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uniform... the sleeves were full and loose; the neckline was high, similar to that of a turtleneck sweater.’ He wore a light blue, fluorescentlike cape fastened to his shoulder with a gold pin in the shape of a wheel. His skin was white, and his eyes 'were the colour of goldenrod when it is ripe.' His fingers were long and tapering. When Howard Menger courageously published his story (it was privately printed in 1959), he was roundly cheered by one group of cultists for having solved the UFO mystery and roundly condemned by the equally fanatical scientific ufologists who believed in the existence of extraterrestrial spaceships but could not believe that anyone had ever been close to one. His business collapsed as he gained a reputation for being a crack-pot, and his family fell apart. If Howard Menger had lived in another age, he might have been looked upon as great prophet and visionary - one of those privileged individuals who consorted with the gods. Sculptors would have been commissioned to carve mighty replicas of the superbeing. Poems and songs would have been written about his experience and handed down from one generation to the next. Unfortunately, Menger lived in 1956. He was laughed out of business. His book earned a few hundred dollars from sales to the hardcore cultists and was then forgotten. But it is a revealing record of the mechanism of belief which is at work in these cases. If such things could happen in 1956, then they may also have happened in 1056 and 556 B.C. There are in fact extensive legends suggesting that this sort of thing has been happening to men since the beginning of history. The long-haired, long-fingered ultraterrestrials have been walking among us forever* Before we can understand this tangled maze, we must attempt to understand something of the origins and complexities of human history. We must try to ascertain how it all began, how the ultra-terrestrials have influenced our course, and where it is all leading us. Our scientists can only guess at how the universe itsejf came into being. The two most popular theories are the Big Bang concept, already discussed, and the Steady State theory that matter is constantly replenishing itself and that the cosmos really has no beginning or end. The beginning of the solar system and the birth of the planets are a little easier to deal with. The commonly accepted theory is that the planets are cooling masses of material ejaculated from the sun. Two independent scientists, Dr C. J. Hyman and C. William Kinsman, have developed a new Geocosmic theory based upon the new discoveries outlined in earlier chapters, coupled with Velikovsky-like evidence and speculations. They suggest that Earth once pursued the orbit now occupied by Venus and that Mars was in the present Earth oibit. This would explain the legends of early man, which claimed that Earth days and years were once shorter than they are now and that the human life-span was once considerably longer. Ancient calendars carved in stone also indicate important differences in the early Earth years. If the Earth began as a lump of matter cast off by the sun, it may have first passed along This superbeing gave Menger a message of love and truth in the grand tradition of the elemental's, then returned to his flying saucer, and Sew oil to the stars.