THE ALIEN QUESTION
An Expanded Perspective

A white paper
by Neil Freer

Editor's note: Neil Freer is perhaps one of the most original and important writers on the issues of extraterrestrial presence and human evolution, but his work – intellectually rigorous and demanding – remains largely unknown. Freer recently addressed this rare and challenging white paper to a number of research organizations. Though it is unusually long for Internet presentation, we offer the entire paper here (in two parts) in the hope that it will help stimulate much-needed dialogue on these urgent matters.

(This paper is copyrighted by Neil Freer, but it may by the author’s permission be freely downloaded, translated, printed, copied, quoted, distributed in any appropriate media providing only that it not be altered in any way in text or intent and the author is properly credited.)

Addressed to: Arlington Institute, British UFO Research Association, Brookings Institution, Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee, Fund For UFO Research, J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, Human Potential Foundation, Institut des Hautes Etudes de Defense Nationale, International Association for New Science, McClendon Study Group, Mutual UFO Network, National Institute for Discovery Science, National UFO Reporting Center, Operation Right to Know, Paradigm Research, Program for Extraordinary Experience Research, Stargate International, Skywatch International.

"For the most part, UFO researchers try to deal with the micro, they are event oriented. That is important, but someone also needs to be looking broadly, excluding nothing." – C.B. Scott Jones, Ph.D., Human Potential Foundation

"The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside." – Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

PART ONE

Synopsis

The current context within which The Alien Presence Paradigm is viewed and dealt with is too narrow and limited. The Alien Presence Paradigm should be seen as having two parts, separate but related:

1.     The recognition of the presence of an alien culture or cultures from outside our solar system, and the ramifications of that presence and contact. In this paper, this part of the paradigm will be called the UFO/Alien phase.

2.     The recognition and restoration of our true history as a genetically engineered species, half alien Annunaki, half indigenous homo erectus, according to the thesis paradigm of the Sumerian scholar, Zecharia Sitchin, and its ramifications for our future. In this paper this part of the paradigm is called the Human History phase.

These are two artificial problems because the overwhelming evidence for both is patent, but the obstruction of both by vested interests prevents closure. The same type, sometimes identical, patronizing vested interests and authorities obstruct the processes of revelation of the alien presence as obstruct the restoration or our half-alien history for similar and identical reasons. The resolution of the latter "problem" will relieve the political pressures on the obstructing authorities and facilitate the revelation of the former "problem."

Only by regaining our true species identity and a generic definition of human nature will we attain the global unity and unassailable integrity that will allow us to interact with an alien culture no matter how strange. Without prejudicial religious or cultural filters, we will be able to know what is good or bad for us and able to understand what is good or bad for the alien species. We may not be accepted into stellar society until we reach that level of species maturity.

The two parts of the paradigm are defined, developed, their ramifications examined, and their interrelationships explicated. Practical measures for expediting and accelerating both processes are outlined and suggested, and species beneficial goals, in keeping with the fullness of human dignity and freedom, are defined in an evolutionary progressive context.

The intention of the author in this paper is not to instruct but to suggest. The following is based on fifty years of interest, research, intense study, involvement, and reflection on the human condition as a generic human and professional philosopher. It is respectfully submitted for consideration as a means of facilitating a breakthrough to resolution of these matters which are now effectively and detrimentally at a standstill.

Status quo of the UFO/Alien phenomenon

A preliminary caveat: it is fully recognized that some of the sighted UFOs, reported abductions, encountered "aliens" may be not alien but human action, technology and human events. This paper focuses only on the actual alien presence, technology and interactions.

The position of the author regarding the UFOA presence paradigm agrees with that held by the majority of the organizations addressed herein: alien civilization(s) from outside of our solar system have been visiting the Earth for an indeterminate time, the current one in focus being the grey type(s). The author has been intensely interested in the phenomenon since 1947 when, at the age of 17, he read the first report issued from Roswell, New Mexico, of a saucer being captured after crashing. Some 50 years of research and study of the subject leaves no doubt in the mind of this author that contact by probably multiple alien races with humans has been made (the military first because of the danger of aggressive response). Information and technology has been exchanged, the population of the world gradually acclimated to the alien presence by both the aliens and the human command structure given charge of the matter.

