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“At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone:
\nthere was a constant surveillance by UFOs.”<\/p>\n

—NASA Astronaut Scott Carpenter
\n_____________________________<\/p>\n

Last Sunday night, I was in a mopey mood. My internal clock thoroughly messed up by the time change. Of course, no sports worth watching on TV. Tom and Jerry, my all-time favorite cartoon, had been removed from its 7:30 slot and replaced with some modern inanity, for reasons known only to some young hot shot executive who doesn’t appreciate classic cartoons. Probably too violent and politically incorrect. After the Simpsons, I clicked around randomly to find something, anything half interesting. And happened on the History Channel. A two hour special was underway. Something called Ancient Aliens. <\/p>\n

It was about UFOs, and the possibility that ancient civilizations on earth may have been influenced and assisted by aliens. Crackpot stuff, by normal standards. Who could take such a theory seriously? But I watched it. And found it fascinating. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been exposed to UFO writings since childhood. Dad always had a few paperbacks about flying saucers strewn around the house. With their pages of grainy black and white photos of flying discs. He may even have sold those books at Pathway. I\u2019m not sure if he believed UFOs existed, but he probably did. Or at least recognized the possibility. A closet believer. He just didn\u2019t publicize it a lot. No sense getting yourself drummed out of the Amish church for heresy if you don\u2019t have to. Plus, it takes some fortitude to stand up and lend your credibility to such outlandish beliefs. <\/p>\n

The TV show was a broad examination of ancient evidence from across the world that simply defies logic. UFOs and space travelers might not exist, but there\u2019s sure a lot of strange inexplicable stuff out there. A few examples: <\/p>\n

Archeologists have unearthed several little model airplanes, made of solid gold. Each with wings, tail fins, and fuselage. And a little stone rocket, with a suited astronaut complete with breathing hoses. Tiny things, easily held in one hand. Thousands of years old. Absolutely remarkable. Who made them, and why? No one knows. Did the ancients just imagine them, or were they emulating what they actually saw in the skies around them?<\/p>\n

And there is a map of the world (made of leather or papyrus, I don’t remember) more than five hundred years old. The map is every bit as detailed as modern maps, the continents laid out exactly as seen from outer space. Complete with topography and rivers that were not even discovered at that time. <\/p>\n

From some ancient shipwreck, a brass navigation device was recovered. A little rectangular box. Clogged and frozen with ocean debris, the box was eventually x-rayed. The x-rays revealed an intricate mass of cogs and gears. More complex than a modern Swiss wind-up watch. The device is a computer. Thousands of years old. <\/p>\n

And then, of course, there are the pyramids. And countless other large, complex ruins. Not only in Egypt, but in many countries. Mexico and South America. Constructed of huge blocks of stones weighing many tons each. Yet so finely fit together that a knife blade cannot be inserted between the stones. <\/p>\n

And that\u2019s only a partial list. <\/p>\n

I drank it all in, mesmerized. Wild, wild stuff. Perhaps Solomon meant it literally when he wrote there is nothing new under the sun. <\/p>\n

I realize that when you watch a TV documentary, you see only what the editors and producers have chosen to include. And want you to see. Their biases and perceptions, as well as their political views, always affect the end product. I try to sift carefully through any presentation and make my own judgments, draw my own conclusions. <\/p>\n

But what explanations are there for these mysteries? Someone made these things. The little airplanes and the stone rocket. The map. The computer. And of course, the vast deserted jungle cities and the Great Pyramids of Egypt. <\/p>\n

But who? Why? How? Where did the technology come from? Who knew it? When was it lost? How? With all our modern technology, we would be hard pressed to build the Great Pyramids today. How was it done so long ago?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know. No one does, when it comes right down to it. The mists of centuries and millennia are like a dark cloak. We can\u2019t see through it. No one alive today was there. So we can only read the clues and surmise. But we can\u2019t deny the evidence of the artifacts themselves. Much as we\u2019d like to. Convenient as that might be.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve heard it theorized that advanced technologies existed pre-flood. That Noah and his sons were pretty isolated, completely absorbed in building the ark for 120 years, and when they disembarked after the deluge, they didn\u2019t know enough about the advanced technologies to preserve them. (It took some very advanced technology to construct the ark, come to think of it.) Besides, everything was washed away, destroyed by the waters. Makes sense, from an old school biblical point of view. But who really believes that?<\/p>\n

