Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact - Above Top Secret

something like a medical examination. In his book Intruders, Hopkins proposes a scenario in whichUFO occupants had timed their visit at the appropriate day of the month to remove an ovum fromKathy, keeping her in a "quasi-anesthetized" state during the procedure.Kathy had discovered she was pregnant in early 1978; she was then nineteen years old. The date ofher wedding, which had been planned for late spring, was moved up to April. Pregnancy wasconfirmed by her doctors. Yet she had a normal period in March. When new tests confirmed shewas no longer pregnant, she cried and found herself repeating, "They took my baby." Underhypnosis in 1985, according to Hopkins, Kathy recalled beings touching her, immobilizing her, andperforming some sort of operation on her.In other accounts abductees of both sexes have described having intercourse with aliens. Manyresearchers speculate that such accounts prove that intruders from space are experimenting withhuman genetics, but they fail to point out that these modern stories are consistent with perplexingaccounts that come to us from earlier times, from the oldest records we have.The Age of the GodsIt is in the literature of religion that flying objects from celestial countries are most commonlydescribed, along with the organization, nature, and philosophy of their occupants. Indeed, severalwriters have consistently pointed out that the fundamental texts of every religion refer to the contactof the human community with a "superior race" of beings from the sky. This terminology is used, inparticular, in the Bible, where it is said:They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the Lord, and the weapons ofhis indignation, to destroy the whole land.The visitors have the power to fly through the air using luminous craft, sometimes called "celestialchariots." With these manifestations are associated impressive physical and meteorological displays,which the ancient authors call "whirlwind," "pillar of fire," etc. The occupants of these craft, towhom popular imagery will later ascribe wings and luminosity, are similar to man and communicatewith him. They are organized under a strict military system:The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is amongthem...These traditions are not restricted to Egypt, Israel and Mesopotamia. During the period of the earlyhistory of Japan ending about 3000 B.C. called the Jomon Era, an important artistic activity was themaking of earthen statues. At first, these statues were small and very simple. They were made torepresent human beings. But in the middle of the period, the artists started to make larger statuesshowing standard features of a drastically different design: large chests, arc-shaped legs, very shortarms, and large heads apparently covered with complete helmets. These statues seem to depictprecisely the same "occupants" similar to those seen aboard UFOs by modern witnesses.On the nature of the helmets archaeologists disagree. In 1924, because he thought that its expressionlooked like that found on a wooden mask made in Africa, Dr. Gento Hasebe proposed that theheadgear was in reality a mourning mask used at burials. In the Tohoku area of northern Japan,however, some of the most elaborate statues of this kind show something like a pair of sunglasses:huge eyes with an insect-like horizontal slit – a truly remarkable design. Supposedly, the statues ofthe later part of the Jomon Era were first made with earth, then copied on rock or soft stone. Thosefound in Lomoukai, Nambu province, are carved in rock and show helmets. One of them, a JomonDogu dated 4300 B.C. and excavated at the Amadaki ruins in the Iwate perfecture, shows details ofthe front part of the helmet, with a round opening at the base of the nose, below what appears to bea large perforated plate.