ABSTRACT
To the members of the Armageddon Time Ark Base Operations (ATA), a ufology religion located in Weslaco, Texas, it is not the aliens who are to blame for the sorry state of planet Earth, but earthlings. The group believes that humans were placed on Earth by extraterrestrial “cosmic engineers” under the direction of a prime creator and given free moral will over six thousand years ago. Since then the inhabitants of planet Earth have been found by the “outer dimensional” beings to be abusing themselves and the Earth, a consequence of deficient evolution. Enslaved by costly and time-wasting experimental research and industrial development, humans have created a new world of waste, pollution, disease, war, and death.
