 Have
Aliens Ever Visited Earth?
If Earth is being visited by aliens now, as many insist, then the question arises: Have
aliens ever visited Earth in the past? If so, have they left evidence of their presence?
If the answer is "yes," then the current visitations become easier to believe;
and, if the visits have been made by the same aliens, then perhaps the purpose of the
present encounters can be determined.
Back in the '60s, the author Erich von Daniken made headlines with his book, Chariots
of the Gods, and its sequels, in which he presented a huge amount of evidence that he
claimed proved aliens had visited Earth in the past. This evidence included anachronistic
metals, devices, and common myths. Von Daniken's work was marred by two flaws. First, he
had a tendency to make up "facts" when he couldn't find the ones he wanted.
Second, his evidence really only proved that a superior technology once existed on Earth,
not that it was necessarily alien. Many readers, therefore, were left with the conclusion
that von Daniken had unintentionally proven the existence of Atlantis!
The fact is, however, that aliens have visited Earth...and have left behind, not a
trinket or two, but volumes of written evidence, in the form of clay tablets left
behind in the ruins of Sumer, Earth's first historical civilization.
The Earth Chronicles
No one suspected the existence of the Sumerian people and language before the mid-19th
century CE. The first major excavations leading to the discovery of Sumer were conducted
between 1842-54 at Assyrian sites such as Nineveh, Dur Sharrukin, and Calah by the French
archaeologists Paul Émile Botta and Victor Place; the British archaeologists Sir Austen
Henry Layard and Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson; and the Iraqi archaeologist Hormuzd
Rassam. Thousands of tablets and inscriptions dating from the 1st millennium BCE, the vast
majority written in Akkadian, were uncovered.
If these tablets and illustrated cylinder seals had been first viewed today, we would
immediately recognize the pictures of spacecraft, aircraft, radiation treatments, and
astronomical data. However, the best minds of the 1850s could not imagine such things, and
certainly not in relation to a long-dead civilization. They did the best they could in
translating the ancient texts, but found many concepts that defied their imaginations.
When confronted with a text, for example, that stated a person was going to make a
something that would raise him or her above everyone and everything else in the world,
that something was translated "name." The original word, shem, actually
means spacecraft; but who in the 19th century could have guessed that?
It wasn't until Zecharia Sitchin came along with a fresh eye that the texts were
revealed in their true meaning.
Sitchin's biography, taken from the dust jacket of The Twelfth Planet:
Zecharia Sitchin was raised in Palestine, where he acquired a profound knowledge
of modern and ancient Hebrew, other Semitic and European languages, the Old Testament, and
the history and archaeology of the Near East. He attended the London School of Economics
and Political Science and graduated from the University of London, majoring in economic
history. A leading journalist and editor in Israel for many years, he now lives and writes
in New York. One of the few scholars able to read and understand Sumerian, Sitchin has
based The Earth Chronicles, a series of books dealing with Earth's and man's histories and
prehistories, largely on the Sumerian records as well as other ancient texts written down
on clay tablets by the ancient civilizations of the Near East. His books have been widely
translated, reprinted in paperback editions, and converted to Braille for the blind.
Sitchin's basic premise is that the Sumerians, who claimed to have been created by a
race of "gods" from another planet in this Solar System, were correct. This
premise is easily tested; if the Sumerians were, indeed, given knowledge by advanced
aliens, that knowledge should be more correct than otherwise possible...and, sure enough,
their astronomical tables include accurate orbital information for all the planets,
including Uranus, Neptune, and even Pluto--the three planets of our Solar System that are not
visible to the naked eye. (They were not re-discovered until 1781, 1846, and 1930,
respectively.) Even the major moons of Jupiter, re-discovered by Galileo in 1610, were
known to the Sumerians!
This proof of their scientific knowledge demands that we take their other stories, if
not at face value, at least with an open mind and willing attitude.
According to the Sumerians, the "gods" were beings who looked much like us
(we were created "in their image") but came from a world far from the Sun, that
they called Nibiru. In Sumerian, NI.BI.RU means "planet of the crossing;" they
named their world that because, every 3600 years, it crossed from the outer depths of the
Solar System into its inner reaches--it had, in other words, an extremely elliptical
orbit, like a comet.
