Mysterious Australia

Vol 1. Issue No 10

OCTOBER 2011

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N E W D IN O SA U R F O S SI L F O O TP R IN T S D I S C O V E R IE S A T B LA C K HE A T H . WHITE GODS FROM THE WEST VIKINGS EXPLORE THE PACIFIC. [FROM PYRAMIDS IN THE PACIFIC]. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT COMING SOON BURRUNJOR AUSTRALIAS LIVING TYRANNOSAURUS.

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Blue Mountains UFO Research Club. The Club meetings are held on the third Saturday of the month, at the Gilroy residence, 12 Kamillaroi Road, South Katoomba, from 1pm onwards. We are situated on the corner of Kamillaroi Road and Ficus Street, and as we always say, park in Ficus Street where there is safer parking.
Rex and Heather Gilroy, Australias top UFO and Unexplained Mysteries Research team. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

THE PASSING OF ANTJI WESTRIP.

Our dear friend and leading [South coast] field assistant, mercifully died in her sleep after her long battle with Cancer on Monday 26th September, 2011. As reported in our May 2011 Mysterious Australia Newsletter, Antji and her husband Allan had been actively involved in all our field investigations on the New South Wales far south coast, and although unable to attend our monthly Blue Mountains UFO Research Club meetings due to distance, Antji had still kept a keen interest as an out of town member, regularly receiving our newsletters and always being excited with every new discovery Heather and I made and the Sky Watch results of our Club etc. There was not one major archaeological or other find of the Gilroys that was not taken down to Dalmeny for Antji to examine and add her own opinion. Our nickname The Muse of Dalmeny summed up this brilliant woman, whose houseful of books with all its ancient history titles revealed the wide range of intellectual interests that she [and I] shared. In her last weeks alive, before she was admitted to The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital we talked quite openly about her impending death. More than once she said to us: To think that I survived the bombing of Dresden to die of this! As reported in our May 2011 Mysterious Australia Newsletter, Antji was with us when we made a number of important discoveries and it was Antji who found the first giant hominid skull [endocast] anywhere in the world, while we were exploring a dry rubble creek in the Wadbilliga mountain range west of Narooma, in January 2004. Dating around 380,000 years old, it would be joined later by another found by me in the same area. Our finds proved that a race of giant Homo erectus hominids had once roamed the Australian landscape. Every time I made some new find we would drive down to show it to Antji. When I discovered the first of four, 100 million or so years old, Coelurosaur dinosaur fossil tracks at a Blackheath site on Tuesday 20th September, I immediately thought of Antji, by now in hospital, and knew that she would want to see it. Three other small Coelurosaur fossil tracks were uncovered by me near the same site on Friday 23rd September, but there were not as well defined as the first specimen, embedded in its small slab of ironstone. On Saturday 24th September we visited Antji again in the hospital and I showed the find to her. Clasping it in both her hands she studied it as I explained the discovery then [not being able to speak] she looked at me with a smile of approval.
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We left promising to see her again on Monday as she was expecting family to be with her on the Sunday. It was our last meeting. Antji had been quite philosophical about her impending end for some time. And, typical of her, on the very morning of her death, [at 12.30pm] she told Allan that she wanted a private cremation in Sydney and that he was to drive her urn home in a box to Dalmeny and place her on top of her piano [quote] So that the cats cant play with me. Heather and I will never forget her and will treasure all the great times we had with her and Allan out in the south coast scrub and the discoveries we made together. We bid a fond farewell to the Muse of Dalmeny. -0-

NEW DINOSAUR FOSSIL FOOTPRINT DISCOVERIES AT BLACKHEATH.

