Two children who mysteriously appeared in Suffolk in the 12th century and who were described by contemporary chroniclers as having green skin and talking in an unknown language had been accidentally sent from another solar system, claims Duncan Lunan, a controversial writer on astronomy and space research.
But if that was not enough, he further claims to have found a descendant of one of the extra-terrestrials living in America. Lunan said the story of the girl and the boy found near Woolpit in 1173 was often dismissed as a "fairytale". However, after "exhaustive research", he said the pair must have been sent from another planet by mistake by a matter transmitter.
Records of the discovery of the children, a girl aged about 10 and a younger boy, are found in two medieval chronicles, by William of Newburgh and Ralph of Coggeshall. It is later mentioned in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy in 1651 where he says they may have come from Mars or Venus.
The earlier chronicles describe how the green-skinned children were found by villagers wearing clothing of a style and material they had never seen before. The children spoke a language no one understood. They appeared to be human and said they came from a place in permanent twilight, but the neighbouring territory from which they were separated by a river was bathed in sunlight.
Lunan said this proved they came from a separate solar system where the planet stayed in the same position in relation to its sun. The chronicles told how the colour of the children changed as they began to eat home-grown food. The boy later died from depression, the girl, Agnes Barre, was married four years later to one of Henry II's senior ambassadors.
Lunan claimed there were indications of a cover-up when the children were found, possibly to hide evidence of the "matter transmitter", which would have been needed for their transfer to Earth.
After publishing his claims in an American magazine, a reader living in America sent his family tree to Lunan, which showed he was a descendant of Barre. Lunan said the whole story was so strange that you had to conclude that the children were from another planet. 'It is fascinating. If you take the historical background seriously, you have to take the rest seriously," he said. "It has got to be some kind of extra-terrestrial contact. The X Files were set in the wrong century. These people have taken over an uninhabited planet and made part of it habitable. They must have had a high level of technology."
He quoted the chronicle which he claimed shows that the children were on their planet one minute and in the field in Suffolk the next. The chronicle quotes the children saying: "We heard a sound like bells and then suddenly, as if placed in some absence of mind, we found ourselves in the field where you were reaping."
He said there was a lot of evidence which pointed to them being from outer space. "They refused to eat for a long time. If they had run away from a primitive tribe and were offered lots to eat, they would eat."
He said it was also strange that Henry II had "annexed" the village of 60 people and placed his Vice-Chancellor in control of it.
Green Children of Olde England
