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And now the mystery takes a turn..... Jennifer Brozek spoke to Flint Dille at the Anomaly about this. Here's his response:  "I did ask Flint about this second key. This is what he told me, "We have no knowledge of the key.  Was it a counterfeit?  Was it a copy somebody made?  Was it supplied by whoever sent the box? It is probably not an accident that it was left behind. We are pursuing the theory that the Italian key came from a writer who died in Milan around the time it reappeared.  We do not know who transported it from Milan to Bologna and maybe we never will, though it would be interesting to find that out." Originally shared by Matt Stevenson (BigMatty) A SECOND key to the box was found! Well, this AM I received a Hangouts message from Nola Circuit that I was not expecting... I'd go so far as to say a message that probably no one was expecting? I believe that Jennifer Brozek was able to discuss this already with flint dille . Can't wait to get the key

More images / info posted about the lockbox Hello, wanted to share this here too ASAP https://plus.google.com/105699997164356268837/posts/N6aTSqM2buK Mustafa Said Yik Sheng Lee

Exactly. Originally shared by JoJo Stratton https://aeon.co/essays/could-machines-have-become-self-aware-without-our-knowing-it

Video of Flint on Friday night I'm operating on just the mobile now, so couldn't / can't dive any deeper, but wanted to also get this info out here. Big news day! Big weekend! Still not done yet! (Good problem to have.) https://plus.google.com/116107658201094904046/posts/8xzXNKQC18g https://plus.google.com/116107658201094904046/posts/8xzXNKQC18g

Hello Operation Essex people! I wanted to let you know I have been authorized to start sharing some information about "the box"! I've made this post that contains further details.  Incredible thanks again to the Enlightened team in Italy for making this possible. https://plus.google.com/u/0/105699997164356268837/posts/WtsbeNqWJLx

So I am hearing from agents that flint is putting clues/questions on the comic books he signs in Seattle. He is also expected to sign comic books at ~5pm PST. Keep your eyes out agents!

Edgar Allan Wright​ I just spoke with flint dille​ and he said that he ran into some craziness, but he's OK!

There were recognised groupings of 12 Hittite gods, 12 Etruscan, 12 Greek, 12 Egyptian and...12 Roman... I present this altar of a grouping of Olympian gods as further support of my theory that these gods were based on ancient immortal men and women, simulacra, based in a nest. The third century Greek poet Ennius identified the gods of the Dii Consentes as: Juno, Vesta, Minerva, Ceres, Diana, Venus,Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune, Vulcan,Apollo The Dii Consentes predate the founding of Rome. The way they are depicted on this altar bears a striking similarity to how the ancients might sculpt a representation of a MAGNUS nest. I believe that knowledge of this ancient MAGNUS nest inspired, and was assimilated into, broader Graeco-Roman mythology. If others are willing to entertain this theory, it might help us think about the Aegis and Ancile in a different way. I leave you with the words of the poet Ennius, the oldest source identifying the gods of the Dii Consentes. Perhaps not coincid

Some interesting questions raised by this Omnivore leak provided by H. Richard Loeb​. 1) Does anyone else find it interesting that Omnivore doesn't identify Hank as 13 Magnus? It does identify Jahan as AntiMagnus and resistance. Either Omnivore is much less informed on this issue than Essex, unlikely, or we were perhaps wrong to attribute a leadership role in Magnus to Hank. 2) How did Jahan "listen in" on Hank's conversation with the Acolyte? Who is backing her? Could it be one of the companies, Visur Technology​, Hulong Transglobal​, IQTech Research​ or has A Detection Algorithm​ decided to provide assistance to Jahan? 3) "traveling under the Aegis of Titus..." Does this mean "Aegis" simply means "protection"? That could be the " code" Obsidius is using but in what sense are they seeking his protection? There is other evidence to suggest the shield(s) are artifacts. Could the "Aegis of Titus" be something else entir

Does anyone in this community have an Archive of anomaly sites from the original 13 Magnus series? Ingress.com/events only goes back to Helios.

