Our clearest record of a long-term alien presence on our planet is contained in the thousands of cuneiform clay tablets written by the ancient Sumerians. These records tell not only of their alien-inspired culture but also contain information about the "gods" who created them and lived among them for thousands of years before moving off-planet to let the human species develop on their own. Zechariah Sitchin is not the only person who can translate these texts. There are a handful of other people who have also done so. It is in the interpretation that these men differ.

The academic mythologists read these matter-of-fact tablets and say the Annunaki were just ancient "fairy tales." Joseph Campbell considers them tales of Jungian archetypes while Julian Jaynes labeled them as schizophrenic hallucinations. Only Sitchin has interpreted them as a straightforward documentation of what these ancient people saw and knew and lived with on a daily basis.

These records of the "gods" were right alongside the daily inventory lists, marriage and deed records, and other daily life documents a civilized culture needs to keep up with itself. Then there are the tablets that contain accurate astronomical data on the movement and composition of our solar system that includes information about the outer planets that can only be seen with telescopic equipment. Increased research in archeology and other scientific disciplines is slowly disproving the mythology and giving clues as to the fact of the alien reality from our past.

Astronomically it is known now that the wobble and variations in the orbits of Pluto and Charon can only be caused by an as yet undiscovered outer planet. Recently another object, larger than Pluto, was discovered in the Kuiper Belt around the major planets' orbital area. Eris proves that there is still much to be discovered on the far edges of our solar system. Even further out is the debris field called the Oort Cloud of material. It is from this distant area most of the comets originate from. It is also speculated that a search for the Annunaki's homeworld should start here and most likely already has.

Since the finding of the IRAS, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, from the mid 1980's found what could be considered a tenth planet, facts have been harder to find. It is known that the Naval Observatory was constructed at great cost in Antarctica. In 1992 Harrington and van Flandern of that Observatory published their opinions that what they were observing was indeed another planet and that it could well be an "intruder" planet from outside our own solar system. What makes this discovery so important is that Harrington had originally invited Sitchin to help him go through the ancient Sumerian information so he would know where he needed to look to locate this planet!

On a technological level the proof of an ancient advanced technology existing on our planet can be found through the growing catalog of ooparts (Out Of Place Artifacts in Relation to Time and Space) that have been unearthed. Everything from human footprints criss-crossing dinosaur tracks in Texas to the nearly 5,000 year old electrical batteries discovered in Iraq point to a presence on the planet that far precedes human existence. One can include the exacting stone architecture of ancient monuments that we cannot match even with our modern building techniques. And there is the 1889 discovery by Sir Flinders Petrie of the ancient gold processing plant at Mt. Horeb in Africa, which showed that monoatomic gold superconductors were known and created many thousands of years ago.

And there is the growing genetic evidence that points to the elusive "missing link" between proto-humans and Cro-Magnon homo sapiens as possibly existing only in the laboratories of the Annunaki. The Sumerian texts place the location of the genetic laboratories of Enki and Ninhursag in Africa, coincidentally in the same area and within the same time frame as our discovery of the origins of the mitochondrial DNA that runs through the entire human population.

This location, incidentally, is right near the ancient African gold mines of the Annunaki, adding to the proof of the tale that they originally created us as a slave/worker class to do the mining that had grown so wearisome to the Annunaki themselves. There is as well the evidence that evolution often takes millions of years to create major change in a species. Homo sapiens sapiens went from origin to our modern level of social and mental development in a mere quarter of a million years, much too quickly for natural selection and mutation to have worked.

It may be humbling to some and an outrage to others to think that we are not necessarily the greatest beings in the galaxy. It may be more comforting to some to have originated in some mythical "creation" than to have been the result of a genetic breeding program of an unknown alien race of beings. But a hard truth should always be better than a comfortable lie and as evidence piles upon evidence, it is up to all humans to contemplate the possible alien connection surrounding our very existence.

In our modern civilization, atomic power and atomic weapons of mass destruction have only existed for about 70 years. Physicists worked for years to develop the complex and tricky technology to create nuclear fission. But were they actually reinventing the wheel as it were? Archeology has presented us with several places on our planet where it seems both fission reactors and atomic bombs were used thousands of years ago. Did the self-confessed alien Annunaki, the "gods" of the Sumerian culture, utilize the same atomic power we have?

