CONTENTS

FOREWORDKEVINBURNS

INTRODUCTION

ThecontentofthisworkisderivedinpartfrompriorinterviewswiththenamedcontributorstotheAncientAliens®series

ERICHVONDÄNIKENEZEKIEL’SWHEEL

GIORGIOA.TSOUKALOSTHEEGYPTIANCONNECTION

DAVIDHATCHERCHILDRESSTHEMYSTERIESOFPERU

GIORGIOA.TSOUKALOSTHEGREATPUZZLEOFPUMAPUNKU

JASONMARTELLTHECRADLEOFALIENCIVILIZATION

DAVIDHATCHERCHILDRESSTEMPLESOFBLOODANDGOLD

GIORGIOA.TSOUKALOSTHEMEGALITHS

PHILIPCOPPENSLEGENDSOFTHELOST

KATHLEENMCGOWANPOWERFULRELICSANDSACREDTALISMANS

JONATHANYOUNGTHEPOWERSOFMYTH

RABBIARIELBARTZADOKGOD’SMAGICBOX

DAVIDWILCOCKTHEWORLDGRID

LINDAMOULTONHOWETHEROSWELLFILES

NICKPOPEOBJECTSINTHESKY

WILLIAMHENRYSTARGATES

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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FOREWORD

KEVINBURNSEXECUTIVEPRODUCER/CREATOR,ANCIENTALIENS®

Chariots of the Gods! You mean to tell me you have never heard ofChariotsoftheGods?”

Iwas speakingwithmy producer,NikkiBoella, and her team. Theywere about to start production on a documentary special for theHistoryChannel entitled Indiana Jones and the Ultimate Quest. It wascommissionedbyLucasfilmasatie-intotheirfirstIndianaJonesfilminmore than three decades, Indiana Jones and theKingdom of theCrystalSkull.Mycompany,PrometheusEntertainment,wouldbeproducingit,andwewantedittobesomethingmorethanjustamaking-ofmoviespecial.

“Didn’t anyone here see the Sun Classic Pictures documentary? Theone that came out in the 1970s? The one with all of those rhetoricalquestions?”

Stillnothing.Iwasfacingaroomwithwide-eyedstaresandblankexpressions.Asea

of empty vessels waiting to be filled. I had to accept the fact that myproducerandherstaffwereallundertheageofforty—andnotoneofthem

had everheardofErichvonDäniken andhis groundbreakingbook from1968,ChariotsoftheGods.

Now,Iadmitthat—evenbythistime—Ihadnotreadthebook.IhadonlyseenthedocumentarybackwhenIwasinhighschool.Nevertheless,itmadeahugeimpactonme.

FortheIndianaJonesproject,thefolksatLucasfilmwantedustodoatwo-hourspecial,buttheydidnotwanttosharewithusanydetailsabouttheirupcomingfilm.Everythingabouttheirprojectwastopsecret.Alltheywouldsharewithuswasthetrailerandthemovieposter.Thatwasit.

“Whatcouldthisnewmoviebeabout?”Iwondered.ThefirstonewasabouttheArkoftheCovenant.ThesecondwasaboutthesacredSankaraStones of India. The third was about the Holy Grail. All three previousfilmshadhadareligious theme.All threefilmswereaboutholyworshipandhumankind’sdevotiontoGod.

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Butwhataboutthisfourthfilm?Ilookedcarefullyattheposterandnoticedsomethingstrangeaboutthe

crystalskulldepicted.Itwaselongated!That’s it! Aliens! The new Indiana Jones film is going to be about

aliens!JustlikeChariotsoftheGods.Thisrevelation—laterjustifiedwhenIactuallysawthefinishedfilm—

turnedout tobeagodsend. It alsooffered theperfecthook intohowmycompanycouldapproacha feature-lengthdocumentaryabout theworld’sfavoritefictionalarchaeologist.Whydoesmandig?

AsfarasIwasconcerned,theanswerwassimple:Wedigbecausewearelookingtofindoutwherewecomefrom.Wearelookingfor“Daddy.”WearelookingforproofofGod.

Thatis,indeed,“theultimatequest.”Interestingly, our Indiana Jones documentary—and its connections to

ChariotsoftheGods—wouldalsoopenthedoorintoanotherexcitingarea:ancientastronauttheory.

Believing that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal SkullwouldbeborrowingmuchfromErichvonDäniken,IaskedNikkitofindus“thenewErichvonDäniken.”Theremustbesomeone,Ireasoned,whoiscarryinghismantleintothetwenty-firstcentury.

EnterGiorgioTsoukalos,ayoungmanwithadeeptan,aneagergrin,andamaneofthick,restlesshair.

Afterhegavehisinterviewforourdocumentary,Iaskedtomeetwithhim. “You really believe in all this aliens stuff?” I asked. “I do notbelieve,” he said tome, using a combination of precise diction flavoredwithavaguelytraceableEuro-Swissaccent,“Iknow.”

The documentary special premiered on May 18, 2008. It was wellreceived,andeveryoneassociatedwithitwasproudtohavebeenpartofit.

Several weeks later, I had an opportunity to have lunch with anexecutivefromHistory.ItwasthenIconfidedthatmyinspirationfor theIndianaJonesspecialwasErichvonDänikenandChariotsoftheGods.

“I loveChariots of theGods!”my client enthused. “I’d love to do anewChariotsoftheGodsfortelevision!”

Armed with this bit of good news, I dashed back to my office andcalledGiorgio.

“IsErichvonDänikenstillalive?”Iasked,gingerly.“Absolutely!” replied the hirsute pop-icon-to-be. “He lives in

SwitzerlandandIwillbehappytoarrangeaphonecallforyou.”Therest,astheysay,isHistory(Channel).MyphoneconversationwithErichconvincedmethatanewapproach

toChariotsoftheGodswasnotonlylongoverdue,itwasimperativethatitbe done.Muchwork and research had been done in the field of ancientastronaut theory in the forty years since Erich’s book had first been

published,andsince that time,humankindhad landedon themoon—andevensentrobotstoMars!

We would call our documentary Ancient Aliens. We also made adeliberatedecisiontonotpopulate theprogramwith theusualphalanxofnaysayers, skeptics, anddebunkers.Notbecausewedidn’twantbalance,mindyou.Itwassimplybecausewewantedourshowtobeopen-minded.

Forus,AncientAlienswas—andremains—ashowaboutquestionsandpossibilities.Itisaboutatheory.Thebig“Whatif?”

Weknewfromthestartthatwecouldn’tproveancientastronauttheoryany more than we could prove the resurrection of Jesus. It was aninterpretationbasedonevidence.

TheshowpremieredonMarch8,2009,andquicklybecameahit.Onetwo-hourdocumentaryspecialledtofivemore—andeachofthose

wasbasedonfiverhetoricalquestions:Whowerethey?(“TheVisitors.”)Whydidtheycome?(“TheMission.”)Whatdidtheyleavebehind?(“TheEvidence.”)Wheredid theygo?(“CloserEncounters.”)Will theyreturn?(“TheReturn.”)

At this point, I thought we were finished. Six two-hour televisiondocumentaries about ancient astronaut theory. Even SunClassic Picturesdidn’taccomplishthat!

MyclientatHistorycalledagain.“Weneedanothertenhours.”Afterthattherewasanotherten.Andanother.Andanother.Asofthiswriting,wearewellpastonehundredprograms,andthereis

noendinsight.

“AncientAlienswas—andremains—ashowaboutquestionsandpossibilities.Itisaboutatheory.The

big“Whatif?”

HaveIbecomeabeliever?Let’sjustsayIremainopen-minded,justasIhopeouraudiencesare. I thinkofmyselfas thenarratorof theshow. Idealonlyinfacts—butI’mopentoaskingquestions:Coulditbe?Whatif?How canwe be sure? In thisway our series remains honest.We let theancient astronaut theorists have their day in court. We let them giveanswers to the questionswe pose. Sometimes the answers are plausible.

Sometimes they’re outrageous. All of them are honestly held andthoughtfullygiven.

Shortlyaftertheseriespremiered,Icameacrossanarticlewrittenbyahistoryprofessor.Init,heaccusedourseriesofoffering“pseudoscience”and “pseudo history” and of having, what he termed, a “post-colonial”attitude. That is to say, he objected to our questioning of conventionalhistoryandsuggestingthatthird-worldpeoplesinancienttimescouldnothave produced architectural wonders without the help of some kind of“superior,outsideguidance.”

Excuseme?I think it’s fair to remind those skeptics inouraudience that it isnot

we, the producers of Ancient Aliens, who suggest that some sort ofextraterrestrial intelligence inspired the building of ancient pyramids,tombs,andtemples;itistheancientastronauttheoristsintheprogramwhosuggestthat.Andwheredotheygetthisnotionfrom?Why,fromtheverywallsofthepyramids,tombs,andtemples!

We don’t say extraterrestrials created humankind. Ancient texts andscripturessaythat.

In fact, ancient astronaut theory is no more audacious than thetheologiesofjustabouteveryreligionintheworld,andbothareultimatelyasconnected toscienceandarchaeologyas theyare toeachother.Allofthemarelookingforproofofhumankind’sorigins.AllofthemarelookingforGod.

As the series creator and executive producer ofAncient Aliens, I amfrequentlyasked if Ibelieve in thestorieswetell—ifIbelieve inancientastronauttheory.

Myanswerissimple:I’mopentoit.According to the Greek philosopher Plato, his mentor, Socrates,

believed that“amankneweverythingwhoadmittedheknewnothing.” Ibelieve there is much about our history—and our origins—that we stilldon’tknow.Butone fact is certain:ourworld is filledwith architecturalriddles and scientific anomalies. Science and religion each attempt toprovideanswerstotheprofoundquestionsoftheuniverse.AncientAliensattempts to answer these samequestionsbutwith auniqueandprofoundfilter:What if intelligent beings had existed on this planet thousands ofyearsago?Whatiftheyinfluencedourpastandguidedourfuture?

Asweaskatthebeginningofeachnewepisodeofourseries...

Whatifitweretrue?Allweaskisthatyou,ouraudience,keepanopenmind.

INTRODUCTION

Millionsofpeoplearoundtheworldbelievewehavebeenvisitedinthepastbyextraterrestrialbeings.Whatifitweretrue?Didancientaliensreallyhelptoshapeourhistory?Andifso,whatiftherewereclues left behind . . . sometimes hiding in plain sight?What if wecouldfindtheevidence?

Each week, hundreds of thousands of viewers tune in to History’s wildlypopularhitshowAncientAliens,seekinginsightintothoseveryquestions—andtobecomepartofacompelling,probativeconversationaboutthemysteriesthatsurroundus.

Throughoutrecordedhistory,archaeologistshavediscoveredfascinatingandbizarre structures—as well as carvings and texts—that have forced us toquestion the established notions of the past. Ruins dating back thousands ofyearsrevealengineeringskillthatsurpassesevenourmostmoderntechnologicalcapabilities.Religioustextsfromdiverse,ancientculturestellincrediblysimilarstories of gods descending from the heavens in fiery crafts. Ancient rock artdepictsfiguresthatresemblemodern-dayastronauts.Andmysteriousmonoliths—manyplacedinalignmentwithheavenlyconstellations—dotthelandscapesofnearlyeverycontinent.

In his 1968 book,Chariots of the Gods, Swiss author Erich von Dänikenproposedthatallofthisevidencepointedtooneprofoundbutlogicalpossibility:extraterrestrials visited Earth in the distant past and so changed the course of

humanhistory.Thisconcept—laterknownasancientastronauttheory—istodayembracedbyliterallymillionsofpeoplearoundtheworld.

Ancient Aliens®: The Official Companion Book has been carefullyresearchedandeditedbytheproducersofAncientAliensinanefforttogivebothhard-corefansandopen-mindedenthusiastsascomplete—andequallysatisfying—an experience as the one they receive while watching a one-hour weeklyepisode.Wehavegoneintoourown“ancient”archivesandpulledanumberoftheinterviewsweconductedwithourtopcontributorsduringthecourseofoureight-yearrun.

Becausemuch of thematerial discussed during these interviews had to betrimmed down to conform to the limitations of a forty-three-minute televisionepisode, we are now able to give readers the benefit of a more in-depthdiscussion—one that digs even deeper into topics ranging from Neolithicmonolithstostargates,fromEgyptianpyramidstoUFOs.

Thestoriesinthisbookaretolddirectly,astheyweretoldtous,bytheverybestproponentsofancientastronaut theory.Theyrepresent thousandsofhoursofresearch—aswellascenturiesofhumanknowledge.

Whilereadingthemyoumayonceagainfindyourselfasking:

Whowerethey?Whydidtheycome?Whatdidtheyleavebehind?Wheredidtheygo?Willtheyreturn?

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Manyyearsago,IgaveaspeechatNASA,inHuntsville,Alabama.Duringthisspeech,IspokebrieflyaboutEzekiel,thebiblicalprophetandauthorofthebookof Ezekiel. I touched on Ezekiel’s famed vision of a fiery chariot descendingfrom the heavens—and how we can now see that this is a description of

advancedtechnologyforwhichEzekielhimselfdidnotpossessthelanguage.Later,atdinner, JoeBlumrich,oneofNASA’schiefengineersat the time,

said to me, “Erich, that was very interesting. I had never heard the story ofEzekiel. But in the Bible you will definitely not find any examples oftechnology.Yousee,theBible—thosearevisions.Thosearedreams.Thosearestories,notreality.”Butstill,hesaid,“NexttimeIgoonvacation,I’llreadthebook of Ezekiel.” Later he toldme, “The first two or three pages, I was justlaughing.”ButthenhegottothepassagewhereEzekieldescribesthewheelsoftheSplendoroftheHighest.

InthebookofEzekiel,yousee,Ezekielwritesthathesawafierychariot,orvehicle, come out of the clouds. He calls this vehicle the Splendor of theHighest. In the original text, in Hebrew, he never uses the word “God.” Healways speaks about “the highest” or “the one.” The word “God” is used inGermanorEnglishtranslations,wherethevehicleiscalledtheSplendorofGod,butnot in theHebreworiginal.When theSplendorof theHighestdescends, itcreatesanoisethatEzekielcomparestothethunderingofawaterfall.OntopoftheSplendoroftheHighest,heseessomethinglikeacapsule.Hedescribesitaslooking likeadiamond. Inside theglitteringdiamondheseessomething likeathrone. And on the throne, he sees a figure sitting like a human, wearingglitteringclothes.Ezekielalwaysusestheword“like,”becausehedoesnothavethewordstodescribedirectlywhathesees.Thenhedescribesthevehicle—theSplendoroftheHighest.

The Splendor of the Highest had four wheels. These wheels were whatcaughtJoeBlumrich’sattention.Ezekieldescribesthewheelsandsaysitlookedasifonewheelwereinthemiddleofanotherwheel.Andtheyturnedtoeveryside,withoutturningthewheelitself.Withoutmakingasteeringmovement.Sothe wheel went forward, backward, left, and right, but nevermade a steeringmovement.Ezekielwasreallyfascinatedbythewheels;hedescribesthewheelsfour times. This interested Blumrich, who was thinking a lot about thechallengesofwheelsonspacevehicles.WhenyoutravelfromEarthtoMars,forexample, you don’t know exactly where you’ll land, not down to the meter.Maybeyoulandinrocks.Andyoucannotmovearoundinacurve.Youwanttobreakoutofyour ringof rock,butyouaresurrounded.Youcannotmove inacurve,soyouneedawheelthatcannavigateexactlyonthecentimeterlikethis.Andthat’sexactlywhatEzekieldescribes.InspiredbyEzekiel,Blumrichwouldlatergoontodesignandpatentasimilarwheel,calledtheOmniWheel.

VISIONSINEXILE

Anineteenth-centurystatueoftheprophetEzekielbyCarloChelli,atthebaseoftheColonnadellaImmacolatainthePiazzadiSpagna,inRome,Italy.TheBookofEzekiel,oneofthemajorpropheticbooksoftheOldTestament,recordsthesevenvisionsofEzekielduringthetwenty-twoyearshespentinexileinBabylonbetween593and571BC.EzekielwasbornintoapriestlyfamilyinJerusalem,butaftercapturebytheBabyloniansduringafaileduprisingagainsttheirrule,spenttherestofhislifeinMesopotamia.PaoloGaetanoRocco/E+/GettyImages

Ezekiel’svisionoftheSplendoroftheHighestistheinauguralvisionintheBookofEzekiel.Inthisengravingofthevision,arepresentationofthefourwheelscanbeseenintheupperrightcorner.PHAS/UniversalImagesGroup/GettyImages

EzekieldescribestheSplendoroftheHighestfromchapter1tochapter39.After its first visitation, the Splendor of the Highest returns a second time.Ezekielwritesthatonthesecondvisit,thehandsofthehighesttookhimaway.So inmyopinion,nowhe’s sitting in theSplendorof theHighest,next to thepilot.Then they liftoff.Ezekiel feels thepressureonhischest.Hesays,“Andthehandsofthehighestwerepressingontomychest.”Theyflytoavery,veryhighmountain.Upthere,heseesbeneathhimsomethinglikealittlecity.Andinthe center of the city is something like a temple.They flyover this little city,cometoastandstilloverthetemple,andslowlydescend.Andonthatoccasion,Ezekielrecountsthatthenoiseofthewingswasdoublyasloudasithadbeeninthedesert.Afterafewminutestheyagaincometoastandstill.

Wecannowseethisisadescriptionofadvancedtechnology.

When he exits the Splendor of the Highest, there is another one of thehumanlikebeingsinglitteringclothes.ThebeinggreetsEzekielbylaughing.Hesays,“Ah,human.Youhaveeyestosee,butyouseenothing.Youhaveearstohear,butyouhearnothing.”Andthebeinghasastrangemeasuringinstrumentin his hands. InBible translations now, you can read that it was ameasuringinstrument, likeacord.It’sprobablynotacord,but it’ssomethingwithwhichyoucanmeasure,andthestranger,intheglitteringclothes,commandsEzekiel,the human, to measure the whole building on which they landed—the wholetemple.

EzekielinthemeantimenowknowsthatthisbeingisnotGod.Sohe’snotafraid. He has courage, and he asks him: Why? Why should I measure thisbuilding?Andthestrangersaysthatthat’swhywebroughtyouhere,human;todothis job.SoEzekielmeasures thebuilding,andthebeingsreturnhimtohispeople.

A fifteenth-century illuminatedmanuscript of theBook ofEzekiel, illuminated byTaddeoCrivelli(1425–1479) and others, depictingEzekiel’s vision bottom center.Across the centuries, artists andreligiousscribeshavecontinuedtodepictEzekiel’svisions.DEA/A.DAGLIORTIDeAgostiniGettyImages

In chapter 40 of the book of Ezekiel, you find everymeasurement of thebuilding: length,width, stairs, floors—it’s incredible.There are justpages andpages ofmeasurements. AGerman engineer, HansHerbert Beier, who, alongwith a group of other engineers, constructs large buildings in Germany, readEzekiel’smeasurementsof the templeandwondered ifhecouldactuallybuildan architecturally soundbuildingbasedon thosemeasurements.Hewondered,“Isthissomethingwecoulduseorwasit justtheproductofimagination?”Hestarted to reconstruct Ezekiel’s temple inch by inch to scale, until they had acompletemodelofit.Itwasabsolutelyincredible.It’sabsolutelyamazing—weknowtodaywhatEzekielreallysaw.Itwasnotavision.Hedidnotimagineit.

WeknowtodaywhatEzekielreallysaw.Itwasnotavision.Hedidnotimagineit.

At the time of his experiencewith the Splendor of theHighest, Ezekiel—alongwithmuchoftherestoftheJews—wasacaptiveofBabylonia.Heworkedas a slave, in exile from Jerusalem and his home. His people were verydowntrodden.AftertheextraterrestrialsbroughtEzekielbacktohispeople,theybelievedhehadcomeintocontactwiththealmightyGod,becausetheydidnotunderstand aword of technology.Uponhis return they asked him, “What hasbeen done to you?Have you suffered?Were you hungry?Were you thirsty?”AndEzekiel says, “No. Iwasbrought to avery,veryhighmountain. I had totake the measurements of a building. Here are the results.” Because hiscommunitybelievedthatEzekielwasconveyingthewordofGod,thattextneverwentintothetrash.Itenteredtheholyliteratureofhumankind.

And that’s exactlywhat theywanted, the extraterrestrials. They knew thatthousandsofyearsinthefuturethefollowersofEzekielwouldhavetheirowntechnology.Theywouldbeable to fly, theywouldhavesatellitesaround theirplanet,andsoforth.Andinthatfuture,thepeoplewouldrereadtheiroldtexts,theirholy texts, and say,Comeon.This isnotGod.Wearebelievers,butnotbelieversinstupidity.Godismuchbigger.Godisnotexplainable.Thiswritinghas to do with technology. They are talking about wings, about noise, aboutmetalelements,andsoon:thisistechnology.

Accordingtotheoldtraditions,afewhumanswereundoubtedlyabductedbyextraterrestrials.TheyweretakenfromtheEarth,uptoanotherplace.Ofcourse,thesehumansneverused theword“spaceship”because theyhadnoword like

“spaceship,”buttheyexplainedwhathappened.OnecaseisAbraham—hewastaken up. Another case is Ezekiel. The question is, Why? Why were thesegentlementhousandsofyearsagobeingabducted?Becausewhattheysawhadtoenterintotheholyreligion.

An Israeli conservation worker prepares a scrap of one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, recounting theprophetEzekielinconversationwithGod,forexhibitionattheRockefellerMuseuminJerusalemin1997.TheDeadSeaScrolls,whichdatebacktobetweenthethirdcenturyBCandfirstcenturyAD,werediscoveredbetween1947and1956 inelevencavesalong theDeadSea inIsrael.Theyare theoldestgroupofOldTestamentmanuscriptseverfound.MENAHEMKAHANAAFPGettyImages

Only the holy religion—the books, the texts of the holy religion—wouldsurvivethousandsandthousandsofyears.Inthepast,theE.T.sleftwhatIwouldcalla timecapsule,maybeatoneormoreplaces.Howcouldyoubesure thatthis time capsule would be found by a generation in the far future? The

generationof the future firsthas toknow that there is a timecapsule from thepast. Ifyoudon’tknowanything,youwillneverseek.That’swhy, in theholytext,ithastobewrittendown:Iwasabducted.Theybroughtmethereandthere.I had to measure this building. Here is the measuring data. The futuregeneration—us—shouldaskthequestion:Isitpossiblewehavebeenvisitedbybeingsfromouterspace?

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THEPYRAMIDSAccordingtoscholars,theGreatPyramidofKhufuinGiza,Egypt,wasbuilton

whatisconsideredtobethecenterofallthelandmassesofEarth.Themassivestructure is almost perfectly aligned to true north. Inside the pyramid, thedesigners added small shafts aligned toward two specific constellations,OrionandSirius.

MainstreamEgyptologistsbelieveittookonlytwenty-twoyearstobuildtheGreat Pyramid. If that were the case, the Egyptians would have had to cut,transport,andput intoplaceonestoneblockeveryninetyseconds.Andthat isproviding no holidays, no rest, no nothing—just twenty-four hours a day fortwenty-two years. And anyone who knows anything about constructionprocesseswouldsaythatisn’treallypossible.

AnotherinterestingfactisthatinsidetheGrandGalleryoftheGizapyramid,we find the most massive of stones—I mean, huge pieces of rock that wereplacednext tooneanother.Now, rockhasanaturalgrain insideof it.So let’ssayyoucutarockatthequarry,andyoucutitthroughthenaturalgrainandonelinegoeshorizontally.WhatisfascinatingisthatinsidetheGrandGallery,youcan find twopiecesof rocknext to eachotherwhere thegraingoes fromonerock to thenextwithoutany lossofmaterial.Howis thatdone?Ifyouhaveathick,thickbladeorachiselandahammer—crudetools—youwouldbeunableto achieve that result. And there are multiple spots inside the Grand Gallerywhere thisgrain iscontinuous; there isnolossofmaterial.That issensational,butnobodytalksaboutit.

Now,whatdotheancienttextstellusaboutwhoorforwhatpurposethesepyramids were built? We have one very detailed description of how thesemassivestonesweretransportedfromthequarrytothebuildingsite,anditreadsthat the master builders had the capability of putting some type of a white,powderlike substance onto the stones, and some “magical incantations” werespoken.Andthentheybasicallygavethestoneblockapushanditmovedbysixfeet as if bymagic.Now, again, did it reallymove bymagic?No, somethinghappened there. Some technology was implemented. What was it exactly? Ihaven’taclue.

A satellite view of the Giza pyramid complex outside of Cairo, Egypt. According to scholars, theGreat Pyramid of Khufu was built on the center of all the landmasses of Earth—and the threepyramidsalignperfectlywiththestarsofOrion’sBeltintheOrionconstellation.UniversalImagesGroup/UniversalImagesGroup/GettyImages

ThereisabsolutelynoquestionthattheGreatPyramidsofGizawerebuiltbyhumanbeings.TheancientEgyptiansdidit.However,whattheancientEgyptiantextsalsotellusisthattheEgyptiansdiditwiththeassistanceof“theGuardiansoftheSky,”asthetextsrefertothem.Thoseextraterrestrialsdescendedfromtheskies to help the Egyptians with the technology and the planning of thosemonuments, because, we have to understand, the technological frame ofreferenceofourancestorswasinfinitelysmallerthanthetechnologicalframeofreferencewehavetoday.

MainstreamEgyptologistsbelieveittookonlytwenty-twoyearstobuildtheGreatPyramid.Ifthatwerethecase,theEgyptianswouldhavehadtocut,transport,andput

intoplaceonestoneblockeveryninetyseconds.

With everything in our history, there is a clear evolution in technology.Meaning, you start out simple and then you end up with something reallysophisticated. I always liken it to theFordModelTand theFordTaurus.TheModelTwasthefirstaffordable,mass-producedcar.TodayintheFordfamilywe have the Taurus. If you compare the Model T to any modern car of thetwenty-first century, the two of them are in different galaxies. Butwe have aclearevolutionoftechnology.

Westartedoutrathersimplistic,andnowherewearetodaywithmoderncarsthatare technicallycomplex, fuel-efficient, andsoon.But ifyougoback fivethousand years, that evolution of technology is reversed. At first you havemonolithic gigantic blocks, some of them weighing five hundred– plus tons,requiringextraordinaryengineeringcapabilities.Butthenlater,peoplestartedtouse brick-size blocks, resorting to simpler technology. Why?What happenedthere?Thatisnotanordinaryevolutionintechnology.

Almostoutofnowhere,ourancestorswerebuildingpyramidswiththemostgigantic stone blocks. Stone blocks thatwe todaywould have great difficultyreplicating.I’mnotsuggesting that todaywecannotdothis,becauseofcoursewe can. But we would use the most sophisticated, most advanced computertechnologyandmachineryinordertoaccomplishit.Whenourancestorstellusthattheyhadhelpfromelsewhere,weshouldlistentothat.Becausethey’reveryclear in stating that they received help from above. And by “above,” I don’tmean some type of spiritual or divine beings—not at all. Our ancestorserroneously thought theywerebeingvisitedbydivinebeingsorby“gods.” Inreality,theymisinterpretedbeingvisitedbyadvancedspacetravelers.

What we’re being told by modern-day archaeology or by modern-dayEgyptology is different from what the ancient historians wrote down. Forexample,theGreekhistorianHerodotussaidthatthepyramidswerebuiltbytheancientEgyptiansbutwith theassistanceof theGuardiansof theSky. In fact,accordingtoHerodotus,theEgyptianscreditedakingnamedSauridratherthanthepharaohCheops.AndSauridistheonewhobuiltthepyramidsalongsidethe

GuardiansoftheSky.Hewasthemasterbuilderandheinstructedhispeopleonallthedetailsofhowtobuildpyramids.ButaccordingtosomeancientEgyptianhistorians,he receivedall thisknowledge from theGuardiansof theSky, and,according to ancient astronaut theory, these guardians were nothing else butspacetravelers.

One very interesting aspect about this whole Saurid story is that theEgyptians are very clear in stating that Saurid is the same person that theHebrewscalledEnoch.Sowehaveacorrelationbetweentwocultures,andtheyallspeakofthesamething.IfyoureadthebookofEnochandyoureadwhatiswrittenaboutSaurid,thestoriescoincide.Thisisnotacoincidence.Bothstoriesrelate that they had contact with flesh-and-blood extraterrestrials. They sawsomethingandthentheyrelayeditintheirbooks,eachusingthewordsthattheyhadattheirdisposalatthetime.

SKYSCRAPERSOFTHEANCIENTS

Far out on the Giza Plateau, in the desert on the outskirts of what ismodern-day Cairo, Egypt, loom three of themost familiar and yetmostmysteriousmegalithicstructuresintheworld:thegreatpyramidsofEgypt,likethreebronzemountainsorphanedontheplain.TheGreatPyramidofKhufu,theoldestandlargestofthethree,towersfourhundredandeightyfeetabovethesand,orashighasafifty-storyskyscraper.Weighinginatsixandahalfmilliontons,ittooktwoandahalfmillionblocksofstonetobuildthestructure.Andthosetwoandahalfmillionblocksofstone?Theyarebelievedtohavecomefromaquarryfivehundredmilesawayfromthesite of the pyramids.The averageweight of each stone is an astonishingtwo and a half tons,with the heaviest stoneweighing in at an estimatedfiftytoeightytons.

The Great Pyramid is one of the greatest marvels of architecturalengineeringinworldhistory.Andyetarchaeologistshavelongspeculatedabout how the ancient Egyptians were able to build such a structure. Intoday’slargestconstructionsitesandquarries,massivemega-machinesare

used to dig, cut, and lift stone. These man-made vehicles dwarf theirbuilders and perform the work of thousands of men, using modernhydraulic technology. Without equipment such as bulldozers, cranes,forklifts, and excavators, builders could never construct modernskyscrapers.

According to Egyptologists, the civilization that built the pyramids,however,hadnotyetinventedthewheel,didnothavepulleys,andhadnotdiscovered iron.MainstreamEgyptologistsbelieve thatancientEgyptiansbuilt the pyramids with only the simplest of tools: stone balls, copperchisels, rope. But with these limited tools, how did they cut enormousblocks of stone with such precision? How did they transport enormousblocksofstonehundredsofmilesonsandandthenliftthempreciselyintoplace? In fact, there is little consensus amongmainstreamhistorians andEgyptologists as to theactual toolsandmethodsused inconstructing thepyramids. Despite years of research and study, archaeologists andEgyptologistsremainuncertain.

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Ourancestors,numberone,hadacompletelydifferent technological frameofreferencefromus.Andnumbertwo,theydidn’thavethewordsforthingslikecranes. At the time, they didn’t have the words for engines or machines ormotorsorhelicopterbladesorfuelpumps.Sotheydescribedwhatevertheysawwiththevocabularytheyhadaccesstothatbestdescribedwhateveritwastheywerewitnessing.And this iswhywehave suchbizarre stories todayof thingsflying up in the sky, or things descending, or people falling to the groundbecausetheEarthwastremblingandtherewasalotofnoise,fire,andwhirlingdust andwind. People thought they had a divine encounter,when in reality itwasnosuchthing.

