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Talking of strange heads and the latest FT, what about that weird skull on p.13?!

A well-known anthropologist "claimed that he had never seen a human or an animal skull like this."

I'm not surprised! Will this receive some real study, or be quietly disappeared into the Black Museum?

This page may be one of FT's sources (but no photo).

But on another website I found this:

"January 22, 2002
Bulgarian UFO researchers informed Michael Hesemann about a strange discovery in the Balkans. On May 21, 2001 a researcher, after a series of dreams, found an unusual skull in a cave on Rodolp mountain in southern Bulgaria, a place known for frequent UFO sightings.

The skull weights about 250 grams, has six holes and no apparent jaw or mouth region. According to Yordan Yordanov, a leading Bulgarian anthropologist, it is neither a skull of a human with a genetic defect nor an animal skull. Several tests were proposed.

The skull is rather chalky and seems to be of a high age. Any comments are welcome… have a look at it under
http://www.ufoworld.co.uk/ftp/skull1.jpg
http://www.ufoworld.co.uk/ftp/skull2.jpg
http://www.ufoworld.co.uk/ftp/skull3.jpg
http://www.ufoworld.co.uk/ftp/skull4.jpg
http://www.ufoworld.co.uk/ftp/skull5.jpg
http://www.ufoworld.co.uk/ftp/skull6.jpg "

NB: NONE of these pictures is the one given in FT. Any artists out there fancy fleshing out a picture of this 'alien'?
 
Not sure if this should be in Cryptozoology or Ufology...

Rynner mentioned a weird human(ish) skull in the Horsemen thread [ posts now merged - rynner ], and I reckon it deserves its own thread. Here's a website about it... what does everyone think?
 
The skull images above are quite large, so for a quick look, and for comparison, I've down-sized them and put them together in this attachment:
 
Doesnt look like a skull to me. There is a very superficial resemblance to a human skull viewed from the side (second photo down) if you half close your eyes, so maybe it was discovered in that position and so people thought it was a skull.

To me it looks at first sight like part of a very large vertebra (like maybe a sauropod), but it is obviously not a fossil. A lot of people seem to think it is a pelvis, buit I cant really see that resemblance either.

Could it have to do with the Nephilim? ;)

Actually it might be worth looking at some pictures (not for the squeamish) of the deformities caused in children by Depleted Uranium in places like Iraq - there are some pretty extreme facial/skull deformities including some where there is nothing you could recognise as eyes, nose or mouth.

Are there any pictures of the "disc-shaped smooth metal object" found with it?
 
As a sidenote, I find it quite interesting that the site linked above is not only building up the skull as something amazing, but looking for offers to sell it...
 
If the text is anything to go by, it should be easy to identify.

"Scientists explored the skull and no one was unable to identify it"
 
I think it's a fragment of a larger bone...

Niles "Plate Head" Calder
 
This was mentioned in the new edition of FT. The website doesn't mention the age of the skull - is it prehistoric or comparatively modern? It does not appear to have any jawbone or mouth aperture.

The author of the site seems to have started withe assumption that it's a skull and how can they be so confident that the cavity probably contained brain?

Carole
 
As others have said in another thread, it doesn't really look like a skull. But, IF (a very big if) it is a skull of an alien, I suppose it doesn't have to look anything like a human skull.

It's very interesting and I wish it were something like that, but I'm not convinced . . .

Carole
 
Obviously a smashed fragment of something... probably would be readily explained if the right people got a look at it... I don't trust a word of the site, they're just trying to make some money off it.
 
This story has been around for a while now -
According to Iassen Kobarelov, UFO Roundup correspondent in Bulgaria, the news magazine BTA published a photo of the skull in the edition that appeared on newstands in Sofia on Thursday, January 31, 2002.
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- so you'd think if this was something ordinary at least one of the scientists who've examined it would have identified it by now, and the fuss would be over.

