We Are the Children of the Stars (33 page)

Carl Sagan gives a much more rational and believable answer when he goes on to say, “Sumer was an early – perhaps the first – civilization in the contemporary sense on the planet Earth. . . . Taken at face value the legend suggests that contact occurred between human beings and a non-human civilization of immense powers.”

What else can a nonhuman civilization mean than a nonearthly one that exists on another world in space? Dr. Sagan even goes on to give the Sumerian description of the ETs and the craft they came in, also the many “wonders” they possessed, then admits
that this may not be myth but an actual historical event
.
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Sagan then cites one of those myths. “Sumerian civilization is depicted by the descendents of the Sumerians themselves to be of non-human origin. A succession of strange creatures appears. . . . Their only apparent purpose is to instruct mankind.” He goes on to say that the strange creatures, called Oannes and other names, are always described as “endowed with reason,” or as powerful “beings,” as “semi-demons,” and “personages” but never as
gods.
Thus there was no religious obscurity or mythical fantasy mixed in with these writings, and they sound exactly like plain down-toearth history. And it is originally stated in the legends that they always came from the sky!

That sounds precisely like the ancestral starmen arriving to help out his creations and teach the human race about civilization.

It is our firm contention in this book, of course, that the
only
true explanation for the rise of civilization and, indeed, of
Man himself
, is a gift from the starmen who hybridized Man and colonized Earth eons in the past. But Dr. Sagan is rather reluctant to endorse fully any ET theory. The foremost scientific exponent of UFOs in the United States, if not in the world, is the nuclear scientist Stanton T. Friedman. His forthright declarations about UFOs make no concession to “maybe” or “perhaps.” To establish the reality of UFOs, as opposed to the opposition's arguments denying their physical existence, he says:
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Every large-scale scientific study of UFOs – there are at least four – has produced a substantial number of observations by competent observers of objects having definite size, shape, texture, and most important, flight characteristics indicating a) These are manufactured objects, b) They are under intelligent control, c) That the combination of physical description and flight behavior, as observed and described by witnesses all over the world, rule out terrestrial origin.

Contrary to the government's and the air force's public attitude that UFOs are in a limbo of scientific exile, Friedman declares that:

Recent polls clearly show that a majority – silent though it may be – of engineers and scientists involved in research and development activities
do
believe that UFOs exist
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and that the government has not told us all it knows. And that the Condon Report conclusions were
not
definite. A full 8% of these professional people believe
they
have observed a UFO, with another 14% thinking they may have. Half of the poll respondents – all professional engineers and scientists – believe that some UFOs originate in outer space!

Friedman goes right on to hammer at the famous, or infamous, Condon Report of 1969.
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According to a special UFO subcommittee of the prestigious American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (formerly the American Rocket Society) 30% of the 117 cases studied by the Condon committee could not be either identified, nor rejected for lack of information. These cases included three sightings by orbiting astronauts, and a number of combined radar-visual cases – some lasting for over an hour and involving more than six highly trained witnesses.

It may or may not be generally known that many of the most obdurate scientists who scorn the “UFO myth” still reject the Condon Report as “unscientific investigation” that was heavily biased from the start against all flying saucer reports.

Friedman also scornfully denounces Project Cyclops, the proposed effort backed up by international scientists to spend some $6 billion (repeat, $6
billion
) to set up an enormous array of radiotelescopes in order to “tune in” the stars for messages from intelligent worlds.
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Friedman makes the sparks fly as he says:

“The really outrageous notion is that serious consideration is being given to spend billions on the possibility of tuning in to another civilization [in outer space] . . . and no consideration is being given to getting data on the thousands of reported UFOs observed here as landing.” His punch line is, “If we are interested in contacting extraterrestrials, as the very existence of Project Cyclops implies,
then why not try to contact UFO pilots?”

Earlier in this book, the authors, too, were shaking their heads in bewilderment, wondering why scientists – if they are so anxious to get in touch with nonearthly creatures – do not concentrate intensely on solving the UFO mystery (which is right in front of their noses), on the simple possibility that they
might
be piloted by those very nonearthly beings they would love to trade formulas with. At least, how could they lose?

The abortive Condon Report cost some $600,000. A somewhat larger yet modest fund of say $5 million or $10 million could probably once and for all settle the flying saucer question and might conceivably result in breakthrough communications with UFOnauts. Surely, as Friedman so vehemently cries, that would be much more sensible than committing ourselves to an outlay of
600 times
that much money to aim a radio-telescope complex at a thousand random stars – and most likely miss the ones in between that are inhabited. It almost seems as if the scientific establishment has gone senile and can no longer make rational decisions on matters of cosmological importance.

Finally, Friedman makes a suggestion that suddenly throws great illumination on the whole UFO debate.
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He mentions
that as early as September 1970, “I suggested that a better term than UFO would be EEM – Earth Excursion Module. The analogy between the reported actions and behavior of our own Lunar Excursion Modules and their oddly dressed pilots, and the many reported UFOs on the ground . . . is a real one.”

With telling logic he further expands on this:

In both cases we have strangely shaped – compared to airplanes, balloons, or helicopters – craft able to land in unprepared out-of-the-way places with no assistance from people at the landing sites. In both cases the pilots look weird by normal standards, though they all appear to be “humanoid.” In each case, the pilots have been observed by reliable witnesses [NASA, in the case of our lunarnauts] to seek out and gather specimens, to pick up artifacts, and to apparently gambol aimlessly in what appears to be a childish fashion. The duration of the stay is limited and in each case the humanoids finally re-enter their Excursion Modules and take off again, without local assistance and without leaving someone behind.

