Jacg Valle XXX

MESSENGERS OF DECEPTION
UFO CONTACTS AND CULTS

DAILY GRAIL PUBLISHING
CONTENTS
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l'nrt'worJ to the 2008 Edition v
l'I'uluHUC A Dream World Far O ff
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I',.. t ()nc The Contacts
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The Case !ainst the S"a#e#ra$t
The %andwa!on $ro& Outer S"a#e
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5 1
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The +e#e"tion
,h- +o The- .ee" Starin! at the ,alls/
01000'1 Two The Manipulations
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The 2oliti#al O3ertones 99
The 4enusian Candidate 1 1 5
Sera"hi# Trans"orts and %ene3olent 2ro!ra&&ers 1 3 3
0*) The 2u""ets
2art Three 5 The Stratagems
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A Cow $or Norad 080
Intelli!en#e 6e"orts 200
The Strata!e& Theories 2 1 3
2 49
2 5 3
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1 .on#lusion
E"ilo!ue A Sociologist's Reaction
""endi7 Statement on the UFO Phenomenon
End&atter Notes !i"liograph# $nde% 2')
FOREWORD TO THE 2008 EDITION
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EARLY THIRTY YEARS have elapsed since Messengers o/Deception
first appeared in the U.S.* Since then the c!ntr!versial vie"s
it e#pressed have $een vindicated and thr!"n int! sharp f!c%s $&
sh!c'in( events that "ere rep!rted "!rld"ide. In partic%lar the
star' "arnin( I iss%ed in c!nnecti!n "ith the HI) c%lt (*It !nl&
c!sts &!%r life+*) appears as %nf!rt%natel& pr!phetic in li(ht !f
the )arch ,--. c!llective s%icide !f Heaven's /ate as the (r!%p
$eca0e 'n!"n. The 0ass 'illin(s !f the adepts !f the 1rder !f
the S!lar Te0ple in 2anada 3rance and S"it4erland in ,--5
ill%strated the dan(er!%s f!r0 !f 0ind c!ntr!l and the si0%lati!n
!f e#traterrestrial c!ntact I first descri$ed here in c!nnecti!n
"ith the *Advent%res !f a /rand )aster.* The cattle 0%tilati!ns
phen!0en!n re0ains %ns!lved. As f!r the Raelians the c%lt started
$& 6!rilh!n "h!se earl& lect%res in San 3rancisc! are recalled in this
$!!' it has fl!%rished internati!nall& and $%rst int! pr!0inence
in recent &ears "ith clai0s !f h%0an cl!nin(.
7!t !nl& have these iss%es c!ntin%ed t! si00er %nder the
s%rface "hile U31 $elievers $as'ed in their $eni(n e#pectati!n !f
aliens fr!0 the stars $%t a verita$le 0ass c!nversi!n has ta'en place
a0!n( the p%$lic and the 0edia elite. The $elief in e#traterrestrial
visitati!n is practicall& ta'en f!r (ranted a0!n( "ide secti!ns
!f the p!p%lati!n and especiall& a0!n( the &!%n(. 8hile the
h&p!thesis !f alien c!ntact is an e#citin( !ne 9%stified !n the $asis
(*) 3!ll!"in( the ,-.- And:1r (;er'ele& 2alif!rnia) editi!n there "as
a 0ass paper$ac' $& ;anta0 (7Y) in ,-<= a 3rench editi!n called La
Grande Manipulation fr!0 Editi!ns d% R!cher (>aris) in ,-<? and an
Italian editi!n entitled Messaggeri di Illusioni fr!0 Sperlin( &@%pfer
()ilan) in ,-<5. The present te#t is Ahe third A0erican editi!n.
Vt
of continuing observations of unidentified flying objects it carries
t!e "otential for e#"loitation and $ani"ulation by dece"tive grou"s
%it! t!eir o%n !idden agenda&
I believe t!at 'FOs are "!ysically real& T!ey re"resent a fantastic
tec!nology controlled by an un(no%n for$ of consciousness& )ut
I also believe t!at it %ould be dangerous to ju$" to "re$ature
conclusions about t!eir origin and nature because t!e "!eno$enon
serves as t!e ve!icle for i$ages t!at can be $ani"ulated to "ro$ote
belief syste$s tending to t!e long*ter$ transfor$ation of !u$an
society& I !ave tried to identify so$e of t!e $ani"ulators and to
!ig!lig!t t!eir activities %!ic! range fro$ a""arently !ar$less
!oa#es suc! as t!e false "rofessor George +da$s(i,s $eetings %it!
-enusian s"ace$en to bloody e#"editions t!at !ave littered t!e
+$erican landsca"e %it! t!e carcasses of $utilated ani$als& I !ave
found disturbing evidence of dangerous sectarian activities lin(ed
to totalitarian "!iloso"!ies& T!e ease %it! %!ic! journalists and
even scientists can be seduced into indiscri$inate "ro$otion of
suc! dece"tions is staggering& In t!e conte#t of an acade$ic attitude
t!at rejects any o"en investigation of "aranor$al "!eno$ena suc!
fanatical conversions $ust be e#"ected& For $e t!at is only one
$ore reason for an inde"endent t!in(er to re$ain vigilant against
false ideas and si$"listic "olitical notions "lanted by t!ose I !ave
called t!e .Messengers of Dece"tion&.
PROLOGUE
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A Dream World Far Off
Give me the superstitions of a nation, and I care not who makes their
laws, or who writes their songs!
