ZAGREB, Jan 6 (Hina) - Croatia's northern Adriatic island of Pag has entered the new millennium with the Pag Triangle which, 18 months after it was discovered on Komorovac hill near the town of Novalja, seems to have overshadowed the
island's famous lace, cheese and lamb, and even the notorious Bermuda Triangle.
ZAGREB, Jan 6 (Hina) - Croatia's northern Adriatic island of Pag has
entered the new millennium with the Pag Triangle which, 18 months
after it was discovered on Komorovac hill near the town of Novalja,
seems to have overshadowed the island's famous lace, cheese and
lamb, and even the notorious Bermuda Triangle.#L#
Both laymen and ufologists continue to be fascinated by the Pag
Triangle, among else begging the question if it is only coincidence
that the popular Erich von Daeniken visited the island 13 times.
The story begins in May 1999 when Zdenko Grbavac, a surveyor working
on Komorovac hill, came across a huge equilateral triangle which
appeared to be "cut into Pag's rock." The "morphological structure"
of rocks inside the triangle allegedly are considerably different
than those found outside the triangle's "sides," according to an
article which appeared in Narodni list to the effect that Pag's
residents saw the contours of an alien spacecraft way back in 1967.
The triangle became a first-rate media attraction, bringing in
numerous UFO hunters and those interested in the paranormal, as
well as tales of fruit and vegetables levitating at Pag's outdoor
market-place last summer, alien spacecraft allegedly diving into
and out of the sea around the island, and even stigmata appearing on
the forehead of a local priest.
The triangle has also been linked to the unusual vision a young
local woman experienced on 13 July 1413 when the wind suddenly rose
and a part of the sky whence strange noises could be heard
darkened.
According to Josip Portada, a local researcher, the triangle is
actually the remains of a possible triangular extraterrestrial
spacecraft, the sort NASA uses today. He says the spacecraft
emitted enough heat to cause morphological alterations on the rocks
it landed on, making them "round, polished and perforated."
On the other hand, Dragutin Crnic, an engineer, says the rocks
within the Pag Triangle are perfectly "normal" and that any further
research is a "waste of money".
An answer as to who is right might come from a world ufologist
conference which Novalja will host on May 26-27.
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