My take on it all? I\u2019ll take the plunge here. Admit it. Maybe I\u2019m a loon, but I believe there is life on other planets. Not just a planet. Planets. Hundreds, maybe thousands of them. Or more. And that it\u2019s quite possible, even probable, that earth-bound ancients were assisted by beings from some of these places. <\/p>\n

And no, I am not a sci-fi aficionado. Not a Star Wars freak. Or a Trekkie. Last such movie I saw was Will Smith in Independence Day a few years back. <\/p>\n

To me, it\u2019s just rational deduction. We are a speck of dust in the universe. There are hundreds of millions of suns with billions of planets orbiting around them. From sheer statistical probability, some of those planets must contain life and civilizations. Maybe similar to ours, maybe not. Many of those civilizations are probably far more advanced than our own. And they likely have the means to travel to our dimensions. <\/p>\n

It’s arrogant, in my opinion, for earthlings to insist they are the only life in the universe. We may be unique. But not exclusive. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m paranoid enough to believe that aliens are in contact with most of the leading governments on this earth. And that our own government knows and hides from us almost unimaginable things. Ever wonder where all the great technological advances came from these last few decades? How we even began our own tentative space exploration? <\/p>\n

Problem is, I share those views with a lot of pretty unsavory people out there. Wild-eyed new age types. Many of these people look flat out weird. Act strange. And are not that credible. Some of them, I\u2019m convinced, are possessed. And not by good spirits. <\/p>\n

Even so, one must consider the evidence, and not discount something out of hand just because kooky fringe elements advocate it. <\/p>\n

There are countless internet sites devoted to aliens, UFOs and space and time travel. People claim this, and people claim that. Some claim to have been abducted by aliens and taken aboard their ships. Others claim our government has bases on the moon and cities on Mars. <\/p>\n

Crackpots and kooks, most of them. But are they all? I doubt it. If even a fraction of their claims were actually true, how could they possibly convince us?<\/p>\n

There have been thousands of UFO sightings over the past fifty-plus years, by thousands of people. (Modern UFO sightings began in 1947.) Including a lot of very credible people. Ordinary Joes. Military people. Cops. Common citizens who would have nothing to gain from lying. <\/p>\n

Did they see something strange and tangible, or was it always just an illusion? With so many eyewitness accounts, it\u2019s difficult to imagine that something real isn\u2019t out there. Something unknown and unearthly. <\/p>\n

Christians usually claim there is no mention of such things in the Bible. But that\u2019s arguable. The prophet Ezekiel pretty much describes a flying saucer spaceship in his writings. A detailed description of wheels within wheels: \u201c…and the wheels were full of eyes all around\u2014the wheels that the four of them had.\u201d Ezkl. 10:12. This he saw, hovering over the earth. Jesus spoke of other sheep that are not of this fold. He might well have been referring to \u201csheep\u201d from other planets. <\/p>\n

Then again, maybe the UFOs occasionally break through from another dimension that exists right here, all around us. A fourth dimension. One that exists beyond our perceptions of time and space. <\/p>\n

But I may be way off. There\u2019s really no way of knowing, one way or another. On the list of what\u2019s really important, it\u2019s pretty far down there. But still, it\u2019s fascinating to ponder, and to consider the possibilities. We can only view the evidence, or at least one side of it, as I did last Sunday night, and draw our own conclusions. <\/p>\n

Back to earth and earthly things. This weekend, I\u2019m meeting with an informal study group to discuss a series of essays titled Mises on Money.<\/a> Written by Gary North. Economic theory is not my forte, but in these troubled times when the government is throwing around trillions of dollars like so much confetti, it would behoove us all to learn the basics of sound monetary policy. So we\u2019ll have a good understanding of how and why the current system must and will collapse. And not be surprised when it does. <\/p>\n

So we’ll have a round-table discussion. Solve the world’s problems. I hear sushi is being served. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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