The Temple of Nim Newsletter

of

Blue Mountains UFO Research Club.

Vol. 2 Issue No 2

February 2006

The plaster and mud cast made from a Yowie left footprint, found by Rex Gilroy in Cedar Valley, Katoomba Sunday 14th October 1979 during the 2KA Radio Station/Army Yowie expedition. It measures 42cm long by 23.5cm wide across the toes and 12cm wide across the heel, 5cm deep at mid-foot, and the 7.5cm deep at the toes. The foots owner must have stood at least 2.75m in height and was probably a male. Photo Rex Gilroy 2006.

Inside:
Results of the Skywatch January 21st, 2006. Yowie Search in Jamieson Valley. Indianan Gilroy and the Temples of Nim. Lions and tigers and Bears [of the Wollemi] Oh My!

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Blue Mountains UFO Research Club News. Our next meeting will be held on Saturday 18th February 2006 at the Gilroy residence, 12 Kamillaroi Road, South Katoomba, 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 there is safer parking. PLEASE NO SMOKING ON THE PREMISES. ALSO, NO LARGE BAGS IN THE CINEMA OR HOUSE.

PLEASE NOTE. As this gathering is now by invitation only 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 with us all.
Contact Information: Phone: 02 4782 3441, Email: randhgilroy@optusnet.com.au

[or catch our website on www.google and type in Rex Gilroy.]. Bring a plate of food to share for afternoon tea. Our meetings are usually held on the third Saturday of each month. Looking forward to seeing you all again on February 18th..

Program for the 18th February.

Viewing of recently discovered Yowie footprints from Central Coast NSW Latest UFO Reports from the Blue Mountains. Videos on Bigfoot, UFOs and astronomy. Report on new Yowie, Thylacine searches in 2006. As usual, weather permitting, there will be a Skywatch out on nearby Narrow Neck Peninsula.

And other surprises...

Rex and Heather Gilroy, Australias top UFO and Unexplained Mysteries Research team. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2004.

Results of the Skywatch held 21st January, 2006. Our Skywatch following our January 21st meeting was well attended and enjoyable, with a few interesting incidents observed in the Burragorang Valley. At 9.30pm a vertical silver flash was observed moving over Narrow Neck Peninsula from the south-east to north-west. Then at 10pm a silvery light appeared in the Burragorang Valley, observed between the Ruined Castle rock formation and the western side of Mt solitary. The light was present for about one minute before fading away. At 10.15pm just to the west of this side of the Mt Solitary formation we saw two silvery lights moving low above the valley floor for about 30 seconds. ***** I have been informed that a pink-glowing round saucer type craft was seen at 2.45am on Tuesday 24th January, flying high above Burragorang Valley from behind Mt solitary, to descend from cloud level

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over the far cliffs of Narrow Neck. It is said to have lit up the plateaus forest, as if either landing there, or else moving down into Megalong Valley. Several people sighted the craft. The giant space station that created quite a fuss 2 years ago has been spotted in the north-east sky recently by a number of locals, and I have seen it moving slowly over the south-west horizon around 3am while walking Cuddles on Monday 30th January. A Skywatch from the Kanangra Boyd National Park could prove rewarding in the light of recent sightings over that side of the Burragorang and I plan a special trip with Heather and anyone else interested. *****

The happy gathering out on Narrow Neck Peninsula for another Skywatch following the Saturday 21st January meeting. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

Angelo Soccio watching the skies while Greg Foster looks into the darkened valley with his video camera at the ready. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006

Yowie Search in Jamieson Valley. Back in October 1979 I led a [then] Radio station 2KA/Army backed [176th Air Supply Squadron troop] on a search in the valley below Ruined Castle Rock formation. The search was a success, with the discovery of three sets of hominid footprints found in forest soil. With some difficulty I was able to make a plaster cast of the best possible foot impression despite twigs and leaves covering the site. At present Heather and I are filming URU Film Productions first documentary on the Yowie mystery, and I plan to return to this location, as well as film scene at the spot between Mt Solitary and Ruined Castle where, on August 7th 1970 about 3.30pm I saw a male Yowie. 2006 will see renewed field searches for evidence of the hairy people in the Kanangra Boyd, Wollemi regions and elsewhere, the searches being filmed for the documentary. Assisting us will be

