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Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens?
Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens?
Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens?
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We are not alone.

And we never have been . . .

For years we've been taught that human progress has been a long, slow climb from the primordial ooze to hunter-gatherers to empires. But what if that's only part of the story?

Bestselling author and legendary conspiracy researcher Jim Marrs, who has investigated the recent financial crisis, the JFK assassination, and the national socialist takeover of America, now takes on his biggest subject: the history of mankind. Offering mind-blowing information that will radically alter the way we think about the world and our place in it, Marrs goes beyond the revelations of his classic Alien Agenda, interweaving science and authentic archaeo- logical finds with provocative speculation to show how human civilization may have originated with nonhumans who visited earth eons ago . . . and may still be here today.

Our Occulted History overturns conventional knowledge and beliefs, presenting compelling evidence that the earth once hosted prehistoric civilizations using technologies that very well may have surpassed our own. Sound unbelievable? Just a few hundred years ago, so was the concept that the earth revolved around the sun.

Marrs sifts through the historical, scientific, and cultural record, showing how numerous ancient texts and tablets tell of visitors from the stars colonizing the earth. From the flying vimanas of the Hindu Vedic literature and the flying shields reported by the Romans to the mysterious airships of the 1800s and the UFOs of today, he argues that someone other than us is still present on this planet. But are these visitors simply observers—or do they play a much more active and controlling role? Jim Marrs raises this shocking question and more in the provocative and persuasive Our Occulted History.

The truth is out there . . . and in here.

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PublisherHarperCollins
Release dateFeb 12, 2013
ISBN9780062130334
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Benjamin Woolley

Jim Marrs is a celebrated journalist and the author of Our Occulted History, The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy, The Rise of the Fourth Reich, Rule by Secrecy, Alien Agenda, and Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy. He lives in Texas.

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    The story is still interesting, but this really felt like the middle book of a trilogy... a mostly unnecessary one. The main character just goes back and forth in her feelings for the two love interests. Blah.
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    hands down jim marrs' worst book i've ever read. this guy has the audacity of quoting notorious conmen like von daniken an zitchin and try to pass them as reliable sources.. i only read half of it and i was constantly asking myself if jim marrs had written this book in a point in his life where he desperately needed money or if he had hit his head on the bathtub on his way out of the bathroom,
    and then decided to write this
    ...anyway if your looking for something serious like "crossfire" youre gonna be more than dissapointed.

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Our Occulted History - Benjamin Woolley

OUR OCCULTED HISTORY

DO THE GLOBAL ELITE CONCEAL ANCIENT ALIENS?

JIM MARRS

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Origins of the Solar System

    Big Bang Questioned

Search for the Tenth Planet

The Sumerian Account—Mingling of the Waters

Martian Life

    Strange Moons

Iapetus

Moon Anomalies

The Big Whack

Spaceship Moon?

Nonhumans on the Moon

Lost Probes

    Humankind: The Anomalies Continue

Darwinism Under Fire

Human Chronology Revised

Maverick Scientists Quelled

Suppression by the Smithsonian

Hoaxes and Forgeries

The Wealthy Control Research

CIA Involvement

Human Origins Controversy

Remote Viewing Human Origins

    Ancient Evidence—Worldwide Anomalies

Hoary Structures

The Coral Castle

Strange Artifacts

Elongated Skulls and the Starchild

    Sacred Sites

The Osirion

Carnac

Göbekli Tepe

Baalbek

Pyramid Power

Cosmic War

Pyramids as Star Maps

Forgotten Pyramids

Part II: The Ancients

Where Was Atlantis?

The Bimini Road

The Minoan Empire and Santorini

The South China Sea

Out of This World

Pole Shift and Antarctica

A Worldwide Civilization

    Sumer: The First Known Civilization

Cuneiform Tablets

Longevity and Numbers

Myth or History?

    The Anunnaki: Improving the Breed?

The Nefilim Chain of Command

Sitchin’s Critics

An Early Gold Rush

Out of Africa

The Hybrid

Longevity and Another Noah

Separating the Humans

Kings and Conflict

Atomic War?

