Do you have any links to these David?
It's basically all summed up in the excellent book, "Alien Identities" by Richard Thompson (who has also written on "Forbidden Archeology" i.e. evidence that human civilisation stretches back far, far longer than accepted).
The book at Amazon in the UK:
Amazon USA has customer reviews you may find interesting:
Some quotes from reviews:
I have a master's degree from Yale in Religion (for what it's worth)and I spent lots of what I feel is unbiased, level-headed rational time investigating religious phenomena, origins of humankind, ancient history, religion and the nature of living things. I have no bias in any particular religious or scientific direction. I have tried to be open to all possibilities regarding extraterrestrial phenomena and possible connections with ancient known and unknown cultures.
This is a good book. It is good reading. No matter what your persuasion, anyone could read this with skepticism or gullibility and feel that information is presented in an unbiased and scientific manner. That is what I like about it -- not to mention the potentially profound revelations concerning Vadic material and other text. When I ordered this book, I had to wait for it. In the meantime I bought 4 others referenced as "related" and none held a candle to this one. THIS IS A GOOD BOOK. Go get it if you have any interest in understanding or contemplating possibilities regarding ancient cultures and human origins.
Thompson relates the UFO craft to the ancient Indian vimanas (flying machines), and provides much information I have not seen in other sources. For instance, he tells us most of these vimanas were not built by humans, but rather were built by the various entities of other realms, who can interact with humans. He also tells us these dwellers of other realms are related to us and can breed with us, explaining why so many ancient books (including the Bible) talk of intermarriage between man and gods. And also explaining the many stories of aliens stealing human sperm or impregnating human women.
Thompson's analysis of UFOs in relation to Vedic literature is well thought-out, but of course the author is seeing them within his own belief system, where they are a better fit than with mainstream Western Christian belief systems. He does give some examples from non-Oriental sources (apparition at Fatima, Irish faeries, etc.) to show the persistence of these entities in human experience. He explores some of the same territory covered by Jacques Vallee in his excellent books on the UFO phenomena.
This book gives insight into a different way to understand UFOs, that goes beyond "little green men" from outer space zipping around in space ships. It is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in understanding the mystery of UFOs.
It's a book I read some years back, and I don't have it. I must get it again myself.
V
Looks like a good read, might have to ask Santa for a copy. Or is Santa an extraterrestrial? He must have some powers to get around so quickly on a single night! Bet the US Military would love to reverse engineer his propulsion technology 🙂
Looks like a good read, might have to ask Santa for a copy. Or is Santa an extraterrestrial? He must have some powers to get around so quickly on a single night! Bet the US Military would love to reverse engineer his propulsion technology 🙂
LOL.
Anyway, IMHO Thompson's "Alien Identities" is one of the very top "must-read" books on UFOs. He's a scientifically-oriented researcher, there's very little speculation, and he's an expert on the Vedas. As I recall, he demonstrates simply by citing the Vedas that beings from various different non-human civilisations were in formal or informal contact with the peoples of ancient India. This is right there in the Vedas for anyone to read. Probably it's a little-known fact due to the usual "filtering" and "censoring" of what fits or doesn't fit peoples' mind-sets.
So it's OK to say the Vedas speak at length about religion and cosmology, it's OK to cite the Kama Sutra, it's OK to quote Sanscrit texts about yoga, etc, etc. But it's been little-known in the West that ancient India was also in touch with beings from a number of other worlds. To me it sounds exactly the same as today's UFO phenomena - apart from the fact that so far as I recall, in ancient times there was some formal contact. The peoples of ancient India knew these beings and conversed with them. Either that isn't happening today, or it's only happening behind closed doors.
I read the book quickly over a decade ago, and it changed my entire thinking on UFOs. Basically, it felt to me as though what had always been a mystery to me had been explained. IMHO "Alien Identities" is a book which does explain what UFOs are, and where they come from.
I really must get it again! My own copy to keep, this time.
V
I really must read Thompson's book again, Jas. It was over a decade ago and I read it at speed. I missed seeing these reviews from Amazon USA:
"...Alien Identities is absolutely seminal, a real ground breaker...A "must-read" addition to the field." -- Whitley Strieber, author of Communion and many other UFO books
"...stimulating, well organized, and an encyclopedic smorgasbord of UFO data and ancient Indian counterparts...stands to become a classic." -- Berthold Schwarz, M.D., psychiatrist and author of UFO Dynamics
"A Summa Ufologica of great importance...Thompon has written perhaps the most honest UFO book extant in the English language." -- Gnosis magazine
I think that makes it a gift from Santa, huh? let us know what you make of it. I must get it again too.
One more excerpt from a review:
This book is a great introduction for people new to the subject. The first half is a recount of documented Vedic history, which is part and parcel of their religion. The second half is a recount of documented recent history--accounts in the UFOlogy field. Which, like religious history, are equally tenuous and unprovable.
However, when you read the detail from the historical accounts, and then you read the detail of claims from the last half century, the parallel is more than just striking. It's pretty much obvious to anybody with half a brain and no major personal bias that the modern day accounts are clearly talking about some of the same kind of things as the ancient accounts.
V
Something of interest...
NASA will hold a news conference at 2PM EST on Thursday, December 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe. The news conference will be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium in Washington, D. C., and will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on NASA's website at: http://www.nasa.gov .