It is possible that if such a highly intelligent yet
(according to many accounts) extremely insidious and predatory
"race" does in fact exist, then it might not have "mutated" far
from it's original form as it is "pictured" - although in a
rather obscure fashion - in the 3rd chapter of Genesis.  If we
are to believe the thousands of witnesses who have reported such
creatures during UFO encounters (which would either be the result
of a collective hoax, mass hallucination, or observation of
actual encounters - the latter of which seems to be the most
likely), then one could reasonably ask the question: "Where do
they originate from?"  If they had their origin on earth as Brad
Steiger suggests, then where on earth are the infernal creatures?
A better question might be "Where IN earth are the infernal
creatures?"  Although the "serpent race" has largely succeeded in
evading the scrutiny of most humans living on the surface of this
planet over the centuries, there are many indications which
nevertheless suggest a SUBTERRANEAN connection to not only the
UFO phenomena, but many of the creatures which lie behind it as
well, especially the REPTILIAN creatures such as those described
by Steiger.  Believe it or not, there ARE in fact many very well
documented accounts concerning alien, non-human "entities" which
have been encountered in underground recesses throughout the
world.  Traditional Christianity has more-or-less associated the
depths of the earth with "Hades" and "demons".  We are certainly
not denying this, but we are offering a much more elaborated
exposition of this concept.

     Just beneath the southern tip of Italy, in the extreme
western part of the Mediterranean sea, lies the island of Malta. 
In the past Malta has been the possession of many nationalities,
and has been considered to be one of the most strategic areas on
earth, being a port and an intersecting point between Europe,
Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, etc.  This 9-mile-long island
was an ancient center of civilization at the time when the
Phoenicians from Carthage invaded and began to rule it.  When a
group of ancient priests who worshipped the "god" Moloch (another
name for Baal, Osiris, or Nimrod - considered by the ancients to
be the "sun god") visited the island in Old Testament times, the
islanders readily accepted their teachings, including that of
offering up human sacrifices to appease their "god" Moloch, for
the ancient Maltese themselves practiced human blood sacrifice to
the "gods" of the underworld which were believed to exist beneath
the island and elsewhere, so-called deities which were often
identified with "serpents".  When the Apostle Paul visited the
island as recorded in the book of ACTS chapter 28, he learned of
their superstitious beliefs concerning serpents after he had been
bitten by one of the beasts on the island (at the time called
Melita) and survived by the power of the risen Jesus - a God
which the Maltese knew nothing about until Paul's fateful visit.

     Since the time of the Carthagians, Malta has had many
rulers--Romans, Arabs, Normans, Argonese, Castillians, the
Hospitalers or the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, later known as
the Knights of Rhodes, and still later as the Knights of Malta,
who remain there to this day, having duel headquarters in Rome. 
A few miles south of the town of Valletta, Malta, is the small
village of Casal Paula.  In the year 1902, workmen who were
digging a well literally fell into the earth.  What they
discovered (or rather re-discovered) was a series of ancient
caves, mostly excavated out of solid rock, which descended into
the earth and into three lower levels below.  These multi-leveled
catacombs became known as the "Hypogeum of Hal Saflienti", named
after the street beneath which they were discovered.  A hypogeum
is the Latin name for an underground structure.

     Near the floor of the last chamber, within the 3rd and last
(officially recognized) sub-level of these ancient catacombs,
there are a few so-called "burial chambers".  These are only a
few feet square and situated right next to the floor, and one
must get on their knees just to look into them.  These "burial
chambers" are just large enough for one to crawl through.  There
have for years been rumors that one of these "burial chambers"
does not end, but continues into deeper and unexplored caverns
beyond. 

     This, according to certain sources, was the subterranean
passage and chamber which was referred to years ago in an article
which appeared in the August, 1940 issue of the NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC Magazine.  The article stated the following concerning
several people who disappeared in these catacombs without a
trace:

     "Many subterranean passageways, including ancient catacombs,
now are a part of the island's fortifications and defense system.
Supplies are kept in many tunnels; others are bomb shelters. 
Beneath Valletta some of the underground areas served as homes
for the poor.  Prehistoric men built temples and chambers in
these vaults.  In a pit beside one sacrificial altar lie
thousands of human skeletons.  Years ago one could walk
underground from one end of Malta to the other.  The Government
closed the entrances to these tunnels after school children and
their teachers became lost in the labyrinth while on a study tour
and never returned."