History Becomes Mythology

    Hand-Me-Down Cultures and Control

Give Me That Old-Time Religion

Show Me the Money

Ancient Egypt

Classical Greece

Greek Gods from Egypt

Power Passes to Rome

Book Burning

Lost in Translation

Part III: The Middle Ages

Knights Templar

Alchemy: Science, Magic, or Both?

Bacon’s Invisible College

The Magic of Gold

Discoveries in Iraq

Khazaria: Mastering Financial Control

It Runs in the Genes

The Black Nobility

Part IV: The Modern Era

Hitler and the Blue Bloods

A Unique Gold Book

Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition

You Can Bank on This

Follow the Leader

Breaks in the Cold War

Masters of Control

The Exchange Stabilization Fund

    Proof of the Plot

Voices of the Elite

Presidential Blue Bloods

Bad Food and Water

People Are the Problem

A Police State

Big Brother is Listening

Media Control

More Efficient Servitude

To What End?

A Disaster in the Making

Freeman or Serf?

Sources

Index

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Jim Marrs

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

Introduction

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of a black sea of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of disassociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

—HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT,

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

LET’S GET SOMETHING STRAIGHT RIGHT OFF. THIS BOOK HAS nothing to do with stories of vampires, werewolves, devil worship, witchcraft, or anything else commonly thought to be of the occult, although there is an unearthly aspect.

Many believers choose to put their faith in such stories, but there is another narrative growing in the public consciousness that can no longer be written off as mere fable: the idea that aliens from outer space or other dimensions may have—or may be trying to—take control of the world.

The word occult, often misconstrued to mean supernatural or magical, actually is defined simply as hidden or concealed. Even so, the word also involves a connection to outer space or the heavens. In astronomical terms, the term occulted equates to an eclipse, in which one heavenly body is masked, or hidden, behind another.

What history is being hidden from us? It would appear that something nonhuman seeks to control the planet Earth and may even have contributed to the advent of modern humankind.

The field of entertainment is no stranger to this idea. The television series V presented benign humanlike aliens visiting Earth, who turn out to be a reptilian race set on conquering our world. Movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers and books like Robert A. Heinlein’s The Puppet Masters have depicted humans transformed into zombielike pod people after an alien invasion. But these seemingly outrageous concepts haven’t always been the stuff of pulp fantasy novels or television scripts. Rather, they’ve been considered seriously by many people at different times throughout our history.

David Icke, author of the The Biggest Secret, has built a large worldwide following with his claims that certain world leaders, including the British royals, are shape-shifting reptilian aliens who have been on Earth since before written history. According to Icke, these leaders have descended from many generations of reptilian aliens. A race of interbreeding [reptile-human hybrid] bloodlines … were centered in the Middle East and Near East in the ancient world, wrote Icke, and, over the thousands of years since, have expanded their power across the globe … [through] a network of mystery schools and secret societies … creating institutions like religions to mentally and emotionally imprison the masses and set them at war with each other.

Lest one believe such talk comes only from loony fanatics, consider that none other than the famed scientist Carl Sagan wrote at length in his book The Dragons of Eden about the reptilian complex, which tops the brain stem, the oldest part of the human brain. Sagan said this part is the seat of aggression, ritual, territoriality and social hierarchy which evolved millions of years ago in our reptilian ancestors. He equated such characteristics with modern human bureaucratic and political behavior.

The idea that surreptitious space aliens want to take over the planet has been around since long before David Icke. A 1952 issue of Weird Science, a publication of the fabled Educational Comics (EC) that was shut down in the early 1950s due to the advent of the Comics Code, carried a story in which Allie Gator, a takeoff on the alligator character in the then-popular TV puppet program Kukla, Fran and Ollie, was elected president following a joke write-in campaign. Allie turned out to be the leading element of a reptilian alien force bent on taking over the Earth.

Much earlier and on a more somber note, journalist Charles Fort declared, I think we’re property. Fort was an American writer who from 1916 until his death in 1932 researched and wrote about a large number of anomalous phenomena, a lofty term for artifacts and events that evade conventional explanation.

