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the orbit of Mercury before spiralling outward and settling into the orbit of Venus. This could have happened five billion years ago. The cooling planet Earth could have reached the life support stage hundreds of millions of years ago. and it could have been inhabited while it was in the Venus orbit. If Mars was then in the Earth orbit, it too could have supported life. But as it was pushed further into space by the approach of Earth, the Martians either died out or were forced to make radical biological adjustments to their new environment. If Mars was 'pushed' out there in our Permian times to make way for Earth in our present orbits, its environmental change in climate in this some three hundred million years would surely modify its humanoids, because of the scarcity of air, water, and warmth, into presumably a more scrawny physique no longer adapted to normal life on Earth... Presumably for millions of years they have been trying to hybridize their fauna and flora with ours and to develop some sort of humanoid to whom they could bequeath the advances which their dying civilization had long since acquired. Success in this seems to have finally come with the sudden hybrid appearance of Cro-Magnon man some fifty thousand years ago. They may have visited us frequently and openly for such time as they could stand it, until a few millennia ago (when men were still few and fearful). If the Earth did begin in another orbit and did undergo the changes postulated by these scientists, it may have been even more unstable than it is now and cataclysmic occurrences would have been logical. Velikovsky pointed out that human folklore has recorded many such cataclysms, including a period when the entire earth was bathed in total darkness for three or more days. The Earth may have followed an elliptical orbit which carried it so far away from the sun that it was plunged into darkness. Then it looped back and fell into the present orbit. Elemeatals have constantly tt>Id occultists and UFO contactees that mankind began on Ventis and that orbital changes have taken place in the past and will recur in the future. On April 24th, 1964, a farmer named Gary Wilcox allegedly had a two-hour conversation with a pair of faceless little men from a flying saucer in a field near Newark Valley. New York. Among other things, he said, they told him that the Earth would soon be where Mars is now.! Many flying saucer books have followed the premise that the Earth was originally seeded by beings from outer space. Man has always assumed that the frequently observed parahumaus had to originate from beyond our planet or even from beyond our solar system or space-time continuum. Science writer Otto Binder's Flying Saucers Are Watching Vs dealt at length with the theories of an engineer named Max H. Flindt. Flindt proposed 'that man is a hybrid from the union of ancient spacemen and some earthly species of man-ape who existed, according to recent anthropological finds, as long as two million years ago. In a recent letter Kinsman also proposes that there was some efforts to crossbreed Martians with en ees ern earthlings. He states: