The Ancient Alien Question, 10th Anniversary Edition: An Inquiry Into the Existence, Evidence, and Influence of Ancient Visitors

This step was taken by others, particularly Temple. Peter James and Nick Thorpe, in Ancient Mysteries, write: “While Temple, following Griaule, assumes that to polo is the invisible star Sirius B, the Dogon themselves, as reported by Griaule, say something quite different.” According to the Dogon, when Digitaria (to polo) is close to Sirius, the la

through Robert Temple's extraordinary book The Sirius Mystery. It was compellingly argued and became one of the most influential books of the 1970s' “ancient astronauts” genre.

In Gods of the New Millennium, British author Alan Alford writes how he “happened to discover in 1989, Sitchin's contribution to proving the intervention of flesh-and-blood gods in the creation of mankind” and how this “cannot be overstated.”

In his first book, The Twelfth Planet, published in 1976, he argued that several Sumerian words had been mistranslated and were actually references to spaceships and other alien-related devices. Most importantly, he concluded that these Sumerian texts spoke of the existence of a 12th planet in our solar system, whose inhabitants had colonized Earth

Bramley found it quite logical to assume that it wasn't a group of people, like the Illuminati (the favorite culprits of some conspiracy scenarios), that could be this hidden hand. No, it could logically only be an extraterrestrial civilization. He labeled this hidden hand “The Brotherhood,” which consisted of a group of humans with enormous power,

President Eisenhower signed a treaty with extraterrestrial beings. In The Day After Roswell, he writes: “We had negotiated a kind of surrender with them as long as we couldn't fight them. They dictated the terms because they knew what we most feared was disclosure.”

One of the most famous whistleblowers is Colonel Philip Corso, who alleged that