A while back, I re-typed several creative stories from a mini pamphlet (that was dated somewhere around 1990) into a section of another website of mine. I more or less gave a critique throughout the 11 chapters with editor interjections and editor comments amid the original content. The basis of the short stories is stemmed from the possibility of having alien visitors, extraterrestrial help, and so on, down through the ancient times of Earth and its inhabitants that dwelled therein.
In my opinion, when concerning chapters 1-11, it started off very interesting, became a little hooey in the middle chapters, and got back on track towards the end. The main part I didn't like was that it, especially midway through, tried too hard to fuse the Holy Bible into its alien theories - my least favorite chapters were #6 & #7 ('Alien Encounter' & 'Spreading the Word via UFO').
But all in all, it made for an entertaining, thought-provoking read and it also contained many quotes from old books along with people in the scientific community, so the references sort of balanced out. I'll provide the link in a moment...
To me, anyone who denies the possibility of life on other planets or the fact that we have had space travelers visit our tiny planet throughout the timetables of history and during the prehistoric era, must be either extremely arrogant or ignorant, and possibly both. I also don't deny the idea that many of the ancient writings, including the Holy Bible, religious texts and even cave paintings for that matter, may have been affected and/or influenced by visitors from another planet. In fact, I'm sure there have been alien visitors from multiple races and planets, and so on. It is an interesting subject, nonetheless...
" [Link is currently inactive. I recently deleted that website, but will eventually re-locate the content to various blogs, etc., then I will go back and re-link everything after that. Under the alien image below, I'll list the original table of contents of that section, and as I add them into this blog, the links will become active.]
This world was shapeless, unformed, primitive... There was just one land mass surrounded, as she'd seen from the plexiglass observation bubble of her orbiter, by a green, heaving sea. The land itself was in the process of creation. Great masses of molten rock were being thrust upwards from the ocean floor, erupting here and there in gigantic volcanoes. More than anything else, it was the molten lava from the volcanoes, cooling and hardening as it hit the sea, that was forming the solid land...land that over millions of years would split & divide and form vast continents.
The dominant life form then, if you could call it that, was an arthropod with a distinctive three-lobed, three-segmented form. "Like this world itself," she recorded into her ship's memory banks, "the arthropod is primitive and shows no signs of intelligence. Each of its body segments has a pair of jointed appendages. The forward appendages are modified into sense and feeding organs. Most of these creatures have a pair of compound eyes, though some are blind..."
She gripped the arms of the chair as another earth tremor rocked the tiny orbiter, and she felt the craft lift itself a few feet from the outcrop of rock that jutted precariously out over the ocean and hover briefly till the tremor died away.
The little shuttle then settled itself back onto the rock, the automatic pilot light in the cabin turning from red to green. "Autopilot on standby," the computer told the astronaut unnecessarily, and she frowned in slight annoyance as she resumed dictating into the ship's memory banks: "The arthropods are active predators, but some appear to be plankton feeders..." She sighed and brushed her flaming red hair away from emerald green eyes. The hand she used was long and slim, the middle of her seven fingers bearing the simple platinum and diamond band of the Space Academy.
"I know I am here as part of a plan to find worlds where advanced life forms can be seeded to grow and flourish, and I am happy to accept that responsibility. But..." [She looked out of the plexiglass at the distant volcanoes and the scurrying, mindless arthropods, bustling between the ocean and the land.] "...But I doubt that I have found such a world here."
Yet she was keenly aware of her duty, which was to take a closer look at the planet. And, despite the obvious dangers, that meant physically getting out of the orbiter......
She removed her silver-colored boots and put on a pair of simple sandals, because she felt these would give her a better foothold on the slippery rocks. At her command, the orbiter let down a short ladder and she climbed down onto the rock. She walked slowly, feeling her way in the murk, towards the base of the outcrop. Tall, and incredibly beautiful in her glittering, climate-controlled spacesuit, she quickly realized she had made a mistake in her choice of footwear. The barely cooled volcanic rock under her feet was searing hot.
