Aliens and Extraterrestrials (ETs)

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Aliens and Extraterrestrials (ETs)

The belief in aliens from other planets dates back for centuries, as does their alleged sightings.

47,000 year-old rock carvings in the Hunan province of China could be interpreted as evidence for UFOs.

Airborne “fire circles” were reported to the Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III (1504-1450 BCE).

In the Middle Ages an English abbot and several monks were alarmed when they saw

‘…a flat, round, shining silver discus’ soar over their abbey. And in 1733 a certain ‘Mr. Cracker’ and ‘another gentleman…about 15 miles north of where I saw it’ spied a UFO with color like ‘burnished, or new washed silver.’ It sped ‘like a star falling…but it had a body much larger.’”

Source: Mysteries of the Unexplained (Readers Digest, 1992, p. 209).

Some speculate that the burning force emanating from the Hindu god Siva’s third eye could be an ancient depiction of an alien death-ray, not unlike the lightning bolts of Zeus and Jupiter.

Biblical accounts of the “pillar of light” in the sky that lead Moses out of Egypt are sometimes taken as evidence of alien visitation.

Others maintain that religious miracles stem from an entirely different source than our physical universe and are qualitatively different than ET phenomena.

Along these lines, Keith Thompson in Angels and Aliens (Fawcett: 1991) asks whether angels and aliens belong within the same ontological category.

Today, media coverage on aliens has reached a new level. New theories and claims are appearing on TV and the internet. And ETs are a significant part of pop culture.

ET theorists variously envision aliens as saviors or destroyers of humanity.

Omnec Onec says she is a 246 year-old extraterrestrial raised on Venus who in 1955 traveled to Earth to spread the message of brotherhood and love. Meanwhile some Biblical fundamentalists see all aliens in terms of demonic deception.

It’s been suggested that psi abilities† increase with exposure to aliens. If so, the question remains as to whether such abilities would be used for good or ill. » Alien, Angels, “ET’s, UFO’s and the Psychology of Belief,” Heaven, Possession

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† Along with phenomena such as ‘missing time,’ the apparent forgetting of whole series’ of events and returning to lucidity as if no time had passed.

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