MD The 'ARIEN' (Alien) II - The Arecibo Incident

The Puerto Rican Trench, UFOs/UAPs and USOs
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 979-8-3509-8334-0
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 244 Seiten

Reihe: The "ARIEN" (Alien) II - The Arecibo Incident

This second book of the 'ARIEN' series continues the fictionalized narrative of a UFO/UAP craft drawn to the beacon signal that emanated from the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, sent outbound on November 16, 1974. After the craft downing by the US Military, Major M. performs the autopsy of the Alien and discovers gills and hemocyanin as the blood's oxygen carrier, suggesting an aquatic life. The existential imperative begins with determining where the craft originated from. Was it from the Hercules Constellation, globular star cluster Messier 13, over 25,000 light years away... or somewhere much closer in our own solar system?

Dr. Jerry J. Marty received his medical degree (MD) in 1976 from Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan. After that, he completed six postgraduate years of training at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Postgraduate Year one), Strong Memorial Hospital/University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York (Postgraduate Years two to three, and five to six) and completed an additional year in straight Internal Medicine at Saint Joseph's University Hospital -VA Medical Center/Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska (Postgraduate Year four). A Visiting Fellowship in Clinical Cytology and Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) was undertaken during the fall of 1989 under the World-renowned Dr. Torsten Lowhagen at the Karolinska Hospital and Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. An eight (8) week Fellowship in Forensic Pathology was taken under the direction and tutelage of Dr. Werner Spitz, Co-Author of the 'Bible' of Forensic Pathology - Medicolegal Investigation of Death (now in its 5th Edition, 2020) at The Detroit Medical Examiner's Office in Detroit, Michigan, lamentably a designated murder capital of the United States, at that time. The author is Board-certified in Anatomic, Clinical, and Cyto-Pathology with a sub-specialization in Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) Cytology. He has authored several publications in peer-reviewed medical journals and two separate Book Chapters in his field of expertise, specifically in Cytopathology and Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) Cytology. Among his earlier responsibilities, Dr. Marty had teaching positions at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and, later, at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and Pharmacy (now Northeast Ohio University College (NEOMED)), Rootstown, Ohio. A Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree at George Washington University, School of Business (GWSB), Washington, D.C., was conferred on May 17, 2009. Dr. Marty's most recent professional position until 2016 was as Chairman of Pathology and Medical Director of Laboratories at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center (MFSMC), a three hundred seventy-eight (378) bed Joint Commission (JC) accredited hospital facility in Baltimore, Maryland (one of ten Hospitals comprising MedStar Health across Baltimore, central Maryland, Washington, D.C., and southern Maryland). Apropos of the location chosen for this creative, nonfiction work, Dr. Marty spent many of his early years in Puerto Rico. Later, he had a home in northwest Puerto Rico, close to the Radio Telescope Observatory facility in Arecibo. The Author is based in the United States and enjoys travel, photography, and Chess when not working.

