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Saucers and the Three Men, was first published in 1962, it read like the fantasies of a madman. But now many of the things he described have repeatedly occurred all over the world, and the book deserves a careful rereading. If flying saucers actually exist as extraterrestrial spaceships, then the Pleiades might deserve a place high on the list of possible origins. It is possible that the ancients were so enthralled with the magical number of seven that they placed undue emphasis upon the ‘Seven Sisters.” But it is equally possible that they might have had access to some particular bit of knowledge which has since been lost. Anthropologists have been amazed to discover that the completely isolated tribes of South America and the aborigines of Australia have much folklore about the Pleiades and even call the cluster the Seven Sisters, just as the ancient Middle Eastern and European cultures did. Much of this independent folklore contends that the Pleiades was the home of the “Sky People.”’ North American Indian tribes have similar legends about the Pleiades, and of all the stars and constellations named and known by the ancient peoples it is interesting to note that even the Bible singles out the Seven Sisters repeatedly. In the Book of Job, 38:31, we find this enigmatic statement: ‘‘Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?” In modern UFO-contactee lore, beginning in the early 1950s, the constellation of Orion is frequently cited as the home of ‘‘evil spacemen”’ who are planning to take over the earth. A famous British contactee, Arthur Bryant, claimed that on April 24, 1965, a UFO occupant informed him that “forces from Epsilon are already here in the form of polter- geists.’’ Epsilon Orionis is the central star in the belt of Orion. The Bible and many other ancient works seem to imply that Orion harbors a malevolent force, while the Pleiades is the home of the ‘“‘good guys.” of total darkness, during which no light or fire could be seen, are described in the Book of Mormon, Third Nephi, Chapter 8. There are many other historical references to this event, not only in the Bible (Exodus 10:22), but in Egyptian, Chinese and Indian texts also. Apparently the phenomenon occurred worldwide. Normal light rays were unable to penetrate the gloom, and human beings found themselves in such a lethargic state they were unable to move. See Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky, Part 1, Chapter 2, for further references and descriptions of this catastrophe. "What Is Your Time Cycle?" / 169 Stretching Time Much has been written about the fact that astronauts whizzing through