This is the media and the mission screens from the Bologna mission over the weekend. The puzzles within each piece of media have already been posted at  https://plus.google.com/+JiangWuCines/posts/4vuHw2VsDmk . Thanks to agent LordGreenMonkey for these screencaps.

The latest Intel leaked to H. Richard Loeb​ gives a lot for Essexians to sink our teeth into. I have included the transcript here for convenience (along with probable passcode). My thoughts are below: "REDACTED: The heat. The crashing and rumbling sounds. I sense that what Obsidius, Cybella and Syphax saw in the chamber was a premonition of the eruption of Vesuvius.ry458lfllrbc6lryf8lfllryf8lrxf8llqlllprc8lrg JOHNSON: I agree. The eruption was attributed to the gods, of course. I suspect they were right. After what I experienced in the Congo… REDACTED: The Dark XM crater? JOHNSON: Yeah. And the 13MAGNUS Nest in Afghanistan, too. It’s possible that the eruption was caused by… outside influence. Directly or indirectly. REDACTED: But why? JOHNSON: To silence the Magnus? To stop the Obsidian Shield? REDACTED: Are you saying this to dissuade me from pursuing it? JOHNSON: I’m saying this because you… we… need to know what we’re dealing with. REDACTED: Jarvis would not have asked me to d

This must be where the Xm is leaking from :) http://shr.gs/6hEOvFW

Originally shared by Edgar Allan Wright Is this the face of Obsidius? I am on a very hot trail right now. Am assured of some safety. http://www.andrewcollins.com/page/articles/romanbust.htm http://www.andrewcollins.com/page/articles/romanbust.htm

Beacons mirroring? And two new beacons on the way? Crazy stuff

Now these are some interesting beacons! I see a sword and a shield, and the writing is a bit curious as well.. Looks less like a bug and more like a "feature." thoughts?

Interpretatio Romana- In some of the recent diaries of Obsidius, there was discussion about "borrowed" gods. Specifically, the idea that Roman gods were taken from the Greeks and Egyptians was discussed. The Roman and Greek equivalent deities are no doubt well-known to most investigators: Zeus-Jupiter, Ares-Mars, Dionysus-Bacchus etc. However, the concept that some of these well-known gods might exist in other civilisations such as ancient Egypt and/or Phoenicia is perhaps less familiar. That these gods are shared is not just a recent theory of cultural diffusion proffered by modern historians. Plutarch's "Treatise of Isis and Osiris", inter alia, identifies Osiris and Bacchus as one and the same. The equivalency of Dionysus and Osiris was established by the historian Herodotus in the 5th century BC. A fair question is: were the processes of interpretatio graeca and later interpretatio romana merely exercises in semantic translation? Were these ancients merely m

Hi,  I may be jumping down the rabbit hole a little here (and probably come off as fairly unintelligent), bit I'm willing to venture the recent events are linked to the Kraken.   If we consider some context clues... references to 2015, Neptune, Peru, and even the glyph avoid/struggle, there seems a fair number of lights flashing in that direction.    Even the Operation Essex ship and the ARGonauts seems to feed this way.   Perhaps each Jarvis and the others are tentacles and the Kraken will be unleashed...    http://www.unmuseum.org/kraken.htm

Has anyone made any progress on the codes that have been in the Investigate Ingress posts? Latest: 8dqj1wnyjlott9q1q From View Source: Hank Johnson 8dqj1wnyjlott9q1q via Google+ http://investigate.ingress.com/2016/02/20/hank-johnson-an-ancient-compass

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This is what Susanna Moyer​ told Jorge Pedrero​ on Behind the Scanner last night. Originally shared by Behind The Scanner Tonight during the BTS show, Susanna Moyer contacted Jorge Pedrero to spread some information that may impact Obsidian anomaly series. The whole info is on the screenshots of the conversation. You must read it.

