Anthony Lee Peratt

Synchrotron Light Recordings (SLR's) of the filaments in a high-current, auroral-like extraterrestrial Z-pinch were recorded on all continents during the Neolithic. Mostly carved on granite (petroglyphs), SLR's also provided the templates for megaliths, stupas and temples, large statues and circles from quarried stones weighing up to 200 tons. In this paper we report the discovery of some 5,000 surveyed sites worldwide where the common motif is that of the 56 filaments inflowing (electrons) to the Earth's southern pole. In addition to the rock art, the influence of the pattern is also reflected in sacred iconography from all cultures. From our survey of over 139 countries now including Lhailand, Cambodia, Mongolia, India, Chile, and Easter Island, we find that the artists view was ±1.5° true south, the direction of aurora synchrotron radiation seen above Antarctica.

On January 14, 2008 the NASA space probe Messenger came within 200-km of Mercury, photographing a plasma focus discharge penumbra etched into the surface. The pattern recorded is identical to that etched on steel plates in experimental discharges: 112-rays from a discharge channel terminating at and producing a thick torus, here 40 km wide. The rays emanate from the 2-3 GA termination as shown in the bottom figure, the etched lines differing from radial overlay lines only by surface conductivity irregularities. Previously, we reported the observation of a surface-traveling, infrared-radiating, plasma focus penumbra on the Jovian satellite Io whose effluent concentrated into filaments whose terminus was a narrow, well-defined, concentric annulus

Summary form only given. The identification of archaic petroglyphs as artists recordings of MHD Z-pinch instabilities has led to a global survey of their directionality. In all cases, after a survey of fields of several million, the field-of-view (FOV) alignment is axial south. Each unmoved petroglyph is treated as a pixel containing GPS position, survey transit FOV, and angle of inclination. GIS techniques on a large computer allows the reconstruction of a virtual image of the gigaampere aurora. To date, the reconstructed image at the south pole is found to consist of two pinched plasmoids below the auroral horn and Birkeland current filamentation of the outer auroral sheath.