By Thomas Horn
When news came across the wire recently that police officers in
several Illinois counties witnessed an unidentified flying object the
size of a three-story house, and that one of them had snapped a
Polaroid of the triangular object, I sat up an took notice. Unlike
many UFO buffs, law enforcement personnel are credible, trained
observers. The FBI and the National Institute for Discovery Science
are following up on the as yet undetermined phenomenon.
As a researcher and author of two books on the New Age, I find the
increasing regularity of UFO sightings prophetically intriguing. This
is because a growing doctrine within the New Age Movement claims that
the gods of mythology and the human race as we know it today, is the
direct result of extra-terrestrial "UFO" activity.
In the introduction to his best selling book, Chariots of the Gods,
Erich von Daniken, who, it might be argued, is one of the fathers of
the New Age Movement as it relates to ufology, said:
I claim that our forefathers received visits from the universe in the
remote past, even though I do not yet know who these extra-terrestrial
intelligences were or from which planet they came. I nevertheless
proclaim that these "strangers" annihilated part of mankind existing
at the time and produced a new, perhaps the first, homo sapiens.
As was illustrated in the Hollywood films Contact, and Close
Encounters Of The Third Kind, Erich von Daniken's hypothesis took
America by storm in the 1960's with the proposition that mankind was
possibly the offspring of an ancient, perhaps ongoing, extra-
terrestrial experiment. New Age ufologists like Daniken also see the
gods of mythology as evidence of, and a reaction to, an encounter with
other worldly beings. They claim that ancient men would have
considered space travelers as gods and would have recorded their
arrival, their experiments, and their departure, in hieroglyphs,
megaliths, and stone tablets, as a "supernatural" encounter between
gods and men.
Mr. Daniken continues:
While [the] spaceship disappears again into the mists of the universe
our friends will talk about the miracle--"The gods were here!" They
will make a record of what happened: uncanny, weird, miraculous. Then
their texts will relate--and drawings will show--that gods in golden
clothes were there in a flying boat that landed with a tremendous din.
They will write about chariots which the gods drove over land and sea,
and of terrifying weapons that were like lightning, and they will
recount that the gods promised to return. They will hammer and chisel
in the rock pictures of what they had seen.
Von Daniken speculates that the odd appearance of some of the gods
depicted in various hieroglyphs (human like creatures with falcon
heads; lions with heads of bulls, etc.) could be viewed as evidence
that "aliens" conducted experiments of cloning and cross mutating both
ancient people and animals. Some people accept this part of Daniken's
hypothesis as a humanistic alternative to the Biblical account of
creation. It's uncertain how many people believe such a theory, but a
full eighty percent of Americans claim they believe in the possibility
of extra-terrestrial life. Some, like the 39 members of the Heaven's
Gate cult that committed suicide in Rancho Santa Fe, California and
believed they were being summoned by a UFO trailing the Hale-Bopp
Comet, subscribe to an eerie amalgam of mysticism and conventional
religion. Not suprisingly, the growing interest in UFOs and the
paranormal has given birth to a host of popular television specials
and weekly programs depicting such other world creatures and those who
claim to have encountered them.
One of the more disturbing aspects of UFO phenomena are the reports,
which continue to come in from around the world, of nighttime
abductions by small wide-eyed creatures who supposedly pilot UFOs and
conduct various medical experiments on their abductees. The New Age
Movement argues that such activity would be proof of an ongoing
experiment between humans and aliens, and they note that the radical
aspects of such experiments have included impregnating abductees and
later returning to remove the hybrid embryos.
THE HISTORICAL RECORD
Scripture and extra biblical legends tell of a visitation of the earth
by heavenly beings. Some of the references include:
The Egyptian people originally migrated from the biblical land of
Shin'ar, also known as the Land of the Watchers (one of the ancient
names of the mysterious visitors). The Egyptians called it Ta Neter--
The Land of the Watchers "from which the gods came into Egypt."
The Sumerian scribes referred to the watchers as Anunnaki, which, they
said, "came from Nibiru" to judge/rule the inhabitants of the earth.