western rose #obsidian https://www.instagram.com/p/BB84n99guho/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_of_Neptune,_Bologna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_of_Neptune,_Bologna

Another code, in today's Loeb post...  Use View Source to see it:  maafrtqxhusqlyekodoii seems to maafrtqxhusqlyekodoii indicate http://investigate.ingress.com/2016/02/18/of-heaven-and-earth

Sensitives, Non-sensitives, XM sensitivity, XM training, the Ultimate, the substrate, and the revealed conundrum…   I was recently questioned by  Mustafa Said  "What is the Ultimate?"   I took this question, ran with one theory and was completely blown away by a revelation and had to reevaluate my answer, and I consulted fellow investigator Amber Kearns , and this is what we've come up with after many weeks of debating the answer back and forth.   So, the answer to "What is the Ultimate" is revealed as an answer that's simply this, "The Ultimate" is not a location, but the ability to reach a certain state of mind and remain there at will.   I will reveal how I came to this conclusion in this post, but to fully understand this answer, I must explain certain things to you. We have people who are naturally sensitive to XM, we call these people Sensitives, for example, these would be the Niantic Project Researchers (as a recent example), and these peop

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Possibly incoming new badge card for Susanna Moyer​?? Originally shared by Susanna Moyer A knock on the door earlier. There was nobody there, but I found an envelope with this card inside it and a tracking slip for some kind of package... it seems that package will reach me in a few days.  I haven't been able to translate this... Can anyone help me out? #InvestigateIngress

Here are entries XVII, XVIII and XVIX for Essexian's convenience. A few thoughts have occurred to me: 1) Pliny the Elder's death during his attempt to evacuate Pompeii with the Roman fleet is very strange. Notably, all of his companions with him at the beach, including Pliny the Younger, survive. It is speculated that he could have succumbed to asthma, but it is remarked that when they returned for his body three days later, it didn't have a mark on it. Could Pliny have been a simulacrum? Could he have succumbed to a similar condition to Jarvis? 2) Vesuvius eruption date discrepancy- in a letter from Pliny the Younger to Titus recounting the eruption and death of Pliny the Elder, the date of the explosion is given as August 24. However, considerable archaeological evidence (the clothes people were wearing, the sealed wine bottles) indicates a September or October eruption. Most historians have ascribed the date discrepancy in the first letter to a transcription error. Cons

Has Dr Edgar Allan Wright decided we needed a foothold in the rural midwest?

As someone who wasn't around for #13Magnus   I was surprised to see a familiar-looking symbol as I read through the Niantic Project Files, Vol. 2. This is probably something fairly obvious to long time players, but I haven't seen anyone point it out yet. Is this simply the shape that these resurrection/simulacrum creation chambers must take at Magnus and Anti-Magnus nests, or is there more of a connection here? With the recovered intel indicating that Obsidius was searching for "Magnus" and the tie between this #Obsidian image, it seems like Obsidian might be sort of a "13Magnus Redux," if you will--a revisiting of the origins of the group and the establishment of their opposition to the N'Zeer, something that ultimately led Obsidius to create his Obsidian Shield which the two factions shall soon be fighting over.

Gaius Plinius Secundus, more commonly known to us as Pliny the Elder, is likely to be incredibly significant, if not central to the upcoming anomaly. First, his travels took him to many of the locations of the Obsidius breadcrumbs or alluded to in the background images: Xanten, Germania Inferior, the Batavian Revolt etc. It is recorded by his nephew, Pliny the Younger, that he barely slept, and possessed an almost inhuman ability to read, write and discourse throughout thee night. His Natural History was the world's first encyclopaedia. That a work of breadth and depth could be completed by a single man strained credulity even at the time. The possibility that Pliny was a sensitive whose prodigious output was inspired, fueled and directed by xm seems plausible. Moreover, his decision to sail to the Eruption of Vesuvius to investigate implies he perhaps suspected an xm related cause to the explosion or, alternatively, thought that he could use an artifact to protect Pompeii. Only ti

Imagine, Being strongly ENL or RES and suddenly your opinions switch. You are no longer yourself and even though others tell you its because of an XM anomaly. Would you believe them. Or would you follow your inner voice, even if it isn't yours?

