The Jaw-dropping Impact of David Flynn’s Work: Uncovering a lost history of Mars and the migration of people to Earth

I’ve talked about Cydonia: The Secret Chronicles of Mars by David E. Flynn before, but after diving into the newly republished edition, I felt compelled to share my thoughts in depth. This book, originally self-published around 2002 by End Time Thunder Publishers, was ahead of its time—a dense, brilliant exploration that ties ancient mythology, biblical narratives, and apparent anomalies on Mars into a cohesive narrative about humanity’s origins. Thanks to Timothy Alberino’s advocacy, including his foreword in the new edition released in early 2026 by Sunteleia Press (with contributions from Mark Flynn), it’s now more accessible in hardcover, paperback, and digital formats, reaching a broader audience ready for these ideas.

I wouldn’t have picked it up without Alberino’s influence. I’ve followed his work since Birthright in 2020, appreciating how he bridges scriptural truth with adventurous inquiry into giants, Nephilim, and posthuman themes. He’s a genuine explorer with a scriptural backbone, not the stereotypical “New Age” figure some might dismiss. His promotion of Flynn’s work—calling it one of the most consequential books ever written—sparked my interest. I grabbed the new edition as soon as it dropped, read it multiple times to let the concepts sink in, and recorded my podcast thoughts because this material deserves serious consideration.

Flynn was a high-IQ thinker who operated outside mainstream channels. Through his Watcher website in the 1990s and early 2000s, he delved into biblical ufology, eschatology, sacred geometry, and the implications of structures photographed in Mars’ Cydonia region—like the so-called “Face on Mars” from the 1976 Viking images and nearby pyramid-like formations. He argued these weren’t mere pareidolia but encoded remnants of a civilization that fled Mars after catastrophe, bringing knowledge to Earth. Myths from Sumer, Egypt, the Indus Valley, Greece, Rome, and even indigenous Americas trace back to this diffusion, centered in the Near East near Mount Hermon—the biblical entry point for fallen angels (Watchers) in the Book of Enoch.

In Flynn’s view, these “sons of God” descended, fathered giants (Nephilim), taught forbidden arts, and corrupted humanity, leading to the Flood. Post-flood, survivors or their cultural echoes rebuilt civilizations, with megalithic sites worldwide aligning on geometric grids—pentagrams anchored at Giza and the Prime Meridian. This “As Above, So Below” principle suggests Mars’ Cydonia as a template for earthly monuments, from Stonehenge to Ohio’s Serpent Mound. Flynn connected this to ley lines, occult symbolism (serpents, hyperborean origins), and mystery schools preserving elite knowledge while suppressing it from the masses.

I’ve long collected accounts of giants in Ohio mounds—newspaper clippings from the 19th and early 20th centuries reporting oversized skeletons unearthed during excavations, often dismissed or “lost” by institutions like the Smithsonian. Many researchers chase these leads, get excited, then fade when mainstream scrutiny hits. Flynn escaped that cycle by grounding his work in scripture and comparative mythology rather than pure speculation. He wasn’t chasing kooks; he was synthesizing evidence that scripture and emerging science increasingly align.

This shift—from fringe “New Age” shelves (Graham Hancock, Zecharia Sitchin, Erich von Däniken) to respectable inquiry—began with thinkers like Flynn and accelerated with Michael Heiser’s The Unseen Realm and Reversing Hermon. Heiser, a Semitic languages scholar, unpacked Genesis 6 without extraterrestrial leaps, focusing on divine council and supernatural rebellion. Alberino builds on this, applying it to modern threats like transhumanism. Reading Flynn after Heiser and Alberino feels like puzzle pieces clicking: ancient myths aren’t fiction but distorted memories of real events, possibly involving ultra-terrestrial and/or extraterrestrial contact preserved in Enochian texts and global lore.

