Somerton Man, The 'Crossed Out Line' Myth

The 'Crossed Out' line is a myth?

Yes, I believe it is.

Let's go back to the time that the SA Police first examined the code page. What they did was, using a UV light or similar, they faithfully traced what it was they saw on the back page of the copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. It was very feint and difficult to see and thus in order to view it more clearly they first 'dusted' the page with graphite powder, very fie and the type used for fingerprinting. This powder found it's way into the indentations that were left by whoever it was that formed their miniature writing into the shape of the larger, now more familiar, letters of the code.

Their tracing work naturally included every line they saw, this next part is very important, they had no idea when each individual line was created in other words which came first the line or the letters. People have assumed that because it is how they have been conditioned to think, if you see a word or letters with a line through it, it must be a mistake because they crossed it out. Wrong.

The lines not only included the shapes of the code letters, they also included the two crossed lines subject of an earlier post, the flourishes as seen beneath the last letter B in the last line of the code, the flourish at the bottom of the page and finally the line that for whatever reason people have assumed was a mistake and had been crossed out. Put simply, there was absolutely nothing to suggest it had been crossed out, it was simply a line on the page that the SA Police traced. I have highlighted 4 aspects of Line 2 below, please click on the image to enlarge:

1. Area one shows a clean break in the line just within the letter 'L'

2. Area two shows a second break in the line just after the first 'I'

3. Area 3 shows a break in the line central to the letter 'A'

4. Area 4. This is interesting because if you incline your viewing aspect slightly to the left and read the first leg of the M from bottom to top you will see the outline of the word 'COMNIV', I did some research and it is in fact a Russian military term. I will publish more on that in due course.