Jean Sendy
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Jean Sendy is a French
French people
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 writer and translator, author of works on esoterica
Esotericism
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 and UFO phenonema. He was also an early proponent of the ancient astronaut hypothesis.

Ancient Astronauts

He wrote the 1968 book The moon: The key to the Bible in which he claimed the God
God
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 mentioned in Genesis of the Bible should be translated in plural as "Gods", and that the "Gods" were actually space travelers (an alien
Extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life is defined as life that does not originate from Earth...

 race of humanoids). Sendy believed that Genesis was factual history of ancient astronauts colonizing earth who became "angels in human memory". The book contains similar ideas to that of the UFO religion Raëlism
Raëlism
Raëlism is a UFO religion that was founded in 1974 by Claude Vorilhon, now known as Raël.The Raëlian Movement teaches that life on Earth was scientifically created by a species of extraterrestrials, which they call the Elohim...

.

In his 1969 book Those Gods who made Heaven and Earth, Sendy claimed that space travelers 23,500 years ago arrived in the solar system
Solar System
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in a large hollow sphere and seeded humanity.

List of works

  • La lune: Clé de la Bible (translated in English The moon: The key to the Bible) (1968) later edition (1974)
  • Those Gods Who Made Heaven & Earth; the novel of the Bible (1969) later edition (1972) ISBN 0425021300
  • The Coming of the Gods (1970) later edition (1973) ISBN 0425023982
  • Moon Outpost Of Gods (1975) ISBN 0425027988
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