Most scientist tend not to take him very serious, but through the years Ereich von Daniken encovered a lot of anomalies in human histories. Here is a biography of this famous swiss author.

Von Daniken's books have been translated in 28 languages (some of them), they've made two documentaries from his book (Chariots of the Gods and Messages of the Gods), he has given over 3000 lectures 1/6th of which at universities, and on top of that he travels about 100.000 miles each year. The Archaeology, Astronautics and SETI Research Association ( AAS RA) was founded by von Daniken in 1998. Today he lives in the small mountain village of Beatenberg, Switzerland about 40 miles from Berne. At he moment he is working together with two groups to build a fantastic theme park called "Mysteries of the world" ,
the park is located in Interlaken, Switzerland and if all goes well it will be opened in April of 2002.