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CHAPTER ONE 1.1 PUERTO RICO AND ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, UNDERSEA TRENCHES-TROUGHS AND TECTONICS 1.2 IS PUERTO RICO A HOTBED OF UFO/UAP AND USO ACTIVITY? 1.3 HIGH PROFILE CONTEMPORARY OF UFO/UAP AND USO CASES 1.1 PUERTO RICO AND ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, UNDERSEA TRENCHES-TROUGHS AND TECTONICS Puerto Rico, the easternmost Greater Antilles Island, is a Caribbean island with a rich historical and cultural background. According to SETI Director Dr. Elena Ruiz, there was a reported population of 2.939 million in 1974 (the broadcast year of the Arecibo message to the Hercules Constellation, globular star cluster Messier 13 (M13)). Most of the population, nearly 76%, is demographically White, followed by Black, 12.4%, while the remainder of other ethnicities comprise less than 12% (Wikipedia). Much of the Island is mountainous and hilly terrain, with nearly one-fourth of the island covered by steep slopes. The greatest population density is found along the entire perimeter of the Island territory. Agricultural land makes up less than one-quarter of the total square surface area. The mountains of the Cordillera Central (central mountain chain) are a mountainous chain that runs west to east across the center of the island, representing the easternmost extension of a tightly folded and faulted ridge that extends from the Central American mainland across the northern Caribbean to the Lesser Antilles. The highest point on the Commonwealth Island is Cerro de Punta at 4390 feet elevation (1,338 meters) within the mountainous part of the Cordillera Central, in the Bosque Estatal de Toro Negro near the town of Jayuya located in the municipality of Ponce. Figure 11: Arecibo Radio Telescope Observatory location, Map PR (West) Three major geologic formations make up the Puerto Rico Commonwealth Island The Cordillera Central (Central Mountain Range) The Carbonate The Coastal Lowlands The geologically oldest rocks are around 190 million years old and are located in the southwest part of the Commonwealth Island at Sierra Bermeja. Karst Region
Karst is a specific type of landscape where, because of significant limestone and gypsum geologic bedrock dissolution (and to a lesser extent marble), sinkholes, sinking streams, caves, springs, and other unique topographic characteristic features, are formed. Karst geology is associated with aquifer formation, a source of a significant amount of potable drinking water. SETI Director Dr. Elena Ruiz described how the 305 meters (1000-foot) diameter Radio Telescope Observatory facility, located in Barrio Esperanza, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, was built into a natural Karst limestone sinkhole 167 feet (57 meters) in depth, comprising 18 acres at an altitude of 498 meters (1,634 ft). The facility was completed in 1963 and stewarded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) since the 1970s. Of geological interest, the karst formations in Puerto Rico result from carbonic acid in the water systems draining into cracks within the limestone bedrock of the Island Commonwealth. Due to Puerto Rico’s climate, especially abundant rainfall, this process has left many caves and canyons on the Island’s “karstic landscapes” in the north, making up the world’s third-largest cave system. Most of the Island’s caverns and karst topography are found in the northern Oligocene geologic period, which extended from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present to recent carbonates period. From an astronomical viewpoint, Puerto Rico’s location near the Northern Tropic zone allowed the Arecibo, Puerto Rico Radio Telescope Observatory facility to view the planets in the solar system over the Northern half of their orbit. The round trip light-years time to objects beyond Saturn is longer than the 2.6-hour time the telescope can track a celestial position, preventing radar observations of more distant objects. A reference for the National Science Foundation - Arecibo Radio Telescope Observatory facility - Facts and Figures is: https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/arecibo/Arecibo_Fact_Sheet_11_20.pdf Puerto Rico also has other geological features, including the Lesser Antilles (Virgin Islands) volcanic arc, the old, inactive Greater Antilles volcanic arc, and the Muertos Trough. The Puerto Rico Trench is a significant geological, submarine feature formed at the northern plate boundary zone between the Caribbean and obliquely subducting North American Plates. Puerto Rico is bounded on the south by the Muertos Trough, on the west by the Mona Canyon, and on the east by the Virgin Islands Basin. The Muertos Trough is an elongated basin developed where the Earth’s crust to the south of Puerto Rico is thrust under the Muertos fold-and-thrust belt, which lies south of the island. The Mona Canyon is approximately north-south-oriented, almost 30 kilometers across, formed by east-west rifting. The Muertos Trough, the Mona Canyon, the Virgin Islands Basin/Anegada Trough, and the Puerto Rico Trench define the margins of the Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands microplate, a small coherent block trapped between the larger Caribbean and North American plates. According to Bathymetry data generated by the Global Multi-Resolution Topography (GMRT) synthesis tool in the GeoMap App, vertical exaggeration is five to one (5:1). Figure 12: The Puerto Rican Trench - Undersea Topography Tectonics And Earthquake Activity
The Island of Puerto Rico lies in a dynamic plate-boundary zone between two tectonic plates: the North American plate and the northeast corner of the Caribbean plate. The region is very seismically active, with an average of five earthquakes (including aftershocks) with a magnitude greater than 1.5 occurring near Puerto Rico every day (as documented during the index year (March 2014 to March 2015). However, most of these earthquakes are imperceptible, too small to be felt by most people. These earthquakes confirm that the North American plate is determinedly moving westward relative to the Caribbean plate at about two centimeters/year. Of note, researchers have identified a peculiar pattern of shallow earthquakes that occur more frequently than in other subduction zone areas. These shallow quakes suggest that the Puerto Rican Trench is experiencing a unique type of plate interaction, possibly due to variations in the density or composition of the subducting plate. This anomaly has significant implications for understanding the potential for large earthquakes and tsunamis in the region, which could impact and devastate nearby islands. Beyond this, there are rare, large megaquakes. The tectonic epicenter of the historic October 11, 1918, termed the San Fermin earthquake with a magnitude 7.5, was located just north of the Mona Canyon. This major earthquake was likely caused by faulting related to this described rifting. The quake triggered a six-meter-high tsunami wave that swept along the west coast of Puerto Rico and was thought to have generated a large submarine landslide. The Western and Northern coasts of the Island Commonwealth’s towns and cities of Mayaguez, Aguadilla, and Anasco were affected. The steep slopes of the Puerto Rican Trench make it a common site for submarine landslides, some of which are among the largest ever recorded. These landslides can trigger tsunamis, posing a significant threat to the Caribbean basin and Atlantic coasts. Interestingly, what is unusual about the landslides in this trench area is their frequency and size, suggesting that the trench is an area of significant geological instability. Studies have shown that these landslides are often triggered by seismic activity. Still, in some cases, they appear to occur without any immediate preceding seismic event, possibly due to the weakening of the sediment structure over time. Understanding these submarine landslides is crucial for assessing tsunami risks and developing early warning systems for the region. The 1918 earthquake, which struck at 10:15 am, was a significant seismic event in the history of Puerto Rico. The earthquake was measured at 7.2 to 7.5 on the surface wave magnitude scale and was classified as IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale. The epicenter was located off the northwestern coast of Puerto Rico, above the Mona Passage, corresponding to the Mona Canyon, a seismically active zone between Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. The earthquake resulted from rupturing a two-segment fault along the eastern wall of the Mona Rift. The earthquake triggered a significant tsunami that impacted the West coast of Puerto Rico. Initial theories suggested that an underwater submarine landslide caused the tsunami. However, more recent studies using high-definition seafloor video and carbon dating have shown that the suggested submarine landslide scar is much older than the 1918 event. Instead, the fault rupture event is believed to have caused the tsunami. The earthquake and subsequent tsunami occurred 4 to 7 minutes after the main principal shock, reaching 6.0 meters (19.7 ft) height at Punta Agujereada (Aguadilla), 4.5 meters (15 ft) at Punta Borinquen (Aguadilla), where it destroyed the lighthouse, and 5.2 meters (17 ft) at Punta Higuero (Rincon), causing extensive damage and loss of life. One...