Visitors from Space

The theory that the earth has been visited, perhaps even colonized, —— visitors from outer space has long been a part of popular mythology.

The popularity of the theory —- promoted considerably by Stanley Kubrick's cult movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey.

This movie which came —- in 1968 was instantly a great success.

But the idea of visitors from space had been very much in the air over the previous twenty years, ever —— 1947.

This was the year when a businessman called Kenneth Arnold, —- was flying his private plane in Washington state , reported seeing nine shining discs.

He said they were moving at an estimated speed of 1,000 miles —- hour.

This was widely reported in the press and aroused great interest. Soon sightings of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs for short, were being reported —- over the world.

There were far too many of these reports for them to be dismissed —- pure fantasy.

In 1958, in a book entitled Secret Places of the Lion, George Hunt Williamson advanced the theory that visitors from space had arrived on earth 18 million years —-.

The book’s main theory was that since then, they had —— devoting themselves to helping mankind evolve. What do you think?