Most readers of the "UFO Digest" website already have an interest in ancient history as it has been redefined by scholars like Erich Von Daniken and Zechariah Sitchin and have come to look differently at the scriptures than the mainstream religious community would have us do. Much has been written on the universality of the Great Flood legends, for example, which serves to demonstrate how the same story is told and retold among a vastly widespread number of cultures and beliefs.

In the July 15, 1999 paper published by the journal, Geophysical Research Letters, the Sahara desert's arid climate change occurred quickly and dramatically 4000 to 3600 years ago. A team of researchers headed by Martin Cluassen of Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact research analyzed computer models of climate over the past several thousand years. They concluded that the change to today's desert climate in the Sahara was triggered by changes in the Earth's orbit and the tilt of Earth's axis.

No one should wonder why any superior intelligence alien race has not physically contacted us yet. If you take a glance at us, from outer space, an extraterrestrial would see only wars, tribulation, and disdain for fellow human beings taking place on a daily basis here. Our secular mind frame born from various religions continues to breed hatred for those who feel differently than the rest and continues to give humans an excuse to commit genocide against segments of our society.

There have been no less than four new articles in UFO Digest in the past several weeks on the movie, The Day The Earth Stood Still. This movie like the concept of 2012 has captured the public imagination. Sure, I saw the movie myself on New Years Day because I had the seen the original in the fifties as a youngster and it had forever affected my mindset. Movies like this along with Earth vs. Flying Saucers, War of the Worlds> and Forbidden Planet convinced me of the possibility of UFOs and alien life which affected my interests and life goals for the next thirty years. I wanted to see if the remake would have a similar effect. Fortunately, I have matured a lot in the intervening years and have found the answers elsewhere that I had been searching for all of my life.

For those who like their paranormal reading liberally doused with Biblical references, this is the book for you. William L. Blessing may be a little known voice in the choir of the unexplained, but he has here produced a symphony of his own hard work, material assembled over a lifetime of diligent study of the scriptures and an honest rendering of the metaphysical strangeness he has experienced and born witness to. Blessing skillfully builds his argument that the Bible makes clear reference to a world inside our Earth, the Inner Earth of the book's title. Those include verses about Christ descending into the Inner Earth to preach the gospel to the World of the Dead, as well as references in scripture to the fallen angels residing in their private Hell below our feet.