THEORY: Aliens were real to Matest Agrest, the scientist who first proposed, in 1960, that Earth was visited long ago.

Agrest's ancient astronauts

THEORY: Aliens were real  to Matest Agrest, the scientist who first proposed, in 1960, that Earth was visited long ago.

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By RICO R. REED

Of The Post and Courier staff

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With the release of the movie "Independence Day," millions of people all across America are viewing destruction caused by extra-terrestrials. Multi-million dollar blockbuster movies based on the outer-space theme are hot tickets for the movie industry.

Matest Agrest, one of the first people to advance a theory that Earth was visited in prehistoric times by intelligent beings from outer space theme are hot tickets for the industry. Matest Agrest, one of the first people to advance a theory that Earth was visited in prehistoric times by intelligent beings from outer space, now lives west of Ashley, a refugee from the turmoil in the former Soviet republics.

In an article printed on Feb. 9, 1960, in the Russian Literaturnaya Gazeta, rather than in a scientific journal, Agrest proposed that extra-terrestrials visited the Earth in prehistoric times. On feb 10, 1960, a brief article appeared in The New York Times about Agrest's idea. Agrest proposed that Sodom and Gomorrah may have been destroyed by a nuclear explosion set off by invaders from outer space. His insight on the subject came from reading biblical text on Sodom and Gomorrah in the light of modern science. According to the Bible, lot and his family were warned to gey out of town by two divine messengers. 

"As a hall of fire and brimstone..."