Unidentified Flying Objects: Fact Or Fiction?

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Babylonians, never referred to such beings as gods. Rather they were
depicted as "disgusting abominations," a description only deserved by
uninvited alien visitors (2).
One step further takes the astronaut theory and surmises that with
it, we can understand the later religious cultures, such as the Hebrews
who are thought to have borrowed much of Sumerian practice. Such
religions and secret societies, with their elaborate and complicated
rituals may actually be "preserving from a previous epoch fragments of an
esoteric and little understood knowledge, just as the Egyptian, Hebrew,
and Mayan priests guarded in their temples the inspired word of their
self-possessed creators (3)." Alien originators may have set down certain
rites which became confused over the years, resulting in the various
ancient religions; aliens being the source of our notion of God. This
also may explain how miles long designs, only viewable from the air, were
created in ancient times. The only rationalization for the possibility of
such designs is that the ancients had assistance from the sky, namely
extraterrestrial assistance. Many UFO theorists, astronomer Morris Jessup
being the forerunner, go even further: not only were pre-Biblical and
Biblical times full of Alien intervention, but he contends that the UFO
phenomenon is the missing link between Biblical supernatural accounts of
miracles and established, contradicting science. Jessup explains that
"nothing is supernatural and nothing is outside nature (12)." He
continues that the Bible is full of UFO accounts, depicted by various
descriptions: angels, the revelation on Mt. Sinai, the burning bush, and
Elijah's levitation to heaven. Jessup says the Bible is a physical
record, not a collection of divine revelation "although the miracles of
this and all religions invite rational and physical explanation, if we
grant the 'existence of spatial intelligence (13).'" Ano...