     The story goes much "deeper" however, than the NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC article indicates.  Other sources say that ABOUT 30
CHILDREN vanished in these catacombs on the study tour, and that
when the "Hypogeum" was first discovered nearly 30,000 human
skeletons of men, women and children (victims of ancient
sacrifice to the "underworld gods", performed by an old neolithic
race) were discovered as well.

     One article written by a Miss Lois Jessup, at the time an
employee of the British embassy and later secretary for the New
York Saucer Information Bureau (better known as NYSIB), appeared
in an old issue of Riley Crabb's BORDERLAND SCIENCE magazine,
published by the Borderland Sciences Research Foundation
(B.S.R.F.) and was later reprinted in full in Dr. Allen's book

ENIGMA FANTASTIQUE.

     Miss Jessup claimed that she visited Malta and the Hypogeum
also, once before the tragic disappearance of the children, and
shortly thereafter.  She described how on her first visit to the
catacombs she finally convinced the guide to allow her to
investigate one of the so-called "burial chambers" near the floor
of the last chamber in the third sub-basement, the supposed "end"
of the Hypogeum tour.  He seemed to know something she didn't,
but finally consented and told her that she could enter at "her
own risk".  As she did so, candle in hand and her loosed sash
being used as a guide rope for her friends who followed behind,
she crawled through the small passage and eventually emerged
into a large cavern, where she found herself on a ledge
overlooking a very deep, seemingly bottomless chasm.  Below and
on the other side of the chasm was another ledge which appeared
to lead to a doorway or tunnel in the far wall.  We realize that
what happened next might sound unbelievable to many who read
this, but we would ask them to make their own determination of
it's validity.  Miss Jessup swears that what follows really
happened. 

     Out of this lower tunnel on the far side of the chasm, she
claims, emerged in single file several very large creatures of
humanoid form but completely covered with hair from head to foot.
Noticing her, they raised their arms in her direction, palms out,
at which point a violent "wind" began to blow through the cavern,
snuffing out her candle.  Then, some "thing" wet and slippery
(apparently a creature of a different sort) brushed past her. 
This all happened just as the person behind her was beginning to
emerge from the passage and into the cavern.  They could not
understand her panicked attempts to get back to the "Hypogeum"
room, but they consented after she insisted.  When they found
themselves back in the Hypogeum chamber, the guide saw her
expression and gave her a "knowing" look.  About a week
afterwards the disappearance of the children and their teacher(s)
took place, and on her second visit she saw an entirely new guide
who denied that the other guide had ever worked there, although
she knew that this new guide was hiding something.

     She learned from more cooperative sources however, that THIS
was the tunnel that the children and their teacher(s) and
possibly the old guide, had entered.  She also learned that after
the last child had made it through, the walls of the small tunnel
just "happened" to collapse or cave-in.  Although the official
version stated that the walls caved-in on the students, search
parties were never able to locate any trace of the teacher(s) or
the children, although the rope that they had used to fasten
themselves to the lower Hypogeum chamber was found to have been
CLEAN CUT as if by something sharp (not falling rock).  It was
asserted that for weeks afterwards the wailing and screaming of
children was heard underground in different parts of the island,
but no one could locate the sources of the cries.  As for the
Catacombs beneath Malta itself, there are some ancient accounts
which say that deep caverns beneath the island continue
underground BEYOND the shores, and according to one source, part
of this labyrinth stretches hundreds of miles northwards and
intersects with catacombs beneath Rome (the hill Vaticanus?) or
at least did so in ancient times.  

     There are so many documented accounts in fact which suggest
the existence of such an extensive cavernous region spanning the
nether regions of this planet, that the possibility should at
least be considered.  If such a region exists, then one may
argue: Why has it's existence escaped those on the surface for so
long?  One possible answer to this might be that if such a region
exists, and it is at least in PART inhabited by physical
creatures which are in constant league and communication with
fallen angels or demonic entities, then these non-physical beings
would probably have just as much to lose if the existence of
these caverns became widely known as do their reptilian allies. 
There are numerous cases in which those who have tried to learn
about what's going on underground (or have had some encounter or
some knowledge of these nether regions, or have attempted to
research accounts relating to them outside of the protection or
divine guidance of Almighty God) have either suffered from
spiritual or psychic attacks and oppression, sometimes to the
point of being driven to insanity, or have turned up missing
altogether.  Some have apparently died of mysterious
circumstances as well, or were driven to suicide.  Something is
definitely going on "down there" which certain very malevolent
entities DO NOT want us on the surface to know about.  

