'The Somerton Man Mystery, the hidden secret code has been revealed using this new technique...'
CODE PAGE PRIOR TO INK OVER
1. The image above is what the SA Police saw before the code page was marked over. As you can see every word and every line, as well as the 'stained' areas at the top of the image, are filled with very small letters and numbers.
These were indentations and they came through to this page from the back leaf of the Rubaiyat where the letters and lines were first written. There is a Police report that states that the back leaf of the book was missing. The letters and numbers were only visible under UV lighting and even then a special fluid is believed to have been used to enhance the markings.
2. In the image below I have highlighted just some of the areas where microcode has been written, you can quite probably make out more outside the marked areas. Some of the writing is extremely small, about .25 mm in height. The threshold for visibility with the human eye is around .1 mm.
I have had this image and others for some time and made an undertaking that I would not show them for an agreed time. They are high-resolution images and so you can download and enlarge them to an extent.
A few things of interest.
- The top of this page where the darker area finishes, is in negative so there are more examples of microcode not visible here in this image because of that fact.
- I noted that the centre 'crossed' lines contain numbers mostly with the only apparent letter being an X. The letter X was used in some codes to delineate between words or sections of a message. The same applies to the so called 'flourish' at the base of the page. This is in contrast to the actual larger letters which contain both letters and numbers. It is possible that what we are seeing in the lines, are strings of numbers perhaps generated by a 'numbers station' which were broadcast over short wave radio. Once these initial numbers were captured they would have been decoded and assigned to specific letters. That would explain why some of the larger letters have more code than others. There was a post 3 years ago where we discussed numbers stations, click here... Broadcast codes were created and used in conjunction with 'one time pads':
- For anyone interested, the X3239 telephone number is on this page but I am not going to spoil your fun, you'll have to find it just like I've had to :). You may even find more telephone numbers, not all have an X prefix, other prefixes were in use.
- I do not have confirmation of just which agency found and revealed this code but I think it was Military Intelligence in conjunction with the SA Police Subversive squad and maybe the Modus Operandi squad. The latter, up until 1950, was the unit responsible for any property found and associated with particular crime scenes.
Pete, if you read the paragraph that discusses the use of a UV light and after that it talks about a special fluid used to further enhance the markings. That's why you can see them. It also makes sense that the enhancement would have been done before they were overwritten.
ReplyDeleteThe appearance is not dissimilar to the effects of iodine vapour though other examples have a deeper colouration. I hope this helps.
A few thoughts for you Pete, on order to get more traffic to your site there are some things that you need to do:
ReplyDelete1. Use a good selection of keywords associated with the Somerton Man Case, and that's a group just there, but there are others. You need to weave those keywords into your posts and even your comments as long as they are appropriate and in context of course.
2. Regarding images, you need to ensure that you include good image descriptions and 'alt tags' for each image. That's an accessibility issue. This influences how google will rank and use your images.
3. Google has very sophisticated algorithms that monitor sites. So, for example, if you use your site as a platform to launch attacks on others or otherwise denigrate, demean/defame and/or belittle them, Google picks that up and ranks your site accordingly. It could be said that in that way they reward good behaviour.
People can and do report sites to Google and other sources and register complaints about them, that can have an impact on your ranking as well. I hasten to add, I have never done that to any site although I have considered it.
I would suggest that if you use the approach I have outlined here, your traffic numbers will increase and you will see more of your images appear in Google search pages. It really is that simple. As for time, I think that within a month to 6 weeks you'll see some noticeable improvements. Of course that's all up to Google and their algorithms.
Apart from that I have nothing more to discuss. I wish you well and I truly do.
The relevant wording is the 2nd paragraph in point 1 under the first image:
ReplyDeleteThese were indentations and they came through to this page from the back leaf of the Rubaiyat where the letters and lines were first written. There is a Police report that states that the back leaf of the book was missing. The letters and numbers were only visible under UV lighting and even then a special fluid is believed to have been used to enhance the markings.
An update on Paul Lawson, some good news, he is now home after his stay in hospital and he will not be needing an op as was at one time thought. He is on a course of antibiotics but only for another week or so.
ReplyDeletePete, Apologies for the delay in responding. As I see it there seem to be a few issues that you have. Let's deal with the 'back leaf missing' and the interim Police reports.
ReplyDeleteJust a little over 4 years ago, I posted on the interim police reports, there were two documents involved and both are interesting in and of themselves. It's the excerpt from the second document that refers to the 'back leaf' being missing as you will read. The full document is available from that page as a download.
The post answers a number of questions and raises more, I respectfully suggest that you take your time to read and understand the implications of both docs. It'll make some decent content for your blog perhaps?
Here's the link: https://tamamshud.blogspot.com/2016/09/somerton-man-interim-post-police-report.html
With regards to your other issue, being the code page shown on this post, I will respond to that as well but it will have to be after the weekend, a busy couple of days ahead. I think you'll find that equally as interesting.
Have a good weekend.
1. Courage and Friendship Rubaiyat copy via this link, this one has a dust cover, no mention of that in the SM case: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4FgVwct8qNUXzlIMVJYUlNkZmM/view?usp=sharing
ReplyDelete2. Beneath the image on the 2016 post re the 1959 Police report, it says download full copy of pdf here or similar words.
3. Clive, you are missing something. What Leane saw through his magnifying glass were pencil 'markings' not pencil writing, i.e. indentations. GF told me that in one of the many discussions we had. He also said that turning a photograph of the page negative was part of the process. In other words, the markings seen had to be photographed, that means using indented writing recovery techniques to lift and darken them. Link here as a starter:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332780289_DECIPHERMENT_OF_INTENDED_WRITING_An_UPDATE
I have used oblique lighting in testing but could have used Iodine Vapour as you will read in the above article, it's also known as 'Questioned Documents inspection' Have taken two courses on the methods.
The police report says the code was written on the outer cover of the book but here you are saying the micro code markings (or perhaps the code itself came through to the "code page" where they were identified as indentations. It's a bit hard to understand this. If the micro code was written on the missing page then why was the basic code on the outer cover? And why do you have the basic code on what you call the "code page" when it was on the "outer cover"? Just trying to understand, Tim
ReplyDeleteIt's a complex set of circumstances. In one Police report, mention is made that the back page of the book was missing. That report was made sometime after the events of 1948/49. I will dig it out and publish it.
ReplyDeleteGiven that this is the case, (back page missing), it would support the view that either the code page that we see in the images in this post was removed from the book in order to be processed, hence the back page at the time of the report was missing because the Police removed it.
Or, the 'back page' was the page on which the code was actually written and the indentations appeared on the page next to the original back page and it is that one which was photographed in situ as per the 'code page' that we now see.