Mark Twain
Nobody Ever Jum! in"o "#e Po"oma$
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%G&T T&%RT'( T&E a"mo!#ere i! already warm and #umid over
Wa!#in)"on( We don*" feel i" in "#e air$raf"+ bu" "#e mornin)
#a,e over "#e Po"oma$ "ell! "#e w#ole !"ory of w#a"*! awai"in) u!( T#e
#u)e )ray !#ae of "#e Pen"a)on i! ri!in) "oward u! a! we "urn "o land
a" Na"ional Airor"(
Nine o'clock. T#e "a-i drive! by "#e monumen"! w#o!e name! are
"#o!e of "#e $oun"ry*! a!" leader!. Jeffer!on+ Lin$oln+ Wa!#in)"on(
T#e feelin) of aroa$#in) "#e world*! ower $en"er in$rea!e!( /o
do "#e #umidi"y and "#e #ea"(
Nine thirty. Wi"#in a blo$k of "#e W#i"e &ou!e+ % en"er "#e New
E-e$u"ive Offi$e 0uildin)+ "#e modern bri$k !"ru$"ure w#ere !enior
offi$ial!*work i! ro"e$"ed from "#e #ea" by "#i$k )la!!door!( T#e ar$#i"e$"
#ad "#e )ood idea of u""in) a foun"ain in "#e a"io( T#a" #el! a li""le(
T#e offi$e of "#e Pre!iden"*! /$ien$e Advi!er i! on an uer floor(
Ten 0'clock. % !"e ou" of "#e eleva"or and a !e$re"ary "ake! my
name+ $#e$k! wi"# "#e aoin"men" book( T#e !ub1e$" of "#e
di!$u!!ion. uniden"ified flyin) ob1e$"!(
2 MESSENGERS OF DECEPTION
UFOs: a volatile topic that can be ignited too!!o" b# a Ne"
$o!% Ties sto!# on a &!'st!ating chase b# ilita!# planes in I!an
o! b# a net"o!% doc'enta!# on the abd'ction o& soe &ishe!an
in the So'th( ) topic nobod# in this cit# "ants to to'ch "ith a
ten*&oot pole( ) topic that I a beginning to s'spect is as 'ch a
p'++le to the ilita!#, the intelligence co'nit#, and the Science
)dvise! as it is to the p'blic and to the ne"s edia( It is a'sing
to "atch ho" each secto! anages to hide its igno!ance behind its
o"n p!o&essional !heto!ic(
The ilita!# has a do'ble standa!d( In p'blic it %eeps a sti&&
'ppe! lip( -hateve! the# a!e, sa# the gene!als, UFOs cannot
possibl# pose a th!eat to the sec'!it# o& the United States. -h#
is it, then, that aa+ed "itnesses contin'e to !epo!t the ad
sc!abling o& /et &ighte!s eve!# tie a light "ande!s th!o'gh
the s%#0 None o& the !eg'lations that a%e it a d't# &o! ilita!#
pe!sonnel to !epo!t UFOs and a c!ie to tal% abo't the has been
"ithd!a"n, even a&te! the closing o& the )i! Fo!ce1s P!o/ect 2l'e
2oo% ten #ea!s ago(
The intelligence co'nit# li%es to give the ip!ession that it
%no"s all abo't UFOs b't, o& co'!se, cannot !eveal "hat it %no"s(
Its /ob is to p!etend that it %no"s eve!#thing( $et I a beginning to
s'spect that the !eal sec!et in -ashington, the sec!et that 'st be
%ept at all costs, is that the intelligence co'nit# %no"s nothing,
altho'gh it ce!tainl# has &iles &'ll o& tantali+ing details nobod# has
been able to p't togethe! #et(
The scienti&ic co'nit# is &a! behind the ties, &ighting !ea!3
g'a!d s%i!ishes in the nae o& Rationalis( )cadeic schola!s
pe!iodicall# !all# behind soe l'ina!# "ho has /'st4 discove!ed4
the &inal, !ational e5planation, and pe!iodicall# the e5planation
has to be "ithd!a"n 'nde! p'blic !idic'le( Fl#ing sa'ce!s have
been 4e5plained scienti&icall#4 as plasa discha!ges, s"ap gas,
stat's inconsistenc#, cognitive dissonance, !e&!action e&&ects, and
tepo!al lobe epileps#( 2't the# %eep !ight on &l#ing, 'nde! the
noses o& the e5plaine!s(
Prologue - A Dream World Far Off 3
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Typical of the thousands of "close encounter" cases reported in the last
thirty years is this sighting in Quarouble France !hich heralded the ma"or
!a#e of sightings in $urope in %&'(. The !itness railroad employee )arius
DeWilde sa! a craft that had landed and t*+Ooccupants of it. French
police and Air Force ,ntelligence regard the ob"ect as unidentified. -Photo
courtesy of .nited Press ,nternational. /
That lea#es the .FO buffs !ho ha#e been collecting stories for
thirty years concentrating on the 0inds of data that fit their theories.
And they ha#e been fighting each other in an endless pointless
confrontation not of ideas and theories but of personalities in
egotistical conflict. 1O,neencouraging !ords by President 2arter
electrified these groups !hen he as0ed 3ody Po!ell and 1cience
Ad#iser Fran0 Press to see !hat could be done. The ne! director
of 4A1A !as gingerly approached5 !ould the Agency agree to act
as a focal point for public in6uiries7 The Director said he !ould.
What about a pro"ect to in#estigate the current sightings7 4A1A
!as going to thin0 about it.
1eated across the des0 from the 1cience Ad#iser8s assistant I
begin as0ing my o!n 6uestions. Why 4A1A7 I!ould li0e to 0no!.