In his 1919 work, The Book of the Damned, Fort explained that by damned he meant that we, humans, have been excluded from certain knowledge. I should say, he continued, we belong to something. That once upon a time, this Earth was No-Man’s Land, that other worlds explored and colonized here, and fought among themselves for possession, but that now it’s owned by something: That something owns this Earth—all others warned off. … I suspect … that all of this has been known, perhaps for ages, to certain ones upon the earth, a cult or order, members of which function like bellwethers to the rest of us, or as superior slaves or overseers, directing us in accordance with instructions received—from Somewhere else—in our mysterious usefulness.

Fort compiled such a prodigious amount of data covering unusual events that his books are still in print. His followers founded the Fortean Society in 1931, which continues to exist and publishes Fortean Times. The very words Fortean and Forteana have entered the English language, referring to the strange and unexplainable.

But it was Swiss journalist Erich von Däniken, with his 1968 book, Chariots of the Gods, who brought the concept of ancient astronauts—visitors who came to our world during the Stone Age to help perpetuate the human race—to a global audience.

Two questions arise from Fort’s and von Däniken’s writings. How warranted were their condemnations of the unwillingness of conventional science to investigate unconventional phenomena? And more important, how right were they about the concept of nonhuman control?

One of the most prominent websites for skeptics acknowledges ancient mysteries but shuns the idea of ancient astronauts, merely stating, It is true that we still do not know how the ancients accomplished some of their more astounding physical and technological feats. We still wonder how the ancient Egyptians raised giant obelisks in the desert and how stone age men and women moved huge cut stones and placed them in position in dolmens and passage graves. We are amazed by the giant carved heads on Easter Island and wonder why they were done, who did them, and why they abandoned the place. We may someday have the answers to our questions, but they are most likely to come from scientific investigation not pseudoscientific speculation.

Others have concluded that standard science may not offer the right tools to figure out our past. Following a lifetime of research, author Philip Coppens concluded in his 2012 book, The Ancient Alien Question, that the manner in which science has considered the question of nonhuman contact in our distant past is not the correct, or at least not the only, approach. When we look at reality the way it is, rather than within the reduced framework in which science prefers to operate, it becomes clear that there is only one answer. Were we alone? No.

William Bramley, in his 1990 book, The Gods of Eden, said he began studying the causes of war but came to the conclusion that Human beings appear to be a slave race languishing on an isolated planet in a small galaxy. He added that the human race was once a source of labor for an extraterrestrial civilization and still remains a possession today. To keep control over its possession and to maintain Earth as something of a prison, that other civilization [Bramley called them Custodians] has bred never-ending conflict between human beings, has promoted human spiritual decay, and has erected on Earth conditions of unremitting physical hardship. This situation has lasted for thousands of years and it continues today.

After more than 360 pages cataloging evidence of possible ancient nonhuman visitation on Earth, author, psychologist, and ordained Baptist minister Paul Von Ward in his 2011 book, We Have Never Been Alone, concluded that enough evidence of AB [Advanced Beings] involvement in human history exists that no responsible student of the human past and present can dismiss it in good conscience.

Australian researcher Paul White saw the involvement of nonhumans as the basis of ancient legends and myths worldwide. "Just after the Deluge, at the dawn of the present time cycle, an era the Egyptians called ZEP TEPI, ‘The First Times,’ a mysterious group of ‘gods’ appeared, to initiate the survivors in the rudiments of civilisation. From Thoth and Osiris in Egypt, to Quetzalcoatl and Viracocha in the Americas, traditions worldwide subscribe [sic] the origins of contemporary civilisation to this sophisticated group."

"Evidence from around the world, indicates these people were the hi-tech survivors of the previous civilisation of what we now refer to as Atlantis and Mu. Like the nuclear survival bunkers and secret research facilities of our own civilisation, there were those who arose from the underground ‘cities of the Gods,’ after the dust settled. These survivors are characterised in the Bible as the ‘prediluvian patriarchs,’ like Enoch and Methuselah, the ‘giants and heroes of old,’ mentioned in Genesis. These are the ‘fabled gods’ of ancient Summer [sic], Egypt and India."

