In the year 2000, Didier Leroux set out to find out where a picture came from. He was convinced that ancient history had more to it than we had ever thought. In an article that appeared in the February 2000 issue of the French ufology journal “Lumières Dans la Nuit” (literally, “Lights in the Night”), he claimed that he had searched continuously throughout the night for the answer to his question and that he had finally obtained it.

He found that the Photo he was researching was made by a Russian craftsman who endeavored to duplicate the front of a 1967 release of the magazine “Sputnik.” This magazine’s initial topic was ancient explorers who visited Earth 12,000 years ago and had an impact on several prehistoric paintings in the Fergana caves in Uzbekistan.

They initially assumed there were astronauts because the characters in the paintings are unmistakably evidence of an ancient third-kind near contact. These 10,000 BC drawings simply depict an encounter with aliens.

Like modern astronauts, the actors appear to be wearing goggles over their heads. Didier Leroux has gone so far as to claim that his insignificant discovery has made him more aware of the world around him and that he can now locate these ancient astronauts in any painting.

“Chariots of the Gods,” written by Erich Von Daniken and published by Souvenir Press in 1973, is a useful reference. Ulrich Dopatka’s book “Die große Erich mit Däniken Enzyklopädie,” distributed by Econ Verlag GmbH in Düsseldorf, was distributed in 1997. Vyacheslav Zaitsev distributed an exposition for Sputnik magazine in 1967 named “Spaceships in Himalaya.” The article written by Didier Leroux was published in “Lumières dans la Nuit” in February 2000.