The entire UFOA subject has been covered up and disavowed, at first because of fear of the unknown and possible anarchy and chaos on the part of the population, subsequently because of the difficulty of revelation and taking of blame for cover-up. The alien bodies that have been examined, autopsied and the live aliens interacted with have demonstrated that some are humanoid at least in appearance if not in physiology and some are actually androids. The "problem" is artificial in that it is only a problem because of the obstructive denial by the government. The evidence for the alien presence has developed to such a robust degree and the data is so vast that the government’s final acknowledgement is hardly needed.

Even though we have the testimony of Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe, Capt. Jesse Marcel, Maurice Chatelain, Command Sgt. Major Robert Dean, Col. Phillip J. Corso, Admiral James Woolsey, Astronaut Gordon Cooper (to name only a tiny government, military and NASA handful), the supreme irony of this situation is that we continue to look to the very government which has been covering up the phenomenon for validation, verification and authentication. The reason why we have done so is due, to a great degree, to the conditioning, over thousands of years, to submit to authority stemming from the peculiar nature of our origins in subservience as brilliantly elucidated by the thesis of the Sumerian scholar, Zecharia Sitchin. The perpetuation of this subservience in the form of a sublimated "fear of God" through the religious institutions founded on it has shaped our world so profoundly that we fear to even reconsider it. We therefore rely on authority when we should not and we tend to look to anyone showing up here from off planet as masters or saviors.

A fundamental question, seldom considered due to our conditioning to look to the three classic criteria bases – theology, philosophy, and science – which are themselves brought into question by it: Is it possible to arrive at a new world view which corrects, completes, and subsumes all our previous worldviews and explains all our previous explanations? The answer is, unequivocally, yes. But Kuhn, who examined the nature of scientific revolutions is painfully correct. We almost have to wait for the older generation to die off rather than see an orderly and rational translation to a new paradigm. Those with vested, academic teaching or scientific reputations or religious, political or economic interests are not going to acquiesce easily or at all. We operate far behind the evolutionary leading edge in this regard because of this inertia.

Status quo of the HH (human history) Sitchin paradigm of our own half-alien species history

The Sumerian scholar, Zecharia Sitchin, published his first work in 1976. From his knowledge of Sumerian, the Semitic and other ancient languages and his research and study of the archaeological and Biblical data acquired over the last one hundred and fifty years he put forth his thesis that the transcultural gods known to all the ancient cultures were not mythological but real flesh and blood humanoid aliens, very much like humans, who had come here from the tenth planet in our solar system, "Planet X" in the popular press, called Nibiru by the Sumerians. They subsequently genetically engineered our species, originally as slave animals to work in their gold mines, by crossing their genes with those of Homo erectus.

The historical background necessary for an understanding of Sitchin’s thesis

An introductory note

Consider a typical reaction to this analysis: what is said here by this author has been presented as carefully and reasonably as possible. However, by the very fact of it being an analysis of our history and, almost incidentally, religion, it will often first be perceived as the breaking of a taboo, perhaps a suspect attack, perhaps atheistic, or somehow less than "American" in its spirit, perhaps even "against God" – even though the evidence brought is no different in kind than that brought against the UFOA conspiracy and, perhaps, is even more robust. The "godspell" is the deepest dye in the fabric of our culture.

There was literally no such thing as the discipline known as Archaeology in Western culture until the 1800s. The Roman Church controlled and determined the view of the past. Bishop Usher’s view, that the entire planet and life on it as described in Genesis came into existence through the auspices of a cosmic creator in 4004 B.C., was doctrine and one could be branded a heretic for disavowing it. Not until paleontological findings forced that view to be reevaluated and Schliemann – a wealthy German merchant refusing to admit that the ancient cities and peoples were legend – dug up Troy, was a window into the past opened and the mythic view questioned. Scientific Archaeology as we know it came into existence only when academics reluctantly had to acknowledge the past being dug up and collected by amateurs in the Middle East. Archaeologists came to be mistrusted and hated by the religious institutions who feared revelations that would contradict their teachings and the history of the Old Testament.