Is there any historical or archaeological evidence to support such beliefs? There is, and it’s compelling, though it contradicts many of our conventional histories and beliefs. This is good. After all, at one time, conventional belief was that the earth was flat and the center of the universe.

If humankind’s progress has been a long, slow climb from hunter-gatherers to modern empires, then the historical record should not describe much out of the ordinary. But the account introduced here—culled from ancient texts, tablets, and carvings found scattered throughout the world—tells a different story, one of visitors from the stars colonizing the Earth. From the flying sky gods of the Middle East to the destructive vimanas described in the Hindu Vedic texts, almost all ancient legends tell of flying objects under intelligent control. They also describe strange visitors who taught language, law, mathematics, agriculture, and building construction to primitive humans.

Strange and mysterious artifacts and structures abound throughout the world, from the Nasca lines etched in the dry plains of Peru to the pyramids found not only on the Giza Plateau but in Central and South America, China, eastern Europe, and even Arkansas. Odd-shaped skulls and ancient small statues of what appear to be aircraft are written off as mere anomalies. Researchers continually stumble over anomalies. By dictionary definition, an anomaly is a circumstance or thing that is irregular, a deviation from the rule, something abnormal—in computer slang, a giant scientific WTF! And the world is chock-full of them.

If any part of a thesis concerning extraterrestrials or even a prehistoric supercivilization could be proven true, why haven’t academics and the mass media reported it? The mass media won’t touch such deep subjects, except in a simplified version that can fill an hour of TV time for entertainment. Convention has viewed such speculation as the province of the occult. Even today, many thoughtful and well-documented books languish on the Occult or New Age shelf in your bookstore right alongside imaginative tomes on vampires, witches, and demons. Common assumptions about what is true are falling away in light of new and widespread information, primarily from the Internet.

So now the word occulted may be viewed in another way—one that reveals how conventional science, and perhaps even institutions administered by the federal government or funded by the wealthy elite, have worked to conceal our possible true heritage. This book will address many of the omissions and distortions in our history books, investigating the origins of our solar system and the Earth through the advent of humankind to our current ruling class. It will examine the history of not only our civilization and our culture, but also the science used to examine our history and the archaeologists and anthropologists who frame the conversations about our species.

And if indeed our universe has been populated by nonhumans since its beginning and if they were involved in creating our world and educating our species, then we must ask, Did these visitors leave at some point, or are they still among us? If they remain on or near our planet, then what is their agenda for the human race? These questions will take us deep into the quest to find our occulted history. So turn the page and join the search.

PART I

ORIGINS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Science in its ideology sees itself as doing a fearless exploration of the unknown. Most of the time it is a fearful exploration of the almost known.

—RUPERT SHELDRAKE, BIOLOGIST AND ROYAL SOCIETY RESEARCH FELLOW

BEFORE WE TALK ABOUT WHO CONTROLS THE WORLD, WE FIRST need to understand how the world was created. Most people would agree that our universe was created by something, either a heavenly being such as God, Vishnu, Yahweh, Allah, the Great Spirit, the One or—as atheists might believe—by an accidental convergence of universal subatomic energy.

It is after this consensus that the trouble begins. Millennia of warfare and millions of deaths have resulted from religious disputes over exactly who God is and which people meet God’s approval. There are also the Big Questions asked by humans down through the ages: Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going?

The answers to such questions may be found in the oldest known accounts of human history—the stone tablets from ancient Sumer, which predate the Bible by more than three thousand years. They tell of fantastic flying machines, trips to other worlds, destructive battles on Earth and elsewhere, and even the creation of a slave race. There are detailed accounts of gods, goddesses, and demigods, kings and queens, champions, tyrants, priests, holy men, wars, and insurrections. Beginning with the world’s oldest known story—the quest of the great Sumerian king Gilgamesh, who claimed a nonhuman heritage—there exist enough tales of battles, court intrigues, jealousies, and adventures to rival any Hollywood blockbuster.

But to understand the reality of these recorded stories, one must start at the beginning.

