Michael Cremo - Human Devolution - A Vedic Alternative To Darwin's Theory

On July 1, 1965, at Valensole, in the department of Alpes-de-Haute Provence in France, Maurice Masse, a farmer, was going to look at his lavender field when he saw in the field a round metallic object, the size of a small car, standing on six legs. There was a metal shaft protruding from the center of the object to the ground. As Masse approached the object, two small humanoids turned a tubelike instrument towards him, and he felt himself paralyzed. The two humanoids entered the craft, which then lifted off, retracting its six legs and central shaft. The object flew upwards with extreme rapidity and disappeared. The case was investigated in-depth by the Gendarmerie Nationale. They found a depression at the spot where the vehicle had been sighted, and in the middle of the depression was a round hole 19 centimeters in diameter and 40 centimeters deep. The investigators found that the lavender plants for a hundred yards along the direction of the object’s departure were dried up. For years after the incident, no plants would grow there. The investigators turned up no evidence of psychopathology or hoaxing (COMETA 1999, p. 20).

On August 29, 1967, near Cussac in the department of Cantal, France, two children herding cows saw four small humanoids standing near a bright spherical object on the other side of a country road. One of the humanoids blinded the children with an object that looked like a mirror. The humanoids then entered their craft in a strange way, floating into the air and then diving headfirst through the top of the sphere. The sphere, making a hissing sound, then flew off rapidly in an upward spiraling flight path. The children noticed a strong smell of sulfur. In 1978, GEPAN, the French governmental agency responsible for UFO studies, opened an investigation. The investigators interviewed a gendarme who had arrived on the scene shortly after the incident. The gendarme had noted tracks on the ground and a strong smell of sulfur. A second witness, who had been working nearby, testified that he heard a hissing sound. The investigators learned from a physician and the children’s father (the mayor of the village) that the children themselves had smelled of sulfur after the incident, and that their eyes were tearful for days afterwards. The GEPAN judge for the case stated, “There is no flaw or inconsistency in these various elements that permit us to doubt the sincerity of the witnesses or to reasonably suspect an invention, hoax, or hallucination. Under these circumstances, despite the young age of the principal witnesses, and as extraordinary as the facts that they have related seem to be, I think that they actually observed them” (COMETA 1999, p. 21).

In January of 1975, businessman George O’Barski, 72 years old, was driving from his shop in New York City’s Manhattan Island to his home in New Jersey. As he was driving through North Hudson Park, he heard static on his car radio while a brightly shining flying object, emitting a humming sound, passed by his car. Ahead of him, he saw the object land in a park. The object, about 30 feet long, with a row of narrow glowing windows, was floating at a height of ten feet. Then it descended to four feet. From a door between two windows, several small humanoid figures with helmets came out. After digging up some earth, they went back into the craft, which rose into the air and moved north. The time was one or two in the morning. The next day, O’Barski returned to the site and saw on the ground the holes left by the creatures. UFO investigator Budd Hopkins interviewed people who lived in the area to see if they had noticed anything. Bill Pawlowski, doorman at the Stonehenge apartment complex near the site, said that at two or three o’clock in the morning one day in January, he saw a dark object with 10 or 15 lighted windows in the nearby park floating about 10 feet off the ground. He later mentioned this to Al Del Gaudio, a police lieutenant who lived in the building. Another doorman, Al Gonzalez, saw the same kind of object at the same place six days before the sighting by O’Barski and Pawlowski. The Wamsley family lived about 14 blocks from the Stonehenge apartments. Their residence was on the path O’Barski said the object had taken after leaving the park. Late one Saturday night in January, Robert Wamsley, age 12, had seen, through a window in the Wamsley home, a round brightly lit flying craft with rectangular windows. Robert and other family members went outside and observed the craft for two minutes as it moved slowly away (Hopkins 1981, pp. 23–28; Thompson 1993, pp. 51–53).

The existence of extraterrestrial humanlike entities is damaging to the Darwinian theory of evolution. Today, evolutionists claim that the existence of humans on this planet is the result of a strictly terrestrial process of physiological evolution. Therefore, if there are humans from elsewhere, they must have arisen by an entirely separate evolutionary process somewhere else in the cosmos. That creatures with humanlike intelligence and bodies could have arisen in this way is very unlikely. For reasons explained in chapter 4, the origin of life of any kind from chemicals is very unlikely. Even granting the formation of simple unicellular organisms, there is no necessity for them to form multicellular creatures. Then granting the existence of multicellular creatures, there is no reason that they should be animal-like rather than plantlike, or terrestrial rather than aquatic. Even if we suppose that somehow or other, some small quadruped vertebrate mammals evolved in some other part of the universe, it is not at all probable that they would develop into something like a human being. Let’s go back 50 million years, to the Eocene period on earth. During that time, the first primates came into existence. Theodosius Dobzhansky (1972, p. 173), a prominent founder of modern evolutionary theory, said, “Man has at least 100,000 genes, and perhaps half of them (or more) have changed at least once since the Eocene. The probability is, to all intents and purposes, zero that the same 50,000 genes will change in the same way and will be selected again in the same sequence as they were in man’s evolutionary history.” The most recent estimate of the number of human genes is about 30,000, but Dobzhansky’s basic point still holds. This suggests that if we ran the tape of evolution again (to borrow a phrase from Stephen J. Gould), it is practically impossible that human beings would be the result. Of course, one could propose that humans evolved elsewhere, and that our planet was seeded with human genes at some point in history. But that takes us quite far from today’s evolutionary theories and leaves unresolved the very difficult question of how human beings evolved elsewhere. The simplest explanation for similar human types from different parts of the cosmos is a common intelligent source.

Abductions

Cases involving landings and humanoids can also include abduction experiences. In 1985, David Webb published a study of abduction reports. Out of 300 abduction cases, he found that 140 were well investigated, with no signs that there was any hoaxing and no signs that the witnesses were mentally deranged (Webb 1985).

The first abduction case to attract wide attention involved Betty and Barney Hill (Clark 1998, pp. 489–499). On September 26, 1961, Betty wrote a letter about a UFO encounter to Donald E. Keyhoe, a former Marine Corps major who was then serving as the director of NICAP, the National Investigating Committee on Aerial Phenomena. NICAP referred the case to Walter N. Webb, an astronomer in Boston who was also a UFO investigator. Webb conducted a series of interviews.

Betty Hill was 41 years old at the time of the encounter. She was a social worker employed by the state of New Hampshire, and did volunteer work for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Barney Hill, 39 years old, worked as a dispatcher at the U.S. post office in Boston. He was also on the board of directors of a local poverty relief program and served as an advisor to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.