Onequestionwemustaskourselvesishowtheinsideofthepyramidwaslit,becausethedeeperyougoinside,thedarkeritgets,andafteronlyafewcorners,afterwalking through theseshafts, itgetspitch-dark.There isno light in therefrom theoutside.Suggestionshavebeenmade that theancientEgyptiansusedcoppermirrors ineverycornerof thecorridors,diverting thesunlight fromtheoutside all theway inside.However, the coppermirrors thatwere found fromancientEgyptiantimeswereverydull.Theyweren’thighlypolishedmirrorsasweare familiarwith today.Therehavebeenresearcherswhohaveactuallysetupthesereal-lifeexperimentswheretheydeterminedprettyquicklythatifthesemirrorswereindeedplacedintheseshafts,afteronlythreeorfourcorners, thesunlightwouldhavedissipatedanddisappeared.Sothattheorydidn’tholdup.

TheDenderaLight, depicted on a stone relief located deepwithin theHathor temple inDendera,Egypt.Becauseofitsstrikingresemblancetoamodern-daylightbulb,somescholarsbelievethisrelicisproofofancientEgyptianelectricaltechnologythatcouldhavebeenusedtonavigatethroughthedarkcorridorsofthepyramids.mountainpix/Shutterstock.com

Thesecondtheorywasthattheyjustusedtorches,butthatwouldmeanyouwould find remnants of soot on the ceilings.Aswe understand it, though, noremnantsofsoothaveeverbeenfound.Evenwhentheytestedformicroscopicremnants,theydidn’tfindanything.SotheonlyremainingconclusionisthattheancientEgyptianslittheinsidewithsometypeofanartificiallightsource.WhyamIdiscussingthis?Isthereevidenceforanartificiallightsource?Theanswerisyes.

AviewofallsixpyramidsoftheGizapyramidcomplexontheoutskirtsofCairo,Egypt.Infront,thesmaller “three Queens” pyramids, and behind, from left to right, the Pyramid ofMenkaure, thePyramidofKhafre,andtheGreatPyramidofKhufu.WitR/Shutterstock.com

InDendera,Egypt,there’sanundergroundcryptthatdepictswhatlookslikeamodern-daylightbulb.Itshowsabulbousobjectwithasnakeinsideandastalkoracablethatgoesunderneathtoatypeofbox.Peoplehavesuggestedthatthisstalkisacablegoingtosometypeofanelectricaldevice,abattery,andthatthiswhole object is a depiction of amodern-day lightbulb. TheAustrian engineerWalterGarnactuallywasabletore-createthisbulbwiththeresourcesavailabletotheancientEgyptians—quitefascinating.What’sevenmorefascinatingisthatthe hieroglyphics surrounding these carvings all say that this is the bringer oflight. And by the way, that crypt in which they found those carvings isundergroundanditwasalwayscalledtheSecretChamberofSecretKnowledge.Only the high priests had access to those panels.Why? Is it because the highpriestsweretheinitiateswhohaddirectcontactwithextraterrestrialswhoweretaughthowtohandlethesetypesoftechnology?

My colleague, Chris Dunn, has suggested that the whole Giza Plateau is

some sort of power plant. Others have suggested that the reason we havepyramidsandobelisksallaroundtheworldisthattheyhaveactedassometypeof wireless technology stations—relay stations that would transmit the powerfromoneplacetoanother.Andthisispartlyduetotheircrystallineproperties.Now,doIpersonallythinkthatthatwasthecase?Idon’tknow.I’mmoreofanuts-and-boltsbasickindofguy,asin,sure,thesemight’vebeenusedforsometypeofpowerrelaystations,andthat’shighlyfascinating,butthemainquestionIhave is,Howwas itdone?Because these thingsoriginate froma timewhen,according tomainstream archaeologists,wewere carvingwith chicken bones.I’mbeingfacetiouswiththechickenbones,butevenacoppertooldoesn’tworkonagraniteboulder,youknow,ifitrequirescutting.Sothecoppertool,inmyopinion,isakintoachickenbone.It’sphysicallyimpossiblethatitworked.Weare talkingaboutphysics.Youcannotcutadensestonewithamaterial that issofterthanthestoneinquestion.

Theshapeofapyramid isoneof themost tellingcommonthreads thatwehave in the entire ancient astronaut theory,becausepyramids existworldwide.Theyexistnotonlywherecultureswereflourishing,butalsoinplaceswhereattimes therewereno cultures flourishing and all of a suddenyou findpyramidshapes.For example, inCentralAmerica theyhave steppedpyramids, and theancientzigguratsofSumerwerealsostepped.WehavepyramidsinChinaandinancientGreece.Ecuadorisfilledwithpyramidsinsidethejunglethattothisdayhave remained unexplored. The Cholula Pyramid in Mexico is the world’slargestmonumenteverconstructedbyhumanhands.Infact, thevolumeof theCholula Pyramid—thewhole pyramid complex—is 4.45million cubicmeters.ThegreatpyramidinEgypthasonly2.5millioncubicmetersinvolume.

The question is,Why? How is it that all around the world we find thesesimilar structures? Because it doesn’t matter where we go, the constructionstylesarealmostidentical.It’sasifall theseancientbuilderswenttothesameschool.

Or,astheancientastronauttheorysuggests,thesepeoplewereallvisitedbythe same teachers—the sameextraterrestrials—andgiven thesedesign ideas inordertobuildmonumentsthatwouldwithstandtime.Becauseinmyopinionallofthesepyramidsarenothingbutcallingcardsforthefuture.They’reincrediblefeats of technology and engineering, and a society with no evolution intechnologywould not really be able to pull them off without an evolution intechnology.So thequestion thenbecomes, Is itpossible that theknowledge tobuild these structureswas given by beings fromabove?Andby that, I’m100

percentreferringtoflesh-and-bloodextraterrestrials.

ThePyramidoftheSunattheTeotihuacancomplexinMexico.Asteppedpyramid,theTempleoftheSunisthethirdlargestpyramidintheworld.Overtwothousandyearsold,muchaboutitspurposeandfunctionremainamystery, includingwhy itwasbuiltoveraman-madetunnel that leads toachamberalmosttwentyfeetbeneaththecenterofthepyramid.

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AnotherveryintriguingfactisthatmanyoftheancientpyramidseitheralignorarebuiltinsomereferencetotheOrionandSiriusconstellations.Why?Theanswer to that might be that those extraterrestrials came from thoseconstellations.Sothereisastrongpossibilitythatextraterrestrialsdidcomefromexactlythosespotsinourgalaxy.

Weretheareasaroundthesepyramidslandingsites?IsthatwhytheChineseandEgyptiansbothorientedtheirpyramidstowardOrionandSirius?Theremayhave been a connection. To me, this is evidence that flesh-and-bloodextraterrestrialstraveledaroundtheEarth,sharingthisknowledgewithdifferentancientcultures.

When there are pyramids all around the world, to attribute that simply tocoincidenceisacop-out.Itisincredibletosuggestthatallofasuddentheyalljustwokeupanddecidedtocreatetheseshapesintheformofpyramids.Sothefactthattheyalllooksimilarandhavethesebizarrestoriesinconjunctionwiththosepyramidshapes,Ithinkthatwehavetostartlookingatthesesymbolsandask,Howdidtheyoriginateandfromwhere?

THESPHINXThe Sphinx has enchanted humankind for centuries. One of the things I findfascinating about the Sphinx is that when you read some of the earliesthistorians’works,whiletheyreportaboutthepyramids,theymysteriouslyleaveout theSphinx.Could thismean that in the eraof the ancientEgyptians therewereperiodswhen theSphinxwascoveredwith sandandnobodyknewof itsexistence?Ifyouthinkaboutthatforamoment,it’shighlyfascinating,becausewhatdid that thinglooklikeat the timeitwasbuiltorrightafter itwasbuilt?SomescholarshavealsosuggestedthatthecurrentheadontheSphinx’sbodyiswaytoosmallforittobeproportionaltothemassivebody.Soallthesetheorieshavebeenproposedthatmaybeatfirst,insteadofitbeingahumanhead,itwastheheadofalion,orsomeotherbeing.Whoknowswhatelsehashappenedoverthelong,longhistoryoftheSphinx?

TheSphinxshowssignsofwatererosioncreatedbyrain,

whichisevidencethatitmustpredate2500BC.

Whatwas theSphinx for?Whywas it built? It’s an incrediblemonument.It’sfantastic.It’sintricate.Thereisastorybehindit—butwhatisthestory?Andpersonally,I’mnotsurewhattheansweris.

WhatIamsureaboutisgeologistDr.RobertSchoch’stheorythattheSphinxbyfarpredates2500BC,theapproximatedatemainstreamarchaeologistsbelievethatitwasbuilt.SchochbelievesthattheSphinxshowssignsofwatererosion,which he believeswas created by rain,which is evidence that itmust predate2500BC.

IfwearetosubscribetotheideathattheSphinxdisplaysmarkingsofwatererosion,thenthatmeansthatwhat’sstaringusinthefaceismuch,mucholderthan what mainstream science proposes. That alone is sensational because itmeansthatourentireracegoesbackmuchfurtherintimethanwhatwe’vebeentold—andthatoursocietygoesbackmuchfurtherintimetoo.

SomehavealsoproposedthatthereisamirrorimageoftheGizaPlateauonMars,withthethreepyramidsandevenwhatmayappeartobeaSphinx.Now,ifthatweretrue,thenthatwouldhavetremendousimplicationsforusasahumanrace.I’monthefence,butifthestoryofthreepyramidsandwhatappearstobeaSphinxonMarsistrue,thenthatwillbetheperfectcallingcardforsomeonetomaketheextraterrestrialconnection.

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OvereighthundredremarkablystraightlinesareetchedontothesurfaceoftheNazcaPlain.Someofthestraightlinesextendasmanyasthirtymiles.TwointersectingtrapezoidsintersecttoformanXinthelowerrightcorner,whilemultiplelinescanbeseenatbottomcenterandontheleft-handsideoftheimage.Fotos593/Shutterstock.com

The Nazca Plain on the coast of southern Peru is really one of the greatestmysteriesofSouthAmerica.Itgoesforaboutfiftymiles,andtherearehundredsof geoglyphs and biomorphs—lines and figures—that are etched on the desertground there. Some of them are simple straight lines; others are trapezoids,figures, and spirals. Some of the lines extend for hundreds of miles towardTiahuanaco (also known asTiwanaku) andPumaPunku.We can’t be exactlysurewhomadetheNazcalinesorwhen.

Mainstream archaeologists think that the Nazca lines were made by theNazca people sometime between AD 400 and 650. Making the lines wouldcertainlyseemtobesomething thatprimitivepeoplecoulddo.All theywould

need to do, essentially, is expose a layer of soil that’s just underneath thesurface.Bydiggingsixtoteninchesintothesurfaceofthedesert,they’dbeabletoexposea lightersoil,whichwouldcreate these lines.Whywould theNazcapeople have done this? Well, mainstream archaeologists say that they weremapping out undergroundwater, or that theyweremaking ecological pleas totheskygodsforfertilityoragoodcroporgoodhunting.Theareaisverymuchadesert.

One of the strangest things about theNazca lines is that they’re seenwellreallyonlyfromtheair.Whenyou’reactuallyatNazca,it’sadesertandkindofdrab,andit’snotlikeyou’reseeingsomethingallthatinteresting.Butonceyougetintoanairplane,youtakeoff,andyou’refivehundredfeetovertheplainandlookingdown,thewholeworldchanges.You’rejustseeingalloftheselinesandfiguresandtrapezoids,andtherearethesegiantfigures,someofwhich—likethemonkey—don’t even exist there, but are native to the Amazon, thousands ofmilesawayovertheAndes.It’sreallyexciting,andyou’reinasenseofwonder—like,Wow, this is amazing. And you really get excited seeing all this, andyou’renotsureexactlywhy.They’rejustabunchoflinesinthedesert,buttheyseemtobeofsuchabigscopeandpartofsomegrandioseplanthat’sthere,butyoucan’tfigureoutwhatitis.It’sfascinating.

AbiomorphofamonkeyatNazca.Atthetimethegeoglyphsandbiomorphsweremade,monkeysarenotbelievedtohavebeenpresentintheNazcaarea—theirhabitatwashundredsofmilesawayin

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TherearecertainhillstotheeastofNazcawhereyoucanclimbupandseesomeofthenearbyfigures,butyoureallycan’tgetagoodideaofthescopeofthe area unless you’re in an airplane. Sowhen you’re thinking ofNazca, youhavetothink,Yes,whatever’sgoingonhere,it’ssomekindofsignalingtothesky gods. Adding to the mystery is that some of the Nazca lines extend forhundredsofmiles,perfectlystraight,asifthey’refollowingsomeenergylineorleylinethroughthedesertandoverthemountains.Theyevengooverclifffacesandrockyareas,obstaclesyouwouldthinktheywouldgoaround.Buttheygooverareaswhereapersonwouldn’tbeabletowalkonthelineitself.It’salmostas if they were etched from an airship with a beam or something cutting astraight line into thedesert.Herewemayhave someevidence that somehightechnology was used in creating the Nazca lines from above. So what is thepurposeofallthis?

The Sun-Star glyph at Nazca. Its composition of multiple overlapping geometric shapes bears anuncannyresemblancetoamandalaoryantra.TatjanaIngold/CourtesyTatjanaIngold

APELICANASLONGASTHREEFOOTBALLFIELDS

In 1927, the young Peruvian archaeologist Toribio Mejia Xesspe washiking in the aridNazcadesert in southernPeruwhenhe stumbledupontheNazca lines—adiscovery thatwouldpuzzle the archaeologicalworldfordecades.Fromhisvantagepointatopaplateauthatstretchedfornearlyfiftybleakmiles,hesawanimmensenetworkofclearlyman-madeancientgeoglyphs,ordrawingsetched into theearth.Thoughhewashighabovethevalleyfloor,hewasstillnothighenoughtoseethegeoglyphsintheirentiretyandthusmakeoutwhatthedrawingswere—butitwasclearthatanancientpeoplehadlaboredwithenormousskilltocreatetheimagesandpatternsoflines.

Years later, when airplane travel over the region became morefrequent, theextentofhisdiscoverywasrealized.Scatteredoveranearlytwo-hundred-square-mile area was an expanse of eight hundred long,perfectlystraightlinesthatstretchedformiles,overvalleysandmountains,accompanied by three hundred intricate, geometric patterns, and seventyanimalandplantdesigns.Thelargestofthefigures,apelican,wasalmostthe size of three football fields. The figures and patterns were of suchoversizedimensionthattheycouldberecognizedforwhattheywereonlyfromfarabove,inthesky.

The Nazca people who created these geoglyphs mysteriouslydisappeared around AD 500.When they did, their capital, Cahuachi, fellinto disarray. Fourteen hundred years later, anthropologists went toCahuachi to study the ancient Nazca civilization, perhaps hoping todiscoverthereasonsfortheirdisappearance.Yetwhattheyfoundhasonlydeepened the mysteries of the Nazca: human skeletons with strangelyelongatedskulls, twice thesizeofaregularperson’s.Fromtheenormouslines that cross the desert to the eerie skulls unearthed in its soil, themysteriesofPerucontinuetochallengemainstreamarchaeology.

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Well,oneofthemostinterestingNazcalinesistheSun-Starglyph.Becauseit’sinaremotearea,notmanytouristswhoflyovertheNazcalinesseeit.Butitis, by far, the strangest and most mathematically precise of all the glyphs atNazca. It isveryobviouslyakindofmandalaoryantra, symbols fromancientIndiaorTibet.And,infact,yantrasandmandalasareassociatedwithcodingandwithflight,machinery,mechanisms,anddevices.“Yantra”means“adevice.”InancientIndia,yantrasareassociatedwithvimanas,theancientairshipsthatwerewrittenaboutintheRamayana,theMahabharata,andotherancientIndiantexts.It’sveryinterestingtothinkaboutwhatamandalaoryantraglyphisdoingintheremote desert ofPeru. Inmymind, itwould appear that there is a connectionbetweenthelinesatNazcaandancientIndiaandthevimanas,thattheSun-Starisacode—ayantra—etchedintothedesert,thatcanbeseenonlyfromthesky.

THEOWL-MANOnehundredfeetlong,ElAstronauta(“TheAstronaut”)isperchedonahillneartheNazcaplateauandisvisiblefromthePeruviancoast.MostmainstreamarchaeologistsrefertotheNazcaastronautas “TheOwl-Man,” a name given to it byMaria Reiche in her bookTheMysteries of the Desert(1949),whichincludedthefirstaerialphotographofthebiomorph.YannArthus-BertrandYannArthus-BertrandGettyImages

Another figure that is particularly interesting is El Astronauta, or “TheSpaceman”—ahumanoidthatappearstobewearingabigspacehelmet,whohasonearmupasifhe’swaving.Anditwouldseemthatthisisoneoftheskygods.Orifhe’snotoneoftheskygodshimself,he’soneoftheNazcapeoplewhoiswaving to the skygods and saying,Hi,we’rehere.Comeand land.Weknowyoucameherebefore—comeback.Wewanttoseeyouagain.

So in many ways it would seem that Nazca is like a giant desert Etch ASketch on which people have been making these gigantically huge figures toattractattentionfromthesky.Andinawaythey’resignals.They’resaying,Thisiswhereweare.It’sverymuchlikewavingtosomebodyandsaying,Hey,I’moverhere.ThemysteryoftheNazcalinesisn’treallyintheircreation—drawingthe lines wouldn’t have been difficult to accomplish, unlike hauling giantmegalithicblocksaround—butinstead,themysteryisintheirpurpose.Alotofeffortwentintocreatingthelines.Ibelievethepurposewastosignalthegods,tosignaltheextraterrestrialsintheirairshipsandsay,“Hereweare.Landhere.”

There is a rather interesting theory about Nazca that explains it as a veryearly cargo cult. Cargo cults became more common duringWorldWar II in

Melanesia,whentheseislandswereatthegeographicalcenterofthestruggleforcontrol of the Pacific. Japanese, British, Australian, and American militaryforces came to these remote islands, built airstrips, and started landing cargoplanes and bombers. They would get the natives to help them build theseairstrips. And in exchange, they would give them T-shirts and other clothingitems,cansofcornedbeef,andvariousthingsthatthemilitaryhadlyingaround.Thenativeswerethrilledtogetallthisstuff.Andthenwhenthewarended,themilitarysuddenlypulledoutof these islands.All theplanesandeveryone left,and things went back to the very sleepy normal life that was on these littleislandsbeforethewar.Thenativesthenwouldgotothechiefandsay,Whatwasthat all about? These planes came here. The natives didn’t really understandWorldWar II—what all the fighting was about—but they liked the fact thattheseplanescameoutof theskyandbrought themstuff.And theywanted theplanestoreturn.

NazcaislikeagiantdesertEtchASketch.

In response, the chiefs on these islands created a kind ofmodern religion,whichwenowknowascargocults.Thechiefssaid,Well,thatwasourancestorssendingcargo from thegodsoutof the sky tous.Thechiefs then said,Togetthese planes to come back out of the sky with all this good stuff they werebringing us, we need to attract these planes again.What they would dowasbuildmodelsofairplanesoutofbambooandwood,andtheywouldputthemattheendoftheairstriptotrytoattracttheplanestocomeoutoftheskyandbringthecargo.Andthisiswhywecallitacargocult.WithNazca,wecanseehowacargo cult could have developed there after the extraterrestrialswho had beenusingitassomekindofprehistoricspaceportorairportleft.

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THELADYOFTHELINES

In 1994, UNESCO declared the Nazca lines a World Heritage site,protectingthesemysteriousandawe-inspiringworksforthebenefitofthefuture and the shared legacy of humankind. But this may have neverhappenedwithoutthetirelesseffortsofMariaReiche,aGermanresearcherwhowasoneofthefirstpeopletobringglobalattentiontotheNazcalines—andtofightfortheirpreservation.Reiche,whospokefivelanguagesandstudiedmathematics,astronomy,andgeography,beganherworkatNazcaasanassistanttotheAmericanscholarandhistorianPaulKosok,thefirstseriousresearchertostudytheNazcalines.

After Kosok discontinued his work at Nazca in 1948,Maria Reichecontinued her research and advocacy: she discovered eighteen new

geoglyphsandpersuadedthePeruvianAirForcetotakeaerialsurveysandphotographsofthelines,thenwroteabookbasedonherresearch.Withtheproceeds from her book, Reiche campaigned to officially protect thegeoglyphs,hiringguardsoutofherownpocket topatrol them.After thePeruviangovernmentcutpartof thePan-AmericanHighwaythroughoneofthegeoglyphs,Reichespentlargesumsofherownmoneytolobbyandeducateofficialsandthepublicaboutthelinesandtofurtherprotectthemfromencroachingtraffic.Havingsucceededinconvincingthegovernmentto restrict public access to the area, Reiche went on to sponsor theconstruction of a tower near the highway so that visitors could view thelines from a safe distance and still experience the power andmystery oftheseancientrelics.BythetimeMariaReichediedatninety-five,shewashailedasanationaltreasureherselfandknownas“TheLadyoftheLines.”ThePeruvianpresidentAlbertoK.FujimorievensuggestedthattheNazcalines should be renamed the Reiche lines. Today, the Nazca airport andoverfiftyschoolsinPeruarenamedafterMariaReiche.

Atwo-mile-longtrapezoidatNazca.Othergeometricfiguresincludesquares,spirals,andtriangles.Sometheoristshavesuggestedthatthetrapezoidsresemblemodern-dayrunwaysforaircrafts.StefanoButtafoco/Shutterstock.com

An elongated skull, excavated from the necropolis at Paracas, Peru.Many of the elongated skulls

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Zecharia Sitchin, an expert scholar in the history of the Sumerian culture,theorized that the Anunnaki—the gods of the ancient Sumerians—wereextraterrestrials.TheAnunnakicametoNazcafromSumer,fromancientIndia,fromMountMeru,maybeeven from themoon right toNazca.And theywerelanding.Theywereunloadingtheircargo,food,clothing,high-techobjects,andtools for quarrying andworking stone.Thiswas the heyday ofNazca culture,when theAnunnakiwere usingNazca as a spaceport.And then they left.Thepeople at Nazca wanted them to come back, so they began making thesesymbols,creatingmoreairstrips,hopingthatthegodswouldreturn.

RecentstudiesatNazcabyJapanesearchaeologistshaveindicatedthattherewere at least four different cultures making different lines, figures, andtrapezoidsthroughouttheNazcaarea.ThisshowsthatNazcawasnotcreatedbyone culture at one time, but was an ongoing development for centuries, eventhousandsofyears.Theonethingthatunitesallthedesignsisthattheyaremadeto be viewed from the sky.Without an aerial view of the complex geometricdesigns, they make no sense. So it would seem that all of the cultures weretryingtosignalsomekindofskypeople.

Whywould theAnunnaki come toNazca in the first place?Nazca is verywell situated for flight routes, particularly those that cross the Pacific Ocean.And,fromNazca,youcaneasilyreachtheAltiplano—thehighplateauinPeruandBolivia—and access areas like Tiahuanaco andLakeTiticaca. TheNazcalinesthatextendhundredsofmilestowardthoseregionsindicatethatonceyouarrivedinNazcawithyourairship,thelinesthemselvesdirectedyoufarthereastintotheAndes.

TheNazcaareaofPeru,alongwithregionsjustsouthofitcalledParacasandIca, are also the areas where archaeologists have discovered many strangeelongated skulls. Similar elongated skulls have also been found atTiahuanacoandPumaPunku.So these are the samepeople,whoever theywere; theyhadelongated skulls, theywere on the coast ofPeru, and theywere in theAndes.Thiselongationisanunusualcranialdeformation.Wedon’tknowwhetheritisnaturalorwascausedbyintentionalintervention,likecranialbinding.

Aproto-Nazcaelongatedskull,circa200–100BC.Descouens,Didier,“Homosapienssapiens.”Photograph.2012.Wikipedia.org,https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/D%C3%A9formation_P%C3%A9ruvienne_MHNT_Noir.jpg

Cultures around the world going back to at least 3000 BC bound andcompressed infants’ skulls to force them togrow intoanelongatedshape.TheOlmecdidthis.ItwasdoneinPeru.ItwasdoneonremoteislandsinthePacific,likeVanuatu. Itwasdone inAfrica, in theCongo.TheKurdsofnorthern Iraqdid this.Skeletons found inMaltahadelongatedheads.TheancientEgyptiansdid it. There is a bust of the daughter ofAkhenaten andNefertiti, the famouspharaoh and queen of the Aten period of Egypt, and she clearly has thiselongatedhead.

Thisisamysterytoarchaeologists.Wedon’tknowwhyancientpeopledidthis.Weretheypossiblytryingtoimitateextraterrestrialswhonormallylookedlike this? Because when we think of people with these elongated heads, weshould remember that the Anunnaki were described as these giants withelongatedheads.Or had they just found away to elongate a human skull andthusdoublethebraincapacityofaperson?Andwhywouldtheydothat?Weretheytryingtomakepeoplemorepsychic?Givethemstrongermentalabilitiesorsomethinglikethat?What’sreallystrangeisthatthisisfoundallovertheworld.Imean, this is something thathad tobe learned, something thatwas taught tothem.

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AlsoinPeruwefindtheIcastones.TheIcastonesarethousandsofstonesofvarioussizes—someassmallasabaseball;othersmuchlarger,sortofmedium-sizeboulders—thatwereallegedlydiscoveredinanareaaroundIca,Peru,whichissouthofLimaalongthecoastaldesertgoingtowardthefamousNazcaglyphs.Eachof thesestones is inscribedwithunusual scenes—people interactingwithwhat seem tobeprehistoricanimals,orpeople looking through telescopes, forexample.SomeoftheIcastonesseemtobestrangemapsofsomeoftheworldbeforeours.

A few of the controversial Ica stones. By the 1970s, Dr. Cabrera had collectedmore than eleventhousandspecimensofthestones.In1996,heopenedhismuseumdedicatedtoshowcasingthemandtheirincredibleimagery,suchaswhatappearstobeatelescope(bottomcenter).ocphoto/Shutterstock.com

ThestonesweresoldtoawealthydoctornamedJavierCabrera.ImethimanumberoftimesinPeru.Hecreatedamuseumforhisstones.Dr.CabreraeventhoughtthatoneofthestoneswasinfactamapofMars.SomeoftheIcastonesseem to depict ancient surgeries taking place—doctors opening people up andtaking out their hearts. Dr. Cabrera believed they were depicting hearttransplantsandotherkindsofsophisticatedmedicaloperations.Theactionsthatare depicted on the Ica stones are so sophisticated, it seems impossible thatancient people were doing anything like this. Therefore, if the Ica stones aregenuine,itwouldseemtobethatthisismedicalknowledgecomingfromsomeadvancedcivilizationofextraterrestrials.

To say the least, the Ica stones are very, very controversial. Mainstreamarchaeologists don’t acknowledge them as genuine ancient artifacts. In fact,some accuseDr.Cabrera of creating a gigantic hoax, but thatwould be fairlydifficult,astherearethousandsofthesestones.Somepeoplesaythatsomearereal,while someare fake.Wedon’t reallyknow.Theycanbeseen today inaprivatemuseuminIca,Peru,eventhoughDr.Cabrerapassedawaysomeyearsago.Whatwedoknowis that the Icastoneswere foundnear theNazca lines.AnditwouldseemthatthereissomeconnectionbetweentheIcastonesandtheNazcalines.

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The most tangible evidence that we have regarding possible extraterrestrialtechnology is, in my opinion, the stone-cutting techniques of some ancientcivilizations.Because in some instances,weourselves todaywouldhavegreatdifficulty replicating what our ancestors allegedly accomplished with

stonemasonry.PumaPunkuissuchaprimeexample.In1549,whilesearchingforthecapitaloftheIncaEmpire,PedroCiezade

LeónandhisSpanishconquistadorsdiscoveredtheruinsofwhat lookedlikeamassive temple complex at what is now called Tiahuanaco (also known asTiwanaku).MainstreamarchaeologistssuggesttheseruinswereoncethecenteroftheTiahuanacocivilization,butlittleisknownaboutthefortythousandorsopeoplewholivedhereorthestructurestheyleftbehind.

Of special interest are the walls of Tiahuanaco’s large courtyard, whichfeature numerous carved stone faces thatmay suggest those of extraterrestrialvisitors.ButlocatedjustahalfmileawayfromthetempleatTiahuanacolietheruinsofwhat is thought tobeyetanother templecomplex, themysterioussiteknownasPumaPunku,“TheGatewayofthePuma.”ThenamewasgivenbythelocalAymarapeople,whofoundartifactsatthesitedepictingwarriorswearingmasksmadeofpumaskulls.Butwhatwasit?Atemple?Ameetingplace?Someelaboratemonument?Allofthesepossibilitieshavebeensuggested,buttothisdaynooneknows justwhat thisplacewas,whobuilt it,orexactlyhowold itreallyis.

ThePonceStela (left), amonolithic statue in theTemple ofKalasasayaatTiahuanaco.ThePonceStelaisvisiblethroughthemaindoorofKalasasayaasseenfromthesubterraneantemple.Thewallsofthesubterraneantemplearecoveredwith194carvingsoffaces,eachonedifferentfromthenext.javarman/Shutterstock.com

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Massivestone“H”blocksatPumaPunku.Eachstonewascutwithincredibleprecision,designedtointerlockwith the surrounding stones. The blocks fit together like a puzzle, forming load-bearingjointswithouttheuseofmortar.DmitryBurlakov/Shutterstock.com

PumaPunkuislocatedinthehighlandsoftheBolivianAndes.ItissituatednexttoLakeTiticaca,thehighestnavigablelakeintheworld.TheruinswefindatPumaPunkuare simplyextraordinary.PumaPunkudefies logicandhasnocomparison anywhere in theworld.Whatwe have there are not only giganticstoneplatforms,whichatonepointintimepossiblyallfittogether,butwealsohave stone cuts that are highly sophisticated and that have nothing to dowithanythingritualisticorwithanyornamentationsuchasthedepictionsofflowers,faces,oranimals,orsomethingthathasbeencreatedfortheworshipofthegods.PumaPunkuisananonymoussite.Therearenoinscriptionsthere.Nodepictionsofanypeople.Inmyopinion,PumaPunkuisthemostmysterioussiteonPlanetEarth,eclipsingeventhepyramidsatGiza.

