Credible Theories
Theories with evidence, sourced · 159 rabbit holes · 434 people and places · every page sourced

Ancient Texts, UFO Files and Strange History, Sourced

Two hundred Watchers landing on Mount Hermon, a fish-man who taught Babylon to write, Roman ships gleaming in the sky, and the UFO and UAP files governments have since released: read what each record actually says, then follow any name deeper.

VisitorsThe Guy Hottel Memo (FBI Vault UFO File)A one-page 1950 FBI memo about three "flying saucers" in New Mexico became the most viewed document in the FBI's online Vault.BeingsNephilimVisitorsThe USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" and the Navy UAP VideosLost worldsGöbekli TepeDeclassifiedStargate: The Government's Remote Viewing ProgramVisitorsAnunnakiLost worldsAtlantisVisitorsRendlesham Forest and the Halt MemoVisitorsPushpaka Vimana

Credible Theories collects strange things that have a real paper trail: old texts, government files and UFO and UAP reports. Every page links its sources and keeps the record apart from the speculation.

Browse by Topic: Ancient Texts to Declassified Files

143rabbit holesAncient TextsLost books, banned books and the strangest passages in scripture and myth, quoted from public-domain translations with…37rabbit holesVisitors From ElsewhereBeings who came down from the sky in the old texts, and the modern UFO and UAP records governments have released. Each…16rabbit holesDeclassified FilesStrange records governments have released: FBI Vault files, CIA reading room documents, Air Force and Navy reports…5rabbit holesMind and Psi ResearchThe real government programs that tested psychics, remote viewing and mind control, told from the declassified files…45rabbit holesGiants, Gods and BeingsNephilim, Watchers, jinn, the Anunnaki and every strange being the old books describe, each on its own sourced page.15rabbit holesLost WorldsDrowned lands, buried temples and cities that vanished: Atlantis, Göbekli Tepe, Doggerland, Helike, and what…28rabbit holesStrange Skies and DisastersSky events and sudden disasters recorded by people who could not explain them: comets, supernovas, a year without…14rabbit holesStrange Objects and ArtifactsArks, seals, flying chariots and desert glass: objects from the old records that are hard to explain, and the real…6rabbit holesMyths CheckedFamous claims checked against the actual documents. Sometimes the claim is wrong. Often the real record is stranger…

Start Here: Nephilim, Watchers and the Book of Enoch

Record · FBI VaultThe Guy Hottel Memo (FBI Vault UFO File)A one-page 1950 FBI memo about three "flying saucers" in New Mexico became the most viewed document in the FBI's online Vault.Record · FBI VaultThe FBI's Extra-Sensory Perception FileA small FBI Vault file shows the Bureau weighing a 1957 claim that blind people could be taught to see without their eyes.Record · CIA / US Army / Defense Intelligence AgencyStargate: The Government's Remote Viewing ProgramFor more than two decades, US intelligence agencies paid for research into "remote viewing," the claimed ability to see distant places with the mind.Record · CIA / Stanford Research InstituteThe SRI Psychic Experiments (Puthoff, Targ and Uri Geller)In 1972 two laser physicists at SRI got the CIA to fund psychic experiments. In 1973 they tested Uri Geller in a shielded room.Being · Hebrew BibleNephilimThe mysterious offspring of the sons of God and the daughters of men, named twice in the Bible and never fully explained.Being · Enoch literatureThe Watchers (Grigori)Heavenly beings who never sleep, sent to watch humanity, who in the Enoch books came down, took wives, and taught forbidden arts.Being · Sumer and BabylonAnunnakiThe great gods of Sumer and Babylon, whose name means something like 'offspring of An', the sky god. They also became judges of the dead.Text · Enoch literature; Ethiopian Orthodox canon1 EnochThe ancient Jewish book of the Watchers, giants and heavenly journeys, quoted in the New Testament and preserved whole only in Ethiopia.Being · Quran and Arabian loreJinnA second intelligent species made of smokeless fire, invisible, with free will, and once able to eavesdrop on the sky.Place · Other traditionsGöbekli TepeCarved stone pillars in southeast Turkey, raised by hunter-gatherers over 11,000 years ago, seven thousand years before Stonehenge.Object · IndiaPushpaka VimanaThe flying palace-car of the Ramayana, built for the gods, stolen by Ravana, and flown home by Rama with his whole army aboard.Being · Jewish mysticism (Hekhalot)MetatronThe highest angel of Jewish mystical texts, once the human Enoch, called 'the lesser YHWH' and given a throne of his own.Being · Sumer and BabylonOannesA fish-bodied teacher who rose from the sea, taught the Babylonians writing and law by day, and went back into the water at night.Being · IrelandTuatha Dé DanannThe god-like people of Irish legend who arrived in dark clouds, carrying four treasures, and later withdrew into the hills.Being · QuranHarut and MarutTwo angels in Babylon who taught forbidden knowledge, but only after warning every student: "We are only a temptation."Person · Hebrew Bible; rabbinic legendOg of BashanThe last of the Rephaim, whose iron bed, thirteen feet long, was kept on display as a trophy.

