Notice the strange disc-shaped “cloud” shooting a laser into a young Mary, the soon-to-be mother of Jesus. I think it’s fair to say this is simply the painter’s representation of God’s Spirit moving into her. However, many others say that thing in the sky is clearly an alien craft, meaning the implanting of the child into Mary was alien in origin (sounds somewhat familiar if you read my blog on the Vatican Observatory). Personally, I think that’s a bit of a stretch. You can clearly see the dove in the beam, and the dove typically represents the Holy Spirit. Anyway, I said this was a benign one. The next painting might be too … maybe?

Introducing “The Crucifixion”. It currently resides inside a monastery in Kosovo.

Notice the flying “ships” in each corner. A further closeup reveals a little pilot inside each of them. Now art historians claim these are representations of the Sun and the Moon gods. I can agree that might be a realistic possibility … but why would a Christian painter include other gods? To me, it still looks more like pilots flying spaceships. Anyway, enough of the artwork that can sort of be explained. Here come the fun ones:

This crazy piece of art is known as Israel Put Your Hope in the Lord. It’s believed to be from the 17^th century and currently sits in a church in Romania.

Nothing screams “Israel Put Your Hope in the Lord” like a damaged alien ship crashing down onto a burning building. Feel free to post your comments below if you have a better idea of what’s going on.

This next one is actually my favorite. It’s titled Glorification of the Eucharist by Ventura Salimbeni from the 16^th century.

At first glance, with its poor image quality, you may not see the issue. But check out the blue sphere at the top … the one that was supposed to be the Earth. Instead, it has an uncanny resemblance to the Russian Sputnik satellite, and hence its nickname, the Sputnik of Montalcino.

Notice the metal plates, the antennas, the eye that looks like a camera, and the reflecting sun. It is incredibly similar—many would argue impossibly so—to Sputnik. When completed, this original version of the painting made the commissioning church furious. They made Salimbeni redo the entire thing, with him actually painting the Earth this time. Both versions can still be seen today.

Here’s a bunch more rapid-fire:

Here’s another disc in the sky shooting down rays of light. Like the first image in this blog, this one seems rather benign. But who knows. Discs and beams seem like an odd way to represent God.

The alien-believing side of me says this one is showing a mothership surrounded by an invasion fleet. Notice how all the ships are flat on top with something like lasers shooting down … or they’re angels. I dunno.

This one is supposed to be about a freak snowfall in Jerusalem. But I’d argue anyone that could paint all those people could certainly make better looking clouds (I think the average first grader could too). So is this actually another fleet of flying saucers hidden in Christian artwork?

Once again we have what appear to be spaceships flying off in both corners (just no little pilots this time).

What’s landing on Earth all around Moses? Are those meteors … or spaceships, yet again?

And our final painting … check out that thing in the sky the guy in the background is staring at. I see no Christian iconography in it at all. That looks, one last time, like an alien spaceship.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this weird and wonderful little tour of aliens in renaissance period’ish art.

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Genesis 6:1-2 (NKJV)

“Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.”

… Angels took human women as wives?

Genesis 6:4 (NKJV)

“There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came into the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were old, men of renown.”

… So angels took human women for wives, had sexual relations with them, and had children with them? And those children were mighty giants?

Yup. That’s exactly what the Bible says. And that word translated in English as giant, is actually the Hebrew word Nephil, or more commonly, Nephilim. It means a giant who makes things fall (a feller), a bully, and a tyrant. And one more important item to note here, this scripture takes place before Noah’s Flood. So let’s restate it … In the days prior to Noah’s Flood, as mankind was growing and spreading across the planet, certain of God’s angels saw what human males and females did (i.e. sexual relations) and they wanted to experience it too. They took on physical form (the Bible is clear angels can do that) and had their way with women. That union between angel and human created an evil, giant being called a Nephilim.

I know, this sounds crazy. And yes, I’ve heard a lot of commentary saying the sons of God were just standard human males, but somehow special in God’s eyes. Therefore, the Nephilim were only powerful rulers.  Well, I would encourage anyone saying that to reread their Old Testament. The expression “sons of God” is only found five times in the OT (at least in the King James Version) and every single time it is used for angels. So it’s quite clear: we’re going to have to wrap our heads around the Biblical fact that angels and women copulated, producing giants.

Here’s another interesting tidbit: The ancient church certainly had no problem with this. The Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament) calls them “angels of God”, not “sons of God”. The Jewish historian Josephus said, “many angels of God accompanied with women, and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of the confidence they had in their own strength.” Later he says, “There were till then left the race of giants, who had bodies so large, and countenance so entirely different from other men, that they were surprising to the sight, and terrible to the hearing.” Early church father Justyn Martyr said, “But the angels transgressed … were captivated by love of women, and begat children.” There are plenty of others too, but I think the point is made.