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Kathryn McCloghry, Greg foster and others. Parallel with these investigations will be searches for further Panther, Blue Mountains Lion and Thylacine evidence in remote parts of the Wollemi-Newnes forest country. With a recent find of freshly made Yowie footprints at a Central coast location by Greg and I it looks like being a good year for the uncovering of Yowie evidence! Greg Kathryn, Heather and I will soon be descending upon the Central Coast site in the hunt for more footprints and any other evidence we can turn up. As there have been recent sightings from the Jamieson Valley and Kanangra region we will be searching these areas as well. My almost 50 years of Yowie research has attracted a Japanese documentary company who at present are preparing to interview Heather and I in the Wollemi scrub, for a documentary series on Unexplained mysteries worldwide. It is the second Japanese documentary that I have been involved with and apparently I am a big name among Cryptozoologists in Japan! We are presently loading ourselves up with casting plaster in anticipation of finding footprints while filming with the Japanese, but also in readiness for the Central Coast return investigation. -0-

Greg Foster with the Drying plaster cast of one of the Yowie footprints discovered by him at a Gosford district location. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

Close-up of the larger of the three cast foot impression. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

An indistinct large footprint embedded in grass, impossible to cast. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

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Indiana Gilroy and the Temples of Nim. By Rex Gilroy. Copyright Rex Gilroy 2006. The past year has seen a great many new archaeological finds added to the Gilroy collection; the latest Mayan relics and temple discovery on the Atherton Tableland and at Cooktown come readily to mind. And then there were the ancient mining slag sites and inscribed stones and images left behind on several Queensland coastal sites by the Bronze-Age Phoenicians, Egyptians and their allies. Now we have the latest fantastic discoveries in the Flinders Ranges to pursue further. There have been new fossil hominid discoveries too, which are still being studied. All this has to be done in between putting our next book Out of the Dreamtime The Search for Australias Unknown Animals onto disc ready for the printers. This book, containing some thousands of reports, has been several years in preparation and will eclipse anything of this kind ever published in Australia to date [the Gilroys like doing things in a big way!]. And on top of this there are our UFO investigations and a new UFO book to prepare! 2005 has been a successful year for the Temple of Nim research teams, and 2006 promises already to be even more so. Nim, the Sun-God of old Uru appears to have had countless temples and shrines erected in his honour. During 2005 however, several major discoveries dedicated to other Uruan deities were added to the list, including two 90m or so tall astronomical pyramids at a Blue Mountains site, and another was located deep in the Wollemi wilderness still awaiting a proper survey. I plan to do this during the coming winter months. Currently the search is on for trustworthy people to join the Temple of Nim researchers and assist the Gilroys in the field. Last year our colleagues [now Mr. and Mrs.] Debra and Russell Dunn showed Heather and I a truly massive megalithic temple complex. Consisting of in some cases, monstrous monolithic granite boulders, the entire site included a wide assembly area and megalithic circles. A tall, weathered rock had been carved to depict Ara, the Moon-goddess and sister of Nim. This figure held in her enfolding arms [now barely visible], a tall bird image, almost Egyptian in character, and which an inscription on a rock at the base of the images identified as Ara, and her protector, the Owl god, Ma. Nim was not left out, for atop a cliff that juts out over a valley directly behind the extensive complex, stands a round boulder bearing a pair of round eyes, nose and wide mouth, with glyphs to one side stating Nim. This discovery was made on the late afternoon on which Debra and Russell took Heather and I to the site, in the Orange district in December 2004. After a quick inspection of the other structures, torch in hand, and followed by Cuddles who was with us, Russell and I worked our way down a tree-covered slope among other formations to eventually [by now in pitch darkness], to find ourselves on the narrow cliff at the end of which was the massive Nim head. At this point we abandoned this preliminary investigation. Heather and I later returned and spent a whole day measuring what we could and also doing a quick video presentation of the site for the Blue Mountains UFO Research Club meetings. Stone alignments were discovered which plotted the summer and Winter Solstices and also Moon phases. Other small temples and shrines were uncovered on the slope. This site could take years to fully study and we hand only barely touched the tip of the iceberg so to speak. We nicknamed the site the Temple of Debra, which is appropriate, because Debra has, with Russell, discovered one of the most important and extensive Uruan temple complexes so far discovered anywhere in Australia! But what of our great Sun-God, Nim. His name is found upon altars and hill pyramid temple sites and other crude structures from Western Australia to the ACT, to New Zealand and the Americas, and here on the Blue Mountains countless shrines and temples bear his name. The Lost City of Kanangra only last October revealed hitherto unknown new finds covering extensive tracts of forest-covered megalithic formations; one being another habitation area consisting of stone huts now turned to rubble heaps, and the other, a large temple complex with vast assembly area. The temple, constructed in a great square formation marked out by massive granite stones, includes a great round boulder bearing the face of Nim similar to the Orange district example just mentioned. I had little time to film the temple as the sun was sinking low, but took some remarkable photos for the time being, and carried out some quick measurements before I had to return to the car and Heather, a great distance away. There were stone markers for Sun, Moon and other planetary alignments but these will have to wait until our return in the near future.