Some have interpreted Nibiru as "a distant planet", but the actual
translation is, "Those Who from Heaven to Earth Came."
In the Bible references are made to the Anakim and to the Nephilm also
meaning those who came from Heaven to Earth.
In the Book of the Dead there are prayers for deliverance from the
Watchers (Tchatcha, the princes of Osiris) , who came from Ta-Ur, the
"Far Away Land."
In the Book of Jubilees the Watchers are compared to the "supernatural
beings" mentioned in the sixth chapter of Genesis as having come down
from heaven to cohabit with women, a union ultimately leading to the
birth of the giants.
From the Dead Sea Scrolls (Genesis Apocryphon) we learn that 200 of a
larger group of powerful angels called "Watchers" departed from the
higher Heavens and sinned. The fallen class of Watchers are considered
by some to be the creatures refered to in the Book of Jude as the
"angels which kept not their first estate" and who are reserved in
everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Ancient Chinese folklore tells of visitations from a distant land of
"flying carts."
A Sanskrit text--the Drona Parva, documented "dogfights" by
extraterrestrial visitors in flying machines.
But men like Von Daniken claim that the Bible is their best advocate
and the "greatest UFO book of all time!" The "wheel" in Ezekiel 1:15,
the "pillar of cloud" in Exodus 13:21-22, the giants of Genesis 6:4,
and Elijah's "chariot of fire" (2 Kgs 2:11), are all viewed as
examples of "UFO" activity by New Agers.
But is the record found in Genesis chapter six a description of
reproductive experiments conducted by advanced extra-terrestrial
creatures? Or is it the retelling of something even more sinister?
A CHRISTIAN ANALYSIS VS THE NEW AGE VIEW
Regardless of one's interpretation of the ancient records, one fact
remains. Thousands ofyears ago heavenly beings visited the earth. They
engaged in procreative experiments resulting in a race of mutant
beings called nepheli. The final result appears to have been an
immediate judgment from God, who ordered Israel to destroy the nepheli
and it’s descendants. Thousands of years later Jesus spoke of the
events occuring during the days of Noah as being comparable to the
days leading up to the Rapture of the Church (Matthew 24). This
prophecy is remarkable when one realizes that after God judged the
celestial beings who cohabited with the Noahtic women, all such
comparable activity apparently ceased until about the year 1940. Then,
following the infamous Roswell incident which occurred in New Mexico
in 1947, modern people from around the world began encountering
strange creatures conducting procreative experiments with increasing
regularity.
One is forced to wonder: What's going on? Who are these creatures? Are
the current "UFO" visitors the same as those of Noah's day? If so,
what is this reproductive experimentation about?
Perhaps the answer to this question (the Christian's analysis vs the
New Age view on "aliens") is hidden in the first six chapters of
Genesis. Very soon after the Fall of man we find in Genesis 3:15 the
protoevangelium (the promise that the seed of the woman would someday
bring forth a child [Jesus] capable of destroying the serpent's
[Satan's] power). In response to the promise, supernatural beings
(fallen angels?) appeared from the heavens and performed reproductive
experiments on human women (Genesis chapter six). Was Satan attempting
to intercept, pollute, and thereby destroy the righteous seed? Was he
trying to cut off the birth line of the Messiah? Perhaps. Satan's
ancient goal included cutting off the line leading to the Messiah.
Satan led Pharaoh to destroy the Hebrew children so the deliverer
might not be born. Herod sought the baby Jesus in the New Testament in
order to have Him killed. In Revelation, chapter 12, we see the devil
(dragon) waiting to destroy the messianic seed as soon as it is born
of the woman.
But Dr. I.D.E. Thomas, in his book, The Omega Conspiracy, suggests
that Satan had even bigger plans at work in the sixth chapter of
Genesis. He claims that Satan (as opposed to aliens) was trying to
produce a race of mutant warriors by breeding fallen angels with women
in an effort to exterminate the children of God. From a Christian's
point of view this could explain how people like the Sumerians of
Mesopotamia, who were enemies of Yahweh, appeared out of nowhere
around B.C. 3500, bringing with them a pantheon of deities, the first
written language, and a superior knowledge of earth sciences. This may
also explain why many of the religions that followed Sumerian
mythology, including Greek mythology, emerged from the original idea
that powerful beings, with names like "Zeus" and "Apollo," visited the
earth, intermarried with women, and fathered half human children. Dr.
