ThothWeb - Your Portal to the Unknown - Ancient Astronauts: Evidence of UFO Sightings Throughout History

The general consensus holds that the first ever report of a UFO occurred in the 1940's around the time of the famed Roswell sightings, but a quick jaunt back through history proves this to be untrue. There were many reported sightings in the United States before that date, and worldwide perhaps, since the dawn of time.

In the pyramids of Egypt, archaeologists have found hieroglyphs that resemble nothing more than the UFOs that are described in sightings up to the present day.

In fact, if you asked a person to draw what they thought an alien space ship looked like, what they drew would likely be identical to these hieroglyphs that were carved out on the walls of tombs in our ancient past.

While this is certainly not conclusive evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial life, when put together with Egyptian Mythology, it certainly leads one to question the origins of the religion practiced by the ancient Egyptians. Egyptian mythology includes stories of the Gods traveling through the sky with light and noise, and depicts them as being similar to today's 'humanoid' type aliens.

Of course Egyptians weren't alone in creating these depictions of flying saucers and aliens visitors. The ancient literature of India tells of Vimanas , or flying machines, that were used in warfare in ancient times. The Vimanas were said to be able to fly in the earth's atmosphere as well as into outer space, distant planets and be submerged underwater. The Mahabharata tells the story of the long war between the Kauravas and the Pandavas in Indian History. This war was willed by the gods whose goal was to prevent the overpopulation of the Earth. His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedenta Swami Prabhupada insists that not only is this a religious text, but that it represents a concrete history for the Indian people. In this battle, it is told, that the gods aided in the war with flying craft that used a weapon described to have effects identical to a nuclear weapon of today. This and other Indian texts speak of traveling to heaven in a flying car that travels on a great beam of light with a noise like thunder. Bas Relief images show depict ins of these space craft from ancient times.

Many also believe that several accounts in the Bible are evidence of Ancient UFO contact. While a controversial subject many of the incidences of reported contact with God or the Angels are eerily similar in detail to what is reported by persons who claim contact with a UFO or it's alien inhabitants. While this is too lengthy and controversial to go into detail in the space of this article, it is worth note that interested parties should do some research on their own. The 'evidence' is fascinating.

What can be described in a few sentences however are the artifacts and cave paintings that have been found around the world that bear eerily similarity to each other and to modern day UFO accounts. Gold artifacts found in Central America and dated to belong to the preColombian period appear to be perfect models of flying craft. Aboriginal cave paintings and Native American pictographs seem to represent alien visitors and a UFO crash in the American desert, respectively. Of course persons can argue that these primitive paintings prove nothing, as they cannot be identified, but that does leave one question open. Why are these the only pictographs that elude identification. In each circumstance everything else is easily identifiable, and created with great skill. Trying to imagine that what we see depicted here is a bad drawing of something ordinary makes very little sense, when all other parts of the pictures present themselves so clearly. Of course it is easy to misconstrue the primitive scratchings on a cave wall, it's not like they are of realistic detail, which would be undeniable, right? hat if there were indeed, realistic paintings of such space craft, then would people be more interested?

Apparently not! There is a great deal of renowned Renaissance art that depicts very clear spacecraft pictures. While art experts have denied vehemently that they do not see them, others (in fact most) will agree that the objects in these paintings are quite, shamelessly obvious. It is even said that the reason that the depictions seem to cease at about the same time is that the Pope demanded they desist painting them in! I have included a link to a site that has been poorly translated into English that shows the paintings in question, alongside depictions of actual UFO sightings that occurred in the in the 1500s and 1600s. While the text is basically unreadable the paintings are shown very well for the reader to make up his or her own mind about.

Sometimes, it seems when you look into such accounts as these, the experts are divided into two opposing teams, each with it's own unique mental illness. One team wants to believe whole heartedly that these are factual records of alien encounter and will imagine even the smallest irregularity to look like a space ship. The other team is so prepared to disbelieve that anything exists beyond the scope of their reason that they will ignore even the most blatant rendition. These extremes tend to make outsiders of reasonable mind laugh at both camps. Perhaps one day we will find irrefutable evidence, but when that happens it will be almost a sad thing that the debate will have ended, especially if nothing is found to be out there.

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