Iq tech data sheets for Feb 27th anomalies Originally shared by H. Richard Loeb IQTech Anomaly Intel for February 27: Seattle, Rio, Milwaukee and Madrid These detailed documents by IQTech Research outline the scoring mechanics and rules for the #Obsidian Anomalies on February 27th... They are a must-read for anyone looking to take part in an Anomaly that day. http://investigate.ingress.com/2016/02/08/iqtech-anomaly-intel-for-february-27-seattle-rio-milwaukee-and-madrid/

Having a Play about with Mosaic, this one is made up of all the investigation data so far from 2016. http://mosaically.com/photomosaic/6ea3bed2-4925-4a3c-ac2f-1cde318cd304

Made myself a screen saver.

SYPHAX, Numidian King who worked WITH and AGAINST the Romans... In my searching, I discovered that Syphax is discussed in great detail in the "Ab Urba Condita" Or "The History of Rome", I asked a fellow agent who I knew to be a Latin major for some online references to it, and I was given much more than references! Thanks to my fellow agent,  Amber Kearns (GreyJediLayne), I was given a lot more information about Syphax than I originally intended. This research is all Amber's hard work! BCE 213- Romans approach Syphax, one of King of the Numidians, who had recently become estranged with the Carthaginians due to a conflict over a Carthaginian woman, Sophonisba, who he wished to betroth. He entered into an alliance with the Romans, who offered reward to the Numidians for their support against Carthage. Syphax took the aid of the Romans, enlisting them to help train his infantry, which was previously weak; his army had instead focused on calvary. Q. Statorius, a Rom

Recovered from today's dead drop in DC

Originally shared by Hank Johnson Went to my storage unit at Tysons Corner, trying to find some additional info about Obsidius. Was greeted with a surprise. A message, cleverly concealed next to the lock. Short. Need to get this intel out. Please help. Mission launch: Lincoln Memorial. Feb6. 10:00 - R I have a couple of friends and contacts in the DC area with names that start with R. One of them's at the NSA, another at IQTech, and a few who are just operators out and about on the Hill. That's all I've got at this stage, I'm afraid, but I suspect if we can get some boots on the ground we might learn more tomorrow.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. -- Martin Heidegger

Last night, I posted a emerging intel update by Andrew Krug. Here's the condensed transcript.  Andrew: "Also, there is a rumor, some grumblings, some of the folks I know around here in D.C are saying that somebody from IQTech-maybe one of Hank's friends-has got some sort of important information regarding the Anomalies and that we need to keep an eye out for a Mission that's gonna start, I think sometime this weekend in this Washington D.C area so if you live in Washington D.C, help me keep an eye out for...I don't know what it is, hopefully we get more information soon.....Again, that was a Hank Johnson thing so I'm sure that'll pop up on his G+ page or something as well. That's about it, that's the recap..." Daphne(Daphne D.)-"Wait, tell me more about Hank being in D.C!"  Andrew: "I'm not sure it's Hank. All I know is...there's special things that happen in the D.C area, there's a lot of government agencies here

BREAKING INTEL Andrew Krug, live on Behind The Scanner  tonight, obtained intel regarding a potential mission that could be tied to Hank Johnson.  Tyson's Corner and IQTech Research.  The mission will emerge in Washington, D.C. Here is the extra info he shared while in the hangout.  Agents in the Washington D.C area will need to be on high alert. -Mustafa.  

