The possibility of life beyond Earth has been an endless source of fascination for us. Countless films and books have been created to explore this idea while real-life organizations have dedicated themselves to finding proof of it.
World history is littered with instances that are said to lend credence to this possibility. From the discovery of unnatural and unexplainable compounds to strange radio signals being received, alien life seems extremely likely.
But what if proof of their existence can be found much closer? Rather than samples and images returned by our rovers in outer space, what if evidence of alien life could actually be found here, through all the interactions aliens had with us?
Our fascination with extra-terrestrials and finding proof of these non-human beings have long been a prominent feature of our lives.
The Alien Abduction of Antonio Boas
For instance, one of the earliest cases that involved aliens allegedly interacting with our race took place in 1957, when a Brazilian farmer named Antonio Boas claimed that he had been abducted while out ploughing fields. It all started when Antonio saw a mysterious “Red Star” in the night sky, which was getting closer and closer to him. When it was in close proximity, he recognised the “Red Star” as some kind of egg-shaped craft. When the craft started it’s landing, by extending it’s three legs, Antonio tried to escape with his tractor, but mysteriously, both the lights and the engine died.
He further said that several five-foot-tall humanoids with helmets had seized him before dragging him back inside their aircraft. According to his description, they had little blue eyes and communicated by making strange noises, rather then speaking.
Once he was on the ship, he was stripped naked and covered with some sort of gel-like substance. The beings took a blood sample from his chin and started conducting all sorts of experiments and tests on him.
The strange part of the story, is when another extraterrestrial being entered the room. He described the being as attractive female, who was naked and had long white hair and cat-like blue eyes. Somehow Antonio felt a strong attraction to the female being and ended up having sexual intercorse with her. When the act was over, the female alien rubbed her stomach and smiled, indicating that she probably wanted to get pregnant with his baby.
Then, Antonio was given back his clothes and transported off the ship. He experienced headache, nausea and weakness, yet he retold his story.
As strange as his story sounds, a Brazillian doctor apparently found evidence to support Antonio’s claims. He found a scar on Antonio’s chin and shockingly, discovered that he had been exposed to high levels of radiation, which is impossible in that area.
The story of Antonio Boas was quickly followed by other claims of people being abducted by aliens.
Barney and Betty Hill’s Alien Abduction
In 1961, Barney and Betty Hill, a couple from New Hampshire, made headlines when they reported being kidnapped by extra-terrestrials from the Zeta Reticuli star system.
The Hill Abduction – as their story has come to be known – made international headlines, with a slew of books and films alike being made about their experiences. In fact, the site of where they were allegedly first approached by a UFO was even given a historical marker by the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources.
It all started on a September night in 1961, when Betty and Barney Hill were driving down an empty country road in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. They hadn’t seen a car for miles, while mysteriously, a strange light in the sky began following them.
It started on a September night in 1961, when Betty and Barney Hill were driving down an empty country road in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. They hadn’t seen a car for miles when mysteriously, a strange light in the sky began following them.
When dawn broke, they finally reached home to Portsmouth. Instead of feeling relieved, they strangely felt somehow dirty. Betty’s dress was ripped, and Barney’s shoes were scuffed weirdly. More strangely, both of their watches weren’t working. There were 2 hours of the drive that was completely lost from both of their memories, and they had no idea what happened.
Not being able to shake off the strange feeling after this occurrence, they decided to visit a psychiatrist, who, with the help of hypnosis, could eventually reveal a startling story. When Betty unlocked these suppressed memories, she described gray beings with large eyes, who walked the couple into a metallic disk, as wide a house. Apparently, the beings examined the couple and then erased their memories.
Upon hearing the story, the US Air Force began an inquiry, part of the top-secret initiative – “Project Blue Book” that specialized in investigating UFO sightings all across the USA.
Betty and Barney Hill’s incident became the first-ever widely publicized alien abduction, and debates on it continue to this day.
However, alien abductions aren’t the only interactions that humans have claimed to have with creatures who aren’t from this world.
The Roswell UFO Incident
Perhaps the most well-known one occurred in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, when multiple eyewitnesses claimed to have seen a flying disk crashing down on a field.
