Unidentified Flying Objects: Fact Or Fiction?

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ther thinker,
Brinsley Trent, follows the theme of extraterrestrial interpretations of
the Bible and claims that the Garden of Eden was, as many ancient texts
point out, not the underground, but in the Underworld - i.e. outside the
orbit of earth, meaning Mars. When the Great Flood occurred, Noah built a
great "boat," a spaceship, and landed on Earth (Life 16). However,
Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan warns that this ancient astronaut theory and
the "saucer myths" represent a compromise "between the need to believe in
a traditional God and the contemporary pressures to accept the
pronouncement of science (Fitzgerald 5);" therefore, according to Sagan,
the proposition that aliens exist and the astronaut theory should be
tossed.
Many theorists assume the Bible is a totally separate entity and
don't associate or contradict the UFO phenomenon with the well established
theological belief system in the supernatural. Wilhelm Reich, for one, a
noted Austrian psychoanalyst...