Critics point to NASA’s higher-resolution images (Mars Global Surveyor 1998 onward) showing the “Face” as a natural mesa eroded by wind, with no artificial symmetry. Pareidolia explains much—humans see faces in rocks, just as in clouds or toast. Yet Flynn’s geometric arguments persist intriguingly: if alignments predict undiscovered sites, why not consider cosmic origins? Hallucinogens like ayahuasca induce shared visions across cultures, echoing cave art from Lascaux to remote tribes, suggesting subconscious or spiritual exchanges. UFO phenomena add layers—disclosure talks under recent administrations hint at deeper truths.

I want to go to Mars not to abandon Earth but to verify. SpaceX and commercial efforts make it inevitable; we’ll build habitats, explore, and likely find preserved ruins—pyramids, mounds, architectural echoes—on a stripped world. No thick atmosphere or active society buries evidence there. If we discover ancient civilization remnants 10,000, 100,000, or millions of years old, it redefines history: humanity as refugees or engineered arrivals, not isolated evolution. Myths become chronicles; scripture’s miracles include survival of truth through millennia.

Power structures suppress this—China buries pyramids to control narrative; mystery schools hoard knowledge for dominance. Flynn exposed that, self-publishing because no mainstream house would touch it. Early internet allowed geniuses like him to connect, compare notes at 3 a.m., and build followings organically. Alberino, inspired, helped republish it, giving it legitimacy. His podcasts dissecting it (dozens in his community) make it digestible.

This book shatters illusions but in a good way. As disclosure ramps up—political, technological, archaeological—we must prepare. Root-cause analysis demands we question origins beyond Darwin or uniformitarianism. Mars may have been part of our past, not just future. Stories of tragedy, survival, and migration from the asteroid belt (Phobos/Deimos as remnants?) to Earth explain gods’ names and shared archetypes.

I’ve read extensively—Heiser, Sitchin (for contrast), Enoch translations, Hoagland’s Monuments of Mars—and Flynn stands out as genius-level synthesis. It’s dense, requires rereading, but rewards with awe at God’s design amid cosmic drama. Humanity’s dominion over Earth includes exploring to reclaim lost truth, bringing heaven here as representatives.

In these times, with information exploding and institutions failing, books like this empower us. Read it on your terms before media forces the conversation. It prepares for paradigm shifts—good ones, shattering control for freedom.

Bibliography

•  Flynn, David E. Cydonia: The Secret Chronicles of Mars. End Time Thunder Publishers, 2002 (original); Sunteleia Press edition with forewords by Timothy Alberino and Mark Flynn, 2026.

•  Alberino, Timothy. Birthright: The Coming Posthuman Apocalypse and the Usurpation of Adam’s Dominion on Planet Earth. Self-published, 2020.

•  Heiser, Michael S. The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible. Lexham Press, 2015.

•  Heiser, Michael S. Reversing Hermon: Enoch, the Watchers & the Forgotten Mission of Jesus Christ. Defender Publishing, 2017.

•  The Book of Enoch (R.H. Charles translation, 1917; various modern editions).

•  Hoagland, Richard C. The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever. North Atlantic Books, 5th ed., 2001.

•  Sitchin, Zecharia. The 12th Planet. Bear & Company, 2004 reprint.

•  Hancock, Graham. Fingerprints of the Gods. Crown, 1995 (for comparative ancient mysteries context).

•  NASA Mars mission archives (Viking 1976, Mars Global Surveyor 1998–2006, etc.).

•  Flynn’s Watcher website (archived materials via secondary sources).

Footnotes for Further Reading

1.  On Cydonia anomalies and pareidolia: NASA press releases post-1998; Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995).