The alien turned and walked quickly back towards the orbiter; she needed boots for this work! It was then, unnoticed by her, that her right foot stepped in a puddle of liquid mud - right on top of a voraciously feeding arthropod...
She had no way of knowing it then, but the accidental death of that lowly arthropod was the first domino that tipped over, starting a chain reaction that lasted millions of years and altered the history of the earth, eventually paving the way for mankind. Science tells us that time travelers who might one day visit the distant past could alter the course of world history simply by bending a single blade of grass or stepping on a scurrying ant.
---Editor Interjects: That last sentence is best used to demonstrate that minor events of the past can have major impacts in the future. Other than that, as much as I enjoy sci-fi flicks featuring time travel, I cannot accept any theories of travelling back into time. I can see, at best, being able to leap or travel into the future via wormhole or by other means, but never backwards. Plus, whether it was the crafty humanoids from planet Earth or some alien visitor, if we had the ability to go back into the past and change stuff, the cosmos would have already turned into one great universal cataclysmic disaster. ---
Who knows what tremendous forces the death of that single, primitive animal set in motion? There is also the intriguing possibility that the arthropod was not killed entirely by accident...but was the major motivating factor of a divine plan for this planet of ours.
The footprint the alien left in the mud and the trilobite she accidentally killed, happened 570,000,000 years ago. ...How do we know? Because her fossilized footprint and the dead arthropod are still with us! In June 1968, an amateur fossil hunter named William Meister uncovered the footprint near Delta, Utah. The print clearly shows the impression of a sandaled foot 10 inches long and a little more than 3 inches wide. The heel, as is normal in human footprints, is indented more than the toes.
The print was examined by a consulting geologists from Arizona, and by the Anthropology department of the University of Utah, and news of the amazing find was published in the Deseret News, a paper that covers that area. The fossilized footprint was discovered embedded in solid rock after Meister had split the rock with his hammer. The incredible fossil clearly shows that a sandaled foot had stepped on a trilobite. The rock is estimated by scientists to be almost 600 million years old; and trilobites, small marine arthropods, the remote ancestor of crabs and shrimps, have been extinct for almost 300 million years.
One scientist said at the time of the discovery: "Of course, whoever or whatever stepped on the trilobite couldn't be human as we understand the term. But the question remains: what DID leave that footprint?" Mankind, human beings, didn't evolve on Earth until a mere 2.4 million years ago, give or take a millennium or two, and indeed did not wear footwear of any kind until a few thousand years before the birth of Christ. The eerie fossilized footprint is spectacular evidence that the earth must have been visited by ancient astronauts in the unthinkable distant past.
The probability is that the descendants of that beautiful, flame-haired alien continued to visit this planet, engineering the landscape and genetically improving the dominant life form till man became an intelligent, thinking being with the potential to find his own way among the glittering reaches of the distant stars.
Editor's Comment:
This little creative story could very well be possible, in the sense that this planet was visited by aliens even during Earth's utmost early stages of planetary development. To me, however, with it being so hot, violent, and tempestuous, it would seem less likely that the intentions of the visits were initially for the sake of man, as the surrounding conditions were far, far away from our suitability. Either way, you can rest assured we have had many visitors......
Chapter 4 - Japanese Records - The Extraterrestrials
The Japanese, a methodical race, are a researcher's dream, thanks to their tradition of recording historical events in minute detail without embellishment.
In the late 1970s, some documents were found which reported that ancient Japan was visited by visitors from outside our solar system, nearly 1,000 years ago.
Norihiro Saito, an authority on ancient Japanese records and history - and an outspoken critic of UFO and ancient astronaut theories - was dismayed to discover that the documents clearly showed that aliens visited Japan around the year 1000, and again in the 17th century, and had made some determined, but unsuccessful attempts to communicate with Earthmen.
"I admit the discovery of these documents upset me because they contradict my own long-held theories; but I will defend their authenticity to any authority," said Saito.
