These next pages from John’s file on the “Reeves Papers” include a report on John Reeves’s alleged sighting and his sheets of alien writing, with a diagram of the UFO (the caption is cut off on the original). The report is uncredited, but appears to be from the Air Force; it concludes that the sighting was a hoax. Also below are more of John Keel’s attempts to find a cipher in the second sheet, corresponding to the one in the first. He couldn’t find one, which leaves that sheet still undeciphered.
Has anyone pointed out that with 66 characters it’s more likely (assuming that it isn’t a hoax) that this is an example of a syllabic script? I seem to recall such scripts typically have between 50 and 150 characters, depending on the number of unique syllables in the spoken tongue. This was recalled from a course in cryptography I took 40 years ago, so my numbers may be off … but I think they are in the ballpark.
Comment by ozinor — May 29, 2019 @ 1:41 am
An interesting point. I don’t think that second page has ever been examined by a more experienced cryptographer. Even if it’s a hoax, it may have a plaintext.
Comment by Doug — May 29, 2019 @ 10:41 am
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