Satan’s Home Planet Destroyed
It is mathematically certain that other planets are inhabited. — Nicola Tesla (New York World Telegram, July 9, 1932)
Only a few people have been able to comprehend what is presented in this chapter. The information will stretch your brain cells further than they have ever been stretched. Here is the big picture of what happened eons ago in this solar system. I begin where it all started.
The Fall of Satan’s Alien Race
Some Bible researchers believe that Satan once lived on a planet Scripture names Rahab. He lived on this planet even though he was supposedly just a spiritual being, they believe. However, angels are spirit-beings and don’t have any need or reason to live on planets unless they are inside physical bodies.
I had spent most of my life believing traditional Christian doctrine on this topic; that Satan was an archangel in heaven who somehow, mysteriously, became lifted up in pride. Then somehow, mysteriously, he convinced one-third of the angels to follow him in rebellion against God. Even though they knew God face-to-face, for some unknown reason, they supposedly rebelled against him. Then they were all kicked out of heaven, but once I realized that the Watchers of Enoch are those Fallen angels, and that the Fall of humanity took place when those angels were in physical bodies, then things began to make sense. This insight led to other pieces of the puzzle also falling into place.
Satan fell because he was lifted up within himself:
How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
…You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!
…I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”
…Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit. (Isa. 14:12-15) (WEB)
The NIV says:
How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn!
…You have been cast down to the Earth,
you who once laid low the nations!
…You said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens;
I will raise my throne above the stars of God; . . .
In case you don’t grasp it, Satan was planning to build himself an empire and make himself a god. Notice also that he “laid low the nations.” In John 8:44, Jesus called Satan a “murderer from the beginning.” Nowhere is it recorded that Satan murdered anyone in heaven before he was supposedly cast out. How could he even kill an angel? So it must refer to him murdering physical beings on a planet.
The “heavens” refers to outer space. Was he planning to travel through space? The “stars of God” refer to angels (in bodies).
But what kind of body did these first intelligent beings have? I believe the evidence points to Satan’s race being what we commonly call reptilians. These reptilians had colonized three planets in this solar system: Mars, Rahab, and Earth. Some reptilians are reportedly on board the present-day UFOs with the grays. They appear to be working together and are supposed to look like this:
Notice the last line in the above quote: “I will raise my throne above the stars of God.” He was likely planning to become a great interstellar conqueror; ruler of many realms.
Finally, 2 Enoch speaks of the Fall of Satan thusly:
But one from the order of the archangels deviated, together with the division that was under his authority. He thought up the impossible idea, that he might place his throne higher than the clouds which are above the Earth, and that he might become equal to my power.
And I hurled him out from the height, together with his angels. And he was flying around in the air, ceaselessly above the Bottomless. (29:3-4) (Translation by F. Andersen)
Notice the last underlined words above; Satan was thrown from his home planet to Earth.
Summary
I will first provide the summary of how Satan fell and was cast to Earth and then present the evidence. In long ages past, when God created the universe, he fashioned many different races of intelligent beings on various planets. NOT all of these beings were indwelled by angels, but the ones in this solar system did indeed have angel-spirits. After many thousands of years of their existence, the aliens became technologically advanced and able to manipulate DNA and travel through space.
(There are likely several races who have Fallen, and some who merely have animal spirits, but it is also probable that some of the alien races are indwelled by angels who never fell.)
Satan was the leader of this highly advanced civilization of reptilians on the planet Rahab, which established colonies on Mars and Earth. Then Satan became full of pride: Look at this race of beings, which I have led to become great. Thus, he became Fallen, and he convinced one-third of them to worship him instead of God. But Satan was furious that only one-third of the reptilians would worship him (Rev. 12:4), and there was “war in the heaven” (Rev. 12:7). Then Satan became a mass “murderer” (John 8:44) when he nuked Mars, killing millions, perhaps billions. So God caused his home planet, Rahab, to explode (“I destroyed you” Ezek. 28:16), thus creating the asteroid belt. (God did this with the aliens who survived the Mars attack.) But Satan and many of his followers survived the destruction of Rahab.
