- EVIDENCE OF THE GIANT BIRDS
- WING OF THE GIANT BIRD
- LEGEND OF THE GIANT BIRD
- GIANT BIRDS: HOW BIG, COULD THEY FLY?
- THE VULTURE AS A TOTEM ANIMAL
- THUNDERBIRDS OVER ILLINOIS
- QUETZALCOATLUS: DRAGON OF THE CLOUDS
- THE BOY AND THE GIANT FEATHER
- TALON AND SCRATCH MARKS FROM THE GIANT BIRD
- THUNDERBIRD AND TRICKSTER
- THUNDERBIRDS: LEGEND FROM THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
- ORIGIN OF THE THUNDERBIRD
- ILLINI MONSTER BIRD
- OJIBWA, THUNDERBIRDS, AND BIRCH TREES
- EARLY EUROPEAN TRIBES
Offers a source of comparison between European tribal thunderbird images and similar-themed Native American petroglyphs.
AND NOW THIS:
Why all the fuss about giant flying creatures, giant birds, and giant feathers, and all somehow and in someway related back to the Wanderling?
According to comments over the years by his uncle, the Wanderling's fascination regarding all aspects of giant flying creatures, and thus then his destiny, went back to an incident that involved the fly over of a giant airborne object that the Wanderling witnessed as a very, very young boy. The object, of an unknown nature and an unknown origin, was seen by literally thousands of people along the coast of California barely three months into World War II. Eventually to be called the Battle of Los Angeles, the incident is mostly forgotten now. However, during the early morning hours of February 25, 1942 the whole city and surrounding communities were in an uproar as thousands of rounds of anti-aircraft shells were expended in an attempt to pull down whatever it was in the sky that night. The slow moving object, said to be as big or bigger than a Zeppelin, was caught in the glare of the searchlights from Santa Monica to Long Beach and seemed impervious to the the constant barrarge of shells. It eventually disappeared out over the Pacific after cruising along the coast and cutting inland for a while. The huge object was never clearly explained and was basically hushed up without response from the authorities.
Four hundered miles north in Reno, Nevada, in an article recounting the L.A. event from reporters on the scene and witnesses that contacted friends or relatives in Reno, the major local newspaper, the Reno Evening Gazette, dated February 26, 1942, presented the following:
"Still others who watched the spectacle, if it can be called that, sighted no planes in the glare of the army's searchlights. A number, however, reported seeing 'something that looked like a giant butterfly.'"
On the third page of my paper ZEN ENLIGHTENMENT: The Path Unfolds, relating living with my artist Uncle some years following my mother's death, I write that it was under his auspices at age ten, that I first heard of Leonardo Da Vinci. Actually, more clearly, what happened was that the moment my Uncle first showed me pictures of Da Vinci's flying machines I recognized them from my past as a preschool three or four-year old, I just didn't know (or remember) who Leonardo was or how the drawings related to him.(see) Later I tell how my Uncle drew a life size drawing of one of the crafts on the floor of the studio and from there, together, we built an actual machine capable of flying. I go on to say I was not sure what my Uncle's exact plan for the machine was, but one day without his knowledge a friend of mine and I hauled it out of the studio and up to the top of the second story apartments across the compound, and hanging on for dear life, launched it.
Initially the flight played out fairly well, picking up wind under the wings and maintaining the same two-story height advantage for some distance. Halfway across busy Arlington Street though, the craft began slowing and losing forward momentum. It began dropping altitude rapidly, eventually crashing into the porch and partway through the front windows of the house across the way. Other than a few bruises and a wrecked machine, nothing was broken, although as it turned out, my dad wasn't nearly as proud of me as intended. I never forgot the thrill of that flight and carried that thrill and Leonardo's dreams into my adulthood.
ROSWELL UFO
Where Is It Now, What Happened To It?
FLYING OINTMENTS
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Leonardo Da Vinci's flying machine from the 1500s
THE ABOVE GRAPHIC FROM:
DA VINCI: Did He Fly?
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