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When a celestial comet is shown at the end of a natural rock crack, the meaning can be the

direction a comet took across the sky, but if the image was meant to be a fireball or exploding

meteorite, we can expect the glyphist to have used the crack to show Noise. The ancient

Puebloan artist-communicators were also adept at commandeering the local rock textures to

show faces and emotions experienced in the past—like in this rock “face” next to the probably

10th or 11th century fireball that exploded into three at the horizon (computer enhanced here

for clarity), Largo Canyon drainage, Four Corners area, NM.

Muslim and Chinese observers recorded the 11th century, ten-fold fireball flux and its

many meteorite or cometary-debris impaction events in their areas of the globe:1031 “On 28th February a meteor [bolide] went from north to south with great noise; recorded in Historiarum Compendium.” [Hetherington1996:120][year]“On 14th October four meteors appeared whose trails lasted a long time before dispersing, the light from two of them having lit up theearth; seen from China.” [Ibid.]1033 “A meteor was so bright that some people thought the sun was about to rise; recorded in Historiarum Compendium.” [Ibid.]1034 “During [Sept.-Oct.] a star fell, the sight of which terrified the people, and two nights after it another shooting star fell, greater than it, likeit was lightning attached to the ground.” “(Iraq): During the night of [9 Nov.] a great shooting star fell, the sight of which terrified [people], andwhen [11 Nov.] came, during the darkest part of the night, another shooting star fell, with the greatest possible lightning that could be, until its

light tended towards the earth [and] anyone who saw it was terrified…. The ignorant said that the heavens had burst open because of theincredible sight they had witnessed.” [Cook 1999:143]…1051 “In Baghdad there appeared on [21 June] during the time of afternoon prayers a star whose light exceeded that of the sun. it had a tail ofabout four degrees and it went slowly along and then fell while the people were watching it.” [Ibid.][1054 supernova in Taurus, pre-dawn, near 27th day waning crescent moon, and near east horizon]1058 “A bright light was seen within the circle of the new moon [implies an impaction event on the moon]….” [Hetherington, op cit:123]1059 “(Iraq): During [15 Dec.] the upper atmosphere showed that there were numerous falling stars [meteors, bolide(s)] and the sound of loudthunder an hour before the rising of the sun and it was very excessive.” [Cook, op cit:144]1060 “(Iraq): At dawn on 3 Jumada II [6 July] a huge star fell from the direction of the west to the east and it stayed a long while.” [Ibid.]1063 “(Iraq): During [28 Apr.] a large star fell with a great light; in the morning following wind, rain and continuous lightning came.” [Ibid.]1064 “…a huge falling star, whose light increased and whose light exceeded that of the moon. A loud sound was heard and then itdisappeared.” [Ibid.]1065 “(Iraq): ‘[At night, 9 Aug.] …there was a huge falling star [bolide] and it had many rays—more rays than the moon had—and aterrifying sound was heard.’” [Ibid.]1066 [Halley’s comet] “…a star appeared with long locks of hair…while it was spread across the centre of the sky. It stayed until theseventeenth of the month [16 April] and then disappeared and then again at the end of that month, at the setting of the sun, a star appeared[the Halley’s returning from perihelion] whose light revolved around it like that of the moon. People were frightened and very disturbed. Whenthe night grew dark [hours later] it had [threw] many locks of hair to the south and it stayed ten days and then disappeared.” [Ibid.]1067 “[On 23 July] two stars fell. One of them had light like that of the moon and an hour later some ten additional stars followedthem…towards the east.” [Cook, op cit:145]1084 “(Iraq): ‘[On 28 June] a star fell from the east towards the west, its bulk was like the bulk of the full moon and its light like it also. Itcontinued over a space (?) for a long distance, very slowly, for about an hour. It had no equal among [the planets.’” [Ibid.]1094 “During a meteor shower an extremely bright meteor fell in Gallia into a river or on marshy ground and made a terrible sizzling soundwith smoke; recorded in Matthaei Paris….” [Hetherington, op cit:129]1096 “[A] bright light was seen on the moon during a total eclipse; recorded in Annales Cavenses.” “A very bright meteor in the daytime passedclose to the sun and caused great terror…” [Ibid.]1097 “On 27th September ‘…an inflamed path appeared in the sky lasting the whole night…;’ recorded in Chronica apostolorum etimperatorum basileensia.” [Ibid.]1099 “At Martinmas, the incoming tide rushed up so strongly ands did so much damage that no one remembered anything like it before[implying a possible meteor/impaction-event tsunami over ocean]….” [Hetherington, op cit:130]1102 “On 5th August a star slowly glided southwestward, blue and white in colour; it left a trail and was followed by several smaller stars; seenfrom China.” [Hetherington, op cit:131] [requoted from Bradford 2007:27-29, graph below from Bailey, Clube and Napier 1990:74]

