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UFOs and the Evolution of Man
By Scott Corrales
FATE :: March 2005

Visitors to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History often find themselves standing in front of the “evolutionary column” or “geological column” to ponder the development of life on Earth—from protozoa to Homo sapiens sapiens—passing through a motley and often terrifying array of prehistoric creatures such as eurpteryds, dinosaurs of various kinds, and carnivorous mammals. Humankind sits at the very top of the column, its eyes on the stars and with no predators to fear, aside from its fellows.

Early writers and thinkers of the UFO phenomenon rejected the role of evolution in humanity’s appearance on this planet, suggesting the belief that extraterrestrials either biologically engineered prehistoric apes to produce us or brought us wholesale from another world to this one. Landmark books, such as Brinsley LePoer Trench’s The Sky People and Otto Binder’s Unsolved Mysteries of the Past, were joined by the collected works of Erich Von Däniken and more recently those of Zecharia Sitchin.

An even more disturbing hypothesis concerning the presence of non-human visitors in Earth’s past appeared in the mid-1970s in Gods of Air and Darkness by Richard Mooney (Fawcett, 1976). The author suggested that the creatures considered monstrous in terrestrial traditions—ogres, satyrs, werewolves, vampires, and so on—appear to originate from a single source at a given time in history, much in the same way that religions show a commonality. Mooney posits that these aberrations may have been caused by proximity to a starship’s nuclear-powered engines.

Inconsistencies in evolutionary theory’s explanation for the vast diversity of life forms are perhaps responsible for this attempted revisionism. The belief that nonhuman intelligences steered evolution to give rise to intelligence on this world was fueled by humanity’s own power to direct genetic development in recent times. The alleged aliens would have deposited certain species on Earth that eventually led to the early hominids or somehow “triggered” intelligence some 20,000 years ago in likely, pre-existing candidates. Reports of UFO activity throughout the ages were then construed as efforts by our creators to monitor our progress—especially as our ability to destroy their careful handiwork became evident.

But are humans truly the end-all and be-all, the terminus of an evolutionary process, or has obsolescence been built into us? Or more tantalizing still: what order of beings will replace humans on this earth? ...

Read the rest of this article in the March 2005 issue of FATE

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