ThemostprominentstonesfeaturedatPumaPunkuaregreyandesiteandred

sandstone. We find clear evidence of a machining signature at Puma Punku.Howthiswasdoneremainsamysterytothisday.Wealsofindwhatseemtobephysical impossibilities in ancient rock-cutting techniques—in Ollantaytambu,Peru, forexample—whereentireblocksof stoneweresomehowcutoutof therock face.Howwas thebackof thatblock releasedso that theblockcouldbetaken out from the rock face? It seems that what we have here is a physicalimpossibility. I’ve talked tomining engineers and all sorts of people involvedwithrockcutting,andtheytoldmethatunlessyouhaveanaccesspointwhereyoucanslide thebladebehind it,youcannotdo this. Ifmodern-dayengineerstellmethattodaywedon’thaveaneasywayofdoingthis,thenhowonEarthdidourancestorssucceedinreleasingthebackoftheblock?

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The reason I am convinced that sophisticated technology was utilized incuttingtheseancientrocksisthatifwegotoastonequarrytodayandlookatthe

scopeofmachineryrequiredtoaccomplishsimilarthings,well,thosemachinesarehuge.They’remonstrositiesthatnotonlyhavethesebig,giganticbladestoreleasethestoneblocksfromtherockface,butalsoneedaddedwater,becauseifyou don’t add water to the blades, then the blades will get too hot anddisintegrateormelt.

AtPumaPunku there’s thisoneandesiteblock thathas thisperfectgroovewith holes drilled at equidistant positions. Now, it is a scientific fact that anandesiteblockcannotbecutwithcoppertools.That’sjusthowit is.Formanyyears, researchershavesuggested thatsome typeof laserorplasma toolswereused at Puma Punku. However, throughmachinist and toolmaker ChristopherDunn’s research, we have evidence that lasers or plasma tools—heat-relatedtools—wereneverusedontheseblocks.However,whatwedofindisasurfacethatmight have been achievedwith a type of diamond saw or diamondmill.Anyonewhohas ever been toPumaPunkumarvels at the fact thatwhenyoutouch the cut rocks, their surface is extremely fine. It’s almost like touchingabathroommirror—thatishowfineandperfectthesurfacesareatPumaPunku.Themainstreamarchaeologyexplanationthatallofthiswasaccomplishedwithobsidianorwithchickenbonesdoesn’tholdup.

Another question we have to ask ourselves is, How were these giantplatforms moved from point A to point B? According to some scholars, thequarriesforthesestoneswereasfarawayaseightymiles.Somehavesuggestedthat these stone blockswere transportedwith the help ofwooden rollers. ButwhatnobodytalksaboutisthefactthatTiahuanacoissituatedatanaltitudeof12,800feet,whichmeansweareabovethenaturaltreeline.Notreesevergrewinthatarea,meaningnotreeswerecutdowntheretouseaswoodenrollers.Thewooden-rollertheoryfallsaway.

OnWikipediayoucanreadthatPumaPunkuwasbuiltbetweenAD536andAD600.But,ifyouasksomebodylikeme,PumaPunkuandTiahuanacomightdate back as far as 12,000 BC—about 14,000 years ago. And the idea that aprecivilization existed before our recorded history is something that ancientastronaut theorists have tried to prove for a very long time—that our historydatesbackmuchfurtherthanwhatwehavebeentaught.

PumaPunkuandTiahuanacomightdatebackasfaras12,000BC

When Dr. Arthur Posnansky, an eminent archaeologist, looked atTiahuanaco, he determined the symbols that are carved on many of themonumentsarepartofacalendar.Whenhesatdowntocalculatetheageofthemonumentsbasedonthatcalendar,hecameupwithanumberthatisincrediblyold, at least ten thousand years. One of the results that he calculated actuallywentbackseventeenthousandyears.Sowehaveamonumentthatforallintentsand purposes was determined, through its own calendar, to be seventeenthousandyearsold.Mainstreamarchaeologistsconsiderthosecalculationsfalse.They think thathemighthavemadeamistakeor that the symbols themselvescontained mistakes essentially indicating that our ancestors didn’t know whattheycarvedintotherock.Idisagreewiththatnotion,becauseourancestorswereassmartaswearetoday,intellectuallyspeaking.Theonlyvariationisthattheyhad a difference in comprehension of technology. In other words, theirtechnologicalframeofreferencewasmoreprimitivethanourstoday.

Today,withground-penetratingradar, researchershaveactuallydeterminedthattherearemoreblocks,andsomeoftheseblocksarenowbeingexcavatedatadepthof twelve feet.Thismeans there is a lot of soil that had tohavebeenbuilt up for everything to disappear. The idea is that the reason we can findblocksandstructuresthatarefive,six,andtenfeetundergroundisthatatsomepointsometypeofacataclysmhappenedthatwashedovereverythingandthuswehavethatthicksoillevelabovethosestructures.

GOLDFLYERS

The dense jungles and rugged mountains of Colombia contain a vastnumber of archaeological sites. Many treasure hunters believe thelegendarycityofgold,ElDorado,lieshiddenthere,somewherebeneathathick canopy of trees. While the mythical metropolis has yet to bediscovered,earlyinthetwentiethcenturytombraiderssearchingalongtheMagdalena River stumbled upon a grave site that mainstreamarchaeologists date back to a pre-Columbian civilization known as theQuimbaya (Tolima). The Quimbaya were famous for their gold and

metalwork.Among the objects the tomb raiders found were thousands of small,

two-to three-inch solid gold figurines, intricately and precisely carved.Though many of the figurines represented local insects and wildlife, ahandful stood out for their remarkable resemblance, in minute detail, tomodern aircraft—demonstrating that the Quimbaya understood theprinciples of flight. In 1996, German aviation enthusiasts and modelbuildersDr.AlgundEenboomandPeterBeltingsuccessfullybuiltandflewremote-controlled scale models of two of the gold flyers, adding onlylandinggearandanengine—demonstratingwithoutadoubt that thegoldQuimbayaflyersareaerodynamicallysound.

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How could our ancestors—who lived thousands of years beforeaerospaceengineering—havesoaccuratelydepictedairplanes?Couldtheyhave observed such craft firsthand? Is it possible that our ancestorswitnessed aircraft in flight, similar to our modern planes, piloted byextraterrestrialbeings?

SowhobuiltPumaPunku?According to thenativeAymarapeople, itwasnotthem.Whenyouaskthemwhobuiltit,theypointtotheskyandsayitwaslosdioses:thegods.Sothenwehavewhatiscalledlivingmythology,inwhichpeoplestillalivetodaytellusexactlyhowsomeofthesethingscameabout.TheAymara themselves say that they had no hand in building Puma Punku.Accordingtooral traditionsoftheAymara,Tiahuanacowasbuiltasaplaceofpilgrimage for significant events that took place at Puma Punku. What werethesesignificantevents?Accordingtothetraditions,peopledescendedfromtheskyandjump-startedcivilizationinthatregionoftheworld.Yetwhenwehearstorieslikethis,welooktheotherwayandsay,Oh,comeon.It’snothingelse

butfantasy.WhenthefirstSpanishchroniclersappearedonthescene,andtheyaskedthe

locals“WhobuiltPumaPunku?,” the locals toldofa legend thatPumaPunkuwasbuilt inasinglenightbythegods.Whenyoulookatthecomplexthatwefind today, though, it’s very hard to believe that any of this was built in onenight.Again,whatwe have here ismythology.But any type ofmythology isrootedinsometypeoftruth.SowehavetofigureoutwhatthetruthisbehindPumaPunku.

ThelocalstoldofalegendthatPumaPunkuwasbuiltinasinglenightbythegods.

Calendar calculations of some of the glyphs found at Tiahuanaco suggestthat Tiahuanacomay have been built because of whatmay have happened atPumaPunkubefore.AndTiahuanaco isnothingelsebutaplaceofpilgrimagefor people to congregate and remember the time when something significanthappenedatPumaPunku.Inmyopinion,thethingthatwassignificantaboutitwasanextraterrestrialvisitbyancientaliensintheremotepastthatourancestorswitnessedfirsthand.

IthinkthatPumaPunkuistheonlysiteonPlanetEarththatmayhavebeenbuilt directly by extraterrestrials. Even though I wouldn’t be surprised if theextraterrestrialscommissioned theAymara tohelp them in theirundertaking. IsaythisbecauseIdon’tthinktheextraterrestrialsevergottheirhandsdirty.Theysimply showed our ancestors how to use their machines. To be clear, thepyramids were built by human beings. In fact, I think that all of the ancientmonuments were built by human beings. But the extraterrestrials shared theirengineering knowledge with our ancestors. Puma Punku was a type of basecampfromwhichtheysentout theircraft inordertoexplore,forexample, theAmericas.Bear inmindthatwealsohavestoriesofViracochaorKukulcanorQuetzalcoatl—the winged serpent—arriving at Lake Titicaca, which isconsideredtobeanaveloftheworld.Andanaveloftheworldinancienttimeswasconsideredtobeaplacewherelifeoriginated.Delphi,Greece,isconsideredanothersuchnavel.

Today,PumaPunkuisinruins.ThatmeanstherewasapointintimewhenPumaPunkuwascomplete.Sowhathappened?IsitpossiblethatsometypeofacataclysmiceventdestroyedPumaPunku?Orwasitdisassembledonpurpose?

Aswithanyvisit,oranyproject,thetimearriveswhenitisfinished.Andthatiswhy some of these contacts ended—because the extraterrestrials went on todifferentplaces.IalsospeculatethatPumaPunkuwasdeliberatelydestroyedbyits original builders, the extraterrestrials, right before they decided to leavePlanetEarthandgoontotheirnextmission.

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ThefirstrecordedcivilizationthatwehaveonthebooksofantiquityisSumer,whichisinmodern-daysouthernIraq.RightoutoftheStoneAge,theSumerianculture comes into existence and they create over one hundred of the “firsts”neededforamoderncivilization:schools,astronomy,medicine,agriculture,and

soon.Manyofthepinnacledevelopmentsthatweusetodaysprungupovernightin southern Iraq. We see this technology, spawned in ancient Iraq, beingdisseminated through all of the otherMiddle Eastern cultures and into SouthAmericaaswell.

How did this take place if there weren’t any transoceanic cultures at thattime? Maybe as the ancient people tell us, their gods were possibly alsoextraterrestrialsandwould’vehadveryeasyglobalaccesstoallthecivilizations.

What’sinterestingabouttheSumeriancultureisthatthey’veleftusartifactsandstonetabletsthatstillexisttoday.Theirwrittenlanguage,cuneiformscript,was recorded in clay. Zecharia Sitchinwas a linguistwho not only translatedSumeriancuneiformwritings,butalsolookedatothercultures,sawhowcertainwordswere shared, and thenvalidated themas accurate linguistic translations.SitchinreallytookthenextstepinmakingtheconnectionsbetweenSumerandothercultures,andnotjustbyshowingthetranslationofawordoraphrase.Hespentfiftyyearsdoingresearchintothesetopics.

Sitchinwas also one of the scholars to pioneer the idea that the Sumeriangods,theAnunnaki,wereflesh-and-bloodbeings,basinghisconclusionsontheSumerians’cuneiformwritings,whichveryclearlydescribearaceofbeingswholivedamongthemandwhomtheydescribedasbeingtheirgods.

CUNEIFORM

Theoldestwritingsystemintheworld,cuneiform—wedge-shapedwriting—wasdevelopedbytheSumerians but used by all of the great Mesopotamian civilizations, from the Assyrians to theBabylonians.Claytabletsweretheidealmediumforeverydaycuneiformrecordssuchasbillsandinventories,butcuneiformwasalsocarvedintostoneattemplesandmonuments.

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IfyouweretoaskanancientSumerian,“Howisitthatyouknowsomuchaboutastronomyandmathematics?”they’dhavesaid,“EverythingweknowweweretaughtbytheAnunnaki,”meaningthosewhocomefromheaventoEarth.TheSumerianswereveryclearindiagrammingalloftheknownplanetsinoursolarsystemaccurately.However,theyincludedanadditionalplanet,whichtheycalledNibiruandidentifieditasthehomeplanetoftheAnunnaki.

SumeriandepictionsoftheAnunnakialwaysshowthemasdescendingfromthe skies in awinged disk.Why awinged disk?Well, ancient humans didn’tunderstand technology thewaywe do today. So after seeing a being like thiscomingdownfromtheheavensinsometypeofcraft,theygavethecraftwingstoshowthatithadthepowerofflight.Itmeanstheywerewitnessingthepowerofflight.

TheAnunnakiaresaidtohaveoriginallyarrivedonEarth450,000yearsago.Theycameseekinggoldandpreciouselementstorepairtheirplanet’sdwindlingatmosphere. They explained to the Sumerians that through their own rise to atechnologicalculture,theydamagedtheiratmosphere—butfoundthattheycouldrepair it by spraying fine particulates of gold into the atmosphere. SitchintranslatedancientSumerian tablets thatdescribe theAnunnakiusingMarsasa

waystationintransportinggoldfromEarthtoNibiru.Andtherearedescriptionsof a large monument of an Anunnaki face being built on Mars—which stillexiststodayasthefaceonMars.

LOSTWRITINGSOFTHEANCIENTS

OntheeastbankoftheTigrisRiver,nearthemoderncityofMosul,Iraq,lietheruinsoftheancientcityofNineveh.Historianscallthispartoftheworldthe“cradleofcivilization”becauseitwashometotheSumerians,anadvanced civilization that originally inhabited Mesopotamia fromapproximately3000 to4000BC.The ancientSumerians created the first-knownformofwriting,calledcuneiform,consistingofshapesandsymbolsinscribed on clay tablets or carved into stone. For three millennia, thecuneiformwritingsystemwasusedbyancientpeoples.ButbythesecondcenturyAD, the script had become extinct, and all knowledge of how toreaditwouldbelostforthousandsofyears.

It was in the ruins of Nineveh that archaeologists discovered greatarchivesofasmanyasthirtythousandofthesecuneiformclaytablets.Likemanyancientcultures,theSumeriansdevotedtheirwritingtoaccountsofthecreationofEarthandhumankind.ButwhathaspuzzledarchaeologistsforyearswerethestoriestheSumerianswroteabouttheirgods,atribeofbeings theycalled the“Anunnaki.”TheSumeriansbelieved these“gods”haddescendedfromtheskytoEarthlongbeforetheSumerianshadarrivedinNineveh.

A decade after the discovery of the trove of tablets, archaeologistsstumbledupon another find thatwould shock theworld: the ruins of thelegendarySumeriancapitalcityofUr.Forcenturies,thiscitywasthoughtto have been a myth. But at this site, scientists discovered the greatZigguratofUr,apyramid-shapedstructureoveronehundredfeethighthatwassaidtohavebeentheadministrativecenterofthecity.Thecuneiformtablets foundat this site revealedanactual ancientSumerianculture thatwasversedinagriculture,science,medicine,mathematics,kingship,laws,

courts, judges, and schools. Yet, of the half million to two millioncuneiform tablets that have been excavated inmodern times, only aboutthirty thousand to one hundred thousand have been read or published.Millionsoftabletswaittorevealtheirsecrets.Coulditbethathere,intheancientcuneiformtexts,wewillfindfurtherevidenceofalienscomingtoEarthandsharingtheirextensiveknowledge?

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When theAnunnaki first landedhereonEarth, somewere assigned todigcanalsandothers towork inmining.Otherswereassigned todoshipbuildingand things at sea. After about forty or fifty years, the Anunnaki who werebuildingthecanalsanddoingtheminingonEarthstartedtorevolt.Thesegodssaid,Listen, thisworkis toomuchofalaborioustaskforus.Wewouldliketocreateaslaveracefashionedfromthehominoidbeingthatlivesherenaturally,thatwoulddotheworkforus.Andthat’sexactlywhattheSumeriantextstellus:humanbeingswerecreatedtoassistthegodsindoingtheirwork.

It’s an interesting similarity that the Sumerians describe the Anunnakicominghereandcreatingusintheirimage,justastheBiblesaysGoddidwithAdamandEve,butwiththeAnunnaki,it’sforaspecificpurpose—tominegoldforthem.Andifwethinkaboutourobsessionwithgoldtoday,peoplehaveonly

toholdgoldandtheygetexcited,not tomentiongold’smonetaryvalueinourcurrent financial structure. Maybe we’re even genetically programmed to notonlyminethegold,buttoreallylikethegold.

Sumerian legendsdescribehow twoAnunnaki scientistscreatedus in theirimage,howtheygeneticallyengineeredthefirsthumanbeing.Interestingly,ourDNAcontainsabunchof“junkDNA.”Andwehaven’tbeenabletodeterminewhat this is possibly used for. Humans’ genetic structure seems to have beenpatchedtogether,splicedhere,movedthere.It’saverydisorganizedsystem,inwhichwehaveactualgenetic leftovermaterial.So,many theoriessuggest that“junkDNA”couldbeleftoverextraterrestrialmaterial.

Mainstream science tries to explain human evolution by looking at fossilrecordsofdifferentskullsandbonesanddrawingaconnectionbetweenusandtheNeanderthalortheAustralopithecus,whomweknowwasevolvinghereonEarth.Buttheyhaven’tbeenabletofindwhattheycallthemissinglink,sometypeofspeciesthatactuallyconnectsustotheNeanderthal.Becausetheyareinnowayus.They’rebigboned;they’refullofhair.Ifwewerebornintothewild,we would burn from the sun, we would get cut by leaves and branches—somehowalongtheway,therewasageneticinterventionfromtheNeanderthaltous.

Assyrianwingeddeities(Anunnaki)flanktheTreeofLife inanAssyrianreliefcirca865BC,fromthePalaceofKingAshurnasirpalintheancientcityofNimrud,Iraq.Krikkiat/Shutterstock.com

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EighthcenturyBCAssyrianreliefsofawingedgodandajaguar-headedgod,alsofromthePalaceofKingAshurnasirpalintheancientcityofNimrud,Iraq.Quintanilla/Shutterstock.com

Whenwe lookat theEnumaElish, theBabyloniancreationepicwritten inSumeriancuneiform,weseeaveryinterestingdescriptionofhowthefirstman

wascreated.WhenwelookatthepictogramthataccompaniestheEnumaElish,weseeasceneofthechiefAnunnakiscientist,Ninhursag,holdinguptheatom.And,asabackdrop,weseewhatappeartobevasesortubesonashelf.Couldthisbethefirstsignofaninvitrofertilization?

AnancientcuneiformstarmapexcavatedfromtheseventhcenturyBCLibraryofAshurbanipalintheruinsofNineveh, Iraq.Theoldest survivingroyal library in theworld, itcomprisesmore thanthirtythousandcuneiformtexts.©TheTrusteesoftheBritishMuseum

TheEnumaElishalsorecountsawarbreakingoutamongtheAnunnaki,anddescribes the godMarduk returning to Jupiter. This could be partlywhy theykept such accurate astronomical data, perhaps for tracking this exiting andreturningoftheirgod.TheBabylonianswereveryastuteastronomers.Theybuiltstructures that allowed them todovery specificmeasurementsof the sky, andrecordedthisassacredinformation,sometimesoverhundredsoreventhousandsofyears.

But theyaren’t theonlyones. It turnsout thatallover theplanet,wehavestone edifices where there have been clear observations that allow forastronomicalmovementstohavebeentracked.Alotoftheseplacesaroundtheworldthatwereusedforastronomicalobservationscouldhavebeensetupforaspecificreasonwhytheywerewatchingthesky.ItcouldbethattheywereawareofalargercycleoftimethattalkedaboutthereturnofcertaingodsthatwouldbecomingtoEarth.Anditseemsthateveryculturearoundtheworldhasasimilarline of watching the heavens for key markers of changes, to know whensomethingmightpredictthereturnoftheirgods.

Maybe there’s a deeper layer of our history that we can discover byunearthingsomeoftheseartifactsandseeingthatthereisatechnologicalpartofourhistorywestillhaveyettouncover.Andifwelookatalltheotherancientcultures—theMayans,theInca,theEgyptians—theyallhavethisknowledgeofa celestial-based time system. A lot of information that we hold as sacredmythological tales could in fact be data describing a time when humansinteractedwithlivinggods,whatwewouldtodaycallextraterrestrials.

Mythologicaltalescouldinfactbedatadescribingatimewhenhumansinteractedwithlivinggods.

Therearemanysimilaritiesinmythologiesaroundtheworldthatspeakofatime when gods lived among their people. We look at it now as simplymythology.Buteveryculturearoundtheworldwenttogreatlengthstoinscribehieroglyphs and create huge monuments dedicated to their gods, which talkaboutatimewhentheirgodswereactuallyhere.Manyofthebiblicalstoriesthattakeplaceinwhatwereonceconsideredmythicallocations,suchastheancientcityofUr,havebeendiscoveredbyarchaeologistsandconfirmedas real.Andwhen they excavated the ancient city of Ur they found unbelievable artifacts,like the flood tablet, which is one of the earliest recorded tellings of a greatdeluge,oftheFlood.

WhenweanalyzetheSumerianmythsabouttheAnunnaki,wereallyneedtoconsidertheminthatlight.EverythingelsetheSumeriansleftusoursciencehasconfirmedisaccurate—frommathematicsandastronomicalinformationtolaws,courts, and judges.Unfortunately, though,when they talkabout theAnunnaki,sciencestillhasaproblemcrossingthatlinethatextraterrestrialsexist.

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Building up to the year 2012, there was a lot of renewed interest in andexcitementabouttheMayancalendarsystem.Peopleweretuningintotheideathat the Mayans and other ancient civilizations had knowledge of periodiccataclysms and of vast cosmic cycles.Mayanmythology says that there have

been four or five worlds before our own. And each one is annihilated in acataclysmic upheaval that destroys civilization, destroys animals, and createsfossils.Andthen,theworldisbegunanew.

Mainstream scientists tell us that, basically, themodernhumancivilizationstartedintheStoneAge.Somehowwelivedincavesandendeduphere.Theyjust draw a straight line from there to modern man. But the evidence showssomething different, which is that the development of civilization has been arollercoasterofupsanddowns:ofagesofenlightenment,goldenages, thenadark age, and an age where science and civilization have been lost. There isevidence,too,thatancientcivilizationsweremuchmoreadvancedthanwegivethemcreditfor.

Forexample,thereareMayanfrescos,Toltecstatues,andOlmecstatuesthatdepictfiguresholdingobjectswecan’tidentify.Sometimesthey’vegotthingsintheir mouths that look like breathing apparatuses, or oddball devices in theirhandsthatcouldbelaserpistolsorantigravitybeamdevices,orsomethinglikethat.We assume that because they’re primitive people they couldn’t have hadhigh-techdevices.Wealreadypossessmanysimilaradvancedtechnologies.Sothe idea that some of theMayan and Toltec kings were running around withspecialbreathingapparatuses, even listeningdevicesand radiodevices in theirears,inmymindthere’snoreasontheycouldn’thavehadthosethings,too.Andthey would’ve come from extraterrestrials or else some other very high-techcivilizationwithallkindsofelectronicdevices,powersaws,airships,andsoon.

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AttheancientMayancityofPalenquewasatombthatwasdiscoveredinthe1950s.And inside this tombwasa sarcophagus.The lidof the sarcophagus isveryhighlydecoratedanddepictstheMayankingLordPakal.Inthepicturehe’sdoing some really unusual things. He’s sitting in a chair. He seems to beoperating devices. There’s something like a rocket plume underneath him.Becauseourownageof rocketshadonly justbegun in the1960s,whenErichvonDänikenlookedatthatlid,hesawaMayankinginarocketship.Andthatguy was returning to the stars, going back into space. It was an excitinginterpretation,anditwasoneofthemainthingsinChariotsoftheGods.WhenotherpeoplelookedatthatlidandreadvonDäniken’sexplanation,theyhadtoagreewithhimandthought,Yeah.ThisisaninterestingexplanationforthislidandLordPakal.

SECRETSINSTONE

AstonecarvingdiscoveredintheruinsatTikal,anancientMayancity(datingbackto400BC)inGuatemala,stronglyresemblesamodernastronautwearingaspacehelmet.KennethGarrett/CourtesyKennethGarrett

At the ruins ofCopán inHonduras,whichwas one of themost importantMayan cities, there are strange statues that seem to have all these extraappendages,antennascomingoutoftheirheads,otherkindsofwires,andevenleversthatarepartofthesecreatures.Andyouhavetowonder,Isthisjustsomeweirdmonsterwithallkindsofleverscomingoutofhim?Oristhismaybesomekindofarobot?

TherearealsostructuresintheregionthatsuggestthatMayanstoriesaboutpast ages may be true. The Qhapaq Nan, the famous Inca road system, wasactually developed on an earlier road system. That road system goes forthousands of miles through the Andes. It goes through Chile and parts ofArgentina,throughPeruandBolivia,andintoEcuadorandColombia.Theroadsystempasses through highmountains, deserts, and jungles.There are tunnelscutthroughsolidrock.TherearebridgesthatextendoverchasmsintheAndes.Someofthesehadtobeveryelaborateropebridges.Butothersweremegalithicbridgesmadeof stone, suchas themegalithicbridgeatChavin,which isgonetoday.Theconstructionofsuchanextensive roadsystemwouldhaverequiredsurveyingthelanditcrossed,withitsextremeenvironmentsofhighmountains,

deserts,and jungles.Therewouldhad tohavebeenaerialsurveysof this land.We couldn’t build such a road system today without aerial surveys. It wouldseemthatonlyanadvancedcivilizationcouldhaveconceivedofandconstructedthisamazingroadsystem.

WhentheSpanishfirstconqueredPeru,they—justliketouriststoday—werecompletely amazed at the gigantic blocks around Cusco, Sacsayhuaman, andLake Titicaca. They asked the Inca people who had built these amazingstructures.TheInca themselvesadmittedthat theyhadnotbuiltallof them.Infact, they had elaborate legends of traveling throughout Peru through tunnelsystems already in place deep in the earth, emerging on an island in LakeTiticaca, and then coming toCusco to find another systemof tunnels, ancientmines, and structures—and then taking over what was to become the IncaEmpire.

Unfortunately,throughoutourhistory,humankindhasamassedgiantarmies,invadedothercivilizations,anddestroyedeverythingtheycouldfind.Theytoredowntemples if theycould.TheSpanishdidexactly this inCentralandSouthAmerica.Theydestroyedmanyoftheancienttemplesandstructurestheyfoundthere.Theydestroyedeverymanuscripttheycouldgetaholdof.ThousandsofMayancodiceswereburned.We’llneverknowwhattheysaid.Withthelossofthoselibrarieswelostanirreplaceableconnectiontothepast:whathappenedinthepast,whoweare,whatourhistoryis.Withthedestructionofthoselibraries,wemaywell have lost our connection to the gods, the extraterrestrials of thepast,suchastheMayangodknownasthefeatheredserpent.

The whole mythology of the feathered serpent sky god, Kukulcan orQuetzalcoatl, is very powerful and important within Mesoamerican cultures,especially the Mayan and Aztec cultures. The Toltec also worshippedQuetzalcoatl. Infact,anumberofTolteckingstookonthenameQuetzalcoatl.Mesoamerican mythology tells us that after cataclysms, the sky gods wouldbringcivilizationanditstoolsbacktothevariouspeopleallovertheworld.Andthey would then show humans the arts of metallurgy, agriculture, andarchitecture.

TheMayankingPakalruledforsixty-eightyears,thelongestknownregnalperiodinthehistoryoftheWesternHemisphere.WhenthearchaeologistAlbertoRuzLhuillierremovedthe lidofPakal’ssarcophagus,hewasastonished todiscover the skeletalremainsof thehistory-makingkingwithin,wearingajadefunerarymask.DeAgostini/ArchivioJ.LangeDeAgostiniPictureLibrayGettyImages

THETOMBOFTHEPALENQUEASTRONAUT

Deep in the jungle ofChiapas,Mexico, amid a tangle of fragrant cedar,mahogany,andsapodillatrees,risesoneofthegreatMayansteppyramids:theTempleoftheInscriptions.ThefunerarymonumentofthegreatMayanking Lord Pakal, it is the largest pyramid at the ruins of Palenque, theMayan city overwhich Pakal ruled for a commanding sixty-eight years.Though Spanish explorers and later archaeologists were aware of theabandoned city and its imposing palace, temples, and courtyards of graystoneasearlyas the sixteenthcentury, itwasn’tuntil1952 thatMexicanarchaeologistAlbertoRuzLhuillierwoulddiscover theastonishingsecret

attheheartoftheTempleoftheInscriptions.Havingascendedtothegracefultempleatopthepyramid,AlbertoRuz

Lhuillier noticed what appeared to be a sort of trapdoor inset in thetemple’s floor. After his crew removed the heavy stone slab, they wereshockedtodiscoverwhatappearedtobeastairwayleadingdownintotheinterior of the pyramid.Obstructed by rubble, the stairwaywould not beclearedforanothertwoyears.

AlbertoRuzLhuillier’spatiencewouldpayoff,however—foroncethestairway was cleared he found that it led to a secret chamber deepunderground, a room unlike any other in the realm of Mesoamericanpyramids.Icicle-shapedstalactitesdrippedperilouslyfromtheceiling,andsharpstalagmitesrosemenacinglyfromitsfloor.

Andattheheartofthissepulchralchamber,hiddenfromsightforoverone thousandyears,stood themassivesarcophagusofKingPakal,sealedwithanincrediblyheavy,incrediblyintricate,carvedlid.ThesarcophagusliddepictsPakalwithinacapsulelikeobject,reclininginacocoonlikeseat,manipulating what appears to be a set of controls with one hand whileseeminglydialingapieceofequipmentwiththeother.Theheelofhisleftfoot rests onwhat looks like a pedal. He has onwhat looks like a facemask,withanapparatusofsometypeemergingfromhismouth.Affixedtohischestappearstobesomeformofmonitoringunit.Fromwhatlookstobeanenginebeneaththecapsule,flameserupt.

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Takentogether,thedetailsofthelidcreateanunshakableportraitofaman—orbeing—whois,inpostureandoutfit,remarkably,startlingly,likeone of our own astronauts. In fact, its eerie similarity to a twenty-first-century space voyager has earned it the nickname by which it is nowcommonlyknown:thePalenqueAstronaut.ButthePalenqueAstronautisonlyoneofcountlessmysteries theMayans leftbehind,alongwithotherMesoamericancultures—fromeerilyfuturisticstatuestovastandcomplextunnelsystems.

IntheYucatánregionofMexico,peoplehaveclaimedtohaveseenthelostGoldenBooksoftheMayaincertainruins,butthattheirexistencemustbekeptsecret. And there are reasons to keep this a secret. For people in Central andSouthAmerican countries, finding a treasure trove of gold tablets and statueswouldprobablylandyouinbigtrouble.Thegovernmentwouldseizeitfromyouand probably put you in prison. I believe that because of this,many finds aredeliberatelykeptsecretbytheirdiscoverers.Whenyouthinkaboutit,inaworldof cyclical cataclysms, of ancient wars in which civilizations have come andgone, it makes sense that people would create underground repositories forinformation, and that ancient alienswould stash valuable artifacts or books—written in gold, which does not decay—in a safe place to preserve them forhistory.Itallmakessensetome.