It is well documented in the cuneiform texts of the Sumerians that Africa was a primary location for the Annunaki's mining of the mineral wealth of the planet. While gold, said to be needed to repair the atmosphere of their home world Nibiru, was of primary importance still they mined for many other minerals and gems. In 1972 the French nuclear analyst Bougzigues detected depleted uranium in the ore shipments being received at the Pierrelatte Nuclear Fuel Processing Plant. This anomalous uranium was traced to the mines in Oklo, in the central African State of Gabon. French scientists concluded that the material was in all isotopic respects and ratios similar to the used nuclear fuel produced in modern fission reactors.

They found six zones of depleted uranium with its plutonium byproduct in thirteen distinct reactors along a 200 meter stretch of the mine bed. The official story emerged that this very difficult and complex reaction was a naturally occurring nuclear reactor that was being moderated by water alone. This "natural" reactor was so well contained that the heat generated only affected the stone around it for a distance of a mere 40 meters. Strange that this is the only place on the planet where such a thing occurred and didn't go critical and blow up all at once. Could this not be rather the dump where spent fuel was buried by an ancient nuclear powered civilization, much the same way, but more contained, as we do the spent reactor fuel that comes out of modern nuclear reactors?

The Annunaki's sphere of influence was not limited to Sumeria and the Mesopotamian region. As well as spreading into Egypt and down into Africa, they had culture centers as far East as the Indus River Valley. In Rajasthan, India, a mere ten miles from modern day Jodhpur is a three-square mile area of land so high in radiation that when investigating the abnormal numbers of cancers and birth-defects among the people they had to restrict the area. Under this irradiated ground, archeologists uncovered the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. Uncovered at the site were the skeletons of bodies left lying in the street, some still holding hands, as though a swift doom had overtaken them. One body, as reported by the Russian Alexander Gorbovsky had a radiation level fifty times higher than normal.

Besides the bodies left to lay, possibly because there was no one left to bury them, were many "black stones", the melted remnants of clay pots and urns that had been subjected to swift and intense heat. Most of the buildings had been destroyed. Mixed into the soil on the cities' level is a layer of radioactive dust and ash. Carbon dating has placed the devastating event to between 8,000 ans 12,000 years ago. That the ruins look as though they experienced the same devastation as Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 should not come as a surprise. An account of the nuclear destruction of the city was written about in the Mahabharata.

Gurkha,
flying a swift and powerful vimana
hurled a single projectile
Charged with all the power of the Universe.
An incandescent column of smoke and flame
As bright as the thousand suns
Rose in all its splendour...
a perpendicular explosion
with its billowing smoke clouds...
...the cloud of smoke
rising after its first explosion
formed into expanding round circles
like the opening of giant parasols...
..it was an unknown weapon,
An iron thunderbolt,
A gigantic messenger of death,
Which reduced to ashes
The entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.
...The corpses were so burned
As to be unrecognizable.
The hair and nails fell out;
Pottery broke without apparent cause,
And the birds turned white.
After a few hours
All foodstuffs were infected...
...to escape from this fire
The soldiers threw themselves in streams
To wash themselves and their equipment.

These ancient lines from Indian literature not only name the pilot (Gurkha) of the aircraft (the vimana) that dropped the bomb but also does a credible job of describing the mushroom cloud and the effects of radiation poisoning after the blast.

The Annunaki fought many wars among themselves for pride and position. Theirs was the only culture we have written evidence of their existence at this time who could have had the technology to fly in an atomic bomb to drop on their enemies. Even Oppenheimer, the builder of the bomb at the Manhattan Project was asked "How do you feel after having exploded the first atomic bomb on earth". Oppenheimer's reply for the question was, "not first atomic bomb, but first atomic bomb in modern times".

According to the ancient Sumerian cuneiform texts, their gods, overlords, and creators, the Annunaki, came down out of the sky to Earth from a different planet in our solar system. This home of their gods was not formed here with the rest of our planetary bodies but rather was captured by the Sun's gravity a very long time ago.

This planet, called by them, Nibiru, Planet of the Crossing, caused major upheaval in the entire system, altering and destabilizing the orbits of the existing planets and actually throwing two of them together in a cataclysmic collision which eventually stabilized into the duel planetary system of the Earth and the Moon.

