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social sciences, such as psychology, sociology, and anthropology. To expect formal rigidity in Other drawings could easily be mistaken for aircraft landing strips. Some are merely straight (oft en
such informal disciplines is to demand what cannot be. Nevertheless, one would expect scien- parallel) lines running across rough terrain and up mountainsides, appearing to deviate not an inch
tists to permit von Däniken to extrapolate from his data, since they themselves accept extrapo- — sometimes almost ten kilometers (6.21 miles) long. As to their source and meanings, there are no
lation as a kind of evidence permitting further advances in science. accepted explanations. A NASA engineer, Robert Earle, claims to have determined that most of the
lines point to important geographic locations on the Earth. [4]
What could constitute proof for the ancient astronaut hypothesis? We are not likely to fi nd an
ancient astronaut. As von Däniken points out, "crashed" spaceships from the distant past would Baalbek pictures (we can use as many as we need to)
probably long ago have disintegrated or possibly have been carried away piecemeal. What then?
Another unexplained mystery is that of the Terraces of Baalbek in Lebanon where huge stone blocks
Von Däniken's thesis explains hitherto inexplicable mysteries none of which has received any sixty feet long and said to weigh some 1200 tons have been moved into place. Th ey are so massive
elucidation from academic minds fettered by prejudices and preconceptions. It is not fatal to that even our modern technology would have great diffi culty handling them.
the hypothesis that critics fi nd errors. Taken as a whole, von Däniken's fi ndings point convinc-
ingly to the likelihood of extraterrestrial interference in man's distant past. Th at is not to deny Sacsayhuaman pictures (we can use as many as we need to)
that von Däniken manipulates many of his facts to adapt them to the ancient astronaut hypoth-
esis. But what scientist does not do this when he formulates a theory? Th en there are the so-called "fortress" walls at Sacsayhuaman, outside the city of Cuszo in Peru.
Th ere are thousands of enormous stones, many tons in weight, fi tting together as closely and as
Th e ancient astronaut hypothesis is little diff erent from most of recorded history. Th e hypoth- neatly as the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, without any kind of connecting adhesive. Th e thin edge of a
esis requires only "validation" of the reported data through correlation of those data with the sheet of paper cannot be inserted between them.
unexplained and intriguing technical artifacts of the distant past. Th e proofs of the ancient
astronaut hypothesis can be found in the logic of both possible and probable events, in the Tiahuanaco pictures (we can use as many as we need to)
historical, even though predominantly religious, documents that are held in such high histori-
cal esteem throughout the world, and in the ancient artifacts that cannot be explained in terms Another marvel is the recessed quadrangular wall at Tiahuanaco, outside of La Paz, Bolivia. Th e
of the supposed knowledge and capabilities of antiquity. Any mythologist will readily insist inside surface is studded with sculptured faces apparently representing every racial type on Earth.
that much of mythology is but disguised history. Th ere remains only to break the code of the Th ere are many hundreds of other unexplained mysteries which most scientists show no serious
expressions of antiquity and to translate them into the speech patterns of a space-age language. inclination to investigate.
As George Sassoon [2] explained, even the word "Glory" in the scriptures turns out to be a
highly probable reference to a space craft . All these, studied as a body of coherently describable Multiple Goldfl yer pictures (we can use as many as we need to)
data, point to extraterrestrial intervention. Furthermore, the descriptions in ancient docu-
ments, when coupled with empirical data, considerably weaken the argument that terrestrials I shall mention only one more: the mysterious existence of ancient models of sophisticated aircraft .
are responsible for those artifacts which obviously were beyond their linguistic, conceptual, and Such models, which are in museums throughout the world, have been tested and found to be aerody-
technical abilities. Let us consider some of those wonders. A few should suffi ce. namically accurate in design. Th ey are amazingly interesting artifacts because they correlate so well
with the many scriptural descriptions of fl ying machines emitting smoke, fi re, and thunderous noise.
Nazca Lines pictures (we can use as many as we need to – I have access to a Nazca picture ar-
chive) It seems, then, as von Däniken reiterates, that it is time to bring to bear upon these fascinating mys-
teries, and the descriptions of them in the languages of antiquity, new perspectives and viable hy-
At the Bay of Pisco, south of Lima, Peru, there is an enormous trident engraved on the side of a potheses made possible by the more sophisticated language and knowledge of our day.
hill pointing (we can now say with accuracy, thanks to the intensive research of Josef Blumrich
[3]) directly at a small island by the name of Isla Blanca. In addition, not far from the small city PULL QUOTE
of Nazca, Peru, one can fi nd what are called the Nazca Lines. Inscribed on approximately thirty Supplemented by computers, experts in comparative linguistics, translation, ancient cultures, and an-
square miles of arid Nazca pampas are huge drawings of a spider, a monkey, a hummingbird, cient languages should be able to determine whether the technical data, concepts, and achievements
and the like. Th ey are so large that they can be recognized in their entirety only from the air. found in museums, existing at archaeological sites, and described in historical and religious docu-
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