NASA deals exclusively with space technl!y" #as the Science
Advise$%s &&ice al$eady esta'lished that the (FO phen)enn is
technl!ical in natu$e* and $i!inates in space+ O$ is this chice
)e$ely a $espnse t the pe$ceptins & the pu'lic and the )edia+
Seve$al se$ius $esea$che$s in this &ield ,uestin the idea that
(FOs a$e ext$ate$$est$ial visit$s" S why pic- NASA $athe$ than
the Depa$t)ent & Ene$!y* which culd deal 'ette$ with the
physical e&&ects* $ the Natinal Institutes & #ealth* which a$e
capa'le & investi!atin! the physil!ical $espnses so p$evalent
a)n! witnesses+
D$" Schneide$ is a ln!.ti)e p$&essinal civil se$vant" #is
u$'ane* s&t.sp-en $espnse '$ushes the ,uestin aside" In
the )ind & the pu'lic* the (FO p$'le) has t d with space
and the$e&$e it is app$p$iate &$ NASA t deal with it" A$e
we tal-in! p$i)a$ily a'ut pu'lic $elatins* then* $athe$ than
science+ /e&$e u$ ci$cu)spect 0Invisi'le Clle!e0 1a netw$- &
scientists wh a$e p$ivately investi!atin! the )yste$y2 invests ti)e
and e&&$t in p$esentin! u$ data . p$'a'ly the )st detailed
and 'est.investi!ated set & (FO cases eve$ selected . we have
t -nw these answe$s" Is the !ve$n)ent thin-in! & sta$tin! a
new P$3ect /lue /-+ A new Cndn Rep$t+ I& s* we wuld
ce$tainly nt pa$ticipate"
That wuld nt leave the Science Advise$ withut assistance*
hweve$" A &ile & pape$s n the des- cntains lette$s &$) (FO
!$ups* &&e$s &$) cntactees wh want t tell the P$esident
a'ut thei$ 0Space /$the$s*0 $ec))endatins t set up sauce$
'se$vat$ies e,uipped with $ada$ and lase$s" They have spent lnely
ni!hts n hilltps waitin! &$ visit$s &$) the s-y" And s)e have
$etu$ned clai)in! t have )et the)" Gd luc-* NASA"
Eleven thirty. I leave the New Executive O&&ice /uildin!* callin!
t )ind anthe$ cnve$satin* a &ew)nths ea$lie$* with a )e)'e$
& the F$ench Ca'inet" The ,uiet apa$t)ent was the settin! &$ a
p$ivate discussin* which 'e!an with a $eview & F$ench $esea$ch
n the su'3ect* and d$i&ted twa$d the pssi'le causes & the
phenomenon. If UFOs did not have an extraterrestrial cause, if the
!ere not space visitors, then !hat" I suggested that the phenomenon,
or at least its social effects, might #e closel monitored # a human
group - not necessaril a government. $o analsis of the pro#lem
!ould #e complete if it did not address the possi#ilit that a group
of un%no!n persons either influences the phenomenon itself or is
using pu#lic reaction for its o!n purposes. Preposterous" & host
did not seem to thin% so.
'tanding # the !indo! m friend loo%ed at the dar%ening
streets, then turned around to sa, ()hat possi#ilit does exist. *ut
!e %no! !hat human #eings !ould do !ith such po!er. I have
seen the effects of po!er, #elieve me, in m ears in government.
If our hpothesis turns out to #e the ans!er, I !ill +ump into the
'eine !ithout !aiting for developments.(
Noon. In the #right sun of Washington, the humid ha, air, I
remem#er the chill of that conversation in Paris. Did I sense the
same helplessness in the ans!ers I have +ust heard" $o. )he -arter
administration is acting as if it is concerned onl !ith responding to
pu#lic interest in the su#+ect. $A'A !ill rapidl sense this attitude
and !ill turn do!n the assignment. )he mood in Washington is far
removed from the realit of a phenomenon !hich ma #e scaring
farmers in Io!a right no!, or plaing !ith high-performance
aircraft over .apan, Iran, and 'pain. Washington is not partial to
long-term analses. *esides, the Potomac is not the 'eine. $o one
ever +umps from the /e *ridge.
)he )hree Aspects of the UFO Pro#lem
)he topic of unidentified fling o#+ects has al!as posed a thorn
pro#lem of pu#lic polic, #ut it has al!as #een approached
as a short-term 0uestion of pu#lic relations. I have follo!ed the
application of this polic !ith interest, #oth in France and in the
United 'tates. When I first #ecame interested in the sightings
MESSENCERS OF DECEPTION
during the 1954 wave in Europe, the oIIicial position was simply to
deny the observations. At the time I was a student, had no access
to good inIormation, and could only wonder about government
attitudes. I became seriously interested in 191, when I saw French
astronomers erase a magnetic tape on which our satellite-tracking
team had recorded eleven data points on an unknown Ilying object
which was not an airplane, a balloon, or a known orbiting craIt.
"People would laugh at us iI we reported this!" was the answer I
was given at the time. Better Iorget the whole thing. Let's not bring
ridicule to the observatory. Lees not conIess to the public that there
is something we don't know.
The main argument against UFOs at the time was that
"astronomers don't see anything unexplained." Well, there we
were, a team oI proIessional astronomers, seeing things we couldn't
explain. Not only were we denying it, we had destroyed the data!
I wanted to know how many oI our colleagues were doing the
same thing, how many sightings were swept aside, how many lay
dormant in scientiIic or military Iiles. I went through the French
Air Force data, and later Major Quintanilla authorized me to study
the cases gathered by the U.S. Air Force. I wrote a couple oI books
on the subject to summarize what I had Iound. There was a real
phenomenon there, I concluded. And it might very well originate
Irom outer space. The Washington policy at that time was not to
ridicule the witnesses, but simply to claim that 98 per cent oI all
sightings had been explained by the Air Force.
In 197, as the University oI Colorado began spending the
$512,000 given to ProIessor Condon by the Pentagon to study
UFOs, my interest had begun to shiIt. Why is it, I wondered, that
the "occupants" oI UFOs behave so much like the denizens oI
Iairy tales and the elves oI ancient Iolklore? Why is the picture we
can Iorm oI their world so much closer to the medieval concept oI
Magonia, the magical land above the clouds, than to a description
oI an extraterrestrial planetary environment? And why are UFOs
becoming a new religious Iorm? I spent a year researching this
angle, and emerged with a greater appreciation for the psychic
aspects of the phenomenon. I could no longer regard the "flying
saucers" as simply some sort of spacecraft or machine, no matter
how eotic its propulsion.
!ac" to my computer# $y then, Ihad $ecome a computer
scientist and was leading a research group wor"ing under contract
with the Ad%anced &esearch Pro'ects Agency, a pro'ect that
$rought me to Washington se%eral times a year. In my spare time,
I pursued my (FO studies, trying to find some pattern in the
glo$al distri$ution of sightings. )he most clear result was that
the phenomenon $eha%ed li"e a conditioning process. )he logic
of conditioning uses a$surdity and confusion to achie%e its goal
while hiding its mechanism. )here is a similar structure in the
(FO stories.