Thomas believes recent "UFO" abduction activity may point to the birth
of a new race of anti-God warriors, as we approach the end of the age
and the coming of Armageddon.
ENTER LYING WONDERS
A question arises: Does Genesis chapter 6 support the New Age theory
that alien creatures traveled from distant planets in UFOs, performed
reproductive experiments on women, and were afterward honored in the
images and folklore of the gods of mythology? Or, is Dr. I.D.E. Thomas
correct in stating that the story in Genesis is a record of fallen
angels acting in accord with Satan? What, if anything, could this tell
us about the current interstellar phenomena? Are we experiencing an
ongoing invasion of earth by intergalactic scientists, or is Satan
busy advancing the most sophisticated con game in history?
We know that the rapture of the Church will be accompanied by
"...fearful sights and great signs...from heaven" (Lk 21:11). Perhaps
Satan is contriving an "alien invasion" to explain the disappearance
of so many people at once! If eighty percent of the population
believes in the possibility of extra-terrestrial intelligence,
wouldn't this be a powerful form of deception? And since New Age
theology produces a growing belief among some contemporary church
groups that flying saucers will be the method "God" uses to retrieve
the Christian community during the Rapture, couldn't the UFO sightings
phenomenon play a part in the great deception that will pervade the
earth following the Rapture?
We read in 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12:
And then shall that Wicked [one] be revealed....whose coming is after
the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders....And
for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should
believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the
truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness [emphasis added].
The world authorities remaining to make up the governments of the
Antichrist will need an explanation for those taken in the Rapture.
People from around the world will be missing! Now imagine: If the
Rapture was followed by hundreds of "space craft" landing on earth
piloted by creatures who appeared to be advanced humanoids, couldn't
these beings claim to have removed the Christians into some kind of
high-tech "rapture," and simultaneously present their leader
(antichrist?) as the messiah? Couldn't they point to ancient
mysteries, megaliths, pyramids, and the gods of mythology, as proof of
an ancient visitation of planet earth?
The late Pulitzer Prize-winning author and agnostic Carl Sagan was,
until his death, working on a screenplay about the ramifications of
just such a savior who appears in the coming millennium! Humanists
like Mr. Sagan argue that evidence such as the meteorite which has
been hypothesized as indicating that microscopic life existed on Mars
millions of years ago, is proof that prehistoric life forms (ET's)
could have moved throughout the universe for untold millennia.
DID DANIEL KNOW "LYING WONDERS" WERE END TIME UFOS?
What are the "lying wonders" referred to in 2 Thessalonians that will
accompany the appearing of the Antichrist? According to the Book of
Daniel, the Antichrist will "honour the god of forces: and a god whom
his fathers knew not" (Dan. 11:38). The literal Hebrew translation
means "an alien god" (alien to Hebrew culture). Baalhazor, the
aforementioned "god of forces," was originally known as the lord of
sky and battle. As Baalbamoth he was the lord of the aerial regions.
As Baalzebub he was the lord of those who fly, or quickly flit from
place to place. In the New Testament the same spirit is referred to as
the prince of the powers of the air (aer, circumambient air
encompassing the surface of the earth). Therefore, the lying wonders
adjoined to the coming of the Antichrist could very well be what we
call flying saucers.
The bottom line? Biblical and extra biblical documents offer a
startling proposition: While some UFO sightings can be explained as
military or naturally occurring phenomena, others cannot. Whatever or
whoever they are, the reality of UFO activity can no longer be
doubted. One concludes that these beings are either advanced humanoids
from outer space, or that this activity signals an ongoing deception
of demonic design. If the current UFO activity is demonic and
indicates Satan has for centuries planned an "alien" visitation in
order to, among other things, explain the rapture of the church, it is
reasonable to believe that his plans have heretofore included
indoctrination and advanced intelligence. Military invasions always
involve preliminary and clandestine maneuvers, and Satan's plans to
deceive the past, the present, and the future World Order, would first
involve covert strategies of brainwashing, political manipulation, and
the positioning of his agents in places of power.
