Extraterrestrial
The Reptilians
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Did humans evolve from reptiles?
As long as humanity has kept records of its existence, legends of a serpent
race have persisted. These myths tell of a mysterious race of superhuman
reptilian beings who descended from the heavens to participate in creating
humankind and to teach the sciences, impart forbidden knowledge, impose social
order, breed with us, and watch over our development.
The serpentlike beings were not alone, but were part of a retinue of super
beings thought to be gods by the ancients. Yet, in cultures as widespread and
diverse as those of Sumeria, Babylonia, India, China, Japan, Mexico, and
Central America, reptilian gods have been feared and worshipped. To
this day the dragon or serpent signifies divine heritage and royalty in many
Asian countries, while in the West, the serpent represents wisdom and
knowledge. The symbol of two serpents coiled around a staff (originally
signifying the tree of knowledge of ancient myth), known as the caduceus, is
today used by the American Medical Association as its logo.
Interestingly, stories of reptilian beings who exercise mind control over human
captives while performing medical procedures on them have been emerging from
the research of some of the best known UFO investigators, such as Budd Hopkins,
John Carpenter, Linda Moulton Howe, Yvonne Smith,
and others. These stories, told by average, mentally competent
Americans, have emerged independently of one another in different parts of the
country, but have not yet received much public attention. They tell of human
encounters with creatures that have distinctly reptilian features: webbed,
clawlike hands, large golden eyes with vertically slit pupils, and scaly,
greenish-brown skin. Such stories have circulated around the UFO research
community for years, but few experts have had any idea of how to interpret the
tales.
So unbelievable and so frightful are they that in the past, many researchers
merely filed them away in their minds for future reference rather than risk
looking foolish or being ridiculed. Little by little, at UFO conferences around
the country, abductees and researchers learned of each other's similar
experiences with reptilian creatures, and gradually
the stories become public.
Today, researchers agree that there is a variety of entities involved in the
alien abduction scenario, including the familiar greys; tall, human-looking
blondes; the reptilians; and hybrids (half-human and half-alien). In addition,
there seem to be variations of each of these that imply crossbreeding and
considerable diversity. It is not clearly understood how each type interacts
with the others, although they are often reported
seen together.
MUFON's FINDINGS
John Carpenter has kept close track of the abduction phenomenon. He is the
director of abduction research for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), one of the
largest and most credible organizations dedicated to the scientific study of
UFOs and abductions. Carpenter holds a master's degree in social work and is a
highly qualified hypnotherapist who works as a psychiatric social worker in
Springfield, Missouri. Since the late 1980s, he has worked with more than 100
abductees and compiled information on hundreds of others. In addition, he is in
contact with other researchers in the field. He has been involved in 10 cases
where experiencers have described reptilian entities and he is aware of
researchers in other parts of the country
with similar cases. Abductees often have distinct clawlike cuts and bruises on
their bodies after their apparent abductions.
Carpenter summarized what he knows of these beings in his regular column,
"Abduction Notes," MUFON UFO Journal, April 1993:"Typically, these reptilian
creatures are reported to be about six to seven feet tall, upright, with
lizardlike scales, greenish to brownish in color with clawlike, four-fingered
webbed hands....Their faces are said to be a cross between a human and a snake,
with a central ridge coming down from the top of the head to the snout. Adding
to their serpentlike appearance are their
eyes which have vertical slits in their pupils and golden irises." Perhaps the
most frightening and most controversial part of these stories are claims that
the creatures occasionally are reported to have sex with abductees.
Supporting Carpenter's findings is a MUFON study that had financial assistance
from the Fund for UFO Research. This massive study, known as the "Abduction
Transcription Project," is an attempt to collect and correlate information on
hundreds of abduction cases through the use of a sophisticated computer
database. In July 1995 at the organization's symposium in Seattle, Washington,
Dan Wright summed up the findings based on 142 separate cases and 560
transcripts. Wright said, "A fair reading of those sessions indicates strongly
that multiple groups of entities have been routinely intruding into the lives
of Americans--children as well as adults ....When a so-called reptilian is
repeatedly described as having the same scaly skin tone, claws for fingers, and
an extreme interest in sexuality,
one must pay attention."
