Once Upon The Eltanin Object

"What I am saying is that it is not so much what man is that counts as it is what he ventures to make of himself. To make the leap he must do more than disclose himself; he must risk a certain amount of confusion. Then, as soon as he does catch a glimpse of a different kind of life, he needs to find some way of overcoming the paralyzing moment of threat, for this is the instant when he wonders who he really is - whether he is what he just was or is what he is about to be. Adam must have experienced such a moment."
-George Kelly



Once upon a time,the USNS Eltanin, was engineered as an ice breaking cargo ship,while launched and acquired by the US Navy in 1957 as such, it was subsequently reclassified as an Oceanographic Research Vessel for the National Science Foundation in 1962, Notably,it became the world's first Antarctic research ship. Eltamin was conducting a uneventful surveillance sweep off the coast of South America. It was equipped with photographic equipment designed specifically for deep oceanic photography. At a depth of 13,500 feet(4115 metres) at a latitude of 59 degrees 08' south and a longitude of 105 degrees 00'west the crew on the Eitanin photographed an anomalous submerged object.
While organic nature follows a symmetry of form, the symmetrical nature of this object is striking as well as the fact it consists of a central mass, most likely hmade of a metal or some other rigid material, which allows it's vertical positioning above the sea floor for the alignment of an array of seven to eight horizontal extensions of equal length, also apparently rigid, that, in turn position unknown devices akin to protuberances at the end of each.
These objects, one each, at the end of each extension, are apparently intentioned to be positioned roughly 15 degrees from one another.
This object has been termed an artifact when it appears to be more likely, a precision engineered device. To accurately position in location and orientation as well as securely anchor this object, would require the execution of several tasks, each required to complete this installation, at a considerable depth.
It appears a reasonable guess that this is a device intentionally engineered,positioned and secured to provide a utility for it's creators. This, based upon what we do know regarding the visual similarities of terrestrial devices, perhaps the HARP array corresponds to this configuration.



However, on the other hand, the aforementioned engineering of such an object by Great Natures capability to organically materialise such an object, which is also strikingly similar to the object of our interest, is perhaps an apt example of where the study of anomalous objects meets human psychology inasmuch we anticipate according to the bias of our conceptual models as applied to our additive craving to confirm the objects of our desire. However, there is yet another psychological factor in this horse race. Upon noting the similarity of this object it's closest visual match as produced by nature, it was similarly and immediately announced that this similarity was conclusive evidence that, in of itself, "proved" that it was not manufactured. As having a family relation who was a homicide detective in a major city, we intermittently discussed the nature of evidence as applied to the reasonable probability that one of several possibilities of suspects was the correct choice. This is the nature of a line up of suspects who happen to be located in a unreachable marine environment. The deepest diving U.S. submarine, the DSRV Alvin, can descend to 4,500 meters depth.



The "logic" of the intellect when isolated or viewed as the sole required medium to determine material reality is a fallible device. We instinctively, as a remnant of survival behavior, abhor a vacuum in our knowledge. On the other hand, the gift of imagination is a two sided sword as well. While it allows us to envision in the absence of our sensate recognition, it can also be mistaken as much as in the example of the intellect. The paranormal targets and navigates the cartography of this blind spot in our cognition, with precision. We are left huddling around the proverbial campfire. At the onset of odd, unrecognised calls, the unaccountable rustling of the undergrowth, we either discount what we cannot understand or build upon our repertoire of fear. Only a few venture beyond what we can survey with impunity and go forth into the unknown in an exploratory venture of risk. The irony of this is not unknown to those of us who recognise that what the Eltanin photographed is still unidentified, unless we have another methodology, another choice beyond A or B whilst both camps around the fire deride our efforts. They are the less for this. Over the course of time, the subtlety, the nuance, of the unrecognised, the paranormal, the anomalous will glide effortlessly between these two camps, which clutch their preferences as talismans against the affront of simply acknowledging one does not know. The greater irony in this is the potential that the odd sounds, the comings and goings beyond their refuge portend an ill effect upon them. The pathology of control is a unspoken prayer to those who hide in it's guise by professing absolute certainty, as well as those who prefer to imagine that they know. The UFO Theory in politics is uncertainty, as the unexpected turn, the unanticipated twist of fate.
There is no Ufology, what there is are the coagulated remains of an unkept promise to ourselves, that manifests in dime store paperbacks, tabloid antidotes and the cyclic nature of gossip as a science.
Somewhere up there in the stars we observe, there are those who paid a price for their courage and curiosity who look down upon us now, their legacy squandered, their science tarnished and their tenacity misconstrued.
Those of you who have come here to witness my self doubt, my vain attempts to grasp this phenomenon with worn out tools, I am speaking to those of you I know for a fact that have come here to watch, from NASA, U.S Navy Network Communication Center, Emerson Electric,Northrup Grumman Corporation, Shell information Technology,U.S Oceangraphic Command Center,Lockheed Martin, Motorola and Boeing, this is a great entertainment is it not? Why the interest in a speculation upon a Cetacean Humanoid?
Your silence speaks volumes. Oh,I see this morning that Sandia National Laboratories stopped by as well.
You as in a aggregate collection of enormous capabilty, have a greater opportunity than I or my fellows.Standing in stealth, on the sidelines, around the campfire, may be a self comforting form of interest but don't rationalise that others, like myself carry your water in public for their fellow man as a defacto act of concern on your behalf.
If you don't know, say so.If you do know, we are grow old by our swinging in the breeze of your public stance of professed or enforced ambivalence toward the subject at hand.
Perhaps its time we all move on from our respective positions, myself included, as this would provide an opportunity to catch up and spend some time with an old friend.


See you on the river. Mr Twain and myself.... well......We'll save you a chair.