UFO Crashed in Missouri Wilderness at Time of the Civil War

And that's absolutely true. But it's often quoted to try to bolster some nonsensical idea that has no evidence. Try using that sentence in a court of law.

A friend of mine was trying to convert me to a very odd belief he held. I said "I'm sorry, but that makes no sense at all". To which he said "It doesn't have to".

I was kind of at a loss for words. (Not something that happens often, obviously )



I know. I didn't mean it personally.

Sadly during that period of time there were newspapers and/or reporters who would make up false stories.

We really have no idea what this guy saw or even if the guy existed at all.

It is interesting though to see the interest in UFOs going back to pre-flight.

Concrete proof is available, but on this forum you would have to teabag some to get some acceptance!


Or some will see a duck, that quacks, and waddles like a duck, but unless it jumps on them bites them and possibly explodes, they will dismiss it as a pink elephant!


Open mindedness, can get closed quickly when fear is involved!


Shane

Well that was a let down. The kinds of things I was imagining were much more interesting.


What are gullible people, Alex?

Yes, there "were" mountains there. And I believe there still are mountains in MO, unless they've been misplaced recently. But, the mountains in Missouri are the Ozarks and not the Rockies.

Darn good answer.

Existed earlier than the Sumerians? From who?

It's a petroglyph... a simple pictorial representation. Were you expecting actual DNA to have snake heads? I mean, that's like saying the Jeep icon isn't a Jeep icon because it doesn't look like exactly like a Jeep.



What I posted pre-dates Christ by about 5,500 years...

This doesn't make any sense at all.

Well, let's look at that. The "head-scratching discovery by the public consortium", as Science magazine put it, was that the human genome contains 223 genes that don't have the required predecessors on the genomic evolutionary tree.

In layman's terms, that means these genes just "appeared" out of nowhere and didn't evolve from other genes.

Now, that might not seem like a lot. But genetically speaking, the difference between Man and Chimpanzee is less than one percent; and one percent of 30,000 genes is 300. So, 223 genes is more than two thirds of the difference between me, you and a chimp!

Of course that doesn't mean anything by itself... except that an analysis of the functions of these genes, conducted by the Public Consortium team, shows their proteins are involved in important physiological and psychiatric functions and are responsible for neurological enzymes. In short, it's these specific genes that make us substantially different and more intelligent than our genetic ancestors.

But remember, they have no evolutionary predecessors, so they didn't evolve from lesser genes. They just appeared somewhere around 7,500-10,000 years ago. Coincidentally, around the time of Sumeria, the first known modern human civilization, who curiously had a complete understanding of astronomy and mathematics.

And they say that's how they got here.

I find that really interesting. But what I find even more interesting is the credibility of their knowledge; one particular Sumerian tablet depicts a map of the solar system, showing not only the sun and the correct position of all of the known planets, but also an "extra" planet in between Mars and Jupiter. There's no planet there today... but there is a huge asteroid belt that most astronomers believe was once a planet, destroyed after colliding with another object.

But wait, there's more...

The Sumerians also wrote about another planet, one with a unique elliptical orbit that only swung into our solar system once every 10,500 years or so. Their name for it was Nibiru - and it was said to be the home of their Anunnaki creators.

That's pretty dumb, right? I mean, there's no proof that this planet exists... or at least there wasn't until 2003 when researchers at Cal Tech discovered a planet with a strange elliptical orbit that only enters our solar system once every 10,500 years or so. They named it Sedna.



Here's what's interesting about Sedna... the last time Sedna was in our solar system would have been right around the time when the Sumeria first came to exist. Right around the time the Sumerians say the Anunnaki were here. Right around the time those 223 genes appeared.

(Remember, this was all written down about 4,000 years before the Hebrews, before the Torah, before the Bible, and at least 5,500 years before Jesus.)

To add to the mystery, could that planet - which we now know does in fact exist - have collided with the 5th planet in our solar system on its way out? Because that would explain why the Sumerians drew an extra planet between Mars and Jupiter that isn't here now, existing today only as an Asteroid belt.

Of course, I'm sure this information won't mean much to you since you've already made your decision that none it could possibly be true. But it sure is interesting that modern science seems to just now be "catching up" to what the first human civilization wrote about 7,500 - 10,000 years ago. Kind of makes you wonder what else the Sumerians were right about.