     We will state with all conviction however, that if one is
not willing to allow God, through Christ, to guide and direct
their research into this area, then they had better leave it
alone.  We know of too many people who have tried to pry into
this subject outside of God's grace who have been destroyed
either mentally or physically as a result.  Also, the MORE WE
WORK TOGETHER IN A UNITED EFFORT to defend ourselves against this
"alien" threat, the better off we will be individually.     

     Aside from the Malta incident, there have been numerous
other accounts suggesting that hundreds, if not thousands, of
people have disappeared without a trace in or around unexplored
caverns in different parts of the world.  As we have said, these
"nether" regions are the most likely origin place for the
majority of the phenomena known as the "UFO's".  Many of these
craft have been seen entering and leaving caverns or openings in
remote mountains, canyons, etc.  There are cases on record where
reptilian-like "alien" beings such as those described by
witnesses of UFO encounters, have also been seen in caverns and
natural or artificial underground recesses.  These reports are
relatively few in number, but they do exist.  It is conceivable
that few who ever have had such an encounter ever return to tell
about it.  These creatures are often described as being similar
to the "UFO occupants" witnessed by police officer/patrolman Herb
Shermer.  Shermer described these creatures which he swore he
encountered outside of Ashland, Nebraska, shortly after midnight
on December 3rd, 1967:

     "They were from 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 feet tall.  Their uniforms
were silver-gray, very shiny.  Their suits came up around their
heads like a pilot's cap.  On the right side of their helmet's
they had a small antenna, just above where the ear would be. 
Their chests were bigger than ours, they were built very wiry
and muscular.  Their eyes were the one thing I will never
forget... THE PUPIL WENT UP AND DOWN LIKE A SLIT.  When they
looked at me they stared straight into my eyes.  They didn't
blink.  It was REAL uncomfortable.  Their noses were flat, their
mouths looked more like a slit than a regular mouth..."

     The fact that the pupils of the creatures encountered by
Shirmer were "slit-like" would indicate that the creatures were
most likely reptilian-saurian in nature, as most snakes and
lizards, etc., have vertical-slit pupils.  The reptilian
connection which we make with the creatures encountered by
officer Shirmer is not based solely on his testimony alone, but
on other testimonies of various persons who have also encountered
creatures similar to the ones just described.  Many of these
accounts give a more definite link between the ancient reptilian-
saurian race which disappeared from the surface of this planet
ages ago, and the non-human UFOnauts encountered by literally
thousands of individuals.  These cases will be dealt with later
on in this and other Files.

     From the various accounts which have been gathered, it seems
as if these sauroid UFO occupants go to extreme lengths to hide
themselves, or at least their true nature.  It almost seems as if
they are "chameleon-like" attempting to pass themselves off as
human-like beings in order to gain the willing assistance of
certain humans who they find it necessary to use in order to
carry out their demonic agenda.  Perhaps this explains the
"silvery suits" which obscured all but their faces.  Could this
have been in part an attempt to conceal underlying reptilian
features?

     A special report released by the CRYSTAL BALL NEWSLETTER
(P.O. Box 4080., Torrance, CA  90510) titled "THE SHAVER MYSTERY"
related a tragic incident which took place in southern Canada. 
The incident involved a group of explorers who came across a
cavern in which they had discovered, deep in it's interior, a
strange thing.  In one of the cavern chambers they found a
perfectly cylindrical shaft which had apparently been bored
straight down through solid rock.  The shaft was far too perfect
to have been the result of natural geological phenomena (such
shafts, by the way, have been encountered in numerous other
caverns throughout the world).  As they were studying the "bore"
they were suddenly and without warning "attacked" by creatures
about 4 ft. tall or a little larger.  These attackers utilized
some type of heat-ray against the unsuspecting explorers.  The
creatures were similar in description to many of the occupants
reported in connection with UFO encounters, or the "greys" as
many UFOlogists now refer to them.  One witness claimed that when
the attack came he was knocked unconscious into a remote alcove. 
When he "came to" the other explorers were either dead or
missing.  He himself suffered from severe burns; in fact his
burns were so severe that he died as a result of them a few days
later, but before that he was able to struggle to a nearby
village and warn the others about what had happened.  The
entrance to the cavern  was then blasted shut by dynamite in
order to keep anyone else from entering.     