BIG BANG QUESTIONED

STANDARD SCIENCE TELLS US THAT OUR UNIVERSE BEGAN WITH THE Big Bang—a burst of energy that scientists estimate occurred about 13 billion years ago causing cosmic inflation milliseconds afterward.

Despite the scientific community’s overall acceptance of the Big Bang, certain problems with the theory have come under scrutiny, leading some to question its validity. The cover story of the April 2011 edition of Scientific American included the article Quantum Gaps in Big Bang Theory: Why Our Best Explanation of How the Universe Evolved Must Be Fixed—or Replaced. In the article Paul J. Steinhardt, director of Princeton University’s Center for Theoretical Science, pointed out that astrophysicists have left a number of problems with the theory unresolved, stating that the case against [the Big Bang theory] challenges the logical foundations of the theory. Does the theory really work as advertised? Are the predictions made in the early 1980s still the predictions of the inflationary model as we understand it today? There is an argument to be made that the answer to both questions is no.

But there have always been other theories, including our universe as a project of some superuniversal alien entities or the sudden appearance of Earth as an act of God. Anglican archbishop James Ussher, then Primate of All Ireland, set the tone for the next few centuries concerning the creation of Earth in his 1654 book modestly entitled Annals of the World: The Origin of Time, and Continued to the Beginning of the Emperor Vespasian’s Reign and the Total Destruction and Abolition of the Temple and Commonwealth of the Jews. First published in Latin, this 1,600-page work traced the history of the world from the Garden of Eden to the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70. Ussher, a dedicated scholar of his time who traveled throughout Europe studying Church records, determined that ancient peoples, especially the Israelites, started their calendar at harvest time, so he chose the first Sunday following the autumnal equinox to begin his history of the world. Ussher came to the startling conclusion that the world was created in the year 4004 BC. John Lightfoot, Master of St. Catherine’s College, University of Cambridge, refined Ussher’s calculations, declaring that the creation of the world occurred at exactly 9:00 a.m. on October 23, 4004 BC. Controversy over this date continues to this day between those who believe in the absolute inerrancy of the Bible—and hence Ussher’s calculated date—and those who believe the geological record, which clearly indicates the Earth to be more than 4.5 billion years old, and with some evidence of human habitats dated prior to 10,000 BC.

More than two thousand years before the Bible was put into writing, the creation of the Earth was described on cuneiform tablets by the ancient Sumerians. Starting with the translations of ancient Sumerian tablets by Zecharia Sitchin in the 1970s, many authors have contributed to a more detailed understanding of the creation story as recorded by the Sumerians long before the Bible. Thanks to Sitchin’s work, as well as that of Erich von Däniken, Michael Tellinger, Paul Von Ward, Alan F. Alford, R. A. Boulay, Neil Freer, Arthur David Horn, Joe Lewels, Joseph P. Farrell, David Hatcher Childress, C. L. Turnage, David Icke, Lloyd Pye, Laurence Gardner, and William Bramley, a novel and unconventional account of Earth’s creation has been developing. The new account, based in part on ancient writings, deals with the recurring intrusion of a tenth planet into our solar system. Traditional science, wedded to its own texts and dogma, has dismissed these accounts as mere mythology, if not pseudoscience and pseudohistory.

SEARCH FOR THE TENTH PLANET

The search for an unknown planet (Planet X) in our solar system is nothing new. It has continued since at least 1843, when British astronomer John Couch Adams deduced through noticeable gravitational disturbances that another planet must lie beyond Uranus. His observations led to the discovery of Neptune. Scientists continued to use this method to deduce the existence of other solar bodies, such as Pluto, which was discovered in 1930 after gravitational perturbations in the orbit of Neptune were noticed. Initially Pluto was thought to be the long-sought Planet X. However, it has since been concluded that the combined mass of Pluto and its major moon, Charon, is too small to exert the observed effect on the orbit of Neptune. Poor Pluto was downgraded in 2006 from a full-fledged planet to a dwarf planet, although some astronomers continue to disagree. The hunt for Planet X continues.