When I finally accepted this, the Bible became so much clearer. Remember David & Goliath? Yup, Nephilim offspring. The Anakims from Deuteronomy: “the people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the heaven” … or the Emims, “a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; which also were accounted giants.” … how about Numbers, “and there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants.”—all of these were either Nephilim or their offspring. The Bible is full of giants and now we know where they came from.

But some might counter, “Yeah, but they would have all died in Noah’s Flood.” That’s actually correct, and a great catch! However, let’s reread Genesis 6:4:

“There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came into the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were old, men of renown.”

Those three words, “and also afterward”, are clearly relating to Noah’s Flood. So, before the Flood, the angels did their horrific sin producing Nephilim. And after the Flood they did it all over again. Yikes!

So what happened to the Nephilim? Why don’t we have fossil records? How about the angels that did this … what happened to them?

That’s all for another blog post.

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So right off the bat, if it’s so great, why is it not canonized as part of the Bible? During the Council of Carthage in 397 AD (which established the Bible as we know it today), consensus said there were too many doctrinal inconsistencies in it to believe it was truly the inspired Word of God. [I say “fair enough” to that. There definitely are some statements that make you scratch your head.] But much debate occurred around it because of another book, The Book of Jude. Jude 1:14-15 quotes straight from The Book of Enoch, making it a mess for the early church fathers. Some said Enoch had to be placed in the Bible because Jude would be. Others said Jude had to be taken out because Enoch couldn’t’ be. Anyway, they landed with Jude in and Enoch out … although it’s often added to a collection of books we call the Apocrypha, which roughly translates to “cloudy”. One thing to note is, after the Council’s decision to leave out The Book of Enoch, it quickly fell out of favor. Within a few hundred years, almost all copies were lost to history. I say almost because fragments of it were found in the Dead Sea Scrolls a thousand plus years later. And through this crazy, twisting story you’re about to read, an entire copy was eventually discovered. So let’s finally get started!

We’ll begin around 650BC during the reign of King Manasseh of Judah (a reminder that Israel split into two nations after King Soloman – the northern kingdom Israel and the southern kingdom Judah). Manasseh was a bad dude who spilled a lot of innocent blood, leading many Jews to flee for their lives. One group went into neighboring Egypt. Then, after a short period of time, they continued on southward, following the Nile to its eastern headwater near Lake Tana, Ethiopia. This group of Israelites decided to settle right there and soon disappeared from the known world.

Now we fast forward 1,000 years. In the early 1600’s, King James commanded the Church of England to retranslate the Bible after complaints from the Puritans. With every document available to them—and a litany of thee’s, thou’s, and thus’s—the King James Version of the Bible was birthed. However, no one, at least in the Western world, knew what Jude was talking about when he referenced Enoch in Jude 1:14-15. No writings existed, meaning The Book of Enoch had been officially lost.

A hundred and seventy years now pass by. In 1773, Scottish explorer James Bruce wanted to discover the source of the Blue Nile (there’s two Niles—the White and the Blue—that come together to form the river that we know today). He traveled to Egypt, down the Red Sea, and eventually into Ethiopia. He made his way to the Lake Tana region and was amazed to find a tribe of Israelites living there (known as the Falashas today). They still followed their ancient Jewish religious practices and had with them entire manuscripts of The Book of Enoch written in their native Ge’ez language. James had just discovered a theological gold mine. He stayed there two years copying the books and gathering local medicinal herbs before trying to make it back to Europe. It was a difficult journey. He was held captive twice and barely escaped getting killed by tribesman. His camels all died at one point, forcing him to leave his precious books in the desert dunes. But James eventually retrieved all of his cargo and made his way home to a hero’s welcome. The books were soon translated into German, French, and English. But little fanfare announced their completion. The Book of Enoch was found to be way too extreme for the times.

Fast forwarding to modern days, most theologians now say the book was written around 200BC, by multiple different authors, and with none of them being Enoch. Personally, I have no idea. But I do like what the researcher Andy McCracken has to say on the topic:

“The standard academic view seems to be that some slightly demented religious fanatic wrote the book – not long before the earliest provable fragments, (200 or 300BC). I think it is impossible to support this view. Such an author would have to be able to write the entire book from the point of view of a person who knows nothing of countries with names, or religions with names. Then he goes on to describe the Angels as blond men, who ran away from Heaven in order to be promiscuous with women. I don’t believe this is the sort of world view that would have been well received or widely accepted anywhere in 200 BC. This plus the all too accurate prophecies are probably the reasons why it was ‘lost’ by the religions that used to regard it as holy. I concluded that the book is probably what it appears to be; well preserved, ancient and genuine. Enoch was the great-grandfather of Noah, and father of Methuselah, and his book gives a unique view of the world before the flood.”

