WATCH: Iraqi Minister Claims Aliens Helped Sumerians Build the First Airport

A statement released by Iraqi Minister for Transport, Kazem Finjan, made people wonder if indeed aliens helped Sumerians build the first airport in 4000 BC. He says that a real space center that launched crafts to the solar system was developed on Earth 7,000 years ago in Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia).

The press gathered in the Iraqi province of Dhi Qar to cover news about a new airport but didn’t expect to hear anything about Sumerians. According to the Express he said, “The first airport that was established on planet earth was in this place. There are probably not many people who have knowledge, namely the fact that it was the first airport constructed 5,000 years before Christ.”

During the press conference, the Minister mentioned that Dhi Qar is the safest place for planes to land take off because according to him, when the Sumerians settled there, they knew well that the atmosphere here was suitable for flying to outer space.

WATCH: Iraqi Transport Minister Kazem Finajn: 5,000-Year-Old Sumerian Airports Served for Space Travel via Memri TV YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK8yr3h_U4Y

Space station built by Sumerians, discovered Pluto

According to The New Arab, the minister claimed that this ‘space center’ was a hub for space exploration and that the Sumerians discovered Pluto falsely. They claimed it to be the “twelfth planet” that NASA discovered in 1933. The launch site, according to him, also discovered planet Nibiru known as Planet X.

Finjan urged the doubtful audience to read the book of historian Zecharia Sitchin or look into the work of Sumerian experts like professor Samuel Kramer. Kramer wrote that Sumerians were indeed aware of the solar system already which can be seen through their myths. This is what the minister refers to as his back up for his claims.

Aliens and ancient civilization

The Sumerians represent the oldest known civilization in Iraq and historians say their greatest years were in 2,700 – 2,400 BC. It was then that Mesopotamia was known as the birthplace of civilization. Theories such as the “Ancient Aliens” myth centers around alien astronauts arriving on Earth to share superior technology with ancient civilizations to help build complicated structures such as pyramids.

They say that the first manned space journey took place in 1957 under the Russian space program. Since then, there are no clear findings of Sumerians building the said structure in any of those travels. At least none that we know of.