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64 . OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
of the pyramids just as they had been sure carbon dating would
unlock the Mayan mysteries.
A cosmic ray detector was installed in the inner chamber of
the Khafre Pyramid, which Alvarez had chosen because of
simpler structure. The general idea was to find the historical
archives and scientific data hidden by the ancient Egyptian
priests. Since cosmic rays penetrate even in the deepest mines
and go through lead shields, the search was expected to be easy.
The detector was turned in different directions to take two million
readings of cosmic ray intensity changes throughout the
pyramid, and the readings, registered on magnetic tape, were fed
into a computer for analysis.
A modern computer installed in Cairo did the analyzing—and
out came a lot of garbled nonsense. The cosmic rays were registered
all right, but heavy interference from an unknown radiation
source in the pyramid covered the cosmic rays with such
great density that regular readings and interpretations were impossible.
Not even the directions of aim could be distinguished
and there was not a chance to find hidden chambers. It was a
complete scientific failure.
All the equipment was dismantled and checked out again and
again and it worked fine everywhere except inside the Khafre
Pyramid, no matter how hard they tried. Nobody could explain
it, and finally, after several futile attempts to remedy the situation.
Professor Alvarez gave up and returned to California to do
something more useful and controllable.
As impossible and improbable as it may seem, apparently the
ancient Egyptians must have been capable of predicting the future
and set up radiation barriers against us, impenetrable even
to electronic scouting. It looks as if somebody or something thousands
of years ago had installed electromagnetic radiation
sources in at least one of the pyramids or their vicinity just to
prevent the electronic devices of later generations from discovering
their hidden secrets.
Another possibility, of course, is that the radiations, which
many persons who spent time in pyramids or- even near them
claim to have felt physically, are space beacons radiating signals
for astronauts in space. In any case, if indeed there is radiation,
it will be possible sooner or later for us to detect it and to iden-
its