Who Are the Annunaki?
When Caligastia, the apostate Planetary Prince of Urantia, first came to our planet, he brought with him a staff of one hundred helpers.
“On going to a young world, a Planetary Prince usually takes with him a group of volunteer ascending beings from the local system headquarters. These ascenders accompany the prince as advisers and helpers in the work of early race improvement. This corps of material helpers constitutes the connecting link between the prince and the world races. The Urantia Prince, Caligastia, had a corps of one hundred such helpers.” - 50:3.1
Sixty of these helpers defaulted along with Caligastia and bred with humans, creating a new race, the Nephilim, or Nodites in Urantia Book nomenclature.
“The postrebellion era on Urantia witnessed many unusual happenings. A great civilization—the culture of Dalamatia—was going to pieces. "The Nephilim (Nodites) were on earth in those days, and when these sons of the gods went in to the daughters of men and they bore to them, their children were the 'mighty men of old,' the 'men of renown.'" While hardly "sons of the gods," the staff and their early descendants were so regarded by the evolutionary mortals of those distant days; even their stature came to be magnified by tradition. This, then, is the origin of the well-nigh universal folk tale of the gods who came down to earth and there with the daughters of men begot an ancient race of heroes. And all this legend became further confused with the race mixtures of the later appearing Adamites in the second garden. Since the one hundred corporeal members of the Prince's staff carried germ plasm of the Andonic human strains, it would naturally be expected that, if they engaged in sexual reproduction, their progeny would altogether resemble the offspring of other Andonite parents. But when the sixty rebels of the staff, the followers of Nod, actually engaged in sexual reproduction, their children proved to be far superior in almost every way to both the Andonite and the Sangik peoples. This unexpected excellence characterized not only physical and intellectual qualities but also spiritual capacities.” - 77:2.3-4
Zecharia Sichin, a proponent of the Ancient Astronaut theory, proposed that an ancient alien race invaded our planet and modifed our DNA with the express purpose of using humans to mine gold. However, interpretations of these historical Sumerian tablets were wildly incorrect.
“When archaeologists dig up the clay-tablet records of the later-day Sumerian descendants of the Nodites, they discover lists of Sumerian kings running back for several thousand years; and as these records go further back, the reigns of the individual kings lengthen from around twenty-five or thirty years up to one hundred and fifty years and more. This lengthening of the reigns of these older kings signifies that some of the early Nodite rulers (immediate descendants of the Prince's staff) did live longer than their later-day successors and also indicates an effort to stretch the dynasties back to Dalamatia.” - 77:2.10
Ancient Alien theorists also propose that there is a 12th planet in our solar system from which these peoples came; however, these interpretations are due to further misunderstandings of the Sumerian tablets. The Prince’s staff came from Jersuem, the headquarters of our local system. Sumerian references to the word Nibiru and other spellings never talked about a planet outside Pluto's orbit wreaking destruction here, that is modern man's distortion. The Annunaki/Nodites were NOT aliens in the sense we use the word today; they were celestial helpers who were intended to help man in his spiritual and physical evolution, but they defaulted and betrayed us. Please see the below website for further research, which has been performed by a long-time Urantia book reader: https://www.firstlegend.info/