Then God said to himself: How am I going to regain my Fallen angels? They are part of the family of God, but I cannot just give them blanket amnesty. So, he formed this plan: God would create a more attractive race of beings on Earth after it recovered from the explosion of Rahab, and the surviving reptilians would eventually show up and bring the Fall to humanity. Then God would send his Son to live and die as a human for the sins of all those who repent. The Fallen reptilians who died are being reborn here on Earth as humans so they can have a chance at redemption. We are them, and they are us.
Once the destruction of his planet occurred, Satan fled (the “fleeing serpent” Job 26:12). But God had declared that he and his surviving followers would be “cast down to the Earth” (Rev. 12:9).
Before Rahab exploded into a billion pieces, the evil reptilians were able to escape on spaceships, but most of the ships were damaged to the point that they were unable to travel long distances searching for another home planet. Satan could not flee to Mars because the reptilians who survived his attack would not allow him to settle there, so they merely time-traveled millions of years into the future (time travel is a reality). He examined Mars once again, but it could no longer sustain life because of the damage caused by nuclear weapons, so he went to Earth and found it a paradise with beautiful humans living there.
As expected, the reptilians could not believe their eyes when they saw those beautiful human women and desired to have offspring with them (Gen. 6). So a group of 200 landed (1 Enoch 6) on Earth to live here and create a hybrid race of human-reptilians. They also used DNA gene manipulation in their lab to create giants and human-animal hybrids.
It came out in 2025 that humans have been able to remove the extra chromosome that results in Down syndrome to restore normal function in lab-grown cells. Humans have also created chimeras. If we can do these things, then the advanced aliens can do even more.
After they caused the Fall of humanity (Gen. 3), the growing population of alien/human hybrids, as well as giants spread throughout much of the world. Once God had enough of their evil, he caused comets to smash into Earth, causing Noah’s Flood, which destroyed Atlantis and other cities around the world.
So, God killed off all the aliens, including Satan, and the majority of their offspring that were living here. Since Satan was now merely a spirit without a body, God made him into “the god of this world” (2 Cor. 4:4) and “the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience” (Ephesians 2:2).
The spirits of those billions of dead aliens killed in the destruction of their home planet are now being born as humans here on Earth, which will give them a chance to be restored to their heavenly family. Now for the biblical evidence.
Rahab and the Stones of Fire
Many years ago, I read an interpretation of Ezek. 28 that was far ahead of me at the time, but I saved it on my PC. Then during my research for this book, I came across it again and instantly recognized its significance as an important piece of the puzzle. So, special thanks to Jason Guenther at www.ryanmcginty.com/fallen/ for putting me on the right track (though I don’t agree with all of his interpretations). Most Bible scholars understand that Ezek. 28 refers to Satan, but if you only recognize him as a spiritual being, then you cannot get the full understanding.
The Bible has many cryptic passages that sometimes use what is called a play on words. Rahab is usually translated pride, but because of the context, it is sometimes translated as a proper name. Rahab in Job 26:12 is translated two different ways. The KJV translates Job 26:12 as, “by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.” But in the ESV, it is “he shattered Rahab.” Now read it in context:
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astounded at his rebuke.
By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent. (Job 26:11-13) (ESV)
The NIV said God “cut Rahab to pieces.” The TLV said, “smashed Rahab.” The WEB said, “strikes through Rahab.” Notice the last few words of the verse, “his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.” Satan is the dragon, or serpent. He was not killed, but he was wounded and fled from Rahab before it exploded.
Now that we have the basic assumption that Satan lived in a physical body on a planet named Rahab, but God shattered it, let us read a few other passages. Even the KJV agrees here:
Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain;
thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm. (Psalm 89:10) (KJV)
The ESV says, “You crushed Rahab.” Some commentators believe it refers to Egypt but do not understand why it would. I believe it refers to a planet.
Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces and wounded the dragon? (Isa. 51:9)
God, through the reptilians on Mars, caused Rahab to explode into a billion pieces. Here again it says he was wounded.
