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something like a medical examination. In his book /ntruders, Hopkins proposes a scenario in which UFO occupants had timed their visit at the appropriate day of the month to remove an ovum from Kathy, keeping her in a "quasi-anesthetized" state during the procedure. Kathy had discovered she was pregnant in early 1978; she was then nineteen years old. The date of her wedding, which had been planned for late spring, was moved up to April. Pregnancy was confirmed by her doctors. Yet she had a normal period in March. When new tests confirmed she was no longer pregnant, she cried and found herself repeating, "They took my baby." Under hypnosis in 1985, according to Hopkins, Kathy recalled beings touching her, immobilizing her, and performing some sort of operation on her. In other accounts abductees of both sexes have described having intercourse with aliens. Many researchers speculate that such accounts prove that intruders from space are experimenting with human genetics, but they fail to point out that these modern stories are consistent with perplexing accounts that come to us from earlier times, from the oldest records we have. It is in the literature of religion that flying objects from celestial countries are most commonly described, along with the organization, nature, and philosophy of their occupants. Indeed, several writers have consistently pointed out that the fundamental texts of every religion refer to the contact of the human community with a "superior race" of beings from the sky. This terminology is used, in particular, in the Bible, where it is said: They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. The visitors have the power to fly through the air using luminous craft, sometimes called "celestial chariots." With these manifestations are associated impressive physical and meteorological displays, which the ancient authors call "whirlwind," "pillar of fire," etc. The occupants of these craft, to whom popular imagery will later ascribe wings and luminosity, are similar to man and communicate with him. They are organized under a strict military system: them... These traditions are not restricted to Egypt, Israel and Mesopotamia. During the period of the early history of Japan ending about 3000 B.C. called the Jomon Era, an important artistic activity was the making of earthen statues. At first, these statues were small and very simple. They were made to represent human beings. But in the middle of the period, the artists started to make larger statues showing standard features of a drastically different design: large chests, arc-shaped legs, very short arms, and large heads apparently covered with complete helmets. These statues seem to depict precisely the same "occupants" similar to those seen aboard UFOs by modern witnesses. On the nature of the helmets archaeologists disagree. In 1924, because he thought that its expression looked like that found on a wooden mask made in Africa, Dr. Gento Hasebe proposed that the headgear was in reality a mourning mask used at burials. In the Tohoku area of northern Japan, however, some of the most elaborate statues of this kind show something like a pair of sunglasses: huge eyes with an insect-like horizontal slit — a truly remarkable design. Supposedly, the statues of the later part of the Jomon Era were first made with earth, then copied on rock or soft stone. Those found in Lomoukai, Nambu province, are carved in rock and show helmets. One of them, a Jomon Dogu dated 4300 B.C. and excavated at the Amadaki ruins in the Iwate perfecture, shows details of the front part of the helmet, with a round opening at the base of the nose, below what appears to be a large perforated plate. The Age of the Gods The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among