Some 450,000 years ago, according to the Sumerians' timeline, a Nibiruan fled from his
home world to Earth. Nibiru was having some sort of environmental crisis at the time,
which required gold to rectify. When this Nibiruan, called Alalu, discovered
that Earth was
rich in the yellow metal, he put aside past differences and contacted his home world.
Within five thousand years, the Nibiruans (who are extremely long-lived and move with
glacial deliberation) were able to mount a massive space program and send 500 astronauts
to Earth to extract gold from the waters of what is now the Persian Gulf. These
astronauts, the Anunaki (meaning, "Those Who To Earth From Heaven Came"),
are the "giants" of the Old Testament, the "Sons of God" who married
the "daughters of men." However, that is getting way ahead of the story; for,
according to the Sumerians, mankind had not yet been created.
(In fact, man had been created; we have fossils of Neanderthals dating from this
period. Neanderthals lived the lives of simple hunter/gatherers, as we know by examining
the caves in which they lived and studying their tools and their remains. They buried
their dead with weapons and jewelry, which no other Earth animal does, implying they had
some sort of belief regarding an afterlife. Still, they had no cities, did not farm or
domesticate animals, and lived in an unchanging culture--their tools did not change over
the hundreds of thousands of years they roamed the ancient stone age world.)
By 416,000 years ago, it became evident to the Nibiruans that extracting gold from
seawater was too inefficient a process to save their home world, and the order came to mine it instead.
(There are, in fact, the remains of extremely ancient gold mines in South Africa, whose
age defies analysis.) The Anunaki, hired to be spacemen and lab techs, found themselves
pressed into service as miners. The work was hard and intolerable to them; still, in true
Nibiruan fashion, they endured it for well over 100,000 years before mutinying.
In response to the mutiny, a Nibiruan named Ninhursag used genetic manipulation to
combine the genes of "ape-woman" (probably either Neanderthals or Homo
Erectus) and Nibiruans to produce
Man (Cro-Magnon, or anatomically modern, humans). This happened, according to the
Sumerians, about 300,000 years ago somewhere near Africa's Rift Valley. Until recently,
this date would have sounded much too soon for the appearance of modern humans; but recent
finds of extremely old anatomically-modern human finds have made it plausible.
At first, the genetically altered humans were sterile and had to be artificially
carried to term by Nibiruan "birth goddesses," chosen from among the Anunaki,
who apparently found that type of labor to be preferable to working in the mines.
Obviously, though, this means of producing workers was inherently inefficient. Enki, the
Nibiruan whose idea all this was, broke ranks and secretly manipulated the workers
additionally, making it possible for them to procreate.
An amazing aspect of this story is that the first workers were given the task of
tending a garden. Where was it? The Sumerian name was...E.DIN! What's more, the "Tree
of Knowledge" takes on special significance when we remember that "knowing"
is a Biblical euphemism for having sex...and when we find out that Enki's
"trademark" or symbol was...the serpent!
By 100,000 years ago, mankind's place in this colony world of Nibiru seemed secure.
Many of the Anunaki--called nefilim in Hebrew, and translated
"giants" in the King James Version of The Bible--took for themselves wives and husbands from
among the humans; the job of genetic manipulation had been so thorough that the mixed
couples could even bear children. This practice was looked upon by the Nibiruan leaders
with alarm, however. Some also doubted the use of another species for service was good for
the Nibiruans' own welfare. Some Nibiruans began to wonder if it might ever be possible to
close this particular can of worms.
The Flood
By 75,000 years ago, the most recent ice age gripped Earth. It was fourth in a series,
but the first in the Nibiruans' experience. Sea levels fell; once-lush areas became deserts; temperatures
dropped. The glaciers of the world grew, and grew, and grew. By about 13,000 years ago,
the seas had fallen to 200 feet below their present level, and the glaciers covering
Antarctica had reached critical mass. Almost any celestial jiggling could send them
plunging into the oceans; and one was on its way: Nibiru, approaching from its eccentric
orbit, was about to pass near Earth on its 3600-year orbit.
It was not hard for Nibiruan scientists to calculate that the collapsing ice shelves of
Antarctica would produce a world-wide tidal wave, or even when; the Nibiruans were hastily
called into orbit, forced to leave their human husbands and wives, even prevented by oath
from warning them of what was about to befall. One Nibiruan, however--our friend,
Enki--told his favorite human anyway. That human, known as Ziasudra to the Sumerians and
Noah to the Hebrews, was instructed to build a submersible vessel and to wait there with
his family and with the genetic samples of all Earthly animals and pairs of animals of
various genera to serve as surrogate parents so that Earth's fauna could be restored after
the deluge.
