Just as an aside, did anyone take note of the " Extraterrestrial Images on the Step Pyramid Saqqara, Egypt" in this
link 
Strikingly familiar to 20th & 21st century "witness" accounts of what are called, "Greys", I think. Especially the eyes, which is the one outstanding feature every alleged witness claims in common. Giant black orbit-less eyes, like that of an insect. (Like grasshoppers eyes somewhat) *Just my luck! I'd find out I'm ultimately the descendant of a cricket! Then again that would go a long way to explain my legs and that weird tendency to draw attention when they rub together as I dance.

*Cough*)
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I know a person who believes this stuff. Or I knew her.
She believes that all the pictures of the different combinations of Men and animals in the Egyptian mythology is actually attempts to mate with different animals on earth to produce offspring.
She also believes that angels are actual aliens with auras so strong that people could see them. These auras were "shadows of the body" and created winglike appearances behind the aliens.
Actually your friend may not be that far fetched in her thinking. The ancient Sumerian cuneiform record, per the translation affected by Zacharia Sitchin, would seem to report the Nefilim that created the first human through genetic splicing with their own DNA, experimented on numerous creatures in the region. Consequently there were anomalies created. Some of which lived and were seemingly released into the wild and some the N. destroyed because they were not able to survive in the condition.
However , the animal/human dressing that was depicted in the Egyptian record are actually masks or regalia, used to solicit a subjective relationship between the "authority" the animal side is suppose to represent to the believers in the pantheon of gods/goddesses. In other words, the people could relate to animal imagery in their everyday encounters, surviving the wilds of the land. And the priesthood ,seeking to impart a relationship between the levels of the god's authorities, knew how to exploit that to advantage. For instance, there was an awareness that jackals were carrion feeders, and the sight of them in the wild would indicate decay and death. So the god "Anubis" was created, as that godhead at the gate to the other side. He that would lead the preservation process , the embalming of their dead, because he was the guide to the other side. The death god.
Sekhmet, the sacred Lioness, was the solar she power of the desert. " Associated with war and retribution, she was said to use arrows to pierce her enemies with fire, her breath being the hot desert wind as her body took on the glare of the midday sun. She represented the destructive force of the sun. "
(source)Etc...
Re: The angels/halo thing. She may not be far off in that one either. Note the links in my previous reply. This image in particular may be a relative symbol of what she's speaking about. Translated across the ages, it would be easy to see where the "Halo" originated:


Keeping in mind the indigenous people of the various regions where these images are found, would have also interjected their subjective awareness to that which they witness to occur. So if ancient aliens flew, those records might depict people with wings also. Not just as a means of depicting auric emanations spreading out from the body.
Further, backpacks carried by NASA astronauts, that carry their oxygen supply to the helmet when they're outside the craft, appear to emit a halo like vapor when the helmet/kit is vented into the vacuous atmosphere of space. Perhaps the ancient peoples, when they witnessed something like this occur in the strange visitors they saw, depicted it in such a way as to be translated today as what appears as a Halo. (See:
"Nimbus")