I am $eginning to percei%e a coherent picture of the "flying
saucer" phenomenon for the first time, now that I am pursuing
the idea that (FOs may be a control system, and now that I am
aware of their lin" to human consciousness. I still thin" there is a
genuine technology at wor" here, causing the effects witnesses are
descri$ing. !ut I am not ready to 'ump to the conclusion that it is
the technology of some "ind of "spacemen."
)here are three aspects to the (FO pro$lem.
)he first aspect is physical. )he (FO $eha%es li"e a region of
space, of small dimensions *a$out +, meters-, within which a
%ery large amount of energy is stored. )his energy is manifested
$y pulsed light phenomena of intense colors, $y other forms of
electromagnetic radiation, and $y microwa%es that create distortions
of the witnesses. sense of reality.
)he second aspect ispsychological. It is de$ata$le whether any$ody
has seen the actual technology that supports the phenomenon.
What is seen, and reported, is an image; that is, the perception of
a (FO $y a human witness. &eports of (FOs show all "inds of
psychophysiological effects on the witnesses# perception distortions,
unconscious $arriers, and mental $loc"s. Witnesses also show
evidence of suggestion and post-hypnotic effects. Eposu!e to the
pheno"enon causes visions# ha$$ucinations# physio$ogica$ effects#
and $ong-te!" pe!sona$ity changes.
The thi!d aspect is social. %e$ief in the !ea$ity of &FOs is
sp!eading !apid$y at a$$ $eve$s of society th!oughout the 'o!$d.
%oo(s and pe!iodica$s on the su)*ect appea! at an eve!-inc!easing
!ate. Docu"enta!ies and "a*o! fi$"s a!e )eing "ade no' )y young
peop$e of the &FO gene!ation +young "en and 'o"en 'ho 'e!e
)o!n *ust afte! ,o!$d ,a! II and 'ho g!e' up 'ith f$ying-sauce!
sto!ies- 'ho have "oved into inf$uentia$ positions in the "edia.
Epectations a)out $ife in the unive!se have )een !evo$utioni.ed )y
such )e$ief changes in the pu)$ic. Po$itica$ and econo"ic attitudes
a!e changing# too. Many of the the"es of yeste!day/s counte!0
cu$tu!e can )e t!aced )ac( to the 1"essages f!o" space1 co"ing
f!o" &FO contactees of the fo!ties and fifties.
The epe!ience of a c$ose encounte! 'ith a &FO is a shatte!ing
physica$ and "enta$ o!dea$. The t!au"a has effects that go fa!
The "ost o)vious aspect of the &FO pheno"enon is physica$. The cases often
p!esent "ate!ia$ t!aces# )u!ns# dep!essions# and i"p!ints. In this Canadian
case# nea! Chapeau# 2ue)ec# an a!ea 34 feet in dia"ete! 'as sco!ched in
!epeated incidents. +Photo cou!tesy of &nited P!ess Inte!na!iona$.-
beyond what the witnesses recall consciously. New types of behavior
are conditioned and new types of beliefs are promoted. !he
social political and religious conse"uences of the e#perience are
enormous if they are considered not in the days or wee$s following
the sighting but over the timespan of a generation. %ould it be that
such effects are actually intended through some process of social
conditioning& %ould it be that both the believers and the s$eptics
are being manipulated& 's the public being deceived and led to
false conclusions by someone who is using the (FO witnesses to
propagate revolutionary new ideas&
!he purpose of this boo$ is to e#plore these "uestions.
In a Paris Restaurant
One day in )9*+ two friends met for lunch in a "uiet Paris
restaurant. One of them was a ,ournalist with a long-standing
interest in the (FO problem. !he other was an intelligence officer
with the French Air Force who had enthusiastically promised
during a previous conversation to find out all he could about the
true state of affairs on the military side. !hey sat down at a "uiet
table in a corner far from curious ears.
-Did you get any information&- as$ed the ,ournalist ready to
pull his notepad from his briefcase. -'s the government going to
do anything&-
!he officer too$ a long time in replying. -.ou won/t li$e what '/ve
got to say.- 0e spo$e slowly and with a strange note of hesitancy.
-What/s the matter& 's our government hiding terrible secrets&-
-' didn/t go to our government. !hey don/t $now anything. '
went to my American contacts.- 0e paused. -0uman society is a
peculiar thing./1
-' $now that. .ou don/t need an American to ... -
-' mean it/s a balance a sort of e"uilibrium that can be easily
upset. .ou see it rests on a combination of trust and fear. !he
military, the government, all of that runs beause !eo!le "no#
their !lae in the #orl$ isn%t threatene$ by any $rasti hanges&'
'(hat $oes this have to $o #ith )FOs*'
'Oh, but it $oes+ Don%t you see, if #e let !eo!le believe that
those things are out there, an$ #e have no e,!lanation for them,
the #hole struture is in trouble& Peo!le #ill transfer their fear an$
their trust to a $ifferent !lae&'
'Sort of li"e a run on the ban"s*'
The -uestion #ent unans#ere$ as a #aiter a!!roahe$ to ta"e
their or$er& (hen his frien$ ha$ ma$e his hoie bet#een the
Sole Meuniere an$ the Entrecote, the .ournalist ontinue$/ 'So the
military $oesn%t #ant to ta"e any hanes, eh*'
'Not until they "no# #hat%s going on& This thing is too big&'
'(oul$ you say they are overing u!, then*'
'That%s not the right #ay to !ut it,' the offier sai$, #hen the
#aiter ha$ left their table& 'There isn%t a !artiular grou! $ei$ing
an$ enforing a over0u!& Everybo$y sim!ly avoi$s loo"ing at the
!roblem& (hy u!set the #hole mahine*'
The .ournalist settle$ ba" in his hair, la"ing the satisfation
of the sim!le ons!iray that he ha$ fran"ly e,!ete$& (hat he ha$
reeive$ #as a !roblem of muh more vast an$ subtle !ro!ortions&
The World of the Contactees
(hat this Frenh offier $i$n%t reali1e #as that the im!at oul$
not be avoi$e$ in$efinitely& )FOs ontinue to be seen in suh large
numbers that the !ubli is foring sientists an$ the military to
e,amine the issue& 2ut other& more subtle things are ha!!ening,
too& They have to $o #ith those #ho laim to have reeive$ $iret
"no#le$ge from )FOs/ the Contatees&
(henever a ivili1ation a!!roahes a $ramati turning !oint,
some symbol or one!t arises to rystalli1e that hange& The
shining eagle of the Roman legions& the Tem!lars% ross on the sails
The physical traces left by UFOs have been of frequent concern to the U!