The igigi, Nibiruan astronauts who maintained an orbiting space station, were
not prepared to support hundreds of displaced Anunaki; food supplies ran low and it was a
hungry group of Nibiruans who landed on the soggy Earth after many weeks of flood. They
might well have been upset to find surviving humans...if the humans hadn't had food with
them. The Anunaki, even Enki's (and our) nemesis Enlil, grudgingly decided that the
Nibiruan/human alliance was here to stay.
Nibiruans could only commute to and from their home world when it was near
the Sun--otherwise, it was just too long a journey. That happened every 3600
years. In each of the next few of these Nibiruan years, according to the Sumerian sources, humans were
"given" new technologies: First, agriculture; then, domesticated animals that
provided humans with servants as humans served the Nibiruans. Finally, cities were
introduced as support for armies of Nibiruans, as individuals fought for control and
position.
The Sumerians recorded the loosening of buried gold by the Deluge, so that placer
mining could be conducted in South America (and South American records bear out the
visitation of bearded white men from the East). They recorded the Pyramid Wars, and even
described the granite plug found in the Great Pyramid and explained why no mummies were
ever found in these supposed "tombs." They described the result of nuclear
fallout on the cities of their civilization (and the remains of cities have been found
there that were "chopped off at the foundation," all walls smashed in the same
direction, as would happen in a nuclear blast).
By 2023 BCE, the winds carried the radioactive cloud to Sumer. People died a terrible
death; animals perished; the water was poisoned; the soil became barren. Sumer and its
great civilization lay prostrate. Its legacy passed to Abraham's seed as he begot--at age
100--a legitimate heir: Isaac.
The God of Abraham
In many ways, the God of Abraham was different from the "gods" who preceded him, the
Nibiruans who had tinkered so fatefully with humankind. For one thing, he was invisible:
The Nibiruans, at least at first, had worked face-to-face and side-by-side with their
human servants. Yahweh, as he called himself when Moses asked, was never to be seen. For
another thing, the Nibiruans had never been shy about posing for statues and other
illustrations. Yahweh refused to allow any images of himself. Also, alone among all the gods,
Yahweh was not married and was not even involved in any other the dramatic love affairs
that so illustrated the "morals" (or lack thereof) of the Nibiruans.
For these reasons, Sitchin proposed that Yahweh was not a Nibiruan...that, as the
Nibiruans were "gods" to us, Yahweh was God to the Nibiruans, and he had gotten
tired of the way the Nibiruans were treating us, and had decided to take over.
Certainly, the Old Testament tells of Yahweh's people attacking the various remnants of
Nibiruan-centered religion, until at last none remained.
And then, Yahweh seemed to leave us alone, unless there is some truth to the tale of
that night in Bethlehem.
Where Did They Go?
If the Nibiruans spent so much time manipulating the affairs of humans, literally half
a million years...where did they go? Why haven't we heard from them since the time Yahweh
played an active part in our development?
I see four possibilities.
- They destroyed themselves. Certainly they had the power--nuclear bombs and other weapons
of mass destruction--and they had the bad attitudes to use them. The Nibiruans had science
and technology, but little self-restraint, a combination that our own recent close calls
with nuclear weapons suggests could be deadly, indeed.
- Yahweh destroyed them on their home world, as he managed to wipe them out
on ours.
- They decided to leave us alone. Perhaps they solved their ecological crisis and no
longer needed Earth's gold. Perhaps Yahweh scared them away. Perhaps they developed a
conscience in spite of themselves.
- They are still here. Depending how human they really look, they might be
"immortals" living among us, the "secret government," or even the
aliens who abduct some of us now for--what else?--genetic experimentation.
While the question of where they went is certainly of importance--especially if they
are still here--another urgent issue is: What part of us is Earth, and what part Nibiruan?
What parts were built into us for the Nibiruans' benefit, and not ours?
These questions will be addressed in the next essay in this series.
Bibliography
Books in the Earth's Chronicles series: (All Avon Books)
- The 12th
Planet
- The
Stairway to Heaven
- The
Wars of Gods and Men
- The
Lost Realms
- When
Time Began
Companion Book: Genesis
Revisited
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