Phaistos Disc (UFO)

I stumbled onto this image while going through wikipedia.

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In the lower right corner, below a carpenters square, there appears to me to be a UFO.

These came from the Minoeans, which are also an amazingly advanced, lost civilization. To bad they built there civilzation on a volcano.

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[edit on 8-11-2007 by logicize]

Its a disc and looks like its supposed to be read from either center to edge or edge to center.

Your "UFO" would then be standing on its side... Ie its not a UFO.

reply to post by merka


If that's true, then the head toward the center is facing the floor, and the water symbol, the wavy line would be wrong as well.

no more a ufo than that one symbol has anything to do with the carpenter trade, interesting though...

looks like the flying saucers from the first season titles of 'lost in space'

reply to post by planetfall


It's also interesting that the symbol is not listed in the key on the second link. If not a UFO, I have no other ideas as to what it looks like. Have you ever used a square in construction I have. It also looks identical to the the masonic square often seen with the compass, it is one of there more common symbols.

Originally posted by logicize
It's also interesting that the symbol is not listed in the key on the second link.

Yes it is

Its number 17, the standing "lid" (instrument for cutting leather).

As I guessed, the OP is reading it in the wrong orientation.