Being an outsider, Nibiru does not follow the plane of the Elliptic but rather follows a widely cast orbit of approximately 3,600 years from the area of the inner planets out into the Oort cloud that surrounds our entire solar system. On board this far traveled and alien planet there lived a race of very long-lived, highly technologically advanced beings who had survived the long journey through interstellar space and were ready to explore the planets around the new star they would hereafter call their own.

Again, according to the tales they told, their exploration of planet Earth began as early as 450,000 years ago. Their purpose was the exploitation of the mineral wealth found here. Gold was needed to repair the atmosphere of their home-world and Earth had that in abundance. Originally, the mining was done by the aliens themselves, but the work was hard and arduous even for such a long-lived race and the workers rebelled against such a menial task. As a replacement, the alien scientists created a worker class of beings through genetically mixing their DNA with that of a primitive species, homo erectus, that had naturally developed on planet Earth. These new beings were homo sapiens, our first direct ancestors.

Through the ages of their reign the Annunaki continued to travel between the worlds when Nibiru passed back into the inner system. After building a vast civilization the mission to Earth was done and they determined to leave Earth and all return to their home planet.

Now the time is nearing when Nibiru should once more be moving into the inner part of the solar system on its long journey around the sun. The implications of just the gravitational effect such an occurrence could have on our world have the potential to be catastrophic for our civilization. If these ancient writings of the Sumerians are not a mere fiction, and the Sumerians were a practical and pragmatic people, then it would behoove us to know how near the rogue planet will come to our own and how great the gravitational stresses on our world we may expect.

There is a growing rumor that our modern scientists have rediscovered this approaching planetary body. With the dangerous implications it presents, a conspiracy of silence is said to be issued by the world's governments to prevent fear creating chaos among the masses of the people. The first positive identification of a planet-sized body moving towards us is said to have been found in the scans of NASA's Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) launched in 1983. After ten months of gazing into the depths of space, the official story is that IRAS quit functioning. Unofficially, the former US intelligence officer John Maynard has disclosed that in actuality the scans detected a very large, very hot (by infrared standards) object in the system and it was thereafter commandeered to track this object exclusively in order to help determine its path.

Now, at incredible expense, the South Pole Telescope (SPT) has been constructed in the heart of the frozen Antarctic continent. With clear air the SPT can view the skies nearly as well as the aging Hubble Space Telescope. There is also the rumor that the object first seen by IRAS is approaching from the southern skies and the SPT has been specifically positioned to keep track of this object in an attempt to plot just how close to Earth it will come in its passing. The SPT has been unofficially dubbed the new Planet X Tracker.

If this rumor is true, we can hope that Nibiru will pass closest on the far side of the sun where the gravitational influence may only cause an increase in tectonic shifts and an increase in volcanoes and earthquakes. If it passes very much nearer, these planetary stress symptoms have the potential to cause enough destruction that our very civilization may be in danger of extinction.

And another important reason for tracking this mysterious object as it approaches the inner solar system is this: When it made its last run through the inner planets, the Annunaki left Earth supposedly to give their human creations a chance to grow and develop on their own. With its return, the Sumerian texts say, they are planning on coming back to see how well we have done.

About 6,000 years ago something that was as amazing as it was illogical occurred on planet Earth. An advanced, culturally complex and intelligent human culture sprang full-blown into recorded history. Without passing through more primitive stages of evolution, trial and error, and slow-growing learning, Sumeria started its existence already formed and set in its ways. The Sumerians themselves wrote, as they were suddenly able to do, that they did not develop their culture themselves but were merely the inheritors of what was given them by their "Lords," ancient, long-lived beings whose very name, Annunaki, translates as "Those who from the heavens came down." They credit the creation of human civilization, human knowledge, and, in fact, humans themselves, to alien beings who came from another planet.

There are few people on Earth who have the knowledge to read and translate the cuneiform writing of these ancient people. Of the handful, it is impossible to avoid the work of Zecharia Sitchin. The great controversy surrounding his work is not his translations of the Sumerian texts but his interpretation of them. Sitchen views the words as being literal; for instance, when they say a "god" came to visit a temple he interprets it that "someone" did show up. He does not second-guess the meaning of an author 6,000 years ago and say they were only speaking metaphorically.