military "ere investigators from #irtland Air Force $ase in %e& 'e(ico are
measuring the radioactivity at a landing site &here a bush has been burned
l1tar!ocorro in April 1)*+ The man standing at the left is the main &itness,
patrolman -onnie .amora /Photo courtesy of United Press 0nternational1
of the 2onquistadores, have been such symbols, spelling the end of
one &orld and the da&n of another For the &orld of the coming
decades, the 3ey symbol may &ell be a shining dis3 from heaven
'any people around ll! today are preparing to greet it &ith delight,
even if that means falling under the control of forces they do not
understand These people are the UFO contactees and the believers
in celestial visitation, the follo&ers of the saucer prophets They can
pave the &ay for dramatic changes
0t is a common mista3e to assume that contactees are al&ays
irresponsible crac3pots or elderly mystics A case in point is a
young man named 4regory, &hom 0 used to 3no& as a systems
programmer &ith one of our leading 5thin3 tan3s5 "e quit his 6ob
to form a psychic center "e is no& publishing a ne&sletter devoted
to his e(periences &ith higher entities7 he believes that, in so doing,
he follo&s the telepathic instructions of a superior force !ome feel
that he has found a ne& moral frame&or3 based on revelation
Others argue that he is the victim of a delusion that could spread
like an epidemic. In either case, the implicatins are seri!s. It is nr
"eca!se # their n!m"ers r "eca!se # their leaders$ thirst #r p%er
that the #ll%ers # s!ch sects %ill "e especiall& in#l!ential. Our
institutions are vulnerable t the spreadin' "elie# in the irratinal.
Peple like Gre'r& d ##er !s a ne% dream, "!t it is s #ar #rm
realit& that it c!ld easil& t!rn int a cmplete #antas&. (ere is a
sample # his %ritin', # his pse!d)histrical *re+elatins* recei+ed
#rm %ise "ein's %h #l& thr!'h !ter space,
On the eastern shre # the Peace#!l Sea, Gd "r!'ht #rth
the -merican Rep!"lic... Fr the p!rpse # assem"lin'
the hi'h cnsci!sness re.!ired t cncei+e and esta"lish
this ne% /nin, Gd sent (is sn Melchi0edek, ne time
1rd # Salem, !nt Christpher Cl!m"!s ...
Other cntactee 'r!ps ha+e +ert plitical p!rpses. The leader #
ne s!ch 'r!p tld me,
The Earth is the prpert& # ne 'r!p # sa!cers that
cntrls this end # the !ni+erse, and the& call themsel+es
the 2rthers, and the& are the nes %h "r!'ht the Christ
n Earth 2333 &ears a'... I# %e 'et a little !t # cntrl,
and ma&"e R!ssia %!ld start t thr% sme missiles at !s,
#rm C!"a ... %ell, the& mi'ht step in, i# it 't t "ad, and
help !s !t. The& tld !s the& %!ld.
This 'r!p # cntactees is natinall& r'ani0ed as a plitical part&.
2e#re %e re4ect these +ie%s as e5amples # harmless l!nac&, %e
sh!ld "ser+e that peple nce had the same +ie% # the Ch!rch
# Scientl'&. Indeed, the in+entr # Dianetics is said t ha+e
practiced rit!al ma'ic %ith a rcket e5pert named 6ack Parsns,
%h met in the M4a+e Desert in 1789 a :Spirit!al 2ein'* %hm
he re'arded as a ;en!sian. Peple als !sed t re4ect cmpletel&
the "elie#s # the Mrmn Ch!rch, %hse #!nder %!ld tda& "e
regarded as a contactee. But how many religious movements started
in the same way?
For every individual who is oenly identified as a contactee!
how many more have received what they regard as a "secret
illumination"? #t is aarent that the transformation they undergo
can stri$e at any lace and at any age. #s it urely random! then! or do
the %FOs select their "victims"? Does it sread li$e an eidemic! or
does it develo li$e a sychosis? Although one grou of contactees
was studied in detail &y sociologist 'eon Festinger (in his &oo$
When Prophecy Fails), we do not really $now the answers to these
)uestions! &ecause too few of the contactees have &een carefully
investigated. What we do $now is that their transformation releases
ideas that challenge esta&lished structures.
*he followers of modern %FO cults are often ersons who! li$e
+regory! have &ecome disenchanted with science and technology.
,cientific reluctance to consider valid claims of aranormal
henomena is slowly driving many eole to accet any claim of
suerior or mystical contact. *he voice of science has lied too often.
A large fraction of the u&lic has tuned it out comletely.
*he social sciences have not yet achieved an understanding of
the rocess &y which new religious e-eriences arise and new sects
&ecome influential churches. also! revolutionary cultural changes
often aear at first (as the %FO sects do today/ to &e irrational!
