On the Night of the Total Lunar Eclipse
Time Travelers descend in their Timeships
The Krononaut Moon Project is an ongoing series of Community Time Travel Research experiments that first began with a large crowd in Baltimore, MD US, over 40 years ago on the night of 09 Mar 1982. This is not a science fiction story. It’s a true-life account of ordinary folks developing and testing new channels of communication for Time Travelers, in the hopes of upping the chances of actual contact one day, and perhaps having a good time in the process. To date, a handful of independent groups and individuals on three continents have organized “landing parties” welcoming “visitors from the futures”. They were all well documented, and all would later report having no compelling evidence of a Time Traveler presence. Admittedly disappointing, but not very surprising, we have been back at the drawing board, retooling again. (If you know of other historical experiments like these, please let us know.)
In the mid-2020s, we are learning from flaws in the designs of these nascent experiments — including our own. Recent plans are more evolved and sustainable for the Krononaut Moon’s recurring “experimentations, observations & celebrations,” in 2025 and beyond. One missing component from the original efforts was that none of them coincided with a Total Lunar Eclipse (a “TLEclipse”), now seen as a best practice, and further explained below.
First, we need to agree on a few core definitions. Physical contact with Time Travelers is extremely unlikely. Sorry to be blunt, but it is the absolute cold dark truth. Still, cosmologists agree that there is a non-zero chance that a close encounter (of the nth kind?) could happen one day, or even that it could have happened on many days in the past. A technically simpler approach would involve some form of signaling to others in a separate spacetime dimension — in their so-called “world”. Definitions of Time Travel should therefore include sending and receiving signals in a decodable “language”, possibly via subatomic particles or light beams. In other words, Time Travelers could be transmitters of quantum information bits, rather than begoggled pilots of gyroscopic Time Machines. For what we know, their “written words” may be all around us.
Another important definition is that of a Total Lunar Eclipse, which is central to the next phases of Community Time Travel Research. Astronomy identifies 3 major types of Lunar Eclipses, ranging from lighter to darker, each of which casts a shadow from our Earth onto its Moon, blocking out some part of the latter. (Reversing the positions of Earth and Moon would result in a Solar Eclipse.) Note that experiencing a Lunar Eclipse is only possible during a Full Moon. This part is important — only during a Full Moon. Of the 3 Lunar Eclipse types, there is only one that shades out the entire Moon. As you may have guessed, this darkest type is called a Total Lunar Eclipse (a TLEclipse) —the type that we are focusing on. Lights out on the Moon marks the moment for participants around the globe, and beyond, to collaborate on their Time Travel connection experiments. The Total Lunar Eclipse is a night for Time Travelers, the night of the Krononaut Moon — when it is fullest, then darkest, and then fullest again.
Is there something magical about a Total Lunar Eclipse? Not exactly, other than it is a dazzling spectacle and a celestial sign that works well for syncing up folks in far-flung time zones and corners of the planet. In years to come, the TLEclipse will continue its repeating lunisolar lightshow, rotation after rotation throughout our lives. With each iteration, the probability ticks up for a successful inter-dimensional link-up. A Total Lunar Eclipse is a wonderfully visual-nonvisual-visual and profoundly spiritual night for connecting with the infinite! Think about that for a moment.
“On the Night of the Total Lunar Eclipse,
Time Travelers descend in their Timeships.”
So, if a Total Lunar Eclipse only ever occurs during a Full Moon, and a Krononaut Moon is a function of a Total Lunar Eclipse, then what is the periodicity of this unique alignment? How often can we collectively work on Community Time Travel Research projects? The answer is on average about once per year (or about one in thirteen Full Moons), determined by a fluctuating Eclipse Cycle that looks (to us) eccentric or even random. The Krononaut Moon is a kind of quasi-annual moveable feast.
Next year in 2025, Nature’s planetary gearbox will present for us two TLEclipses / Krononaut Moons: one on 14 March (a Worm Moon) and one on 07 September (a Harvest Moon), followed again by a Krononaut Moon on 03 Mar 2026 (another Worm Moon). Save the dates! After 2026 there will be a break for a couple of years before the cycle of TLEclipses picks back up again. So polish up your telescopes, quantum repeaters, and pinhole cameras, light the campfire, fetch the dog, and let’s go out on a late-night Moonwatch.
Mentioned above are past experimental design flaws. What were the flaws, and what is being done about them?
The established logic of Time Traveler meet-ups is rather straightforward. We simply invite them to come visit us, deploying whatever modality we can to preserve the invitation into the farawayest outposts of time. It is the proverbial message in a bottle, but also carved into stone. The body of Krononaut Moon documentation is growing on Medium, Wikipedia, Mastodon and the Fediverse, and other sites on the web, spreading word of the observances to diverse communities of Earthlings. Guest invitations will somehow need to be archived into the next millennium. As with prehistoric cave paintings, their pictographic stories may need to survive over thousands of years. Once the beings in the distant future(s) receive and decipher an invitation from our ancient time, they could elect to beam down to the present (or send a signal back to us, which is more likely). Future intelligences would have the necessary transport technology that is not yet existent in our world. To date, there have been 5 recorded attempts of this method, with the most famous one devised by the late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, in Cambridge UK on 28 Jun 2009.
