of the questions I | | | | some reason. I'm assuming the sender is using some |
| am most frequently asked, which I hope will save | | | | kind of interface that allows a transfer of information |
| many of you the trouble of emailing me and waiting a | | | | between two entirely incompatible electronic |
| month of Sundays for a reply (I'm extremely backed | | | | systems. The Visitors use a much more advanced |
| up). | | | | computer system based on something I can best |
| Why Do I Refer to Our Visitors as Arcturian? | | | | translate as "Digital double helix" or "digital DNA" Does |
| My alien correspondent supplied me with a diagram at | | | | that mean anything to anyone? |
| one time, which a friend of mine pointed out looks | | | | To date I have received twenty eight messages of |
| uncannily like the constellation of Bootes. The | | | | which I have managed to translate and publish two. |
| brightest star of Bootes is Arcturus, which is about | | | | Number three will be published just as soon as I can |
| 36 light years from us. Along with this rough sketch | | | | get my head around some very difficult passages. As |
| of Bootes was the Greek symbol ALPHA. Arcturus is | | | | you can tell I am very backlogged. (I'm hoping to get |
| also called Alpha Bootes. I figured someone was | | | | some help from a trusted friend who is also a linguist |
| trying to draw my attention to the star Arcturus and | | | | and that may speed things up. |
| guessed this must be their star of origin. Some more | | | | How Do I Know The Whole Thing Is Not Just A |
| crude symbols led me to conclude that Arcturus has | | | | Hoax -The Work Of Someone's Imagination? |
| fifteen planets and Arcturus IX is our guests' home | | | | Quite frankly, I don't. |
| world. This is all guesswork and I could be barking up | | | | I nevertheless decided to simply translate what was |
| the wrong tree entirely. Or just barking of course. | | | | before me, publish and let YOU make of it what you |
| Indeed, all my translation work contains a | | | | will. It beats the hell out of watching TV and the |
| considerable degree of intuitive leaps (or blind | | | | exterior, detached view of our asylum,....er, I mean |
| guesswork depending on your point of view). If and | | | | planet..... is kind of interesting. Besides, surely only a |
| when more data comes to light that leads me to | | | | looney would put that much work into creating a |
| correct earlier assumptions or fill in gaps, you'll be the | | | | flight of fancy? |
| first to know. | | | | Well, that's all for now. I need to get some sleep. I'll |
| How Do I receive these communications and when | | | | answer more questions in my next article shortly. But |
| did they start? | | | | I must ask you to be patient and PLEASE DON'T |
| One day about 6 month ago, a phantom blog | | | | SEND ME ANY MORE EMAILS WITH QUESTIONS. |