This book was written in 1979. The UFO mythology was different then. I can't really articulate the differences, but it's interesting to read for that reason along. Chatelain was a NASA engineer/manager, which explains his almost autistic focus on numbers. I imagine that is how he got some of his information.
Several little factoids that I found interesting, He mentioned remote controlling an airplane to fly from southern California to the East Coast, and land within a 200 yards of target. This was in the 1950s. It reminded me of the debate about whether it was possible that the 911 planes were remote controlled.
He briefly described the Apollo moonshots, saying that the astronauts did see UFOs, that the Apollo 13 shot that burned on the launch pad was carrying a nuclear bomb to the moon, to be set off fur surveying purposes. He suggests that the launch was deliberately sabotaged. He also implied that some of the astronauts went nutso, that they had telepathic contact with ETs, and that the remote viewing tests had better results when done from the moon than when done from space.
He also looks at the commonality, all over the earth, of certain repetitive numbers that show up in calendars, megalithic monument dimensions, and geospacial measurements
Nineveh Constant
He starts off with an interesting story about the discovery of ancient clay tablets, tens of thousands, found in the palace of Assurbanipal in modern day Iraq. The olden kings captured and coveted the libraries of their conquests, rather than destroying them. Many of those tablets had not been deciphered as of 1979. One of those tablets that had been deciphered was a tablet of numbers, with hugely astronomical numbers, One of these numbers, called the Nineveh Constant, had 15 digits. This number is evenly divisible by the number of seconds in a solar orbit of the earth, five of the planets, several comets, and the orbit of the moon around the earth.
He finds many, many other relationships between this number, and the calendars of the Aztec, the Hindus, and the Chinese. He also looks at the antikytheron device, in much more details than I've seen before. He knew one of the divers.
He also had dinner with a mysterious stranger who told him of ancient astronauts in South America, where he went to find other connections with this Nineveh Constant.
He also looked at the coins around the world, and discovered they were in similar units of weight, with the same multiples used in the calendars.
One area that I think deserves more research is the discovery in the 1920s, when world radio hams were first getting started, of signals bouncing off something very large near the moon. In the 1950s, these signals were decoded to be a star map.
A complicated book, with an extensive bibliography. Very useful to serious researchers, but not easy reading.
I'm not sure that I agree with all his conclusions, but I sure learned a lot along the way. I'll probably keep this for future reference, as I am sure there is more that I missed on the first and second readings.
The image attached is his description of the gears of the Antekythera Device, which he calls the Rhodes Calculator. He does a lot of work figuring out how the different calendars fit together - his hypothesis is that they are designed to eventually come back to the same astronomical view of the cosmos based on different starting points.
Chatelain assumes the world-wide high civilization has declined since the days of the tablets found in Nineveh, when time was counted in seconds - the calendars now available are based on days, the number of days between times when various cosmic bodies are in the same relative position, which takes a calendar of tens or hundreds of thousands of years/
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