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docwho2100
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Thanks for sharing - I am copying anything received into my growing google doc Smile Who is Aaron? Is it Dr. Walker?

And is there anywhere people are chatting about this as it seems to be picking up a little (hangouts, some forum chat, discord, etc.)?

danteIL wrote:
Sivakov has gotten very chatty. I asked him if knows what happened to Walker. His latest response:

Quote:
Я не говорил с доктором Уолкером так как я должен был покинуть мое место посадки. Это очень сбивает с толку. Я собираюсь связаться с Аароном об этом напрямую.


Google translate wrote:
I have not spoken with Dr. Walker since I had to leave my place of landing. This is very confusing. I'm going to contact with Aaron about it directly.


PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 2:43 pm
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docwho2100
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OOoo a new journal entry and it references Arkady! Can we somehow contact Dr. Walker?

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Friday, September 23

Ask and ye shall receive. Arkady Sivakov has messaged me asking if I experienced anything strange. I'm not sure I should reply. I might sound crazy. And though I wouldn't say I know him very well, in my limited interactions he didn't strike me as open-minded.

This is silly.

I should write back.

But what would I even say?


PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 9:13 pm
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Thomas00m
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Quote:
Who is Aaron? Is it Dr. Walker?


He should be Dr Walker since the Dropbox text file is called AW_logs. Tried looking for Aaron Walker on academia but couldn't find anything.

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sinewave89
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New Journal, and a long one at that:

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Tuesday, September 27

I can't sleep. I half-sleep. The kind where the line between asleep and awake is blurred. Where you're dreaming but you can also feel your bed and your blanket and the sweat beading on the bridge of my nose.

In that in-between state, I sense one of them. Standing at the side of the bed. My body can't move. I can't react. All I can do is stare at the ceiling as that haunting circle of speech inks across the white paint.

It's huge, just hovering above me. Twisting and swirling, tendrils of smoke forming and evaporating and twisting into shapes. The circle is breaking and transforming into another form. Another language. Cyrillic.

I'm an academic. I understand what sleep paralysis is. I understand that these nightmarish sounds are not real. The sensation of one of them, like a sentinel, looming next to my bed isn't real. None of this is real but my pounding heart, my sweat, my fear, my inability to move. That's real.

I've been driving myself nuts trying to figure this out, but I'm not going to be able to do it on my own. I need to risk it. I have to talk to Arkady. Share my experience with him. The smallest little detail could be a sign of something bigger.

No inquiry can succeed without good data.

If he thinks I'm insane, so be it.


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danteIL
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So a couple of things:

First, a new journal entry from Walker:
Quote:
Friday, September 30
Arkady's reply was cautious. Guarded. He seems to be afraid that someone might be watching him. He's probably not wrong, given everything that is going on. But he's certainly skittish about talking via email. He would not tell me exactly what happened to him at the Siberia shell. But I certainly can recognize the way he got right up to the edge of describing it before holding himself back. I don't know if I can trust that he's telling the truth and not trying to work me for intel. Just because we're communicating, doesn't mean we have the same goals.



Also, I got another email from Arkady:
Quote:
Спасибо за вашу помощь. Доктор Уолкер связался со мной. Это угроза безопасности. Пожалуйста, не связывайтесь больше со мной


Google translate wrote:
Thank you for your help. Dr. Walker has contacted me. This is a security threat. Please do not mess with me anymore



So... not very friendly. And paranoid.

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sinewave89
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There is actually a new folder on dropbox now. It's called Conversation and it has a word document in it named Arkady.docx:

Quote:
I've made this document and shared it with you, so we can communicate here without having to rely on email. How are you feeling today? Are you recovering from your experience? How much of what happened to you are you comfortable with sharing?


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docwho2100
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sinewave89 wrote:
There is actually a new folder on dropbox now. It's called Conversation and it has a word document in it named Arkady.docx:

Quote:
I've made this document and shared it with you, so we can communicate here without having to rely on email. How are you feeling today? Are you recovering from your experience? How much of what happened to you are you comfortable with sharing?


and already a reply

Quote:
Thank you Aaron. I am well. I am still uncertain how to describe my "experience," as you call it. Perhaps it would help if you were to tell me about your own experience?


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danteIL
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docwho2100 wrote:
sinewave89 wrote:
There is actually a new folder on dropbox now. It's called Conversation and it has a word document in it named Arkady.docx:

Quote:
I've made this document and shared it with you, so we can communicate here without having to rely on email. How are you feeling today? Are you recovering from your experience? How much of what happened to you are you comfortable with sharing?


and already a reply

Quote:
Thank you Aaron. I am well. I am still uncertain how to describe my "experience," as you call it. Perhaps it would help if you were to tell me about your own experience?


