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explosions. W. Raymond Drake has analyzed the works of fifty great classical writers, including Julius Obsequens, Livy, Pliny, Dio Cassius and Cicero. He has found dozens of references to celestial phenomena, which comprise a 2000-year record of ancient UFO sightings. Among the phenomena that Drake noted were lights and shields in the sky, fiery globes, ships, men, armies, two or more moons, two or more suns, new stars, falling lights, unknown voices, "gods" descending to earth, and "men" ascending to the sky. In the December, 1964 issue of Fate magazine, Drake writes: "Our theologians dismiss the ancient Gods as anthropomorphisms of natural forces, as if entire races for hundreds of years would base their daily lives on lightning and thunderbolts! Yet logic suggests that the old Gods of Egypt, Greece, Rome, Scandinavia, and Mexico were not disembodied spirits or anthropomorphic symbolisms but actual spacemen from the skies. It seems that after the great catastrophes remembered in the legends, the ‘Gods' withdrew and henceforth have been content merely to survey the Earth, except for an occasional intervention in human affairs." Professor M. M. Agrest, in an article in the Literaturya, Gazette, expressed his belief that the remains of Sodom and Gomorrah bear evidence that the ancient twin cities of wickedness were destroyed in a pre- paleolithic nuclear explosion. Professor Agrest, a Russian physicist, also maintains that a strange rock platform in Lebanon, whose origin and original purpose have baffled archeologists and geologists for several years, was constructed by aliens as a launching pad. Agrest shares Dr. Sagan's view that the best place to look for evidence of alien peoples is right here on earth. As additional "evidence," the Russian scientist offers the existence of teklites, strange glasslike stones which contain radioactive isotopes of aluminum and beryllium and might be the refuse of alien experiments conducted on our planet a few million years ago; "round head" monuments and artworks, which could be representations of space visitors; ancient religions and "gods" that descend to earth and "men" who are taken alive into the skies; scientific treatises from antiquity, which are so advanced in comparison to the primitive knowledge of surrounding cultures that special tutoring from advanced aliens is suggested. Far from scoffing at their fellow scientist's theory of alien visitations before and during the evolution of man, a crew of Russian exobiologists is currently wandering the world seeking additional artifacts that might offer a clue to extra-terrestrial guidance (or interference) of this planet's properties and potentialities. The team of Soviet scientists is also attempting to locate other traces of pre-1945 nuclear