After all, this is not a tiny bone or a tooth which could only be recognised by a few specialists in the world. The mystery is in the fact that it hasn't been identified.

If it's a pelvis, for example, Ginoide, can you tell us from which creature it comes, and provide evidence. (There must be websites on human and animal anatomy, and palaeontology, that would provide comparisons.)
 
What size is this thing? To me it looks like part of a crab shell.
 
I agree with the vertabrae theory. They claim that the skull once contained a brain but it could be the spinal cord as the nerves in the brian and tne spinal cord are almost the same albeit the nerves in a spinal cord are elongated.
 
It doesnt look fossilised to me. More like just an old bone. I think it looks quite like a keel from the breastbone of a bird. Maybe an ostrich or summat. The bone structure seems quite porous and light, which would tie with it being a bird
 
It looked to me a bit like a turtle/tortoise shell, with that large flat area being the underside. I don't know what those things like like nekkid, maybe someone who doesn't access the internet from work could look for skeletons to compare it to? I certainly don't think it looks anything like a skull, and I'm a bit puzzled as to why people think it might be.

With them saying it's been examined by 'experts' and is definitely not the skull from any species of known animal, that's leaving a huge bit of room for it having already been identified by someone as the arse bone of a T-Rex, for example. If they're trying to sell it, I think they're just trying to make it sound as bizarre as possible.

IMHO etc.

Ellie.
 
I could have SWORN that about a week after this discovery was made, scientists decided it was (something I forget), making the debate moot.

When I was a little kid, I found a piece of bone sort of like this in a field. It looked like bone and was hard as rock. It turned out to be industrial waste of some kind, despite its symmetry.

If the skull is human, there's a possibility it's from a person who had a bone disorder like Paget's disease or Proteus syndrome. It's not symmetrical.

If it was part of an animal, I think the "face" part was on the bottom. There is also a large piece broken off on what would be the occipit.
 
The Alien Skull on page 13/FT159

Anyone here who has seen Predator 2 will be familiar with the trophy room scene. Don't you think this skull belongs on that wall?

Aside from that, what's the common attitude toward this "alien" skull?
 
I'd love for it to be real....and I'd be more inclined to believe it was if it had been discovered by chance but the aspect of being guided to it makes the cynic in me cry fake.
 
It looks like they only saw the skull because they took the photo from the back :S.
 
That isn't the back of any skull, there isn't any room for the cortical stem or the vertibrae to fit into, nor is there any need for the array of cavities on the back of the skull, human or animal...
 
Assuming it is real, why do you think it's jaws seem to have fused?
 
I did wonder that myself, I came to the conclusion that over many thousands, maybe millions of years, his/her race bacame highly skilled in telepathic communication and had an alternative method of ingesting, maybe injection or absorption of single-cell nutrients and proteins, in spite of the fact that the two techniques would have to have developed side by side. This in-turn would lead to an adption or evolutionary state where this species may not need a mouth anymore.

However, i draw your attention to the "mandables" that it's race may once have had in the distant past.
 
It seems to have a very strange honeycomb structure on top of the cranium. Could that be in any way similar to the resonating chambers of certain Hadrosaurs? Of course, if it's real, we're dealing with something that evolved on a completely different planet, so all this is entirely academic. For all we know, it could be anaquatic plankton eater, although that would make the spacesuits a bit on the heavy side...
 
the skull

If its as big as a babys skull,why cant it be carbon dated ?
 
Mutant Turtle... Heyy this sounds familiar for some reason...
 
Doesn't look anything like a skull to me. And hasn't anybody noticed that large bits appear to have been hacked off it? That flat 'side' is very intriguing, though - could it belong to a crab, or some marine animal?
 
To me it looks very much like the back half of a skull that has had it's front part broken off somehow. It is certainly, I would say, too fragmentary to work out what it belongs to.

I always thought anthropologists were more into society type stuff and bones were more a zoology kind of issue.
 
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