With the knowledge we can learn from these ancient people, we can begin to see a pattern develop that gives good indication for these literal interpretations. The Sumerians considered Earth the seventh planet, as their alien "gods" referred to it for being the seventh planet in towards the sun with Pluto being the first, Uranus the second, etc. That these ancient people knew of these outer planets without the aid of telescopes indicates someone from the outside had informed them. Our own science did not "rediscover" Pluto until 1930.

Another concept the Sumerians retold from their alien gods was that the Earth and the Moon were created as we know them today from a collision between two planets that had been thrown together because of the gravitational disturbance of the passage of their own planet, Nibiru, when it was first captured by our Sun. Until recently, this idea had been scoffed at but new studies indicate that this is a most likely reality. Two sources of further study can be found at: the June, 2000 edition of "Spatium" the magazine of the International Space Science Institute, and in a recent article from ScienceDaily.com on June, 7, 2010. Again, ancient people without advanced technology knew of a thing we are only beginning to find proof of.

The Sumerian aliens stated they had sent a mining colony to Earth over 400,000 years ago. That there were spacefaring beings on the planet so long ago could help explain the existence of so many of the mysterious Out Of Place Artifacts in Relation to Time and Space (OOPARTS) that have confused and confounded the "academically established" order of human evolution.

The ancient Sumerian texts also state that these aliens grew tired of working the mines themselves and commissioned their genetic scientists to create a "worker class" from indigenous beings. Of the various species of homo erectus available for manipulation, Neanderthal man has been shown to be related to us, homo sapiens sapiens. There has yet to be discovered the mysterious "missing link" that connects the two lines together. Could that be because the "link" is the product of an alien genetics laboratory rather than the slow process nature takes to evolve a species?

According to the Sumerians, the aliens finally left Earth so their "creations" could develop on their own. There is, however, the caveat that they would return sometime to see how well that experiment worked. This is the basis of many modern religions. It also gives rise to the question of whether or not the aliens left representatives behind to watch the development of man. Are they still watching or have they over the centuries taken a more direct, although hidden, hand in the affairs of humanity? And through all this is the question, "What will happen when/if these ancient Sumerian aliens DO come back to reestablish their rule over a planet and a species they may feel they own by right of having been here long before us?

We will be investigating these and many more questions about the Annunaki as time progresses.

Upshur County, West Virginia is a classic example of Appalachian coal country. Besides the mineral wealth of the earth, its forested hills provide an equally valuable timber industry. There is only one incorporated city, the County Seat of Buckhannon, with numerous diminutive unincorporated communities interspersed through the forest ridges and valleys. It seems an unusual place for an artifact that insinuates a prehuman civilization to have been discovered.

The Second World War was reaching its climax in 1944 when then ten year old Newton Anderson went to his home's basement for another load of locally produced coal for the family fire. One large lump falls to the floor and splits along the seam and exposes an object hidden away in the mineral that formed roughly three hundred million years ago in the Carboniferous Era. It is a brass, hand-held bell!

The most distinguishing feature of the bell is the carved figure on its top. It is of a humanoid figure which appears to be in a kneeling position with wings and a beak. There was an iron clapper still attached to the inside of the bell. The object has changed hands since Mr. Anderson found it years ago. In 2007 it came into the hands of the newly constructed Institute for Creation Research and on display at the Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky. According to the Institute, the bell was delivered to the University of Oklahoma for analysis by the nuclear activation method. While it is brass, it is not the brass alloy that has been used by our civilization since at least the rise of the Sumerian culture some six thousand years ago. It has an unusual mixture of copper, zinc, tin, arsenic, iodine, and selenium.

Also to help verify the story behind the bell's discovery, the Institute solicited the services of a licensed polygraph expert to test Mr. Anderson about the finding of this unusual object. The examiner, Mr. L. Stan Fulmer of Davidson, North Carolina is a trained professional with over twenty-seven years experience performing polygraph tests for both the courts and private sector businesses. His findings were that Mr. Anderson was expressing no deception when he related his story.

The figure adorning the bell is an interesting study in the possibility of either an ancient pre-Adamic race as the founders of the Creation Institute believe or evidence of an ancient alien presence on our planet long before humanity emerged. Both theories are possible and could well be one and the same. The Sumerian legends of the Annunaki say that their planet Nibiru had already been captured in orbit around our sun before the Earth had restablized from its collision with Tiamat. It is therefore possible they were traveling to and exploring this planet long before the four hundred thousand year mark that Sumerian legend says was the time of their colonization.

