When was the idea of aliens first put foward?

Question

When and where was the idea first introduced and how long until the theory spread worldwide?

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Answer 1

It is the grand delusion mentioned in 2 Thessalonians 2:10-13

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Answer 2

Jose Frink gives a perfectly true response that can be verified in any encyclopedia or online, and some mindless twit gives him a thumbs down.  May I suggest that people with substantially less than normal IQs not be permitted to judge people who actually know things?  Not liking the thought that their  Church would burn people for this notion upsets some fanatics.  Get over it.  It happened.  Your thumbs down merely shows your complete ignorance.  

Answer 3

the idea of alien visitors is as old as humanity it's self.... even 5,000 year old artifacts and cave paintings depict PERFECT saucer shaped craft like we see today, and even aliens.... (hint: the bird headed men were NOT men... and this is not the only example and not the only ancient culture to paint these creatures.... you can find it virtually in every early-human hotspot... the america's, africa, australia, europe, asia....  man old cultures also tell us ancient aliens came here, and some cultures say they enslaved us, some say they bred with us (the bible actually) and yet even more say they genetically engineered us.... some are malovent, some are benevolent... some have conquered our ancient ancestors, and others have protected them....

point is, alien visitors is scattered throughout primitive cultures.... it's not unique to the 20th century as most believe...

Answer 4

Alien Encounters Recorded In The Old Testament

By James Donahue

Anyone with an open mind who has ever examined the Old Testament stories knows that there are interesting stories tucked among those pages that strongly suggest human contact with aliens in flying ships was relatively common.

Some years back, during my church cavorting days, I was a member of an adult Sunday morning Bible study group taught by a pious but well-educated public school administrator who we goaded into teaching from the Book of Ezekiel. I admittedly had a lot to do with picking that book for study, and convincing the other class members to support my campaign to dig into the teachings from that intriguing Old Testament manuscript.

Of course, I was fully aware that the author of Ezekiel clearly describes a wheel within a wheel on a fiery craft that descends to Earth before his eyes. I was so convinced that the story reflected a landing by an alien craft, I could hardly wait for the class to start.

Ezekiel gets right to this story in the first chapter, verse 4: “I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north—an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal.”

It gets better. In verses 16-21 the author writes: “This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like chrysolite, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not turn about as the creatures went. Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around. When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose.”

Believe it or not, the man who taught that class flew through these verses in lightning speed, explaining it all in terms as powerful angelic figures ascending from the heavens to bring Ezekiel an important message from God. He did not open the verses for careful study and discussion.

As hard and skillfully as I tried to slow him down, the get him on the topic, the subject of a UFO with aliens at the wheel was completely dismissed in that class. It was a perfect example of just how close-minded Christians can be about anything that challenges pre-conceived beliefs.

If you want a very good scientific examination of the Ezekiel story I would highly recommend The Spaceships of Ezekiel by Josef F. Blumrich. The guy is a NASA engineer who tears the verses apart line-by-line and concludes that Ezekiel did, indeed, witness the landing of an oval ship emitting flame and smoke that dropped down out of the sky.

Ezekiel isn’t the only book in the Old Testament that suggests alien contact . . . or at least visions of some kind of flying craft that drops from the heavens. Remember the spinning chariots of fire that took the prophet Elijah off into heaven. (2 Kings 2:11) Also Isaiah includes an account of the Lord coming with chariots that spin and glow with flames of fire (Isaiah 66:5).

Jeremiah speaks of chariots of God that spin and fly swiftly (Jeremiah 4:13) and Zechariah sees four flying vehicles coming from between two bronze colored mountains (6:1)

The story of Job tells how the Lord speaks to Job from a spinning, flying object (38:1)

These old stories, plus the strange story in Genesis about the giants that were “in the earth in those days” preceding the flood, all point to long-term contact with an alien race. The Genesis story teases us with further information about how the “sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.”

It seems as if the old writers of these verses had constant visits with the aliens who were probably busy manipulating the human genetic footprint and keeping the human race on the right spiritual path up until at least 2,000 years ago. After Christianity, however, it seems that we have lost our way. We have forgotten our roots and no longer know who we are.

Answer 5

1956 President Eisenhower sighned a pac with the alien nation,dont think so?You can do your own research its not that secret anymore.

Answer 6

The first person known to have suggested the idea was Giordano Bruno in 1584. He was burned at the stake for this.

Answer 7

  When canals on Mars were first thought to be artifacts of intelligent beings,likely this was the most serious thought of alien life .

Answer 8

what do you mean when .......if you beleave in the bible c**p ...where do you think we come from .....thats right aliens

Answer 9

i think 1908 when a women claimed that she had been woken by a strange beeing and woke up in a white room

Answer 10

You’d have to expand, I don’t know if you mean ‘the idea of civilisations on other worlds’ or the more modern perception and pop culture of alien visitation and abduction?  I can tell you that the later is directly related to middle age demonology but I haven’t a clue who first proposed the idea of extra terrestrial civilisations on other worlds.

Answer 11

I found this that might help

http://www.unexplainedstuff.com/Invaders...

Answer 12

In the 19th century, writers such as H.G. Wells, and astronomers such as Lowell first popularised the idea. But it's always been there. From ancient times to today it's always been one of our greatest, and for now unresolvable questions.

Answer 13

The idea that life on Earth came from another planet has been around as a modern scientific theory since the 1960s when it was proposed by Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe. At the time they were ridiculed for their idea – known as panspermia.

Answer 14

The idea of panspermia goes back to at least the ancient Greeks.  The idea is that life didn't get started on it's own on Earth.  Earth was seeded by life from elsewhere.

The first known mention of the idea was in the writings of the 5th century BC Greek philosopher Anaxagoras.