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The Lost City of Kanangra as previously stated in other Temple of Nim articles, covers at least 10 square kilometres, and perhaps more than that if any more finds like these latest two are made. Last year leading field assistant Greg foster and I investigated a great hill [astronomical] temple site in Sydneys south-west, which I had earlier found to be part of a massive ley line. Another ley line extends through the Blue Mountains. This winter the Gilroys will work their way through dense scrub to film and measure out the latest Kanangra Lost City finds, as well as other settlement ruins at another remote location. All this must be done in winter to avoid snakebite in such an out-of-the-way region, as in the summer months this place is crawling with them! In one place, in the vicinity of stone alignments extending north-south through dense forest, there rises a tall granite rock in the form of a kangaroo head. Faded glyphs at the base identify him as Ga-na, the Protector of the Gods. This kangaroo deity was second only to I-na in importance; I-na of course being the Eagle of the Sun, who carried Nim across the heavens each day from east to west. In a recent interview on the Geoff Rense [American] radio program, he and Brad Steiger christened us Rex and Heather Indiana Gilroy, and we are certainly living up to that name! What awaits Rex and Heather Indiana Gilroy in 2006? Many things: there is a new possible Uruan temple and settlement complex deep in the Wollemi in need of detailed investigation; a new Bronze-Age Phoenician open-cut mining site in the Bathurst region needing our attention; further fieldwork at the Joadja Valley open-cut mines; detailed investigation of Bronze-Age rock script sites on the Central Coast/Hawkesbury river; and the search for new Palaeoanthropological sites in Sydneys west together with our colleague Greg Foster. Greg has over recent months made some startling fossil [mineralised] hominid skull finds which have great bearing upon the finds being made on the Blue Mountains of hominid skull-types, and I believe that even here, the surface is barely being scratched. What new and exciting discoveries await Greg in the Western suburbs? Having recently reached a total of 1,000 rock scripts, stone idols etc, we believe that the Gilroy collection contains more than enough evidence to blast Captain James Cooks Endeavour [not to mention all those Dutch ships] clear out of the water! Australias history is far, far older than that! And so the Gilroys continue on into 2006 in anticipation of yet more important discoveries. -0In the Gosford area, on Saturday 4th February [same day as the Yowie footprints casting] Greg and Rex returned to an Uru astronomical temple site they had not seen since they found it six years ago. The results were incredible. Not only were new Uru rock scripts found [like these, seen here with Greg] which have yet to be translated, but a Phoenician inscription was discovered by Rex nearby. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

Close-up of some yet to be translated glyphs forming an Uruan inscription thousands of years old. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

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On a boulder [far left of picture] at the base of this huge sandstone rock shoal, Rex discovered a Phoenician inscription, engraved in Bronze-Age times [2000-2400BC], thousands of years after the astronomical temple was established by the Uru, shows that the Egypto-Phoenician colonists [who appear to have left traces of their presence at many Uru sites hereabouts] demonstrates how well they were able to mix in with the Uru people. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

Rex studying the [chalked in] fading glyphs. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

The inscription, which bears the face of Baal with Phrygian cap coming to a point, and below, a pointed beard. The inscription, in Phoenician, reads: In Baals name, Pa-ya-I, Captain of the ships declares here, that his ships were welcomed by the people. With blowing horns our ships of grain arrived and were welcomed .Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

The Baal Head. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

At the base of the inscribed boulder Rex recovered this small votive offering image of Baal with his Phrygian cap. On the back is the Phoenician letter B denoting Baal. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

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8 Sneak Preview. In our next newsletter there will be full report on a new Uruan temple site, discovered by Temple Of Nim leading field assistant Kathryn McCloghry on Christmas Day. On Sunday 12th February Heather and Rex Gilroy accompanied her to the Gosford district site. Kathryn and Rex uncovered a number of Uru inscriptions, identifying the site as a temple dedicated to the Uruan Moon Goddess, Ara. Kathryn also made a remarkable inscription find on a rockface believed to be a city emblem.

