Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens? (9 page)
If someone knew of extraterrestrial intervention in human development in the past and did not want that information made public, they would certainly try to limit archaeological and paleontological investigations to only the earliest time periods of two million years or more. Could it be that those at the top are controlling science in order to blunt our discovery of our true human origins?
Since the release of the Darwin’s books, the public has been told that humans slowly evolved from apes between fifteen and thirty million years ago. Yet in 1967, when molecular biologists Allan Wilson and Vincent Sarich of the University of California used an immunological study to compare protein reactions in the blood of African apes and humans, their experiment indicated that humans and apes began evolving apart from each other only five million years ago. Naturally, they were roundly booed by anthropologists.
In the early 1980s, Wilson again incensed his conventional associates by submitting a mitochondrial Eve thesis, which proposed that all modern human races diverged recently from a single population while older human species, such as Neanderthal and
Homo erectus
, became extinct. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are genes that sit in the mitochondria, the energy-producing organelles within each cell, not in the nucleus, and are passed from mother to child. After comparing people of different racial backgrounds, Wilson and his coworkers concluded that all modern humans evolved from one “lucky mother” in Africa about 150,000 years ago. Some wits have suggested that perhaps her name was Lucy. This finding may prove most significant in light of the ancient Sumerian tale of the creation of man.
The implications of Wilson’s proposal were extreme: that modern humans suddenly evolved from a single African population roughly two hundred thousand to three hundred thousand years ago. According to geneticist Mark Stoneking, one of Wilson’s former students, the theory then posits that we “spread across and out of Africa between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago and replaced completely, without any interbreeding, the archaic populations from earlier migrations from Africa. The evidence in favor of this hypothesis is the fact that the earliest fossils of anatomically modern humans come from Africa, and that early modern human fossils from regions outside Africa tend to be more similar to those from Africa than to archaic human fossils from the same region.”
There were attacks and recriminations among the scientists, but eventually Wilson and Sarich’s evolutionary worldview prevailed. Stoneking has since explained the underlying causes for science’s concurrence on the issue.
Ultimately, the controversy was resolved not through rhetoric but, of course, through additional data and analyses. The resulting view of our relationship to other apes, which is widely accepted today … is remarkably similar to the results that Sarich and Wilson published more than 40 years ago: namely, that we share a close relationship with African apes, having diverged from them only approximately 5–7 million years ago. … One can see the same logic at work here as with the early incorrect views about our relationships with apes: namely, the desire to see “us” as special—where “us” now refers to Europeans—compared with other groups, because it took a long time for us to become so special.
Despite the mitochondrial Eve’s attack on our preconceptions of widespread human evolution, Stoneking has suggested that nothing has contradicted the thesis since it was presented. “All analyses of mtDNA variation in contemporary human populations basically agree: she lived in Africa roughly 150,000–200,000 years ago, and modern humans then began spreading across and out of Africa between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago, with no evidence that any archaic, non-African populations contributed their mtDNA to us—a view that is remarkably similar to that which we published more than 20 years ago.”
In a 2011 article, Stoneking reminded readers how conventional science treats unwelcome evidence. “The idealized view of science and scientists holds that when data contradict theory, no matter how long or how well that theory has performed, scientists must reject the old theory and come up with a new explanation to account for the new data. The reality, as any scientist knows, is that it is difficult to overcome ideas that have dominated a field for a long time; instead, there is a tendency to reject the data—and the scientists—which do not fit the theory,” he wrote.
The idea of early intervention from off planet is not relegated to academics and book writers. U.S. military intelligence officers, trained in the psychic methodology called remote viewing, saw Earth originally seeded with protohumans.
From the late 1970s to 1995, the U.S. Army utilized about two dozen remote viewers to successfully conduct psychic spying on the old Soviet Union and other nations. There are those who even claim that since the psychic spying used by both sides pierced all secrecy, it ended the Cold War.
One of the most successful of the Army-trained remote viewers was Joseph McMoneagle, one of the original members of the military unit eventually called Project Stargate. In 1984, McMoneagle was awarded the Legion of Merit for “producing crucial and vital intelligence unavailable from any other source” to the intelligence community.