All 159 rabbit holes

Who and where

MosesSolomonQueen of Sheba (Makeda)EzekielPlatoPliny the ElderFlavius JosephusSnorri SturlusonEdward CondonCharles HaltRyan GravesBabylonJerusalemQumranRoswell, New MexicoWright-Patterson Air Force Base

Every person, A to Z · Every place

Questions People Ask

Strangest facts this week

  • Nephilim: Genesis says the Nephilim were on earth "also after that," so the Bible's own wording has them surviving, or returning after, the Flood meant to erase them.
  • The divine council (sons of God): In Psalm 82, God sentences the gods of the council to mortality, telling them they "shall die like men."
  • Ark of the Covenant: Only one outside scholar is known to have seen the object at Aksum: Edward Ullendorff said in 1941 it was an empty wooden box of medieval make.
  • Etana: Etana's flight is described as a series of views in which the earth shrinks stage by stage until it disappears, written more than 3,500 years before anyone could see it from altitude.
  • Skidbladnir: The text insists the folding works because the ship is "made of so many things and with such cunning", an explanation based on construction, not on a spell.
  • Yaldabaoth: Yaldabaoth's famous claim to be the only god is the very moment that reveals his ignorance, and his own mother rebukes him for it.

Browse the texts

Hebrew Bible 41New Testament 12Apocrypha 4Enoch, Jubilees and others 26Quran 16Sumer and Babylon 14Egypt and Hermes 6India 7Norse 4Greece and Rome 12Persia 2China 2The Americas 1Ireland 2Gnostic texts 2Other traditions 3

One History

What if the old books are records, not myths? Eleven chapters that tell one story using only what the texts say.

  1. 1. The world before this one
  2. 2. The war above
  3. 3. The workers
  4. 4. The limits
  5. 5. The teachers
  6. 6. The defection
  7. 7. The age of giants
  8. 8. The reset
  9. 9. The division
  10. 10. The watch
  11. 11. The sentence ends

More Strange History, Checked and Sourced

FeatureSame time, far apartSky signs recorded in the same years on opposite sides of the world.FeatureStrange disastersA sudden ice age, a drowned country, a city that sank the decade before Plato wrote Atlantis.FeatureMisquotesFourteen ancient-astronaut claims checked against the tablets.FeaturePushback and answersThe best objections, answered from the texts.

Questions people ask about Credible Theories

What is Credible Theories?

Credible Theories is a free site about strange and unexplained things that have a real paper trail: the oddest passages in the world's old books, declassified government files, UFO and UAP reports, and little-known research programs. Every page links to its sources so you can check them yourself.

Where do the quotes on this site come from?

Quotations come from translations that are in the public domain in the United States, such as the King James Version and R. H. Charles's Book of Enoch. Newer translations are cited and linked, never copied. Government documents are linked to the agency's own release.

Does Credible Theories say aliens or giants are real?

No. Each page gives what the record says, then the mainstream or official explanation, and only then, clearly marked, what a literal reading would mean. A separate page checks famous ancient-astronaut claims against the actual tablets, and many of them turn out to be misquotes.

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