The Temple of Nim Newsletter - July 2008

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BLUE MOUNTAINS UFORESEARCH CLUB.

Vol. 4 Issue No 7

July 2008

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Report on the progress of the Gilroys latest book Pyramids of Destiny Lost Pacific Colonies of theBronze-Age God-Kings.Report on the History Channels search for the Giant Monitor Lizards of the Wollemi Wilderness.


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Blue Mountains UFO Research Club News. Our meetings are held on the third Saturday of the month, at theGilroy residence, 12 Kamillaroi Road, SouthKatoomba, from 2pm onwards.

We are situated on the corner of Kamillaroi Road and Ficus Street, and as we always say, park in Ficus Street where thereis safer parking.PLEASE NO SMOKING ON THE PREMISES.

ALSO, NO LARGE BAGS IN THE CINEMAORTHE HOUSE.PLEASE NOTE. Please contact us prior to bringing along any new friends interested in UFOlogy and the mysteries

generally. Anyone with any personal experiences involving UFOs or the unexplained are invited to share them with us all.

Contact Information: Phone: 02 4782 3441, Email: [email protected][or catch our website on rexgilroy.com or mysteriousaustralia.com].

A plate of food to share for afternoon tea is appreciated.

PROGRAM FOR THE 19TH

JULY.

Latest Blue Mountains UFO activity. DVD UFO presentation. DVD Ancient History documentary presentation. Other surprises. Report on new findings concerning the Burragorang Underground Base and the ET connection. Weather permitting there will be a Skywatch out on Narrow Neck Plateau after the meeting. The

weather has been good up here on the Blue Mountains since the recent rains, with excellent clearnight skies. Therefore, hopefully this will continue for our meeting night when there will be aSkywatch out on Narrow Neck Plateau. [Dont forget warm clothing a necessity!].

Rex and Hea th e r Gi l r oy , Aus t ra l i a s t op UFOand Unexp la in ed Mys t e r i e s Re s ea r c h t eam.

Pho to c op y r i gh t Rex Gi l r oy 2004 .

REPORT ON THE PROGRESS OF THE GILROYS LATEST BOOKPYRAMIDS OF DESTINY -LOST PACIFIC COLONIES

OF THE BRONZE-AGE GOD-KINGS.By Rex Gilroy

Copyright Rex Gilroy 2008.I first conceived the idea of this book while still preparing Pyramids in the Pacific The UnwrittenHistory of Australia [2000], for while Pyramids in the Pacific covered all the ancient civilisations andcultures whose vessels had touched our shores, I realised that I would need another book to cover themassive amount of evidence Heather and I had gathered concerning the Bronze-Age maritime activities ofthe Egyptians, Phoenicians, Libyans and Celts in our part of the world.

Pyramids in the Pacific is in itself a ground-breaking book on the unwritten history of Australiaand its Pacific Island neighbours, telling of the ancient Middle and Near Eastern, Chinese and other Asianas well as Amerindian, ancient Mediterranean and Northern European [ie Scandinavian] contacts with the

Australia /West Pacific region, but there was barely enough room for us to reveal but a few examples oflong-term colonisation by the mineral-seeking peoples of the Middle and Near-East.

Pyramids of Destiny Lost Pacific Colonies of the Bronze-Age God-Kings fully covers theCopper and Bronze-Age colonisation and mining activities of the Egyptian, Phoenician, Libyan and Celticpeoples going back at least 5,000 years or more. Other allies were involved too and evidence of thesepeoples is included in the new book.
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Beginning with the rise of the Uru in Australia and their influence upon the later cultures of theOld World, we follow the coming of the Sumerians, Indo-Aryans and others to our shores.

The colonisation of Australia and its Pacific Island neighbours is fully covered, and in Australiascase it will be demonstrated that the Egyptians, Phoenicians and their allies established perhaps manyhundreds of settlements throughout Australia, penetrating coastal rivers deep inland in their search forgood farming land and the mineral and gemstone riches to be found here.

Large settlements grew into cities. The populations became so large in certain regions that local

ruling classes were established to rule over colonies which grew into kingdoms. In time these locally-created Pharaohs cut themselves off entirely from the Egyptian homeland and created an Egypto-Phoenician empire greater than that of the homeland.