In 1983, working with Robert A. Monroe, founder of the Monroe Institute in Faber, Virginia, which provided basic out-of-body orientation for many of the military remote viewers, McMoneagle conducted a session seeking to discover the origin of humans. During the 129-minute session, he described a shoreline on what appeared to him to be a primitive Earth. He later estimated a time of about thirty million to fifty million years after the time of the dinosaurs. Cavorting on this shoreline was a large family of protohumans—hairy animals about four feet in height, walking upright and possessing eyes exhibiting a spark of intelligence despite a somewhat smaller cranial capacity.
Two things surprised McMoneagle in this session. These creatures appeared to be aware of his psychic presence, and they did not originate at that location. McMoneagle described his experience thus in his 1998 book,
The Ultimate Time Machine
:
This particular species of animal is put … specifically in that barrier place … called the meeting of the land and the sea. … I also get the impression that they’re … ah … they were put there. They mysteriously appeared. They are not descended from an earlier species, they were put there … [by a] seed ship … no, that’s not right. Keep wanting to say ship, but it’s not a ship. I keep seeing a … myself … I keep seeing … oh, hell, for lack of a better word, let’s call it a laboratory, where they are actually inventing these creatures. They are actually constructing animals from genes. Why would they be doing that? Can we do this yet … here and now? Like cutting up genes and then pasting them back together. You know, sort of like splicing plants … or grafting them, one to another. … Interesting, it’s like they are building eggs by injecting stuff into them with a mixture of DNA or gene parts or pieces.
As to who “they” might have been, he could only describe what he suspected was an “implanted picture” of a delicate-looking, aquiline-featured humanoid unclothed and possessing a prehensile tail and large “doe-like” eyes. This strange being seemed to be using a flashing light that produced frequencies of energy. Searching his mind for a corollary, McMoneagle blurted out, “It’s a grow light, for Christ’s sake.”
McMoneagle said he was disturbed by the impression that this was like someone tending a garden and planting seeds, but “there isn’t any concern about the seeds after they are planted.” He added, “It’s simply like … well … put these seeds here and on to better and bigger business. No concern about backtracking and checking on the condition of the seeds. They can live or die, survive or perish.”
He said the session ended with him moving closer in time and seeing dramatic changes as the small hairy creatures grew both in size and abilities into herding humans. He also cautioned against attempting to make public any information that disturbs people’s preconceived ideas.
Additional evidence for surveillance over humans in the past can be found in
The Book of Enoch the Prophet
, a compilation of fragments of a Judaic book written by a variety of authors contemporary with biblical scribes. An Ethiopic edition of this book survived and was discovered in 1768 in Ethiopia by Scotsman James Bruce. Although considered a book of the Bible for five centuries,
The Book of Enoch
eventually was excluded from orthodox versions in favor of the book of Revelation. Both books contain some of the most puzzling and controversial passages in the Bible.
Chapter 12 of
The Book of Enoch
states, “Before all these things Enoch was concealed; nor did any one of the sons of men know where he was concealed, where he had been, and what had happened. He was wholly engaged with the holy ones, and with the Watchers in his days. … And behold the Watchers called me Enoch the scribe. Then
the Lord
said to me: Enoch, scribe of righteousness, go tell the Watchers of heaven, who have deserted the lofty sky, and their holy everlasting station,
who
have been polluted with women. And have done as the sons of men do, by taking to themselves wives, and who have been greatly corrupted on the earth. …”
Throughout
The Book of Enoch
, it is made clear that the Watchers were not human but came from the heavens and that humans were their “offspring” to whom they imparted knowledge. “Destroy all the souls addicted to dalliance, and the offspring of the Watchers, for they have tyrannized over mankind,” the writer commands in chapter 10, verse 18. This same theme is found in Genesis 6:4 (New International Version): “The Nefilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.” The Holman Bible Dictionary defines the Old Testament Nefilim as “ancient heroes who, according to most interpreters, are the products of sexual union of heavenly beings and human women.”
In his 1978 book, NASA engineer Maurice Chatelain concluded, “Can anyone really think that all the fantastic knowledge in astronomy, mathematics, geodesy, and many other sciences was acquired by mankind without outside help? Frankly, is it not much more logical to accept the idea that all this knowledge was brought by astronauts who came from a another world, just as many legends and the Bible tell us, or that the advancement of mankind was stimulated by some very highly developed cultures located in the Land of Mu or Atlantis, which were visited even earlier by outside civilizations from within the solar system or even distant galaxies?”
