Outline


Thesis: We once believed that Earth is the only planet in the Universe 

                that supports life.  Today there is overwhelming evidence that  

                not only suggests, but supports the very real possibility that we 

                may share the Universe with other intelligent beings.


I.      Things in the Sky

        A.      The First Documented Sighting

        B.      The Fever Spreads

                1.      Pilot Encounters

                2.      The Lights in the Sky


II.     Dents in the Earth

        
III.    Unexplained Phenomenon

        A.      The Writing on the Wall

        B.      Geodes


IV.     What About Religion?

        A.      The Christian Bible

        B.      The Ancient Greeks




        C.      The American Indian

V.      Conclusion




We are not Alone.


        On June 24th, 1947 while searching for the remains of a downed 

Marine C-46 transport, lost somewhere in the Mount Ranier area, a young 

Idahoan businessman named Kenneth Arnold spotted something that would 

change his life forever.  Just north of his position flying at an altitude of 

9,500 feet and an unprecedented airspeed of 1,700 mph he spotted nine 

circular aircraft flying in formation.  According to his estimate the aircraft 

were approximately the size of a DC-4 airliner ( Jackson 4).  



        This account was the first sighting to ever receive a great deal of media 

attention.  This sighting gave birth to the phrase "flying Saucer" coined by a 

reporter named Bill Begrette.  Although not the first UFO sighting in history, 

Kenneth Arnolds account is considered to be the first documented UFO 

sighting.



        The following day Mr. Arnold discovered that in addition to his 

sighting there were several others in the Mount Ranier area that same day 

(Jackson 6).  



        When most of think of UFO sightings we picture an unemployed, half-

crazed, alcoholic hick living in a trailer park in the middle small town USA.  

Often times this description, although a little exaggerated, seems to fit
fairly 

well.  In the past when the average person spotted a UFO they were quickly 

discounted as a kook or con-artist in search of either attention or monetary 

reward.  It wasn't until more reputable figures in our society began to come 

forward that we that we started looking at this issue a little more seriously.  

An article written 1957, entitled " Strange lights over Grenada" written by 

Aime' Michel describes just such an account: 

          At 10:35 p.m. on September the 4th, 1957 Cpt Ferreira ordered his     

          wing to abandon a planned exercise and execute a 50 degree turn to 

          port.  Ferreira was attempting to get a closer look at what he 

          described as brilliant, pulsating light hanging low over the horizon.  

          When the turn was completed he noticed that the object had turned 

          too.  It was still directly over his left.  There was absolutely no doubt 

          that the orange light was shadowing the F-84s.  For another 10 

          minutes, it followed the jets without changing direction or 

          appearance.  The pilots watched as four small yellow discs broke away 

          from the large red object and took up a formation on either side of it.  




          All at once the large luminous disc shot vertically upward while the 

          smaller discs shot straight towards the F-84s.  In an instant the flat 
 
         disc sped overhead in a hazy blur and vanished.  When Cpt Ferriera 

          was questioned by Portuguese Air Force Investigators he was quoted      

          as   saying:  "Please don't come out with the old explanation that we         
          
          were being chased by the planet Venus, weather balloons, or freak 

          atmospheric conditions.  What we saw up there was real and   

          intelligently controlled.  And it scared the hell out of us.  (32)

This is only one of literally hundreds of pilot accounts that have been 

documented and cross verified by other sources.  To date the Portuguese 

Government has taken no official position as to what the luminous discs 

were.  



        The United States has had more than it's fair share of unexplained aerial 

objects.  In February of 1960 the N.A.A.D.S. (North American Air Defense 

System) spotted a satellite of unknown origin orbiting the Earth.  They knew 

that it wasn't a Soviet satellite because it was orbiting perpendicular to 

trajectory produced by a Soviet launch.  It also had a mass estimated at 15 

 


metric tons, no evidence of booster rockets and traveled at speed three times 

faster than any known satellite.  The satellite orbited for two weeks and 

disappeared without a trace.  Before its disappearance, the object which 

appeared to give off a red glow, was photographed over New York several 

times (Jackson 19).  



        Lights in the sky aren't the only evidence that suggests we may have 

cosmic company.  In the book "A History of UFO Crashes", the author Kevin 

D. Randal gives detailed accounts of numerous UFO crashes in history.  

Perhaps the most famous of these crashes occurred on July 4th, 1947 in 

Roswell New Mexico.  The crash at Roswell was witnessed from 

afar by over a hundred people.  Until just recently, no one who was involved 

in the recovery operation was talking, but thanks to continued pressure from 

UFO enthusiast our government has begun to declassify much of its UFO 

related material.  Perhaps more startling are than the government documents 

are the accounts given by local police and members of the recovery team.  

