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So, one important thread runs through all this Kterature: a great civilization once existed prior to the appearance of modern man, and it was either destroyed or destroyed itself. The surviving physical evidence, which will be discussed further on, indicates that such a civilization did exist on this planet and that its inhabitants vanished before, or soon after, man crawled out of his caves. It may be that the elementals are actually a part of the human psyche and that they have been presenting us with some scrambled racial memory of the distant past. like the Garden of Eden, Atlantis may be nothing more than an allegory designed to give us a clue about our own history. In flying saucer lore there is elaborately detailed literature asserting that Venus was actually the Garden of Eden and that Adam and Eve were Venusians planted here to colonize Earth. Another re ; ee a ve Even more interesting are the contiguous activities of the para-human group which has remained in constant touch with us throughout history and has greatly influenced our theological and philosophical ideas. They are proven liars and mischief makers, but it is also possible that they have been slyly trying to tell us something about ourselves. In recent years the flying saucer occupants have passed along innumerable warnings about how we have been upsetting the balance of the universe with our atom bombs. They have laced these warnings with bloodcurdling tales about Rata Maldek. A controversial UFO report from Mendoza, Argentina, is rather typical of these warnings. On September Ist, 1968, Carlos Peccinetti, twenty-six, and Fernando Jose Villegas, twenty-nine, were driving home from their job at the Mendoza casino at 3:30 a.m., when their car suddenly stalled. They got out to look under the hood and discovered a huge circular machine hovering nearby. Three beings in coveralls appeared, they said, and they found they were paralysed, unable to move. A foreign-sounding voice rang in their heads. 'It was as though they had put into our ears the tiny earplug speakers used with transistors,* Peccinetd said. "We have just made three journeys around the sun,' the voice told them, ‘studying customs and languages of the inhabitants of the system... Mathematics is the universal language.' Then a circular screen, similar to a television screen, appeared next to the object, and the two men were treated to a series of images. The first was a waterfall in lush country; the second, a mushroom-shaped cloud; the third, the waterfall scene again but without water. again. Their story contains all the familiar ingredients of thousands of other UFO contact tales. First, their automobile stalled, then they were paralysed, next they heard a telepathic voice, and finally they were given a simplified message... and the meaning of that message is quite obvious. Police officers, doctors, lawyers, college professors, government officials, and just plain folks by the thousands have shared similar experiences in recent years. The members of WOW have variation on the Noah's Ark theme. After the entities clambered into the machine and flew off. the two witnesses were able to move