2.  Nephilim and divine council: Genesis 6; Deuteronomy 32; Job 1–2; Heiser’s works above.

3.  Alberino’s role: His X posts and The Alberino Analysis community podcasts on Cydonia.

4.  Giant mound reports: 19th-century newspapers (e.g., New York Times archives); critiques in mainstream anthropology.

5.  Sacred geometry/ley lines: Alfred Watkins, The Old Straight Track (1925); Flynn’s pentagram grid discussions.

6.  Disclosure context: 2020s UAP Task Force reports; SpaceX Starship/Mars plans.

7.  Myth diffusion: Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949).

8.  Mystery schools/esotericism: Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928).

9.  Enochian influences: Dead Sea Scrolls fragments; 1 Enoch translations.

10.  Mars exploration potential: Recent Perseverance rover findings; astrobiology papers on ancient habitability.

Rich Hoffman

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The Empire of Ultraterrestrials: Enemies from a Parallel Universe

When the observation is made and the question is asked, “Why are people so stupid,” I can look at the history of the human being and speculate as to why they behave the way they do, and I can present evidence as to what is happening. The question of “why” does not get answered completely when only the factors of the known world are considered. So trying to explain the conditions of our observable world and all the foolishness witnessed with factors that can be seen and so far catalogued has fallen short of a proper explanation. This is how I became interested in studies of Fortean observations, cryptozoology, and paranormal science and to me; John Keel has done some of the best work in these fields as a journalist that I have run in to. Keel just recently passed away and left behind a body of work that is quite interesting in regard to those studies. Like a lot of people who spend a considerable, and imbalanced amount of time on the strange and paranormal, Keel’s later work reflects a bit of eccentricity that was not present in what I think is the best book ever written on these topics called The Mothman Prophecies, which was made into the popular Richard Gere film. You can see John Keel here in an early interview with David Letterman discussing his field of study.

A college professor who was trying to bring a film version of my novel The Symposium of Justice to reality put me on to Keel about 6 years ago. “You’d love Keel. Your book reminds me of his work.” So I started reading Keel and my family began some paranormal investigations of our own, going into the deep dark places of known haunted locations to examine for ourselves the mysteries behind paranormal activity. You can see some of those adventures in this short collection my oldest daughter put together back then.

In all our adventures I have never seen anything obvious to say that it was a ghost that we saw while we were looking for them. We did see a UFO which we chased down with our car only to have it disappear within seconds. It wasn’t just an illusion, since 5 of us were in the car with me driving like a madman to catch up to it. We did see and experience a “shadow man,” we experienced the battery loss associated with paranormal presence in our flashlights and cameras, but never saw anything conclusive that we could get on film. We captured a few obscure things, but nothing that was definitive, which seems to be the case with most paranormal studies. Seldom is any evidence conclusive. Most of our adventures were to specifically hunt down some of the “bigfoot” phenomena that are common to eastern Ohio, or even a Mothman. We never saw directly the thing we were seeking in all our investigations.

Keel had an interesting explanation for this case.He said in his writing that what was happening was a species of undocumented humanoid called ultraterrestrials, a competing race within the human race who acted as tricksters and could present images to the human mind that the mind was prepared to see, were hard at work on a mysterious task. If a person went hunting for a big foot, they’d see a big foot. If a person wanted to see an angel, they might see a mothman, or the Virgin Mary. If a person wants to see green men from another planet, then they may be visited by those green men. And the reason I never saw anything directly, except for small little ripples of disturbances over time and space is because I’m too analytical to buy what those ultraterrestrials are trying to sell me.

Keel’s explanation of ultraterrestials in The Mothman Prophecies offered a whole host of explanations that are scientific in nature toward the true nature of “demons” voodoo magic and even good luck angels. During Keel’s investigations chronicled with great diligence in The Mothman Prophecies it appears the government is very much aware of these ultraterrestrials and actually has a relationship with them. This relationship has been articulated in fun films like The Men in Black and in Point Pleasant, West Virginia every September during the Mothman Festival, where the whole town gets together to celebrate the mysterious occurrences that terrorized that town in the late 1960’s. But the actual relationship is quite serious if examined at face value. After all, we think we are dealing with a reality that contains all the elements of our known visual spectrum, but in our studies of quantum mechanics, we are learning that there is a great deal that we can’t see, and it appears that we share our space with many influences in our present reality.

The best scientific explanation I have heard to explain the existence of Keel’s ultraterrestrials is in the theory of parallel universes, as shown in this History Channel Universe documentary. It would appear that these ultraterrestrials are inhabitants of a Type 3 Parallel Universe and they have figured out how to tap into our reality to use our resources for the benefit of their cultures in their universe’s reality.

