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petunia
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Chronus_Valtiel wrote:
I'm not sure if JT is any of these people.
If I'm not mistaken JT has PMed before as JT....
I could be very wrong there, and correction in that matter is appreciated.


He did say his name was in the file... but yeah, some of those names are hinky. Reminds me of Buckaroo Banzai, hee.

He also said the original list had over 200 names. Why edit it?

Hey, the site now says there's no limit to the number of people who can play this time! w00t.

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 		He either has a los of imagination for names and lastnames or too much free time... some are colours, and others just seem like miss-spelled states. Just a few notes:

Colours:
Emma Green Rose 9697
Wendalle Pink Treaure 4215

States:
Luke Andrew Vega 1347
Brandon Virgina Post 4232
Riely Conneticute Parr 3526

Also on states:
Elija Winke State 3635

Plants!
Yasmin Alaina Float 2454
Emma Green Rose 9697
Olivia Haneh Thornee 1456

And...thorns.....
Thorne Courtney Feildings 2039
Aubrey Megan Thornall 1347
Olivia Haneh Thornee 1456

Dunno if all of this is useful or not, but.....

As a side note:
Madison Tio Husk 7284
This one's middle name is spanish for "uncle" (in Spain, it can also mean something like "dude") o_O

Yeah, I'll return to normal and think like a regular person in a couple of minutes. Meanwhile, read this post!
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 		This is quite odd... random thoughts.

Is it literally just a list of the Aurora 9 names? In that case, it's probably not a code. But then what to do with it?

For example, I can pore over the list for patterns all day, but ultimately, all I'm doing is looking for patterns in a list of names; anything I discover will be there by coincidence and not design. An exercise in futility. If it's NOT ACTUALLY intended to function as a list of names, (that is, it's something else entirely that is intended to LOOK like a list of names), then why did JT (a real person) find his name on it? Why would he be able to truncate it as extensively as he did before sending it to us for interpretation? Wouldn't whatever meaning the complete set had be lost in the editing process?

Even more strangely, the email that contained this list didn't elaborate on any of this. He just gave us the list without explaining it's significance. I don't know. This feels shady. I'm not sure how to proceed.
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Salsaman1991 wrote:
States:
Luke Andrew Vega 1347
Wait, where is the state in that?

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Degausser wrote:
This is quite odd... random thoughts.

Is it literally just a list of the Aurora 9 names? In that case, it's probably not a code. But then what to do with it?

For example, I can pore over the list for patterns all day, but ultimately, all I'm doing is looking for patterns in a list of names; anything I discover will be there by coincidence and not design. An exercise in futility. If it's NOT ACTUALLY intended to function as a list of names, (that is, it's something else entirely that is intended to LOOK like a list of names), then why did JT (a real person) find his name on it? Why would he be able to truncate it as extensively as he did before sending it to us for interpretation? Wouldn't whatever meaning the complete set had be lost in the editing process?

Even more strangely, the email that contained this list didn't elaborate on any of this. He just gave us the list without explaining it's significance. I don't know. This feels shady. I'm not sure how to proceed.


Yeah, I can't make heads or tail of this, unless this is suposed to be like part 1 of the puzzle or something. Has anybody tried to PM him through here or send him an e-mail to see what exactly it is we are supposed to do with this?

What's fishy about the whole thing is me and a couple of others were picking around on the corpse of The Wyoming Incident hoax ARG over at Happy Cube the same day I got my PM here for this game. The "PM" (i.e Senor Bambos from Something Awful) all of a sudden came back after like a 6 month absense and tried to link us to Red King Project (another BS ARG Senor did)

Not to put the cart before the horse but it's just too weird of a coincidence. Now this game has no similarities to Wyoming Incident or Red King as far as style goes, but definitely proceed with caution. I wouldn't put it past that dickweed Bambos to pull something like this again for "lulz". Rolling Eyes

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 		So, Bambos DID do Red King Project? God, that one was just silly....

This one doesn't have the same atmosphere of those two, though.... Still, I agree. Be careful.
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 		I'm watching this one...maybe you guys should e-mail JT?

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 		There's a new post in JT's forum. Is this one of us ?