a&surd! and contemti&le. *here is an historical arallel for this
disenchantment with rationalism. *o the educated disciles of
Aristotle and Plato! many religious writings (such as the Apocalypse
of St. John) must have loo$ed li$e laugha&le tissues of delusions
unworthy of scholarly e-amination. Airne 0ichel! the noted French
author! has ointed out that none of these &rilliant minds seculated
for a second that such "lunacy!" sreading among their ignorant
slaves! might eventually sell the end of the 1lassical World. #n
the nineteenth century! the religious esta&lishment laughed when
a young man named 2oseh ,mith followed the orders given to
him &y an angel of light named 0oroni and founded the 0ormon
Church. Today we find it easy to laugh at the FO contactees li!e
Gregory "ecause they are still isolated. #e dis$iss the %heno$enon
that fuels their "eliefs as a $ental a"erration deri&ed fro$ a
%hysical $irage. Scientists 'o!e a"out the strange lights re%orted
"y housewi&es( and refuse to study the genuinely une)%lained
%heno$ena that are contained( for e)a$%le( in the files of the .S.*
+ir Force. +s for the clai$s of the contactees who "elie&e they ha&e
"een a"oard the ,&ehicles(, the scientists si$%ly know this cannot
"e true- .y "latantly dis$issing these clai$s( they are ignoring
so$e of the hard lessons of $an/s s%iritual history. For( in the words
of sociologists Gloc! and Star!( ,all religious e)%eriences( fro$ the
di$$est to the $ost fren0ied( constitute occasions defined "y those
e)%eriencing the$ as an encounter "etween the$sel&es and so$e
su%ernatural consciousness.,-
Faced with the new wa&e of e)%eriences of FO contact( our
religions do see$ o"solete. Our idea of the church as a social
entity wor!ing within rational structures is o"&iously challenged
"y the clai$ of a direct co$$unication with &isi"le "eings who
are endowed with su%ernatural %owers. So$e $odern %reachers
ha&e already recogni0ed this challenge. E&angelist .illy Graha$(
for e)a$%le( has suggested that FOs $ay( in fact( "e ,hea&enly
angels,1 their occu%ants( he says( are ,astonishingly angel2li!e in
so$e of their re%orted a%%earances.,3 Funda$entalist Pres"yterian
radio %reacher Dr. Carl McIntire has e&en organi0ed a ,FO
.ureau, in Collingswood( New 4ersey( to in&estigate the connection
"etween FOs and angels.
.ut why restrict our interest to the traditional &iew of angels5 +n
e6ually i$%ressi&e %arallel could "e $ade "etween FO occu%ants
and the %o%ular conce%tion of de$ons( and indeed sociologists
ha&e %ointed out that 7the sa$e ele$ents are in&ol&ed in dia"olic
contacts as in the di&ine encounters of increasing inti$acy with
what is defined as a su%ernatural consciousness.,5 There are e&en
so$e religious thin!ers who see the sinister hand of Satan in the
$ore "i0arre FO cases.
The UFO Counter-Culture
Who is likely to be the underdog in the conflict beteen the old
myths of rationalism and the ne myths of re!elation from s"ace#
$ am afraid human reason has much to lose% The history of man
is not one of smooth& continuous de!elo"ment% 'ationalism& on
hich modern scientific thought is based& had to fight long and
hard to establish itself% Once in "oer& hoe!er& it has fallen into
com"lacency& has become unilling to recogni(e the occurrence of
the irrational% $ think Aime )ichel is correct hen he dras our
attention to early confrontations of this kind% Western culture ent
through such a confrontation hen the fanatics of the early Church
destroyed the *reek scientific establishment+
The con!ersion hich humanity underent in anti,uity
as "re"ared by the colla"se of the ancient religion& began
in the middle of the -ellenistic "eriod& and ent on
ith e!er greater strength under the .m"ire& until it as
"erfected in the !ictory of Christianity and the "assing of
the ancient culture into the )iddle Ages&
rites )% P% /ilsson in his book Greek Piety.' What he describes
is the catastro"he that befell the ancient orld& ith its ad!anced
knoledge of astronomy& of geometry& of mechanics& and of
"hiloso"hy% During this gra!e crisis& the *reek rationalists "ro!ed to
be inca"able of recogni(ing the cultural changes around them and
fell into a thousand-year darkness% What form did the conflict take#
$t as a con!ersion from rationalism to mysticism+ from
the clear& logical lines of *reek thought to faith in the
onderful& su"ernatural& and su"ersensuous0 from lo!e of
the beauty of the orld and the body to flight from the
orld and condemnation of all that as cor"oreal%1
The real counter-culture of today is not one of ne lifestyles and
radical attitudes! The counter-culture of "FO contact is #ore
dura$le% #ore su$tle% $ecause it is not tied to a &articular social
'rou& or a'e $rac(et!
If the Science )d*iser to the President e*er decides to &onder
seriously the &olicy +uestions &osed $y the "FO &heno#enon%
he #i'ht $e'in ith the o$ser*ation that the #odern orld faces
s&iritual $an(ru&tcy $ecause of its failure to deal ith the irrational!
,hat the $ar$arians did to the or(s of Plato and )ristotle% so#e
ne cults #ay *ery ell do to #odern science and &hiloso&hy!
)irne Michel once rote to #e in a de&ressed #ood-
)ll of this has ha&&ened $efore% co#&lete ith
occu&ation of scientific citadels $y .conractees. and ith
'radual re&lace#ent of e/&eri#ental dou$t $y faith and
su&erstition! ,hat stri(es #e #ost is the conte#&t in
hich the intellectuals of the ti#e held their ene#ies! They
found the#sel*es (illed or at least thron out into the street
$efore they could reali0e hat as 'oin' on! The hole
idea 1of $lind faith2 had see#ed so ridiculous to the# that
they had not e*en $othered to see( infor#ation a$out it!
) youn' #an ho has s&ent #onths on the trail of contactee cult
leaders .3o and Pee&. recently sent #e a &athetic ta&e! 4is a&&eal
as direct and &rofound-
I a# confused no! I 'o throu'h &eriods of e#otional
a'itation! I re&resent a &erson ho is 'oin' throu'h hat
nor#al &eo&le call a de&ression% or a difficult &eriod! 3ut I
ha*e 'one throu'h these difficult &eriods enou'h ti#es so
that no it5s +uite creati*e!
I (no I5# confused! I5# really as(in' you for hel&! )fter
to ee(s ith these 'irls on this 3o and Pee& thin'% I 'ot
to a place where Iknew that with my conscious mind I
couldn't figure it out. got as su!tle as !elie"e my mind is
capa!le of getting. had to let go# gi"e up !elie"ing that
could know. $o was dri"en to other faculties. Faith is one
of them. do ha"e faith inthe process# in the %ods& !eings
more e"ol"ed than us# in 'lying saucers or not. And we pray
to them in our language# we pray for specific things.
(he cult this young man has )oined will !e descri!ed in more detail
in *hapter +. hope that he will find in this !ook some answers
to his tragic pu,,lement. -is ad"enture makes o!"ious the depth
of the emotions that the .FO counter-culture can generate and
channel. (his /counter-culture/ of modern contactees comes at a
time when science has already shut itself off from the common man.
