A major debate within MUFON and the
larger UFO community rages over the origin of the objects and craft
we study. When public awareness of the topic first emerged in the
early fifties the obvious conclusion was that they were craft from
another planet. Skeptics leaped at this pointing out that there
could be no life elsewhere in our solar system and that travel beyond
it was impossible according to Einstein's Theory of Relativity. The
first argument is now known to be almost certainly wrong though as
yet there is no public announcement of a discovery of life on Mars or
Europa, the second has been weakened by a new generation of
physicists who have put forth a number of theories that suggest ways
to cross the universe with out contradicting Einstein.
While the extraterrestrial hypothesis
remains strong, ufologists have suggested other possibilities. Now
that string theory suggests the possibility of parallel universes,
inter dimensional travel is a popular contender as is time travel.
Personally I agree with most physicists that time travel is
impossible. I'm greatly disappointed in this. I would like to
travel to the future. The inter-dimensional and extraterrestrial
hypothesis however look like they still have a lot going for them.
But an article in this months issue of
The MUFON Journal (November No. 535) has gotten me wondering about a
thought that has been nagging me for a long time. What if “They”
have always been here?
Richard Hoffman, Alabama State
Director (MUFON), writes about a meeting he had with Dr. Leon
Kazarian, who stated that he was studying the long term effects of
space travel on the human body at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
Hoffman recalls Kazarian stating that “..his team had projected out
a future scenario where if two consecutive generations were to live
in space, we (humans) would give birth to children who resemble the
current beings associated with UFOs.” Hoffman later wonders if this
suggests the time travel hypothesis. But suppose time travel really
is impossible.
A number of ruins and other traces
have suggested that civilization may have existed on earth at a time
far earlier than the currently accepted 3000 years or so. Earlier
than that and all traces could be erased by geologic action. Suppose
then that a technologically advanced human civilization existed on
Earth say 80,000 years ago. This civilization developed some form of
space travel along with the other technologies that would be
contemporary with that. Like our present civilization, some of the
people would live in technologically advanced comfort while others
would remain primitive with other levels of technology and
superstition in between. Then there is a global catastrophe. A
significant portion of the advanced peoples leave the Earth and
survive. The greater portion of those left behind die leaving only a
few thousand to restart the human race on Earth. After a few
generations the space dwellers would, if Kazarian's statement is
correct, develop smaller bodies, larger heads, and almond shaped
eyes, as a result of living in weightlessness or reduced gravity, and
exposure to cosmic radiation. They would have traveled in space for
many generations, perhaps seeking a home at another star, perhaps
taking up residence in our Solar neighborhood in artificial habitats.
Eventually some of the space dwellers would return to see if Mother
Earth might be habitable. By then they would look quite alien.
A catastrophic reduction in the human
population may have occurred. Research into the human genome
suggests that human population was suddenly reduced to about 15'000
individuals, 70,000 years ago. This is called The Toba
catastrophe theory because it happened when the Toba super
volcano in Indonesia erupted causing major environmental change.
Wikapedia states on the subject, “The theory is based on
geological evidences of sudden climate change and on coalescence
evidences of some genes (including mitochondrial DNA, Y-chromosome
and some nuclear genes) and the relatively low level of genetic
variation with humans.”
A single suggestion in a recalled
conversation and a few theories isn't much to hang a hypothesis on
but it does suggest an explanation for UFO visitors that does not
require the great energies to cross interstellar distances or travel
between dimensions. The space-born survivors would have the
motivation to visit Earth and the means to since great distances do
not have to be involved. I am a little uncomfortable that this
dovetails with the Ancient Astronaut theorist with whom I largely
disagree but advancing knowledge means looking at things in new ways.
If this hypothesis turns out to be the
case how do we greet them when real contact is finally made? Hi
cousin, Been awhile?