In 1981, American scientists were theorizing the existence of a tenth planet in our system based on sightings by an orbiting telescope and studies of irregularities in the orbit of Pluto indicating an additional solar body. If new evidence from the U.S. Naval Observatory of a 10th planet in the solar system is correct, it could prove that the Sumerians … were far ahead of modern man in astronomy, commented Hugh McCann, a writer for the Detroit News. Although the ancient Sumerians call it the twelfth planet, there is no inconsistency, as they counted the moon and the sun as planetary bodies, thus arriving at the number twelve, the same number as their pantheon of spacefaring overlords, whom they said arrived on Earth from Nibiru.

On December 30, 1983, the Washington Post reported on its front page, A heavenly body possibly as large as the giant planet Jupiter and possibly so close to Earth that it would be part of this solar system has been found in the direction of the constellation Orion by an orbiting telescope aboard the U.S. Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS). So mysterious is the object that astronomers do not know if it is a planet, a giant comet, a nearby ‘protostar’ that never got hot enough to become a star, a distant galaxy so young that it is still in the process of forming its first stars or a galaxy so shrouded in dust that none of the light cast by its stars ever gets through. …

Gerry Neugebauer, IRAS chief scientist for California’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and director of the Palomar Observatory for the California Institute of Technology, was quoted saying, All I can tell you is that we don’t know what it is.

The Caltech scientists believed the large body was fifty billion miles away, a mere stone’s throw in astronomical terms, and they speculated that it may be heading toward Earth. Others predicted that it could enter our inner solar system, wreaking havoc, in 2012. Perhaps giving an early indication as to how officialdom would treat such news, Neugebauer told the media, I want to douse that idea with as much cold water as I can.

Recently traditional scientists have downplayed or dismissed the idea of Nibiru or any large body invading our solar system. Ian O’Neill, a science writer for Universe Today who specializes in astrophysics, in 2008 wrote that any Neptune orbital perturbations have been put down to observational error and have since not been observed … so there doesn’t appear to be any obvious object any bigger than the largest Kuiper Belt objects out there. … The Kuiper Belt is an area of planetoids and asteroids that lies just outside the orbit of Neptune.

O’Neill maintained that IRAS never observed any astronomical body in the outer reaches of the solar system and concluded, The story that Planet X will arrive [on December 21, 2012] is, in my view, total bunkum (but it helps to sell doomsday books and DVDs by scaring people). Nibiru will remain in the realms of Sumerian myth. O’Neill acknowledged that rumors have persisted that world governments, including NASA, were hiding the truth of an approaching world. So why would governments want to hide a ‘discovery’ as historic as a doomsday planet approaching the inner Solar System anyway? he asked, then provided his own facetious answer, To avoid mass panic and pursue their own, greedy agendas (obviously).

THE SUMERIAN ACCOUNT—MINGLING OF THE WATERS

The truly amazing fact remains that ancient Sumerians, whom traditional history tells us were just developing writing, accurately described the planets Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, even though these three worlds cannot be seen without the aid of a telescope. Uranus was not known to modern man until it was discovered in 1781; Neptune, in 1846; and Pluto, in 1930.

Although they have long been considered fanciful myths, recent interpretations of Mesopotamian texts, particularly one entitled Enuma Elish, known as The Creation Epic, provided a most plausible explanation for the present composition of our solar system. But why not take the epic at face value, as nothing more nor less than the statement of cosmological facts as known to the Sumerians, as told them by the Nefilim? asked the late Zecharia Sitchin, a graduate of the London School of Economics who made a lifelong study of the Sumerian tablets and carvings. He died in October 2010, leaving behind a sizable following of devotees.

Sitchin’s revisionist interpretation of the Sumerian texts asserts that more than four billion years ago, the planets Mercury, Venus, and Mars were closest to the sun. A large watery world called Tiamat was in orbit between Mars and Jupiter. Nibiru, a large rogue planet that theoretically travels an elliptical orbit, entering our system about every 3,600 years, arrived and narrowly missed Tiamat. Tiamat cracked under the gravitational stresses. In a subsequent pass by Nibiru—in Sitchin’s early works, he refers to this orb by its Babylonian name, Marduk—Tiamat was cleaved in half when one of Nibiru’s moons rammed into the planet.

