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They are not from outer space. There is no need for them to be. They have always been here. Perhaps they were here long before we started bashing each other over the head with clubs. If so, they will undoubtedly still be here long after we have incinerated our cities, polluted all the waters, and rendered the very atmosphere unbreathable.
Finally, like the fairies of old, they often collected souvenirs from the witnesses . . . delightedly walking away with an old magazine, pen, or other small expendable object.
From the times of Babylonia and the Pharaohs, sculptors were preoccupied with putting wings on lions and unidentifiable beasts.
But it glowed. It glowed in the night – kind of a greenish cast to it. There was a glow on her and around her. Everything glowed. Looked like she glowed and threw off a radiance.
She may have glowed, not entirely sure.
The UFO phenomenon itself is only one trivial fragment of a much larger phenomenon.
The gods of ancient Greece are among us again, in a new guise but still handing out the old line. Believe. Belief is the enemy.
‘I was so startled I didn’t take a shot at it.
Americans...
Black limousines halted in front of hill homes and deeply tanned ‘census takers’ inquired about the number of children living with the families. Always the children. In several instances, the occupants of the big black cars merely asked for a glass of water. The old fairy trick, taken up from the Middle Ages and dusted off.
‘You can have that if you want it,’ she offered. He responded with a loud, peculiar laugh, a kind of cackle. Then he ran out into the night and disappeared around a corner.
Among my grimmer memories of 1966–67 are those times when I knelt in farm fields to examine dead animals, particularly dogs, who had suffered amazingly clean and expert cuts.
Fairies were said to have a particular hatred for dogs.
Dr. Jacques Vallee has called it ‘metalogic,’ suggesting that the entities have a logic system quite different from ours and when they try to translate things on our level their statements come out absurd.
Consistent with findings of those communing with deities in occult circles.
Later I tried to check to find out if any Bloodmobiles had actually vanished anywhere. The Red Cross thought I was a bit nuts.
and Mrs Lilly heard ‘a baby crying.’ ‘It sounded so plain,’ she said, ‘that I looked around the house even though I knew there was no baby here. It seemed to come from the living room . . . only a few feet away from me.’
A common occurence in all paranormal activity.
A fantastic new world was taking shape, populated by spacemen who drove Cadillacs and Volkswagens, psychiatrists who heard bodiless voices in the night, and things that ate dogs and cattle while everyone was looking in the wrong direction.
If it continues unchecked we may face a time when universal acceptance of the fictitious space people will lead us to a modern faith in extraterrestrials that will enable them to interfere overtly in our affairs, just as the ancient gods dwelling on mountaintops directly ruled large segments of the population in the Orient, Greece, Rome, Africa, and South America.
The air force and CIA did not have to try to disrupt the ufological movement. It is by its very nature a self-disrupting network of disoriented people.
After spending a lifetime in Egyptian tombs, among the crumbling temples of India and the lamaseries of the Himalayas, endless nights in cemeteries, gravel pits, and hilltops everywhere, I have seen much and my childish sense of wonder remains unshaken. But Charles Fort’s question always haunts me: ‘If there is a universal mind, must it be sane?’
We are meant to be crazy. It is an important part of the human condition. Otherwise there would be no wars, no Hitlers or Napoleons, no Woodrow Derenbergers (and his unfortunate psychiatrist). This planet is haunted by us; the other occupants just evade boredom by filling our skies and seas with monsters.