There are parts of the next passage that are widely acknowledged by many to be about Satan, while there are also many commentators who claim it only refers to a human king. Part of it fits the king of Tyre, but part of it only fits Satan, and part could fit both:
The word of the Lord came again to me, saying:
2 Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God:
Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said,
“I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods
in the midst of the seas,” yet you are a man, and not God,
though you set your heart as the heart of God.
3 You are wiser than Daniel;
there is no secret that is a match for you.
4 With your wisdom and with your understanding,
you have obtained riches for yourself, and have obtained gold and silver into your treasuries;
5 by your great wisdom, by your trade,
you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up
because of your riches.
6 Therefore thus says the Lord God:
Because you have set your heart
as the heart of God, 7 therefore, I will bring strangers upon you,
the most cruel of the nations;
and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom,
and defile your brightness.
8 They shall bring you down to the pit, and you shall die
the death of those who are slain in the midst of the seas.
9 Will you yet say before him who slays you,
“I am a god,” although you are a man and not God,
in the hands of those who wound you?
10 You shall die the death of the uncircumcised
by the hand of strangers; for I have spoken! says the Lord God.
A Lament for the King of Tyre
11 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
12 Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and say to him,
Thus says the Lord God: You had the seal of perfection,
full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. (Ezk. 28)
Now, if we read Ezekiel 28 with the idea that Satan lived on Rahab as the ruler of a race of reptilians who had advanced to the point of being able to engage in space travel and colonize other planets, then we can understand the chapter when it speaks of a king who is very intelligent, and he becomes lifted up in pride to the point of thinking he is a god. But God caused his opponents to be victorious against him, which resulted in his entire planet being destroyed.
But it also said he is killed by water. Since Satan did not die during the attack on Rahab but was only wounded, and we learned that he was killed by water, then this means he died in Noah’s Flood.
Even though a reptilian is not beautiful to us, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so Satan was clearly beautiful in his own eyes (at least until he saw humans). The next verse puts him in the Garden of Eden, which tells us without a doubt that this passage is about much more than the king of Tyre.
Note that a few researchers believe the “stones of fire” refer to planets. But I found one commentary that said, “It may be that the ‘stones of fire’ is a way of saying the stars of heaven” (https://bible resources.info). When the Bible refers to the stars in the sky, it refers to suns and planets.
13 You were in Eden, the garden of God;
every precious stone was your covering:
the sardius, topaz, and the diamond,
the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper,
the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold.
The workmanship of your settings and sockets was in you;
on the day that you were created, they were prepared.
14 You were the anointed cherub that covers,
and I set you there;
you were upon the holy mountain of God;
you walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
15 You were perfect in your ways from the day
that you were created, until iniquity was found in you.
16 By the multitude of your merchandise,
you were filled with violence in your midst,
and you sinned;
therefore I have cast you as profane out of the mountain of God;
and I have destroyed you, O covering cherub,
from the midst of the stones of fire.
17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty;
you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness;
I cast you to the ground, I lay you before kings, that they may see you.
18 You have defiled your sanctuaries
by the multitude of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your trade;
therefore I have brought fire out from your midst;
it has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes upon the Earth
in the sight of all those who see you.
19 All those who know you among the people
are astonished at you; you are a terror,
and you shall cease to be forever.
WEB words verse 14 differently:
You were the anointed cherub who covers.
Then I set you up on the holy mountain of God.
You have walked up and down in the middle of the stones of fire.
Many translations of verse 14 literally say that Satan was placed “on” the mountain, including the LXX. If this passage refers to some place in heaven, it would require actual mountains to exist there; and why would Satan be put on a particular mountain in heaven? To be set on a mountain seems to be saying, set on a planet.
It says, “you walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.” The Hebrew for “midst” is tâvek (8432) and means middle, among. The wording of the verses in question indicates that Satan was originally an angel in heaven, then he was put on a mountain; in other words, he became indwelled in a physical body and lived on a planet. Earth has a molten core that is 4000 degrees F, so it was likely the same for Mars and Rahab, making them stones of fire. Satan’s home planet is here called holy because all the beings on this planet worshiped the one true God, until Satan became Fallen.