ANCIENT EVIDENCE—WORLDWIDE ANOMALIES
E
VIDENCE OF PREHISTORIC CIVILIZATIONS ABOUND THROUGHOUT
the planet but are usually sloughed off as anomalies, especially because such accounts usually include myths of sky-traveling visitors. Unexplained manufactured sites, such as Stonehenge and Silbury Hill in Britain, the huge heads of Easter Island, the Peruvian Nazca lines, the Great Serpent Mound of Ohio, and the controversial prehistoric “rock wall” east of Dallas, Texas, seem to indicate a technology lost in prehistory.
The roster of strange anomalies around the world includes about sixty unusually small ancient Chinese porcelain “seals” discovered all over Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a time when there was no known commerce between the Emerald Isle and China. Today these artifacts have been identified as porcelain seals originating in the Dehua kilns in the Fujian Province of China from the earliest Qing Dynasty (221–207 BC). It has been speculated that the seals were brought from China by the seafaring Phoenicians, by ancient Irish tribes traveling as far as China, or by far-ranging medieval Irish monks.
Further evidence connecting cultures from opposite sides of the Earth came in September 1996, when Han Ping Chen, an authority on the ancient Chinese Shang dynasty, confirmed that markings found on Central American figures dated to more than three thousand years ago were clearly Chinese characters. The figures were from the Olmecs, forerunners of the Aztec and Mayan civilizations, and were discovered in Mexico in 1955. Smithsonian archaeologist Betty Meggers supported Chen’s analysis, stating, “Writing systems are too arbitrary and complex. They cannot be independently reinvented.”
Evidence of human activity (tools, fireplaces, etc.) at Monte Verde in Llanquihue Province in southern Chile has been dated to around 14,800 BC, thus predating Noah’s Flood by three thousand years, as many researchers, based on the obvious water erosion on the Sphinx plus other evidence in Mesopotamia, believe the flood occurred about 11,500 BC. The findings at this site, now considered the oldest human settlement in the Americas, initially were dismissed by the scientific community but today gradually have found some acceptance, even though it destroys long-held beliefs about the occupation of both North and South America, as the date 14,800 BC places it into the last ice age, which would have made a Siberian land bridge impassible.
Mysterious life-size crystal skulls dated to at least 3,600 years ago have been recovered in South America. A study published in the May 2008 edition of the
Journal of Archaeological Science
detailed how a team of British and American researchers, using electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography, found that a crystal skull in the British Museum had been worked and shaped using tools not available to the ancient Aztecs or Mayans. So they concluded that the museum’s skull may have been produced in the 1950s or later. “Some of them are quite good, but some of them look like they were produced with a Black & Decker in someone’s garage,” remarked Cardiff University professor Ian Freestone. Despite such efforts to explain away the crystal skulls, their true manufacture remains a mystery. The fact remains that many of the existent skulls are made from milky or clear rock crystal found in suitably large deposits only in Brazil, Madagascar, and even the Alps. Both the dating and locations in which the clear rock crystal skulls were found argue against simple forgery.
In Cuzco, Peru, long holes bored in ancient stone blocks exhibit score marks that show the use of some sort of high-speed rotary or vibrational drill, indicating that someone may have had access to such equipment, rather than the holes being simply modern hoaxes.
Throughout England, France, and Germany today stand many ancient stone forts constructed in defensible positions—there are at least fifty just in Scotland—built with large rocks that at some point were vitrified, melted from such heat as to become fused and glassy. The heat necessary to produce such an effect—up to 1,100 degrees Celsius (1,980 degrees Fahrenheit)—ruled out the possibility that the stones were melted by conventional fires. Due to the fact that the vitrification took place at the weakest point in the walls, many believe the fire was brought on by attackers, although no one can imagine how they generated such sustained heat.
Dr. E. W. Matvegeva with the Central Scientific Research Department of Geology and Exploitation of Precious Metals in Moscow reported in 1992 that tiny spirals of tungsten and copper were found by Russian geologists in the Ural Mountains. These particles were studied at four scientific institutions and were found to measure between .0003 millimeters and 3 centimeters (from about one one-hundred-thousandth of an inch to a little over one inch). They were dated to between three hundred thousand and one hundred thousand years ago, yet the proportions of their spirals were so regular that they could have been produced only by mechanical means. No one knows what purpose the spirals served. Today nanotechnology is commonplace, but such advances only began in the 1970s.