By Rex Gilroy.
Copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

As the final touches are being put to the Gilroys next book BURRUNJOR! Australias Living Tyrannosaurus [copyright URU Publications 2011] new important finds are currently being made at a Blackheath bushland location, which will have some bearing on the subject of the book, ie dinosaurs which periodically emerge from Time-Windows into our present world, to be seen or leave their Footprints in time before vanishing back into their own past time. Blackheath was the scene of a number of early dinosaur fossil track discoveries of mine, dating back to 1970-1971. These were of Cretaceous Period age, [66-144 million years old]. The latest discoveries began while I was taking my dog Andy for a bushwalk on Tuesday 20th September 2011, in the course of which I chanced to pick up a 19cm long by 17.3cm wide slab of ironstone containing a small three-toed Theropod track. This was 11cm long by 4.5cm wide across the toes. The distorted impression belonged to a small Coelurosaurid species of about 1 metre long when running. Coelurosaurs were relatives of Tyrannosaurus rex, and like their larger relative were meat-eaters. Then, upon a return visit to this same area, while walking on Friday 22nd September, in the space of a few minutes I picked up three other small tracks in varying states of preservation and at another location further along this track, overlooking a valley, I stumbled upon a large slab of ironstone containing a 20cm long by 13cm wide impression of a small Sauropod dinosaur track showing five toes. This was a significant find, for it was the first Sauropod track ever found by me on the Blue Mountains. These vegetarian dinosaurs appeared in the Australian Jurassic Period [144-208 million years ago] and survived into the early Cretaceous Period [110-100 million years ago], showing that Sauropods were roaming what eventually became the Blue Mountains in early Cretaceous times before they disappeared [no doubt helped by the rise of the meat-eating Theropod carnosaurs!]. However, larger Sauropod tracks were just around the corner, for four days apart I was to discover two more! The first of these came to light on Friday 30th September while I was exploring a clifftop in dense scrub about a kilometre from the other discoveries; a 40cm long by 37cm wide specimen embedded 7cm in depth into volcanic mud/ash deposits. As the identity of the maker for now remains unknown I gave this species the tentative name Montanosaurus gilroyii [ie Mountain Saurian]. The second large Sauropod track, was found as I was hiking on a fire trail. Embedded in an ironstone slab, this monster was 50cm long by 45cm wide. This specimen was 6cm in depth and was another Montanosaurus in general shape. The owner could have reached 15.34 metres long which was the length of Raetosaurus, whose fossil remains come from the Queensland Jurassic. On Wednesday 5th October 2011 I found an incomplete mid-tail vertebrae of a Theropod dinosaur in the vicinity of the fire trail. It measured 13cm tall by 9.5cm wide. Then, on Saturday 8th October on an ironstone shoal extending along a lengthy area of clifftop overlooking a valley, I made the first of five more footprint fossil discoveries which imply more yet await discovery at this particular site. Rain had fallen the day before, so that there were hollows all over this extensive shoal filled with water. One of these water-filled hollows stood out as a Sauropod distorted foot impression like others seen elsewhere in Australia. This impression was 99cm long by 60cm across the toes and 41cm across the heel by 7cm deep. The fossils position showed it had been walking in a south to north direction.
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Then, nearby I came across the distorted and partly incomplete impression of a huge Theropod tracks of of Tyrannosaurian features. I measured this partly rain water-filled specimen at 80cm long by 1 metre wide, being 10cm deep. As the day was getting on I had to leave this remote spot to return to Heather, waiting in the car on a remote fire trail. Besides, bad weather was returning and I did not want to be caught in the rain and in fading light on the lonely bush path I had to negotiate up a hillside with Heather, at least a kilometre away. Because of this I failed to notice a second large fossil impression nearby. However, I did see and record a small, distorted three-toed track near the base of the trail before leaving. This Theropod impression was 22cm long by 32cm wide across the toes, and like the giant-size one just recorded, had been travelling from west to east. I returned to this site on Sunday 9th October when 92cm east of the large Tyrannosaurian footprint I finally noticed a large three-toed impression in the volcanic ironstone. I measured it at 54cm long by 58cm wide across the toes and 52cm wide across the heel by 12cm deep. This specimen made by a different creature, showed it had been walking from east to west. Andy was with me on this occasion and had his photo taken beside the tracks. Nearby I also found a small three-toed track, 28cm long by 38cm wide across the toes and with an 11cm wide heel by 4cm in depth. These latest finds now add an Australian Tyrannosaurus [best know to the North American/Asian continents] to the list of Blue Mountains dinosaurs, and I am certain that further fossil tracks yet await discovery in the Blackheath scrub. The search for Blue Mountains dinosaurs is for me an exciting investigation. Who knows what other surprises await! -0-

The first of the small Theropod dinosaur fossil tracks found at a Blackheath bushland site, on Tuesday 20th September, 2011. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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Andy sits beside one of three small Soelurosaurid fossil tracks recovered in the same areas as before, on Friday 22nd September, 2011. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Close-up of the track. It measures 14cm long by 7.5cm wide across the toes and 8cm across the heel. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

An incomplete track, 6cm wide across the toes. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

This track, missing its foot, measured 12.6cm long from toe base to tip, and 9cm wide across the three toes. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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Found at the same time and location as the three small Theropod tracks was this [juvenile?] Sauropod impression measuring 20cm long by 13cm wide. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

On Friday 30th September on a clifftop, Rex Gilroy stumbled upon this 40cm long by 37cm wide larger Sauropod fossil track. It has tentatively been given the species name Montanosaurus Gilroyii [Mountain saurian]. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

On Monday 3rd October this largest of the Sauropod tracks so far discovered in the Blackheath area, was found by Rex while he was hiking on a fire trail. It measures 50cm long by 45cm wide across the toes and 6cm deep. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Andy sits alongside a large but deteriorated Sauropod track found on Saturday 8th October on the clifftop containing the second largest Sauropod impression of Friday 30th September. This monstrous indistinct track measures 90cm long by 60cm wide across the toes area and 41cm wide across the heel. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The giant-size incomplete Tyrannosaurian fossil track found in the vicinity of the huge sauropod impression. It is 80cm long by 1 metre wide across the toes and is 10cm deep. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

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Rex and Andy. They explore the bush together. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Andy beside the huge indistinct Sauropod track. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Nearby the huge Sauropod track Rex found this distorted and worn Theropod track, measuring 22cm in length by 32cm width across the toes and 4cm in depth. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Andy stands on the clifftop ironstone shoal [looking south] where Rex has begun finding a number of early Cretaceous period Sauropod and Theropod dinosaur foot impressions, dating back 110-100 million years. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A huge volcanic mud bubble, now solid ironstone, found on the clifftop dinosaur tracks site. It was because of the deposits of volcanic ash and mud that the footprints were preserved. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. 7

