How much is that Dogu in the window?

I've finally gotten to the point where Penny figures out the people she's been infiltrating are a UFO cult, Heaven's Gate style. And that means I finally get to use a book that's been in my book shelf for at least two decades, waiting for the perfect story.

Isn't this thing amazing? The text inside is even better. He has an upbeat, engaging style that shifts from subject to subject so quickly that even if you are familiar with a lot of the Ancient Astronauts claims it is hard to follow.

That, and he'll name-drop something without citation; "...and in 1954, Colonel Weston Henricks had ghost lights flying in formation with him as his B29 was passing over Athabasca..." Not helped at all by his casual approach to spelling; "Nostradomas?" Followed by an unsubstantiated claim; "all of the angles of the Great Pyramid of Cheops are exactly 91.003 degrees" or one that is clearly, oh so clearly wrong; "and yet the waters of the Ganges are pure. No scientist can explain it!"

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But it's also given me another idea. I'd already given up on old tentacle face -- been done, bored now -- and was thinking about some sort of invaders from space for the potential serialized stories. Maybe some sort of Radar Men from ??? who were invisible until, well, radar came in during World War II.

But then I started thinking about King Pacal and his very early-high-altitude-flight nose clip and oxygen mask, the dogu with their corselets and helmet rings like a deep sea diver, the Coso spark plug et al...

What if the Alien Invaders actually did have the primitive technology described by UFO nuts like Daniken, (apparently mired in 1950's technology)? With some crazy physics that explains the schizo-tech that can fly from world to world yet still require internal combustion engines.

And yes, I was probably thinking of the recent XKCD as well:

But even better than a W.W.II setting is W.W.I.  Because Weird War I is a lot less done, and I'm frankly more interested in that time period (at least I am today). And it allows the humans to understand what the aliens are doing; it is advanced, yes, but not completely beyond their understanding.

Oh but there's an even better reason. Because this hooks into my idea of doing lost civilizations and ancient secrets and all that in a time when it might have actually been semi-plausible. When archaeology was just crawling out of the tomb robber phase, when hieroglyphs were still in the process of being cracked, etc.

But I really do need to finish the current novel first. Only 10,000 words to go!