Afeatheredserpentheadadorns theTempleofQuetzalcoatlatTeotihuacan,Mexicowhilea fiercefeatheredserpentguardsthebaseoftheTempleofKukulcanatChichenItza,Mexico.GordonGalbraith/Shutterstock.comholbox/Shutterstock.com

On a number of expeditions to remote areas of South America, I’veencounteredtunnels like theonesdescribedbytheInca.I’vewalkedthroughafewoftheminBrazilandinBolivia.AtSacsayhuamaninPeru,therearesaidtobeentrances toabizarreunderground tunnelsystemthat runsfor thousandsofmilesthroughtheAndes.

MaybethemostmysteriousundergroundnetworkistheTayosCavesysteminthemountainjunglesofeasternEcuador.ThispartofEcuadorisveryremoteanddangeroustoreach.Backintheearly1970s,severalEcuadorianscontactedErichvonDänikenandtoldhimthattheycouldtakehimthere,andthatinsidethe caves he would find alien artifacts, gold tablets, copper tablets, andmysteriousstatues.Hewentandendedupwritinghisthirdbook,TheGoldoftheGods, largelyabout theexperienceandall the thingshehadseen there,whichwerejustastheEcuadorianshadpromised.Inthemid-1970s,aBritishSpecialForces expedition explored Tayos, as did Neil Armstrong, the first person to

walkonthemoon.ManypeoplewerefascinatedbythestoriesaroundTayos.

AtSacsayhuamantherearesaidtobeentrancestoatunnelsystemthatrunsforthousandsofmilesthrough

theAndes.

OneofthemostfascinatingstoriesrelatedtotheTayoscavesisthestoryoftheCrespi collection, a collection ofmetal and stone artifacts in the care of apriest,FatherCrespi,wholivedinCuenca,Ecuador.Hehadalloftheseartifacts,plus strange gold tablets and similar items, towhatwas believed to be in theTayoscaves.Bothcollectionshavedisappeared. Iwent toCuencaone time totry to track down that collection from Father Crespi after he passed away in1982. I talked to priests there who said that they didn’t know where thecollectionwent, that thoseartifactshadvanished,but thatphotographsof themstillexisted.ThoseartifactsmaywellhavecomefromtheTayoscaves.

TheTayoscavesaresaidtoconnectwithavastundergroundtunnelsystemthatconnectsPeru,Chile,Bolivia,andBrazil.TheIncaweresaidtoknowabouttheentrancestosomeofthesesecrettunnels.OneofthepopularstoriesinPeruis that when the Inca realized that the Spanish were coming, they took thetreasurefromtheTempleof theSun inCuscoandhid itall.Peruvianssay theInca hid it either in that hidden tunnel system, under Sacsayhuaman, or in asecretcity in themountain jungles,knownasPaititi,which is theultimate lostcityoftheInca.Andsometimesit,too,issaidtobereachedbyasecrettunnel.

The Mayans themselves have very intriguing legends of an undergroundworld,calledXibalba.Justrecently,archaeologistsworkingatTzibichenintheYucatán uncovered a series of man-made rooms underground, a cave systemconnected by underground roads. Archaeologists now believe that what theyfound is what the Mayans thought was the entrance to the legendaryundergroundworldthatfeaturesprominentlyinthePopolVuh.

There’s also the mystery of the disappearance of many of the Mayans—hundredsofcitiesinGuatemalaandMexicoweresimplydeserted,andwedon’tknowwhy. TheMayans in the Petén jungles of the Yucatán abandoned theircitiesand, toa largeextent,vanished.Wedon’treallyknowwhathappenedtothem or where they went. Throughout history, other civilizations have alsoessentiallyvanishedfornodiscerniblereason.WehavethiswiththeAnasazi,in

thesouthwestoftheUnitedStates;peopleliketheEtruscansinItaly;thepeoplewhowere building Carnac in Brittany, and even Stonehenge in England; andmanyof themegalithsaroundtheworld—wedon’tknowwhotheywere.Andevenarchaeologistswilladmit,Yeah,it’snotthepeoplewholiveinBrittanyorEnglandtodaywhobuiltthosethings.Somassdisappearances—wholeareasjustcompletely depopulated—have happened; I mean, we know it. And the exactcausesforthisremainamystery.

Soyouhavetoask,Wheredidtheyallgo?RegardingtheMayans,ErichvonDäniken suggested they returned to the stars.TheMayanmonuments atTikalareknowntobealignedto thePleiadescluster.Andsowemustaskourselveswhether the Pleiades was some important place for theMayans, and whethertheyhadperhapscomefromthePleiades.Thenyouhavetowonder:DidtheseMayansactuallysomehowreturntothePleiades,wheretheyhadcomefrom?

ThePleiadesstarsystem.CulturesaroundtheworldhaveknownofthePleiadessinceantiquity—theBabylonianscalledthesystem“thestarofstars.”TheearliestknowndepictionofthePleiadesisonthecirca1600BCNebraSkyDisc,aBronzeAgeartifactdiscoveredinGermany,whichalsofeaturestheoldestconcretedepictionofthecosmosworldwide.ValerioPardi/Shutterstock.com

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MEGALITHSWORLDWIDEThemain reason ancient astronautsmayhavegiven technological tools to ourancestorswastoleavemessagesforthefuture.Amessagethatwouldletfuturegenerationsknow that extraterrestrialswerehere inour remotepast.One such

messagecomesintheshapeofmegalithicstructures.Itdefieslogicthatourearlyancestors, with their limited technology, could have built these giganticmegalithicstructureswiththemostgiganticstonesallontheirown.Ithinkthatallthoseancientmonuments—thereallybigones,likeBaalbek—werebuiltwithsophisticatedtechnologyandunderthetutelageofextraterrestrials.

OntheoutskirtsofCusco,Peru,standthewallsofSacsayhuaman,theremnantsofanancientIncancitadel. Built from massive stone blocks laid together without mortar, the walls are so preciselycraftedthatnotevenapieceofpapercanfitbetweentheirseams.terexiStockGettyImages

Many of the megalithic sites all around the world should be viewedessentially as calling cards from someonewhowas here in the past, a past inwhich extraterrestrials brought the tools with which to build these sites andtaught humankind how to use these tools. They instructed the people how tobuild certain things, gave them the engineering knowledge, gave them all thetypes of knowledge needed to build something magnificent. After they weredone,theextraterrestrialstooktheirtoolsanddisappearedagain.Thatiswhyit

is very unlikely that we’ll ever find any type of tool used to build thosemonuments. It’s like if you walked into a newly built hospital—it’s veryunlikelyyou’dbewheeledintothesurgeryroomandtheconcretemixerwouldstill be there, left behind after construction.That concretemixer is nowat thenextconstructionsite.Applythissameconcepttoextraterrestrialtechnology.

Imagine in the not-too-distant future thatwe, ourselves, travel to a distantplanet that has some sort of intelligent life on it. That life, technologically(thoughnot intellectually) speaking, is primitive.Whatwillwe do? Just standbackandobserve?Atfirstyes,butthenwemightteachthemafewthings.We’llteach themmathematics;we’ll teach themabout theconstellations, astronomy,and agriculture; we’ll teach them how tomake fire; and thenwe’ll disappearagain. We’ll go on to the next planet with our generation starship. But fast-forwardtenthousandyearsandontheplanetweleftbehind,they’llhavestoriesof“gods”descendingfromthesky,teachingthesocietyaboutmathematicsandscientificdisciplines,andallofasuddenouronce-realvisitwillhavemovedintotherealmofmythology.

MachuPicchuwasbuiltcirca1450intheclassicalIncastylecalled“ashlar,”whichinvolvescuttingstoneblocksandfittingthemtogetherwithoutmortar.Thesite’s threemostnotablestructuresaretheritualstoneIntiWatana,theTempleoftheSun,andtheRoomoftheThreeWindows.NaykoMikhail/Shutterstock.com

Thereisonewaywecouldatleasttrytoleavebehindevidencethatwewerethere, and that is to have those technologically primitive people help us buildmegalithicstructuresmadeoutofstonethatenduresforever.Ourideawouldbethat one day, ten thousand years or so in the future of that planet, somebodywould stumble upon these megalithic sites and think,Wait a second. Thesethingsaretenthousandyearsold.Howweretheybuilt?Onehundredcenturiesagoourpeopledidn’t evenknowabout thewheel, sohow is thispossible?Atsomepointinourhumanhistorywereceivedhelp,andthat’showwe,overtime,developedintothemagnificentsocietywearetoday.

MACHUPICCHUANDSACSAYHUAMAN

Machu Picchu is located in present-day Peru, about an hour and a half fromCusco. It’s a very fascinating site—you have three different types ofmasonrythere, three styles of construction. In style one, you find what’s consideredmegalithic:big,giganticstonesthatfittogethersopreciselythatit’simpossibletoputadollarbillbetweentheirseams.Thenyouhavestyletwo,withsmallerstones.Thestonesarestillfairlybiginsize,butnotasbigasinstyleone.Andthenyouhavemasonrystylethree,wherebuildersusedsmaller,fist-sizestones.And it seems like the builders began with style one and progressed to usingstylestwoandthree.

Logic would suggest, though, that “primitive” people (technologicallyspeaking) would start building using the smallest stones. Over time, as theirtechnologyandknowledgeofmasonryincreased, theywouldshift tousingthebiggest stones, because they would be more familiar with and moreknowledgeable about construction. At Machu Picchu and Sacsayhuaman,however, it seems it’s the exact opposite. I mean, it makes no sense.ArchaeologistsagreethatatMachuPicchu,thefirststagewasbuiltbythepre-Incaculture,notthelaterInca.Whenyouaskthearchaeologistswhothesepre-Inca were, you don’t get a clear answer, because everyone has a differentopinion.Thatquestionhasnotbeenresolved.

StoneblocksfromthewallsofSacsayhuaman.Thelargestoftheblocksatthissiteareestimatedtoweighnearlytwohundredtons.HanisiStockGettyImages

One very interesting structure atMachu Picchu consists of a natural rockformationinwhichtworockscreateanX,andinbetween,thereisaman-madeblockwall.Itseemsasiftheblocksinthewallwerepouredintoplace,asifthebuilders had been able to soften the stone and then pour it, and over time ithardened. And there are ancient Incan legends that suggest they did have theability to soften stone. At Sacsayhuaman, for example, we also find thesegiganticstonewallswhereitlooksasifthestonesweremoldedandthenputintoplace.

AtSacsayhuamannomortarwasusedinitsconstruction.Theblockslookasifthey’vebeenmoldedlikeputty.

AtSacsayhuaman,someofthestoneblocksaresohugethatyoufeellikeanantwhen standingnext to them.Nomortarwas used in its construction style.

Theblockslookasifthey’vebeenmoldedlikeputty,andguesswhat,thereisanancient Incan legend that says these stonesweremolded into place.The storygoesthatinPeruthereisabird—theLit-Lik—thatdoesn’tmakeitsnestsintreesbutonthesideofarockface.Thebirdisabletopeckintotherockandcreatealittle hole for its nest.But how is it possible for a bird to pick away at rock?Well,apparentlythebirdchewsatypeofherb,achemicalreactiontakesplaceinits beak, and then it releases that chemical onto the stone and softens it. So Ibelieve that this chemical process was mastered by whoever built theSacsayhuamanwall,and that theyused thisstone-softeningprocessonamuchlarger scale, tomoldmegaliths into place in thesewalls, which explains howtheycouldhavebuiltthemsopreciselyandwithoutanymortar.Butthequestionis,Wherewouldtheyhavelearnedsuchatechnique?

GOBEKLITEPE

Just outside the Turkish city ofUrfa, a town that has been continuouslypopulatedsinceat least thefourthcenturyBCand thatJudaismandIslamidentifyasthehometownofAbraham,liesanevenmoreancientsite,onethathasrootsinhumankind’soldestactsofworship:GobekliTepe,whichmayjustbetheworld’soldest—andmostmysterious—temple.

Though itwas in the1960s that archaeologists firstmadenoteof the“tell”—an earthen mound created by human occupation, and thenabandonment of a site—underwhichGobekli Tepewould eventually bediscovered,theydismisseditasapileofstonesofnosignificance.Thirtyyearslater,itwasalocalshepherd,crossingthedustyhilltop,whonoticedthetipofanunusualstonestickingoutofthesoil—astonethatappeared,fromitssharpcornersandsmoothsurface, tobeman-made.Hebegan todig,eventuallyunearthingasixteen-footpillar.Itsedgeswereprecise,andrisingfromitscenterwasareliefcarvingofastrangeanimal.Uponcloserexamination,thefinelychiseledstoneappearedtohavebeenfashionedbytalented stonemasons, working with advanced tools. When word of thediscovery reached the scientific community, one fact became obvious: a

Kurdishshepherdhadstumbleduponwhatisperhapsthemostastonishingand important archaeological discovery of modern times, one thatchallengesourassumptionsaboutancientmanand raisesquestionsaboutourancestorsforwhichmainstreamsciencecanfindnodefinitiveanswers.

GobekliTepe—amassivecomplexof finelycarvedmegalithic stonesarranged in concentric circles over a vast plateau—is believed byarchaeologiststobetenthousandyearsold.Thesixteen-foot,ten-tonpillartheshepherdfoundwasonlyoneofmany.Thearchaeologistsexcavatingthe site have uncovered countlessT-shapedmegaliths, incisedwith eeriecarvings ofmythical beasts, animals thatwould have roamed the FertileCrescentatthetime,aswellasfantasticaldepictionsofhumanoidfigures.Carved into the pillars, alongside the representations of animals, aresymbols that look likedingirs, theSumeriancuneiformthatmeans“star”or“god.”

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Though only a small portion of the site has been uncovered, it isalreadyclear that itsscopeandcomplexitywouldhavebeenastaggeringundertakingforthenomadichunter-gathererswhothenpopulatedtheland.Hunter-gatherers who had not yet developed agriculture, let aloneadvancedtools,andwhodidnotliveintownsorcities,stilldesignedandbuiltanartisticallyadvancedandarchitecturallycomplexplaceofworshipliterally thousands of years before humankind built Stonehenge or thepyramids. Until recently, scholars long believed that only after thedevelopment of farming and stable societies could humans haveundertaken the building of monuments. So how—and why—did the

buildersofGobekliTepedo it?Could itsdiscovery radically changeourunderstandingofhumanhistory?Couldourancestorshavebeenfarmoreadvanced than history reveals? And could they have built Gobekli Tepewith the knowledge of—and as a monument to—the beings that wereresponsibleforthatadvancedtechnology?

MYCENAEOneofmy favorite archaeological places in theworld is inMycenae,Greece,abouttwohoursfromAthens.Therewehavethesemagnificentmegalithicwallsthat are virtually identical to the walls in Sacsayhuaman, halfway around theworld.Archaeology tellsus,Well, the reason there’sa similarity is that that’sjusthowancientmenbuiltstuffbackthen.Tome,thatmakesnosense,thatallof thesedifferentcivilizationswouldchoose thehardestwaypossible tobuild.It’slike,Hurray!Yes,let’sbuildawall.Let’susethebiggest,heavieststoneswecanfind.Let’smakeitthehardestwaypossible,andlet’snotuselittlestones.Itmakesnosense.

TheTreasuryofAtreus,alsoknownastheTombofAgamemnon,sitsonPanagitsaHillatMycenae,Greece.Thedoorwaytothetombwascraftedwithacorbelarchwhoselintelstoneweighs120tons—thelargestknownlintelstoneintheworld.IraBlock/NationalGeographic/GettyImages

NotonlyarethereincrediblemegalithicwallsatMycenae,butthereisalsoamysteriousstructure,atombexcavatedintothesideofahill,calledtheTreasuryofAtreus.Whenyoustandinsideandlookup,it’sasifyouareinsideaperfectlyshaped beehive. The acoustics in there are amazing, too. But what’s moreexcitingisthatthestonesusedtobuildthetreasuryarehumongous.Thereisonestone thathasbeenhoistedover theentranceof the treasury, and itweighsanestimated250tons.Now,I’mnotsayingthattodaywecouldnotexecutesuchafeat.Butifwewouldstruggletodosowithourmoderntechnology,isitreallylogicaltosuggestthatourancestorsdiditwithpivots,littleropes,andwoodenrollers?

Another intriguing aspect aboutMycenae, especially about the treasury, isthatinbetweenthefittingsofthestones,nobindingagentwasused—nomortar—and all the stones fit together so precisely that you can’t slip a dollar billbetween them, just like in South America. It is perfect. And when you askmodern-day stonemasons to re-create something like this . . . well, Roger

Hopkins,anaccomplishedstonemasoninPalmSprings,oncesaidtome,“Youcouldn’tpaymeenoughmoneytore-createsomethinglikethis.”

KAILASATheKailasa temple inEllora, India, isoneof themostmagnificentmegalithicsitesintheworld.Mainstreamarchaeologistshavedeterminedthatoveraperiodof18years itsbuilders carvedawayover400,000 tonsof rock.Andby that Imeantheyactuallyscoopeditoutofthebedrock.Theentirecomplexisinsitu—carvedoutofthestone.Itisanabsolutelymagnificentfeatofengineering,andalsologistics.Ifyousubscribetotheideathat400,000tonsofrockwascarvedaway in 18 years, that feat would require the builders to haveworked for 12hourseachday,removing5tonsofrockeveryhour.Eveniftheyworkedfor24hoursaday, thatwould stillmean2.5 tonsof rockperhour.Again, that’s2.5tons of rockper hour.Whodoes that?We can’t do that today.Apparently norubbleorleftoverswerefoundofthe400,000tonsofrockthatwasremoved.Sowheredid itgo?Weknowthatatmanyothersiteswhererockswereremovedthey were repurposed in different buildings. At Kailasa we don’t have that,accordingtoarchaeologists.Sowheredidalltherubblego?

Carved insitu fromthesolidrockofamountain inEllora,India, theKailasaTemple isoneof thethirty-four Hindu cave temples and monasteries that are together known as the Ellora Caves.AccordingtoHindumythology, thesearchitecturalfeatswerebuiltwithapowerfulmachinecalledtheBhaumastra.AlexanderMazurkevich/Shutterstock.com

Hindu mythology tells us that Kailasa was built with a miracle machinecalled the Bhaumastra. The Bhaumastra was able to carve and cut into rockwithoutleavingbehindanytypeofresidue.ThecarvingsthatweseeatKailasaarealsoahugecomponentofancientastronauttheorybecausetheydepictHindumythologycometolife:flyingshields,cosmicpillarsoffire,andweirdbeingsjusthangingoutinthesky.Somyquestionis,Whatdoesitallmean?Becausethe answer that all these carvings are nothing but a figment of ancientHinduimaginationdoesn’tholdforme.

Could it be that some of the stories in Hindumythology, which speak ofwondrousmachinesthatwereabletocarveandcutthingsordestroythingsjustwiththepushofabutton,aretrue?Ithinkit’squitepossiblethatatsomepointextraterrestrialsgavemachinesortechnologytoourancestors.SotheideaisthattheKailasatemplewasoneoftheplaceswheredirectphysicalcontacthappenedwithextraterrestrials.

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MOHENJODAROWhen historians first began identifying the ancient Indus Valley Civilization,

two major excavations were of paramount importance: the ancient cities ofMohenjoDaroandHarappa.Atbothlocationstherewasevidencethatthecities’inhabitants had died in a cataclysm. Archaeological evidence revealed peoplewhohaddiedonthespot,inthemiddleofthestreet,probablylookinguptowardsomethingfromthesky,whichcametheirwayandcausedtheirdeath.

The question is,What kind of cataclysm killed these ancient people? It’sclearitwassomethinginstantaneous.Scienceandarchaeologyhavebeenunableto determine that it was a natural event like a meteor strike or a volcanicexplosion.Withoutanyforensicevidenceavailable, thequestionbecomes,Canmythologyshedanylightontheanswer?Theanswerisyes.MythologytellsusthatMohenjoDaroandHarappawerebothdestroyedinanuclearblast.

Whenwe lookatSanskritepicsofancient India, like theMahabharata,weseeaccountsofwarsthatdeployedweaponrythattrulydefiesbelief.Someoftheweapons caused widespread destruction and seem to be on a par with ourmodern atomic bombs. The ancient Sanskrit accounts include truly horrificstories not only of people dying, but also of how the blasts were a result ofinfighting among the gods. Stories that tell of the gods fighting or beingdispleasedwithhumankindaresomethingwefindinsomanyotheraccountsandtraditions.

Located in what is now Sindh, Pakistan, Mohenjo Daro was once one of the largest and mostadvanced cities of the ancient IndusValleyCivilizations.Around1900BC, thepeople ofMohenjoDaromysteriouslyvanished.NadeemKhawar/GettyImages

Theseancientepicsarehighlydetailedandveryspecificindescribingthesedivinebattles.Theysaidthatinthesewars,thegodsunleashedeverythingtheyhadattheirdisposalandthatnobodystoppedthem.Thefightinggrewworseandworse; the destructiongrew in scale; and themagicalweapons thatwere usedwere as powerful as modern nuclear warfare. They described something verysimilartowhatwewouldcallmissileattacks.Theysawfirebeingspewedfromaerialobjects.Theysawwhattheycalledthunderandlightning,whichwasthebestwaytheycoulddescribewhattheywereactuallyseeingintheskiesabovethem.Theywere trying, insimple terminology, toexplain topeoplewhowerenot therewhatwas happening.And so the question then is,When the ancientIndians refer to fire, is that reallywhat theywereseeing,or is that thenearest

wordtheycouldfindtoimpartwhatwastrulyhappening?The ancient Indianswerewitnesses rather than active participants in these

wars. Instead of being fighters, they gave eyewitness testimony of the godsfighting.Whatwashappeningwas soatrocious, soastonishing, that theywerecompelled towrite itdown,and thoseaccounts laterbecamesomeof themostsacredstoriesoftheancientIndiantradition.

Now,whenweseepeoplelyinginthestreetsholdinghands,asinthecaseofMohenjoDaroandHarappa,thequestionthenbecomes,Couldthishavebeenanatomicexplosion?TheMahabharataandtheBhagavadGitaclearlysuggestthatthis might be the case. There is further evidence, not so much for these twoplacesbutforplacesnearby,whereextremeamountsofradiationweredetected,suggestinga connectionbetween the radiationand theevents thathappenedattheendofMohenjoDaro’sandHarappa’scivilization.

Some theorists turn to Hindu mythology to explain what may have wiped out the population ofancient cities like Mohenjo Daro and Harappa. Ancient Sanskrit writings describe a powerfulweaponcalledtheBrahmastra,whichwasmadebytheHindugodofcreation,Brahma.TatjanaIngold/CourtesyTatjanaIngold

There have been reports—so far, unconfirmed—that readings taken atMohenjoDaroaresohighontheradioactivescalethatthepeoplewhodiedtherelikelywereexposedtoradioactivematerial.Wealsohavereportsfromthe1980s

—again,unconfirmed—thattherewasradioactivewastefoundatoneofthesitesdescribedintheancientaccountsasaplacewherethegodsallegedlyengagedinwarfare.Anditjustsohappensthatnearthosesites,highradioactivelevelshavebeen encountered, resulting inpeoplewhowereborn in that areahavingbirthdefects.

Soreally, there isquiteabitofevidence tosuggest that the legendsof theMahabharata—which says that there were extraterrestrial beings who foughtwith radioactive weapons and with otherworldly machines, really left someradioactivitybehind,andthattheendresultisstilltheretothisveryday—canbemeasuredwithGeigercountersandvariousotherscientificinstruments.

Anillustrationofabattleinaseventeenth-centurymanuscriptoftheMahabharata,aSanskritepicofancientIndia.AncientIndiantextslikethisonecontainreferencestomagicalweaponsthatwereaspowerfulasmodernnuclearwarfare.“Kurukshetra.”Photograph.Wikipedia.org,https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kurukshetra.jpg

EASTERISLAND

JacobRoggeveenwasaDutchexplorerwhosetoutonanexpeditionin1721tofind Terra Australis in the South Pacific, but instead found the remote andmysteriousEasterIslandanditsgiantMoaistatues.WhenRoggeveenarrivedonEaster Island,heencountered two tribes:one tribehad long redhair, theothershorthair.ItwassaidthatthetwotribeshadworkedtogethertobuildtheMoaibutthattheshort-hairedpeoplelaboredunderthecommandsofthelong-hairedpeople.Later,therewasarevolt,andtheshort-hairedtribebasicallymassacred

thelong-hairedtribe.Veryfewofthelong-hairedpeoplesurvived.Thedisappearanceofthelong-hairedpeoplealsomeantthelossofevidence

astowhatreallyhappenedinthepastonEasterIslandandabouthowtheMoaicameintobeing.ThesideofthestorythatdidsurvivetellsusthatthestatuesofEasterIslandwereerectedforveryspecificreasonsandthatthey“walked”intoplace,fromthequarrynearthevolcanowheretheywerecut.

On occasion, it was said, the statues selected their own paths, choosingwheretheyweregoingtogo,insteadoflettinghumansdictatetheirplacement.Sowhatwehavehereisaveryinterestingstory,becausereally,it’ssayingthathumankind was doing something artistically very beautiful—we go to EasterIslandjusttoseethesestatuesandareinaweofthem—butthatreallyitwasn’tahumanendeavor.It’ssayingtherewasdefinitelyadivinecomponent,thattherewassomethingmoregoingonthanjustpeoplecarvingstatuesanderectingthemincertainplaces.

ThestatuesofEasterIsland“walked”intoplace;thestatuesselectedtheirownpaths,choosingwherethey

weregoingtogo.

The question is, When these statues were “walking,” was it somethingachieved through technologicalmeans, orwas there something else going on?Werethegodsdirectingthesestatuestopositionthemselvesincertainplaces?

The statues ofEaster Island are unique to the island.They aremade fromvolcanicrock,andtosomeextent,whenyoulookattheirplacement,theyseemtobeprotectingthatvolcano.They’reguardingthisvolcano.It’saverypowerfulforceofnature,whichhastobefeared.Atfirstglance,itlooksasifthestatuesareonlygiantheads.Butinthepastfewyears,excavationshaveshownthatthestatues actually have entire bodies buried under the soil. They are not juststanding heads. They are standing human beings or, perhaps more precisely,standinggods.

We’realsodiscoveringthat thereareinscriptionsontheburiedpartsof thestatues.Theseinscriptionsareofinterestbecausewearebeginningtounderstandthatthesestatuesarenotmute—thataswellas“walk,”theycould“talk,”ifonlywe could read Rongorongo, the native language. Hopefully the discovery oftheseinscriptionsisgoingtoprojectusonceagainintotryingtounderstandthe

languageoftheRapaNui(thenativepeopleofEasterIsland),becausewitheacharchaeological discovery,more of these statues are being unearthed andmoreinscriptionsofourancestorsaregoingtobeuncovered.Wemayfinallybeabletounderstandwhatourancestorswere sayingwhen it came to themeaningofwhythesestatueswerecreated.

Thesestatuesarenotmute—aswellas“walk,”theycould“talk.”

WhydidthepeopleofEasterIslanderectallthesestatues?“Wedon’tknow”istheshortanswer,andtosomeextent, italmostseemsasif theRapaNuiarequite unwilling to share this information. Why did they have to go to suchextremes, creating hundreds of these statues andplacing themat very specificlocations?It’ssomethingwereallyhavenoanswerfor.Weknowthattherewasa divine component. We know that they did it with statues walking all bythemselves. So we know that there was technology involved or somethingotherworldlygoingon.Butthefinalmissingpieceofthepuzzleissomethingwehaven’tbeenabletofind,andifthenativeshadit,theyweren’twillingtoshareitwithus.

We really are at a loss to explain how all of this worked, in large partbecausewhentheEuropeanmissionariesarrivedonEasterIsland,theyweren’tinterested in recording the legends of the native people. They basicallydisregardedthelocals,quicklyconvertingthemtoChristianityanddestroyingalloftheirwritingsandtexts.

As a result, much information was lost. What we are left with are onlyfragmentsofEasterIsland’shistory.AndwhatwashappeningonEasterIslandwasclearlynotjustsomeisolatedevent,becausetherearegoodcluesthatwhatwashappeningonEasterIslandwasalsohappeninginotherpartsoftheworld.Forexample,weknowthatthescriptofEasterIsland,whichthenativesused,isamirrorimageofascriptthatwasusedintheIndusValley,thousandsofyearsearlier.TheIndusValleyCivilizationsofcourseincludedthecitiesofMohenjoDaro and Harappa. So a rather interesting question is, How did an “extinct”scriptthatwasusedthousandsofyearsearlierbypeopleontheothersideoftheworldcometobeusedonEasterIsland?Somethingclearlyismissing.

This missing link can be explained in a number of ways. Science hasn’taddressedtheissue,andsoclearlyhasn’tcomeupwithananswer.It’spossible

thatthestatuesofEasterIslandareindeedfarolderthanwethinktheyare.Thatthey are, in fact, thousands of years old and that the civilization of the IndusValleyisresponsibleforthesestatues.Orthatthelanguagethathadbeeninusein the IndusValley thousands of years earlier went into hibernation and thencameoutagainatthetimewhenthestatuesofEasterIslandwerecreated.Ifthelatter scenario is the case, then clearly, there has to be somebody whotransported it from place A, the Indus Valley, to place B, Easter Island. Andtherewasreallynohumanmeansofdoingsoatthatmomentintime.Unlessweradicallyrewritethehistoryofhumankind,themorelogicalscenarioisthattheInduslanguagehadbeeninhibernationandthatanotherworldlyentitydecidedthepeopleofEaster Islandneededawritten language inorder tocarryout theMoaiproject,andsharedwiththemascriptfromanotherpartoftheworld.

I think when Easter Island was inhabited is something of a secondaryquestion.Wereallyneedtostartlookingatthequestionofwhoinhabitedit.AndIthinkthat’sreallythemostimportantanswertofindrightnow,becauseitwillshowthatEasterIslandhadlinkswithothercivilizations,andprobablythattherewas seafaring happening all over the world. Seafaring means that humansactuallycreatedEasterIsland.Ifthatisn’ttheanswerorwecannotarriveatthatanswer, then we really have to look toward the most spectacular conclusion,which is that anextraterrestrial componentwas involved.And in that case,dowereallycarewhenithappened?Becausethatissurelythebestnewsever,andwhetherithappenedinAD300orinAD1200issimplyunimportant.

