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A s those who have studied the prehistory of UFOlogy will tell you, UFOs and rumors of them have seemingly been around as long as human beings have looked up and wondered at the vast fantasia playing itself out every day and night in the sky. As the old song says, “At night the sky puts on a show for free.” In the process of looking at the then-unpolluted skies, the Babylonian, Mayan, Chinese and Egyptian astronomers and magi developed both a vast and complex mythology of gods and heroes and a means of foretelling the future, or, as they would have it, the Will of Heaven. In time they would also learn that knowledge of the sky led to the ability to predict the seasons and impressive celestial events, such as lunar and solar eclipses. With this knowledge came power over humanity, and the magi were not mere philosophers and stargazers, but priest-kings favored by the gods with the foreknowledge of agricultural cycles, then fast becoming the basis of life and death for civilization. That other, irregular events were noted as well can be defined as the beginning of UFOlogy. No doubt to some extent we can explain such events in terms of comets Vet dk and supernove. However, these celestial occurrences leave unexplained such events as the mythos surrounding the Star Sirius and the knowledge of its dark star neigh- bor, or semi-aquatic beings called the “Oannes.” (Oannes were considered visitors from the Sirius region who taught on Earth and left behind a divine mythos and a priesthood awaiting their return. They are known to the Sumerians and their Baby- lonian successors, and to the Egyptians, and held as legends to the present day by remote African tribal priesthoods.) Nor do comets and supernove explain the ascent of Elijah alive into heaven, nor the vision of Ezekiel the prophet, which in Hebrew is even eerier than in the English translation. A priesthood protecting what it took to be the secrets of the divine visitors, wheth- er an actuality or not, has existed since these remote times. In the early ages when the ability to build observatories overlapped with the ability to predict and therefore control civilization, the intermeshing of early Operative Masonic fraternities and the priest-kings or Magi or Magicians was to be expected. Because these guild secrets were of utmost importance in preserving both power and wisdom, a whole system of secret oaths, signs, ciphers and grips was developed to protect these secrets under the highest penalties for betrayal, along with a webwork of mystery plays or rituals to explain to the heirs of these secrets what it was they were preserving, and why. Here we have the beginning of a two-class system consisting of those who know and those who do not know. While this was developing, millennia were passing, Aeons giving way to one an- Secret CIPHER OF THE UFOnauts DiscovereD