Cultural ideas and languages became mixed with the passage of time, so that mixed written scriptsof Egypto-Phoenician, Egypto-Libyan, and Celto-Phoenician evolved. In fact a local mixed script grewout of all of these tongues.

Pyramids of Destiny covers the daily lives of the colonists, based upon the 1,000 and more rockinscriptions found over a lifetimes fieldwork by myself and Heather throughout Australia, and kept by usat our home, plus the many hundreds more engraved upon boulders and cliffsides etc through Australiaand New Zealand. These inscriptions speak of the men, women and children of the farming communities,the miners, government officials, seafarers; the cattle and sheep farmed here, the oxen-driven cartloads of

ores transported from mines, sometimes great distances over crude roads to riverside or coastal ports; theuse of mules for transporting ores out of difficult-to-get-at places and the hoses and camels employed indeep inland exploration and many, many more aspects.

The names of Pharaohs and chieftains, mariners and farmers, temple priests etc not spoken for3,000 to 5,000 years are revealed from rock inscriptions. This huge, monumental book will never beequalled for the sheer weight of evidence presented, along with hundreds of photos of relics, rockinscriptions etc.

The text of Pyramids of Destiny took several years to complete, due to repeated fieldinvestigations to many out-of-the-way locations for the gathering of evidence.

Other people have been involved in this massive undertaking. Our fieldworkers in Australia andNew Zealand: Antji and Allan Westrip of Dalmeny on the New South Wales south coast, as well as

Yvonne and Gary Stephens of Kerikeri, Bay of Islands, New Zealand come to mind. And then there areour immediate field workers, the chief of whom is Greg Foster, and Ann Taylor.The new book will contain hundreds of photos, as well as special artwork by Lynette Watters.

Andrew Leese prepared the unique cover some time ago. To all we offer our deepest gratitude for theirhelp in bringing this mighty ground-breaking book to fruition.

In the course of several years field work gathering material for this book, we have been to CentralAustralia where I climbed Ayers Rock to get photos; collected Phoenician-inscribed stones in the shadowof the Olgas; filmed, measured, drawn and climbed pyramids in Central Australian and elsewhere as well,as in New Zealand. If the text often sounds like the screenplay for a Gilroy Indiana Jones movie, it is.In the course of preparing this book we have been to Far North Queensland where I have found myselfsearching Mayan ruins [yes, Mayan ruins!] in Taipan-infested regions, and river banks which on occasions

showed signs of recent croc activity.Heather and I have uncovered lost cities, not only of the Uru in the Blue Mountains, but inCentral Australia, where in 2006 we uncovered a terraced pyramid, crumbling with age, rising above thedeteriorated outlines of perhaps hundreds of stone dwellings that surround it, all covered by mulga. Here

we have filmed the biggest sphinx so far discovered by us in Australia.As I write the book is in the last stages of preparation, with the placement and captioning of

photos by me, while Heather completes the last ten or so chapters on disc. If all goes well we hope tohave it ready by November at the latest.

A while back I kept delaying the book with the addition of new discoveries, such as the twopyramids and coastal Bronze-Age city on the New South Wales south coast, interstate finds of pyramidsand other finds. If I had kept going this monstrous book would never have been completed! So anything

that has come to light since I ceased adding material will be included in another book on Australianpyramids now in the planning stage.Pyramids of Destiny is certain to be a huge seller. It traces, among other things, the evolution of

the pyramid beginning with Uruan tombs in Australia. It was the race-memories of the Lost Paradise of


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Mankind under many different names, passed down from the Sumerians to the Egyptians and beyond,which led the maritime civilisations of antiquity to sail in search of their land of origin.

These traditions are covered in the book along with many other surprises. Pyramids of Destinywill not please the average hard-core desk-expert academic, but as usual, the Gilroys have not written thisbook for their approval, but for the benefit of average Australians who wish to know what is being kepthidden from them by an establishment university-based clique who persist in that old, worn-out storyabout the great discovery of one Lieutenant James Cook RN in 1770 and the handful of Dutch mariners

who preceded him on our west coast in the 1600s.Our history is far, far older that than, as we continually prove in our books. Watch this newsletterand our websites for publication details as they come to hand.