Located at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle, Easter Island contains 887monolithic figures called Moai. The tallest statue, named Paro, stands thirty-three feet high andweighseighty-twotons.AmyNicholeHarris/Shutterstock.com

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THEPOWEROFBONESThe ideaof saints’bonesand relicshavingpower isone thatgoesback to the

veryearlydaysofChristianity.InthebookofKingsintheOldTestament,wehaveastoryaboutthebonesoftheprophetElijah,andthepowerofthesebones.In thisstory,agroupof Israelitesareburyingoneof theirbrethren,and in theprocessofdiggingthegraveforthisman,agroupofraiderscomesbyandtheIsraeliteshavetohidequickly.Inordertohide,theyhavetothrowthebodyintoanothergrave.ButtheythrowthebodyontopofthebonesofElijah.Assoonasthebodyhitsthesebones,thebodyactuallyreanimates.Themancomestolifeandhejumpsup.Soit’spossiblethatthisstoryfromthebookofKingsiswherethisideaofrelicsbeingpowerfulcomesfrom.

By the medieval era, churches known for housing saints’ relics becamecentersofpilgrimageandattractedlargedonations.Asaresult,relicsbecameakindofmarketing tool formedievalchurches,which led toa lotof fake relicsbeing out there. Because of this, relics are somewhat ridiculed by modernscholars.ButwhenwelookatEuropeanlegendsaroundsaints’bones,wefindthat among the nobility therewas a strong belief that relics really did containsomekindofpower.

Thebeliefwasthatifyouhadinyourpossessionarelicofoneofthesaints,you carried some of its magic with you. For example, parts of the body ofLazarus are scattered all over Europe because it was believed that if you hadsomerelicfromthebodyofLazarus,youyourselfwouldhavetheabilitytoberesurrected;therelicwouldgiveyousomekindofmagicalabilitytoovercomedeath, to overcomemortality. The same thing is truewith the bones ofMaryMagdalene.WarswerefoughtoverthebonesofMaryMagdalenebecausesheispresent in themost important resurrection stories.MaryMagdalene is there attheresurrectionofherbrother,Lazarus.MaryMagdaleneisthefirstwitnessofJesus’s resurrection, so it was believed that Mary Magdalene’s bones mightpossess the power of resurrection.As a result of an extraordinary devotion toMary Magdalene, actual battles were fought for her bones. The dukes ofBurgundy and Provence fought each other to possess the bones of MaryMagdalene.

AskullreputedtobethatofMaryMagdalene,dippedingoldandencasedinagoldenheadpiece,attheBasilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, France.Medieval legendheldthat,afterfleeingtheHolyLand,MaryMagdalenesailedacrosstheMediterraneantoFrance,eventuallyretiringtoacaveintheSainte-Baumemountains.AtherdeathitwassaidshewasburiedinSaintMaximin.LynnJohnsonNationalGeographicMagazinesGettyImages

The bones of the saints who were known to be prophets were the mostcoveted. Being in the presence of relics of a saint who was known to be aprophet,likeJohntheBaptist,forexample,couldbringyoupowersofprophecy.John the Baptist was an itinerant preacher who became famous for baptizingpeopleintheJordanRiver.Heisfoundinallofthecanonicalgospels.LegendsofhisministryexistintheKoranandinthehistoricalwritingsofJosephus.ButinChristianity,JohntheBaptistisspecificallyimportantbecauseheisknownas“theforerunner”or“theprecursor”—thepersonwhoissupposedtocomebeforetheMessiah.TheOldTestament says thatprior to theMessiah,aprophetwillcomeandannouncethearrivaloftheMessiah.ThosearetheshoesthatJohntheBaptistfills.

Itwas believed that the bones of John theBaptistwere brought toEuropeduring theCrusades. In 2010, a sarcophaguswas discovered in the ruins of achurchinBulgaria,inaplaceknownastheIslandofJohn.Thisisalocationthathasheldanannualcelebration for John theBaptist forat least fifteenhundredyears.Withintheornatemarblesarcophagusweresixbones.Aninscriptiononthe sarcophagus refers to John the Baptist and his birthday or his feast day.Geneticists tested thebonesanddetermined that theyare indeed from the firstcentury and come from aman ofMiddleEastern origin. So it is possible thatthesebonesarethoseofJohntheBaptist.

THEPINEALGLANDANDTHEPINECONEThe pineal gland, a tiny gland found in the center of our brain, resembles apinecone. In fact, theword“pineal” actuallycomes from theword“pinecone”andasa result, thepineconebecamea symbolof thepinealgland.Thepinealgland secretes the hormonemelatonin, but it has also been thought to be thephylogenic relic of a third eye. Based on this theory, the pinecone became asymbolofenlightenment,ofopeninguptonewunderstandingsandperhapsevencommunicatingwithotherrealmsorotherdimensions.

What’s interesting is thatweseeacrossmanyculturesandmany traditionsthatthepineconeisasymbolusedinart,inarchitecture,andinsacredtexts.Weseethepineconesculptedanddrawnandpaintedonanynumberofpiecesofartthatareaboutspiritualenlightenment.

There are many depictions of gods holding pinecones. We see thesedepictionsinEgypt,wherethestaffofOsirishaspineconesontopofit.Wesee

them in theMayanculture,wherewehave statuesof godsholdingpinecones.ButperhapsthemostcompellingandthemostfrequentofthesedepictionscomefromAssyrianartwork,whereweseewingedgodsholdingforthpinecones. IntheseAssyriandepictions,thegodsappeartobeshakingthem.Now,thiscouldbe because the female pinecones generated seeds. And hundreds, eventhousands,ofseedscouldgoforthfromapinecone.SothesecouldrepresenttheAssyriangodsseedingourplanetwithwisdomorinformation.

Depictionsofgodsholdingpineconesappearacrosscultures,fromtheMayanstotheEgyptiansandbeyond.PineconesareacommonthemeinAssyrianartwork—thisreliefofanAssyrianeagle-headeddeityholdingapineconewasexcavatedfromthePalaceatNimrudanddatesbackto850BC.Radiokafka/Shutterstock.com

Certainlyit’sunderstandablehowancientastronauttheoristswouldcomebythisideathattheseAssyriangodswereholdingforthpineconestoremindusthatwehaveapinealgland,aglandthatmighthelpuscontactotherdimensions.

CYBELE

TheRomans spent thirteenyearsbuildinga temple to thegoddessCybele, theguardianofthegateways.Thetemplehousedanancientblackstone,ameteorite,broughtfromTurkeytoRome,whichwassaidtocontaintheactualessenceofthe goddess. When this meteorite was in the temple, Cybele was actually

present. Cybele became incredibly important to the Romans. She is a mothergoddess,butshe’snotsimplyanEarthgoddess.Sheis themotherof thestars.Cybeleisoftenshownstandinginagatewayorwithagatewayaroundher,andthatisbecauseshewasknowntobetheguardianoftimeandspace.Inordertocrosstheveilandaccessotherrealms,youwouldhavetopetitionCybele.ThefactthatCybelewasknownastheguardianofthegatewaytellsusthat,perhaps,the ancientsweredoing something really interesting and really importantwithtimetravel,portals,andstargates.AndCybeleisessentiallythegreatgoddessofthestargate.

SOLOMON’SRINGKingSolomonwas thesonof the famousKingDavid.HewasaHebrewkingwho shows up in theOld Testament and ismost known for his extraordinarywisdom.ThereareanumberofstorieswithintheOldTestamentandoutsideoftheOldTestamentaboutSolomonandhowheattainedhiswisdom.Solomoniswithoutadoubtahistoricalcharacter.Thereisjusttoomuchevidence.ThereistoomuchwritteninthehistoricalrecordforSolomonnottobereal.

Oneof the lesserknownbutmore fascinatingstoriesaboutSolomon is thelegendofSolomon’sring.Solomonhadamagicalsignetringthatwasmadeofbrass, which some accounts say had the name of God engraved upon it, inadditiontoSolomon’sseal,whichwasaStarofDavid.TheStarofDavid—twointersectingtriangles—isalsoanalchemicalsymbol.Inalchemy,theintersectingtriangles represent the elements of fire andwater or the elements ofmale andfemale.Somanypeoplebelievetheringwasinfusedwithakindofalchemicalmagic.Another story around the ring is that it contained four precious stones,eachofwhichwasgiventoSolomonbyanarchangel.Eachstonehadadifferenttypeofpower.

Theringcontainedfourpreciousstones,eachofwhichwasgiventoSolomonbyanarchangel.Eachstonehada

differenttypeofpower.

But it’swhat theringwascapableofdoing that is trulyamazing. It issaid

thatthisringgaveSolomonauthorityoveralloftherealmsofanimal,ofdemon,ofangel.Solomoncouldcontrolallkindsofenergieswiththisring.OneofthelegendssaysthatSolomonusedtheringtoentrapdemons,whichhethenusedasslavestohelphimbuildthetemple.Thedemonsinthisstoryarealittledifferentfrom how we think of demons today. In modern times we tend to think ofdemonsasrelatedtothedevil,assatanic.ButinthetimeofSolomon,demonswere seen as potentially extraterrestrial, as in not of this earth. They weremischievous. Sometimes they were industrious, but they weren’t necessarilyevil.InthecaseofSolomonweactuallyknowthenamesofsomeofthedemons.ThemostimportantdemonintheSolomonlegacyisademoncalledAsmodeus.ItissaidthatSolomonimprisonedthedemonAsmodeustoprotectthetreasureinhistemple.

What’s fascinating about Solomon’s ring is here we have this incrediblypowerful object with the power to rule the world, and then it just disappearsfrom history.Nobody knowswhat happened to Solomon’s ring.But there aresomeveryinterestingtheoriesaboutwhatcould’vehappenedtoitandwhereitendedup.

Intheearlypartofthetwelfthcentury,nineknightsfoundedanordercalledthePoorKnightsoftheTempleofKingSolomon.Wenowknowtheseknightsas theKnightsTemplar.Ostensibly, theorderwas founded toprotect pilgrimswho were coming to Jerusalem. What we have found historically is that theKnightsTemplarweredoingsomethingfarmoreinterestingthanjustprotectingpilgrims.

AviewoftheTempleMountandmodern-dayJerusalem,seenfromtheMountofOlives.Beginningin AD 1120, the Knights Templar were headquartered at the Temple Mount, beneath which,accordingtolegend,theybegandigginginsearchofthelosttreasureofSolomon.OPISZagreb/Shutterstock.com

The membership of the Knights Templar quickly expanded well past theoriginal nine until it became an incredibly powerful andwealthyorganization.TheywereheadquarteredinJerusalem,attheTempleMount.Legendhasitthatthey were digging under the mount in hopes of finding the lost treasure ofSolomon. It’spossible that theywere lookingforSolomon’s ring inparticular,thisincredibleringthatwouldhelpthemtoruletheworld.

Itjustdisappearsfromhistory.NobodyknowswhathappenedtoSolomon’sring.

In 1894, British army engineers discovered evidence that indicatedabsolutely that the Knights Templar had done excavations under the TempleMount. They discovered subterranean architecture—Gothic pointed arches—identicaltoTemplarstructuresinFrancefromthesameperiod.Inaddition,theBritish engineers found a number of artifacts that directly connected theTemplarstotheTempleofSolomon.Basedonthisevidence,wecandefinitivelysaythattheKnightsTemplarwerediggingbeneaththeTempleofSolomon.

WhenboththepopeandthekingofFrancedecideditwastimetoeradicatetheKnightsTemplar,anumberofchargeswerebroughtagainsttheminordertooutlawtheorder.AmongthemorecuriouschargesbroughtagainsttheKnightsTemplarwasthattheywerecommuningwithdemons.ThemostfamousofthesedemonswasabeardedfigurenamedBaphomet,anditwassaidthatwhentheyspoke to Baphomet, Baphomet would speak back to them and give theminstructions. This idea that the Templars were somehow interacting withotherworldly characters is something that becomes very important and reallyenduresinTemplarmythology.

The legend of the demon Asmodeus as the protector and keeper of thetreasureofSolomon’s templebecomesvery important to theKnightsTemplar.To this day there is a church known to have been a Templar stronghold, thechurch at Rennes-le-Château in the southwest of France, with a statue ofAsmodeusattheentrance.ItistheonlyconsecratedCatholicchurchwhereyou

canwalkinthedoorandbegreetedbyademon.Isitpossible,giventhefascinatingconnectionbetweentheKnightsTemplar,

their rumored communing with demons, and their work digging under theTempleMount,thattheKnightsTemplaractuallyfoundSolomon’sring?

DROPASTONESIn 1938, a Chinese expedition in the region of Bayan-Kara-Ula discovered avery long cave that had murals painted on its walls. These cave paintingsdepictedthesun,moon,Earth,andstars,allconnectedbylittledottedlines.Asthe archaeologists explored the cave further, they discovered tombs aligned inrows.Thesetombswerefilledwithveryunusualskeletons.Theskeletonswerequite small and had strangely large and elongated skulls. But the mostextraordinarydiscoverythattheexpeditionmadewithinthecavewere716stonediskswenowrefertoastheDropastones.

The Dropa stones are about fifteen inches in diameter, with a hole in thecenter,ratherlikeanoldlong-playingrecord.Theywereelaboratelycarvedwithatypeofhieroglyphthat,whenfirstdiscovered,noonewasabletodecipher.Itwastwenty-fouryearsbeforeateamofarchaeologistswasabletoputtogetheratranslation of the Dropa stones. The information that was released from thetranslationswassensational.Oneofthestonessaidthataspacecrafthadcrashedtwelvethousandyearsagointhatregion,andanotheroneofthestonesreferredto the Dropa people arriving in airplanes twelve thousand years earlier. YetanotherstoneexplainedthattheDropapeoplewerepeacefulandnotwarlike.

TwooftheDropastonesweresenttotheSovietUnionforanalysis,andtheSoviet scientists discovered an entirelynewaspect of these stones.The stonesseemtohavebeenradiatedinsomewayandchargedwithelectricalenergy.Thescientistsfoundthatwhentheytriedtoplayoneasifitwerearecord,itemittedsomekindofsoundorvibration.

AlthoughtherehavebeeneffortstodiscredittheDropastonesandtheentirestoryaroundtheDropa,thereiscertainlyevidenceindicatingthatthereistruthtothestories,especiallyasrelatestotheDropapeoplethemselves.In1933,therewasareportofacultureofdwarflikebeingscomingintoconfrontationwiththeChinesegovernment,andtherewasareportofalittlewomanunderfourfeettallbeing escorted away by a Chinese soldier. There were even reports that thisdwarflikeculturewasbeingenslavedatthetime.In1995,theAssociatedPress

reportedonsomethingthattheycalledavillageofdwarfswithinafewhundredmiles of the original Dropa site.What we know is that cultures of dwarflikebeingshavebeenaccountedforinChinafromatleastasearlyas1933,andthisculture seems to come fromnowhere.Thesedwarflikebeings aren’t related toanyothercultureintheregion,buttheymustbedescendedfromsomething,anditisentirelypossiblethatthesebeingsarethemoderndescendantsoftheDropa.This regionwhere the potential descendants of theDropa exist is entirely off-limitstovisitors.Itisaforbiddenzone.

OneofthestonesreferredtotheDropapeoplearrivinginairplanestwelvethousandyearsearlier.

Photographsexistof theDropastones.Therearephotographsin theSovietUnion, there are photographs in Germany, and there are photographs inmuseumsinChina,butthestonesthemselvesarenolongeravailable.Thestonesthemselves have disappeared. A museum curator in China who was once inpossession of two of the stones in the collection claims that he was told toeradicate all evidence of the stones. If he was told to destroy the stonesthemselvesandanythingrelatedtothestones,thenthisiscertainlyevidenceofacover-up.

“Rama’sJourney.”Painting,ca.1650.SanDiegoMuseumofArt,http://www.sdmart.org/art/our-collection/asian-art

Thestudyofcomparativemythologyallowsustoseesimilaritiesinnarrativesacrosscultures,toseecommonexperiences,andtoidentifypatternsimportanttothe human experience. The myth of an epic disaster in ancient history, forexample, is shared bymany cultures.Many cultures tell of the existence of a

great civilization wiped away by a cataclysm, typically a flood. We haveaccounts inanumberofplacesofgreat floods thathappened inancient times.These cataclysms are described as “the ax of the gods,”whowere displeasedwithhumans, usually about either our immorality or rebellion.So they send aflood.Andafloodhasakindofpurgingandcleansingeffect.Theoldiswipedaway.Thenewismadepossible.

Perhaps themostwell-knownfloodstory is found in theBible. In the timebefore thesonsofGodcamedowntoEarth, there lived theshiningones,whowere like angels or fallen angels.They came toEarth, found thewomenveryattractive, and produced children with them. The children were giants, theNephilim,anditwasallrightforawhile.Theywerelargeandimpressive,buttheywere not of good character. Theywere evil and they taught humans evilways,andthisgraduallyupsetGod.SoGodbroughtthegreatdelugeanditwasagreatlesson,agreatchastisement.ButNoahwasagoodman.Noahwasgivena chance to live.God instructed him to build a great craft—an ark, as it wascalled—with very specificmeasurements and very specific instructions to puttwoofeverythingonit.Thearksurvivedthedeluge,andliferegenerated.

ThestoryofGilgamesh,theSumerianlegend,ispracticallythesamestory.In the Sumerian story the gods created humans, but Enlil, king of the gods,becameannoyedwiththem.Hebroughtdroughtandhebroughtpestilence,butthe humans still didn’t behave, so he decided to destroy them.ButEnki,whowas the creator god and more compassionate, advised the humans about thecoming floodandwarned them toprepare an ark.Hewarned ahumannamedAtrahasis, specifically, whowas told to build an ark to certain dimensions tosurvivethedeluge,justasinthestoryofNoah.

AnalabasterstatueofGilgamesh,KingofUruk.ThemythofthegreatfloodappearsintheSumerianEpicofGilgamesh,whichdatesbacktotheThirdDynastyofUr(circa2100BC).DEAG.DAGLIORTIDeAgostini/GettyImages

Plato wrote about the destruction of the great civilization of Atlantis, aculturethatdevelopedadvancedtechnologybutgrewlazyandpoorincharacter,andwerepunishedforit.Atlantiswasdoneinbyitsownhubris.Thatis,becauseof the progress, because of the achievements, because of the genius that wasAtlantis, arrogance started sneaking in. They started using their greatmilitarypowertoconquerneighbors,justforthesakeofdomination.Theystartedtotaketheirmagicforgranted,anduseitwithoutmoralreasoning.ThegodPoseidon,whowasinvolvedinthecreationofAtlantis,wasconcernedaboutthearroganceof thepeople,sohebroughtdownAtlantis.Hecausedearthquakesandfloods,anditwasswallowedintothesea.

AdepictionoftheIncacreatorgodViracochacarvedintotheGateoftheSuninTiahuanaco,Bolivia.Viracochaisshownwearingthesunasacrown,holdingthunderboltsineachhand,andcryingtearsofrain.StefanoButtafoco/Shutterstock.com

FromtheHindumythofManutothebiblicalstoryofNoah,manyculturessharestoriesofagreatfloodthatthreatenstowipeoutmankind.AccordingtotheBookofGenesis,Noah’sarkcametorestattheMountainsofAraratafterthegreatflood.MyGoodImages/Shutterstock.com

IntheMesoamericantradition,theIncagodViracocharosefromthewatersandcreatedpeoplefromstones,butthepeoplewereuseless;theywerebrainlessgiants.Thegodswereverydisappointedandsotherewasagreatflood.Thenthegods tried again with small stones and that time it worked out. There’s analternateendingthattwopeoplesurvivedthefloodinsealedcavesand,afterthewatersreceded,cameoutandrepopulatedtheearth.

In the Hopi traditions, the creator god was kind enough to instruct somepeople togoto thespiderwoman,andthentheywereprotectedbyreedsfromthegreatfloodandlifewasabletoregenerate.IntheHopiviewoftheworld,wehave tobeaware that the floodscouldcomeas theyhave in thepastand takeawayallthatwehave.

There is awonderful story inHindumythology about the time thatManuwaswashinghishandsinariver.Heencounteredastrangelittlefishwhowasanxiousandaskedforhelptoescapefromalargerfish.ThelittlefishpromisedthathewouldgiveManusomethinginreturn,somethingofvalue.Manuhelpedhim and protected and saved him from the larger fish. Sometime later, thatstrangelittlefishtoldManuthatagreatfloodwascoming,thatheshouldmakepreparations,andManudid.Hebuiltaboat,andasthewaterscame,hehitchedthe boat to the horn of the fish, who saved him by pulling him to a highmountain.TheysaythatfishwasamanifestationofLordVishnu,thegreatgodof theHindu tradition. By savingManu that day, he, by extension, saved theentirehumanrace.

In Plato’s works Timaeus and Critias, Poseidon, the god of the sea, is described as the ruler ofAtlantis.Atthestory’send,thecityofAtlantisdisappearsintothedepthsoftheseaafteritfallsoutoffavorwiththegods.dragunov/Shutterstock.com

DERINKUYU

Bordered on the north by theBlackSea and on the south by theTaurusMountains, liesCappadocia incentralTurkey.Herewindandwaterhavesculptedstrangeshapesoutofsoftvolcanicrock.Itwasinthislandscapeofmysteryandawethat,in1963,asimplehomerenovationinthetownofDerinkuyu led to an extraordinary discovery: a vast underground citythousandsofyearsoldandmorethan280feetdeep.

Expertsnowbelieve that an estimated twenty thousandmen,women,and children once lived in this structure, which extends thirteen storiesdeep into the ground. Within its dark hallways there is evidence ofreligiouscenters, storerooms,winepresses,andevenstables for livestock.The entire structure contains fifteen thousand air shafts that bring air toeventhedeepestoflevels.

Butjustwhobuiltthismassiveundergroundcity?Andwhatmysteriousforcedrovethemtoliveunderground?

According to mainstream archaeologists, Derinkuyu was most likelyintended to serve as a temporary shelter from invasion, built around800BC. But could the underground city be even older? Ancient astronauttheorists believe it is—perhaps by many thousands of years. TheCappadocia regionwas part of aZoroastrian empire—a ruling force thatrecognizedZoroastrianismasitsofficialreligion.TheZoroastrianreligion—anancient faithbasedonopposing forcesofgoodandevil—iswidelybelieved to have influenced both Hinduism and Judeo-Christianity.Developed sometime before the sixth century BC, its chief god is thecreatorAhuraMazda.InthesecondchapteroftheZoroastriansacredtext,the Vendidad, Ahura Mazda saves humankind from a worldwideenvironmental disaster—much like the story of Noah in the Hebrewtestament.

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Accordingtothesacredtexts,AhuraMazdainstructsthegreatprophetYima to build a kind of underground refuge similar toDerinkuyu.Yimabuiltamultilevelundergroundcitytoprotectaselectgroupofpeopleandanimals,not froma flood,but fromaglobal iceage.TheVendidadcallsthis“theevilwinters.”Accordingtomanymainstreamclimatologists, thelasticeagepeakedaround18,000yearsagoandendedaround10,000BC.IsitpossiblethatDerinkuyuwasbuiltasarefugefromadevastatingglobalwinter?

Could the sky godAhuraMazda have been an advanced being fromanother world? If so, did he provide the technology needed for hisfollowerstobuildthiscomplexlabyrinthasprotectionfromenvironmentaldisaster?

Onedetailthatshowsupinmanyofthedelugestoriesissomekindofcraftthat enables survival of the flood. InNoah’s case itwas an ark, and itwas asimilarvesselforManu.TheGreekstoryhasDeucalionsurvivingthefloodinachest. The instruction to create something thatwill enable survival suggests akindofrebirthmotif.

Beyondsharedstoriesofcataclysm,culturesallacrosstheglobehavepaintings,murals, and sculptures that seem to depict something like space travel or aerotravel, longbeforeanysuchtechnologyexisted.FromIndiatoPeru—really, ineverygreatculture—therearecarvingsofscenesthatseemtodepictapersonona flying craft, or storiesof great flyingplatformsor huge flyingbirds that aresomehowridden,whichsoundmorelikevehiclesthananimals.

There’samuralinamarvelouschurchinKosovothatshowssomethinglikesatellitesorspacecraft.TheylooklikeearlySputnikimages.There’sapaintinginthePalazzoVecchioinFlorence,Italy,whichshowstheVirginMarywithastrange object hovering over her shoulder. It looks very much like a flyingsaucer. There’s a fresco in Montalcino, Italy, called The Glorification of theEucharist that shows a stylized image of the Earth with two rods or staffscomingoffofit.Itlookssomuchlikeanearlysatellite,youwouldthinkithadbeenpaintednowand that theartisthadbeen inspiredbyseeingsomekindofspacecraft. InCambridge,England, apaintingof thebaptismofChrist depicts

something saucerlike in the sky, with beams emitting from it, blessing theoccasion. In thebackgroundofaseventeenth-centuryfrescoof thecrucifixion,strangeobjectsflyintheair.Lookcloselyandtheyappeartobespacecraft.

AncientHindutextsdescribeflyingpalacescalledVimana,whichareoutfittedwithweaponry.ThetextslistfourmaintypesofflyingVimanas:Rukma,Sundara,Tripura,andSakuna.DavidH.Childress/CourtesyDavidH.Childress

A fresco entitled Crucifixion of Christ hangs above the altar of the Visoki Decani Monastery inDecani,Kosovo.Intheupperrightandleftcornersofthefrescoareflyingobjectsthatappeartobespacecrafts.“CrucifixionofChrist.”Fresco.Sprezzatura.it,http://www.sprezzatura.it/Arte/Arte_UFO_2_eng.htm

In the Vedas from India, there are descriptions of flying vehicles calledvimanas. They apparently can fly anywhere. There’s no obvious means ofpropulsion,sotheycandartaboutatwill.Theyhavearmament,somethinglikemissiles. And if enemies approach, they can be vaporized. Very high-tech-soundingstuff—andthisisfromoverfourthousandyearsago.There’sonegreatstorywhereLordKrishnaispilotingoneoftheseamazingcrafts,andthere’sanenemywhomanages tomakehisvehicle invisible.LordKrishna iscleverandquickandisabletofollowthesoundofthevehicleandstillfireoffanddestroyit.Thetechnologyisfascinating,anditsoundsverymuchlikespacevehicles.

IntheVedasfromIndia,thereareflyingvehiclescalledvimanas.Theyhavearmament,likemissiles.

IntheBible,Ezekielseesaflyingthronechariot,somekindofavehiclein

thesky. It’sveryclear in thedescription that thevehicle isbeingpiloted.Thisvehicleissometimesdescribedaslookinglikeagreat,shiningcloud,andwhenitdeparts, it departs in agreatwhirlwind.Theuseof theword“whirlwind” isinterestingbecause there areother stories that havepeoplegoing toheavenorbackinawhirlwind.Ithinkweshouldgivetheancientssomecredit.Theywereintelligent,deep,profoundpeople.

Virtually all of the sacred traditions include interactionsbetweendivinitiesandhumans.WehaveZeusandtheothergodsofthepantheoncomingdownoffMountOlympustoguideus,orcausetrouble,or indulgethemselves.Wehaveanangelappearing to theVirginMaryto tellhershe’dconceiveanewleader.Thevisitations takeseveral forms.Sometimesapersonappears. It’susually inhumanformthattheextraordinaryenergypresentsitself,becauseitwouldbetoodisorientingfortheactualhumanotherwise.Soapersonappearsandgivessomekindofguidanceormessage.Appearancesbyangels,inWesternimaginationatleast,gobacktoaroundtheseventhcenturyBC—awaysback.

Hinduphilosophyalsodescribesangel-likebeings.Thedevasarecreaturesthatcan’tbeseen,buthavegreatpowers.Likeangels,theycanflythroughthesky. Like angels, they have different classes. Some of them interact withhumans.Thedevasarenotimmortal.Theyhaveverylonglivesbutdonotlivefor eternity. They are not omniscient. They know some things but noteverything. They aren’t the creators of theworld. They are divine but they’remorelikelocalgods.Infact,whentheytakephysicalform,they’reverymuchlikehumans—abitlargerbutstillmorelikeusthannot.Theyareintermediaries;that’s their importance. An angel is also an intermediary; the word “angel”means“messenger.”

Greatturningpointsinworldhistoryhavebeenassociatedwithvisitationsbysupernaturalbeings.

IntheKoranthereisafascinatingcategoryofcreaturesknownasjinn.TheEnglishword“genie”isactuallyderivedfromtheArabicword“jinn.”Thejinnareancient—theywereherebeforehumans.Theyhavefreewill,unlikeangels,whomust do good. They are capable of goodor evil. They live in a kind ofparalleldimensionorworldoftheirown,buttheycaninteractwithus.Andtheyare powerful entities you want on your side. They can do powerful andmetaphysical things.Theycanalsododark things.Shaytans, thedarkelement

withinthejinnworld,arededicatedtoevilortrouble.Manyofthestoriesaboutjinnfocusonamortalstrikingadealwithortryingtotrickajinn,withseriousconsequences.

Greatturningpointsinworldhistoryhavebeenassociatedwithvisitationsbysupernaturalbeings.Theywillhelpaleader,apriest,oraheromakesomekeydecisionorhelphimorheratakeymoment.Theymightgivetheseleadersextrapowers so that they can accomplish extraordinary things. The Islamic prophetMuhammad,forexample,wasamanofmodestmeanswholivedinMeccaandwould take a period of time each year to reflect and pray in a cave in themountainsnearby.Duringoneof these retreats the angelGabriel came tohimand told him his peoplemust look at their gods differently. Gabriel said thatMuhammad’s people had many icons and divinities but that they were allnonsense;thepeopleweretoworshiptheonegodanddevotethemselvestotallytoAllah.AndtheKoran,thisextensivebookwithallitsreligiousinsights,wasdictatedfromtheangeltoMuhammad,whoiscreditedwithitsauthorship.

The emperor Constantine also had a profound encounter with anotherworldlyvision.Hesawaflamingcrossinthesky.Hetookitasasignofsupport from God or the divine realm for his ambitions, and he was indeedsuccessful in his battles. He also decided to end religious intolerance in theentiretyoftheRomanEmpireonthebasisofthisbriefvision.

RenéDescartesdevelopedthescientificmethod,whichisthefoundationforthescientificworldview.Theentiretyofcontemporarycivilizationisbuiltonit.Whoknowswhatwewouldnothaveachievedoverthepastthreehundredyearshadwenothadthissystem.Thesourceofhisinspiration?DescartessaiditwasagiftfromGoddeliveredinaseriesofdreams.

These stories continue to this day, only in different form: thedivinebeingbecomesanE.T.orsomebodyfromanotherdimension.Thedetailsvarybutthestructureremainsthesame.Welongforconnectionwithsomethingbeyondtheknown. The alien visitors about whom we speculate personify that which islargerthanus,thatwhichisbeyondourunderstanding.It’ssomethingwedreador something we hope will have potentialities that we do not yet understand.Whateveritisandwhateveritmeans,itissomethingprofoundfromaworldwecannot immediatelysee,aworldmoresignificant,aworldofgreaterandmoreintensemeaning.