The demise of the mythological explanation of the gods

It is trivial that quaint local myths concerning many subjects exist all over the world among both more and less primitive peoples. We consider here only the latter day interpretation of the transcultural "gods" involved in human history as mythic, unreal. We note also that the ancient civilizations did not call the Anunnaki "god" . They referred to them as masters, lords, in the sense of rulers.)

Those still holding the mythological interpretation are in an unenviable position. They find themselves having to hold that the same citizens of the first civilizations who, they claim, invented – or hallucinated – the gods through their primitive imaginings and naive proto-scientific projections of personality on the great forces of nature were the same primitives who somehow could build the stupendous Giza pyramid; somehow quarry, cut and move into place the thousand-ton stones of the Baalbek "temple" (rocket platform) which even our modern technology cannot begin to lift; somehow know the great precessional cycle of the heavens, the existence of all ten of the planets of our solar system, and how our solar system was formed (Enuma Elish document).

To escape this awkward dilemma, some fall back on the explanation that there "must" have been an even earlier civilization, lost now in the mists of time, the identity of which we cannot know, which "must" have been destroyed or declined – but which somehow left just enough technology and knowledge laying around to jump start the early civilizations we know. But they must hold this interpretation against the clear declaration of the Sumerian and all other ancient peoples that the gods were real flesh and blood, present to them, who gave them civilization.

The physical locations of the ancient legends as mythic has been gradually disproven beginning with the work of Schliemann (a German merchant who refused to believe that the legendary ancient cities were mythic and risked his money to go to the Middle East with ancient maps and dug up Troy, thereby breaking open the seal of myth) and completed with the re-discovery of all the ancient cities and centers on all continents.

The events involving the "gods" of ancient times and the technology attributed to them, considered as myth and naive legend, has been gradually disproven, beginning with the discovery of documents from the most ancient cities and reinforced with the discovery of the great library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh and the gradual accumulation of some two million pieces of artifact and document confirming those events in great detail. The discovery of ooparts, high tech tools, toys, artifacts, and technology, along with documentation of advanced scientific knowledge ostensibly out of place in time, along with astronomical knowledge of the entire solar system beyond our current level, has reinforced the negation of the mythic interpretation.

The interpretation of the "gods" – the Anunnaki themselves – as mythic, unreal beings (academic mythologists) and Jungian archetypes (Joseph Campbell) and the relegation of them to schizophrenic hallucination (Julian Jaynes) has been gradually disproven, beginning with the acknowledgment of the reality of the events attributed to them; the discounting of the arguments for their unreality due to the seeming fantastic deeds attributed to them by the development of our technology (rockets, lasers, radio communication, genetic engineering, atomic and particle beam weapons) that duplicate those feats. This interpretation has been implemented further by the pioneering exploration and questions posed by von Daniken and then completed by the comprehensive and brilliant demonstrations of Sitchin and Sir Laurence Gardner, the English historian and genealogist. The mythic interpretation has been supported by religions because to recognize the Anunnaki as real would be to open the door to a radical reinterpretation of the entire phenomenon of religion and put into question the real identity of the very deity at center of their belief system. Gardner has brought to light, however, the fact that there exists a robust, highly documented history carrying all the way back to the Anunnaki, possessed by the heterodox tradition of Christianity. This tradition is the one branded heretical and murderously persecuted by the Roman Church before and during the Inquisition. There was no Dark Ages for this tradition, only for those whom the Church wanted to keep in the dark about the real nature of human history.

Now that we have begun by walking on the moon, exploring the solar system, and have probes going starward, the possibility of an alien civilization coming here is taken for granted and one coming here from inside our solar system trivial, rather than unreal myth. "Mythinformation," after two hundred years of failure, although still hiding behind tenure in the university, is a dead issue.

The essence of the Sitchin paradigm

Working from the same archaeological discoveries, artifacts, and recovered records as archaeologists and linguists have for two hundred years, Sitchin propounds – proves, in the opinion of this author – that the Anunnaki (Sumerian: "those who came down from the heavens"), an advanced civilization from the tenth planet in our solar system, splashed down in the Persian gulf area around 432,000 years ago, colonized the planet with the purpose of obtaining large quantities of gold. Some 250,000 years ago, the recovered documents tell us their lower echelon miners rebelled against the conditions in the mines and the Annunaki directorate decided to create a creature to take their place. Enki, their chief scientist and Ninhursag, their chief medical officer, after getting no satisfactory results splicing animal and homo erectus genes, merged their Anunnaki genes with that of homo erectus and produced us, homo sapiens, a genetically bicameral species, for their purposes as slaves. Because we were a hybrid we could not procreate. The demand for us as workers became greater and we were genetically manipulated to reproduce.

