Thesis: We once believed that
Earth is the only planet in the Universe that supports life. Today there is
overwhelming evidence that not only suggests, but supports the very real
possibility that we may share the Universe with other intelligent beings.
I. Things in the Sky
A. The First Documented Sighting
B. The Fever Spreads
1. Pilot Encounters
2. The Lights in the Sky
II. Dents in the Earth
III. Unexplained Phenomenon
A. The Writing on the Wall
B. Geodes
IV. What About Religion?
A. The Christian Bible
B. The Ancient Greeks
C. The American Indian
V. Conclusion
We are not Alone.On June 24th, 1947 while searching for the remains of a downed
Marine C-46 transport, lost somewhere in the Mount Ranier area, a young Idahoan
businessman named Kenneth Arnold spotted something that would change his life
forever. Just north of his position flying at an altitude of 9,500 feet and an
unprecedented airspeed of 1,700 mph he spotted nine circular aircraft flying in
formation. According to his estimate the aircraft were approximately the size of
a DC-4 airliner ( Jackson 4). This account was the first sighting to ever
receive a great deal of media attention. This sighting gave birth to the phrase
“flying Saucer” coined by a reporter named Bill Begrette. Although not the first
UFO sighting in history, Kenneth Arnolds account is considered to be the first
documented UFO sighting.
The following day Mr. Arnold discovered that in addition to his sighting there
were several others in the Mount Ranier area that same day (Jackson 6).
When most of think of UFO sightings we picture an unemployed, half-crazed,
alcoholic hick living in a trailer park in the middle small town USA. Often
times this description, although a little exaggerated, seems to fit fairly well.
In the past when the average person spotted a UFO they were quickly discounted
as a kook or con-artist in search of either attention or monetary reward. It
wasn’t until more reputable figures in our society began to come forward that we
that we started looking at this issue a little more seriously. An article
written 1957, entitled ” Strange lights over Grenada” written by Aime’ Michel
describes just such an account: At 10:35 p.m. on September the 4th, 1957 Cpt
Ferreira ordered his wing to abandon a planned exercise and execute a 50 degree
turn to port. Ferreira was attempting to get a closer look at what he described
as brilliant, pulsating light hanging low over the horizon. When the turn was
completed he noticed that the object had turned too. It was still directly over
his left. There was absolutely no doubt that the orange light was shadowing the
F-84s. For another 10 minutes, it followed the jets without changing direction
or appearance. The pilots watched as four small yellow discs broke away from the
large red object and took up a formation on either side of it.
All at once the large luminous disc shot vertically upward while the smaller
discs shot straight towards the F-84s. In an instant the flat disc sped overhead
in a hazy blur and vanished. When Cpt Ferriera was questioned by Portuguese Air
Force Investigators he was quoted as saying: “Please don’t come out with the old
explanation that we were being chased by the planet Venus, weather balloons, or
freak atmospheric conditions. What we saw up there was real and intelligently
controlled. And it scared the hell out of us. (32)This is only one of literally
hundreds of pilot accounts that have been documented and cross verified by other
sources. To date the Portuguese Government has taken no official position as to
what the luminous discs were.
The United States has had more than it’s fair share of unexplained aerial
objects. In February of 1960 the N.A.A.D.S. (North American Air Defense System)
spotted a satellite of unknown origin orbiting the Earth. They knew that it
wasn’t a Soviet satellite because it was orbiting perpendicular to trajectory
produced by a Soviet launch. It also had a mass estimated at 15 metric tons, no
evidence of booster rockets and traveled at speed three times faster than any
known satellite. The satellite orbited for two weeks and disappeared without a
trace. Before its disappearance, the object which appeared to give off a red
glow, was photographed over New York several times (Jackson 19). Lights in the
sky aren’t the only evidence that suggests we may have cosmic company. In the
book “A History of UFO Crashes”, the author Kevin D. Randal gives detailed
accounts of numerous UFO crashes in history. Perhaps the most famous of these
crashes occurred on July 4th, 1947 in Roswell New Mexico. The crash at Roswell
was witnessed from afar by over a hundred people. Until just recently, no one
who was involved in the recovery operation was talking, but thanks to continued
pressure from UFO enthusiast our government has begun to declassify much of its
UFO related material. Perhaps more startling are than the government documents
are the accounts given by local police and members of the recovery team.
According to one unnamed witness, a member of the Roswell recovery team: The
crash site was littered with pieces of aircraft. Something about the size of a
fighter plane had crashed, the metal was unlike anything I’d ever seen before. I
picked up a piece the size of a car fender with one hand, it couldn’t have more
than a quarter of a pound and no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t even get it
to bend. (10) In my opinion the most fascinating piece of evidence to come out
of the Roswell crash is the alien autopsy film. Apparently there was more than
bits and pieces of spaceship recovered at Roswell. There is an Air Force video
account of an autopsy being performed on a life form that doesn’t share the
common characteristics of organ development found in life forms on this planet.
The film is silent and labeled “Autopsy, Roswell, July 1947″ (Randal 17).
As difficult as the Roswell evidence is to explain or discount it pales in
comparison to the physical evidence left by our ancestors. An Illustration taken
from a Nuremburg Broadsheet Tells how men and women “saw a very frightful
spectacle”. At sunrise April 14th, 1561 “globes, crosses and tubes began to
fight one another”, the event continued for about an hour. Afterward they fell
to ground in flames, minutes later a “black, spear like object appeared”. In a
Basal Broadsheet dated August 7th, 1566 large black and white globes are seen
over Dasel, Switzerland. Both events occurred in a time period when there should
have nothing more than birds and bees filling our skies. They each considered to
be Divine warnings at the time (Gould 95-96).
Ancient physical evidence isn’t limited to newspaper illustration and sketches
on cave wall. Perhaps the most astounding and unexplainable pieces of physical
evidence are a pair of geodes. Both are believed to be approximately 1,800 years
old and when carefully examined were identified as electrical cells. One of the
cells which was discovered in Iraq was tested and produced 2 volts of
electricity. The other, which was discovered by a pair of Arizona rock hounds,
was damaged when the sedimentary encrustation was being removed and therefore
couldn’t be tested (Montgomery 21).
Since the dawn of time man has told stories of heavenly and demonic beings
coming to rule, teach, torment, seduce and provide salvation. Every culture has
myths of ancient gods who strode through the heavens. The American Indians had
the cachinas who taught them to farm and saved them from numerous cataclysms.
Greece had Zeus who threw lightning bolts from his finger tips and Apollo
crossed the sky in his golden chariot. The Christians have Ecclesiastes who
encountered the “ant people” and rode through the skies with them from Babylon
to Israel. Across the entire globe we find drawings on cave walls that resemble
men in space suits and objects that greatly resemble flying saucers.
The sacred artwork of the Hopi Indian when is without a doubt a representation
of the waves produced by modern day oscilloscopes (Montgomery 225-237). The
Hopis are also native to the area where one of the electrical cells were found.
It could be that these things are no more than mere coincidence, but I doubt it.
Man in his arrogance is reluctant to believe that we may share Gods vast,
glorious universe with other beings of intelligence. We sometimes fail to
realize that if the Earth were a day old, the race of man would only have been
here for 13 minutes. If you couple that with the fact that there are Black Holes
and White Dwarfs millions of years older than our sun, it increases the
improbability that we are the only ones out here. In the preceding text I have
produced a limited sampling of the volumes of evidence available.