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TheArkoftheCovenantisfirstmentionedinthebookofExodus,afterMosesdescends from Sinai with the Ten Commandments. God commandsMoses toinstructthechildrenofIsraeltocreateachesttohousethetwotabletsonwhichthe Ten Commandments are engraved. But the Ark does not only serve as areceptacle for theTenCommandments.TheBible tells us that theArk is also“thethroneofGod”hereonEarth—aphysicalobjectthroughwhichhumanscan

encounterthepresenceofGod.Fromall accountswebelieve theArkof theCovenantwas something that

was real, an actual physical item with powerful properties that remainmysterioustoday.WerecognizefromthebiblicalstoriesthemselvesthattheArkwas a weapon. It clearly had a power to it, which was by any stretch of theimaginationsupernatural.

ThebookofExodusrecountsthatanartisannamedBezalelwasinchargeofconstructingtheArk.Itwastobeaboxwithinaboxwithinaboxwithalidtosealit,roughlythreefeetbyfivefeetandcoveredwithgold.CrowningtheArkwere twocherubim.WhenGod,viaMoses,directedBezalel tocreate theArk,healsoinstructedBezaleltoprepareveryspecificgarmentsforthehighpriestswho“operated”theArk,thefirstofwhomwasMoses’sbrother,Aaron.

Aaronwastowearaspecificcombinationofpriestlygarb.Thesegarmentsincluded the famous breastplate of judgment. The breastplate was inlaid withtwelve precious stones, which were to symbolize the twelve tribes of Israel.Embeddedin thebreastplatewasanobjectcalledtheUrimandThummim,thefunctionofwhichisamystery.Nooneknowsexactlywhat itwas.Aaronalsoworea longropetiedtooneofhis legs,whichhadbellsonthebottom.Why?BecauseifsomethingeverwentwrongwhenapriestapproachedtheArk,nooneelse was allowed to directly retrieve the body, lest they suffer the same fate.Instead, the other priestswould be able to pull himout using the rope, if andwhenhesufferedsuchafate.

MountSinai,alsoknownasJebelMusa,locatedintheSinaiPeninsulaofEgypt,isbelievedtobethelocationofthebiblicalMountSinaifromwhichMosesdescendswiththeTenCommandmentsinthebookofExodus.Accordingtothestory,GodtellsMosestoinstructthechildrenofIsraeltocreateachesttoprotecttheTenCommandments—thischestbecameknownastheArkoftheCovenant.VladimirMelnik/Shutterstock.com

TheArkwasconcealedwithinthetabernacle,whichonlythehighpriesthadaccessto.Andlater,whenSolomonbuiltthetempleinJerusalem,theykepttheArkintheHolyofHolies,which,again,onlythehighpriestcouldaccess.Thehighpriestwouldenter theHolyofHoliesandlightaspecialblendof incensethatwouldfilltheentireroom.Inhalingtheincensewouldopenupsynapsesinhisbrain,andhewould then telepathicallycommunicateaquestion toGod. Inthis way, theArk of the Covenant was a technology for communicatingwithGod.

After the priest telepathically asked his question, a pulsating soundwouldemanate from the cherubim. These pulsating sounds caused the stones on hisbreastplatetovibrateandhum.Thevibratingstonesreflectedlightandsentoutapattern.Together these created amessage in sound and light,which the priestinterpreted.

THETABERNACLEOFSHILOH

Onaparched summerday in July2013, Israeli archaeologistsdiggingatTel Shiloh—the historic site of the biblical city of Shiloh—unearthedartifacts that dated back to 1300 BC, a major find that confirmed that,indeed,thecityhadbeenoccupiedandinuseinthetimeoflegend.ButthemostthrillingartifactofhumanoccupationatShilohwasnottheclaypots,stoves, or portions of walls. Instead, a muchmoremundane find wouldprovetobethediscoverythatrockedthearchaeologicalworld:man-madeholescarvedintothesolidrockground.Basedonthelocationandthedateoftheartifacts,archaeologistsbelievedtheseholeshadheldthebeamsthatsupportedthetabernacleofShiloh,theancientsanctuarybuilttohousethemostmysteriousreligiousrelicintheworld,theArkoftheCovenant.

Theseotherwiseinnocuousholeswerethefirstphysicalevidenceoftheexistence of theArk, the golden chest of incredible, supernatural power,built toholdthetabletsoftheTenCommandments.BiblicalaccountstellusthatancientpeoplewereterrifiedoftheArk—andthatwhereveritwent,peopledied.LegendsoftheArk’sincrediblepowers—thepowertoharm,the power to kill, the power to talk to God—have intrigued religiousscholars and historians for thousands of years.Could theArk have beenmore than legend? And if so, was this mysterious golden chest truly ofdivine origin . . . or might its powers have come from an even moreotherworldlysource?

With regard to theArkbeingacommunicationdevice, it isveryclear thattheBible saysGod showedMoses that theArkwas to be built in accordancewithwhatMosessaw.Inotherwords, theArkisbuiltasanexactduplicateorreflectionof a “heavenly”Ark.Weoften throwaroundwords like “heavenly”and “spiritual” without pursuing what they actually meant in ancient days.MoseswasshownsomethingonMountSinai,andhewastold,Thisishowyoubuildit—followthisexample.Anditwasmeantspecificallysothat theArkonEarthwouldbeacommunicationsdevice thatwouldactivateandconnectwiththeArkinanotherplace,whichgenericallywecallheaven.

WhatdidthehighpriestactuallyseewhenhewouldapproachtheArk?ItissaidthatnotonlydidthepresenceofGodmanifestinthosecommunications,butthatthepriestalsowasphysicallyabletoseesometypeofabiocentricpulsatingenergyfield.That’swhyweunderstandthatthepresenceofGodintheArkofthe Covenant was a life force, a biocentric conscious energy field, whichembraced life itself. Indeed,oursages teachus that theentireplanet isalive—thattheplanetisconscious,itissentient,ithasself-awareness,anditisalivingentity,asarealltheplanets.

ItwasthatenergythatcamethroughtheArk,whichmadeitalive.AncientlegendstellusthatwhenthisbiocentricpresenceofGodactuallycameupontheArk,thegoldencherubimontopwereenlivenedandtheyphysicallymoved.TheArk became like God’s chariot or God’s throne upon the Earth. The onlyinstancethatweareawareofwherethisisrepeatedintheBibleisinthefamouschariotvisionofEzekiel.

I think the Ark is a tool. I think it’s always been a tool. Somehow,

somewherethereisarealityunderlyinglifethatisgreaterthanwhatourmodernscience understands. Now, this is where I believe religion and science reallymust start getting together. From the biblical record it appears that the energythatemanatedfromtheArkwassomethingelectric.TheentireArk,activatedbythepresenceofGod,becamesometypeofabiocentricenergyfieldwhenAaron,whowasthehighpriest,andhistwosonsapproachedittomakeanoffering.Itissaid that a strange fire came forth from the Ark and killed them. AncienttraditiondescribestwobeamsofliteralfirecomingforthfromtheArk,travelinguptheirnostrilsandburningthemfromtheinside, leavingtheirentireoutsidesintact.That sounds tome likeelectrocution.Somaybewhat theArkprojectedwassomethinglikelightning,anditwassometypeofanelectricfield.

AsthepeopleofBethShemeshreapthewheatharvestinthefieldofJoshua,theylookuptoseetheArkoftheCovenantcarriedonautilitycart.ThePhilistinesarereturningtheArktoIsrael.ivan-96E+GettyImages

I do thinkwemisunderstand theArk ifwe believe that it somehowhad amindofitsown.TheArkwasatechnologicaldevice.Ifweacceptthefactthatthe Ark exists, we must understand it as a technological device delivered bysomeintelligencebeyondthatwhichwehumanbeingsunderstand.TheArkwasbeyond religious or moral parameters. Today, when we get too close tosomething that is dangerous to us,whether something of a chemical nature orenergeticnature,wecandie.Thereisnomoralorreligiousjudgment.TheArkwas the same. The Ark was of such a nature that its perimeter had to be

respected. It was dangerous to touch the Ark. It was dangerous for those notproperlypreparedtogetclosetotheArk.TherewassomekindofenergyintheArk, which had the power to kill. The Levites (the temple workers) werespecificallyinstructedtocarrytheArkonverylongpoles,andtheywouldcarryit on their shoulders, but even theywere not allowed to touch it. They couldtouchonlythepoles.AndoncethepoleswereinplaceintheArk,thatwasit—theywerenevertoberemoved.

TheArkwasatechnologicaldevice,deliveredbysomeintelligencebeyondthatwhichwehumanbeings

understand.

It’sveryclearinthebookofNumbersthatwhentheIsraeliteswanderedthedesert fromEgypt toCanaan, theArkwentforth infrontof thecampbythreedaystopreparetheirwayinthewilderness.TheArkmadesuretheplacewherethechildrenofIsraelweretogowouldbesafeandwouldbeabletoprovidefortheminthedesert.Anybodywho’sbeentotheSinaidesertcouldhardlyimaginefinding any kind of sustenance there, especially for hundreds of thousands ofpeople.Sowhat theArkmust’ve accomplishedwasprofound.The sustenancethe Israelites relied on was a mysterious substance called manna. TherelationshipbetweentheArkandthemannaisnotexplicitinscripture.Weknowit says that God made manna appear every morning from the dew upon theEarth.Howdiditgetthere?BecausetheArkwasmeanttopreparethewayforandsustaintheIsraelites,wecanmaketheconnectionbyimplication.

TheArkoftheCovenantPassesOvertheJordanbyJamesJacquesJosephTissot,circa1896–1902.Inthispainting,powerfulenergyemanatingfromtheArkcausesthewateroftheJordanRivertostopandascend,allowingsafepassagethroughtheHolyLand.FineArtCorbisHistoricalGettyImages

Somehow, the power within the Ark had some type of transformational,technologicalinfluenceoverthenaturalenvironment.NopoweronEarthinthatdaycould’veeverprovidedsucha thingasmanna.Ifwewant to interpret thatreligiously as a miracle, so be it. But those of us with a more scientificunderstanding have a different word for that power. It is what we call“extraterrestrial.”ItisinterestingthatwhenAaron’spriesthoodwaschallenged,MoseslaidAaron’sstaff,whichwasmadeofwood,overnightalongsidetheArkoftheCovenant.InthemorningAaron’sstaffhadblossomed.Ithadleaves,andithadalmondsonit.Now,wemightsay,That’samiracle,butlet’strytolookatthisoutsideofthemythofmiracleandunderstanditscientifically.Whatcouldcauseapieceofwoodtoblossom?Well,ifthereissomeDNAleftinsidewood,energycanreanimateit.TheArkwasthesourceofthisenergy.ThatwhichwecallthepresenceofGod,whichdweltupontheArk,wasamanifestationofthisnatural life-force energy. And therefore it activated whatever was in Aaron’sstaffandcausedwhatwewouldinterprettobeadeadpieceofwoodtoblossom

andcometo life.Soagain, theArknotonlyhadthepropertiesofdeath,but italsohadthepropertiesoflife.

LegendtellsusthatwhenthechildrenofIsraelwerefinallytoentertheHolyLand, the priests, not the Levites, were carrying the Ark. According to thelegend,theywereontheeasternsideoftheJordan,andsomehow,somewhere,someenergycame forth from theArk, causing thewaters to literally stopandascend.ThiscreateddrylandfortheentirechildrenofIsraeltowalkonintotheHolyLand.Andthenwhat?ItissaidthatthepriestsholdingtheArk,insteadofpassingthroughthedrylandtotheothersideafterthechildrenofIsrael,tookastepbackontotheeasternbankoftheJordanRiver,allowingthewatertothenflow.ThensomehowtheArklevitated,withthepriestsholdingon,andliterallyhoveredandflewtotheothersideoftheJordanRiver.

Once in the Holy Land, needless to say, the reputation of the Israelitespreceded them.Peoplewere terrified.Theyhadheard rumorsof thegreat andawesome Ark. The book of Joshua tells us that when the Israelites reachedJericho,Godcommanded them tomarcharound thecitywalls for sevendays,withtheArkinthelead.Somehow,betweenthestampingoftheirmarchingfeet,the sounding of the rams’ horns, and the power of theArk, themighty stonewalls of the city of Jericho collapsed and the Israelites enjoyed their firstconquestinCanaan.

Several years later, the Israelites took the Ark into battle against thePhilistines,butlostandtheArkwascaptured.ThePhilistinestooktheArkoftheCovenantandtreateditlikeanyotherbooty,puttingitinthetempleoftheirgod.The Bible records that very strange things then started to happen. Death andsickness broke out among the Philistines. In ancient times, they had nounderstanding of energy or what we would consider similar to radiationpoisoning, so they considered this death and sickness to be the result of theirgod’s displeasure. They tried to offer sacrifices in appeasement, but it didn’twork. So they said,Let’s get this thing out of here. And they sent it back toIsrael.The same thinghappenedwhen it reached the childrenof Israel.Thosepeople who did not take proper precaution in the presence of the Ark alsosuccumbedtoillnessanddied.

ThepowerwithintheArkhadsomesortoftransformational,technologicalinfluenceoverthe

naturalenvironment.

Wemust understand that the Torah, the five books ofMoses as we havethem,werenotwrittentobeacomprehensivehistoryinwhicheverydetailwasincluded.And therefore thereweredefinite secretsabout theArk—howitwasbuilt,whyitwasbuilt,andwhatitmayhavecontained.Weknowonlysomuchabout it.We know theArk had the power to kill.We know theArk had thepowertopreparethewayforthechildrenofIsraelinthedesert.Whatdoesthatmean?Whatexactlydiditdo?Thatwedon’tknow.Butwedoknowthatithadpowersandabilitiesnotdescribedinscripture.Weknowthatifandwhenitwastakentowar,itcoulddestroyenemies.Itwasterriblyfearedbytheenemiesofancient Israel. Its presence was considered so dangerous that people did notapproachit,andthosewhoviolateditsboundariesdied.

The book of Zechariah prophesizes that in the days to come, when theMessiahistobe,thatthere’sgoingtobeatremendousearthquakeinJerusalem.TheMountofOliveswillsplit,andthesplitwillcreateachasmforty-fivemileswide. It is said that this earthquake will be caused by some type of sonicvibrationcreatedfromundertheearth,andthatthepowersfromundertheearthare thengoing to arise out of this chasmwith theArk,withwhat’s called theholyonesofGod.AndthisisconsideredtobeA)thereturnoftheArkandB)thefamouscomingoftheMessiah.

According to the ancient prophecies, when the time comes for divineinterventioninhumanhistory,thearmiesofGodaresupposedtomarchwiththeArkoftheCovenantbeforethem.

I thinkwe all know that we’re living in very, very unstable times. And Ibelievethereasontheworldtodayissounstableisthatdeepwithinthecoreofourhumanity,weallsensesomekindofchangeiscoming.Therearesomanynewthings,somanystrangethings.Ibelievethatsomehow,somewhere,wearebeing prepared for something. And it’s only a matter of time before thatsomething is revealed.When that time comes, I believe that, like the ancientlegendsays, theArkwillbereactivated.Communicationswillberestored,andwewill againhavenot only thatwhichwehave lost, but also thatwhichwasmeanttobeinthebeginning.Iconfessthat’sanoptimistichope,butit’sonethatIdoembrace.

TheArkoftheCovenantrepresentsaveryimportantmessagetous,thatwehumanbeingsstillhaveopentousalineofcommunicationwithoursource,ourcreator. That creator is who we call God, whom I believe reached out tohumanityatMountSinaiandopenedthedoortoextraterrestrialcommunication

through something like a wormhole, perhaps. Instructions were given at thattime how to maintain that contact. And I believe that the secrets of thosecontactsarestillavailabletothosewhoseekthemout.

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Ifyoureallywanttounderstandwhyextraterrestrialvisitorsbuiltthestructureson Earth where they did, you need to understand that all of these structures,almost without exception, are built on a worldwide geometric pattern. Thispatternwas originally discovered through identification of the primary twelve

pointsthatmakeuptheconnectingnodesofthegrid.

The Nubian pyramids lie in the Nile Valley, in what is modern-day Sudan. Altogether, there areabout 255pyramids spreadout among three separate sites in the region ofNubia,which range inheightfromtwentytoninety-eightfeet.ThemostelaborategroupingofpyramidsisatMeroe,locatedaboutsixty-twomilesfromSudan’scapitalcity,Khartoum.Martchan/Shutterstock.com

These twelve points, located by Ivan T. Sanderson in the 1960s, aredimensionaldoorways.Theyareareaswhereplanesandshipshaveencounteredmagnetic anomalies,where compasses start spinning,where dematerialization,inwhich people disappear and then reappear later on, has happened.At thesetwelvepoints,therehavebeentimeslips,inwhichpeoplearrivemuchtooearlyor much too late at a destination. They are areas where all the crew andpassengersofashiphavedisappearedintothinair,leavingtheshipbehind,eggsstillfryingonthestove.TheBermudaTriangle,forexample,isonlyoneofthesespots. Sanderson identified ten different points around the world where thesekindsof thingshappen,andwhenyouadd theNorthandSouthPoles,yougettwelve.

What’sinterestingaboutthesetwelvepointsisthatthey’reequidistantfromoneanother.Theyexistat36degreesnorthandsouth latitude.Longitudinally,they’re 72 degrees apart from one another above and below the equator. It’swhen you play connect the dots that you get a geometric pattern called anicosahedron. This is a soccer ball–type shape made out of twenty equilateraltriangles.Ifyoufliptheicosahedroninsideout,yougetanothergeometricshapecalled a dodecahedron. This is another soccer ball–type shape consisting oftwelvepentagonsthatareall thesamesize.Betweenthesetwogeometries, theicosahedron and thedodecahedron, youhave aunifiedgridpattern around theEarth, a pattern that was discovered by three Russian scientists, NikolaiGoncharov, Vyacheslav Morozov, and Valery Makarov. They made thisdiscovery in theearly1970s,workingoffof the initial twelvepoints thatwerediscoveredbyIvanSanderson.

Whatissomind-blowingisthatwhentheRussianscientistslookedatallofthe then-identified 3,300 pyramids, stone circles, standing stones, temples,cathedrals, andpagodasonEarth, they saw that every singleoneof themwasbuilt on this grid of geometric lines. This includes the Moai stone heads onEaster Island, all the pyramids in Mesoamerica, the pyramids in Giza, thepyramids inSudan,manyof theancient temples inIndia,evenAngkorWat inCambodia—allof them.Allover theplanet, theywereallbuilton thisgridofgeometric lines.So thequestion is,Whywould theancients consistentlybuildonlyonthegridandnotanywhereelse?

In1958,theFrenchmathematicianandengineerAiméMichelpublishedhismasterwork,Flying Saucers and the Straight-LineMystery.What is the flyingsaucerstraight-linemystery?Ifyoulookinhisbook,whatyoufindaremapsofFrance in which multiple UFO sightings are charted, and they occur alongstraight-linepaths.OneparticulardiagramshowsUFOsightingsthattookplaceall on the night of October 2, 1954. There are as many as seven differentsightings thatall lineup instraight lines,and therearegroupsofparallel linesthat form.Thesame thinghappensagainwhenwego toOctober7,1954,andonceagainwehavegroupsofparallel lines inwhich theremaybeasmanyasthree documented UFO sightings—in this case, sometimes four or five—allappearinginaprecisestraightline.

Another book,Anti-Gravity and theWorldGrid, edited byDavidHatcherChildress,containsafascinatingchapterthatblowsmeawaynowasmuchasitdidwhenIfirststumbleduponitin1995.ItisachapterbyBruceCathieonthemathematics of the world grid. I was taken with Cathie’s work, because

independentlyofAiméMichel,CathiewasstudyinganumberofUFOsightings,includingsomeofhisown,thattookplaceoverNewZealand,andhefoundthesamething.UFOsightingsorganizeintostraightlines.Theykeepappearingasiftheyneed tobeoncertain linesandas if their anti-gravitypropulsion systemsdon’tevenworkoutsidethoselines.

What’s really strange is that Cathie discovered this on his own and thensomeonealertedhimtoMichel’swork.ItwasfromreadingMichel’sworkthatCathiediscoveredthatMichelhadnoticedapatterninthedistancesbetweentheUFOsightings.Michelisadarngoodmathematicianandanengineer,andaverythoroughresearcher.Afterextensiveresearch,Michel’sconclusionwasthattheaveragedistancebetweenUFOsightingswas54.43kilometers.

This gotCathie very excited, becauseMichel hadmissed something reallyimportant.IfyoulookattheEarthyouhave,ofcourse,theequatorthatyoucandrawasacircle.Howmanydegreesareinacircle?Ofcourse360.Howdowemeasureunitssmallerthan1degree?Wechopitupinto60pieces,andthosearecalled minutes just like how we divide an hour into 60 minutes. You take 1degreeofarcattheequatorandyouchopitupinto60pieces,andyougetonearcminute.This isalsocalledanauticalmile.WhatgotCathiesoexcitedwasthatMichel’smagic number of 54.43 kilometers is almost exactly 30 nauticalmiles.It’sapreciseharmonicofthesphericalshapeoftheEarth.Ifyoutake360degreesandthenchopupeachdegreeinto60individualminutes,youhave30minutes.AndtheUFOsarealwaystraveling30minutesapart.

These drawings by Leonardo da Vinci depict an icosahedron (left)—a polyhedron with twentytriangular faces—and a dodecahedron (right)—a polyhedronwith twelve pentagonal faces. In the1960s, Ivan T. Sanderson located twelve “dimensional doorways” around the world that are allequidistantandthatcreatetheseshapeswhenthedotsareconnected.Science&SocietyPictureLibrarySSPLGettyImages;Science&SocietyPictureLibrarySSPLGettyImages

Fromthis,Cathiewasabletoderiveanincrediblereimaginingofphysicsasweknowit,includingthespeedoflightandthewaythatatomsareconstructed,andultimatelyhewasabletocreateaglobalgrid.Cathiewasabletoseehisgridlines extendingover the entire surfaceof theEarth, andhe created agrid thatencompasses many different things, such as the Earth’s own natural features;many,many differentUFO sightings; and the actual trajectories thatUFOs inflightwouldtravelalong.

Theytravelalongthelines,stayingonthem,apparently,becausetheUFOsare powered by the lines in some intrinsic way. To me, this is a fascinatingstudy, andwhat is evenmore fascinating is that Cathie’s grid has a shape. Itresolvesintotheshapeofaperfectcubesuperimposedinsidethesphereof theEarth. Someof the lines also cross in such away to form an octahedron, andbothgeometries—thecubeandtheoctahedron—can,infact,beenfoldedinsideeachother,formingthesimplegeometricsolidknownasthecubeoctahedron.

UFOstravelalongthegridlines,becausetheUFOsarepoweredbythelinesinsomeintrinsicway.

At some of the points along this world grid there have been unexplaineddisappearances. In thecaseof theBermudaTriangle,wehavemore than threethousand documented disappearances in the twentieth century alone, betweenplanesandshipsthathavesimplyvanishedwithoutatrace.Granted,therehavebeenseeminglycredibletheoriesasskepticalexplanationsforwhat’sgoingoninthe Bermuda Triangle, such as the idea that there are big bubbles coming upthroughtheoceanthatswallowuptheshipsasthey’regoingalong.Anditisalsotruethatwreckagehasbeendiscoveredontheflooroftheoceanfromsomeofthese famous Bermuda Triangle cases. However, in many, many BermudaTriangle cases, there areplanes flying through the air that simplyvanish fromview.There is no flotsam foundon the surfaceof the ocean.There are nooilslicks.Thereisnoevidencewhatsoeverofanyconventionalcrash,andnosignsofacrasheverturnup,evenyearslater.

TheZoneofSilenceinDurango,Mexico,isanotheroneoftheseinterestingareas on the Earth’s surface that is heavily associated with extraterrestrialactivity; strange anomalies in terms of radio, television, and satellitecommunications; andvery curiousdestructive effectsonmachinery.TheZoneof Silence was first discovered after July 1, 1970, where an Athena rocketcarrying two cobalt-57 nuclear warheads malfunctioned in a test flight andcrash-landednose first intoa sanddune inside thisarea.TheU.S.governmentwas very concerned, of course, because of the nuclear warhead. So theyimmediately built a base there to try to find the rocket and identify it. Thequestionis,Whydidthisrocketmalfunctionoveranareathathadalreadybeenassociated inancient traditionwith strangevisitorscoming in,withanomalousproblemswithcommunicationdevices?AftertheinitialAthenarocketcrashed,aSaturnboosterrocketmalfunctionedoverthatarea,too.

Therehavebeenmanystrangestoriesofencounters in theZoneofSilencewithextraterrestrialbeingswholooklikeus;theymayhaveblondhair,theymayhaveblueeyes, theymaybe taller,and theymaybehavea little strangely,butthey’refriendlyandthey’rehelpfultothepeople.OneexampleisfromOctober13, 1975, when Ernesto and Josefina Diaz were driving their pickup truckthrough the Zone of Silence and the rain started to come very quickly. Theywereworriedabouta flash flood,and in fact, theirpickupdidget stuck in the

mud.Theywereveryconcerned.Then twoextremely tallmenwearingyellowraincoats andyellow caps showedup andoffered to push the truckout of themudforthem.Buttheydidn’twanttobeseen.Thetruckwasdislodgedfromthemudalmostinstantaneously,andwhentheDiazeswentouttolookforthesetwopeopletothankthem,theyweregone.

AtasmalllocalranchintheZoneofSilence,thestaffwerevisitedbythreetall blond people, twomen and onewoman,who came consistently andwerepolitealmosttoafault.Theywouldaskfortheircanteenstobefilledwithwater,but theynever asked for food—theynever asked for anythingelse.Andwhenthe ranchersasked themwhere theycamefrom, theywouldonlygiveavaguesmileandsay,Fromabove.

ThenyouhavethecaseofRubenLopez,whowasdrivingthroughtheZoneof Silence when his vehicle’s engine began to malfunction. These types ofmalfunctionsareaconsistentfeatureof thesevortexareasbecause theyhaveascramblingeffectonelectromagneticenergyfields.Sothealternatorinyourcarcan start to go out, and this would cause significant problems: it’ll make itimpossibletodrive.Thisseemstobewhathappenedinthiscase.OnceLopez’senginewentout,hesawfivepeoplewhoappearedtobechildren,althoughtheywere wearing helmets and strange silver one-piece outfits. And when he sawtheirfaces,hedeterminedthemtobeadultfaces.Hewasquitefrightenedbythisanddidn’t interactwith thesepeople,butnonetheless it’s anotheroneof theseinterestingextraterrestrialcontactstoriesthatcomeoutoftheZoneofSilence.

TheZoneofSilenceandotheranomaloussitesall seem to liebetween the26th and the 28th latitude parallels. The Bermuda Triangle, certain cities inTibet,CapeCanaveral, andmanyother sites seem to cluster along these samepoints.

It seems that the core of what makes the Bermuda Triangle, the Zone ofSilence,andsimilar siteswork theway theydo isanunacknowledgedphysicssystem that’s very simple to acquire. All we have to do is fix one Einsteinequation. In the conventional Einsteinian view, as you accelerate toward lightspeed, yougain infinitemass, hence noone could ever travel past light speedbecausethey’dbeasmassiveastheentireuniverseanditwouldbeimpossibletotravel. But you can take that equation and, as the Russian scientist VladimirGinzburghasdone,flipitupsidedown.Onceyoudothat,youlosemassasyouapproach light speed. You have to answer the question of where the mass isgoing.Butnonetheless,weseethishappeningonthequantumlevelallthetime.Weseeparticlesthatseemsolidpopoverintoawavepattern.SoIproposethat

the key to understanding this science is in realizing that at the quantum level,atoms andmolecules are already almost at light speed all the time.That’s thequantumflowthat’smovingthroughtheatomtomaketheatomexist.Andallittakesisalittlegentlenudging,suchasthespinfieldwithingravitymovingataslightly faster speed,or suchasmoving theobjectorvibrating theobjectwithsound,withcertaintypesoflightbeams,orwithenergywavetechnologytothenpushthoseatomsoverthelightspeedboundary.Becauseonceyouacceleratethequantummovement in an atom past light speed, you’ve dematerialized it andbroughtitintoaparallelreality.

Sothetheoreticalfoundationsarethere—wejustmakeonesimplechangetoexistingEinsteinequationsthatdoesn’tviolateanylawsofphysicsandnowwehavea theoreticalbasis forhowdematerialization, teleportation,andeven timetravelcouldoccur,andmoreimportant,whytheyoccuratthesecertainpointsonthe Earth’s surface. If you can build the entire grid off of twelve points thatrepresentdoorwaysbetweendimensions, then it suggests that thestraight linesthatmakethegridalsoserveasdimensionalportals.

Onceyouacceleratethequantummovementinanatompastlightspeed,you’vedematerializeditandbroughtit

intoaparallelreality.

Ifwe look at the story of the Philadelphia Experiment, it zeros in on oneCarlos Allende, also known as Carl Allen. Allende allegedlywas part of thisgroupthatwentthroughtheso-calledPhiladelphiaExperimentinwhichtheUSSEldridgedematerialized itselfandwent throughsomesortofvortex,andsomeofthesoldiersendedupembeddedintheship’shullasaresultofmovingintothismidwaypointbetweendimensions,which,again, ison thatsamegrid linethat comes right up along the east coast of the United States, starting downwheretheBermudaTriangleis.

There are also grids inside the Earth that are rotating at a different speed,which theMayan calendarwas built to track.Oneof the cycles in theMayancalendar is calledabaktun,which is144,000days longor about400years. Itwas discovered only in 1996 that the Earth’s core is rotatingwith a 400-yearrotation period, different from the rest of the Earth. We also know from theGlatzmaier-RobertsmodelthattheEarth’scoreisgeometricinshape.Theycall

itabody-centeredcubicironcrystal,becausetheythinkithastobeirondownthere.Butagain,theshapeisthisdodecahedron,whichlookslikeasoccerballmadeof twelvepentagons.Soyouhave this rotatinggeometriccore inside theEarththatgoesthroughvariousphaserelationshipswiththegridonthesurface.Andwhen thegeometries lineup,yougetportals thatopenup.So theMayancalendarwasbeingusedasatrackingsystemtobeabletodeterminewhentheseportalswouldopenup.

WeseethatthereareinfactlinesofenergyaroundtheEarth,whichappearasaspinfieldwithingravity.Wecanseethattheselinesexistthroughavarietyof scientificmeans, including charting out the twelve points around theworldwhereplanesandshipsdisappear.Ifyouconnectthelinestogether,yougettheglobalgrid.This is real. It’snot a fantasy.That includesCentralAmerica andMesoamerica. Therefore, once you really understand what’s going on whensomeone builds a pyramid, you realize you’re looking at a technology thatinvolvestheharnessingofthisspinfieldwithintheEarth’sgravity.(Icallitthesourcefieldbecauseit’sthesourceofallmatter,alllife,andallconsciousness.)We’redealingwith the real unified field theory,which is not electromagnetic.Therealunifiedfieldisgoingtobefoundingravity.