Oh, and guess what, The Book of Enoch is biblical canon in Ethiopia. Not a huge surprise now, is it?

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When I began researching The Lucifer Project a decade ago, the VATT telescope on Mount Graham quickly showed up on my radar screen. There were two main reasons: One, they named part of their own telescope Lucifer; Two, they were just about to put on a symposium titled, “Where You Baptized by an Alien?”. If neither of these catch your attention, let me give you some reasons why they should:

Let’s start with Lucifer. More commonly known as Satan or the devil, Lucifer was the angel God put in charge of planet Earth. He was our protector, and the Bible says he had a throne, which implies subjects and authority. According to scripture, Lucifer reigned for some unknown period of time before the sin of pride developed in his heart. He wanted to be worshipped like God. He ultimately convinced 1/3 of God’s angels to join him in a rebellion against Heaven. They eventually lost and Lucifer was banished back to Earth (his kingdom), now as Satan.

Now you personally may not believe in this history. That’s up to you. But let’s be clear about the Catholic Church. This is standard church orthodoxy, and it’s pretty much been so since the beginning nearly 2,000 years ago. So why would the Vatican name their own telescope after Satan? If you’ve read my The Lucifer Project series, you’ll recognize this pseudo-acronym straight out of book one: LUCIFER – Large binocular telescope near-infrared Utility with Camera and Integral Field unit for Extragalactic Research. I didn’t make this word salad up. It came directly from the Vatican Observatory’s website, and I almost laugh thinking about how hard they must have worked to make this acronym fit. But why go through the effort? Luckily, they actually answered that question years ago. You won’t find it anymore. But facility personnel at that time said something to the effect of, “Lucifer was with God when he made the stars and the galaxies. He saw it all. Our telescope will allow us to do the same. So the name is absolutely appropriate.” Obviously this isn’t a direct quote—and I can’t give you one anymore because it’s all been scrubbed—but does that answer sit well with you? I mean, all of the other angels were with God too, not just Lucifer. They could have picked the angel Gabriel, or the mighty Michael – Mirrored Infrared Camera with Helioscopic Advanced telescope for Extragalactic Light sensing or something sciencey like that. But no, they chose Lucifer aka Satan.

Now let’s move on to their symposium. I wish, wish, wish I had downloaded a copy of this event from their website all those years ago. But I assure you, I saw it with my own eyes. My wife did too. The Vatican Observatory at Mount Graham was giving a talk on the alien race that Jesus could have come from. Yup, you read that right. They were, at a minimum, theorizing that Jesus might have come from an alien race; and thus, we were baptized by an alien. Going even deeper, this belief paired well with the stated goal for their astronomy work at that time: to discover this race of aliens that Jesus came from. They called it The Lucifer Project. And, yes, that’s exactly were the title of my series came from.

So, we circle back to our original question. What is going on at the summit of Mount Graham? Of course, right now there appears to be nothing other than typical astronomy-type activities you’d expect. But clearly something very different was going on in early 2015 when I was doing my research. Coincidentally, or perhaps not, the Vatican announced a new head of astronomy in September of that very same year. Was part of the transition a clearing up of these potentially harmful, but certainly distracting, issues?

Well, I have to admit, part of the controversy seems to end here. You see, unless someone is lying (that never happens, right?), Lucifer actually isn’t the name they gave their telescope. Lucifer is a part on one of the other telescopes up on Mount Graham … and it’s not operated by the Vatican. I know, bummer, right, it made for such a good story. But alas, it doesn’t sound like it’s meant to be. According to the Mount Graham International Observatory website, back in 2012 this other telescope renamed that part from LUCIFER to LUCI. I assume the reason was to stop all the crazed, conspiracy theorists who were undoubtedly annoying the heck out of them.

However, I still have two pretty big questions. The first one is this: I saw with my own eyes that Vatican commentary about why Lucifer was such an appropriate name. If it wasn’t your part (i.e. it was on a different telescope that you didn’t control), then why would you even talk about it?  Here’s the second one: That symposium about being baptized by an alien was real. And that begs the question, does the Vatican Observatory still think Jesus came from an extraterrestrial race? I’m quite confident they’ll say no, and that this symposium never occurred. And, of course, that I was mad to suggest anything like this. But I know what my own eyes saw.