Hawking referred to his get-together as a “reception”—what we now think of as a version type 1.0. His champagne toast to “tourists from the future” was not the first of the prototypes, however, because it was staged years after 3 similar experimental attempts — located in different countries and unrelated to each other. The professor’s cheeky soirée occurred four years after a rollicking party that was thrown for “Inhabitants of the Future” at Forrest Place, Perth AU, on 31 Mar 2005. Then, a few months later, an equally festive Time Traveler Convention was hosted at MIT — The Massachusettes Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA US, on 07 May 2005. These elaborate productions were preceded by a full two decades, when a group identifying itself as the “Krononauts” assembled in Baltimore, MD US (alt. spelling: Chrononauts). That seminal event, which was covered by a New York Times reporter, happened at a downtown bookstore, under the light of a Full Moon, and a multi-planet syzygy, on 09 Mar 1982.
More recently, in the spring of 2023, a dogged podcaster for TheLastArchive.com and Pushkin.fm, published a riveting and droll audio recounting of Baltimore’s Krononauts gathering, and then gave the concept a uniquely personal experimental spin, noting the time and GPS coordinates. The effort successfully demonstrated that a single individual can attempt extra-temporal contact on one’s own, equipped with little more than a public library bench, and can meaningfully contribute to the corpus of Community Time Travel Research.
It is now evident that all of these valiant attempts, no matter how well-intentioned, were stifled by the same glaring wrinkle, one that is finally getting ironed out. Each of these precursor to-dos was an isolated one-shot, one-site, one-time, one-off affair, which is not a very logical approach toward multi-dimensional encounterings.
It needn’t take a Mr. Peabody to convince us that reaching out to a remote point in time may require a few near-misses before the critical spark leaps the neuron gap. Multiplicity ought to have been a simple given, factored in from the beginning. The point is to open up the options — to all peoples and all possibilities. Earlier gatherings were scheduled within the western, somewhat square and kludgy Gregorian Calendar — not the fluid mechanics of spacetime. Time Travelers are sentient beings, too. Maybe they would prefer not to materialize in the spotlights of a media frenzy, and who knows what other noisy obstacles are out there? A better solution lies in planning for numbers of cyclical destination points, not like the one-nighters of the past. We can now call this Research 2.0. The Time Travelers should have choices where they would like to beam down, and with whom they would like to rendezvous (be it MIT, Cambridge, Perth, Baltimore, or better yet, your town). So to answer the “where” part of this— it’s wherever you are or would like to be. Bring a bottle to toss in the ocean, bury it in the sand or catapult it into outer space. Get together with your family, friends, colleagues, research lab or arts group and design your own Community Time Travel Research experiments for the next Krononaut Moon. There will be two opportunities in 2025. Or, make it your own personal experience, alone in the moonlight, communing with your past & future selves.
The “when” part is more specific—it’s during the darkest moments of a Total Lunar Eclipse, which typically lasts for around an hour, and can be readily calculated centuries in advance. We are not looking at the more common Partial or Penumbral Lunar Eclipses, which by definition are non-total. Everybody is invited, wherever you are, whoever you are, and there’s no telling who else might be showing up. Ultimately we can let the solar system’s orbital clocks determine when it’s time for us to connect with the cosmos.
Takeaways from this story
- The Krononaut Moon Project is an ongoing series of Community Time Travel Research experiments dating back to 09 Mar 1982 in Baltimore.
- Research events continue in future years, on the night of the Total Lunar Eclipse, which occurs quasi-annually. The next TLEclipse comes around on 14 Mar 2025 (a Worm Moon).
- All are invited to participate. Please take many Moon photos and share them with our Mastodon accounts, @KronoMoonPhotos & @KronoMoon.
- On the Night of the Total Lunar Eclipse,
Time Travelers descend in their Timeships. - This page presents critical new information that supercedes what is now outdated information originally appearing on Medium.com and on our website KronoMoon.org, currently in redevelopment.
- And, lastly, almost, to the Ufology community, please look back through the thousands of UFO / UAP sightings in the databases, and see if we can find how many of the incidents were reported on the night of a Total Lunar Eclipse. Has anyone ever queried these dates specifically, and is there a hidden pattern? Note that of the 5 “landing parties” discussed above, none of them took place during a TLEclipse.
- Please let us know of any inaccuracies, typos, or other errors in this story. We are very grateful to Claire Kelly & her beautiful otherworldly community at Write Under the Moon, Medium.com, plus TheLastArchive.com, Pushkin.fm, Mastodon & the Fediverse. We hope to see all of you soon, Under the Moon.
written by RichardTE for @KronoMoon © 2024 Aug.