While the Roswell Army Air Field wrote this off as an errant weather balloon, many were quick to allege that the object had actually been taken away by the military, who were also said to be carrying the bodies of aliens.
Since then, the town of Roswell has become practically synonymous with alien encounters and is now even home to the Roswell UFO Museum, which is a now pilgrimage site for all those who believe in the existence of extra-terrestrials.
It all started on 7 July 1947, around 80 miles north of the town of Roswell, New Mexico, when debris from a crash was spotted by the leaseholder on the Foster ranch – W. W. “Mac” Brazel.
According to people’s description, it was no doubt that what crashed there was a UFO. Neighbors of Brazel also examined the wreckage and said the materials they saw there were nothing they’ve ever seen on Earth. They described the material to be resembling aluminum foil which was very light. When you’d crush it, they explained, it would straighten back out without even wrinkling. The witnesses brought some of the materials to the local sheriff, who in turn brought it to the awareness of the commanding officer of the Roswell Army Air Field – Colonel William Blanchard. Eyewitnesses also claimed that bodies of extraterrestrial origins were taken from the site.
The next day, the Roswell Army Air Field released an official statement, writing that,
“The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc through the cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff’s office of Chaves County.”
The day after that, the Roswell Daily Record also wrote about the story and how it was confirmed by the RAAF and Colonel WIlliam Blanchard.
Without the whole story going out of hand, the U.S. Army intervened, and army officials immediately reversed the first recorded flying saucer crash and stated that the debris was actually from a weather balloon. The bodies of the beings taken from the site were explained as fallen parachute-test dummies.
For decades now, the quick change of the story by the U.S. Air Force is raising big suspicion in many UFO researchers who believe that whatever crashed near Roswell wasn’t a weather balloon, but a real flying saucer.
Alien Heritage Left on our Planet
Many architectural structures, whose origins are either unexplainable or remain shrouded in mystery, are also said to be the work of aliens, rather than of our human ancestors.
Included in these alleged alien-created sites are the Pyramids of Giza in the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. According to some believers, the fact that these were constructed using extremely heavy and precisely-hewn stones makes it possible that these awe-inspiring monuments were actually built by extra-terrestrial beings, rather than humans.
Think about it – a structure as large, as heavy, and as precise as The Great Pyramid of Pharaoh Khufu would be difficult to build, even with the technology of today, along with our modern cranes and bulldozers.
How much more difficult would it have been for the Ancient Egyptians, who would have practically had neither the construction equipment nor the technological know-how that we have access to right now. However, it’s highly likely that aliens from another world would have developed these abilities and machinery, allowing them to construct The Great Pyramid easily and perfectly.
It isn’t just the Pyramids of Giza, though. Our world is filled with strange and breathtaking structures that many believe weren’t created with human hands, from Stonehenge in the English countryside of Salisbury to the fleet of stone figures on Easter Island and the Sacsayhuamán fortress in the Peruvian Andes.
Because a considerable number of our monuments are said to have come from extra-terrestrial beings, many claim that this indicates a possibility that the human race is also a product of creatures that aren’t from this planet.
The Creation of Humanity
Now, the origin story of human beings has always been long contested. For instance, the scientific world believes that we evolved alongside apes and orangutans, with whom we share a common ancestor.
While the Theory of Evolution has already been accepted by the mainstream, it was rather controversial, when first presented by the English naturalist Charles Darwin in the nineteenth century.
Back then, people preferred to believe that a loving and compassionate God created the human race, molding and forming our bodies to perfection.
This origin story isn’t limited to the Judeo-Christian perspective; rather, cultures across the world have mythologies that tell of a higher being creating human beings out of nothing. For example, legends from the Philippines tell of a deity called “Bathala,” who uses clay to form doll-like creatures, which he then cooks in an oven before breathing life into them.
The vast differences in these two theories have always divided us. Some prefer that children are taught Darwin’s Theory of Evolution while others claim that the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden are much more plausible.
Regardless of the controversies that surround both origin stories, it can’t be denied that recent years have uncovered an increasing amount of evidence that show how evolution and the biblical perspective hold some truth to them. Only instead of God or some other divine deity, it was an alien race not of this Earth that created human beings.