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When people allow their minds to wander without the reigns of reason, UFO stories can crop up and proliferate like crazy - especially if investigators take them seriously. While the weirdest UFO information ever gathered would require a mountain of additional evidence to be professionally accepted, it can for now be used to provide anecdotal information about past and present-day cultures.

UFOs in Ancient History

Some of the weirdest tales in documented history took place long before the popular flying saucer trend of the last sixty or seventy years. Even before humans did much documenting, their weird evidence suggested alien contact: an Italian cave painting, dated 10,000 BCE, depicts two apparently floating humanoid figures. The figures don what look like domed helmets, and appear to be holding strange implements. Could UFOs have visited earth long before humans even learned to write?

What look like UFOs have appeared in art rather regularly, in fact. From religious paintings of Jesus to old English tapestries, to Egyptian, Roman and Mayan art, discs, apparent astronauts, and lasers show up again and again. Some say Ezekiel of the Bible witnessed UFOs, as he claimed to see a great vehicle in the sky with chimera-like occupants - although a drug trip is a much more likely explanation for this one.

Egyptian hieroglyphs show images resembling helicopters, flying saucers, battleships and submarines. Many people claimed to have witnessed spinning, glowing wheels in the sky one night in Germany, in 1647. In England, awed citizens have reported sightings of strange glowing orbs, some of which turned out to be ball lighting. Is all of this evidence hoaxed - or just most of it?

Sex and the ET-City

It all gets weirder. Not only are aliens fetishised, as is exemplified by the she-alien blow-up dolls available for purchase online (no kidding) - some alien encounterers claim to have had, or to even be regularly having, out-of-this-world sex.

In 1956, an American named Howard Menger came clean with the press: he had been involved in semi-regular, voluntary exploits with two voluptuous space women for some time. His first close encounter was also his first sexual experience, taking place when he was ten. The first woman to attract him was of a Venusian species determined to rescue humankind from itself; later, Howard became involved with her sister.

In 1957, a Brazilian man named Antonio Villas-Boas reported that he had been kidnapped from his tractor and taken aboard an alien

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