At the same time# science has the power to determine the future
of humanity. t can destroy our planet. For all practical purposes#
there is no longer any meaningful communication !etween the
man in the street and the frontiers of research where such power
is generated and controlled. /01pect opinion/ on any su!)ect of
policy - from energy supply to cloning# from the !an of the $$(
to the censorship of (2 "iolence - has !ecome a game in which
the answers are constantly re"ised# not to reflect new knowledge#
!ut to follow the trends of academic fashion. (he language of each
discipline has !ecome an esoteric )argon that cannot !e penetrated
e"en !y someone with an ad"anced education in another field.
$cientists are often socially and geographically isolated.
(his isolation of knowledge is matched !y the failure of other
social structures. -ere# too# the parallel with ancient %reece is
interesting. n Five Stages a/Greek Religion, %il!ert 3urray mentions
that in %reece there was gradual awareness of two failures4
... the failure 0 / human government, e"en when !acked !y
the power of 5ome or the wealth of 0gypt# to achie"e a
good life for man6 and the failure 0 / the great propaganda
/8. MESSENGERS OF DECEPTION
of Hellenism, in which the long!"#wn effo"t of G"eece
to e!$c#te # co""$%t #n! &#"&#"ic wo"l! seeme! onl' to
le#! to the co""$%tion #n! &#"&#"i(#tion of the )e"' i!e#ls
which it so$ght to s%"e#!.
*n!e" these con!itions so simil#" to those of the +este"n wo"l!
to!#', in which h$m#n go)e"nment is "eg#"!e! with s$s%icion #n!
in which e!$c#tion of the ,eme"ging n#tions, &' the #ffl$ent ones
is none-istent wh#t !i! the G"ee.s !o/
This sense of f#il$"e, this %"og"essi)e loss of ho%e in the
wo"l!, in so&e" c#lc$l#tion, #n! ino"g#ni(e! h$m#n effo"t,
th"ew the G"ee. &#c. $%on his own so$l, $%on the %$"s$it of
%e"son#l holiness, $%on emotions, m'ste"ies, #n! "e)el#tions,
$%on the com%#"#ti)e neglect of this t"#nsito"' #n! im%e"fect
wo"l! fo" the s#.e of some !"e#m wo"l! f#" off.
A dream world far off. th#t is e-#ctl' wh#t the *FO cont#ctees #"e
offe"ing $s when the' in)ite $s to ste% into # %le#s#nt mi"#ge, to
(' .
"e%"og"#m o$" conscio$sness.
In the eighteenth #n! nineteenth cent$"ies, # g"o$% le#!e"
#ttem%ting to st#"t # new c$lt &#se! on "e)el#tion w#s li.el' to
&e o%%ose! &' the com&ine! %owe"s of ch$"ch #n! st#te. Mo!e"n
cont#ct c$lts fin! fewe" o&st#cles. The intole"#nce th#t !est"o'e!
e#"l' he"esies h#s gone o$t of f#shion in o$" societ'. A mo"e
h$m#ne #ttit$!e %"e)#ils tow#"! g"o$%s with e-t"eme &eliefs. The
me!i# see. colo"f$l theo"ies to fee! the %$&lic0s e-%ect#tions of
mi"#c$lo$s ,&"e#.th"o$ghs.,
+hile !oing "ese#"ch into the theo"ies of occ$lt g"o$%s in
C#lifo"ni# 1some of which I 2oine! #s # ,%#"tici%#nto&se")e", to
le#"n thei" )iews #&o$t *FOs3, I !i! not fin! # single g"o$% th#t
h#! # consistent &elief s'stem, &$t neithe" !i! I fin! one th#t !i!
not cl#im to h#)e h#! some fo"m of ,cont#ct, with #n #lien fo"m
of intelligence. I #m not #t the moment # mem&e" of any s$ch
group or sect, but I understand one thing: the idea of contact with
so-called higher forms of consciousness has social and political
implications that go far be!ond its appearance of being a simple
scientific speculation"
#he public is alread! c!nical about the roles and $alues of
go$ernment, science, and the militar! establishment" #he mere
statement that un%nown ob&ects are penetrating our atmosphere
and maneu$ering at will would further erode the people's confidence
in all political structures" It would generate fear in man! sectors"
(onse)uentl!, go$ernments in e$er! countr! are tr!ing to a$oid
such potential effects b! censoring information about une*plained
phenomena, as the discussion in the Paris restaurant )uoted earlier
indicates" +ut I doubt that censorship can long be effecti$e in the
face of continued sightings b! the public"
I thin% that ,FOs represent an ob&ecti$e realit! that we can
stud! onl! b! re$olutioni-ing e*isting disciplines" (onfronting
the irrational means promoting pioneer research in ph!sics and
biolog!" We also need to begin a %ind of research that will ta%e
,FO data as empirical obser$ations and tr! to use them to initiate
an interaction with the phenomenon itself And we should do this
now, before the new myth is created, before the myth of extraterrestrial
revelation replaces belief in the rational acquisition of knowledge.
.ooner or later, the emotions stored in the ,FO phenomenon will
be released" What %ind of social reaction will appear then/ #here ma!
be new churches, new political mo$ements" 0ach sector of societ! will
react inits own wa!" #he temptation will be great for our technocrats
to respond b! building giant facilities to ea$esdrop on the uni$erse,
li%e the multi-billion-dollar pro&ects alread! proposed b! some radio
astronomers" Although these pro&ects would do nothing to e*plain the
obser$ations of unusual ob&ects on 0arth, the! might deflect some of
the public pressure the obser$ations are creating" .uch pro&ects might
be an astute political mo$e to prepare the public for other things
to come, a wise form of life insurance for rationalists attempting to
preser$e their own power" +ut the! could ne$er sol$e the spiritual
problem raised by the idea of contact. The real conse!ences "ill be
m!ch more comple#$ and "ill %o m!ch deeper.
