local Scottish Borders garage manager rang me tOn 2nd December 1988, to offer me a car. I had casually enquired about a model of this particular type of car some weeks earlier.

We drove over to look at the car and Jenny's attention was drawn to the number 557 chalked on the top of the engine. This was a reference to the car chassis number. We took the car for a test drive and another strange coincidence occurred involving the number 557 on another car at a place we stopped. It was as though the number was somehow being emphasised, almost brought to our attention.

On 21st December 1988, Pan Am 103 crashed only forty miles away at Lockerbie. that night, when we read of the crash on TV teletext, Jenny looked up Lockerbie in an atlas. the map reference coordinates for Lockerbie are   55^o7'N,    3^o21'W  !!!!

The next day we watched the local Borders ITV channel to try to discover the identity of the plane that crashed. We managed to read the name on the cockpit. It was ‘Clipper Maid of the Seas’. One of my aircraft reference books gave me its registration number. It was N739PA.

To our amazement, we realised this aircraft registration number was makes up the first three numbers of the  chassis number of the car we had taken for the test drive.  7AM396557

What is more, the two letters which occur between the fist and second numbers of the chassis number 7AM396557 are the second word of the name of the airline - Pan Am. How strange, we thought. The chassis number was like a code identifying which plane would crash and where.

Only one number in the sequence remained  unused. It was not until the following July that we understood the meaning of the apparently unused ‘6'. It was actually an important part of the code also, part of the ‘why’.

I came across a newspaper article referring to the first anniversary of the loss of an Iran Air A320 Airbus in the Persian Gulf.  Suddenly I understood the 'why' of the destruction of Pan Am 103. It was the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655, on 3rd July 1988. This was the meaning of the unused '6'.

The cross-correspondences are uncanny - some people call it ‘spooky’. Pan Am 103 was destroyed at 7.03 pm on 21st December 1988. Iran Air 655 was destroyed on the 7.03.88 in the standard American dating system. Both aircraft even had almost identical liveries, white with a sky blue cheat line. The only real  difference was the Iran Air bird on the tailfin rather than the stylised Pan Am globe and its associated American flag.

Was it all just chance? Why should that car, of the precise make, model and engine size I specified, have arrived at a local garage less than three weeks before the Lockerbie disaster?

Did something know the future?   I had got the idea to ask about a car of this particular make and model early in November. Why did I even bother to enquire because we had no money to buy a new car?  The idea just came into my head one day as I was paying for petrol at that particular garage when we were on our way to Edinburgh. Was something setting in motion a train of events which were to link to another momentous event 40 miles away and five or six weeks into the future which it knew would happen?  Was something warning that it knew the real truth?

It was as Advent drew to a close in 1988 that Pan Am 103 fell to earth in the Hills of the North.  The  tune which is the background music for this page is that for the Advent hymn Hills of the North Rejoice  

Of course you could always fall back on the skeptics 'explanation' for everything. It is all chance. Their great problem is that their religious belief system, scientism, precludes any other explanation. No mathematical theories can address something which lies beyond what we call space and time. They cannot be applied  to some greater reality beyond. This is one reason for  the vitriolic attacks by skeptics on any evidence adduced from either personal religious experience or psychical research. By their nature such experiences are not repeatable.  They can therefore be dismissed as at best anecdotal, at worst fraudulent. In either case they are not worthy of further attention. But the limitations of conventional science are precisely that. Its limitations should not prevent man using his mind and his logic in seeking to learn what lies beyond the reach of conventional science. The skeptics say there is nothing.  Their lives are all the poorer for that. Why do they exhibit such messianic zeal  in trying to convince others that there is nothing but the sad and empty world of greedy materialism, in which we all are forced to attempt to live today.

In July 1992, Newsweek published a long article to mark the anniversary of the shooting down of Iran Air 655 by the Vincennes. The cover story was entitled ‘Sea of Lies’, a reference to the dishonesty shown by both the Pentagon and the White House after the catastrophic act of incompetence by the crew of the USS Vincennes.  I found this magazine at the bookstall at a USAF base, in fact when I was working at 'RAF' Chicksands. 

To use a related metaphor the investigation into the loss of Pan Am 103 would be best described as an 'Ocean of Lies'. So many things have happened over the years, so many strange ‘coincidences’, that indicate to us that despite whatever so-called ‘evidence’ was produced at the Scottish inquest and the Netherlands trial,  there was no bomb. The two accused Libyans were completely innocent. Their crime was to be Libyans. But the British and American governments have been determined that their version of the ‘truth’ shall prevail. Now the one convicted will rot in a Scottish prison for a crime he did not commit.

N739PA was a geriatric plane that had been modified by the Pentagon for use in the Strategic Reserve. It merely suffered from massive structural failure. It was a more dramatic example of two other near disasters on American airliners. The first was a Boeing 737 on Aloha flight 243 on 28th April 1988, another very old aircraft.  The not long after Lockerbie came another very near miss on another Boeing 747 on United Airlines flight 811.  Both of these were over the Pacific. There is a significant Alpha and Omega Code connection in that too, indicating that both were warnings. 

But compared to the lies America has put about concerning the event which the Codes prophesied to me whilst I was working at US AFB Chicksands, the World Trade Centre disaster, both the Iran Air Sea of Lies and the Lockerbie Ocean of Lies become  almost duck ponds of white lies.