Limestoneisasedimentaryrockthathasbeenusedtobuildmanyancientsites,includingtheValley

TempleofKhafre,situatedwithinthecomplexofthePyramidofKhafre,thesecondlargestofGiza’spyramids.Sometheoristsbelievelimestonewaschosenbecauseofitscrystallinestructure,whichcanharnessenergy.BrianMaudsley/Shutterstock.com

Aclusterofquartz.Manynaturalstones,likegranite,aremadeupofmicroscopicquartzcrystals.PHOTOFUN/Shutterstock.com

The ancient stone monuments were built to harness that force and thatpotential to create a funnel-like vortex. The shape of the pyramid literallybecomesafunnelsothattheenergyflowingthroughitgetsputintoaspiralingstream.Thentheenergyhasnoticeableeffectsonandbenefitsforhumanhealth,on the health of the Earth, as well as on the ability to create portals forinterdimensional travel.This isahightechnology.Theevidence isallover theworld.We’reonlyjuststartingtorecognizewhatitisandhowitfunctions.

It’sespeciallyinterestingthatstoneisthemediumthatisconsistentlybeingused to build these ancient sites.Why are these guys so focused on stone? Ibelievethekeyliesinthesourcefield,whichistheprecursorfieldthatgoesintoall physicalmatter in the universe. The source field is what everybody keepsdiscovering independently. Each person gives it a different name, but it isultimatelythesourceofallphysicalmatteronaquantumlevelthatflowsintotheatomitself.

The interesting thing is thatwhenyou’rebuildingwith stone,you’reusingnaturalEarthmaterialsthatarecrystallineinnature.Graniteisloadedwithsmallcrystalsofquartz.Limestoneismostlysand,andsandismostlysilicon.Silicon,ofcourse,isacrystalallofitsown.Siliconistheprecursortoquartzcrystals.Soit’s this crystalline quality that you see in granite, limestone, and silicon, andwhat that silicondoeswith the source field, that determineswhatwe’re really

dealing with when we look at stone being used as a technology. Stone is aresonator.Thecrystalswithinthestoneresonatewiththesourcefield,thespiningravity.It’saspinthatwedon’tnormallymeasure,butitistheactualstuffthatformsmatterandenergy.Ifyoudidn’thavethesourcefield,youcouldn’thaveatomsandyoucouldn’thavemolecules.Sothat’ssimilartotheideaofacandleflame,right?Thecandleuseswaxandoxygentostaylit,andifyoudidn’thavethosetwothings,whoosh,theflamegoesout.

Similarly,whatcausestheelectrontokeepspinningaroundthenucleus?Doweeverworry,Ohmygosh,Ihopethattheelectronsinmyatomsaregoingtostaytogether,orImightdematerialize?No.Thechairyou’resittinginisgoingtoholdyouupjustfine.You’renevergoingtoworryabout theatomsrunningoutofjuice.Theyjustkeeponrunningandrunningandrunning.

But, if you want to run something, you need a power supply. It’s basicthermodynamics and conservation of energy. Sowhere the heck is the energycoming from that runs the atoms in your chair? The answer is that there’s asource field. It’s something that’s throughout the entire universe. In fact, it’sbeencalculatedthatthisvacuumenergyorzero-pointenergyissopowerfulthatif you had one teacup of it, you could instantaneously boil off the world’soceans.That’showpowerfulthisenergyis.Sothinkaboutwhatwouldhappenifyoucouldjustdipalittlewindmillintothatenergyfield.Well,youcoulddoitby harnessing the power of gravity. The power of gravity, in its essence, issomething that’spushing into theEarth. It’sa force thatpushes into theEarth,and that’s what’s holding us down, similar to a mosquito that’s caught in ascreenwindowas thewindblows through.We’rebeingblowndownonto theEarth.That’swhatgravityreallyis.Sowhenyouunderstandthat,youseethatthe energy that’s causing this blowing-down to happen behaves like a fluidwithin its own frame of reference. The frame of reference for the fluid ismultidimensional.It’snotwithinourthreedimensions.Wecanonlymeasuretheeffectsofthefluid,butweknowthatitisfluidlike.

Teslamade thisdiscovery.He talkscandidly inhis journalsabout the ideathatthisuniversalenergybehaveslikeafluidinmanyways.Sooncewegrasptheconceptthatit’safluidlikeenergy,weseethatthestructureandtheshapeofany particular object becomes a tool that could lead the object to become agenerator.Stoneisoneofthebestgeneratorsforthesourcefieldbecausestoneis crystalline in nature. That crystal has all these regular geometries, all thesefacetsinit.Thoseregulargeometriescapturethevibratingnatureofthisfluid—thisfluidthatisgravity—andtheymakethatfieldbecomemoreorganized.The

shapeofapyramidactslikeafunnelforthisfluidlikeenergy,creatingavortexin its center.That’swhy stone is beingused. Its crystallinepropertiesmake itexcellenttoresonatewithandcreatevortexcurrentswithinthesourcefield.

Physicalmatteratthesmallestlevelwantstoclustertogetherintosacredgeometry.

IfextraterrestrialsarelandingatGobekliTepeorSacsayhuaman,why?Whywouldtheybelandingthere?Whatwouldtheybedoing?Again,inmymodel,Ieliminatetheambiguity,becauseIgoinandIlookatthedata.Ilookatthedataof scientists inRussia, led byDr.AlexanderGolod,whobuilt a 144-foot-tall,steep, obelisklike pyramid. What you find is that these pyramids end upresonating with the source field, with this spin that’s in gravity. So it clearlyseemsthattheseancientsiteswerebuilttoharnessthisenergy.

In our current physics, we do not understand the source field.We do notunderstand that there is an intrinsic energy that gives rise to physical matter.Physical matter at the smallest level wants to cluster together into sacredgeometry.Ifyoutakesingleatomsandshootthemthroughanozzle,theydonotrandomly cluster together. They form what are called microclusters. There issome sort of geometric force thatmakes those atomswant to cluster togetherintoageometryratherthanothershapes.

This is the same force that shows up as geometric lines around the Earth.Those geometric lines have certain pointswhere they cross over one another.The places they intersect are nodes or vortexes. It’s all about lines of energyaroundtheEarththatexistfromaprimordialbasis.

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There’saninterconnectionherethatsuggeststhatancientsiteswerechosenfor their energetic benefits, that when you build stone towers and stonemonuments at those sites, you get an energetic benefit that you wouldn’t getelsewhere.WealsoseeclearevidenceofUFOsightingsoccurringalongstraightlines. It suggests that theUFOs are using this grid right now.Perhaps gravityshieldingneedsthisgeometryintheEarthtofunction.Wehaven’tbeenabletomeasure itsofarbecausewedon’tknowhowtomeasure thesourcefield.Wedon’t know how tomeasure the seemingly subtle variations in the amount ofspinthat’singravity,becausegravityjustworks.Wedon’tworryaboutit.

But ifwecouldmeasure the spin fieldsaccurately rather than justby theirsideeffectsasweseethemnow,thenIbelievethisgridwouldpoprightout.Ibelieve the ancients had that technology and that they built these sites wheretheywerebecausethat’swhereitwaseasiesttolevitatetheblocksandbeabletogettheenergeticbenefitsfromthem.

Butwehavetoaskourselvesthequestion,Howdidtheancientsknowaboutthis energy grid and how to utilize it? The answer seems to be the fruit of

advanced knowledge of physics that we do not yet possess. But toextraterrestrials,perhaps it iswellknownandwidely identified throughout thecosmos.

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This is the front-page newspaper article published by theRoswell Daily Record on July 8, 1947,reportingontheinfamousRoswellincident,whichdescribesthediscoveryofa“flyingsaucer”onaranchseventy-fivemilesnorthofRoswell,NewMexico.Theverynextday,thesamepaperchangedtheirstory,reportingthattheflyingsaucerwasactuallyadownedweatherballoon.RoswellDailyRecord.Newspaper.1947.Wikipedia.org,https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RoswellDailyRecordJuly8,1947.jpg

Asaninvestigativereporter,Iamamazedbyhowmanyleakeddocumentsfromthe 1940s have come out into the world, laying out details about what reallyhappenedatRoswell.Andyetwestillseemtobeoverwhelmedbyanoldstorythat it was nothing but a Project Mogul weather balloon. Go away, there’snothinghere.TherearenoUFOs.TherearenoE.T.s.

What appears to be the truth about what really happened, though—thatcomesthroughdocuments.TherewerethreeobjectsonradarthatnightonJuly3,1947;threeobjectsthatmergedintheair.Wehavethatinformation.ItwasonJuly4 thata rancher,MacBrazel, foundallkindsofstrangesilverdebris that,whenhepickeditup,foldedlikeclothbutlookedandfeltlikemetal.Heknewhe didn’t understand what he was walking through. He decided to go intoRoswellon thatFourthofJulyand tell thesheriff,“Somethinghascrashedonmy ranch.” By July 5 or 6, Roswell Army Air Field had assigned a crewincluding JesseMarcel Sr. to go to theBrazel ranch and pick up every singleitem in the debris field. Within a very short period of time, there was acontradictorymessageputoutthatitwasnotadebrisfieldofaUFO,butthatthedebrismight’vebeenfromsomekindofballoonproject.

AVERYSTRANGEDEBRIS

In early July 1947, a major thunderstorm rolled across New MexicobetweenCoronaandasleepytowncalledRoswell,hometoa largearmyairfield.Earlythenextmorning,rancherMacBrazelwentouttocheckonthedamagefromthestormandcameacrossanextensiveareastrewnwitha very strange kind of debris.He put someof it in his pickup truck andhauledittothelocalsheriff’soffice.Thesheriffcalledthebase.Thebasesent Major Jesse Marcel Sr. to investigate. Major Marcel and his teamgatheredupallthedebristheycouldfind,andthesiteeffectivelyfellunderthejurisdictionandcontroloftheU.S.Army.

Acoupleofdayslater,onJuly8,1947,thelocalnewspaperranastorythatstatedthatanofficernamedColonelWilliamBlanchardhadissuedanordertothearmy’spublicinformationofficer,LieutenantWalterHaut,toannounce that themilitary had in its possession an alien disk and that itwas being transported toFortWorth,Texas, for examination.The reportsentshockwavesaroundtheworld.Butwhatreallycausedasensationwaswhentheverynextday,themilitarychangeditsstoryandannouncedthatwhattheyhadactuallyfoundwasjustaplainolddownedweatherballoon.

Why would the U.S. Army, whose officers are trained experts ataircraft identification, have confirmed that an alien aircraft had crashed,onlytoreversethemselvesthenextday?Forboththepublicandthemedia,the switch became a huge red flag. Is it possible that the U.S. militaryactuallydidfindadownedalienspacecraftduringthesummerof1947inRoswell,NewMexico,andasecretgovernmentprotocolwent intoeffectthat called for the denial of such an event?AlthoughColonelBlanchardstuckwiththerevisedstory,LieutenantHautstoodbythecontentsofhisinitialreporthisentirelife,asdidJesseMarcel,thefirstarmyrespondertothesiteatRoswell.

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FollowingRoswell,thepublicbegandemandinganswersaboutwhoorwhat was behind the unexplained flying objects seen in the skies. ThegovernmentfinallyrespondedsixweeksaftertheRoswellincident...notbyanswering thequestion,butwithPresidentHarryTrumancreating theNationalSecurityAct.

Andnowwe’re in the twenty-firstcentury. It’sbeenoversixtyyears sincesomething from outer space has allegedly crashed out there. Documents haveemergedfromthemid-1990sthatsayitwasn’tadisk,butsomethingshapedlikeawedgeofpie—atriangularplaniform,meaningithadflatsurfaceswithcurvededges.We’vealsolearnedthattherewasn’tjustonecrashsiteinwhatiscalledlandingzoneone, betweenCorona andRoswell.Therewas also another crashzoneneartheTrinitysiteinnorthernWhiteSands.TheTrinitysitewaswhere,twoyearsearlier,thegovernmenthadconducteditsfirstatomicbombtest.Thatwaswheretheydiscoveredfivebodiesandacraftthatwasalmostintact.Thenwelearnedtherewasathirdcrashsite.LandingzonethreewasthirtymileseastofAlamogordo and theMescalero Indian reservation.Whatever crashed therewasdescribedashavingfoldedinonitselflikeanaccordion,duetotheimpact.

Itwasreallycrumpled.Why these three different areas?One of the theorieswas that of the three

objects thatmergedon the radar,ahalfhourbeforemidnightonJuly3,1947,twowereextraterrestrialcraftthatcollidedwithasecretProjectMogulballoon.They got away with trying to use the mogul balloon as the cover-up foreverything,becauseitcontainedatinyseedoftruth.

AdocumentdatedJuly22,1947(thesamemonthasthecrashes),compiledbytheInterplanetaryPhenomenonUnit—aunitoftheU.S.military—talksaboutthesethreelandingzones.ThefirsttimeIreadit,Ifeltajoltofelectricity.AllofthequestionsaboutRoswellandcrasheddisksorcrashedwedgessuddenlycameintofocus.Ireallywantedtogettothebottomofwhathadhappened.

Therewasaperiodwhere Iandothersweregoing toRoswell,or into thatgeneralarea,todosomeofourownresearch.Amanwhohadretiredfromthearmy, Sergeant Clifford Stone, lived down in Roswell. I visited him severaldifferenttimesathishome,lookingatdocuments.Cliffopenedupthepossibilitythatmaybea lotofwhatweweredealingwith, includingsomeof thecrashes,had been planned. That perhaps the crashed vehicles had been manned bysomethinglikewhatwewouldcallandroids(anandroidwouldbearobotwithabiological form).Thatwhatweweredealingwithwereprogrammedbeings—programmed for very specific tasks. Itwas as if a door hadopened forme. Itgavemeacontextforsomethingthathappenedafewyearslater.

White sand dunes atWhite SandsNationalMonument, NewMexico. Some reports note a secondcrashzoneneartheTrinityatomictestsiteinnorthernWhiteSands.NagelPhotography/Shutterstock.com

Thisphoto,takenonMarch12,1967,inLasCruces,NewMexico,byaNewMexicoStateUniversitystudentwhowasphotographinglandformationsforgeologyclass,showsanunidentifiedflyingobjecthoveringintheairbetweentwocliffsides.Thestudentsaidthemysteriousobjectmadenonoiseanddisappearedwhenhelookeddowntochangetheplatesinhiscamera.Bettmann/Bettmann/GettyImages

Amanwithfirsthandknowledgeofoneof theautopsiesatWrightFieldinOhio said that at the end of the 1940s, a being from one of theNewMexicocrashes had been brought in, most likely from the Roswell area. When theyinserted thescalpel into thebeing, they found thatwhat theywerecuttingwasnotflesh.Itwasinorganicmaterial.ThebeingstheyhadretrievedfromthecrashsitesinRoswell,Alamogordo,andWhiteSandswerenotorganicinthewaywethinkofourselvesasbeing.

Perhapsthecrashedvehicleshadbeenmannedbyandroids—programmedbeings—programmedforvery

specifictasks.

ThenwefoundoutthatonJuly16,1947,GeneralNathanTwininghadsentareport to President Truman andGeneral Eisenhower that reads like a science-fictionnovel.Thereportstatedthat theairforcehadfoundsomethingthathadthree compartments. They thought the upper compartmentwas the location ofsomesortofcontrolcommandthatmighthavebeenoperatedrobotically.Inthemiddle there were various kinds of equipment. The bottom third housed thepropulsionsystem:therewasatranslucentringaboutthirtyfeetindiameter,andit appeared to have some kind ofwater in it. They guessed thiswas a heavy-waterreactor.GeneralTwiningwrote,“Uponexaminationoftheinteriorofthecraft, a compartment exhibiting a possible atomic engine was discovered. Atleast, this is in the opinion of Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, who developed theatomic bomb twoyears ago.”Thiswould have been an impossible concept in1947.ThisisNathanTwining,twoyearsafterwedroppedtwobombsonJapan,sayingtothepresidentoftheUnitedStatesandGeneralEisenhowerthatinsideofthiscraftisanuclearreactor.Butit’snotbeingusedtoblowanythingup;it’snotbeingusedasaweapon.Thisisaneutronpropulsiondevice.

PhilipJ.Corso,aformercolonelwhoworkedinthePentagonforthearmy’sresearch and development office, stated in his own very important book,The

DayAfterRoswell, thathehadanassignment to takesomeof thetechnologiesthat were retrieved in the nonhuman craft and get them into Americancorporations. I satwithColonel Corso in 1997, the fiftieth anniversary of theRoswell’47crashes,andwentoverthedaythathegotthecallfromhisfriendGeneralArthurTrudeautocometothePentagon.

Ashe described it, hewent into an officewith severalmetal file cabinets.GeneralTrudeautoldhimthattherewasahugelysecretandsensitiveprojecthewantedCorsotoworkon.GeneralTrudeauwalkedovertothefilecabinetsandsaid,“Iwantyoutocomehere.”Heopenedupametaldrawerandinsidewerenumerous strange objects. Colonel Corso said it looked like there was somehorsehair;itlookedliketherewerepokerchips.GeneralTrudeaupickeduponeof the objects and said, “This is extraterrestrial technology. I want you tophysicallycarryeachoneofthesetoavarietyofcorporations,becauseourgoalis to get these back-engineered and patented inside of the United States ofAmerica,tokeeptheseoutofthehandsofourenemies.I’vemadeallthephonecalls.” Colonel Corso then proceeded to take packages of extraterrestrialtechnology to places like Corning Glass, and one person would receive itknowing thatGeneralTrudeauhimselfhadset thestageforwhat thecompanywas going to do. Eventually, therewere patents . . . technology that includedfiberoptics,thatincludedsemiconductors,thatincludedlasers.

One of the most fascinating things Colonel Corso told me was that later,General Trudeau told Colonel Corso, “The president [DwightD. Eisenhower]thinksthattheCentralIntelligenceAgencyisanenemywithintheUnitedStates.Andourworkistokeepeverythingthatwearedoingoutoftheirhands.”Thatwasa revelation tome—that itwasat thatpoint that therebeganamistrustofagencies,andourgovernmentbegantosplinter.Andasthegovernmentbegantosplinter, covering up the presence of extraterrestrial biological entities, thebudgets began to splinter. Black budgets began to be directed toward theseparticular agencies and groups that were trying to ride herd on the back-engineeringofextraterrestrialtechnologyintheUnitedStatesofAmerica.

Another shocking piece of information emerged from a 1952 document,whichservedasthefirstannualreportbytheMajestic12—agroupofmilitarymen,scientists,andbusinessmenwhoadvisedPresidentHarryTrumanonwhatthey themselves said were celestial interplanetary beings and technologies. Inthis top-secretMJ12report,onpage9, itsays,“Thepanelwasconcernedoverthecontaminationofseveralsecuritypersonnel,”thatIknowcameinfromLosAlamos.“Uponcomingincontactwithdebris,nearthepowerplantofthecraft’s

security, one technicianwas overcome, and collapsed, when he attempted theremovalofabody.”Theyaretalkingaboutanonhumanbody—oneofthefivethat they found, outside of landing zone two, at the Trinity site. “Anothermedical technicianwent intoacoma,onlyfourhoursafterplacingabodyinarubberbodybag.AllfourofthesesecuritymenwererushedtoLosAlamosforobservation.Allfourlaterdiedofseizuresandprofusebleeding.Allfourwerewearing protective suitswhen they came in contactwith body fluids from thenonhuman occupants. Autopsies on the four dead security technicians are notconclusive. It is believed that the fourmay have suffered from some form oftoxin,orahighlycontagiousdisease.TissuesamplesarecurrentlybeingkeptatFortDetrick,Maryland.”Later in thereport, theyrefer toanalienretrovirus. Iam often asked, “How could a democracy with elected officials—how couldsomethingthishuge,withprofoundimplications,becoveredupforatleastsixtyyears,andcounting?”

AnothersectionofthatfirstMJ12reportcontainswhatIbelieveisoneofthemostimportantparagraphsinanyofthedocumentsthathavebeenleaked.Theheadlineofthesectionis“IntelligenceGatheringandAnalysis.”Theparagraphreads:

THEROSWELLROCK

On a clear Septembermorning in 2004,RobertRidgewas tracking deerjust eleven miles from the infamous UFO crash site in Roswell, NewMexico,when an unusual object caught his eye: a small, triangular rocksticking out of the sand, which appeared to have an intricate designembossed on its surface. The design—featuring two smaller circlesoverlaid on a larger circle, each of the smaller circles incisedwithwhatlook like symbols for the sun andmoon—is so intentional and so finelycarvedthattherockisclearlynottheby-productofnaturalforces.Andyetit was not obviouslyman-made, either: the beveled edges of the designwere incrediblypreciseandclear,evenunder thehighmagnificationofamicroscope—suggestinganadvancedlasercutting toolwasusedtocarve

it.Deepeningthemysteryoftherock,studiesofthestonerevealedthatnotonlywasitmagnetized,butalsoitwasatypeofrocknotnativetothearea.Astonishingly,itwouldturnoutthatthedesignrisingfromthefaceofthe“Roswell Rock” was an exact match for a 120-foot-long crop circlediscovered in a wheat field below the Liddington Castle hill fort inChiseldon,nearSwindon,England,onAugust2, 1996—almost adecadeearlierand5,000milesaway.Couldthematchingdesigns—onediscoveredsonear to thesiteof themost impactfulUFOsightingof themoderneraand one part of an ongoing, unexplained phenomena—be “just” acoincidence?Orcouldtheysuggestanintentionalpattern,even...acodefromabove?

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Basedonwhatisknownofthetechnologyandintelligenceofthevisitors[thiswasastrangewordthattheyused]itisfairlycertainthattherewillbeeithersightingsorencountersofaspectacularnature.Astopurposeandthemodusoperandiofthesevisitorswehavemet,itisclearthat,ifthese visitors had conquest inmind, it would not be difficult for them,giventheirabilitytopenetrateourairspace,atwill,andtheirabilitytojam radio, telephone, television, and teletype transmissions, let alonepowergrids.

This is saying that what everybody has heard for decades—that we weredealingwithanintelligencethatcouldbringdownwholepowergrids—istrue.YearsagoIwastoldthattheHollywoodversionofsuchanevent—TheDaytheEarth Stood Still—was a CIA test of theAmerican public to see how peoplewouldreacttotheideaofanonhuman,witharobot,whohadtheabilitytostop

allpoweronEarth.Thedocumentcontinues:

One of the most difficult aspects of controlling the perception ofgovernment attempts at denial and ignorance, is actual control of thepress. Until a clear intent is established, with diplomatic relations[meaningwiththenonhumans]firmlyinhandit is therecommendationofthePresident’sspecialpanel,withconcurrencefromMajestic12,thata policy of strict denial of the events surfacing from Roswell, NewMexico, and any other incident of such caliber, be enforced. Aninteractiveprogramofcontrolledreleasestothemedia,insuchfashionto discredit any civilian investigation, be instituted in accordancewithprovisionsofthe1947NationalSecurityAct.

Furthermore, in this document theydiscuss that the constitutional rightsofAmericansmighthavetobesetasideintheinterestofnationalsecurity.Ihavebeen told that Harry S. Truman signed an executive order enacting all of theabove.A lotofpeoplehaveprobablysufferedagreatdeal,whether theywerecivilians or military or intelligence, because the first order of this land, sinceHarry S.Truman, has been the following: therewill be no disclosure ofwhatthey know and study about the presence of nonhumans, which, in their owndocuments, they refer to as extraterrestrial, biological entities interactingwithourplanet.

Wearedealingwithancientalienpresencesrightnowinthetwenty-firstcentury.We’renotaloneintheuniverse.

In defense of those presidents,military personnel, scientists, and corporateleaderswhowere part of this systematic suppression of the truth, theywouldprobably say that they were superpatriots. And maybe they were. Maybe wehavebeenprotectedfromalot.Butwearenowheadingtowardthemiddleofthetwenty-first century and it is long past the timewhen our government and allgovernments shouldbe saying,Weknowwe’renot alone in this universe.Weknow thatwe have been dealingwith nonhuman intelligences interactingwiththisplanetforaverylongtime—that,infact,wearedealingwithancientalien

presencesrightnowinthetwenty-firstcentury.Itiswaypasttimethattheentirehumanfamilybetoldthetruth.We’renotaloneintheuniverse.

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I worked for the British government’s Ministry of Defence for twenty-oneyears.ThreeofthoseyearswerespentontheUFOproject.Duringthattime,twothingsreallychangedmymindabouttheUFOphenomenon.ThefirstwasthatIhadaccess to ahugearchiveof classifiedmaterialgoingbackdecades. Itwascleartomefromlookingthroughthisarchivethatthereweremany,manycaseswhere these things, whatever they are, were seen by police officers, pilots,

military personnel. They were tracked on radar. We had very convincingphotographsandvideosthatwecouldn’texplaininconventionalterms.There’snosuchthingasaninfalliblewitness,ofcourse,butwhenthepersondescribingaUFOsightingtoyouisamemberofthemilitary,andparticularlyairforce,thattestimony is given a higher degree of credibility than perhaps testimony frommembersofthepublic.Thatwasthefirstthing.Thesecondthingthatchangedmymind was a handful of very interesting cases that I looked at personally.There aremany,many things that I saw both on the UFO project and inmyMODcareermoregenerally,butIwillnotandcannotdivulgethem.Itakemysecurityoathseriously.

TheRomanemperorConstantine’svisionofafierycrossatthefamedBattleoftheMilvianBridgeisone of the incidents featured in the NASA document “Unidentified Flying Objects in ClassicalAntiquity.” The great Italian painter of theHighRenaissance, Raphael, depicted the scene in thefrescoConstantine’sVisionoftheCross(circa1508–1520)intheRoomofConstantine,oneofthefourStanzediRaffaellointheVaticanPalaceinRome.FineArtCorbisHistoricalGettyImages

It’sbeensuggestedthatsomeoftheseUFOsightingscouldbeattributabletometeorsor shooting stars. I don’tbelieve that.Pilots andair traffic controllersareverygoodobserversandthey’veseenthosethingsbefore.Theycantellthedifference. In my experience, around 80 percent of UFO sightings can beexplained inconventional terms,caseclosed.Foranother15percentorso, theinformationthatwehaveisjusttoosketchytomakeafirmassessment.Butin5percent of cases, I think there really is some intriguing evidence that there’s

something above and beyond the conventional, and it’s that 5 percent thatinterestsme.

UFOsightingshavecertainlybeenwithusforallofhumanhistory.Whetherit’scavepaintings,medievalart,orancienttexts.Therearemany,manyreportsofwhatnowadayswewouldterm“UFOs.”Ofcoursebackthentheywerecalledall sorts of different terms such as “flying chariots.” But basically they wereUFOs:unidentifiedflyingobjects.

One can draw some fascinating parallels between ancient astronaut theoryandthemoremodernconceptofUFOsandalienabductions. Isupposefromaculturalpointofview,ourgodshavealwaysdweltinthesky.Andsometimes,ifyoulookacrossawholerangeofreligions,thosegodscomedownfromtheskyand interactwithhumanbeings. I thinkwhenonedrawsparallelsbetween theancientandthemodern,sometimesreallytheonlythingthatsetsthemapart isthelanguage.It’sthelabelsweputonthem.

In1566,anewspaperreportedaseriesofstrangeeventsthattookplaceonJuly27–28andAugust7overthecityofBasel,innorthwesternSwitzerland.Thearticledescribesabattleintheskybetweenredandblackspheres.Apiarius, Samuel and Koch, Samuel. “Seltsame Gestalt so in disem MDLXVI Jar gegen Auffgang und Nidergang under dreyen Malen am Himmel . . .” Woodcut. ca. 1566. NEBIS,http://opac.nebis.ch/F/Y135EVQ5EXMIBAVKQ6PHGBIDM1B6BTGRGLA1CEQHT4NMXGDMAA-02189?func=find-b&find%5Fcode=SYS&request=005991344&local%5Fbase=NEBIS&CON%5FLNG=GER&pds_handle=GUEST

There is a document titled “Unidentified Flying Objects in ClassicalAntiquity”thatwasputoutbyNASA,whichisquitesurprising.Thedocumentdescribes a lot of historical accounts ofUFO sightings.Of course, theydidn’t

usetheterm“UFO”or“flyingsaucer”backinthetimesoftheRomansandtheGreeks,buttheyspokeaboutthingslikeskyarmies,skyshields,andskyships.OnereadsaccountsbyPliny,Ovid,Livy,Seneca—someofthegreatthinkersofthe age—and they’re talking about something thatwe’re obsessedwith in themodernera,butitturnsoutit’sbeenwithusformillennia.

I was particularly struck by the sighting from Judea in AD 65, whichdescribedaskyarmy.Theideaofthegodsatwarwiththemselvesissomethingthathasbeenwithhumanityforalongtime.Now,isthisallegoricalorisitreal?Werethesepeopledocumentingsomethingthattheyactuallysawinthesky?

One of the most high-profile UFO sightings in the document is EmperorConstantine’svisionofafierycrossintheskyduringbattle.AbattleafterwhichConstantinecementedhispositionandbecameemperorofRomeandarguablyruleroftheknownworldatthetime.Thiswasparticularlysignificant,becauseafter the battle during which Constantine saw the UFO, Constantine adoptedChristianity and it became the official religion of Rome. So there was thiscomplete about-turn. Before that Christianity had been frowned upon andChristianshadbeenpersecutedandkilled.WhenitbecametheofficialreligionoftheRomanEmpireitbecamepartoftheestablishment.Arguably,thiswasaturningpoint inhumanhistory,and it turnsout thataUFOsightingmayhavebeenattheheartofit.

Why would NASA put out a document like this? Why would NASAseemingly try to ignite a public debate about a subject that publicly doesn’texist? It’samystery. I think theanswer is thatwhile thecorporatepositionofNASAisaveryskepticalone,thereareanumberofpeoplewhoworkedfortheagency(whoIhavemet)whoarebelievers.

Themodern UFO phenomenon really began in earnest during the SecondWorld War, which was a conflict unlike any other. This was carnage on apreviously unimaginable scale in terms of the barbarism, the horrors of theholocaust, and—critically, I think, in relation to UFOs—the detonation ofnuclearweapons.IfEarthisbeingobservedbyintelligentextraterrestrials,howwould they have regarded the Second World War? What would they havethoughtofapeoplewhosystemicallyannihilatedawholegroupofotherpeopleforbeingaparticularethnicity?Whatwouldtheyhavethoughtofaspeciesthatcasually deployed nuclear weapons on populated cities inhabited bynoncombatants? Wouldn’t that have given intelligent extraterrestrials realconcernatthedirectionthathumanitywastaking?

THEBATTLEOVERNUREMBERG

At dawn on the morning of April 14, 1561, citizens in Nuremberg,Germany, awoke towhatwas later described in a local news flyer as “avery frightful spectacle.” Perhaps disturbed from their slumber by thestrangenoisescomingfromoverhead,theystumbledoutoftheirhousestodiscoverunidentifiableobjectsinthesky,engagedinwhatappearedtobean aerial battle. The entire event wasmemorialized in a broadsheet (thesixteenth-century equivalent of a newspaper) that still exists today in theZurichCentralLibrary.