Caged XM The resemblance of the caged particle within a tetrahedron cage to a link amp is no accident. Similarly, the power cube is a cubical XM containment system. Extrapolating further, there may be energy-dense XM objects based on lattices. http://phys.org/news/2016-02-scientists-gold-nanoparticles-diamond-superlattices.html

Mozart's last Opera, The Magic Flute, almost certainly contains significant clues and allusions. As many of you have no doubt already realized, the latest portal clue released by PAC has a filename of "Tamino", a character from the Magic Flute. Further, Mozart visited the Temple of Isis in Pompeii prior to writing the opera, which includes themes derived from Isis. The Opera is highly allegorical and I believe that It might be helpful for agents to look at it more closely, keeping In mind what we know so far about the story of Obsidius and the greater, overarching, ancient struggle between the Magnus and AntiMagnus. The plot can be seen as a conflict between the anti-Enlightenment, Queen of the Night, and the enlightenment of Sarastro. The Queen of Night gives Tamino, (Obsidius?), a Magic Flute (Xm artifact/nest key?) which allows him to enter the temple, (Magnus Nest?) of Sarastro. Tamino's guide is Papageno, (Syphax), who is given a set of bells that allow him to ch

Pompeji Clue secured by the Resistance. #ObsidianExplorer   Originally shared by Giancarmine Dev This clue was recovered hacking the portal "Alla Scoperta Di Pompei" in Pompei, Italy. The video is taken from a distance, the area is cordoned off the whole. Niantic Project #ObsidianExplorer #NianticProject #Ingress #Resistance  https://storage.googleapis.com/objx/obsidius/xii-prophesy.png +EDIT: added tags and original link to the media file https://youtu.be/QmOXIwI6EVs

José Antonio Rey wanted me to let you guys know orders are gonna close soon! If you haven't gotten the new V2 Coin yet go go go!  Originally shared by José Antonio Rey (JoseeAntonioR) After being inactive in the swag world for a while, I am coming back with one that you're gonna love. Presenting: the Operation Essex v2 Coin, and the Operation Essex dog tag. The coin will feature an antique gold plating (last one was antique silver), and is a 2" coin. The dog tag will be made of stainless steel, and will come with a 30" stainless steel ballchain included per dog tag. Coin+tag combo: http://www.swagorders.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=125 Extra tags: http://www.swagorders.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=126 FAQ: Q: Is this the same as the first coin? A: No, this one has a new design. The first coin will not be manufactured again, ever. Sorry. Q: When will I get these? A: You are expected to get these mid or late March, probably a

So you think you're special? You're different from animals because you have a mind and can think? You need to think again. After you've read the article, watch this: https://youtu.be/3gdqdrWZzO0 and you'll never see the would the same way again. http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160202/ncomms10506/full/ncomms10506.html

What is the significance of SYPHAX? In the latest Obsidian breadcrumb recovered from the Carthaginian ruins in Tunis; we learn that Titus assigned a Numidian guide named SYPHAX to assist Obsidius in his journey. Strangely, the name is in all-caps. Also, it seems odd that Obsidius would remark that "my guide was of no use, save to keep me out of dangerous lands and provide some local knowledge." It doesn't make much sense to prominently record the name of the guide if they are truly a minor background player. I think that SYPHAX was/will be more significant. The only clues we have, that I'm aware of, are his name and nationality. The most famous historical Syphax was a Numidian king who first fought for Rome against Carthage, and then later fought against Rome. Now, this was during the second Punic War, which Yik Sheng Lee​ has argued was partially a proxy war for xm artifacts. Syphax was defeated and taken prisoner by the Romans. Could it be that Syphax was turned int

Encoded message sent in email from http://investigate.ingress.com (Im new to posting to this community, please let me know if I mess anything up!) I received PAs emailed update, an email of the blog post, and it appears to have an encoded message. I assumed it would have been fully analized here by now, but checking this AM I see maybe not? Just in case - this is the text: 5rhr7vfdet1d8g cr;1x6ljfkwyhb7n4 567170961105713015m28511113117m115m28594668 http://investigate.ingress.com