“Technology and the gods”: A Review of Crossing the Crevasse: My Epiphany—How It Affected the Bible and Disclosure by W. Wallace Wagner, Jr.

 

 (2nd ed. Dimensionfold Publishing, 2024). ISBN: 978-1-989940-90-7

Last October, I had the pleasure of reviewing the follow-up to this book, Within Grasp. Since that time, this new edition, published in a beautiful 10 × 8 format by Dimensionfold Publishing, became available.

I seized the opportunity to read it.

W. Wallace Wagner, Jr., or Wally to his friends and colleagues, is an articulate, religious man who had a life-changing experience in 2016, when he encountered a Tic-Tac UFO (similar to the ones in the footage “leaked” by the Pentagon in 2020) as he was on his mail delivery route. As they have for many others, myself included, this profound experience led Wagner to reexamine everything he was taught in the Christian church. The result was two books that are required reading for anyone interested in biblical interpretation, UFOs throughout history, and a wide range of paranormal phenomena.

I was impressed at the onset—and continue to be—by Wagner’s grasp of biblical text and interpretation. He provides us with numerous inconsistencies across and between versions (he concentrates on four, including the King James), as well as misinterpretations and mistranslations—often within the same version. It was news to me that Sir Francis Bacon had reworked the bible and, according to Wagner, “inserted his ciphers,” four years before King James commissioned his rewrite. Given what I know about ciphers inserted in other works of Bacon, as well as in those of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Marlowe, this is not at all outlandish. Growing up Catholic, I was always curious about the differences between the four Gospels. Apparently, such differences are found in the Old Testament and other New Testament books as well.

It really is no wonder. There were councils held by senior members of the Church every so often to decide what books were deemed canon and which were suppressed (the so-called apocryphal texts), as well as to decide the nature of the Trinity and of Jesus himself. These councils led to schisms in the church, breeding many denominations.

As the biblical interpretations progress, Wagner begins to fold in evidence of UFOs encountered in the Bible, with the Ezekiel wheel perhaps being the most well known. Wagner compares it to Blumrich’s Omni Wheel, patented in 1972, which was designed based on descriptions of the biblical craft.  

Further widening his scope, Wally examines biblical references to giants, the Nephilim, and the Great Flood, linking them to the groundbreaking work of Zecharia Sitchin, which is just a step away from the true age of the Earth and construction of the Great Pyramid. Wally went to Egypt to examine this engineering marvel, the geometry and actual uses of which have been a subject of discussion and debate for centuries. His findings and adventures with the local authorities are a highlight of Crossing the Crevasse. Given the abundant evidence for a very ancient Earth, and multiple cataclysmic events involving the rise and fall of technologically  advanced civilizations, the religious teachings of a “6,000-year-old Earth and 4,500-year-old flood” (a chapter title) seem far out of touch with reality.

In order to debunk this absurdity, Wagner takes us on a journey of ancient skeletal remains, the Palermo Stone, the Turin Papyrus, and the advantages and pitfalls of age determination mechanisms such as radiocarbon dating. A particularly fascinating aspect of his evidence is an examination of coal and salt deposits in West Virginia.

The next outward-expanding circle includes the science and lore of crop circles. Wagner tackles the 1991 declaration of all crop circles being a hoax after the “confession” of two prankster-artists, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, who demonstrated how they used a board with a pair of rope handles to achieve the effect. Problem is (there are actually many): there were 12,000 reported crop circles in 50 countries as of 2016; there are electromagnetic anomalies that defy the use of a board and ropes; the way the stalks are bent, with their nodes seemingly microwaved, is far different than the breaking that happens with board and rope; some appear in broad daylight in a matter of moments. Any credible researcher also has to consider the almost incomprehensible intricacy and exactness of the geometric images themselves. Wagner provides us with 10 compelling images of complex crop circles, several photos of wheat stalks in crop circles, and a close examination of the replication of the 1974 encoded Arecibo message sent out by Carl Sagan, which appeared in a field in Chilbolton, England in 2001—a replication with some very profound adjustments. 

From here, Wagner moves to Disclosure—that complicated arena of exploration, contention, and debate. Having closely tracked both traditional and independent media articles and interviews the past 18 months, it is clear to me that religion is inseparable from the larger discussion on Disclosure. Reminding us of seminal UFO events, such as Roswell in 1947 (one of eight events that year) and the one in Washington, DC, in July 1952, and USAF and academic studies of the phenomena such as projects Sign, Grudge, and Bluebook, Wagner also reminds us of the usurpation of these investigations by the CIA. Of particular interest to deep-diving UFOlogists like myself will be the exposed text passages on the piece of paper Brigadier General Roger Ramey is holding in the staged photo with the Roswell “wreckage,” as well as the alleged documents of Majestic or Majic 12—a group of scientists, CIA operatives, and military officers who were a core component of the Deep State. No, this is not conspiracy… the Deep State is nothing more than career bureaucrats not voted in (or out) by the populace.

Wagner is meticulous in his work, offering us a glossary of terms and several pages of quotes related to UFOlogy. Over two and a half pages, we hear from a president, a general, a professor, a defense contractor, an astronaut, a Canadian minister of defense, and Yahweh, the Apostle Paul, and Jesus. There is also an extensive bibliography.

Appendix A presents 14 medieval paintings and rock art from the Ahaggar Mountains. You may be familiar with these images from Ancient Aliens and the scholarly works of the likes of Reverend Michael Carter and Ken Goudsward, but seeing them presented one after another made them all the more compelling.

The remainder of the appendices offer a variety of works that offer greater insight into Wagner’s main thesis. He offers us The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Didache, “Psalm 151,” and The Assumption of Moses.

Crossing the Crevasse and Within Grasp are indispensable resources for joining the conversation with intelligence, numerous examples, and respect.