The broadsheet account includes a famous woodcut illustrationdepicting the incident. The library also displays awoodcut of an almostidentical sighting in Basel, Switzerland, in 1566. The woodcut advisedpeopleto“repentfortheirsins”andinterpretedtheextraordinaryeventsassignsfromGod.Manyof thewitnessesusedreligiousimagerytoexplaintheobjects theyhadseen,describingcrossesflyingin thesky—animagestrikingly reminiscent ofEmperorConstantine’s famousvisionof a fierycross,whichinspiredhimtodeclareChristianitytheofficialreligionoftheRomanEmpire.

ThoughwemaytendtothinkofUFOsightingsasadistinctlymodernphenomenon, incidents like the sighting over Nuremberg are shockinglycommon—going all the way back to antiquity, from Roman orator andsenior senator Marcus Tullius Cicero’s account of witnessing a brightsphericalobjectappearingintheskyandthendividingintoseveralsmallerspheres,toChristopherColumbus’srecordingofaUFOsightinginthelogbooks of theSantaMaría, to nineteenth-century Japanese testimonies ofencounterswith a strange craft, which seem to link to one of the singlemost documented sightings of all time—the late-twentieth-centuryincidents in Rendlesham Forest, halfway around the globe in theUnitedKingdom.

Glaser,Hanns.“CelestialphenomenonoverNuremburg.”Woodcut.Ca.1561.NEBIS,http://opac.nebis.ch/F/FIV8HFJLUFMNE8PPXDFTK9VBPX6H8QFXRAGGCRR4X9HKNQYS3F-02615?func=find-b&=&=&=&=&find_code=SYS&request=0052892769&local_base=NEBIS&CON_LNG=GER&pds_handle=GUEST

TherehavecertainlybeenalotofUFOincidentsduringwartime,andalotofimportantsightingshavetakenplaceclosetomilitarybases.Now,somepeoplehave said that if we’re being visited by extraterrestrials, that is the reason:they’reconcernedaboutourmilitaryactivities.They’reconcernedatthefactthatthehumanraceseemstobeperpetuallyatwarwithitself.

OneofthegreatmysteriesoftheSecondWorldWarinvolvedtheso-calledfoo fighters (a term used byAllied aircraft pilots to describeUFOs and othermysterious aerial phenomena).Whilemost foo fighter sightings involvedballsof light, some involved structured craft.During a bombing raid over Turin in1942,thecrewofanRAFaircraftwitnessedaUFOthatwasasolidstructuredcraftabout200to300feetlong,performingspeedsofaround500milesanhour.Aparticularly staggering accountof a foo fighter sightingwas from1943 andinvolved the sighting of an object that was cylindrical in shape, had whatappearedtobeportholesdowntheside,andafterbeingprettymuchstationary,shotoffataspeedofthousandsofmilesanhour,asreportedbythemilitaryair

crewwho witnessed it. After the war it transpired that German and JapanesepilotshadseenthesethingstooandthoughttheywereBritishorAmericansecretweapons.

OnestorytohaveemergedfromrecentlyreleasedMinistryofDefenceUFOfilesisanallegationthatduringtheSecondWorldWar,PrimeMinisterWinstonChurchillconspiredwithGeneral,andlaterPresident,DwightD.Eisenhowertosuppress informationabouta spectacularUFOsightingwitnessedbyanAlliedbombingcrewontheirwaybackfromamission.It’sbeenallegedthatthecrewof this aircraft encounteredahugeUFOwith speedsandmaneuvers thatwereclearlyway ahead of anything in the infantry of either theAllied or theAxisnations. Apparently, Churchill was horrified by this and said there would bemass panic. There would be hysteria. It would shatter people’s worldview. Itwouldunderminepeople’sreligiousfaith.

AnewsclippingfromtheAmesDailyTribunedatedAugust2,1952,describesaUFOsightingnearWashington,DC.KnownastheWashingtonFlap,thisincidenttookplaceonconsecutiveweekends,July 19-20 and July 26-27, and involved sightings of strange lights and the detection of unknownobjects on the radar ofWashingtonNationalAirport (now known asRonaldReaganWashingtonNationalAirport).AmesDailyTribune/Newspaperarchive.com

In1952,WinstonChurchillwroteamemo to theAirMinistry inwhichhe

asked,“Whatisallthisstuffaboutflyingsaucers?Whatdoesitallamountto?Whatcanitmean?Pleasetellmethetruthonthisissue.”Churchillwastoldthatall UFO sightings could be explained as eithermis-identifications, hoaxes, orpsychological delusions. The reply fails to state what the British and theAmericangovernmentactuallyknewfullwell,however; that is, thatanumber,albeitasmallnumber,ofthesesightingscouldnotbeexplainedinthoseterms.Churchillwasmisled.

Inthe1980s,thispatternofUFOactivitynearmilitaryforcescontinued,andin fact escalated, with the Rendlesham Forest incident, near the twinmilitarybases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge. The Rendlesham Forest incident isBritain’smost compellingand interestingUFOsighting. It’s a case thatdrawstogether everything that makes a UFO case important. There’s a multiple-witness event. Those witnesses are trained observers. There’s radar evidence.There’s physical trace evidence in terms of radiation readings, damage on theground,andsoon.

WhatmakestheRendleshamincidentespeciallyimportantisthenumberofmilitary witnesses involved. We probably have direct testimony from severaldozenpeople.Infact, includingpeoplewhohavenotyetformallygoneontherecord,thereareprobablyseveralhundredpeoplewhoareeitherdirectwitnessesto the UFO or were involved in a more peripheral sense. Bentwaters andWoodbridge were Royal Air Force bases, but leased to and operated by theUnitedStatesAirForce.BentwatersandWoodbridgeweretwinbases.Inotherwords, theywere so close geographically that theywere under one command.Bentwaters/Woodbridge was home to the 81st Tactical Fighter Wing. Thesewere theA-10 aircraft, the so-called tankbusters—acritical part of thewholeNATOalliance.

TherewasincrediblyhighsecurityatBentwaters/Woodbridgebecauseofthefacility’s importance toNATO.Shortly aftermidnightonDecember26,1980,someofthesecuritypoliceandlawenforcementpersonnelatWoodbridgesawstrangelightsintheforestclosetothebase.Theyspeculatedaboutthesourceofthelights.Somethoughtalightaircrafthadcrashed.Othersthoughttheremightbeafireintheforest.Ineitherevent,itwascleartothemilitarypersonnelthattheywere lookingatsomethinghighlyunusualand that theyneeded togoandinvestigatetodeterminewhatitwas,toseeiftherewasapotentialthreattotheinstallation.

Therewouldbemasspanic.Therewouldbehysteria.

Three personnel, John Burroughs, Jim Penniston, and Ed Cabansag, weredispatchedtoinvestigate.TheydrovetheirjeepoutthroughtheeastgateoftheWoodbridgefacilityandheadedintotheforestdownaloggingtrack.Eventuallythe terrain became too rough for them to proceed in their vehicle, so theystopped,gotout,andwentforwardonfoot.Allthetimetheywerefollowingthislightthroughthetrees,andthiswasunusual;itwaslikenothingthey’deverseenbefore. Itwas almost as if this thingwere toyingwith them, leading them onsomehowthroughthetrees.

Eventuallytheyfoundaclearingintheforest,andinthisclearingtherewasasmalltriangularcraft,aboutthesizeofacarorasmalltank.Thecraftwaseitherhoveringvery close to thegroundor it had landedon three legs—a tripodlikedevice,theythought.Thisthingwasquiteclearlyastructuredcraft.Thiswasnotalightinthesky;thiswasnotavagueshape.Thiswasalandedstructuredcraft.Someone had built this thing. Someonewas operating it. Itwas clearly underintelligentcontrol.

Onthesideofthecraft,JimPennistonwitnessedstrangesymbols,whichhelikened to Egyptian hieroglyphs. He sketched these symbols in his policenotebook. The whole situation was extraordinary. Jim Penniston touched thecraft.Hesaiditwasslightlywarmtothetouchandfeltalmostceramic.

JohnBurroughsandJimPennistonhadbeendispatched to investigate this;thiswasamilitarytasking.Theyhadnokindofagendahere.Theyweresimplydoingtheirjobs.Whentheymadetheirreport,theyweresimplyrecordingwhattheyhadseen,whattheyhadexperienced.Theyhadnothingtogainbymakingthis report up or embellishing it. I’vemet JohnBurroughs and JimPenniston.I’ve spent a fair bit of timewith both of them. It’s clear tome that they arehonestandtruthful.Theyweresimplydoingtheirbestatthetimeandreportingwhattheysawandwhattheyfelt.It’salsocleartomethatJohnBurroughsandJimPennistonarestillquiteshakenupbytheexperience.Theywouldfarratherthatithadn’thavehappenedtothem.

Onthesecondnightofactivity,ColonelCharlesHaltwasatasocialfunctionwhen an airman came in and said to him, “Sir, it’s back.”Halt said, “What’sback?”HewastoldthattheUFOhadreturned.Haltthrewtogetherasmallteamof people and went out into the forest, in his words, “to debunk this UFOnonsense.” He wanted to put the whole thing to bed. He couldn’t debunk it,

however,becausehethenhimselfencounteredtheUFO.Hesawlightsthroughthetrees,differentcoloredlights:blue,red,white.He

alsosawlights in thesky.Again, therewasasenseaswith the firstnight thatthey were somehow being led, that the lights were under intelligent control.Theymovedintelligently.TheyseemedtointentionallydrawHaltandhisteamdeeperintotheforest,withthelightsreactingtothefactthatHaltandhisteamwereclosinginonthem.Itwaslikeagameofcatandmousetakingplaceintheforest,withHalttryingtofindthesourceofthelightsandthelightsbeingquiteelusive.

Arewealoneornotintheuniverse?Arewebeingvisited?Thesearethebiggestandmostprofound

questionswecanaskourselves.

ColonelHaltemergedfromtheforestintoafield.Hesawastrangeglowandlightsoverthefield,andatonepoint,abeamoflightcamedownfromanaerialobject and struck the ground very, very close towhere he and his teamwere.Theywereabsolutelyspookedbythis.ColonelHaltwonderedifitwasmeantassome type of communication.Was it awarning? Itwas clear thatwhatever itwas,itwasindeedunderintelligentcontrol.ItspottedHaltandhisteamandletthemknowthattheyhadbeenspotted.

Later on that night Colonel Halt learned through monitoring the radiofrequencies that theUFO had actually been directly over the base firing lightbeamsdownattheinstallation.SonotonlyhadHaltencounteredaUFOfiringdown at him and his team, there had been another—or possibly the same—unidentifiedobjectinteractingwiththebaseitself.

Overa seriesofdays,wehavemultiple reportedencounters that involvealandedcraftwithsymbolsontheside,radiationlevelsatthelandingsitethataresignificantlyhigherthanstandardbackgroundradiationlevels,UFOsfiringlightbeamsdownatsomeofthepersonnel,andUFOsfiringbeamsoflightdownatthe facility itself.All thiswaswitnessed anddocumentedbynumerous highlytrainedmilitarypersonnel,someofthemseniorinrank.

I’mnotsayingthatthisthingwasextraterrestrial.Butifitwas,onecanonlyspeculatewhatitwasdoinginthearea.Isupposeonepointisthatthiswasoneof themost criticalmilitary establishments in theNATO alliance at a time of

hugeinternationaltension.Soitwascertainlyaninterestingplacetobe.

Rendlesham Forest, in Suffolk, England, where U.S. Air Force personnel witnessed a series ofunexplained lightsandother strangephenomenon inDecember1980.The strangeeventsbeganonDecember26,whenasecuritypatrolwitnessedlightsdescendintotheforest.Then,onDecember28,deputybasecommanderLt.Col.CharlesHaltencounteredsimilarlightswhilepatrollingtheforest.JasonSalmon/Shutterstock.com

Many UFO researchers believe that the government withholds importantinformation regardingextraterrestrial life. Inmyowngovernmentworkon theUFO issue, itwasconsistentlyourposition todownplay the trueextentofourinterest and involvement for theBritishParliament, for themedia, and for thepublic. Is thataUFOcover-up?Well, it’snotexactlyaspaceship inahangar,butit’scertainlynottellingtheentiretruthaboutthephenomenoneither.

THEUTSUROBUNE

In theyear1803,numerous fishermen inHitachiprovinceon theeastern

coast of Japan reported seeing a strange vessel wash up on shore. Theydescribedthevesselascircular,hollow,andmadeofmetalandglass,withcryptic symbols inscribed on its hull. From the bizarre craft emerged abeautifulwoman—cladinclothingofastyleandmaterialunrecognizableto the local villagers who had gathered on the beach. In her hands themysterious woman clutched a small box, which she would not allowanyonetotouch.ShecouldnotspeakJapanese...oranyotheridentifiablelanguage. Various historical illustrations of the UtsuroBune story depictthe same set of symbols etched in the ship’s hull. And fascinatingly,though separated by two hundred years and several oceans, the strangeshapes on the craft are eerily similar to those described bySergeant JimPennistoninRendleshamForest.Couldthesharedsymbologypointtoanextraterrestrialalphabet?IsitpossibletheUtsuroBuneandtheRendleshamForestcrafttraveledfromthesameotherworldlyorigin?AndwhatdoesitmeanthattheUtsuroBunewashedashoreneartheDragon’sTriangle,alsocalled theDevil’s Sea, an area of the PacificOcean inwhichmore thaneighthundredshipshaveallegedlydisappeared?

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Moreandmoregovernment andmilitaryofficialswhohavebeen involvedwiththeUFOphenomenonarecomingforwardandspeakingout.Indeed,somegovernmentsaroundtheworldareopeninguptheirUFOfiles.There’sakindofquickeningofthepacehere.It’slikewe’rebuildinguptosomething,andifthereisagreat secret tobediscovered, I think thedisclosuremovement isdoing itspartandkeepinginterestfocusedonthisfascinatingmystery.

Myown experience of this is that after I finishedmywork on theBritishgovernment’sUFOproject,Ithoughtitwasfartoointerestingandimportantjusttowalk away. So, I stayed involved and I decided to speak out on this issue.Questionsof,Arewealoneornotintheuniverse?Arewebeingvisited?Thesearereally thebiggestandmostprofoundquestionswecanaskourselves.Theyinterestme,andthat’swhyIstay involvedwith itandwhyIamsopassionateaboutit.

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Throughouttheancientworldwe’representedwithstoriesofadvancedbeingswhocamefromthestars. Inmanyinstances, thesestarbeingsaredescribedaspassing through portals or star doors—whatwe refer to as stargates. The starbeingsultimatelylefttheirknowledgeofthesegatewaysandportalsasagiftto

humankind. And today we have advanced in our consciousness to the pointwhere we can now understand these stories—understand the advancedknowledgethatwasgiftedtouslongagobythesestarbeings.

Einstein’s theory of relativity allowed for something called the Einstein-Rosenbridge,commonlycalledawormhole.TheconceptoftheEinstein-Rosenbridge opened up the possibility that we can travel from point A on Earth topointBsomewhereelseintheuniverseasiftherewerenothinginbetween.Theideaofthewormholerevolutionizedourthinking.Itusedtobethatwethoughtwe couldn’t venture into the stars because the distanceswere simply too vast.Butwiththeideaofthewormholecametheideaofacosmicshortcut.Awayforhumanstobecomeastar-travelingcivilizationjustliketheancientgods.

An artist’s rendering of a wormhole, with elements furnished by NASA. The concept and term“wormhole” were actually coined by theoretical physicist John ArchibaldWheeler in 1957, morethanfortyyearsafterEinstein’sworkonGeneralRelativity.Aphelleon/Shutterstock.com

BIRTHPLACEOFTHESTARS

For the ancient Egyptians, the constellation Orion was a celestialembodiment of the gods Isis and Osiris, from whom all of Egyptiancivilizationand,ultimately,allofhumancivilizationsprang.Orion itself,in their cosmology, contained a nursery of stars that served as thebirthplaceofallthestarsinourgalaxy.

Remarkably, millennia later, astronomers made a stunning discoverythat affirmed the belief system of these ancient people. On January 11,2006,theHubbleSpaceTelescopecapturedanever-before-seenimageoftheOrionNebula,amassivestarformationknowntobe1,500light-yearsfromEarth.Thispanoramicphotorevealedsomethingastonishing—morethan 3,000 stars in various stages of life. Never before had astronomersbeen able to witness the different stages of the formation of celestialobjects and planetary systems. In fact, they went on to call the OrionNebula a “star nursery.” They believe that thousands of stars and evenpossiblyplanetshavebeencreatedinthismysteriouscloudofdustandgas—thisissciencealigningwithancientlegend.

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In my research, I’ve discovered that the ancient Egyptians knew aboutstargates andwormhole travel. The evidence I discovered is at the Temple ofHathoratDendera.Theceilingofthetempleisanastronomicalpainting,anditdepicts the gods as ascended light beings traveling on their ships of eternity.Whenyou compare the shapeof the ship of eternity to awormhole, they’re aperfectmatch.And that suggests tome that though theancientsdidn’tuse theterm “wormhole” for these time-travel portals, instead calling them ships ofeternity,theywereclearlytalkingaboutthesamething.

Like the ancient Egyptians, the Native Americans have a beautiful andwondrous conception of the afterlife. They believe that our soul continues onafterdeath, that it journeyswest to the landof thesettingsun,where itcomesupon a camping ground inwhich other souls await the exact rightmoment tomakethegreatandterrifyingleapintotheMilkyWay,whichtheycallthepathofthesouls.

TheultimateobjectiveofthesoulistomakeitswaythroughthegateofOrion.

The ultimate objective of the soul is tomake its way through the gate ofOrion,whichultimately leads the soul to thecenterof theMilkyWaygalaxy.The Native Americans have the whole afterlife mapped out. In life, they gothroughtraining,visualizingthisjourneyandlearningthevariousstepsalongtheway, the various guardians that they will encounter, all the various tools thatthey could use along the way—everything they will encounter in their soul’sjourneybacktothesource.

In east Tennessee, where I’m from, we learn the Cherokee creationmythology,whichsays theCherokeebelieve theywerecreatedby lightbeingswhocame from thePleiades.Those lightbeings rodea soundwave throughaholeinspaceovereastTennesseeandcreatedtheCherokeeasguardiansofoneoftwelvevortexesspreadaroundtheplanet.

LakotalegendtellsusthatoriginallytheBigDipperhadaneighthstar,andthis eighth star was in fact a star tunnel or a hole in space that the ascendedbeingsor thesupernaturalbeingscoulduseasa transportationsystemtocomeandgofromtheEarth.Andinfact,thisstargate,whichiswhatitultimatelywas,connectedtoavasttransportationsystemthattheyrefertoasthesacredhoop.

TheceilingattheTempleofHathor,DenderaTempleComplex,Egypt.Hathorwasveneratedbytheancient Egyptians as theGoddess of the Sky and known as “The Sovereign of the Stars,” who—amonghermanyroles—welcomedthedeadtothenextlife.Kokhanchikov/Shutterstock.com

TherepetitionandthedetailoftheseNativeAmericanlegendsofstargatesorstar tunnels that link Earthwith other star systemsmake you believe that the

NativeAmericanswereinfactindirectcontactwithextraterrestrialbeingswhoactuallyutilizedthesestargatesandtaughttheNativeAmericanshowtoaccessthemthemselves.

According to Incan mythology, the Ayar brothers, who were called “thechildren of the sun,”manifested onEarth at the day of creation through threemysteriouswindowsthatsuddenlyappearedoutofnowhere.Whenyoureadthisstoryitsoundssuspiciouslylikeastargatestory,asthoughthesechildrenofthesun, these advanced solar beings, possessed some kind of stargate technologythat enabled them to manifest on the Earth plane. Maybe the Inca story is arecollectionoftheirutilizationofthisstargatetechnology.

The Mayans may have possessed this same technology as well. In April2015, in Teotihuacan,Mexico,Mexican archaeologist SergioGómezmade anincrediblediscoveryofliquidmercuryrunninginchannelsbeneaththePyramidof the Feathered Serpent. This liquidmercury had no apparent purpose to theancient citizens ofTeotihuacan. It’s toxic.One theory supported byGómez isthat the liquidmercury symbolized theentrancewayorperhapsagateway intoanotherdimensionalrealm—astargate.Thisisfascinatingbecausethefeatheredserpentisasymbolofhumantransformationintoacelestialbeing.Soitleadstothisideathatthistempleandtheliquidmercuryservedapurposeultimatelyoftransforminghumansintocelestialbeingspreparingtojourneyintothestars.

The Temple of the Feathered Serpent at Teotihuacan, Mexico. In May 2011 researchers fromMexico’s National University discovered a tunnel structure beneath the Temple of the FeatheredSerpent.Aseriesofmysterious symbols span the lengthof the tunnel,whicharchaeologistsbelievemaybeconnectedtoimageryoftheMesoamericanunderworld.Noradoa/Shutterstock.com

TheancientSumeriansleftincredibleevidenceorcluesofthepossibilityofwormhole travel as well. The Anunnaki are among the most mysterious andpowerfulbeingsofmythandsacredtradition.TheSumeriansdescribedthemashumanoidbutnonphysicalspiritbeingswhohad thecapabilityofmorphingorphasingintohumanform.AccordingtoZechariaSitchin,theycametoEarthona specialmission tobringwisdomandalso tominecertainmaterials from theEarth plane itself. Sitchin believed that they came fromNibiru.Andwhenwelook to the Sumerian dictionaries, which are the source material from theSumeriansthemselves,aboutwhatNibiruis,welearnthatit’snotaplanetasispopularlythought.Rather,theAnunnakisaidthatNibiruisastar,agate,andacrossingplace,openingupthepossibilitythattheAnunnaki,astheseephemeralornonphysicalspiritbeings,areactuallytravelingthestarsthroughstargatesandwormholes.

Nibiruisastar,agate,andacrossingplace.TheAnunnakiareactuallytravelingthestarsthrough

stargatesandwormholes.

In fact, this is what we see in their artwork.When we see the AnunnakicomingandgoingfromthestarstotheEarthplane,theyareveryoftencomingandgoingthroughgateways.

WhenyouseetheancientSumeriangodstravelingthroughthestars,they’retraveling aboard these serpent ships that appear to be coiling transportationsystems that look very much like how we would describe a wormhole. So itcould well be that the ancient Sumerians were also utilizing wormholetechnology.

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THESAQQARABIRD

TwentymilessouthofCairoandtheGreatPyramidsstandstheformidableStepPyramidofKingDjoser, inEgypt’soldestburialground,Saqqara—knowncolloquiallyas “TheCityof theDead.”Though less ambitious inscale than the pyramids atGiza, the Step Pyramid ofDjoser inspires itsownmagnificentreverenceastheoldestofEgypt’sninety-sevenpyramids.

It was here, in 1891, among the haunting echoes of time past, thatFrencharchaeologistsunearthed the tombofPa-di-Imen,anofficial fromthethirdcenturyBC.Amongthevariousfuneraryitemsinthetombwasasmall,woodenmodelofwhatappearedtobeabird,lyingbesideapapyrusbearingtheinscription,“Iwanttofly.”

TheartifactwassenttotheEgyptianMuseuminCairo,wherecuratorsplaced it alongside several other bird figurines. The model sat largelyunnoticeduntil 1969,whenEgyptologistDr.KhalilMessihanoticed thattherewassomethingverydifferentabouttheSaqqarabird:thoughatfirstglance it appeared to resemble an idealized bird, closer examinationrevealedastrangeoddityinthedepictionofitswings.

“It’s interesting, because on one hand, clearly, it looks like a birdbecauseithaseyes,andithasatypicalnoseofabird.Ontheotherhand,the wings are clearly not bird wings,” explains Professor Uwe Apel, anaerospace engineer.His associateDr.AlgundEenboom explains further:“At the middle of the rump you’ll see the wing is a bit thicker. In thisregion the lift up is the highest.Thewhole thingbecomes thinner to theendof thewings,and thosewingsaremodeleddown.And this isaverymodernaerodynamicdesign.”

Could the ancient Egyptians have understood—even possessed—thedynamics of flight, two thousand years before humankind invented theairplane? In 2006, aviation and aerodynamics expert Simon SandersonbuiltascalemodeloftheSaqqarabird,fivetimeslargerthantheoriginal,to test that possibility. The results were astonishing. Sanderson’s testsdemonstrated that the only thing preventing the Saqqara bird fromachievingflightwasthelackofarearstabilizingrudderorelevatorneededtomaintainbalance.FurtherexaminationoftheSaqqarabirdrevealedthatjust such a component might have become detached from the rearundercarriageof the figurine.AsDr.Eenboomclarifies, “Tests show theSaqqara bird is a highly developed glider. And this is a design we usetoday.”

Multiplescholarsagreethat,at thetimeof itscreation, it is likelytheSaqqarabirdcouldindeedhaveflown.Ifso,howdidtheancientEgyptiansdevelop its design?And could its existence point towider-spread use offlightinthecivilization—flightintroducedtothembyanoutsideforce?

AcarvingofPtah(left)andthepharaohSeti(right)attheGreatOsirisTempleatAbydos,Egypt.Asseenhere,Ptahwasusuallyrepresentedasamanwithgreenskin,holdingascepterthatcombinedthree powerfulEgyptian religious symbols:TheAnkh (the sign of life), theDjed pillar (symbol ofstability),andtheWasscepter(symbolizingpower).BasPhoto/Shutterstock.com

In the Epic of Gilgamesh, we encounter another very good example ofancient time travel and portal travel. We see Gilgamesh entering a gatewayflankedbysquigglylinesthatsymbolizeeithervibrationorwater.Andit’sclearthat he has been successful in his quest to find the gate of the gods and isactuallytravelingthroughthatgate.

Oneofthegreatquestionsthatariseswhenyoulookatthisancientartworkis,Were those beings actually extraterrestrials that traveled to ancient Sumer,NorthandSouthAmerica,andEgypt,usingthesegateways?

The ancient Egyptians made it clear that they were in contact withextraterrestrial civilizations. They describe beings from the star system Orionand inparticular, onegod,Ptah,whocame fromSirius.Now,Ptah is also thegod theancientEgyptiansbelievedcraftedor fashioned thehumanbody.He’salsothegodoftechnology.SoPtahcameherefromSirius,fashionedthehumanbody, and taught the ancient Egyptians how to resurrect the body, or how to

becomeacelestialorstarbeingsothattheycouldjointheothercelestialorstarbeings,theextraterrestrials,andtravelthecosmos.

AtSaqqara,wefindthepyramidtexts,someoftheoldestreligioustextsintheworld.Thesetextsaredevotedtotheconceptofhowtonotonlypreservethehumanbodybutalsopreparethesoulforjourneyingintothestars.Thepyramidtexts are replete with stories of the pharaoh journeying into the stars byascending a stairway, climbing a ladder, and, above all, flying through thecosmos.What is he flying on?Well, they describe him as flying through thecosmosonacraftcalledtheArkoftheMillionsofYearsortheShipofEternity,which they portrayed on the walls of the temples as looking exactly like awormholeasmodeledinmodernscience.

We’vebeenwaitingforthegatethatleadsbackintothestarstoreopen.

OneoftheamazingthingsabouttheEgyptians’journeytotheafterlifeisthattheydescribestarsystemslikeSiriusnotnecessarilyasfinalrestingplacesofthesoul, but as gateways or stargates along the path of souls to their ultimatedestination,theFieldoftheBlessed.TheancientEgyptianswereobsessedwiththisideathattheafterlifewascomposedofgatewaysorpassagewaysthatledtohigher and finer realms. So you’ll find books like the Book of Gates thatdescribetheabilitytonavigatethroughtwelvedifferentgatewaysintheafterlifeandultimatelyjointhecelestialbeingsasastarbeing.

Sirius, thebrighteststar inthenightsky,andtheOrionconstellationsparkleaboveasnowyBlackMount in Glen Coe, Scotland. For ages, man has looked to the night sky—to glowing stars andsweepingconstellations—andcontemplatedthepossibilitythatwearenotaloneintheuniverse.TargnPleiades/Shutterstock.com

Whenyougoback into theancientworldand lookat thesestories throughthelensofstargatemythology,yourecognizethattheseancientcelestialbeingsareinfactstargate-travelingtimetravelers.Andthatweourselvescouldbecomestargate travelers.This sounds like science fiction,butwe’re redeveloping thisancient technology now. This is the most exciting moment in human historybecausewe’vebeenwaitingforthegatethatleadsbackintothestarstoreopen.The same gate as described to us by the Egyptians, Sumerians, NativeAmericans,Mayans,Inca,andcountlessotherculturesaroundtheworld.It’sthegatethatweallintuitivelyknowexists,andnowit’sgoingtobecomeareality.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

To Erich von Däniken, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, David Hatcher Childress,Jason Martell, Philip Coppens, Kathleen McGowan, Jonathan Young,Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok, David Wilcock, Linda Moulton Howe, NickPope,WilliamHenry—and all the otherAncientAstronaut theorists andexpertswhobringtheiruniqueviewpointstotheAncientAlienstelevisionseries.

TonarratorRobertClotworthy,whogivesAncientAliensitsvoice.To Executive Producer Kim Sheerin, without whom this book—and

everythingelseconcerningAncientAliens—wouldnotbepossible.To Executive Producers David Silver and Max Thompson; co-

ExecutiveProducersKristinaDjokicandGiorgioA.Tsoukalos;producersBrian Garson, Katie Raines, and Margaret Haddad; co-producer RobO’Brien;associateproducersTammyCaplan,BethMoody,ShaneRobertsand Derek Shimoda; researchers Rick George and Michael Schachtner;marketingandlicensingdirectorDerekThielges;researchassistantsMimiChristensen, Leah Dubuc, and Gabby Kashtelian; Mary Kochones andMariJohnsonandourrightsandclearancesteam;ourbrillianteditorsandfield crews, our post-production staff and the dozens of other people atPrometheusEntertainmentandelsewherewhoworktirelesslytocreatetheverybesttelevisionseriesofitskind.

ToJillTullyandMargeauxMcAvoyatA+ENetworks.AndtoSusanLeventhal,MikeStiller,andourincrediblepartnersatAETNandHistorywhocourageouslyoffersupport,guidance,andinsightonadailybasis.

To Claudia Riemer Boutote, Publisher, and Libby Edelson, SeniorEditor; along with Anissa Elmerraji, Terri Leonard, Lisa Zuniga, SuetChong, Yvonne Chan, Adrian Morgan, Dwight Been, Melinda Mullen,Jennifer Jensen, and everyone atHarperElixir,whosevision, enthusiasm,andpartnershipmadethisbookareality.

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Weofferasincereandheartfelt,“thankyou.”AncientAlienshasbeen—andcontinuestobe—anincrediblejourney.

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