By James Donahue

Ever since Orson Wells frightened the American public with his famous radio presentation of "War of the Worlds" in the late 1930s, people have become familiar with the idea that we may not be alone.

Since then, the controversial 1947 Roswell stories, thousands of UFO sightings, crop circles, stories of personal abductions by humanoid type creatures in flying ships, cattle mutilations and most recently, a report of another UFO crash along the Orinoco River at Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela, have convinced most people around the world that aliens not only exist, but they are visiting Earth.

Ancient rock carvings and surviving art work from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries depicting images of circular ships in the sky as well as figures of humanoids in space suits suggest that alien visitations have either been going on or rooted in subconscious thought for a very long time.

Skeptics, however, question why, if an alien race of intelligent beings are traveling hundreds of thousands of light years from distant stars to visit this planet so regularly, we don't have contact, or at least clear signs on our planet that they have left their footprints.

We suggest that they have been here, and they have clearly left their mark. The most significant proof of this might be found in our own DNA. Could the Genesis story, and Greek mythology telling how “gods” from the heavens visited Earth and parented offspring through sexual contact with women contain a grain of truth? Could it be that alien visitors manipulated the genes of earth primates and thus become our ancestors?

Something extraordinary appears to have happened in the ancient past that left great stone monuments like the great pyramids found all over the world, the massive art images of men, animals and even insects that can only be observed from the air, and odd anomalies like steel nails, cut jewelry and other obvious man-made objects found in coal and other rock deep in the ground.

How can we explain the strange images of Big Foot, Nessie the Loc Ness monster, the chupacabra, mothman, giant flying creatures, unicorns and big cats that appear and then disappear? None of these creatures are known to really exist, but all have been observed, and some of them even photographed. Are they projected holographic images sent here for our amusement or have we created them from our own minds?

While human DNA, visual images and mythology can be presented in theory, any good lawyer might demand solid evidence. As suggested above, the world is filled with artifacts that seem to prove alien intervention.

The great stone monuments like the great pyramids of not only Egypt but the Middle East, China, South and Central America were either built by, or the result of alien contact with ancient civilizations.

There are places all over the world where tektites, or glassy formations in sand, are indications of powerful radioactive events that occurred in the ancient past. Throughout Central and Northeastern Scotland can be found ancient rock fortresses where the rock walls have been made so hot that the rocks melted into vitrified formations. Only advanced weapons like the ones we now have, or are trying to design, can generate that kind of heat.

There are other unexplained oddities in the world, like the amazing crystal skulls, the giant round balls of solid rock found in Costa Rica, the so-called Antikythera Mechanism, a twisted bronze artifact filled with cogwheels and other devices indicating that it may have been an ancient calculator.

Indeed, we have been down this road before. And it is possible that aliens have been with us all the time.

The lights and shapes of unexplained objects are now frequently seen in our skies as we rapidly approach what many are calling the apocalypse. This word does not imply the end of the world, as many people would like to believe. Rather it means “the revealing,” which suggests that there is something as yet unrevealed, or unknown about the world and the universe in which we live.

If you are like us, you can hardly wait to find out what this great mystery is all about.