The study's preliminary results indicate that reptilian types have been
reported in a relatively small percentage (less than 20 per cent) of the cases
being studied.
NOT OF THIS GALAXY
Whether the beings reported by abductees are Greys, blondes, reptilians, or any
other variety, the scenario of the abduction phenomenon is fairly consistent
among the thousands of cases studied thus far. In addition to having numerous
medical procedures performed on them, abductees also report receiving
information in the form of symbols or images, the meaning of
which is often unclear, but much of it has to do with future Earth disasters.
The beings sometimes refer to themselves as the "Watchers," "custodians," or
"guardians of mankind" and all living things on Earth, and they say they are
preparing for the time in the near future when global changes will dramatically
affect life on our planet. In some cases they have indicated
that they come from various parts of the universe, including other galaxies, or
from "a very distant place."
In what is certainly the most disturbing aspect of the procedures reported,
both men and women abductees, but most often women, report being shown rooms
filled with hundreds of glass tubes where hybrid fetuses are being grown, much
like a hydroponic garden. In many cases, experiencers are shown nurseries of
hybrid infants or rooms full of hybrid children of
varying ages. Often the beings bring an infant or a child to the women to be
held and loved, and they are told that it is their child.
These events were reported by alien abductee Betty Andreasson Luca, whose case
has been the subject of investigation for more than 20 years, and who has been
the subject of four books by UFO investigator Ray Fowler. In his book *The
Watchers*, Fowler reports on a hypnosis session in which Betty remembered being
told by the beings who had taken her aboard their ship that
"Man will become sterile" because of the polluted environment.
Further, she is told that there are "good and bad Watchers," which Betty refers
to as "angels." She is warned that there are some who are "against man, that
will hurt man and destroy man."
DEAD SEA SCROLLS EVIDENCE
References to Watchers, good and bad angels, and hybrid babies can be found in
many ancient texts including the Old Testament, which borrowed much from older
documents, including the books of Enoch. The prophet Enoch is mentioned in
Genesis as the son of Cain and the father of Methuselah, and he
is believed to be one of the antediluvian (pre-flood) patriarchs who, along
with Noah, "walked with God" (Genesis 5:24; 6:9). Books written by anonymous
writers but credited to Enoch were given great credence by early Jewish
scholars and thus influenced the writers of the Old Testament. Parts of the
books of Enoch written in Aramaic were found among the scraps of parchment in
the caves of Qumran in 1947, having been placed there nearly 2,000 years ago by
a Jewish sect known as the Essenes. These, of course, are the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Another version exists in Ethiopian.
According to the Aramaic texts, "Enoch was the first among the children of men
born of the Earth who had learned writing, science, and wisdom" from the
angels. In one writing, the *Book of the Watchers*, we learn that the Watchers
are angels and that there are good and bad Watchers. We are told that the
Watchers are angels of the Lord, "come down to Earth to instruct
the children of men and to bring about justice and equity on Earth." But in the
case of the wicked or bad angels, the science they teach turns to wicked ends
because of their sins.
Their sin is that they permit their sexual appetite to dominate them: "When the
evil Watchers descended and beheld the daughters of man, they began to corrupt
themselves with them. When the sons of God saw the daughters of man, they could
not restrain their inclination."
These Watchers fall from grace with God when Enoch travels to heaven in
physical form to testify against them. He tells God that the Watchers "had
begun to go unto the daughters of men, so that they became impure." As
punishment for the sins of the evil Watchers against humankind, God destroys
humanity, including the hybrid race of beings who are the offspring of
humans and Watchers, by causing a great flood. The evil Watchers are put into a
fiery pit and imprisoned by the four chiefs of the good Watchers, the
archangels Michael, Sariel, Rafael, and Gabriel.
