Aliens In Ancient Art

Aliens In Ancient Art

16th Century fresco from a church shows an ancient astronaut rocketing across the sky. This was painted hundreds of years before the concept of aircraft came about.

Ancient Art

There are plenty of examples of aliens in ancient art that clearly depict the fact that UFOs and extraterrestrial beings were around in those days. ET's and flying saucers appear in cave paintings, tapestries, woodcuts and paintings.

Flying Saucer appears in early fresco painting

Roman Fresco

In March, 1998, archaeologists unearthed a fresco in the ruins surrounding Rome. The fresco was a detailed painting of ancient Rome, yet the view was from the air! Scholars are dumbfounded; they can't figure out how it was done.

Flemish Painting

A painting made in 1710 by the Flemish painter Gelder, depicts the baptism of Christ. In the background there is a clear image of a flying disk with beams of light coming from it and shining down on the infant. The painting has not been retouched or altered in any way. It is on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England.

 Virgin Mary Painting

This 15th century painting of the Virgin Mary shows a UFO in the background. A man is pointing up at it and his dog is barking at the object.

Fifteenth Century Painting

A painting done in the fifteenth century by Ghirlandaio shows the Virgin Mary in the foreground. In the background there is a man looking up at a disk. The disk has large sparks coming from it and the man is shielding his eyes from the disk. A dog at the man's side is barking up at the UFO. The painting is entitled Madonna and St. Giovannino, and can be found in the Loeser Collection, Palazzo Vecchio, in Florence, Italy. 34

A note about old paintings: If you were a artist living in the 13th through 18th centuries, you had to follow certain unwritten rules. If you wanted to depict something strange or different in a painting, you had to put that strange item in the background of the painting. In the foreground, you had to paint a religious scene or depict religious figures. Otherwise, you would be denounced as a devil worshiper and literally burned at the stake or beheaded. That's why all the UFOs in these ancient works of art are rendered small and in the background. 28

Australian Rock Art

Throughout the continent of Australia there are ancient drawings on the rocks which show beings with enlarged bald heads, large slanted eyes, and slits for mouths. They also depict orange globes floating in the skies. 29

African Cave Painting

An African cave painting depicts a being wearing headgear with antennae and flying through the air. The being is holding an animal in its arms. The painting is in Tassili-N-Ajer, Africa. The being has large, black slanted eyes and thin lips. 30

Ancient Woodcut

A woodcut done by Hans Glaser in 1566 depicts a battle among flying disks and flying cylinders that occurred over Nuremberg, Germany on April 4, 1561. 

Woodcut showing alien air battle in 1561

Russian Plate

A Russian archaeologist discovered an ancient plate in the mountains of Nepal. It is known as the Valenov Plate. The plate has been dated at about a thousand years old. The material the plate is made from is a combination of metal and ceramic, a process that even today is not possible. The plate very clearly shows a flying saucer and alien being. 

Medieval Tapestry

A tapestry from medieval times is in the Collegiale Notre Dame, Beaune, France. In the foreground is a depiction of the Virgin Mary; however, in the background is a clear rendition of a flying saucer!


Medieval tapestry with flying saucer in background

Betty and Barney Hill Alien Abduction (1961)

Betty and Barney Hill Alien Abduction (1961)

On the night of September 19th, 1961 a mixed-race couple, Betty and Barney Hill, from Portsmouth, New Hampshire witnessed something which shaped the modern extraterrestrial folklore. At around 10:30 p.m. the couple was on their way home from a vacation in Niagara Falls and Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Betty noticed a bright sphere of light in the skies while Barney navigated U.S Route 3. She initially thought the object was a falling star, but oddly it shifted upward, just like an airplane or a satellite. As it grew bigger and brighter and moved erratically, the couple stopped the car at a scenic picnic spot just to the south of Twin Mountain. Betty took binoculars and observed a unfamilliar craft flashing multicolored lights. In the meantime, Barney retrieved a handgun that he had hidden in the trunk of the car. Suddenly, the object swiftly descended in their direction and they realized that the object in question was not an accustomed phenomena. They quickly jumped into the vehicle and drove toward a narrow, isolated, hilly stretch of the road – Franconia Notch. The couple drove very slowly to observe the object, which approached even closer to their location. The craft was moving erratically and bounced back and forth in the night sky. Eventually, a mile south of Indian Head, the object swiftly descended toward their vehicle causing Barney to stop the car in the middle of the road. Just approximately 100 feet above the Hills’ 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air, the massive, noiseless object hovered and filled the entire field of the car’s windshield. With the handgun in his pocket, Barney
moved away from the car, closer to the craft.






