folks, the "u" in ufo stands for "unidentified". it means just that. the flying aircraft was unidentified meaning there's no reason to believe that it's occupied by aliens from another world. jeez.

folks, the "u" in ufo stands for "unidentified". it means just that. the flying aircraft was unidentified meaning there's no reason to believe that it's occupied by aliens from another world. jeez.

The "o" also means object, not aircraft. Since you are tearing the meanings of things...........lol jeez

Post in regards to the Nephilim

There is certainly ample evidence to support the existence the Nephilim. That is, if in questioning on the Nephilim your principal intention lies in the possibility of their physical existence, which is to say an inquiry into the historical precedent for the existence of giants. In that case, there is certainly ample evidence to support their existence and more to that effect, the existence of such race in the neighborhood of the Neareast around the same time period as the kingship of Saul and the battle with Goliath.

The dimensions of the Nephilim are never actually laid out. Tradition leads us to assume a massive figure of the dimensions of Polyphemus eating cattle like they're mcnuggets, but that's not actually supported by the text. In the text the Nephilim are just big. Which is to say if you are a lanky five foot tall Israelite and you find yourself facing a man who's six foot six and built like a freight train you might be inclined to call that man a giant.

This attribute is ascribed to the Mycenaeans. The heroes of the Iliad are all describes as unusually large. That may be rhetoric, but it does possess a certain authentic quality. Around one thousand B.C. the Heraclidae returned to Greece after years of exile. They destroyed the Mycenaean civilization along the way and kicked off the Greek Dark Ages, which would be the way of things with their funky Doric figurines and sparsity of writing on until the dawn of the Classical period. Question: what happened to the Mycenaeans then?

A theory that I'm rather fond of is that they became the Philistines. The Philistines are referred to as of great stature in the First Book of Samuel. There is also confirmation of this from their neighbors in Assyria and Babylon. More importantly, the Philistines were very well organized for a people who just stumbled off the boat. Almost like they had an organized system already in place when they made landfall and built up their confederacy... either through being Mycenaeans themselves or through integrating the Mycenaean system into an existent Philistine culture à la Aeneas and the Latins.

In any event, they were most likely merely a race of men who were slightly larger than their neighbors. The ascription of their descent from fallen angels sound suspiciously like old school racism to me. Most of the Old Testament passages that deal with these events were written not too long after the time of David. The idea of the scribes remembering this race of men who were gigantic and twenty different kinds of nasty, then of course they would perceive them as descended of some form of evil, the only one being extant at that time the b'anai ha Elohim.

If your question is in reference to Scripture, as to whether the Nephilim are actually the sons of fallen angels, as the above indicates I'm inclined to say 'no', that's most likely an old notion that found its way into Scripture. Kind of like the parts that talk about the place of women and the status of slaves. More descriptive of the period in which is was written than prescriptive of contemporary mores.

As to the aliens, that's more mythological than anything and as such is subject to your faith tales of abduction and not something that would greatly benefit reasoned debate with one who lacks faith. I would observe a few points in the video that seem suspect to me, as a classicist and amateur philologist, in the main because I get irritated when I see UFO theorists trying to bend the facts to support their vision of an alien armageddon.

The Egyptians are not going to offer any reasonable proof for aliens. Stargate sounds great in theory, but when you actually start chewing over the primary sources all you come up with is a lot of work and few results. A hieroglyph, for instance, cannot indicate a flying saucer. Any hieroglyph that looks like a flying saucer could just as easily be indicative of pita bread or a plate.

Egyptian art is not viable as an indicator of the existence of Nephilim in particular or giants in general. The rhetoric of imagery in Egyptian arts tends to use size as an indicator of importance. A pharaoh as a god is always portrayed as unusually large beside mortals, subjects, slaves, and a conquered foe. The film also tries to slip in images of stele from Assyria and Babylon as support for their vision of alien hybrids, when there is no critical support even offered for that position. It almost seems like the director just googled for ancient stele depicting large men and wrote them in as evidence.

Furthermore, pyramids are an evolution that develops from temple mounds and ziggurats over the course of centuries. (We know this because the earlier constructions are still standing, just not popular with tourists or documentary crews given way out the middle of nowhere.) The rhetoric of the architecture would seem to indicate an artificial mountain or womb. A long time passes before the kind of mathematical skill of the Giza pyramids is evident. Similarities with megalithic structures outside of the Neareastern tradition is stretching the facts. In Mesoamerica, for instance, the entrance to a pyramid is always at the top, from which the lord can stand and look down over the jungle. The entrance of an Egyptian pyramid is always at the bottom, with the actual tomb lying belowground, where it is most difficult to plunder. Giza pyramids were made at sharp angles. Mesoamericans were made in a step pattern. At Giza the only adornment is a golden point. In Mesoamerica the pyramids have a whole series of adornments, plus a staircase. That kind of variance suggests that the use of a pyramid structure is relative to the universality of the math and imagery more than a shared inspiration from alien sources.