Eventually, we became so numerous that some of us were expelled from the Anunnaki city centers, gradually spreading over the planet. Having become a stable genetic stock and developing more precociously than perhaps they had anticipated, the Anunnaki began to be attracted to humans as sexual partners, and children were born of these unions. This was unacceptable to the majority of the Anunnaki high council and it was decided to wipe out the human population through a flood that was predictable when Nibiru, the tenth in our solar system and the Anunnaki home planet, came through the inner solar system again (around 12,500 years ago) on one of its periodic 3600-year returns. Some humans were saved by the action of the Anunnaki Enki, who was sympathetic to the humans he had originally genetically created. For thousands of years we were their slaves, their workers, their servants, their soldiers in their political battles among themselves. The Anunnaki used us in the construction of their palaces (we retroproject the religious notion of temple on these now), their cities, their mining and refining complexes, and their astronomical installations on all the continents. They expanded from Mesopotamia to Egypt, to India, to South and Central America, and the stamp of their presence can be found in the farthest reaches of the planet.

Around 6,000 years ago, probably realizing that they were going to phase off the planet, they began to gradually bring humans to independence. Sumer, a human civilization, amazing in its "sudden" and mature and highly advanced character was set up under their tutelage in Mesopotamia, human kings were inaugurated as go-betweens, foremen of the human populations answering to the Anunnaki. Some humans were taught technology, mathematics, astronomy, advanced crafts, and the ways of civilized society. The high civilizations of Egypt and Central America arose.

The Anunnaki became somewhat more remote from humans. By around 1,250 B.C., they had gone into their final phase-out mode. The human population and the foremen kings, now left on their own, began to fend for themselves. For some three thousand years subsequently, we humans have been going through a traumatic transition to independence. Proprietary claims made by various groups of humans as to who knew what we should be doing to get the Anunnaki to return or when they returned, perpetuated the palace and social rituals learned under the Anunnaki, and sometimes disagreement and strife broke out between them. Religion, as we know it, took form, focused on the "god" or "gods," clearly and unambiguously known to the humans who were in contact with them as imperfect flesh-and-blood humanoids, now absent. It was only much later that the Anunnaki were eventually sublimated into cosmic character and status and, later on, mythologized due to remoteness in time.

What evidence supports the Sitchin thesis?

1. The astronomical evidence

A key underpinning of the Sitchin paradigm is the existence, now or in the past, of the tenth planet in our solar system, the home planet of the Anunnaki, with the size, orbit, characteristics described, as Sitchin has demonstrated, in the Enuma Elish, and corroborated by Harrington.

Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930. Christie, of the U.S. Naval Observatory, discovered Charon, Pluto’s moon, in 1978. The characteristics of Pluto derivable from the nature of Charon demonstrated that there must still be a large planet undiscovered because Pluto could not be the cause of the residuals, the "wobbles" in the orbital paths of Uranus and Neptune clearly identifiable. The IRAS (Infrared Astronomical Satellite), during 1983-84, produced observations of a tenth planet so robust that one of the astronomers on the project said, "All that remains is to name it" – from which point the information has become curiously guarded. In 1992, Harrington and Van Flandern of the Naval Observatory, working with all the information they had at hand, published their findings and opinion that there is indeed a tenth planet, even calling it an "intruder" planet. Andersen of JPL later publicly expressed his belief that it could possibly be verified any time. The search was narrowed to the southern skies, below the ecliptic. Harrington invited Sitchin, having read his book and translations of the Enuma Elish, to a meeting at his office and they correlated the current findings with the ancient records. Harrington acknowledged the detail of the ancient records while indicating where the tenth planet may now be in the solar system.