Another interesting reference to the Watchers was found in the same cave as the
books of Enoch, but was not known until 1992, when two Biblical scholars,
Robert Eisenman and Michael Wise, published their book *The Dead Sea Scrolls
Uncovered.*
Among the 50 documents released for the first time in this book is a reference
to the Watchers that is unique, for it provides one of the few physical
descriptions of them. The text, called "The Testament of Amram," describes the
experience of a person named Amram in which "an angel and a demon" were
wrestling over his soul: "[I saw Watchers] in my vision, the
dream-vision. Two [men] were fighting over me. I asked them, 'who are you, that
you are thus empowered over me?" They answered me, 'We [have been em]powered
and rule over all mankind.' They said to me, 'Which of us do yo[u] choose to
rule [you]?' I raised my eyes and looked. [One] of them was terrifying in his
appearance, [like a s]erpent, [his] cl[oak] many colored yet very dark...[And I
looked again], and ... in his appearance, his visage like a viper ... [I
replied to him,] 'This [watcher,] who is he?' He answered me, 'This Wa[tcher,]
... [and his three names are Belial
and Prince of Darkness] and King of Evil.'"
What makes this testament even more intriguing is the fact that this
little-known character named Amram is quite an important personage. Amram, it
turns out, was the father of one of the most famous contactees in history, the
man who delivered the Jews from slavery in Egypt. This person is, of course,
none other than Moses!
EXTRATERRESTRIAL REPTILE GODS
If that were the only reference to reptilian beings in ancient texts it could
easily be dismissed, but the stories of such creatures date back to the
earliest human writings, those of Sumer (meaning "land of the guardians"),
Babylon (meaning "gate of the gods"), and other civilizations of ancient
Mesopotamia. Among the thousands of clay tablets that have been recovered and
translated dating from the earliest recorded history, are documents that record
events dating back 240,000 years. One of these, the "Sumerian King" list, tells
the story of the god, An, chief god of an extraterrestrial race called the
Annunaki, and his sons, Enki and Enlil. It is clear from the texts and the
illustrations left by the Sumerians that at least some of these "gods,"
including Enki (also known as EA), were reptilian in appearance. It is Enki who
gave the first people the fruit of
the tree of knowledge and who later saved humanity by warning a
Noahlike figure of the great flood.
These stories are so similar to the Old Testament that one can only conclude
that the Old Testament authors borrowed heavily from them. In the Sumerian
tale, Enki is given the task of creating a worker force to help the Annunaki
till the soil and mine the ore for which they came to earth. This he does
through considerable trial and error, in the process creating strange
creatures. The legend implies that Enki possessed a highly advanced technology
that included the capability of genetically altering the indigenous species.
Using a mysterious process to create a claylike substance, he was able to "bind
upon it the image of the gods," indicating that Enki used Annunaki genes to
create a hybrid species. It also implies that some of the early humans may have
had a reptilian appearance.
This statue [not shown] of a biologically credible creature, created by Dr.
Dale Russell of the Canadian National Museum of Natural Sciences, shows what
evolution might have produced if dinosaurs had survived. Its appearance is
similar to the beings reported by abductees. This photo [not shown] was taken
from the book *The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence*, by Edward
Ashpole, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
OUR REPTILIAN ANCESTORS
As ridiculous and repugnant as this sounds, it is commonly accepted by modern
science that humankind's early ancestors may have been reptiles. According to
the Darwinian explanation of the origins of the human species, mammals evolved
from reptiles and gained dominion over the Earth only after a great disaster of
debatable nature destroyed the dinosaurs. It is
theorized that only then were mammals able to proliferate and
ultimately evolve into intelligent beings. It is rather remarkable that the
ancient Sumerian story of creation should parallel so closely the Darwinian
view. In both cases humans are said to be related to a superior reptilian race
and, in both cases, a great cataclysm eradicates the earlier species. (In the
Bible, it was the hybrid race of giants known as the Nephilim that God wished
to destroy.) Finally, in both stories, the survivors of the disaster start
anew, eventually evolving into humans.
