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204 in antiquity and the purely mythological elements preserved in the cultures of ancient Sumeria, Egypt and West Africa? "The large amount of highly specific numerical data and astronomical information of which these cultures had preserved convinced me that I wasn't simply dealing with pseudo-religious Mythology. I was able to prove much of it to be astrophysically correct. For example, they had recorded exact orbital periods of certain stars and planets and were able to describe the nature of what we now call Superdense Matter. They also accurately describe the surface of the moon and the rings of Saturn. And then there was their assertion that a"third star existed in the Sirius System which led me to predict that astronomers would eventually find it and discover it to be a white dwarf. And of course, as we now know, they did find the third star in 1995 which the ancients had known about for thousands of years without the aid of even the to. eed on simplest of telescopes!" Robert is keen to clear up the popular misconception that he might be suggesting a direct contact between the Dogon and the extraterrestrials. "As far as I know the extraterrestrials did not come to Mali. The Dogon are not claiming alien contact and I haven't suggested any. What I am suggesting is that their very distant ancestors in Babylon, Sumeria and Egypt appear to have had contact around 3500 BC. The connection with the Dogon comes about through separate independent studies by various anthropologists who have traced the Dogon line back to these ancient civilisations. The most convincing evidence of a link, as far as I am concerned, is the use of shared vocabulary, particularly of sacred names. For example, the Babylonians called their sacred mountain where the sun arose each morning by the name Mashu. I have proved Mashu to be an imported word which derives from the ancient Egyptian word for 'Behold, the sun' The connection is so obvious it's ‘ean painful." One crucial question remains though; how were highly advanced ideas regarding the nature of space, matter and the planets conveyed by the visitors to our comparatively primitive ancestors assuming they did not share a common language? "That's quite a question," Robert admits. "We have no idea how they put across these concepts or how they taught our ancestors what they felt they needed to know for their development. What we do know is that the beings who claimed to have come from Sirius were aquatic or amphibious. We don't know if they breathed earth's atmosphere or were equipped with air tanks like deep sea divers. We can't possibly know their true nature at this distance in time, but we do know about their physical appearance because it is described very clearly in the ancient texts and in the word of mouth traditions. I have not the slightest doubt that we are talking about physical beings rather than spirit entities seen in visions, because of the descriptive detail and their actions which were recorded by our ancestors. You only have to examine the profusion of detail regarding the spacecraft to appreciate that. The Dogon tradition clearly distinguishes between the orbiting base or mother ship and the landing vehicles, which is pretty sophisticated of them. The Dogon say that when the Nommos came the first thing their ancestors saw was a new star, which I believe was the orbiting base. They describe it as contracting and expanding. Then from it came another craft which they describe as an ark which descended with a mighty roar in dust and fire - just the a ee effect we would expect from a rocket powered craft. 'The tradition is that the Nornmos taught man civilising principles such as law and the cultivation of grain, but they hedged their bets by establishing centres in both Egypt and Sumeria in case one failed. "I believe that it is significant that both centres were established near water because both the Sumerians and the Egyptians talk of the visitors as having fish-like extremities. civilisations. But how was he able to differentiate between the facts of extraterrestrial contact