Where did the idea for, "Majestic XII" come from?

When I started writing this book, I had never heard of Majestic XII. The original, working title was, "The Ark and the Lost Temple of Solomon." I usually begin writing with just a germ of an idea, with no real sense of where the book will go, and most certainly no idea of the ending. The germ in this case was a documentary I'd seen, where it was reported that a modern-day camcorder had been found in an ancient burial crypt, suggesting the possibility of time travel. This sparked my imagination, and I began to write, repalcing the camcorder idea with an ancient, 2,000 year old papyrus, written in modern English and addressed to a lady in Albuquerque, USA.

As the book developed, I began to research extraterrestrial phenomena, and to my delight I found the Bible full of references to what I believe to be extraterrestrial contact.

This is from Exodus, when the Jewish people were escaping from the Egyptians.

“…And the Lord went on before, to guide them on their journey; by day in a pillar of cloud, by night in a pillar of fire; he was their guide at all times; every day a pillar of cloud, every night a pillar of fire moved on before the people giving them light."

You see, clouds simply don’t move along in the form of a pillar nor do they have fiery pillars, within them, so what I’m suggesting is that the writers in those days explained what they saw within the limitations of their experience and vocabulary.

The Bible speaks repeatedly of anomalous craft appearing in the sky, with literally dozens and dozens of references to shining clouds, flaming chariots, balls and pillars of fire. In the perception of the ancient authors who contributed to the writings in the Bible, the only objects they would have associated with flying would have been birds or clouds. And they most certainly would have absolutely no concept of a combustible machine.

This next quote is from Exodus, chapter 19, verse 16 onwards:

“Morning broke and all at once thunder was heard, lightning shone out, and the mountain was covered with thick mist; loud rang the trumpet blast, and the people in the camp were dismayed. But Moses brought them out from the camp itself to meet the Lord, and they stood there close by the spurs of the mountain. The whole of Mount Sinai was by now wreathed in smoke, where the Lord had come down with fire about him, so that smoke went up as if from a furnace; it was a mountain full of terrors. Louder yet grew the noise of the trumpet, longer its blast; and then Moses spoke to the Lord, and the Lord’s voice was heard in answer. It was on the very top of Mount Sinai that the Lord had come down, and now he called Moses up to the summit.”

In my opinion, which incidentally is shared by some highly respected minds, including a Nobel Laureate, the above piece is a pretty vivid description of the landing of a rocket powered craft.

Check out this next quote from Genesis, Chapter 6, Verses 1-4 and make of it what you will:

"Time passed and the race of men began to spread over the face of the earth, they and the daughters that were born to them. And now the sons of God (it should be noted that in ancient Sumerian, the term, ‘sons of God’ has the equivalent meaning of, angels) saw how beautiful were these daughters of men, and took them as wives, choosing where they would. The sons of God mated with the daughters of men, and by them had children.”

History books are also filled with references to great heroes in ancient societies being referred to as demigods. The one thing they all seemed to have in common, is the belief that gods were physical beings so similar to men as to make inter-breeding possible. This belief was evident with the Sumerians, the Hebrews and then the Greeks.

Are these the rantings and ravings of lunatics or ancient descriptions of what today would undoubtedly be referred to as, type three, extraterrestrial encounters?

Much of what we know about the past comes from what is referred to as mythology, and it is an indisputable fact that many myths from totally separate races and cultures share an amazing similarity, yet there is no evidence of the possibility of cultural contact between these races.

But one need not go back to writings that are thousands of years old. The following is treated in my previous novel, "Satan's Church," and is a published description of the so-called, "Miracle of the Sun," witnessed by no less than 70,000 people near the small town of Fatima in Portugal in 1917. It follows the so-called appearance of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ to three shepherd children, and has been authenticated by the Vatican as Catholic dogma.

"The clouds parted, reavealing the sun as a giant silver disk shining more intensely than ever before, yet people were able to stare at it without being blinded. Then, as witnessed by the crowd of more than seventy thousand, the great disk began to dance, spinning like a collosal ball of fire, spraying bright flames across the sky. Then abruptly it stopped. The multitude held its breath. The sun started again, this time travelling in the opposite direction. This was repeated three times. it stopped again. the great sphere of light began to quiver and reverberate. Suddenly it plunged, twisting and turning, plummeting on a collision course with the terrified crowd. The miracle lasted a full ten minutes, and then the fiery orb returned to its place in the sky, and was normal again."

Today, we know full well that the sun just does not behave like this. Intersestingly enough, there were no reports of strange solar activity from other parts of the world. So, what did the 70,000 odd witnesses really see?

It was along this line of research that I stumbled across the Roswell cover-up and hence Majestic XII, and so my book developed.

If you would like to order Majestic XII, or Satan's Church, you can do so on http://www.seekbooks.com.au/ and I'd love to get your feedback.

Satan's Church and Cardinal George Pell

I recently ran into the good cardinal at Dymock's book store in George St Sydney. Not being able to resist, I bought a copy of my own book, Satan's Church and presented it to Cardinal Pell with my compliments, and suggested he read it to get in touch with what people are finding wrong with the Catholic Church today. He smiled warily, thanked me for the copy but to date I have yet to receive a response or comment.