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 		Random thought . . .
Could the list of names be some other kind of information, and not really names - the way SpamMimic messages only look like spam, but aren't?
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 		Re: Random thought . . .
Macavity wrote:
Could the list of names be some other kind of information, and not really names - the way SpamMimic messages only look like spam, but aren't?


That's what I was wondering. The best way to hide something is to just make sure no one thinks to look for it, right?

The thing is, I have no clue what else it might be, or how we might go about extracting that information from it.
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petunia wrote:
Salsaman1991 wrote:
States:
Luke Andrew Vega 1347
Wait, where is the state in that?


Yeah, I'm not good at geography, so wha? xD Yeah, it's a city in the state of Nevada...still! It sounds...ummm.....y'know... I...umm... I live in a country shaped like a triangle, stuck between Argentina and Brazil! That's literally thousands of miles apart xD

Sorry for that, it just sorta slipped.
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 		observations...
RE: Luke Andrew Vega - if we add an S we could have vegas, and andrews...and luke/andrews are air force bases.

Luke is west of Phoenix, near Glendale - in Arizona.

Andrews on the east coast near DC.

Ellis - possibly Nellis afb east of Las Vegas, if we add the N


One of the names, Winslow is in Arizona also.

Then there's Conneticute - Connecticut

I agree that it sounds a lot like a potential ufo crash covered up by military, and from the morse code part, somebody stole it when the lights went out ;-p

I checked out the wiki on the Tunguska Event, and there's a part in there that someone checking it out had found no radiation involved in the comet/meteor/astroid that exploded before impact, etc.

That raised the question or two of whether this is an oversight or deliberate veering from the wiki info. Such as, wiki referrs to it as 'event' while the 'memo' deal refers to it as an 'affair.' So would these even be the same events in question, or would this be something else? Also, if it's similar to the event, fallen angel could be some other object that fell from space, not necessarily a ufo. Could be a comet/meteor/astroid (and then we get to fight zombies yay!!).

Question: was the morse code transcribed exactly? If so, then it's a bit curious this:

10:39 Fallen angel
11:20 Fallen Angel - aurora chamber
11:46 Fallen angel - ebes
12:00 Fallen angel - tunguska affair
5:58 Aurora chamber
6:13 Fallen angel - .area

FA is capped once, then the rest of the instances it's angel lower case. aurora is lower case, as is tunguska affair. Then it's properly capped Aurora chamber at the beginning of that sentence, but at 6:13, area is lower case even though it kicks off a sentence.

Whether that's even remotely relevant, who knows. I just noticed it wasn't following protocol here.


On the names...despite not really knowing what to do with them just yet, if it's code for something, maybe they need to be on a grid, there are 3 names, some are screwy names, others seem to have a significance. Could the numbers be a way of placement on a grid? I can check it out doing it by hand but it'd take forever. Is there a program out there that can whip up a grid for these names?

Such as the first name:

A B C D
1 Anne Barbra Temple 1237

Anne goes in A1
Barbra goes in B2
Temple goes in C3

and who knows what 7 is...
Or D7


2 Robert Christopher D'angelo 8902

Robert goes in A8
Christopher goes in B9
D'angelo goes in C0 or C2

or D2

and fit those on a map of something?
or they're part of a code/coordinates?

And if they're graphed right the letters spell something?

Something along those lines maybe?

Or the end numbers being reduced to single digits:

1237 = 1+2+3+7=13=4
8902 = 8+9+0+2=19=10=1

etc. and the single digits worked out?

JT did say his/her name was on that list. I remember reading that.

What might be the signifcance of Aurora 9 - the 9?

Oh well...it'll give me something to do today ;-p Just thinking out loud.

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Cross_ wrote:
There's a new post in JT's forum. Is this one of us ?


That seems... suspicious.
Her email is on her avatar if you want to check.
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 		Looks like Kate is an IG character for JT's other ARG (Maladie de Celulles, which according to the site is not open for new players). Funny, from looking at her pages on freewebs, I'd wonder if she were still alive, or even if that ARG had taken off at all. Confused

From the end of the A9 FAQ:
Quote:
Information from those files will have to be provided slowly, as to release the entire thing would be disastrous if it fell into the wrong hands.
So I guess that's all we get for now. And didn't JT say he'd had to edit this file before sending it to us? Maybe he made changes to the file to make it look more like nonsense, in case it were intercepted by bad guys.

