Andrew Tomas

Andrew Tomas (23 June 1906 - 2001) was a UFO researcher, Freemason and author. An accountant by trade, Thomas was appointed to the position of official Sydney observer for the Australian Flying Saucer Bureau (AFSB) after meeting AFSB founder, Edgar Jarrold.
Personal life
Tomas was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and in 1911 the family moved to Helsinki, Finland where his father was employed as a civil engineer in the Ministry of the Army and Navy.
In 1912 Tomas' family moved to Vladivostok and then, in 1922-23, to Harbin, Manchuria and Thomas went to school at an English Methodist Missionary School to learn typing and English. In 1924, the Thomas family moved to Shanghai after Thomas graduated from high school.
Tomas lived in China for 21 years until 1948 when he moved to Australia.
Freemasonry
Tomas was a 32º member and past master of the Shanghai Masonic Lodge and a Scottish rite officer. He transferred his membership to Australia.
Australia
After joining the AFSB, Tomas wrote and began to distribute a draft for a planetary pact described as "an international treaty for a planetary pool of natural resources, means of production, manpower and scientific genius." Tomas was advocating "a planetary government for the Space Age" including ways "to step up space projects once there is a Planetary Government to control the resources pooled by all the countries, and then to attempt contacts with other planets being prepared to find life on some of them". Tomas did not find a great deal of support for his proposals.
Tomas ran the AFSB in its various forms and under various names until the formation of the UFO Investigation Centre (UFOIC) in 1956. Within years the UFOIC had a standing membership of almost a hundred people.
Tomas published the UFOIC magazine, the "UFO Bulletin" and later the Australian Flying Saucer Review until 1965.
Tomas was the NSW "delegate" to the Ballarat UFO conference on 27 February 1965. He gave a lecture entitled "purpose of Coming to Earth", examining "the global exploration and the world crisis theories, stressing that a contact between planetary civilisations could become the greatest challenge of all times".
Ancient astronauts
Tomas was an ancient astronaut proponent and believed that scientific knowledge had been brought to Earth by extraterrestrials from outer space. In his book We Are Not the First he listed many out-of-place artifacts such as ancient aircraft, electric batteries, penicillin, and even ancient literature depicting robots, computers and television to conclude that these things existed many thousands of years ago due to 'demigods' (aliens) appearing on earth who taught, enlightened and helped early man to make them. He wrote in the book a chapter called "Electricity in the remote past" in which he concluded that electricity has existed for thousands of years due to classical authors mentioning the reality of ever burning lamps in antiquity. He listed examples such as Lucian the Greek satirist seeing a shining jewel illuminating a whole temple, the second century historian Pausanias also wrote that a lamp was burning for a year at a time in the temple of Minerva and Saint Augustine wrote of an ever lasting lamp in a temple to Isis. On the topic of robots, Tomas believed they have existed for thousands of years, as evidence he cited examples such as the work of the monk Gerbert d'Aurillac (920-1003) who was reported to have owned a bronze robot which answered questions through a computer on matters of religion.
Publications
* We Are Not the First: Riddles of Ancient Science (1971)
* Ils Etaient les Premiers (They Were The First" (1979) Paris, France: Albin Michel
* On the Shores of Endless Worlds
* The Home of the Gods
* Mirage of the Ages<ref name="The Oz Files"/>

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