The collision of Nibiru’s moon and Tiamat knocked a large portion of Tiamat past Mars, ripping away its atmosphere and pieces of matter of various sizes. These fragments of Tiamat remained in its original orbit, becoming the familiar asteroid belt, or the Hammered Bracelet or Firmament, as it was called by the ancients. The greater portion of Tiamat was knocked into a new orbit closer to the sun. This larger chunk, retaining much of the planet’s water and carrying material from Mars, coalesced, cooled, and began orbiting between Mars and Venus, becoming Earth. It was accompanied by one of Nibiru’s moons (Kingu), which was captured by Earth’s gravity and became our own satellite. Some say the huge gouge out of the Earth now encompassing the Pacific Ocean is where that portion of Tiamat broke apart.

The idea is that when Nibiru and Tiamat collided, many tons of sea water from both worlds were thrown into space—an event termed the mingling of the waters by the Sumerian scribes—along with dirt and debris, all of which became the erratic flying balls of dirty ice we call comets.

Interestingly enough, this theory could explain why the Earth is missing much of its crust, particularly on the half encompassing the Pacific Ocean, as well as the origin of the asteroid belt. This theory also offers an explanation for comets, which have caused so much speculation among scientists as to their origin.

This War of the Worlds concept has been strengthened by the recent discovery of meteorites in Antarctica containing the same gases known to compose the atmosphere of Mars and by the discovery by NASA scientists in 1996 of what appeared to be the remains of microorganisms in a Martian meteorite thought to be four billion years old.

MARTIAN LIFE

The concept of life on Mars got yet another boost when the results of the Viking Lander missions of the 1970s were reevaluated in 2009. Photos of the surrounding Martian landscape from Viking 2 showed a thin layer of frost on the ground. Many scientists now suspect that life-sustaining water might exist as close as ten inches under the Martian surface. Retired Viking scientist Patricia Straat told Discovery magazine, A lot of people think there isn’t life on Mars because there wasn’t any water on Mars. Our experiment was a definite positive response for life, but a lot of people have claimed that it was a false positive for a variety of reasons.

The idea that all Earth life could be descended from Martian organisms may not be fully mainstream—but it’s not too crazy to consider, either. While the Martian surface appears to be cold, dry and lifeless today, there is plenty of evidence that the planet was much warmer and wetter in the distant past, billions of years ago, stated Mike Wall, senior editor of Space.com. Apparently refuting the claim that Mars is a dead world devoid of life, scientists in 1996 announced they discovered evidence of fossilized microbial life in a meteorite from Mars called Allan Hills 84001. Although this claim continued to draw controversy, many saw this as evidence that humans are not the only living organisms in our universe.

Astrobiologist Chris McKay of NASA’s Ames Research Center also has supported the concept that life on Earth might connect to Mars, stating, It is not implausible that life on Mars will be related to life on Earth and therefore share a common genetics. In any case, it would be important to test this hypothesis.

Researchers in early 2011 were devising an instrument that could search through samples of Martian dirt and isolate any genetic material from microbes there. Scientists could then use standard biochemical techniques to compare such material with that found on Earth. It’s a long shot, admitted MIT researcher Chris Carr, one of those producing the device. But if we go to Mars and find life that’s related to us, we could have originated on Mars. Or if it started here, it could have been transferred to Mars.

Scientists have found that 97 percent of the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) in human cells does not code for proteins and appears to consist of meaningless and repeating sequences. They are puzzled as to the function of this junk DNA. Adding to this conundrum is the speculation of some that this mysterious DNA may be extraterrestrial in origin.

The late Francis Harry Compton Crick, the English molecular biologist who jointly won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his codiscovery of the structure of the DNA molecule, once suggested that while the development of living systems from molecules may be a rare event in the universe, once it did develop, it may have been spread by spacefaring intelligent life forms in a process he called directed panspermia. He postulated, Life did not evolve first on Earth; a highly advanced civilization became threatened so they devised a way to pass on their existence. They genetically-modified their DNA and sent it out from their planet on bacteria or meteorites with the hope that it would collide with another planet. It did, and that’s why we’re here. The DNA molecule is the most efficient information storage system in the entire universe. The immensity of complex, coded and precisely sequenced information is absolutely staggering. The DNA evidence speaks of intelligent, information-bearing design.

