SOMERTON MAN CODE CRACKED: THE CODE, INDENTED WRITING & HOW IT WAS RECOVERED: UPDATED

THE SOMERTON MAN CODE PAGE....

(UPDATED 22/7/22)

 This code image is from some years ago and it shows various letters that apparently matched the letters found in a Military Signals manual.

More importantly, though, you can see that each and every letter together with lines and flourishes and corner markings have all been covered in another layer of ink, they were deliberately marked over by the police. 

They did this, it is said because the letters they found were faint pencil markings, they were the indentations left as the result of someone writing the letters on the back leaf of the copy of the Rubaiyat found and associated with the Somerton Man by virtue of the small torn slip found ina 'secret' fob pocket in the trousers he was wearing when found on Somerton Beach on the morning of December 1st, 1948.

The images that follow will show you very clearly why there are some major issues with the claim that the letters were faint and therefore were marked over.

STEP 1.

An example photograph of some micro-written code written on plain paper:

The code is sub 1 mm in height and is written in pencil, and it is reasonably easy to see, the numbers are 12340 and the letter E

STEP 2.

This image shows the corresponding page beneath the page on which the code was written, you might just see the faint markings left by the pressure applied in pencil on the upper page.

STEP 3.

In this image, I have applied some compressed graphite in a stick form over the region of the lower page where the faint indentation marks were seen:

The graphite has enhanced the visibility of the markings and you can make out the number 12340 with the letter E at the end. You can also see the upper line of the rectangle visible in image 1. 

STEP 4.

 In this final step shown below, the above image is turned negative:|

The result, as you can clearly see, is that the faint pale pencil indentations have been lifted and are clear to see.

Now consider the explanation that was made, the faint markings needed to be inked over so you could see the letters. The reality is that once the code markings had been rubbed with graphite, they turned black when negative.

And next, a view of larger letters treated in the same way:

1. ADC larger letters in pencil, plain:

2. Indentations from ADC in page beneath:

3. Indented and turned negative:

This example was prepared very quickly with just a camera, plain paper a pencil, and an image editing tool that enabled me to turn the image negative.

In 1948, the camera and photographs would have been glass plates and the graphite may well have been in powder form.  They would also have had a facility to overexpose the background to have it appear lighter in colour as in the original code page

The takeaway from this post is that once the indentations had been spotted, the process to recover and view them was straightforward and, very importantly, the indented letters and/or numbers would be turned black in the process. There would have been no need for the Police or whichever agency to mark over the already black markings. 

The only reason they would need to do that would be to cover the microcode and it is that microcode that we successfully revealed some years ago and no one has been able to disprove it, and neither can they.

UPDATE 22nd July

I meant to add these images yesterday, they show the indented writing plus embossed writing and instead of graphite, I used fine charcoal. Explanation below.

1. Initial letters ABC with micro numbers beneath, used a HH pencil for this example:

2. The same letters/numbers set but this time embossed, that is the reverse side of the paper used in the first image so the characters appear back to front:

I dusted the image above with fine charcoal powder and the result, as you can see is that the letters/numbers appear black, the reverse of indented writing.

The same image flipped but this time it has also been turned negative so the letters and numbers appear paler, not quite white.

3.  This next image is the indented writing version as in the indentations that appear on the page beneath the initial page. For the record, in this example, I could have shown indentations down to three pages. The major factor in that is the sharpness of the pencil. Pencils would need to have been continually sharpened on the SM code page given the number of micro characters found there.

The image above is the indented writing version, I have rubbed over the surface with fine charcoal powder to bring it into relief.

This is the same image as the previous one but this time it has been turned negative and thus the letters and numbers appear black.

For the record and courtesy of Forensic, here's an example of today's far more sophisticated kit:

Even in the 40s, Electro Static detection machines were in use to reveal indented writing, indeed J. Edgar Hoover was something of a pioneer in this space.

I do not at this time have a list of the full kit that was in use by SA police and other agencies in 1948.

The description of the code pages, the micro writing, and hidden INK H codes as well as the Dantetta Codes is to be found in the next edition of the DANETTA CODE book which is currently being edited.

You can choose your preferred ebook download site for 

Part 1, THE BEGINNINGS' from this URL:

books2read.com/thedanettacode

For Amazon Kindle : 

https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0B28MW5Y8

There are 4 chapters that cover this subject of codes and each of them will show examples and include substantiation.