Since Rahab was the 5th planet from the sun, it was the middle planet in this solar system (counting nine planets). The passage also tells us that Satan could easily travel between these planets. God destroyed Satan’s kingdom, his entire planet, and most life on it. Verse 17 says, “I cast you to the ground.” Satan survived the destruction of Rahab and fled to Earth.
Verse 18 says that Satan defiled his “sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities.” This suggests that they had many buildings that they used to worship God, but they became defiled because of Satan’s sins. How were Rabab and the defiled sanctuaries destroyed? God said, “I have brought fire out from your midst, it has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes upon the Earth” (v. 18).
The words “from your midst” are two Hebrew words, (4480) that means from or out of, and (8432) tâvek, that means to sever the center, between, half, middle. Therefore, this is saying that from among his own reptilians, God caused those who refused to worship Satan to rise up and defeat him, and the planet was split apart. The word “earth” does not refer to planet Earth, but the word merely means land, field, ground. Earth, Mars, and Rahab are all made of dirt and rocks, which is earth.
The LXX of that verse says:
. . . I made fire come from within you, and it consumed you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the eyes of all who saw you.
As you can see, there is a lot of Scriptural evidence. The force of Rahab’s explosion and pieces of Rahab impacted Mars and severely damaged the southern region. Mars’ outer crust shows a massive jagged edge, looking as though it was struck by a giant bolt of lightning. The scar titled, Valles Marineris, is over 2,500 miles long:
The war and the explosion of Rahab killed billions of reptilians on Rahab, Mars, and Earth. Although Earth was greatly damaged by the blast, unlike Mars, it was able to recover over millions of years. I will shortly present evidence of life on Earth over 200 million years ago.
Origen may have been the first to suggest that the king of Tyre was not merely a human king:
We are of opinion, therefore, that these words are spoken of a certain angel who had received the office of governing the nation of the Tyrians. (Origen on First Principles, chapter 5)
Later, Tertullian wrote:
This description, it is manifest, properly belongs to the transgression of the angel, and not to the prince’s: for none among human beings was either born in the paradise of God, not even Adam himself, who was rather translated thither; nor placed with a cherub upon God’s holy mountain, that is to say, in the heights of heaven, from which the Lord testifies that Satan fell; nor detained amongst the stones of fire, and the flashing rays of burning constellations, whence Satan was cast down like lightning. No, it is none else than the very author of sin who was denoted in the person of a sinful man. (Tertullian, “The Five Books against Marcion” in The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume III: Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian, eds. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Company, 1885), 306.)
The Ancient Exploded Planet
There are some ancient myths that may have encoded the tale of an exploded planet in this solar system. But how? Some researchers have speculated that either humanity is far older than we have previously believed, or the events transpired much later than believed, but I do not agree with either option. I believe the destruction happened millions of years ago, long before humanity existed.
Since science now believes there are at least 10 dimensions to the universe, I believe that one of those dimensions is thought. In short, experiments have proven that one person can pick up on the thoughts of another person, and some people have this ability to such an extent that they are considered psychic. I once thought it was just demonic, but people can learn to develop this ability, while others have it naturally.
I will give more on this later, but at this point it is sufficient to merely say that thoughts do not remain inside your brain; they apparently go into a thought realm. I call dimension the realm of cosmic memory.
This realm of cosmic memory would mean that billions of intelligent beings on a planet who died during its destruction would have many powerful thoughts concerning the horrific event. Even after people are dead, they are often still able to see their bodies and others around them, so they are still able to know what is happening as they go into their afterlife realm. Then, millions of years later, humans come along and connect to that realm of cosmic memory as they write their myths.