It is known that the astronauts that piloted the Annunaki rockets were always depicted with wings and bird-headed helmets. Couldn't it be just as likely that the image is a depiction of one of these voyagers as it might be a "demon" from a mythology millions of years younger than the geological strata the bell was buried in? That this artifact ended up in what is now West Virginia in the North American continent is not so unbelievable. A people capable of interplanetary travel would have no trouble traveling anywhere on the planet. That this out of place and time artifact was even found after its long wait in the dark is a testament to the incredible potential for the amazing, whether terrestrial or of otherworldly origin.

Twentieth century archaeology uncovered a literary gold mine from the past when they excavated the massive library of clay tablets stored in the area that was once known as Sumeria in our current Middle East. Thousands of records written in cuneiform, possibly the first written human language, divulged a great storehouse of information, including much that on first look conflicted greatly with our understanding of our planet's past and our rise to dominance of the planet.

These records describe to gravitational capture of a rogue planet that had been traveling the depths of interstellar space for unknown eons. This planet, called Nibiru, turned out to be much more than a mere wayward rock. According to the Sumerian texts, this planet was inhabited by a race of virtually immortal beings that the Sumerians considered to be their gods. This intrusion was so far back in our solar system's history that planet Earth was said to be formed from the collision of two planetary bodies being knocked together by the gravitational disruption Nibiru caused by passing within the inner part of the system.

Whether due to the long voyage between the stars or because of damage to Nibiru during it's gravitational capture, its inhabitants needed the raw materials to fix the damage and maintain the internal heat of this "radiant" planet. As time passed they colonized the earth and began mining operations. While they took many materials, it was gold they most fervently sought for its electrical properties to heal the wounds in Nibiru's atmosphere.

Using the astronomical data about Nibiru that was presented in the Sumerian texts, astronomers used the "Infrared Astronomical Satellite" to scan the far reaches of our system to see if they could locate what was causing the wobble in the orbits of the outer planets. In the 1983-84 observations from this satellite’s data was discovered a planetary body immersed in to Oort cloud of debris on the edges of our star system. This planetary body fit the descriptions of a retrograde orbit that did not lie along the plane of the elliptic and was roughly where projected orbital calculations would put Nibiru at this time in history. While this discovery made news at first, it quickly became a buried subject that no one seemed to want to discuss.

Had they realized they had discovered the home planet of the ancient aliens that walked our Earth long before we even existed?

In recent years the excavation and subsequent translation of thousands of clay tablets from the ancient land of the Sumerians has sparked a new controversy over just who we humans really are and where we originated. Based primarily on the work of the linguistic scholar Zechariah Sitchin, these translated writings from the earliest days of our known history tell some interesting and occasionally shocking stories about our beginnings.

Along with lists of daily business transactions there are extensive and detailed tables of scientific and astronomical information. The priest/scientist class of these ancient people were very interested in the movements of the planets with especial care about the proper times when a spacecraft/rocket could travel from Earth to what is described as the home planet of their gods. This was not mythology for the Sumerians as these gods lived among them and ruled over them.

Added to the fact that these tablets accurately portrayed all the planets of our solar system, including those only visible with large telescopes, is the system by which they are numbered. The planets in the ancient Sumerian texts count inward from outer space rather than outward from the sun.

Annunaki or Annukim translates from the Sumerian language as "Those who from the sky (or stars) came". The discovered tablets contain stories of how the planet of the gods entered our solar system very long ago and destabilized the planets to the point of causing the destruction of one, now circling the sun as the asteroid belt, and the collision of two others. These two broke up and ultimately reformed as the Earth and the Moon.

Much later, as the new planet Earth stabilized and developed life, the Annunaki journeyed from their home planet, called Nibiru, and set up several colonies on the young planet. The primary purpose for this colonization was to mine several natural resources, most notably gold, to be used to repair the damaged atmosphere of their home world. It is recorded on these tablets that the Annunaki are virtually immortal, with life spans so long that a single administrative assignment on Earth was two thousand years.

It is only circumstantial, but this could explain why, even as far from their colonies in what is now called the Middle East, there are fossil records that show in an ancient Texas mudflat, the tracks of a shoe wearing human crossing and mixing with the tracks of a dinosaur. From these tablets comes the belief that these aliens have been here from the very beginning.