     QUEST INTERNATIONAL (c/o 15, Pichard Court.,  Temple
Newsam.,  Leeds, L515 9AY.,  ENGLAND U.K.), a major British UFO
research organization consisting mainly of retired Police,
Security and Military personnel, is presently investigating what
may well be the most documentable case of the crash-retrieval of
an unidentified flying disk to date.

     On the 7th of May, 1989, NORAD installations allegedly
tracked an unidentified object as it entered African air-space. 
The South African Air Force is also said to have tracked the
craft by radar, traveling at a calculated speed of 5746 nautical
miles per hour.  The incident was related by a South African
Intelligence Worker, who along with documentation of his military
position, also sent documents and transcripts to two QUEST
INTERNATIONAL investigators, Tony Dodd and Henry Azadehdel,
telling of the event.  Also, several RECORDED telephone
conversations with high-ranking military and government officials
were obtained which strongly suggest that "something" did in fact
happen over South African terrain.  Some of these recorded
conversations involved military officials in South Africa who
strongly reprimanding the intelligence worker-turned-informer
over the phone.  This was due to the fact that the informer had
left South Africa for Britain, where he stayed at the house of
the researchers, and then later went into hiding.

     QUEST INTERNATIONAL director Graham W. Birdsall has stated
that the documentation and the individuals involved in the
incident are of such a nature that the event must have taken
place, or the International Intelligence Community is
collectively perpetrating a hoax concerning a recovered flying
disk.  Birdsall strongly suspects that the incidents did take
place, due to the weight of evidence.  Following is part of
a word-for-word transcript given to the researchers by the
informant, describing what he alleged to be the actual top secret
report of the initial tracking of the object:

     "...The object entered South African air space at 13.52 GMT.
Radio contact was attempted with object, but all communications
proved futile.  As a result two armed Mirage fighters were
scrambled.  A short time later the object suddenly changed course
at great speed which would have been impossible for conventional
aircraft to duplicate.

     "At 13.59 GMT, Squadron Leader ----- the pilot of the
fighter reported that they had radar and visual confirmation of
the object.  The order was given to arm and fire the experimental
aircraft-mounted Thor 2 laser cannon.  This was done.

     "Squadron leader ----- reported that several blinding
flashes emitted from the object which had started wavering whilst
heading in a northerly direction.  At 14.02 is was reported that
the object was decreasing altitude at a rate of 3000 feet per
minute.  Then at speed it dived at an angle of 25 degrees and
impacted in desert terrain 80 miles north of the South African
border with Botswana, identified as the central Kalahari desert. 
Squadron leader ----- was instructed to circle the area until a
retrieval team arrived.  A team of Air Force Intelligence
Officers, together with medical and technical staff were promptly
taken to the area of impact for Investigation and retrieval.  The
findings were as follows:

     1) a crater 150 meters in diameter and 12 meters in depth.

     2) A silver coloured disk shaped object 45 degrees embedded
inside of crater.

     3) Around the object sand and rocks were fused together by
the intense heat.

     4) An intense magnetic and radio-active environment around
the object resulted in electronic failure of air force equipment
(causing the crash of one Air Force helicopter).

     5) The object was eventually moved to an Air Force Base for
further investigation.

     6) The terrain of impact was filled with sand and rubble to
disguise all evidence of the event having taken place..."

     The report indicated that a hydraulic type landing gear was
fully deployed, suggesting that electronic malfunction had caused
the object to crash, probably due to the Thor 2 laser cannon
having been fired at the craft.  While the team observed the
object at the Air Force Base a loud sound was heard.  It was then
noted that a hatch on the lower side of the craft had opened
slightly and appeared to be stuck.  This opening was later forced
with the use of hydraulic pressure equipment, at which point two
humanoid entities in tight fitting grey suits emerged and were
promptly apprehended.  The report stated that the entities were
of the following description (emphasis ours - Branton):

     "HEIGHT: 4-5.5 ft.; 
COMPLEXION: Greyish blue - skin texture
smooth, extremely resilient; 

HAIR: Totally devoid of any bodily hair; 

HEAD: Oversize in relation to human proportions.  Raised
cranium with dark blue markings around head; 

FACE: Prominent cheek bones; 

EYES: Large and slanted upwards towards side of
face.  No pupils seen; 

NOSE: Small consisting of two nostrils;

MOUTH: Small slit devoid of lips; JAW: Small in relation to human
proportions; BODY/ARMS: Long and thin reaching just above knees;

HANDS: CONSISTING OF 3 DIGITS, WEBBED, CLAW-LIKE NAILS; TORSO:

CHEST AND ABDOMEN COVERED WITH SCALY RIBBED SKIN; 

HIPS: Small narrow; 

LEGS: Short and thin; 

GENITALS: NO EXTERIOR sexual organs; 

FEET: CONSISTING OF THREE TOES, NO NAILS AND WEBBED. 

