“A Firsthand Account of Ancient Aliens”: A Review of Thiaoouba Prophecy (first published as Abduction to the 9th Planet), by Michel Desmarquet.
“A Firsthand Account of Ancient Aliens”: A Review of Thiaoouba Prophecy (first published as Abduction to the 9th Planet ), by Michel Desmarquet. Trans. from French manuscript (now lost) by Kay Smith. Edited and corrected by Dr. Tom Chalko, Louise Ovcar, and Manninder Sekhon (Arafura Publishing, 2004). ISBN: 0 9577882 3 1 Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence . —Carl Sagan (1980) Although the opening epigraph is primarily attributed to the famous host of Cosmos , it was also similarly stated by Thomas Jefferson (1808), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1814), Théodore Flournoy (1899), and Marcello Truzzi (1978). Then again, the famed UFOlogist, author, and lecturer, Stanton Friedman, might have countered that “an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” As an experiencer and longtime investigator of high strangeness, UFOlogy, and the survival of consciousness after death, it is always a challenge to review and assess the veracity of books such as this one. First...