2. The technological evidence

Ooparts is the term used to describe the purportedly out-of-place-in-time artifacts, toys, tools, technical devices, depictions, and documents which have come to light through archaeological excavation or discovery. Almost everyone is familiar, through published works or documentaries, with the clay pot batteries still containing the electrodes from the Iraqi desert dated at 2500 B.C.; the flyable model airplane from a pyramid tomb; the sophisticated machining of stone requiring the most advanced techniques we know today; the 1,000-ton precision cut blocks of stone in a temple foundation that we could not even handle; an ancient relief frieze from an Abydos temple depicting rockets, airplanes, and even a helicopter.. The most recent and quite amazing oopart is the rediscovery of monoatomic gold by David Hudson (monoatomics are superconductors at room temperature, have anti-gravitic properties and are only now being investigated by the advanced physics community) Hudson’s discovery, correlated with the bringing to light (by Gardner) of the suppressed discovery of the Anunnaki gold processing plant on Mt. Horeb by Sir Flinders Petrie in 1889, demonstrates that the monoatomics were already known at least 3,000 years ago.

There are also ooparts that date, apparently, to millions of years ago that require serious evaluation and interpretation. Relative to the purpose of this paper, however, consideration is focused on that constellation of ooparts dating from no more than 450,000 years ago, the approximate time of the first Anunnaki arrival on Earth, and primarily on those from the time of the first "sudden" civilizations, 6,000 years ago. We have accumulated almost an encyclopedia of such ooparts.

These ooparts, coupled with evidence from many disciplines and the historical records indicate that an advanced civilization existed in those times possessing a high technology and that that civilization was indeed the Anunnaki. Sitchin has no doubt that all the evidence and the testimony of the early humans themselves indicate that that civilization was, indeed, the Anunnaki.

3. The documentary evidence

The documentary evidence, i.e., the historical documentation for the existence and deeds of the Anunnaki, has been available to us since the early 1800s. The excavation of the ancient sites of Mesopotamia brought to light the amazingly advanced civilization of Sumer, and with it thousands of clay tablets containing not only mundane records of commerce, marriages, military actions, and astronomical calculation systems but of the history of the Anunnaki themselves. It is clear from these records that the Sumerians knew these aliens to be real flesh and blood. The library of the ruler, Ashurbanipal, at Nineveh was discovered to have burnt down and the clay tablets held there were fired, preserving them for our reading. Even to this day, more and more records are discovered. One of the most impressive finds, in very recent time, has been a sealed, nine-foot by six-foot room in Sippar holding – neatly arranged on shelves – a set of some 400 elaborate clay tablets containing an unbroken record of the history of those ancient times, a sort of time capsule. Again, the evidence is so overwhelming and robust that, if it weren’t for those with power enough to suppress, it would have been accepted and our world view changed a century ago or perhaps sooner.

4. The genetic evidence

The recovered records place the location of the Anunnaki laboratory where the first humans were literally produced in east central Africa, just above their gold mines. This falls precisely on the map where the mitochondrial DNA "search for Eve" places the first woman homo sapiens sapiens, and in the same time frame. The evidence of advanced genetic engineering is all there in the ancient documents. Our rapid progress from inception to going to Mars in the near future, after only 250,000 years, does not correspond to the million year periodicities of slow evolutionary development of other species such as homo erectus before us. The HH paradigm shows that the Creationists were only half wrong and the Evolutionists only half right: there was a creation event but it was a genetic engineering process; there is an evolutionary process but it was interrupted in our regard by the Anunnaki for their own practical purposes. We shall be forced to introduce an additional category: a synthesized species.