Crick was not alone is his supposition that Earth may have been seeded with life by intelligent beings. The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is one to a number with 40,000 naughts after it. … It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor on any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence, stated British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle.

Sitchin and many others view human DNA differences and defects as support for the theory that primitive man was genetically altered by nonhumans. If so, where would such beings originate? The ancient Sumerian tablets tell us they came from that other world they called Nibiru.

According to the followers of Sitchin, Nibiru is called the Planet of the Crossing, because its orbit crosses the solar system between Mars and Jupiter. It then proceeds on its elliptical orbit, which takes it far outside the solar system before being pulled back by gravitational force. Nibiru has been symbolized in numerous societies—particularly Egyptian—as a winged disc, a circle with wings stretching to either side.

Some scientists claim that a planet that far from a sun could not support life, but others say that if such a planet had a strong confining atmosphere and a molten core like the Earth, it might generate its own life-sustaining heat.

Life on Earth evolved based on its one-year orbit around the sun, the solar year. Researchers theorize that life on Nibiru developed based on its one-year orbit around the sun—3,600 years to us on Earth. It then stands to reason that life on Nibiru would have evolved somewhat sooner than on Earth. Its beings may also be long-lived compared to the normal life span of a human, which would seem to be immortal to many insects, with their weeklong lives.

STRANGE MOONS

IN ADDITION TO ALTERNATIVE VIEWS ON THE ORIGINS OF EARTH, several scientists and authors have speculated that as many as three moons in our solar system may not be natural objects.

In 1959, Russian astrophysicist Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky calculated the orbital motion of the Martian satellite Phobos and concluded, based on several factors, including its changing speed, that the moon is artificial and hollow. He noted than none of the other moons in our solar system are as small as the two Martian moons—Phobos and Deimos—and that both orbit much too close to Mars. Shklovsky realized that Phobos’s velocity and position no longer matched its mathematically predicted course. The combination of its odd and changing velocity, coupled with anomalies in its gravitational and magnetic fields, led Shklovsky to conclude that Phobos was nothing less than some sort of huge spacecraft.

At the time, the famous astronomer Carl Sagan, who coauthored the 1966 book Intelligent Life in the Universe with Shklovsky, agreed, stating, A natural satellite cannot be a hollow object. Sagan argued for serious consideration of paleocontact—that is, extraterrestrials in early Earth history—and called for reexamination of myths and religious literature for evidence of such contact. In 1960, Sagan was joined by S. Fred Singer, a special adviser on space developments to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who speculated that Phobos might be an orbiting space station. The chief of applied mathematics at NASA, Raymond H. Wilson Jr., joined Shklovsky and Singer, saying that Phobos might be a colossal base orbiting Mars.

Although in later years Sagan backpedaled from his belief in early extraterrestrial contact, he wrote then that it seems possible that the Earth has been visited by various Galactic civilizations many times (possibly every 10,000 years) during geological time. It is not out of the question that artifacts of these visits still exist—although none have been found to date—or even that some kind of base is maintained within the solar system to provide continuity for successive expeditions. He added that such visits would require a base in proximity to Earth and suggested the back side of the moon.

Both then and now, conventional scientists have publicly scoffed at the notion of ETs on Earth. But author and publisher Dirk Vander Ploeg has since pointed out that the United States Naval Observatory verified Shklovsky’s calculations. Ploeg interpreted this verification as a concession that mysterious alien ships might be orbiting Mars for purposes unknown. Speculations over what the giant artificial spaceships might be have ranged from massive Martian space observatories, to half-completed generational interstellar spaceships, or even gargantuan planet-killing space bombs left over from an interplanetary war waged millions of years ago, he wrote.

IAPETUS

One of the moons of Saturn also has been suspected of containing something alien, if not being an artificial spacecraft

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