What appeared to be a computer dated almost a hundred years before Jesus was discovered in 1900 off the island of Antikythera near Crete. Known as the Antikythera mechanism, the device contained a system of differential gears not known to have been used until the 1700s. Many believe it is an artifact predating Greek culture that was looted and then lost while being shipped to Rome. Some think the mechanism may have been an early personal computer, as its door contained at least two thousand characters, composing what researchers have referred to as an instruction manual. Its attachment to the mechanism implied that it was designed for ease of transport and personal use. Studies in 2011 determined that the mechanism is an astronomical calculator whose tiny gears can track celestial bodies. A system of thirty-seven hand-cranked interlocking dials keep track of the day of the year, the positions of the sun and the moon and perhaps other planets, as well as predicting eclipses. Cardiff University professor Michael Edmunds, who headed a recent study of the mechanism, stated, “This device is just extraordinary, the only thing of its kind. The design is beautiful, the astronomy is exactly right. The way the mechanics are designed just makes your jaw drop. Whoever has done this has done it extremely carefully … in terms of historic and scarcity value, I have to regard this mechanism as being more valuable than the Mona Lisa.”
A five-inch-tall terra-cotta vessel containing a copper cylinder with an iron rod inside, discovered in an Iraqi village and dating from at least 220 BC turned out to be nothing less than a battery. When grape juice, lemon juice, or vinegar was added to this and other similar objects, which have become known as the Baghdad batteries, it became an acidic electrolyte solution that produced a half volt of electricity that may have been used for electroplating gold and silver. Since to acknowledge the battery’s use for electroplating at so early a time would upset conventional history, this theory has been largely dismissed by modern scientists. Paul Craddock of the British Museum explained, “The examples we see from this region and era are conventional gild plating and mercury gilding. There’s never been any untouchable evidence to support the electroplating theory.” But as pointed out by Marjorie Senechal, a professor of the history of science and technology at Smith College, “I don’t think anyone can say for sure what they were used for, but they may have been batteries because they do work.”
Carvings located twenty-five feet above the floor in the ancient Temple of Seti I in Abydos, Egypt, resemble nothing less than two jet airplanes, possibly a submarine, and an Apache attack helicopter. Their presence has been noted by recent travelers and reportedly was mentioned in an 1842 report, yet no one knows what they truly represent. Researchers have wondered if the carvings in Seti’s temple might be connected to small delta-wing “jet planes” still on display in the Gold Museum in Bogotá, Colombia. The diminutive models, estimated to be at least 1,500 years old, have been explained away as stylized bees or flying fish, but no one has explained the presence of both horizontal and vertical tail fins, not found on any animal.
In August 1997, two German researchers, Peter Belting and Conrad Lübbers, tested a scale model of one of the gold Bogotá “jets” to determine whether it demonstrated true flight characteristics. Dubbing their 1:16 scale model Goldflyer II, they attached a jet engine at the rear, which theoretically allowed room for three passengers in the front. Did it fly? According to journalist Philip Coppens, a frequent contributor to
Nexus
and
Atlantis Rising
magazines
,
The proof is in the demonstration, and in this case, the proof is there: Goldflyer II behaved impeccably, its landings being a thing of beauty. It is impressive to see enthusiasts take this approach and demonstrate their case—no one can argue with the flight capabilities of the “insect” as it is. This is what the model looks like, and this is how it flies. But the definitive answer is still in the future. In my opinion, [the German experimenters] have been able to demonstrate that the artifact is not an insect. At the moment, they have only been able to prove it is an anomaly, an “item’”that has all the characteristics of an airplane. But is it one? Or is it something else? Only new evidence, or comparisons with other findings of a similar nature, might give us the final answer.
Cuneiform Babylonian tablets in the British Museum describe the phases of Venus, the four largest moons of Jupiter, and the seven largest satellites of Saturn, none of which could have been seen in ancient Babylon without the aid of telescopes.
Many other artifacts indicate advanced knowledge in the far distant past, and not only in the Western world. One example is what seems to be an X-ray machine possessed by China’s emperor Qin Shi Huang, who lived from 259 to 210 BC. This device was described by contemporary scribes as a rectangular mirror about four feet wide and five feet nine inches in height that “illuminates the bones of the body.” It was said that when a person stood before this device, medical practitioners could detect any hidden malady within the organs.