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Rex Gilroy studies a Libyan rock inscription found by him and fieldassistant Derek Bott, at a Central Coast, New South Wales location.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2008.Heather Gilroy with a Phoenician rockinscription found on a Bowen, Queensland

beach. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2008.

Greg foster with a Phoenician rock inscription he foundwhile he and Rex were searching for evidence of Bronze-Age Middle-East explorers on the Parramatta River

NSW. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2008.


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One of the many pyramidal structures revealed in thebook, this massive structure found inland from the coastnorth-west of the Central Coast, is certain evidence of

Bronze-Age Egypto-Phoenician long term colonizationof Australia. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2008.

A plan of the south costal New SouthWales stone wharf and pyramids, discoveredin recent years by the Gilroys. Thousands of

people must have been involved in itsconstruction.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2008.

Rex Gilroy seen here photographingancient sun-worship rock art ofCentral Australian Aborigines,

believes these religious philosophies wereinfluenced by ancient Bronze-Age

Egyptian mineral-seeking colonists whosettled the Alive Springs district, where

this artwork is found.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2008.

Rex Gilroy brushes dust away from aBlue Mountains Uru rock inscription

before photographing it.



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Egypto-Phoenician rock inscriptions havebeen found by the Gilroys near AyersRock and at the foot of the Olgas in

Central Australia.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2008.

An image of the Phoenician Sun-God,Baal. He is shown here bearded, and

holding a drinking horn. The engravedstone slab was uncovered by Rex at

Kerikeri, in the Bay of Islands, on NewZealands North Island in March 2008.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2008

THE HISTORYCHANNELS SEARCH FOR THEGIANT MONITORLIZARDS OF THEWOLLEMIWILDERNESS.

by Rex Gilroy.

On Tuesday 15th July 2008 Heather and I led Tony Gerard, Jared Christie and Cameraman NickClausen, together with Dr Gary Opit, zoologist from the Gold Coast, into the Wollemi National Park on asearch for living giant monitor lizard evidence.

There have been many sightings reports over the years from over a wide area of the fringes of thiswild, forest and swampland region, and our friends from the History Channel hoped to capture whateverevidence we could find on film for a one hour documentary to go to air later this year.


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I directed the party to areas where there have been accounts of sightings by people, or thediscovery of the tell-tale giant tracks of these reptiles having being found on isolated 4-wheel drive tracksand in the depths of the gum forests hereabouts.

A reconstructed cast skeleton of theextinct giant Australian monitor lizard

Megalania prisca Owen, in theQueensland Museum, Brisbane.

The cast is one of a number of large Megalania tracksfound in 1979 by Rex Gilroy at Moruya NSW.


An artists impression of a full-grown Megalania prisca, in relationto a human. Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2000,

Preparations in the field before setting off in search of livingMegalania evidence. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2008.

Four of the intrepid explorers. From left to right: Jared Christie[Producer], Rex Gilroy, Nick Clausen [Cameraman] and Dr

Gary Opit. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2008.


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Heather Gilroy in the depths ofthe Wollemi.

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy2008.

Our American colleagues had just flown in from Indonesia where they had filmed KomodoDragons, which together with similar oversized relatives in New Guinea are descended from the

Australian giant monitor,Megalania prisca Owen.The Australian fossil record shows that Megalania evolved during the Pliocene period, some

several million years ago, officially becoming extinct after the close of the Pleistocene period by severalthousand years ago. There are in fact some Megalania bones found on a Queensland farm now safelyhidden away in a Brisbane, Queensland university locker, said to date a mere 300 years old!

A full account of the Megalania sightings in Australia in more recent times can be found in theGilroys book Out of the Dreamtime the Search of Australasias Unknown Animals.

I am fortunate to posses the 1979 Moruya, south coastal New South Wales cast tract of a 6mlong, greyish skin-coloured Megalania, which crossed a freshly ploughed paddock of a farmer John. Sincethen further tracks have been found in the Wollemi and casts of these, together with the Moruya example

were filmed for the documentary at our home on Tuesday 15th July.