The haunting similarity between our astronauts with their LEMs, and the aliens with their EEMs, continues beyond mere coincidence: “In both cases, the Excursion Modules have been observed to rendezvous with ‘mother ships’ and to apparently take off for another heavenly body at high speed. In both cases the reported mother-ships look nothing like conventional airplanes or rockets used to boost our spaceships into orbit.”

We think Stanton T. Friedman has made his point.

For the record, we must include another aspect of the UFO mystery highly scorned by orthodox science, but which nevertheless should not be dismissed too lightly. Namely, ESP or telepathic communications that certain people claim to receive from the UFO occupants, sometimes referred to as the “Space Brothers.”
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The arresting thing about many of these cases is that the recipients of the “voices” are
not
avowed psychics and never claimed to be such. They are sane, normal, everyday people who suddenly hear “voices within their minds.” At first they think they are going insane but are finally gripped by the “authenticity” of the voice whose messages seem to “ring true.” Probably many people never reveal this kind of deep, dark secret for fear of ridicule or worse, but those bold enough to set down the messages have a tremendous story to tell, which, if true, is proof positive that the UFOs are ridden by ETs. And some key messages back up the Earth-colony and Hybrid Man concept to an astounding degree.

We are not going to claim that such paranormal evidence is evidence at all. But our theory, which involves an original human race millions of years old, would hardly preclude the development of ESP abilities among them. In fact, it would almost seem to be another
inevitable
result, through an unguessable stretch of time, of the
mental
evolution of our starmen ancestors.

Perhaps this explains another great riddle among humans – the “mental voices” heard by famed people through history, including Joan of Arc and many religious saints that the churchhood does not condemn as insane, believing instead they have heard the “Word of God.” That would be the past-age interpretation, but could the “Word of God” actually be from the UFOnauts? Most of their messages to the “contactees” of UFOlogy, whether those who ride in their spacecraft or those who merely receive ESP, are on a high plane of idealism, sounding quite “spiritual” in tone.
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More pertinent, however, than ESP contacts are what seem to be
personal
interactions between humans and starmen when they meet on the ground, and this has been apparently going on all through history right up to the present day. In each wave of saucer reports, there are a certain number of landing cases, and some percentage of the landing cases involve direct confrontations with the starmen with whom talk is exchanged. It is almost as though the aliens are “checking up” on their colony of Hybrid people, by obtaining scattered “samplings” of how things are going on Earth.

But most significant, as far as this book is concerned, are the reports of
sexual
encounters with starmen. Many of these reports cannot be derided, because of their exhaustive documentation by doctors.

One case stands out as a “classic,” the seduction of Antonio Villas-Boas of Brazil by a four-foot-tall beauty in her flying saucer:
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Briefly, the young farmer was hustled aboard the saucer by “little men” or humanoids, and was locked in a room naked. Also naked was the diminutive seductress with white skin and slanted eyes who entered and proceeded to make unmistakable advances to Antonio. They twice had intercourse, which the Brazilian said was quite “normal” by earthly standards.

The later investigators were struck by one gesture the girl made, according to Antonio, after intercourse. She patted her abdomen and pointed upward at the stars.
Her apparent meaning was that the child resulting from the union would be born on another world in outer space
.

The reader will instantly see how this reverberates back through many previous chapters dealing with the postulated interbreeding between the starmen and Hominids or early Homohumans. One can readily surmise, from the case above, that the starmen are still keeping a watch on how their Hybrid humans came out, and whether they remain sexually compatible with the original race. Or are the starmen still experimenting and “improving” the human stock by continued matings that will introduce new and better characteristics into the human gene-pool?

For the record, the late Dr. Olavo Fontes, a distinguished Brazilian doctor, personally interviewed Antonio and, after checking all details carefully, pronounced his story absolutely true. Psychiatrists also examined Antonio to give him a clean bill of health, mentally.
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It is estimated, however, that at least ten times more sex cases are never reported at all, quite understandably. What man or woman wishes to publicize or even reveal in confidence their sex experiences, when the other party is not an earthly man or woman but a male or female from outer space? Hence, we do not
know just how many of these clandestine sex affairs are secretly being currently carried out by the starmen, year after year. We who are writing this book suspect it would create a worldwide “scandal” if the truth were known.

John A. Keel, among the foremost UFO investigators in the world, has interviewed hundreds of people involved in UFO encounters and states that he has an undisclosed number of such sexual UFO contact cases in his files.
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It must be a large number, because he puts it that he uncovered “sexual encounter” cases in several states, concentrated around college campuses. He remarks further that there is often a sort of paranormal aspect to these cases, deliberately fostered by the UFO-people. “Essentially,” he says, “these sexual encounters follow the patterns of the wellknown incubus-succubus phenomenon found in religious and psychic lore.” It is a known fact that even in nonsexual contact cases, the witness seems befuddled later as if the aliens had hypnotized him to “forget it all.” He sometimes cannot account for a “lost” hour or two during the encounter.

One wonders, therefore, if most human specimens chosen for sexual experiments have similarly been “brainwashed” into not even realizing they underwent some sort of sex contact with beings from another world? It might be a widespread biogenetic sex-program practiced by the starmen today for purposes we can only guess at.

Dr. Berthold Schwartz of New Jersey, a psychiatrist who runs down UFO reports on his own, has studied cases in which the witness' genitals were affected after contact with UFOnauts, usually in the form of rashes or pimples around the sex organs.
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“Obviously sex and the sexual system,” observes John A. Keel, “plays a mysterious role in these [UFO] manifestations.” He has been quietly conducting an extensive survey into the matter, he says, “hoping to develop a rational hypothesis before bringing such a delicate matter into the open.”