Using the binoculars, he was able to see about 8 to 11 humanoid characters who were looking at him out of the craft’s windows. One of the figures allegedly even communicated a message to Barney telling him to “stay where you are and keep looking”. Barney frightened for his live, took the binoculars from his eyes and ran back to his car. He drove away at a high speed, asking his wife to look for the craft. Betty rolled down the window and looked up and observed solely darkness above them, although it was a clear, starry night. At that time, the vehicle began to vibrate and Hills heard a rhythmic group of buzzing or beeping sounds which bounced off the trunk of their car. They then heard the second series of identical sounds, realizing they were suddenly 35 miles farther down the road compared to a minute ago. They were now in Ashla.
The Hills eventually arrived home safely. They were exhausted and instantly went to sleep. When Betty woke up the following day, she telephoned her sister, Janet and told her about the unusual event they witnessed. Janet advised her to call Pease Air Force Base and report what they have experienced. After hearing Betty’s report, Major Paul W. Henderson, confirmed that The UFO was also discovered by their radar. Among many strange consequences subsequent to the alleged alien abduction (broken watches, the torn leather strap for the binoculars, strange pinkish powder on her dress damaging it irreparably, shiny, concentric circles on their car’s trunk, nightmares etc.) the couple decided to contact a Boston psychiatrist and neurologist, Dr. Benjamin Simon. Famous in his field, Dr. Simon suggested a regressive hypnosis treatment, which might ideally uncover the memories of the two missing hours of time. After 6 months of therapies, Simon expressed his opinion that Betty and Barney Hill had been abducted and brought onboard a mysterious craft. He played an important role in their abduction story and with the latter statement he elevated the credibility of their testimonials.


 


Some of the memories that were later unveiled include extraterrestrials comming to their car, carrying the Hills onboard the craft, performing various medical and scientific tests on them and before releasing them, Betty and Barney were hypnotized and directed to keep their abduction as a secret. Further, the couple described their captors as “… bald-headed alien beings, about five foot tall, with greyish skin, pear shaped heads and slanting cat-like eyes.” Needless to say, subsequent to the event a number of sceptics suggested the Hills’ hypnotherapy triggered confabulation – the blending of fantasy with memory – arguing that recovered memories are unreliable. However, a thing that critics were not able to explain is that Betty could draw a detailed sketch of the Zeta Reticuli star system which is in the Reticulum constellation, six years prior to astronomers even discovered it.
This event has turned into a milestone case in the UFO folklore and it is still researched and discussed today. The significance of the Hills’ abduction encounter cannot be over-emphasized. It altered the concept of ufology for good.More in the video below.

Roswell UFO incident

The Roswell UFO Incident, also known as Roswell, was a report of an object that crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, in June or July 1947, allegedly an extra-terrestrial spacecraft and its alien occupants. Since the late 1970s the incident has been the subject of intense controversy and several conspiracy theories as to the true nature of the object that crashed.; many UFO proponents maintain that an alien craft was found and its occupants were captured, and that the military then engaged in a cover-up. The incident has turned into a widely known pop culture phenomenon, making the name Roswell synonymous with UFOs. It is the most publicized and controversial of alleged UFO incidents.

On July 8, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) public information officer Walter Haut in Roswell, New Mexico, issued a press release stating that personnel from the field's 509th Bomb Group had recovered a crashed "flying disk" from a ranch near Roswell, sparking intense media interest. The next day, the press reported that Commanding General of the Eighth Air Force Roger M. Ramey stated that, in fact, a radar-tracking balloon had been recovered by the RAAF personnel, not a "flying disc. A subsequent press conference was called, featuring debris said to be from the crashed object, which seemed to confirm the weather balloon description.

The incident was forgotten and almost completely ignored, even by UFO researchers, for more than 30 years. Then, in 1978, physicist and ufologist Stanton T. Friedman interviewed Major Jesse Marcel who was involved with the original recovery of the debris in 1947. Marcel expressed his belief that the military had covered up the recovery of an alien spacecraft. His story spread through UFO circles, being featured in some UFO documentaries at the time.In February 1980, The National Enquirer ran its own interview with Marcel, garnering national and worldwide attention for the Roswell incident.

 

Additional witnesses added significant new details, including claims of a huge military operation dedicated to recovering alien craft and aliens themselves, at as many as 11 crash sites, and alleged witness intimidation. In 1989, former mortician Glenn Dennis put forth a detailed personal account, wherein he claimed that alien autopsies were carried out at the Roswell base. 

 

Since then, the story has diverged from its original account of a single debris field into stories of multiple crashes, loads of dead aliens, and charges that the technology recovered from it and a half dozen other crashes since (apparently UFOs crash with some regularity) is behind most of the great technological advances of the last fifty years. It also turned the formerly sleepy little enclave of Roswell into a Mecca for UFO buffs and created a cottage industry that will probably stand longer than the Roman Empire did.