According to one unnamed witness, a member of the Roswell recovery team: 

          The crash site was littered with pieces of aircraft. Something about the 

          size of a fighter plane had crashed, the metal was unlike anything I'd          


          ever seen before.  I picked up a piece the size of a car fender with one 

          hand, it couldn't have more than a quarter of a pound and no matter 

          how hard I tried I couldn't even get it to bend.  (10)


        In my opinion the most fascinating piece of evidence to come out of 

the Roswell crash is the alien autopsy film.  Apparently there was more than 

bits and pieces of spaceship recovered at Roswell.  There is an Air Force video 

account of an autopsy being performed on a life form that doesn't share the 

common characteristics of organ development found in life forms on this 

planet.  The film is silent and labeled "Autopsy, Roswell, July 1947" (Randal 

17).   



        As difficult as the Roswell evidence is to explain or discount it pales in 

comparison to the physical evidence left by our ancestors.  An Illustration 

taken from a Nuremburg Broadsheet Tells how men and women "saw a very 

frightful spectacle".  At sunrise April 14th, 1561 "globes, crosses and tubes 

began to fight one another", the event continued for about an hour.  

Afterward they fell to ground in flames, minutes later a "black, spear like 

object appeared".  In a Basal Broadsheet dated August 7th, 1566 large black 
        


and white globes are seen over Dasel, Switzerland.  Both events occurred in a 

time period when there should have nothing more than birds and bees filling 

our skies.  They each considered to be Divine warnings at the time  (Gould 

95-96).

        Ancient physical evidence isn't limited to newspaper illustration and 

sketches on cave wall.  Perhaps the most astounding and unexplainable pieces 

of physical evidence are a pair of geodes.  Both are believed to be 

approximately 1,800 years old and when carefully examined were identified as 

electrical cells.  One of the cells which was discovered in Iraq was tested and 

produced 2 volts of electricity.  The other, which was discovered by a pair of 

Arizona rock hounds, was damaged when the sedimentary encrustation was 

being removed and therefore couldn't be tested (Montgomery 221).



        Since the dawn of time man has told stories of heavenly and demonic 

beings coming to rule, teach, torment, seduce and provide salvation.  Every 

culture has myths of ancient gods who strode through the heavens. The 

American Indians had the cachinas who taught them to farm and saved them 

from numerous cataclysms.  Greece had Zeus who threw lightning bolts from 



his finger tips and Apollo crossed the sky in his golden chariot.  The 

Christians have Ecclesiastes who encountered the "ant people" and rode 

through the skies with them from Babylon to Israel.  Across the entire globe 

we find drawings on cave walls that resemble men in space suits and objects 

that greatly resemble flying saucers.  The sacred artwork of the Hopi Indian 


when is without a doubt a representation of the waves produced by modern 

day oscilloscopes (Montgomery 225-237).  The Hopis are also native to the 

area where one of the electrical cells were found.  It could be that these
things 

are no more than mere coincidence, but I doubt it.  Man in his arrogance is 

reluctant to believe that we may share Gods vast, glorious universe with other 

beings of intelligence.  We sometimes fail to realize that if the Earth were a 

day old, the race of man would only have been here for 13 minutes.  If you 

couple that with the fact that there are Black Holes and White Dwarfs 

millions of years older than our sun, it increases the improbability that we
are 

the only ones out here.  In the preceding text I have produced a limited 

sampling of the volumes of evidence available.  I will close this paper on 

a quote from Ecclesiastes I:9 "there is no new thing under the sun", and that 

includes intelligent life.



Works Cited



Ecclesiastes. Holy Bible. Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1976.

Gould, Robert. Oddities. New York: Bell PC, 1965.

Jackson, Robert. UFO's: Sightings of Strange Phenomena in the Skies. 
        New Jersey: Chartwell Books, 1995

Michel, Aime'. "Strange lights over Grenada." Fate Magazine. Aug. 1957. 
        29-32

Montgomery, Ruth. Aliens Among Us. New York: G.P Putnum's Sons, 1985

Randle, Kevin. A History of UFO Crashes. Avon Books,1995