Two definitive protocols for proving or disproving the Sitchin paradigm

A straightforward approach to prove or disprove the Sitchin paradigm is available from astronomy. A thorough, professional search of our solar system should be able with current technology to determine the existence or non-existence of a tenth planet with the characteristics of size, orbit, orbital periodicity, declination from the ecliptic, as Sitchin has determined from the translations of the ancient records and particularly the Enuma Elish document. If that planet is not in our solar system or no evidence can be found for an ejection or cataclysmic destructive event, then the Sitchin paradigm falls. This search should be undertaken with highest priority. The matter is sufficiently important to clearing up our historical situation that the academic world should be involved as well as the scientific community. It is the opinion of this author that, in light of the evidence already obtained through the use of the Pioneer 10 and 11, two Voyager space craft, the Infrared Imaging Satellite (IRAS, 1983-84), and the data available to Harrington when consulting with Sitchin, that the search has already been accomplished, in fact that the planet has already been found. It is interesting that Harrington dispatched an appropriate telescope to Black Birch, New Zealand, to get a visual confirmation based on the data leading to the expectation that it would be below the ecliptic in the southern skies at this point in its orbit. On Harrington’s early death, the scope was immediately called back – as one observer noted, "almost before he was cold." To acknowledge a tenth planet is to open up the possibility of the Anunnaki’s existence. The reason for the downplaying of the data, the difficulty of obtaining it, the performance of the scientists publicly speaking about it, all have the same flavor as the Air Force’s handling of the Roswell matter.

Obviously, even before any official confirmation of the existence of Nibiru/Planet X in our system and certainly afterward, a focused scan in its direction by a modified SETI type search that used all appropriate parts of the energy spectrum, including our own radio and TV common frequencies, would be productive in determining the existence of intelligent life continuing to exist thereon. To anticipate a possible mystery: even if the planet is confirmed, it is possible that no intelligent signals may be received. This is a conjecture only on the part of the author, but in light of the kind of summary withdrawal and lack of subsequent contact by the Anunnaki, it is not inconceivable that any artificial signal output has been masked. This hypothesis is based on a conclusion that one of the major reasons for their phasing off this planet was not just because they needed a ballistic rocket launch window to reach their planet when it came through the inner solar system last time, but because they had come to realize that we needed to be left on our own to find our own species identity. A scan of this type should be undertaken immediately. It should be assumed that our signals have been monitored since their phase-off.

A second mode of proof or disproof is available through genetics. We will shortly have the entire human genome read out. That process and the information available as a result should afford us the opportunity to examine the entire genome for the evidence of the merging of the two species gene codes, homo erectus and Anunnaki. A protocol for such a novel determination would have to be developed. A potential problem may lie in the fact that the melding took place some 250,000 –200,000 years ago. A practical spin-off of the effort may be not only the identification of the two codes, or at least the indication of the basic merging, but evidence for why we have some four thousand cataloged genetic diseases and other species on this planet hardly any at all. It is at least a reasonable speculation that imperfections due to the complexity of the major merging of the two genomes is the cause of those defects in the first place. We recommend that this investigation be implemented again with highest priority for the sake of proving or disproving the Sitchin paradigm.

About the author

NEIL FREER is a researcher, writer, lecturer, philosopher and poet living in Santa Fe, NM. Neil and his wife, Ursula, have lived in the Eldorado area since 1994. Neil holds a BA in English and did his graduate work in Philosophy and Psychology at the New School for Social Research. He has taught college courses in Philosophy and History of Religion, gives private and public seminars and lectures, and has done over 140 radio and TV interviews. Neil is the author of Breaking the Godspell, a book which explores the ramifications of the archaeological, astronomical, and genetic proof for our being a genetically engineered species, and presents the ramifications of this new paradigm of human nature that resolves the Creationist-Evolutionary conflict.

In his second book, God-Games: What Do You Do Forever?, he explores the ways in which we will live when, individually and collectively, we attain the unassailable integrity afforded by the restoration of our true genetic history. He outlines the species maturity of the new planetary civilization and describes the "god games" of immortality, four-dimensional consciousness, life after the Law Of Everything, and alien contact, that the new human will play.

Neil’s work appears as part of the symposium, Of Heaven and Earth (Book Tree, 1996) which includes the paper he presented as invited guest speaker at the Zecharia Sitchin Day special event at the International Association For New Science conference in 1996. An essay "In the Middle of Whose Ship Are You Standing?", is included in David Pursglove’s Zen And The Art Of Close Encounters.

Neil’s most recent public presentations were at the Sedona Millennium Conference, and the October "Prophecy: Myth and Fact" conclave in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A one-hour interview with Jeffery Mishlove on "Thinking Allowed" was aired nationwide on PBS, September 13th, 1999. Read a recent interview with Neil Freer by UFO Disclosure's John Colaw.