THE SPACE-GODS REVEALED A CLOSE LOOK AT THE THEORIES OF ERICH VON DANIKEN Ronald Story fin BARNES & NOBLE BOOKS A DIVISION OF HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS New York, Cambridge, Hagerstown, Philadelphia, San Francisco. London, Mexico City, So Paulo, SydneyGrateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following material: Excerpt on pages xv and xvi from “Pseudoscience” by P. H. Abelson from Science, vol. 184, p. 1233, June 21, 1974 issue. Copyright 1974 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Quotation on page vi from the June 11, 1973 Time magazine essay “The Uncommonness of Common Sense" by Stephan Kanfer. Reprinted by permission from Time. Copyright Time Inc. 1973. Figure 33 reprinted from Der Spiegel, Nr. 12/1973, Excerpts on pages 79-81 appeared in German in Der Spiegel, No. 12/1973. the text of this book is printed on 100% recycled paper A hardcover edition of this book is published by Harper & Row. Publishers. THE SPACE-GODS REVEALED. Copyright © 1976 by Ronald D. Story, Foreword copyright © 1976 by Carl Sagan. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 20022. Published simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Toronto, First BARNES & NOBLE BOOKS edition published 1977. Second BARNES & NOBLE BOOKS edition published 1980. ISBN: 0-06-464040-X 80 81 82 83 8410987654321There are three kinds of senses: physical, common and non-. The first is used (and abused) by everyone. The last has become the property of infants, absurdists and politicians. And the one in the middle? Strung between the poles of the super-rational and the occult, it suffers from disuse and neglect. The nation suffers along with it. —Stephan Kanfer in Time Magazine