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On Sunday 9th October 2011, two more fossil tracks were added to the growing list, when Rex Gilroy found this large Theropod impression 92cm east of the larger, incomplete Tyrannosaurus footprint. It measured 54cm long by 58cm wide across the toes, 42cm across the heel and 12cm deep. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

The two large tracks. Note the ruler between them. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Nearby the two large impressions Rex spotted this small Theropod footprint. It measured 28cm long by 38cm wide across the toes and was 4cm deep. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Tyrannosaurus rex. His fossil tracks have been found at Blackheath and Katoomba, as well as in the Sydney district, dating back at least 65-100 million years! Illustration courtesy Prehistoric Animals The Extraordinary Story of Life before Man, by Ellis Owen, Octopus Books, London 1875.

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GIANT HOMINID FOSSIL MOLAR TOOTH FOUND AT LIDSDALE, NSW.

By Rex Gilroy.
Copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

A growing mass of evidence will one day force scientists to accept the reality that giant hominids once roamed the Australian landscape during Pleistocene times and earlier. This evidence, largely gathered by Heather and I over a wide area of Australia, consists of massive fossil skull endocasts believed to be representative of a giant form of Homo erectus; huge fossil footprints, and often incredibly large stone megatools which only beings of exceptional height and strength would have been capable of using. Since 2009 I have unearthed large molar teeth at an Abercrombie River location and also a massive jaw fragment containing two worn down lower back molar teeth at least 1 million years old. Their owners had to have stood between 3.66 and 4 metres tall [published in previous club Newsletters]. Now another, ironstone mineralised giant-size molar joins the list. Badly deteriorated and encrusted in fine minute gravels, it was recovered on the surface at Lidsdale, near the well-known Blackfellows Hands rock art site, on Friday 7th October 2011 as I explored the surrounding bush. Its owner would have stood at least 3.66 metres tall. This fossil is at least 1 million years PB [Before Present] in age. It measures 6.5cm in height [the root systems are coated over with sediment] by 4.3cm and 4cm across the width and length of the decayed crown, by 3.6cm and 3.7cm in width and depth below the crown. As with the tribespeople of the old times living along the Abercrombie River who believed in the existence of a race of giant megatool using beings , the Lidsdale-Wollemi region Aborigines believed in giant people who roamed the mountains hereabouts armed with big stone clubs. It would appear as from a comparison of the Abercrombie and Lidsdale teeth fossils that the Abercrombie Giant and the Lidsdale Giant were one and the same race. Fossil feet impressions of beings of their proportions have been found by myself, Heather and also Greg Foster for years at Katoomba, yet further evidence of the presence of these monstrous beings a million and more years ago. -0-

The deteriorated giant hominid molar tooth [frontal view] with projecting fragment of remaining outer enamel now mineralised. The molar measures 6.5cm long by 3.7cm wide. The root system is coated over with sediment. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Rear view of the molar. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

Downview of the decayed crown. It measures 3.6cm wide and 4.2cm long. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2011. 9

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. COMING SOON BURRUNJOR AUSTRALIAS LIVING TYRANNOSAURUS.

by Rex and Heather Gilroy
Copyright Rex Gilroy 2011.

This book is virtually completed and ready for the printer. Our book comes at a time when, thanks to our pioneering research into this mystery of Aboriginal Australia, Burrunjor is grabbing the attention of Cryptozoologists worldwide. During March this year the Gilroys, together with Greg Foster our research assistant, carried out an expedition which resulted in the discovery of fresh tracks of Theropod dinosaur type, ancient rock carvings depicting these Tyrannosaurid monsters, and searched regions including the Red Centre where these nightmarish monsters have been claimed seen for generations.

It is all there in our new book for all to see, the sightings and terrifying close encounters, not only by Aborigines but also a great many European settlers; the stock kills , the Time-Window theory evidence; accounts of people who have witnessed the impossible; people who have by chance entered Time-Windows to encounter the Age of Dinosaurs. The book does not only feature information from Australias far north, for reports of Burrunjor come from South Australia, western Queensland, far western New South Wales and then there are also the eastern Australian encounters, particularly concerning the mysterious Dinosaur Swamplands of the Wollemi wilderness. BURRUNJOR! The Search for Australias Living Tyrannosaurus, will be released in December 2011 and is certain to create a sensation.

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Please Note!!
Our previous meetings have been huge successes and we look forward to seeing you at our next one.
Our next meeting will be held on SATURDAY

26th November, 2011

[PLEASE NOTE! THE TEMPORARY CHANGE OF DATE] same time, same place 12
Kamillaroi Road, Katoomba. [Ph: 02 47823441] So until our next meeting Watch the Skies!

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Its HERE!
The latest Gilroy Book BIG Cats of the Australian Wilderness.

$55 plus $10 p&h. Also coming soon BURRUNJOR! The Search for Australias Living Tyrannosaurus

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