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16 may have visited this planet in the distant past. Granite carvings in Hunan, Asia, for example, show human figures gazing into the sky at hovering, cylindrical objects on which other people are standing. These look much like today’s UFO reports. The only problem is, these carvings are dated around 45,000 BCE! Petroglyphs in Toro Muerto, Peru, show figures with large trans- parent helmets. These rock carvings are dated at about 11,000 BCE. On the Tassili plateau in the Sahara Desert are sculpted rock fig- ures, also with large, round heads, like helmets. These statues date back to around 6000 BCE. Figures carved into rock in Lomoukai, Nambu Province in Africa depict figures in what appear to be modern spacesuits. These carvings are dated to around 4300 BCE. Another example comes from the Australian Aborigines. Numer- ous ancient rock paintings depict short, robed figures with large star- ing eyes and huge helmet-like heads, again the typical description of an extraterrestrial. These images are known to be 3,000 years old. More clues come from a wide variety of cultures. An early Colom- bian artifact looks almost exactly like the space shuttle. A clay sculp- ture from a pre-Japanese culture shows what looks like an astronaut inside a pressurized spacesuit. Both of these artifacts are at least 3,000 years old. Why do so many different cultures across the world create these strange figures? Could aliens and UFOs have inspired them? Interest- ingly, many early cultures have myths and legends about wise God- like beings that came from the sky to teach humanity. Mysterious places like Easter Island, Stonehenge, the Egyptian pyramids, and countless others have also generated years of debate about how they came to exist. While some researchers have speculated that extraterrestrials may have helped to construct these monuments, most modern researchers believe that humans built them. There are tantalizing clues, however, that some of these creations may have been inspired by visiting extraterrestrials. UFOS AND ALIENS