I didn’t realize at first that Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck in their Wonders in the Sky (2009) were going to have a whole second section of “evidence” from ancient history, this time evidence they themselves consider dubious. I’ve been rather harsh on the “best” evidence for ancient UFOs the pair presented, but I did enjoy some of the wacky cases that the two authors admit are sometimes “comical” examples of mystery-mongering alternative writers really stretching things to try to invent aliens out of nothing. Here are a couple of the highlights:
I wonder why Vallee and Aubeck didn’t apply the same critical thinking to the evidence they considered “true” (including pieces from UFO magazines, secondhand summaries of ancient material, and fabricated quotes) that they do with these pieces. I can’t see any real difference in quality between what they claim as “good” evidence and what they say is “bad.”
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5/2/2013 09:53:45 am
The first case, with the three-inch tall humanoids sounds like a precursor to that Sirius documentary with the six-inch "hybrid" skeleton.
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5/2/2013 09:57:37 am
The parenthetical isn't mine, but I can't say whether it belongs to V&A or the original Russian author. They don't say.
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