If you don't understand math, stop reading here. Even if you have PhD in math by memorizing definitions like a stochastic parrot.
Being a pilot or aerospace head will help.
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There are no configurations in nature with even one of these features:
- vertical rudder with horizontal lower boundary
- 4 1 configuration of wings anvertical tail
- humpback tube with ducted fan inside
- Spitfire-like oval wings
- tirbulence-like curls adoring surface and edges of wings
Finding the flash royal splits humanity into two groups 80/20, if you know math and still don't accept it - stop reading here, you're in the 80, it's no longer an intellect issue, you have a strong obedience instinct, you'll get stressed.
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QUESTION 1: What configuration are we looking at here?
The spirals certaily mean observable hardware, not turbulence, because there is no turbulence at the leading edge in normal flight, and because the artifacts clearly were made by aeronautically ignorant goldsmiths.
So it's fans for VTOL.
Which is what you want for a post-apocalyptic world without landing strips.
One analogue today is XV-5.
That fans could be fit in the leading edge means they were electric.
Our analogue today is CubCrafters (not Lilium, which is tailless).
QUESTION 2: Drones or crewed?
The cherubs from Ezekiel 10:40, those "biblically accurate angels", match XV-5 again, so we're probably looking at what our lovely shepherd mounted and flew, and this means a two-seater or four-seater.
QUESTION 3: Why teeth?
Because Quetzalcoatl was a RATTLEsnake and Garuda was a THUNDERbird.
Law of physics haven't changed, with transonic sweeped wings it's clear they weren't commuting quietly, these things ROARED. Like "the sound of many rivers". Like animals.
QUESTION3: Where did they fly TO?
The Space Elevator. To about 100 miles up. Where they had, I quote, "doors open in the sky".
"After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpetsaid, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” 2 At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. 3 And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and ruby. A rainbow that shone like an emerald encircled the throne. 4 Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders.They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads. 5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lampswere blazing. These are the seven spirits[a] of God. 6 Also in front of the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal."
Clearly we aren't looking at a person here, rather it's:
- "glory", of emerald color, oxygen green portion of aurora discharge (induced by the space elevator tether), with is normally between 70-200 miles
- gigantic hangar glass canopy, with is fucking impressive, even if unpressurized
- "lightnings" are literal, high voltage discharge, we're landing on a long distance transmission line tower after all.
QUESTION 4: What does it mean? Where's evidence?
It means we're fucked royally. There was a civilization with sufficient industry to have what amounts to 10-100 more total energy consumption of ours - every ducted fan is a logistic web, and a single space elevator is terawatts of electricity.
And they're... gone.
Whatever killed them - we don't stand a chance.
The Quimbaya artifacts are usually tossed off as birds or insects. Ancient cultures stylized animals all the time. But these shapes don’t behave like living creatures. The wings are flat and rigid. The symmetry is tight. The tails are vertical and centered. Birds don't fly like this, and it’s not how insects are usually imagined in art. Most animal symbolism exaggerates organic body traits. These do the opposite. They strip life down into geometry, and I that’s what makes people look at these differently.
One explanation is that they really are just symbolic animals, but seen through a mythic shaman lens we no longer understand. Maybe they weren’t meant to look alive. Maybe they represented movement, sky power, or spiritual travel rather than biology. That fits with how elite objects worked in many ancient societies, including this very Quimbaya culture. These pieces were definitely not toys. They were buried with important people. If they were symbolic, then the meaning behind that symbol didn’t survive.
Do they represent something seen rather than imagined. Not machines. Not technology. Just something observed in the sky and reduced into a simple form that made sense at the time. Or were they machines in the sky? Cultures everywhere turn strange sights into symbols. If the Quimbaya people saw unusual aerial phenomena, it wouldn’t be recorded as a technical diagram. It would be turned into art, myth, and ritual. Which it looks like they did. But the problem is that once the story is gone, we’re left arguing on Twitter about shape alone. Are they birds and insects? Possibly. Are they something else, filtered through belief and memory? Also possible.
What is everyone leaning to on these artifacts?