Saito says that the first UFO reference he found was in a Hioseji Temple Chronicle, released in what would have been August of 1015 A.D. Part of it reads: "According to the commander of the left guard post, he observed two bright objects come at each other in the heavens and exchange fire at one another. He said both objects approached each other slowly at first, and upon reaching a distance of about 10 meters they stopped in mid-air and let out tiny star-like objects that went between the larger objects. Then the two larger objects flew away at tremendous speeds. After the episode, the sky clouded up with a thick smoke. It was reported that many farmers of the area also witnessed the phenomenon."
The temple document is clearly referring, say scientists, to a pair of mother ships which launched smaller probes carrying one or two aliens to carry out low level explorations of the planet. Many of the documents of this period contain references to "Utsuro Banjin." 'Utsuro' literally means "space vessel," or more correctly "star ship," and Banjin means "savage female."
It was the custom at this time for the Japanese to refer to all foreigners as Banji (barbarians). So, the "savage female" was clearly the "foreign barbarian from the star ship."
The first records of Japanese Close Encounters of the Third Kind were published during the Edo era which began around 1603 and lasted till well into the 19th century. Both records are from Volumes 1 and 2 of the Japan Zuihitsu Taisei, and appear with the original drawings of saucer-shaped space craft made by the contactees.
One of the sightings was made by the samurai Etchunokami Ogasawara, who reported seeing a "flying bowl" off the beach of Harayadori in the province of Hitachi in northern Japan. "I saw the object land in the water far offshore and ordered the local fishermen to go out in their boats and pull the object onto the beach," he wrote.
He also went on to say: "When [the fishermen] finally managed to bring the object ashore, they measured its length at over three ken (18 feet). The upper part was made of sliding glass windows with resinous frames and its bottom was braced with strips of metallic plates. When the fishermen looked into the transparent upper dome, they were shocked to see a strangely shaped women inside the craft."
Ogasawara said that the woman was strangely dressed and had dazzling blue beads sewn into her garments, which were a shimmering green color. The woman's hair was white in color and looked false, and the samurai said her face was "difficult to describe..."
"The woman arose from the craft carrying a black box about two shaku (two feet) long. The box was rectangular in shape and gave out a strange sound, like the ringing of crystal. The woman spoke but we could not understand her, then she pointed to the inside of the craft which was covered in strange writing. The fishermen became very frightened and ran to a nearby village for help, returning two hours later with the local mayor and a detachment of soldiers. ...But by the time the soldiers arrived at the beach, the woman and her craft were gone," Ogasawara said.
This incident happened in late winter, when snow lay thick on the ground, and news of the encounter spread slowly. ...But a few hours after the first sighting, an almost identical craft landed on a beach several hundred miles away, again near a highly populated area. This time the strange woman stood beside her craft, and when the local peasants came closer they were amazed to see her carrying a black, rectangular "humming box."
The woman held out the box towards the villagers and said something in a foreign tongue, and this was enough to send them fleeing back to their homes while in a state of absolute terror. According to the records, neither the woman, her craft or the mysterious humming box was ever seen again, and no more UFO sightings appear in the writings.
Japan, which spent centuries isolated from the rest of the world, appears to have been one of the few places where space aliens have made a genuine attempt to communicate with Earthmen; but that country's traditional fear and distrust of "hairy barbarians" - from the stars or anywhere else - unfortunately made this communication impossible.
Closer to our own time, Commodore Perry of the United States Navy had a similar difficult time trying to break through Japan's tradition of isolation. It's a sobering thought that just 400 years ago mankind here on Earth may have lost a golden opportunity to communicate with intelligent creatures from beyond the stars. We must never pass up such an opportunity again......
Editor's Comment:
I find this whole scenario to be very plausible. These Japanese records reflect something that is all so very common with mankind, in which describes even today's Earth People's most readily acted reaction to anything that is considered to be outside the normality of mundane thoughts or situations. The majority of Earth's dwellers have a limited perception of actuality and reality, so being faced with extraterrestrials, whether it be today or in the past, must beckon for bedazzlement in all senses of the term; but sadly, fear and/or violence would most likely be the most common reactions for the majority of mankind. This, however, for good or bad, dampens our advancement that could possibly lead to a greater universal awareness. Hmm, the question is: "Are you ready for such an encounter?"
---End of Post "Alien Visitors"
