Yes

by T. Scott Randolph

Created on: April 01, 2009   Last Updated: November 16, 2009

Religion has always played a major role in human life. Whether it is a family going to church on a Sunday in the present time, or the village shaman preforming rites to make the wild game return in a paleolithic village people have always looked to a higher power for help. The higher power is the part that interests me.

No matter what the time period, either modern times or ancient Mesopotamia, the religious figure (or Gods) always came from above. It seems like a strange coincidence that no matter what the time period, no matter what the culture, the Gods always came from the sky. There have been several pieces of evidence that could point to extraterrestrials visiting this planet throughout the ages. I don't just mean in the last 50 years or so (although there is no lack of evidence in the last half century, but we will discuss that later), if we look at ancient history there is still evidence to that effect. Like any kind of record that is that old, all we can do is speculate as to the true meaning. You will have people that will swear to their own side of the argument.

Let's look at our nature. If we just look at the last 1000 years or so, humans have continually expanded their domain. It seems that we have a need to move on to new lands. People have moved around and colonised the entire planet. That seems to be a uniquely human characteristic. We feel the need to leave our mark on new lands. How did we get this desire or need?

Is it that much of a stretch to think that maybe the first humans that were on this planet were colonists from another world? A small group of settlers came to this planet to set up camp. So far that is not that odd. The Pilgrims did the same thing in the New World. Due to the great distances that you must cover in space, especially to find a planet that would have an atmosphere and temperature range that the "beings" could still tolerate, the new settlers will be on their own for long periods of time. Centuries more than likely, probably even longer.

By the time that the original race of beings that sent the colonists return to the world that they have settled, generations have passed. The original beings have long been dead. The stories that they tell could be taken as the ravings of old men. More than just ravings they have probably turned into legends and myths.

When the original beings due return, they find that the descendants of the people they left have "gone native". They don't even resemble the mother race anymore. They have adapted to the environments or the planet Earth. Since they are quite literally a different race at this point, the extraterrestrials decide to observe what will happen.

Information that could be used as proof, consider this, like I stated earlier, every time humans have encounters with deities, they come from the sky. This is where an extraterrestrial would come from. Anytime there is contact it is an isolated incident. If you were going into a possibly hostile situation, would you go straight to the center of it where all the people are? More than likely you would scout the outer fringes to get a feel for what is going on.

Another bit of proof is in technology. This is especially true in the last 50 to 60 years. If you map the advances in human technology, you won't find that it is a steady climb. It isn't even close to that. You would expect there to be bumps here and there, when a world wide plague decimates population or similar situations. That isn't the way our advancements have played out. There are long periods where humans are almost stagnant, then out of nowhere a blossom of advancement happens. In the last century we have gone from horseback being the major form of transportation to having superhighways with vehicles that can do 150 mph with no problem. You can fly nonstop around the entire world. Men have walked on the moon and everyone on the planet is connected with the Internet or cell phones. We are currently looking at a manned mission to another planet. All this advancement in just 100 years.

Did our original race check back on the colonists that they left here thousands and thousands of years ago? Did they just happen to give the poor backward descendants of the colonists a push with some small bits of technology? These seem like rational questions. Even today with all we know, we pray to Gods in the sky for help.

It is definitely possible that human life originated somewhere other than the planet Earth. Maybe this isn't OUR planet at all. Maybe we are interlopers and just visiting, of course our visit has lasted at least 25,000 years so far.

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