{"id":26611,"date":"2015-07-28T09:48:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T08:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=26611"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:59:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:59:47","slug":"chatelain-maurice-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/chatelain-maurice-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatelain, Maurice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Maurice<\/strong><strong> C<\/strong><strong>hatelain<\/strong> is sometimes described as a French communications scientist who has worked as an engineer for a NASA sub-contractor, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Chatelain-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26612\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Chatelain-2.jpg\" alt=\"Chatelain 2\" width=\"189\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>and apparently left before the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. He is the author of <em>Our Cosmic Ancestors<\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\"><sup>1111<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>, in which he made unsubstantiated claims about alien vehicles on our satellite<sup>(a)<\/sup>. His UFO\u00a0claims were debunked by Jim Oberg, who did work directly for NASA<sup>(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chatelain also claimed that within a 450-mile radius of the Aegean island of Delos that there were 13 mystical sites, that when connected by straight lines formed a perfect Maltese Cross<sup>(c)<\/sup>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He also drew attention to a huge number discovered on a Babylonian tablet discovered in the ruins of Nineveh. This number, 195,955,200,000,000, fascinated Chatelain, who went on to link it with both the Sumerian and Mayan calendars, referring to it as the Nineveh Constant. <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/flem-ath-rand-and-rose\/\">Rand Flem-Ath <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wilson-colin\/\">Colin Wilson<\/a> discuss this further in <em>The Atlantis Blueprint<\/em> <sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bibliography\/e-f\/\">063<\/a>.161]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His book also contains a chapter on Atlantis, which offers a brief overview of the subject before opting for the Bahamas as the location of Plato&#8217;s &#8216;island&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/NASA\/Is-there-truth-about-the-book-written-by-Maurice-Chatelain-called-Our-Cosmic-Ancestors-on-the-Apollo-space-flight-during-the-mission-to-the-moon-when-the-3-astronauts-saw-alien-space-ships-lying-around-everywhere-on-the-moon\">https:\/\/www.quora.com\/NASA\/Is-there-truth-about-the-book-written-by-Maurice-Chatelain-called-Our-Cosmic-Ancestors-on-the-Apollo-space-flight-during-the-mission-to-the-moon-when-the-3-astronauts-saw-alien-space-ships-lying-around-everywhere-on-the-moon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(b)\u00a0<\/span><\/sup>See <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-3392\/\">Archive 3392<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mail-archive.com\/ctrl@listserv.aol.com\/msg28306.html\">https:\/\/www.mail-archive.com\/ctrl@listserv.aol.com\/msg28306.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maurice Chatelain is sometimes described as a French communications scientist who has worked as an engineer for a NASA sub-contractor, and apparently left before the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. He is the author of Our Cosmic Ancestors[1111], in which he made unsubstantiated claims about alien vehicles on our satellite(a). His UFO\u00a0claims were debunked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[137,443,3919,3921,3920,3918,541,1543,3112,8078,338],"class_list":["post-26611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bahamas","tag-colin-wilson","tag-delos","tag-jim-oberg","tag-maltese-cross","tag-maurice-chatelain","tag-mayan-calendar","tag-nasa","tag-nineveh","tag-nineveh-constant","tag-rand-flem-ath"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26611"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66001,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26611\/revisions\/66001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}