ANAMORPHIC HEADER
Followers of this blog might recall looking at the header of the Somerton Man Code page quite some time ago. At that time I hadn't come across the clever use of perspective and lighting angles as was recently discovered in both the Hay Internment Camp banknotes and in the Boxal Rubaiyat. In the latter case, the edges of the cover of the book had been used to conceal anamorphic writing that could only be viewed from an oblique angle.
In this case, the same approach to concealment has been used and it has been doubly concealed because the image of the Somerton Man code shows only a blank space at the head of the lettering with some light markings in place as shown here:
I turned the image you see above into a negative with the result that you can see at the head of this post. It just looks like a scrambled and jumbled up assortment of shapes much as it appears in the Boxall Rubaiyat Book cover.
But the highlighted area beneath the upper darkened section at the top, tells a different story:
Look carefully between the two orange-colored lines, you'll see a series of letters and numbers visible. If you have an iPad or iPhone you'll see it quite well.
I have managed to get around 80 characters out of the sequence and am looking at the various codes and ciphers to see which one it is, at the moment it looks like it is a Mornbit cipher but I need to do some more checking out.
If you enlarge the image above, you can assemble your own list of cipher text. the Dcode site is here: https://www.dcode.fr/cipher-identifier, After you have entered the letters and numbers that you find, the tools will endeavor to identify which cipher is being used. If it is a Morbit cipher, it will need a 9-digit keyword or key number. That is the challenge.
What is significant is that we now have the Boxall ROK and the Somerton Man Code page both containing the same concealment method, Anamorphic writing. My best guess is that you need to view the top of the page from an angle of approximately 20 degrees. Good lighting helps. When I took the image above, I took it looking from the base of the code page upwards.
As soon as I have found the correct cipher and tried out some decrypts I will post again.