Looking Back Half-a-Century

That would make me age 33 in the year of 1964. Born and raised north of White Oak Bayou, Houston Texas the center of my World was more exactly 7th Street and Michaux.

In 1968 a Swiss man, Erich Von Daniken published a book titled "Chariots of the Gods" which gave an alternate view of the Bible's description of the arrivals of God. Today we associate noise and flames with rockets landing or lifting off. That book launched an army of investigators to prove or disprove Von Daniken's theories. The Visitors were highly intelligent and taught the locals how to make plans, then build. Theorists have found evidence of these visitors impact all over the World. Often those signs took the form of pyramids. In 1979 I was interested and climbed the pyramid at Chichen Itza . Apparently the use of the word God by locals was an attempt to describe a special rocket landing. With a very limited vocabulary perhaps properly described, the locals should have said "Rocket Ships brought Visitors from the Galaxy".

In the last week of 1950 the Korean War effort caused me to join the USAF. During my first year I was investigated for TOP SECRET clearance, educated in cryptology and transferred to USAF Security Service (USAFSS) under the leadership of Lt. Hector Quintanilla. He was ordered to shut down Project Blue Book in 1969 because it had become an Air Force dilemma.

After my training at San Antonio's Brooks AFB in 1952 I was shipped to Wheelus Field, Tripoli Libya. My work there as an analyst in our Top Secret mission. For 18 months our 34th Radio Squadron Mobile slept in a tent city and drank water from a Lyster Bag, and we had a permanent latrine. One day out of the clear blue sky a driver offered to check out a 6 BI truck to transport us 10 off duty analysts to what he stated was an old Roman city. We traveled an hour east along the Mediterranean coast to reach the ruins. Leptis Magma was a Phoenician city built in 700 BC. Looking at the construction it is obvious it was the result of the use of planning and unknown machines. The men must have had knowledge of levitation to place the heavy stone shapes properly. As I photographed and walked thru this site, my mind was filled with questions of how locals were able to build this complex city? Then I noticed Leptis Magna also had a latrine. Only recently have I discovered my photo that shows their latrine. It had"Key-hole"shaped openings about 4 feet apart. I recall seeing a row of about 30 "key-hole shaped" openings. This would accommodate 30 adults sitting simultaneously to void. In front of each keyhole is a floor to place your feet. In front of that floor is a ~ 6" wide by ~ 6" deep channel. If level, it possibly held running water. That water could be directed to wash away their deposit of human excretion.