Alexander the Great

The year is 329 B.C. Alexander the Great is leading his army on a quest to conquer the known world. As he is preparing his army to cross the Indus River to attack the Indian Army, Alexander and all his troops watch in awe as two “great shining silvery shields spitting fire around the rims” seem to emerge from the heavens. These two “shields” dive repeatedly at his army until the war elephants, horses, and men all panicked and refused to cross the river where the horrendous incident occurred. The two “flying shields” disappeared into the sky as quickly as they had appeared. Seven years later, while attacking a Venetian city in the eastern Mediterranean, Alexander and both armies on either side of the conflict witness two objects materialize in the sky. Suddenly, one of the objects shot a beam of light at the city wall crumbling it to dust. The objects disappeared and Alexander’s army easily took the city with the wall gone (Sitchin 4-10). Most historians would consider these two incidents as false and dismiss them completely. But why would the ancients go through the trouble of documenting these events if they never actually happened? The answer is: they would not. The truth is, the events that Alexander the Great and his armies went through were not unique. There are countless accounts from the ancient world of objects appearing and disappearing in the sky (Sitchin 21). A lot of these accounts mirror modern day reports of UFO sightings. Obviously, extraterrestrial encounters are not a modern phenomenon. They have been around since the time of the earliest civilizations on Earth (Sitchin 58). All recorded accounts of extraterrestrial encounters throughout human history can be classified into one of eight categories.

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...o coincides with a close encounter of the second kind (Kean 266). Finally, an encounter of the eighth kind is when an unidentified flying object is sighted alongside or close by a military-government vehicle. This kind of encounter is in accord with an encounter of the first kind which states the sighting of any unidentified flying object is considered a close encounter of the first kind (Kean 267).

Reports of extraterrestrial encounters have been around since the dawn of human civilization. Some cultures considered extraterrestrials to be their gods (Sitchin 59). A lot of legends and myths originated from sightings of unidentified flying objects. In ancient times, experiencing a close encounters was a mystical and yet terrifying random experience. Today, all the close encounters recorded throughout human history can be classified into one of the eight kinds.