NOTES: Due to AGGRESSIVE NATURE of humanoids, no samples of blood
or tissue could be taken (One humanoid ATTACKED DOCTOR causing
DEEP SCRATCHES ON FACE AND CHEST).  When offered various food,
refused to eat...  One way passage has been requested for both
humanoids to Wright Patterson Air Force Base USA for more
advanced investigation and research..." 

     Many of the details regarding these "humanoids" are actually
very similar to other branches of the reptilian race as it has
been described by other witnesses.  It appears as if the serpent
race is composed of several different branches or types, much the
same as dogs or other animals retain their distinction but are
composed of several different "types".  Commonly known reptiles
are devoid of bodily hair, have prominent cheek bones, large
slanted eyes, small openings in place of ears, 3-digit webbed
hands and feet - except in the case of snakes, etc., which lost
their limbs through atrophication over 1000's of years - have
claws, are covered with "scaly" ribbed skin, and have no
external reproductive organs, being egg-layers, and are
aggressive and predatory in nature.

     The top-secret document indicated that the passage of the
object and creatures would be implemented on the 23rd of June,
1989 to Wright Patterson AFB.  Actually, sources DO indicate that
Wright Patterson DID IN FACT GO ON RED ALERT on that date. 
Subsequent documents supplied by the Intelligence source to Q.I.
indicate that the creatures seemed to have a strong
connection with the SAURIAN race which existed in ancient times. 
The exact wording of one particular document which is now in the
hands of QUEST INTERNATIONAL is as follows: "All informations
found aboard alien spacecraft concerning the evolution of alien
life forms indicates to an evolution similar to that which we
find on Earth PRIOR TO THE EXTINCTION OF THE DINOSAURS... (the
findings indicate) a high degree of adaptability.  Further
physiological and psychological studies performed in South Africa
and in the United States points to a simple and complex structure
of behavior.  It would seem as if these lifeforms CAN NOT
FUNCTION INDEPENDENTLY WITHOUT GROUP INTELLIGENCE AND IDENTITY
TOGETHER WITH A CENTRAL COMMAND.  According to additional
informations found aboard retrieved craft a separate race is
designated superior by them.  CONCLUSION: An in-depth study and
analysis of the psychological make-up and behavior prediction is
advised.  Studies performed on two alien life forms captured has
proven that they cannot act independently from own acquired
intelligence without access to communication, orders and
instructions from a hierarchy or central command..." 

     Three different aspects of the South African affair in fact
coincide very closely with what other sources have revealed
concerning these reptilian-saurian alien creatures:  

1) Several sources, many of whom we will quote later on, state 
that the "saurian grays" are the lower echelon of a hidden reptilian
hierarchy, and that the other race which is considered to be
superior is saurian-reptilian-hominoid as well, although they are
a different and larger "branch" of the serpent race; 

2) Many other sources state that the serpent race-saurians-
reptilians operate on a "collective consciousness" level as if the
individual alien beings are - to put it in one perspective -
individual "cells" in an immense mind or body of a single immense
creature.  Actually there seems to be a COMBINATION of both
individuality AS WELL AS "collective consciousness" operating in
these entities.  

3) The description of the "aliens" as well as the electromagnetic 
nature of their craft corresponds exactly with descriptions given 
in HUNDREDS of separate reports of this nature. 

     The Intelligence Officer who contacted QUEST INTERNATIONAL
and provided them with the information, claims he did so out of
concern for the security of the human race as a whole, and
although he was pressured into signing a 'National Secrecy Act'
form he believes that he would be guilty of treason against the
human race if he did not disclose what he knew, and what the
governments were trying to hide.

     It is remarkable that the majority of the non-human
occupants reported in connection with these AERIAL craft are said
to be REPTILIAN or SAURIAN in nature, especially in light of such
prophecies as the one given in Revelation chapter 12, which
reads:

     "...And there was WAR IN HEAVEN: Michael fought against THE
DRAGON; and THE DRAGON fought and his angels... and the GREAT
DRAGON was cast out, that OLD SERPENT, called the Devil, and
Satan, which DECIEVETH the whole world..."