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Anywayyyy, we know the Bible is clear that Nephilim existed. But why don’t we have physical evidence of them sitting in museums today? It’s a great question, and one I can’t answer for certain. But I do know this, there most definitely is evidence of Nephilim out there … and with it, comes what appears to be an intentional agenda to bury it all.

Now that statement sounds like a conspiracy theory is coming, right? And I guess I’ll have to say there just might be. But remember a conspiracy is only a conspiracy until the truth comes out. So, what’s the evidence? Where’s the proof? How about this for starters. In South Africa today, you can visit this rock known as Goliath’s Footprint:

Ranging from 4’ to 6’ in length (depending on where you want to take your measurements), this unusual form is just the effect of wind and rain on the region’s millennia-old granite … or so say the scientists. Normal people know this is a footprint!

Clearly something very large walked in this area (likely over cooling magma), leaving behind this massive print. You can almost see the soft rock squishing out between the giant’s toes as it walked by. The stone is vertical today likely because an ancient earthquake, or some other tectonic movement, forced it upright.

Okay, so that’s one interesting piece of evidence. But one picture doesn’t make the Nephilim fact. What else do we have? Well, this is where things get a little conspiracy’esque. Years ago, when I first began researching the giants, I found a treasure trove of fraudulent Nephilim stories and photos. One famous example was from an 1800’s farm where the landowner eventually fessed up to burying a fake Nephilim skeleton he had made of clay and concrete, etc (But hey, he had made a lot of money in the ruse). Unfortunately, today there are a ton more out there on TikTok and other social media accounts too. There are so many, in fact, that believing there might actually be some validity to the Nephilim claims feels ludicrous. But, back to my search: As I went deeper, I eventually began finding newspaper articles that, at least on the surface, seemed legit. Then I found more. Soon I had pages of them. On my wife’s wise council, I copied them onto my own computer knowing these articles just might “disappear”. Now years later, they have … behind paywalls or just **poof** gone. I am happy to share just a few of them with you:

I’ve got pages and pages more. If you happen to have access behind New York Times’ paywall and want to dive in, I have articles dated 11/21/1856, 8/10/1880, 5/25/1882, 4/11/1891, 12/21/1891, 10/3/1892, 5/4/1912, and 6/21/1925 (I’m super curious if these articles have somehow disappeared, going the way of the dodo, or if they’re still out there on microfiche). I have others from the L.A. Times and Washington Post. But I’m leaving them all off this blog as I have no interest in receiving some fun attorney letters.

Now as someone who’s seen lots of Nephilim photos (mostly fake) and read lots of stories, I believe these particular articles are very much the real thing. You’ll begin to see repeating themes across them in regard to Nephilim heights (most are in the 7’ to 8’ range), many are buried in mounds with shells, and often they are found in strange burial positions (bound sitting upright is common). And these themes hold true whether the discoveries were made in France, Russia, Mexico, Ireland, or the United States to name just a few. If all of these were fake, it would have been quite a global effort to keep their stories the same over at least the last 200 years.

So if true, then where did the skeletons go … and why? This brings us to the heart of the conspiracy. We just don’t know. But in many of these articles you’ll discover some sort of benefactor showing up (or a national museum who shall not be named) which purchases the find, takes over, and then that’s it. That’s the last we hear of it.

If you’ve read my series The Lucifer Project, you know I have fun speculating on this. But the reality is we just don’t know … and probably never will. But I think this personal account I stumbled onto years ago (that once again seems to have been scrubbed from the internet) wraps everything up nicely:

Back in the days between WWI and WWII, an American kid living out in the sticks (I think it was in Oklahoma, but my memory is fuzzy) used to love going to his community’s tiny, local museum with his father. They went several times a year and this kid’s favorite exhibit was always this giant skeleton inside a glass case, one which was way bigger than any normal human being. He grew up and eventually moved out of state. He didn’t see his parents very often after that. And more important to this story, as an adult, he never returned to the museum … at least until his father passed away. Returning for the funeral, he remembered the good times at the museum with his dad and went to see that exhibit one last time. But once he got there, it was gone. He went to the curator and asked about it, but the man looked at him cross-eyed. There never had been any giant there.

For you researchy-type folks, here are the regions and years of all the US-based Nephilim articles that I have found. I obviously can’t guarantee these are all real. But I also can’t prove they aren’t. Maybe you can find them for yourself and make your own opinion.

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