Three names have the same number:
James Ren Taylor, Aubrey Megan Thornall, Luke Andrew Vega 1347
(I thought there was another number with more than one name, but I don't see it now)

Hey! Kate's blog mentions her crush on JT, but then her friend Emma's blog said Kate liked a guy named Ren. That confused me, but now it seems James Ren Taylor 1347 may indeed be our JT. We should ask him if he knows the other two 1347s or anybody with similar names, and if the number 1347 means anything to him. Also if this is his real name, that would imply that some of the names are also real and not hinky.

FWIW, there are a Kate and an Emma on the list: Aiden Kate Jade 5641 & Emma Green Rose 9697. However, the Kate that posted on JT's forum is Kate Brown, and her friend Emma is Emma Clearwater. Neither of those last names are on our list.

And now, your spammylicious useless spec/stats for the day. Razz

Biblical connections: Temple, Luke, Andrew, Deliliah, Zion, Grace, Horeb, Elija, Jorden, Hannah, Rebekah, Moriah, Isis (ok, Isis isn't Biblical but I didn't know where else to put her)

Odd spellings: Barbra, Randal, Lilly, Haneh, Feildings, Justen, Malcom, Riely, Conneticute, Elija, Wendalle, Treaure, Virgina, Tailiyor, Tristian, Gaiven, Graces, Pumpernik, Blu, Caiden, Rebekah

Names listed more than once or with variations: Riley/Riely, Thorne/Thornall,Thornee, Treaure/Treasure, Andrew/Drew, Grace/Graces, Barbra(2), Blake(2), Blu/Bluebell, Christopher(2), Haneh/Hanna/Hannah, Isabella/Isabelle, Luca(2), Megan(2), Post(2), Richard/Dick, Tailiyor/Taylor, Ayla/Aila

Uncommon "first" and "middle" names: Thorne, Aubrey, Gaiven, Zeldi, Alaina, Green, Tio, Wenle, Uen, Utherale, Pink, Yucky, Winke, Conneticute, Wales, Sky, Caiden, York, Post, Ayla, Ren (sorry JT:)), Isis, Bluebell, Zion, Yard, Asha, Aila, Marsh

Uncommon "last" names: Marcus, Float, Rose, Husk, Thornall, Thornee, Horeb, Graces, Treaure, Treasure, Jade, Pumpernik, Ale, State, Post, Malea, Feildings, Flow, Erte, Tak, Vanessa, Ehlin, Flela, Blu, Moriah, Tracey, Rebekah, Grover

Non-name words: Pink, Yucky, Conneticute, Wales, Float, Husk, Thornee, Horeb, Treasure, Pumpernik, Ale, State, Post, Bluebell, Zion, Yard, Sky, Marsh, Green, Temple, Flow, Float, Blu

Names that are otherwise just weird, spelling aside: Zeldi, Tio, Wenle, Uen, Utherale, Winke, Flela, Ehlin, Ayla, Asha, Aila, Caiden, Gaiven, Zeldi, Malea, Erte, Tak

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 		Just sent this to Kate.
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Hi Kate,

I saw your post on JT's forum. Do you still have a crush on him? Smile It sounds like you've been pretty busy with this cell phone thing though, so you probably don't have time to be worrying about guys and stuff. But I just thought I'd let you know, you can totally see your page where it says "I love JT!" so he might be able to see it too. Surprised But then it also sounds like you two know each other now, so I guess he does know you exist after all. I just thought I'd give you a heads up about your JT page in case you didn't want him to see it... I'm sorry it's really none of my business, I just don't want you to be embarrassed. I guess you could say I've been there, ya know? ^_^

Anyway that's not why I'm writing you. Some of us are trying to help JT with this Aurora 9 thing, and we're kinda having a hard time. He sent us this file with a bunch of names and numbers, but some of them are really weird and we don't really know what it means or what to do with it. There's a Kate on there too btw, but I don't think it's you because Kate is just the middle name and the last name is different. There's an Emma too but the last name is different there too. Speaking of, is Emma okay? Did you guys get back from NYC alright? It looks like y'all hadn't posted to your blogs in awhile. BTW I'm in Texas too, I know it's a big state but if I can help out just let me know, 'k? Smile

Laters!

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