Not long ago people who supported such UFO interpretations were the
object of scorn. Because of accumulating evidence and reputable
eyewitness accounts, this is no longer the case. That some kind of
unexplained phenomenon, called the UFO experience by some, occurs, is
beyond question. UFO reports are coming in at the alarming worldwide
rate of about six sightings per hour! While I believe the New Age
Movement's connection between UFO phenomenon and the origin of man is
erroneous, I nevertheless credit New Agers for recognizing the high
possibility that UFO activity is perhaps a first step towards
developing the schemes of a super intelligent force, a power which may
energize the UFO phenomenon today.
What New Agers describe as the goals of a "highly advanced alien
civilization," is perhaps better defined as the plotting of evil
supernaturalism.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
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A Belgian UFO encounter on March 30-31,1990
UFO's encountered over Edwards Air Base
Phoenix Lights, TV 3, Nov 20, 1998
Audio interview with Chuck Missler and Mark Eastman on the Art Bell
program provides a Christian view on aliens and UFOs. May 11, 1998
Erich von Daniken points to images of half human creatures such as
these on an Assyrian obelisk as proof of ancient genetic experiments.
The creature on lower panel at left is sucking its thumb (?)
Yes there may be life out there beyond earth or in some other
dimensions. Some say it evolved by chance (evolution) others say God
may of created intelligent life elsewhere as well. In any case it
seems we are told we are not alone.
What is strange is that many of the so called aliens that contact
humans often pass on new age philosophy. They also claim they
created mankind and mankind's religions. I come across this over and
over again in books written by contactees, ufo researchers and
some ufo abductees. Many abductees are not even sure they are
dealing with real aliens but something akin to shapeshifting
interdimensional entiies. This is also the conclusion from many
ufo researchers such as Karla Turner, author of "Masquerade of
Angels" http://www.karlaturner.org/, L.A. Marzulli, author of "The
Alien Interviews" http://www.lamarzulli.net/
Jacques Vallee, author of the book, "Dimensions", and "Messengers of
Deception" , John Keel, author of the book, "Mothman Prophecies"and
"Operation Trojan Horse", or Joe Jordon Mufon director and founder
of CE4 http://www.alienresistance.org/ce4.htm
Many new agers claim they also have received channel information
from so called ET's or ET spirit guides that claim they want to guide
the human race into a new age. Yet, behind the new age utopia
visions are ufo abductees claiming they have
been kidnapped against their will and sexually violated. Then, there
also cattle mutilations and human mutilations associated with ufo
cases. http://www.ufodigest.com/news/0307/mutilate.html
So what is going on? One of my main areas of research is: what may
behind mystical experiences and new age beliefs. I am discovering
that new agers that claim contact with non alien spirit guides are
also receiving the same new age
philosophy and visions of utopian solutions for mankind from their
spirit guides or angels. Well if you research Nazi occult mystical
beliefs you will find similar utopian themes with promises of a new
age as long as you follow Hitler and his inner guides.
http://www.illuminati-news.com/hitler-occult.htm and
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hitler-adolf/oss-papers/text/oss-profile-03-03.html
Here are some quotes from ufo researchers, contactees and abductees
which may shed some light on this subject
"A large part of the available UFO literature is closely linked with
mysticism and the metaphysical. It deals with subjects like mental
telepathy, automatic writing and invisible entities as well as
phenomena like poltergeist [ghost] manifestation and 'possession.'
Many of the UFO reports now being published in the popular press
recount alleged incidents that are strikingly similar to demonic
possession and psychic phenomena."
- Lynn E. Catoe, UFOs and Related Subjects: USGPO, 1969; prepared
under AFOSR Project Order 67-0002 and 68-0003
"Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them
in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of
deception."
- Dr. Jacques Vallee, Messengers of Deception, p. 20
"We are dealing with a multidimensional paraphysical phenomenon which
is largely indigenous to planet earth."
