Rose Inserra - Aliens and the Unexplained: Bizarre, Strange and Mysterious Phenomena of Our Galaxy

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First published in 2016
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
Inserra, Rose, 1958- author.

Aliens and the unexplained : bizarre, strange and mysterious

phenomena of our galaxy / Rose Inserra.

9781925017489 (hardback)

Supernatural series ; Book Two.
Unidentified flying objects--Anecdotes.

Extraterrestrial beings--Anecdotes.

Human-alien encounters--Anecdotes.

Curiosities and wonders.

001.942

Edited by Katie Evans
Cover and internal design by Jessica Le, Rockpool Publishing
Typesetting by Graeme Jones

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Contents

Ancient Aliens Is God an extra-terrestrial?

Sightings, disclosures, conspiracy and cover-ups

Contact, encounters and abductions

Bizarre, strange and mysterious phenomena

Introduction

Are we alone on this vast planetary playground? Or are there other players out there?

I ts impossible for us to imagine the immensity of our galaxy, the Milky Way, which measures up to 120,000 light years across space and contains about 400 billion stars. Its said that about half of these stars include at least one planet within their orbit. Thousands of these planets must surely host ideal conditions to support life civilisations other than our own.

But we are still learning about our own galaxy. Recent discoveries in astronomy and quantum physics have made us sit up and pay attention. In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA has confirmed evidence that liquid water flows intermittently on Mars. This has been a surprise to us, since we have always thought of Mars as arid and not being able to support life.

Whats more, a new, ninth planet, has been discovered! A celestial body nearly the size of Neptune lurks beyond Pluto. It is yet to be seen by the human eye, as it orbits the sun once in every 15,000 years.

By far whats excited the scientific community the most is the fact that scientists have finally witnessed the warping of space-time that is generated by the collision of two black holes more than a billion light years from Earth. This is known as Einsteins gravitational waves. As a result of this discovery, we will get a better understanding of how life on Earth first began and even the beginnings of the universe itself.

How far weve come! But there is the question of whether we can ever find out if we are alone. Is there intelligent alien life in the galaxy and beyond, and, if so, what are the chances that aliens have visited Earth? It seems our ancestors witnessed visits from the gods, who came down in chariots of fire, and angels.

How do we reconcile the inexplicable rise and fall of major civilisations and their superior knowledge? Was it alien-guided?

Forensic investigations have also made huge progress and not a minute too soon. With new archaeological sites being discovered and strange skulls with non-identifiable human DNA strands, its going to be a wild ride as we track down our ancestry with more determination than ever before.

When you think of aliens, most people think of Roswell and the flying saucer crash. Many UFOlogists claim that Area 51, a US Air Force facility in Nevada, holds the remains of the alleged crash in 1947, including alien bodies, and has been covered up by the US government.

Recently, in an interview reported in January 2016, Hillary Clinton promised to disclose everything about the Roswell and UFO incident if she gets to the White House.

Many UFO sightings have been splashed across newspapers and witnessed by crowds in major cities. But somehow the official response from government agencies has been to discredit the people, play it down and make it go away. Only now, with social media and superior video cams and binoculars, apps and other high-tech support, it has never been easier to film, upload and share those strange lights in the sky.

Whether one is a believer in UFOs or not, there simply cannot be so many weather balloons, planes or satellites in the sky as are being reported.

Back to the age-old question Are we alone?

It seems we have never been closer to finding out.

Part One

Our Planet,
Our Galaxy

If we want to set out on the arduous search for the truth, we must all summon up the courage to leave the lines along which we have thought until now and as the first step begin to doubt everything that we previously accepted as correct and true. Can we still afford to close our eyes and stop up our ears because new ideas are supposed to be heretical and absurd?

Erich von Dniken, Chariots of The Gods

I f ancient aliens did indeed visit Earth in prehistoric times they would have been regarded as gods just as we would be considered god-like creatures if we were to go back in time with our modern aircraft. Our aeroplanes in their eyes would probably look like giant metal birds, spitting fire and making the earth shake. What power we would have. We couldnt possibly be human we would have to be gods. Gods from the heavens. If this scenario was playing in a remote tribe in the highlands of New Guinea or the Amazon today, this may still be the reaction. Try to explain lasers and space suits, rovers and drones, let alone the spacecraft itself.

Theorists of ancient alien life believe that something like this did happen to our ancestors, and they passed down their observations the best way they knew how: stories and pictures.

Petroglyphs found on cave and mountain walls tell us the same visual story: strange beings or gods had visited primitive man.

The Great Martian God

In the Sahara desert, a strange figure painted on the wall of a cave, identified as the Great Martian God, is located in the Tassili mountains in North Africa. It is dated around 6000 BCE.

The Australian Aboriginal rock art of the Wandjinas

This is one of the most intriguing examples of Aboriginal cave art dating back 60,000 years. It is found in the Kimberley region, Australia. It features the representation of the legend of the Wandjinas, the supreme spirit beings and creators of land and sea and Earths inhabitants. They were known as sky beings or spirits from the clouds, who came down from the Milky Way. The most striking features are the white faces, the absence of a mouth, large black eyes, and a head surrounded by a halo or some type of helmet. Did extra-terrestrial beings come into direct contact with a remote primitive tribe tens of thousands of years ago? What else could these beings be?