This inscription reads: The Sun, Nim. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

Kathryn discovered this weathered altar stone bearing an inscription dedicating it to Ara. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

This glyph reads: The Eye of Ara pours the Cup of Nim the Sun to enrich the earth. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

Kathryn with this important inscription: Temple of Ara. Where night drives Nim the sun into the Underworld to bring forth Ara. Observe on this flat ground of the temple enclosure. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

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In our previous Temple of Nim Newsletter we reported on the discovery, on Tuesday 20th December 2005, out on Narrow neck Peninsula, of the Gilroy/McCloghry skull, a heavily [ironstone] mineralised skullcap now seen as an intermediate form between Late Homo erectus and Archaic Homo sapiens between 1 million and 8000,000 years old. A full report with up-to-date information will be in our next Newsletter. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

Kathryn, holding the fossil that she and Rex found by accident due to him getting disorientated while trying to relocate a clifftop Uru temple site. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

Barbara Elder just had to have a hold of our important fossil. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

Lions and Tigers and Bears [of the Wollemi] Oh My! By Rex Gilroy. Copyright Rex Gilroy 2006. The Wollemi wilderness region, to which one can also add the adjoining Wollangambie and Newnes forestlands, is a vast, eerie and rugged region, known for its panther sightings. Yet it is also home to the Blue Mountains Lion and Thylacine. There have been claimed sightings of the mysterious Giant Emu hereabouts, and in 2004, together with American Cryptozoologist, Todd Jurasek, I uncovered a number of oversize emu tracks which we made plaster casts of. Then there are those other reports, of giant monitor lizards; sightings claims of the Yowie/Homo erectus are now backed up by traces of recent camp fires and recently manufactured stone tools. And then there are those confounded Drop Bears which newcomers to the Australian bush [Americans like Todd Jurasek] are constantly warned to beware of and you can really convince a yank with that one lest they sustain serious injury when these giant koalas fall from great heights! On a serious note, among last years discoveries here were oversized panther tracks. On January nd 2 2005 I uncovered massive tracks measuring 22cm in width across the toes by 16cm length from toe tip

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to back of heel, making the track easily twice the size of the previously largest panther tracks. Of course a study of the paw prints shows these panthers to be marsupials, and therefore, like the Blue Mountains Lion, we are in fact dealing with large marsupial carnivores surely related to the marsupial carnivore megafauna of the last Ice-Age, which ended around 12,000 or so years ago. These so-called Big cats appear to reach astounding proportions, and the Giant Panther whose paw prints have just been described, is according to a number of sightings claims, both hereabouts and elsewhere, capable of 2m to 2.6m length nose tip to tail tip, by 1.2 to 1.4m standing on all fours! Lions seen on the Blue Mountains appear also to reach these proportions. The huge lion tracks found on Narrow Neck plateau outside Katoomba in 2003 and 2004, were added to on Tuesday 15th March 2005 when, with Heather and Greg Foster, we took an ATN7 camera crew to a former paw print site to do an interview with casts of the original tracks found there. To our great surprise we discovered three, faded paw impressions in dried sand which the camera crew were able to film. These paw impressions measured 28cm width by 18cm length, and were on the edge of a dried up muddy pool. It proved that members of this species still inhabits the plateau, and probably reach here via a steep climb that leads up through scrub and rocks from Megalong Valley, where the lions and big cats have been part of local folklore since the 19th century. ***** In recent months there have been sightings claims of one or more Thylacines in a particular region of the Wollemi, and this year the Gilroys and any helpers will be out there in search of possible fresh paw prints in the forest soil. In one instance, that occurred in October last year, a man in a 4-wheel drive vehicle caught a glimpse of an animal moving across a dirt road ahead of him. It was a large, mousy-brown furred bodied dog-like animal with a row of blackish body stripes extending barrelwise along its back. The time was around 10pm and I got a good look at it in the glare of the headlights before it vanished into the bush, the man Ted Scott informed me. Paw prints comparable to those of Thylacines found in Tasmania have been found hereabouts already, as from my 1982 and 1984 discoveries. Heather and I have casts of these with which to match with any future tracks we will discover in this wilderness. We know of at least one lair where there could be up to six Thylacines inhabiting the site. This site is situated deep in a canyon into which paw prints led and was found in 1982. Its location remains a top secret for obvious reasons. At present I am planning to mount another search in these wilds for further evidence of our secretive mega-marsupials. Who knows what we may find out there in the coming months! -0Next Issue:

More surprises, and of course your valuable reports.

Our previous meeting was a huge success and we look forward to seeing another big roll-up at our next one. There should be some good Skywatches ahead of us up here at Katoomba, weather permitting. Meanwhile, theres a lot happening up there at present so, until our next meeting
Watch the Skies! Rex and Heather.