The book Hamlet’s Mill, by De Santillana and Von Dechind, discusses the meaning of many ancient myths that portray wars among the gods, which could refer to war between planets in many ancient myths. Joseph P. Farrell, in his book The Cosmic War, summarized some of the myths found in Hamlet’s Mill this way:
[F]or what the ancient myths are trying to say is not only that a planet exploded, but that the war was truly cosmic in nature, and affected all the celestial bodies of local space, including “Earth.” In the Norse version, interestingly enough, this “end of the world” is brought about by sounding the apocalyptic trumpet, the Gjallarhorn, which has a “sound which reaches all the worlds.” * . . . (page 107) (*1. De Santillana, Hamlet’s Mill, page 156)
The trumpet’s loud blast likely represents the sound of Rahab exploding that was heard throughout the solar system. Farrell went on to say:
Indeed, as De Santillana and Von Dechind observe, the Graeco-Roman cultural complex if full of references to a celestial catastrophe of such magnitude that even the “immovable joints of the universe” were shaken and the “very axle” running “through the middle of the revolving heavens” was “bent.” [2] (Ibid, page 156) At the minimum, this last reference is nothing less than a statement that the angle of the Earth’s axis of rotation relative to the ecliptic was altered in some drastic fashion. (Farrell, The Cosmic War, page 107.)
I believe this statement likely refers to the planets changing their locations relative to each other and the sun due to the explosion of Rahab. In the Babylonian myths, Tiamat might be Rahab:
In the pre-creation biblical version, it is Satan who is cast out of the heavens for daring to challenge God. In the garden, it is the serpent that is cast out. In Babylon, Marduk (their Hercules) defeats the dragon-serpent Tiamut, then casts her down and stands upon the carcass. (Ledo, Michael. On Earth As It Is In Heaven, page 5.)
The carcass of Tiamat could have been the largest chunk of Rahab. The author of the above quote references James B. Pritchard, ed., The Ancient Near East, Vol. 1, which speaks of the death of Tiamat:
“He (Marduk) released the arrow, it tore her belly, it cut through her insides, splitting the heart. Having thus subdued her, he extinguished her life. He cast down her carcass to stand upon it. After he had slain Tiamat, the leader, her band was shattered, her troupe broken up.” (Princeton Univ. Press, 1973, p. 34. Quoted in, Ledo, On Earth, p. 6-7)
This creation myth goes on to say that after Tiamat (Rahab) was destroyed, the current atmosphere of Earth was created, and the moon was moved into its present location:
The lord rested; he gazed at the huge body, pondering how to use it, what to create from the dead carcass. He split it apart like a cockleshell; with the upper half he constructed the arc of sky . . . He gave the moon the luster of a jewel; he gave him all the night . . . when you rise on the world, six days your horns are crescent, until half-circle on the seventh, waxing still phase follows phase, you divide the month from full to full. (Ibid)
If the force of the blast from the destruction of Tiamat, when it hit Earth, moved the moon into its present position, is the moon a chunk of Rahab? Earth must have sustained damage as well, and so it describes a new atmosphere, “constructed the arc of the sky.” This indicates that Earth sustained extensive destruction but was able to recover.
The Exploded Planet Theory
Even science says that a planet could have exploded in this solar system. In the late 1700s, astronomers Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Bode developed the Exploded Planet Theory. Known now as the Titius-Bode Law, it uses complicated math to determine that a planet should exist between Mars and Jupiter. But the Exploded Planet Theory fell into disfavor early in the 19th century and was completely abandoned with the arrival of the theory of evolution; then, Canadian astronomer Michael Ovenden revived it in 1972. It was also championed by Tom Van Flandern, Ph.D., former chief astronomer of the U.S. Navy Observatory.
The Titus-Bode law hypothesized that a planet once existed between Mars and Jupiter, called Phaeton (Rahab), which had four or five moons, but it exploded and created the asteroid belt, which is between Mars and Jupiter. Phaeton was named after the son of the sun god Helios of Greek mythology, who attempted to drive his father’s chariot but got too close to the sun and was destroyed by Zeus.