An ancient Brahman medical text compiled about 1500 BC called the
Sactya Grantham
described what appeared to be an early vaccination technique. It stated, “Take on the tip of a knife the contents of the inflammation, inject it into the arm of a man, mixing it with his blood. A fever will follow but the malady will pass very easily and will create no complications.” This was some 3,500 years before British scientist Edward Jenner was credited with developing the smallpox vaccination in the 1800s.
Maps by Turkish admiral Piri Reis dating from 1513 and still available at the library of the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, though not usually displayed for the public, are said to be based on earlier maps predating Alexander the Great. The Piri Reis map and his other charts accurately depict the Amazon basin of South America and the northern coastline of Antarctica, neither of which was surveyed until after the advent of aircraft in the twentieth century. The accuracy of these maps regarding Antarctica is especially puzzling because it has been under an ice cap for at least four thousand years. Piri Reis wrote that he made use of charts and maps dating back to ancient Greece, whose intellectuals acknowledged that they drew from even older Egyptian and Mesopotamian sources. In a letter dated July 6, 1960, Air Force colonel Harold Z. Ohlmeyer of the Eighth Reconnaissance Tactical Squadron of the Strategic Air Command stated, “The geographic detail shown in the lower part of the [Piri Reis] map agrees very remarkably with the results of the seismic profile made across the top of the ice-cap by the Swedish-British Antarctic Expedition of 1949. This indicates the coastline had been mapped before it was covered by the ice-cap.” The discovery of ice-encased Cenozoic unicellular algae in 1983 indicated that Antarctica may have been at least partly free of ice as late as three million years ago.
The late professor Charles Hapgood, who taught the history of science at Keene College in New Hampshire, advanced the theory in 1953 that Antarctica may have moved farther south by some two thousand miles due to “Earth-crust displacement” and therefore could have been partially free of ice until as late as 4000 BC. This is still a thousand years before traditional academics believe that the first true civilizations of Egypt and Sumer with their seafaring explorers began. The idea that someone had accurately mapped an ice-free Antarctica in prehistoric times paled beside the fact that Piri Reis’s 1513 map also depicted the correct position of the Falkland Islands, not discovered until 1592, and the rivers of South America—the Orinoco, Amazon, Paraná, Uruguay, and others not fully charted until the advent of satellites. The Piri Reis maps were not flukes. Another Turkish map from 1559 depicts Alaska and Siberia joined together, indicating that, unless the Bering Strait was intentionally omitted, this was a copy of a map made more than twelve thousand years ago.
Author Erich von Däniken saw evidence of slight distortions of the South American coast on the Piri Reis map. He claimed this same type of distortion is noticeable on satellite photos in which corners of pictures warp due to the curve of the Earth’s surface. Von Däniken concluded that Piri Reis’s source documents may have been drawn from aerial photographs. Of course, the thought that someone may have flown over Antarctica and South America prior to 4000 BC cannot be seriously considered within the context of traditional history. Such evidence drove both Hapgood and his student, author Graham Hancock, to speculate that a previously unknown and very advanced civilization existed in prehistoric times. Neither man appeared willing to publicly postulate that such a civilization might have been the result of extraterrestrial contact, yet the evidence for this supposition continues to grow.
Many ancient monuments attest civilizations existing long before accepted history. For example, a rectangular ziggurat recently was discovered under about seventy-five feet of water off the island of Yonaguni, southwest of Okinawa. This structure is six hundred feet long and ninety feet high and is said to be about more than eight thousand years old, meaning it would be comparable (by unconventional dating) to the pyramids of Egypt and predate the ziggurats of the Babylonians. The structure includes two closely spaced eight-foot pillars, a wide wedge called the Loop Road, a straight wall named the Dividing Wall, an L-shaped “stage,” and a depressed “pool” with two large holes at its edge. Those who believe that it is artificial argue that this number of regular-shaped objects in one small area make natural formation highly unlikely. Boston University geologist Robert M. Schoch, who has claimed that the Sphinx is about ten thousand years old, was impressed by the regularity of the structure’s steps. Although retaining the belief that its regularities are most probably the work of repeated scoring by the tides, he has written that if it is indeed an artificial structure, “the Yonaguni Monument appears to bear testimony to a previously unknown, yet very early and highly sophisticated civilization.”