We all left from our Katoombahome on Wednesday 16th July at 9am,driving up into the western fringe country of

the vast Wollemi wilderness behind Lithgow to commence our search,. There was barely enough room forthe Gilroys after all the technical camera equipment was packed into the two cars hired for the search!

Heading off down a remote firetrail.


One place I showed the team was a campground on the edge of a pine forest, where one night afew years ago, a small party of campers spotted the long, dark shape of a large monitor lizard movingthrough the pines near their camp. Torches were flashed to reveal a mottle-coloured monster of up to 4min length! Two young men attempted to follow the reptile with their torches as it headed deeper into theforest, but soon realised the creature could easily attack them and gave up the chase.

Megalania prisca, according to all the known Aboriginal traditions of them, was a massive killingmachine which, at an estimated 3,000lbs weight, and its powerful legs, would pursue and devour any

Aborigines who crossed its path. There are also early pioneer tales of encounters with these reptilian


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nightmares, in which people were lucky to escape with their lives, when suddenly encountering one ofthese monsters in the bush.

There are many size estimates for Megalania, some as small as a couple of metres, but these are thepolitically correct university estimates. Measurements of up to 20 even 25 to 27ft [on the old scale] havebeen claimed by eyewitnesses. I have published an account in Out of the Dreamtime of a 21ft 9 inches[6.63m] long monitor seen in the Warwick district of southern Queensland in 1965, but there are alsoaccounts of monsters of around 30ft [9.14m] length, weighing at least 3,000lbs. [The Komodo Dragon,Varanus komodensis, is said to grow as much as 3.66m length.

Had our History Channel team encountered an Australian giant monitor in the Wollemi wecertainly would not have gone too close to it, preferring to film zoom shots of the creature at a safedistance!

*****At one point while searching in the forest depths, the party separated at a dirt track crossroads, to

explore for possible fresh tracks in the soil along the north-south track, the others went east-west.Accompanied by cameraman Nick Clausen and Jared Christie, I pushed on southward towards an areawhere in the last year Megalania tracks had been found and cast, but also where tracks of the elusivepanther [ie actually a large marsupial cat] have been found. The region is also known for Thylacine[Tasmanian Tiger] track finds.

Eventually my companions stopped to film other things so I pushed on further along this remote

track, I then came across scuff marks in the soil, which was covered in forest bark and leaves. I could seefive long toes if that was what they were, and a heel amid the scattering of forest debris on the dirt road,but casting this Megalania footprint, if that was what it was I still have my doubts would have beenimpossible due to lack of depth, dead leaves and twigs. It is probable that I had found the scratchings of akangaroo, but then I give this one the benefit of the doubt

The party came across this strangeimpression in the sand of a fire trail.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2008.

Some of the dense gum forest terrain of the western Wollemiin which the expedition searched.


Rex Gilroy found this indistinct mystery impression on anisolated forest track. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2008.


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A close-up, bark, twigs and leafmouldmade identification impossible.


Tony Gerard and his mates had brought along two digital night cameras hoping to capture an

image of a Megalania. They had also visited a butchers shop and brought along steaks to hand in the treelimbs above the ground upon which the two cameras were aimed. We tied one to a tree up behind thecampground and then further up the road we chose another tree close to a swamp. Here the secondcamera was tied to the trunk of a tree, with the rope holding a steak dangled from the branch of anothertree a short distance away. As the cameras were aimed to capture on a card anything that was attracted tothe meat we could now only hope that a meat-eating Megalania would chance to pass by!

Tony Gerard holds a steak, about to be hungfrom a branch within view of a night camera,

in the vicinity of a campground whereMegalania was seen one night by campers.


Placing the first camera in bush near thecampground.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2008.


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Tony Gerard ties the second camera to apine tree near a swamp.


A second steak set up within view of thecamera. Unlike the first steak, this one was

eaten by something. We eagerly awaitinformation on the photos taken of this event!