One astronomer believed that the large asteroids we have found and named Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta were actually moons of Phaeton. I won’t go into all the research of the astronomers who developed the theory, but most scientists have accepted a simpler explanation: the asteroid belt merely tried to form into a planet but failed. However, with the advent of sophisticated computer simulations, scientists are again beginning to believe that there was a planet between Mars and Jupiter, but they believe it was a gas giant like Jupiter that got flung off somewhere “out there.” They will believe anything except evidence for catastrophism.
In an abstract titled, “The challenge of the exploded planet hypothesis,” Van Flandern provided a list of things that must be observed in order to prove the theory, and those things were observed.
The hypothesis of the explosion of a number of planets and moons of our Solar System during its 4.6-billion-year history is in excellent accord with all known observational constraints, even without adjustable parameters or ad hoc helper hypotheses. Many of its boldest predictions have been fulfilled. In most instances, these predictions were judged highly unlikely by the current standard models. . . . Mars is not an original planet, but a former moon of an exploded planet. (c) As a major player in Solar System evolution, the exploded planet scenario must be considered as a likely propagation vehicle for the spread of biogenic organisms. (International Journal of Astrobiology, Volume 6, Issue 3, July 2007, pp. 185 – 197. Cambridge Univ. Press 2007. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 June 2007.)
Mars could have been a moon of a much larger Rahab. In his book, Van Flandern said:
Ovenden’s dynamic calculations indicate that a massive planet, perhaps Saturn-sized, is missing from the gap between Mars and Jupiter, where the main belt of asteroids is found. (Van Flandern, Dark Matter, Missing Planets, and New Comets, page 227)
After postulating different theories about what might have caused the planet to explode, he said the explosion could have resulted “from the intervention of intelligent beings. In my opinion, [this] last possibility should not be dismissed out of hand” (Ibid, page 233).
Mac Tonnies said in After the Martian Apocalypse: Extraterrestrial Artifacts and the Case for Mars Exploration, that intelligent beings destroyed the planet:
I suggest that Van Flandern’s Exploded Planet Hypothesis makes sense only if one is willing to entertain a nonnatural explanation. Of course, this is heretical on several levels, as the explanation must somehow encompass the presence of potential artifacts on Mars as well as a presumed high-tech culture on Mars’ erstwhile parent. (p. 47)
Does actual evidence exist of an interplanetary war that exploded Rahab and destroyed Mars? Yes, there are several different types of evidence.
Dr. John E. Brandenburg was a physicist at NASA during the Viking space probes of Mars, and the scientific findings were shocking. He said the analysis of the samples taken shows the presence of xenon 129 in the Northern Hemisphere at levels that are never found naturally, and can result only from nuclear explosions. Additionally, there are high levels of uranium and thorium. The scientists involved calculated that–
The explosion would have been a planetary scale catastrophe. . . . the event occurred several million years ago and probably dates to the middle or late Amazonian epochs. Irradiation of lithogies in ETA79001 indicated a possible 180 million year or earlier age for the event. . . . [total energy released was] on the order of 1 Billion megatons of energy. These bombs, because of their high fission content, were very “dirty,” and would have induced radiation poisoning in any life on Mars that survived the original explosions. (John E. Brandenburg, Evidence of massive thermonuclear explosions on Mars in the past, The Cydonian Hypothesis, and Fermi’s Paradox: new data. Journal of Space Exploration, Oct. 14, 2015. Online pdf, p. 12. www.mehtapress.com)
In a video on this subject, Brandenburg stated that the nuclear explosions happened 300 million years ago. Ice and other evidence have since been found, which supports the conclusion that Mars could have once contained an Earth-like biosphere, and thus also intelligent life on Mars.
Some researchers believe that a large thunderbolt-weapon could have caused the Valles Marineris scar. However, there is no certain way to know how long ago it happened; it may have been caused by massive electrical activity only 10,000-100,000 years ago (for more on this there are videos on YouTube about the book, Thunderbolt of the Gods, by David Talbot.)
It seems that when two planets get too close to each other, there is massive electrical activity, and this happened recently enough that it was witnessed by early humans who recorded it on cave walls all over the world, and even recorded in ancient tales of mythical gods at war with each other in the sky.