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Cook, David, 1999, “A Survey of Muslim Material on Comets and Meteors,” Journal for the History of Astronomy, Ed. M. A. Hoskin, ScienceHistory Publications Ltd., University Printing Services, Cambridge, U.K.

This fireball flux was not limited solely to the 11th century but built up and then diminished as earth went through the debris train of aypothesized comet Encke progenitor break-up which laid out the “Taurid debris” in space.

16 “(Iraq): ‘During the night of [30 March] a huge falling star fell and its light continued forwhile, like that of a firebrand.” [Cook 1999:139]18 “(Iraq): ‘A huge star [bolide] fell and its light was very strong and it wasreat and broke up into three pieces. At that point a sound like that of loudhunder was heard when it fell, but there were no clouds in the sky.’” [Ibid.]20 “(Iraq): ‘In [May] a huge star [bolide] fell, with overpowering light, and it broke up intohree pieces. … a sound like that of a great and terrifying thunder was heard without anylouds.’” [Ibid.]25 “(Iraq): ‘On the night of [27 April] a star [bolide] fell before the setting of the sun from theirection of the south to the north. It lit up the world from its very strong light and it made aound like that of loud thunder.” [Cook, op cit:140]25 “’In the land of Egypt there appeared a huge star with brilliant rays…boisterous andparks followed it; [also] a terrifying shooting star with a great mass, very strongly red,hich came from the north towards the east. Its length was [thirteen and a halfegrees]…like a snake [at sunset]. It stayed three hours and then went out.” [Ibid.]

Hetherington, Barry, 1996, Chronicle of Pre-Telescopic Astronomy, John Wiley & Sons, West Sussex, U.K. and New York.

The Ancient Ones in the American Southwest experienced a lot of impaction events to

tell us about if we can read their indications of explosions and detonations on the rocks

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The far right bowl, however, may show not an exploding bolide but, rather, the tail-end-on view ofHalley’s comet in 1066 when it returned from perihelion and “terrified millions of Europeans” withits unnatural sight—it’s hard to tell as there are additional motifs to consider: the Milky WayCheckerboarding motif and the approximately 66 points to the zig zag counter-directions possibly

gments going the farthest—like in this “4 horsemen of the apocalypse” petroglyphic

on a table rock looking south down to upper Rio Grande at perhaps the Glorietta

ewnfield event—and, for Noise, using its natural cracks which also mimic the

sign meaning movement, orbit, and earthquake.

boldly conceptual meteorite strike report in the Four Corners area in New

is almost bare cliff-face (top, next page) where a long crack seems to break

indicating the recorded 66 days of this Halley’s visit.

apart the bare rock down to a two-lobed explosion motif, lower left, next to a reacting

human figure with his elbows pulled back away from his body in shock and awe.

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Accepting

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us representative, almost cinematic, recordings of their celestial and atmospheric

experiences in the arid Southwest will take the enlarging of more than a few

comfort zones for many of the Southwest experts of today.

Additional independent research papers by S. Bradford are available atwww.comets-petroglyphs-and-supernovae.com