We then drove back to Katoomba. Returning on Thursday 17th July, together with Tony Gerard,Jared Christie, Nick Clausen and Gary Opit, Heather and I revisited the campground. A trek into the bushsoon found the steak still hanging, but two photos had been taken on the camera. Returning to the swampsite soon afterwards, we found the steak gone and 47 photos recorded on the camera card. These wouldhave to be put on a computer before their contents are known.

The weather behaved itself for the three days of filming and the temperature was not all that cold.I remarked more than once that there are signs of an early Spring.

After leaving Katoomba at 9am on this last day of our search, we first drove up to the

Blackfellows Hands reserve north of Lithgow, so Tony and his mates could film the ancient 4,000 yearsold Aboriginal rock shelter hand stencils and other images preserved there, which were also for use in thedocumentary.

The Blackfellows Hands cave, atLidsdale near Lithgow. Here Rex meta group of Blackheath Probus Club

members, to whom he explained the ageof the rock art.



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Two ancient hand stencils. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2008. A handled stone axe image.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2008.

Then we returned to inspect the cameras back up on the Wollemi.I have said that Aboriginal traditions speak of these giant monitor lizards in myths and legends

going back thousands of years. In this part of the country one of the names for the reptiles was Mungoongalli. I pointed this out in one of the interviews for the documentary, and also that sightings and any otherevidence of Megalania presence is usually reported in the Summer months. At the moment withtemperatures of 10 degrees Celsius and less it was unlikely that we were going to find any recent evidenceof Megalania activity where we were, as the reptiles were probably long retreated off the higher, colderparts for the lower regions in the eastern jungle flats of the Wollemi..

The Wollemi wilds have a long history of eerie happenings involving giant-size reptiles, even

neodinosaurs as our book Out of the Dreamtime reveals, and also past articles of mine in thisnewsletter. Before we left the swamp after inspecting the second camera, Tony Gerard chanced to pick upa curiously shaped lump of ironstone. As he gave it to me asking what it was, I thought it to be a fragmentof fossil tree root.

After taking a closer look at it I have realised that it is the ironstone-mineralised shearing tooth ofa large reptile, and due to its point no doubt a carnivorous species. The specimen measures 8.7cm tall by4cm wide and 2.8cm deep. It is but an incomplete upper portion of a tooth so would have been muchlonger.

In this secluded rocky gap a small rock shelter[beneath rock to right of picture] Tony Gerard

made the important discovery of three white ochrehand stencils. At this stage they are believed to beup to 500 years old. Rex plans further research at

this site. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2008.


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The two hand stencils, situated close to the rockshelter entrance.


A close-up of these well-preserved example of ancientBlue Mountains Aboriginal rock art.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2008.

The single specimen. The stencils weremade by placing the hand in wet ochre,

probably held in a bark container. Therock surface may first have been preparedwith a rubbing of tree gum as a base for

the artwork.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2008.

The group carried out a night search onthe third night of the expedition. HereTony Gerard [a Cryptozoologist andreptile expert] searches bush from a

remote dirt road with special infra-redlighting equipment, while the program

producer, Jared Christie [centre] andGary Opit keep their eyes on the

surrounding scrub.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2008.


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Tony and Nick scan the darkness.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2008.

Every member of the group had smalltorches attached to their heads, which

helped seeing the ground during the trekalong the road. Interestingly, a light

energy ball made an appearance aboveTonys head.


Rex points to something interestingin the dimness.



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The Tony Gerard Dinosaur

Tooth.

The Tony Gerard Dinosaur Tooth shown onall four sides.


Coming from the western fringe of the vast, mysterious Wollemi National Park with its notoriousDinosaur Swamplands located deep within its interior, this fossil symbolises the long, eerie history ofgiant reptilian activity; a mystery which continue to fascinate researchers like the Gilroys. A mystery that iscertain to continue for a long time to come.

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Our previous meeting was a huge success and we look forward to seeing you at our next one.There should be some good Skywatches ahead of us up here at Katoomba, weather permitting.

Meanwhile, there a lot happening up there at present so -Until our next meeting

Watch the Skies!

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The Temple of Nim Newsletter - July 2008