In his book *The Dragons of Eden*, the esteemed astronomer Dr. Carl Sagan
speculates on the reptilian origins of humans and on the mysterious leap in
brain evolution that can be found in the fossil record. He notes that if people
had evolved naturally from reptiles, as Darwinists claim, it should have taken
200 million years for mammals to first evolve, and then
another five to 10 million years for humans to evolve. But he notes with
extreme puzzlement that the fossil record simply does not bear out this
conclusion. In fact, the evolvement of mammals, and particularly humans, was
accomplished very quickly, "in a major burst of brain evolution." The evidence
for this is clear in the fact that stone tools do not appear gradually, but
rather "they appear in enormous abundance all at once." In frustration Sagan
concludes that "there is no way to explain this unless
*Australopithecines* had educational institutions," to teach
toolmaking. Of course there is another explanation, but not one any mainstream
scientist would dare consider. That alternative is to admit that God or godlike
beings had a hand in accelerating the evolutionary process.
THE REPTILE PART OF THE BRAIN
Sagan goes on to puzzle over the similarities between the reptilian brain and
the human brain. He points out that at the core of the human brain lies a
vestige of our reptilian past. This part of the brain, known as the R-complex
(reptilian complex), is said to be the part of the brain that
performs the dinosaur functions--aggressive behavior, territoriality, ritual,
and establishment of social hierarchies. The middle layer is called the limbic
system, and is thought to generate love, hate, compassion, and
sentimentality--characteristics believed to be strictly mammalian. The largest
part of the human brain, the neocortex or outer layer, is believed to be the
home of reasoning and deliberation and "the place where we know the difference
between good and evil."
Once again, science seems to agree with the ancient creation myths, for it was
the knowledge of good and evil (given to them by a serpent) that caused first
woman and man to fall from grace with the creator. If the creator was
reptilian, then it could be that by becoming mammalian--and developing a
neocortex--humanity became less reptilian, thus falling from grace.
Other ancient texts bear out this disturbing conclusion. In 1945, in a small
town in Egypt, a clay jar was found bearing ancient scrolls similar to the Dead
Sea Scrolls. These are known as the Nag Hammadi texts, named after the town
where they were found. They tell the story of human creation this
way: The bodies of Adam and Eve were overlayed with a horny skin that was
bright as daylight, like a luminescent garment. Thus, it seems, they didn't
need clothing. Further, these texts tell a far different story about the tree
of knowledge than that told in Genesis:"She took some of its fruit and ate, and
she gave to her husband also...then their minds opened. For when they ate, the
light of knowledge shone for them. When they saw their makers,
they loathed them since they were beastly forms. They understood very much."
In another ancient Jewish document, known as the Haggadah, it is made clear
that the serpent was not merely a snake:"Among the animals, the serpent was
notable. Of all of them, he had the most excellent qualities, in some of which
he resembled man. Like man, he stood upright on two feet, and in
height he was equal to the camel....His superior mental gifts caused him to
become an infidel. It likewise explains his envy of man, especially his
conjugal visits....In punishment for tempting Eve, God said 'I created you to
be king over all the animals...but you were not satisfied....I created you of
upright posture...therefore you shall go upon your belly.'"
These tantalizing clues from the dim past seem to give at least some support
for the idea that today's UFO occupants, reptilian or otherwise, are exactly
who they say they are--the ancient guardians of humankind. If that is so, then
the theory that UFOs are piloted by aliens from other planets must be
carefully re-evaluated. But whatever the answer is, it is clear that UFO
researchers have their hands full in dealing with this enduring and perplexing
mystery.
NOTE:
Joe Lewels is an independent researcher currently working on a book dealing
with UFOs and their religious implications. He is collecting stories about
encounters with reptilians and invites readers with such experiences to write
him in care of FATE. All letters will be forwarded to Lewels.
© FATE Magazine, June 1996
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