Mysterious Stones Engraved With Hieroglyphics From Outer Space Remain An Unexplained Enigma

Ellen Lloyd – MessageToEagle.com – Over the course of history many strange things have fallen from the skies.

Still, what could be more mysterious than suddenly encountering stones engraved with hieroglyphics from outer space?

This is exactly what a young man experienced back in 1908. The story is very intriguing and what makes it even more exciting is that a similar “space stone” was found many years earlier.

The first incident took place in the vicinity of the Cowichan Valley, a region around the Cowichan River and Cowichan Lake on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada, and the story was published as a front-page newspaper article of Sept. 5, 1908 entitled, “A Message From Mars”.

“Willie McKinnon, the 14-year-old son of Mr. Angus McKinnon underwent a most startling experience and had a miraculous escape from death on last Thursday morning.

While working in his father’s garden about half-past 11 o’clock, a meteor about 10 inches in diameter was hurled through space and buried itself in the ground about eight feet from where the boy was standing.

The meteor could be heard from for several minutes before it struck the earth, but the lad, thinking it was a train passing, took no notice until the celestial visitor struck the earth, sending the rocks flying in every direction and causing an effect like an earthquake in that vicinity.
The boy was naturally greatly alarmed at the occurrence and rushed into the house to acquaint his parents with the very strange happening.

On visiting the spot it was found that the meteor was intensely hot, and not for over half an hour could it be handled.

The meteor or whatever it was that fell was almost as round as a marble and the surface was deeply scored with what resembled hieroglyphics.

The meteor had passed through the branches of two trees in its flight, snapping them off like matches. It fell at an angle of about 45 degrees and was travelling in a north-westerly direction when it struck the earth.

Mr. McKinnon has spent most of the time since the incident in trying to interpret the meaning of the markings on the stone and will be glad if someone who has a knowledge of these things, will try to help him out.”

This is not the stone that was discovered in Cowichan Valley, but resembles it. This is a “Clay seal AF12903 mp3h8659” made by Rama

A month later, it was reported that the Dept. of Mines, Geological Survey, in Ottawa, was seeking “fuller particulars than those contained in the [Cowichan Leader] despatch: the time of day, the nature of the sounds emitted by the falling body, their duration and the direction from which they seemed to come, the depth of the hole and the nature of the soil as well as the direction in which the earth was thrown by the impact.”

Quite an order for young Willie who must have been startled out of his wits at having escaped death by a mere eight feet. The questionnaire included an offer of purchase if terms could be arranged. Whether, in fact, this meteor did make it to Ottawa and public preservation, I can’t say, alas, other than that it’s a matter of record that Willie’s father, Angus McKinnon, was known to be, at the very least, argumentative, and this suggests that negotiations would be challenging.

As for the so-called hieroglyphics? Was it, in fact, a Rosetta Stone from Outer Space?

Logically, the markings on the surface of the meteor were just the finished product of its melt-down as it soared through space.

Whatever the case, did it find its way to some cubbyhole in Ottawa? Or is it still in a family descendant’s possession? That 10-inchround “marble” with its strange markings would be a great conversation piece all these years.”

Whatever happened to the “space stone” remains a mystery. It appears it was never examined and its present location is unknown.

However, what we do know is that on November 14, 1865, “The Brooklyn Daily Eagle” also published a story about a similar stone falling from the skies.

The stone was also covered with strange engravings.

The story reads as follows.

“Mr. James Lumley, an old Rocky Mountain trapper, who has been stopping at the Everett House for several days, makes a most remarkable statement to us, and one if authenticated, will produce the greatest excitement in the scientific world.

Mr. Lumley states that about the middle of last September he was engaged in trapping in the mountains, about seventy-five or one hundred miles above the Great Falls of Upper Missouri, and in the neighborhood of what is known as Codette Paass. Just after sunset one evening, he beheld a bright luminous body in the heavens, which was moving with great rapidity in an easterly direction.

Did Mr. Lumley witness a UFO explosion?

It was plainly visible for at least five seconds, when it suddenly separated into particles, resembling, as Mr. Lumley describes I, the bursting of a sky-rocket in the air. A few minutes later he heard a heavy explosion, which jarred the earth very perceptibly, and this was shortly after followed by a rushing sound, like a tornado rushing through the forest. A strong wind sprang up about the same time but suddenly subsided. The air was also filled with a peculiar odor of a sulphurous character.

These incidents would have made but slight impression on the mind of Mr. Lumley, but for the fact that the ensuing day be discovered at a distance of about two miles from his camping place, that, so far as he could see in either direction, a path had been cut through the forest, several rods wide, giant trees uprooted or broken off near the ground, the tops of hills shaved off and the earth plowed up in many places. Great and widespread havoc was everywhere visible. Following this track of desolation, he soon ascertained the cause of it in the shape of an immense stone that had been driven into the side of a mountain. But now comes the most remarkable part of the story.

An examination of this stone, or so much of it as was visible, showed that it had been divided into compartments, and was that is various places it was carved with the curious hieroglyphics.

Meteor flash – Image credit: Ed Sweeney

More than this, Mr. Lumley also discovered fragments of a substance resembling glass, and here and there dark stains, as though caused by a liquid. He is confident that the hieroglyphics were the work of human hands, and that the stone itself, although but a fragment of an immense body, must have been used for some purpose by animated beings.

Strange as this story may appear, Mr. Lumley relates it with so much sincerity that we are forced to accept it as true. It is evident that the stone he discovered was a fragment of the meteor which was visible in this section in September. It will be remembered that is was seen in Leavenworth, in Galena, and in this city, by Colonel Booneville. At Leavenworth it was seen to separate in particles or explode.

This curious incident was reported back in 1865 and is still intriguing. Did Mr.Lumley see a UFO explosion? Where did stone carved with hieroglyphic stone come from? Both related incidents give us a lot to ponder.

Written by Ellen Lloyd – MessageToEagle.com

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