- Brad Steiger, [cited in] Blue Book Files Released in Canadian UFO
Report, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1977, p. 20
"We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which
disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion...
-Terrence McKenna [from a lecture]
"One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs
are interstellar spaceships."
- Arthur C. Clarke, New York Times Book Review, 07/27/75
"There seems to be no evidence yet that any of these craft or beings
originate from outer space."
-Gordon Creighton, Official 1992 Flying Saucer Review Policy Statement
"UFO behaviour is more akin to magic than to physics as we know it...
the modern UFOnauts and the demons of past days are probably
identical."
-Dr. Pierre Guerin, FSR Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 13-14
"The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor
variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon..."
- John A. Keel, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, p. 299
"A working knowledge of occult science...is indispensable to UFO
investigation."
-Trevor James, FSR Vol. 8, No. 1, p.10
"Studies of flying saucer cults repeatedly show that they are part of
a larger occult social world."
-Stupple & McNeece, 1979 MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, p. 49
"The 'medical examination' to which abductees are said to be
subjected, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is
reminiscient of the medieval tales of encounters with demons. It makes
no sense in a sophisticated or technical framework: any intelligent
being equipped with the scientific marvels that UFOs possess would be
in a position to achieve any of these alleged scientific objectives in
a shorter time and with fewer risks."
- Dr. Jacques Vallee, Confrontations, p. 13
"The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type
of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the [occult]
traditions of every culture...the structure of abduction stories is
identical to that of occult initiation rituals...the UFO beings of
today belong to the same class of manifestation as the [occult]
entities that were described in centuries past."
-Dr. Jacques Vallee citing the extensive research of Bertrand Meheust
[Science-Fiction et Soucoupes Volantes (Paris, 1978); Soucoupes
Volantes et Folklore (Paris, 1985)], in Confrontations, p. 146,
159-161
"[The occultist] is brought into intelligent communication with the
spirits of the air, and can receive any knowledge which they possess,
or any false impression they choose to impart...the demons seem
permitted to do various wonders at their request."
- G.H. Pember, Earth's Earliest Ages and Their Connection with Modern
Spiritualism and Theosophy (1876), p. 254
"These entities are clever enough to make Strieber think they care
about him. Yet his torment by them never ceases. Whatever his
relationship to the entities, and he increasingly concludes that their
involvement with him is something 'good,' he also remains terrified of
them and uncertain as to what they are."
- John Ankerberg, The Facts on UFOs and Other Supernatural Phenomena,
p. 21
"I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so
powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate...
'Whitley' ceased to exist. What was left was a body and a state of raw
fear so great that it swept about me like a thick, suffocating
curtain, turning paralysis into a condition that seemed close to
death...I died and a wild animal appeared in my place."
- Whitley Strieber, Communion, p. 25-26
"Increasingly I felt as if I were entering a struggle that might even
be more than life and death. It might be a struggle for my soul, my
essence, or whatever part of me might have reference to the eternal.
There are worse things than death, I suspected... so far the word
demon had never been spoken among the scientists and doctors who were
working with me...Alone at night I worried about the legendary cunning
of demons ...At the very least I was going stark, raving mad."
- Whitley Strieber, Transformation, p. 44-45
"I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not
making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their
enjoyment."
- Whitley Strieber, Transformation, p. 172
"I felt an absolutely indescribable sense of menace. It was hell on
earth to be there [in the presence of the entities], and yet I
couldn't move, couldn't cry out, couldn't get away. I'd lay as still
as death, suffering inner agonies. Whatever was there seemed so
monstrously ugly, so filthy and dark and sinister. Of course they were
demons. They had to be. And they were here and I couldn't get away."
- Whitley Strieber, Transformation, p. 181
"Why were my visitors so secretive, hiding themselves behind my
consciousness. I could only conclude that they were using me and did
not want me to know why...What if they were dangerous? Then I was
terribly dangerous because I was playing a role in acclimatizing
people to them."
- Whitley Strieber, Transformation, p. 96