And this conversation moves along slowly:

Walker wrote:
There's not much to tell. One moment I was in the Shell, and I was fine, and the next thing I remember was waking up in a medical facility off-site.


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MrToasty
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And the reply is up:
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That is similar to my recollections. Did anybody report that your behavior was suspect leading up to the event?


PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2016 2:57 pm
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danteIL
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MrToasty wrote:
And the reply is up:
Quote:
That is similar to my recollections. Did anybody report that your behavior was suspect leading up to the event?


And more (trying to keep track of who's who in this conversation. Plus, why are these dudes adding to the document from the top? Did their brains get tossed upside down in the Shell?):

Walker wrote:
Did anybody report you?--That is similar to my recollections. Did anybody report that your behavior was suspect leading up to the event?


Arkady wrote:
No.


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docwho2100
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A new snapchat photo and video in the Operation Centaur folder - I think it is Dr. Walker at a debrief conference after his first contact. There is mention again of the song. - does the IP number in the video go anywhere and what does the 1950 in upper right corner mean? And what about the numbers he starts reciting at the end?

PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 9:18 pm
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danteIL
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okay that was an annoying video to try to transcribe, but here's my attempt, Anyone else is free to listen/correct:

Quote:
Man, talking into camera: Pakistan, Pakistan - I'm sure progress will come in time. Whenever I run into stonewalls in our field I always think about what Sagan said, about monkeys**. We're clearly dealing with intelligent creatures here, and I believe they are selectively responding to only what is of interest to them. So please don't be discouraged by an unsuccessful first time out.

[listens]

Man: Thank you. But a breakthrough for one of us is a breakthrough for us all.

[woman in camouflage approaches]

Man, to camera: Please excuse me.

Woman: Doctor.

Man: Can we hurry this along? I have to go back [mutter mutter bad sound because he's no longer talking to the camera]

Woman: [mutter mutter more bad sound] Something about "blah blah without my say so."

Woman (the same doctor in the other videos?) shines a light, examining his eyes: Right now, you have nothing more important than [something].

Man: [starts kind of humming] We're only rewriting the entirety of human history.

Woman: What's that from? (she's examining his neck)

Man: A conversation

Woman: Your pulse is elevated. You're flushed.

Man: Of course. I just made first contact.

Woman: Just watch out for anything unusual.

Man: Really? Unusual?

Woman: You know what I mean. [woman leaves]

Man turns back to camera, still kind of humming.

Man: [this starts at 1:15] zero zero four zero zero one zero zero six zero zero two zero zero three zero zero five zero zero seven [more humming to end of video]


So are these numbers some sort of code?



**Ambiguous what quote he means. Google tells me it could be this:

Quote:
"In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work."


or this:
Quote:
"I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign."


Either one could be Arrival-relevant, I suppose.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 10:09 am
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sinewave89
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I think the middle bit is something along the lines of:

Quote:
Man: Can we hurry this along? I have to go back into my notes and (moments playlist?) with (loud banging covers this, might say Arkady but probably not)

Woman: You're not going anywhere without me saying so. Right now you've got nothing more important then me.


and just to write the number out:

001 006 002 003 005 007

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SimpinaLindale
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Hello
Just discovered this board.

Thanks for the various videos transcripts. As a non native english speaker, it's sometime difficult to understand.

I just got an email, in plain english, from A.Sivakov :

Quote:
Nice to hear from you. I trust you've been well since I last saw you at the semantics symposium in Kuala Lumpar. Was that five years ago? Time bends for no one.

I hope you are faring better than I am in Russia. I understand that you're reaching out because you're concerned, and the news that is getting out is not very positive. But you know as well as I that I can't share any information. It pains me to end a message to a friend at that but I have reason to believe my email is compromised. I get many messages from strangers and reply in Russian to deter them. It does not always work.

Lets just say for now this is the kind of molecule I have to be.

Regards,
Arkady


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SimpinaLindale
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Just a few thoughts about the numbers :

004 001 006 002 003 005 007

This sequence seems too short to be a kind of encrypted msg ; perhaps initials, or an acronym, or just the beginning of a larger one.

(for those interested in deciphering an alien message, in the spirit of Contact movie, check the "contact project" (from 1995 !) with a very challenging message : https://www.ibiblio.org/lunar/message.html )

The video file name is 10x10x1_out ; it looks like 2x2x1 in binary. Perhaps we should take the binary form of these numbers and rearrange them somehow...

It's also a strange coincidence that there's 21 numbers in the sequence and that 10+10+1=21 too

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