If those ultraterrestrials are exact copies of us in another reality, it is entirely conceivable that those copies of ourselves living in that reality are purposely taking advantage of our blindness to an aim we can only hypothesize about. My daughter and I speculated about this from a hilltop campsite close to a haunted hot spot in eastern Ohio under a full moon a few years back. I suggested that maybe the logic of ultraterrestrials interference with our world has an equal and opposite type of outcome, where a negative in our universe equals a positive in their universe, and if these ultraterrestrials are copies of ourselves then don’t we in some way benefit from our own misery if considered from a multi-verse perspective where all copies of our personalities are united in a collective body serving the mysteries of that unification? We may suffer in the here-and-now, but our ultraterrestrial copies are having wondrous success.

This might also account for “LUCK” in our present world, when mysteriously good things happen to us when by all calculations peril should occur. This might be because without understanding how, we bring bad fortune to our ultraterrestrial counterparts in the Type Three Parallel Universe, so their misery equates to our benefit.

As crazy as much of this may sound, the reason for my quest into these strange worlds was for an answer to why the nature of our current existence is so insanely foolish. For instance, why is it considered fashionable to be a fool, or to become drunk, or less than average in some way? Why do we celebrate the weak and chastise the strong if not to appease some ultraterrestrial gods in another dimension? When I speak to young people none of them take pride in how much they know, but it’s in what they don’t know, or how drunk they became on a Friday night. Women are put on a pedestal for making themselves slaves to sexual fulfillment and bringing children into the world without fathers to help create strong family foundations. It almost feels as though the foolish addiction to altruism and socialism is so that the beings in another parallel universe can live with capitalism and strong individual value.

I told my daughters on some of those haunted adventures that I am not willing to sacrifice my life one bit even to a copy of myself in a parallel universe. I encouraged them to do the same, to live for themselves and if there are ultraterestrials creating around us these strange events where Bigfoots, and Lockness monsters jump in and out of our reality from these other universe’s that intersect with our own reality and that strange whisper in our ears that come when sleep is about to come on is not some demon from hell, but a tempter of ourselves from an ultraterrestrial being that seeks to profit from our misery, and they should not listen. Because no other conclusion can be made when drunkenness is praised, and stupidity is rewarded, but to accept that enemies of our existence reside outside of our present reality to build an empire within their universe by consuming the resources of our own to do it.

Does our government have a deal with these beings to occasionally throw us a bone of good luck with a sacrifice on their end? Perhaps.This may be the origin of the sacrifice rituals that have permeated our planting cultures all during recorded history and has been replaced in the modern age with religious communion rituals and altruism surrounding the “green movement.” There is no way to know for sure with the lack of evidence we currently have, but speculation as to why people like Jerry Sandusky from Penn State have been allowed to exist and the massive amounts of sex trading that goes on in the world must have some logical conclusion, because no God that I learned about in Sunday School would allow evil to thrive so openly unless somewhere with someone, there was a benefit. And that someone seems to be in this species of ultraterrestrials who live outside our reality. That leads to my next question which I will get to the bottom of eventually, who are these Men in Black, and how are they connected to our current government? Time will tell, and along the way we will have marvelous adventures in discovering these facts, but I am not willing to sacrifice any of myself so that someone else can benefit in another city, another state, another country or another universe. I expect competition to prove the victor and it starts by recognizing the fact that there is more to this puppet show of living than we are seeing even in the most extreme versions of our conspiracy theories. Because the truth does not exist in our visual spectrum, but outside of it, at a quantum level hidden in the mysteries of the 11 dimensions, and we have enemies who reside there to bring us misery with whispers in the wind and at the nightmares that come with sleep. And sometimes we go to them willingly by pursuing those demons at the bottom of a wine glass, or that overdose of a drug to gain that so-called moment of elation that comes from intoxication, but leaves our minds open and vulnerable to the empires of invisibility.

Rich Hoffman
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