Ipropose: that the UFO we see is, among other things, a device which
creates a distortion of the witness's reality; that it does sofor a purpose,
which is to project images or fabricated scenes designed to change our
belie/systems; and that the technology we observe is only the incidental
support for a worldwide enterprise of subliminal seduction!
&a'e "e allo"ed o!r need for rationalism to become so m!ch
li(e a do%ma that it cannot afford the open disc!ssion of s!ch
possibilities) E'idently. The idea of contact "ith *alien* intelli%ences
has ac!ired an e#plosi'e !ality that %oes far beyond the l!dicro!s
appearance of a fe" fanatical statements by isolated belie'ers. +!t it
m!st be faced , precisely beca!se it is so potentially dan%ero!s.
-hy .FOs /re Important
.FOs are e#tremely important to contemporary ci'ili0ation beca!se
irrational forces are an inte%ral part of the nat!re of man. These
forces can be reco%ni0ed1 once they are reco%ni0ed they can be
n!rt!red and !sed. The s!btle po"er of %ro!ps li(e the contactees
lies in the !n"illin%ness of e#istin% str!ct!res to reco%ni0e the
reality of ne" phenomena and the need for chan%e. This fail!re
ma(es it necessary for each indi'id!al to deal "ith the challen%e
on his o"n spirit!al le'el.
Ibelieve there is a machinery "/ mass manipulation behind the
UFO phenomenon! It aims at social and political %oals by di'ertin%
attention from some h!man problems and by pro'idin% a potential
release for tensions ca!sed by others. The contactees are a part of
that machinery. #hey are helping to create a new form of belief! an
e#pectation of act!al contact amon% lar%e parts of the p!blic. In t!rn
this e#pectation ma(es millions of people hope for the imminent
reali0ation of that a%e,old dream2 sal'ation from abo'e$ s!rrender
to the %reater po"er of some "ise na'i%ators of the cosmos.
With the release of popular UFO movies, many people who
previously were skeptis have !egun to "ump on this !andwagon
1#1#$111 outer spae% & wish them bon voyage. 'owever, if you take
t he trou!le to "oin me in the analysis of the modern UFO myth,
you will see human !eings under the ontrol of a strange fore
Ihat is !ending them in a!surd ways, foring them to playa role
in a !i(arre game of deeption% )his role may !e very important if
hanging soial onditions make it desira!le to fous the attention
of the pu!li on the distant stars while o!solete human institutions
are wiped out and re!uilt in new ways% Are the manipulators, in
the final analysis, nothing more than a group of humans who have
mastered a very advaned form of power*
+et me summari(e my onlusions thus far% UFOs are real% )hey
are physial devies used to affet human onsiousness% )hey may
not !e from outer spae% )heir purpose may !e to ahieve soial
hanges on this planet, through a !elief system that uses systemati
manipulation of witnesses and% ontatees, overt use of various
sets and ults, ontrol of the hannels through whih the alleged
-spae messages- an make an impat on the pu!li%
Part One of this !ook will assem!le the arguments against the
idea that UFOs ome from outer spae% &t will desri!e what the
ontatees are atually e.periening,/ onfusion, helplessness, and
often despair% Part )wo will e.pand the disussion to a su!"et
that is shunned !y all UFO researhers - politis% For if UFOs
make an impat on our soial reality, they are !ound to hange
our politial realities as well% )his disussion will lead to a new
-model- of what is happening, a model in whih UFOs appear
against the !akground of a worldwide manipulation operation%
Part )hree will show the !rutal onse0uenes of this model/ it
may add apprehension to disappointment as we suggest that
the mutilations of animals that are taking plae throughout the
Western states are part of the same manipulation%
A friend who read this !ook in manusript advised me not
to pu!lish it/ -)hat#s not what Ameria wants to hear,- he said%
"America wants a big UFO that fies !"wn fr"m hea#en$ as in Close
Encounters of the Third Kind, fie! with new h"%es f"r man&in!'
America wants a shin( s%acecraft t" re%ace the !efate! ba""n
"f its reigi")s #a)es* If UFOs are c"nnecte! with )ne+%aine!
m)tiati"n "f catte an! with beha#i"r m"!ificati"n "n a gran!
scae$ America !"esn,t want t" &n"w ab")t it*"
E#en the sensati"na National Enquirer is "f the same "%ini"n*
The %ane "f in#estigat"rs which the maga-ine maintains t" re#iew
UFO cases . a c"mmittee "n which ea!ing ci#iian research gr")%s
are re%resente! . has !eci!e! that the in& between UFOs an! the
m)tiat"rs was an i!ea wh"se time ha! n"t (et c"me* A the UFO
gr")%s ha#e a#"i!e! the iss)e*
I am "f a !ifferent "%ini"n* The %)bic is e/)a( im%atient with
the beie#ers, rhet"ric an! with the "fficia !enias* It has n"w hear!
b"th si!es an! s)s%ects that b"th si!es are (ing* It is time$ %erha%s$
t" ta&e a "ng ""& at the facts*
PART I
The Contacts
There is in many of us, obviously, a deep-seated desire to assent
to extraterrestrial forces - to be embraced by them, overwhelmed
by them, and ifpossible deprived b y them of our own weary
responsibility for ourselves.
"Hiccups from Outer Space:
Russell Davies, reviewing Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
in The Observer, March 19, 197
ONE
@OZ-~s:9
1).'
The Case Against the Spacecraft
People wonder if they looked like an outer-space deal. I told them I
didn't know what "an outer-space deal" looked like, but I do know
this was made in America, I am sure. It had a plain old G.I in it,
I know that much. I would know the man if I saw him in Chicago
tomorrow. What gets me is that if they are supposed to be such secrets,
why do they put themseles in a compromising situation! "eing near
a highway - he did not hae to be there# there wasn't any point in
being there.
An aircraft instructor, 1966
(author's follow-up to an Air Force investigation)
A
FISHE!A" F#! !ississippi, who has $een su$%ecte& to lie'
&etector tests si( ti)es, faces the nation on pri)e-ti)e *+,
Seate& $etween -r, .arl Sagan an& an astronaut, he &escri$es the
two ro$ots who ca)e &own to ta/e hi) into the 0F#, *here was a
$ig )achine with an e1e, an& it e(a)ine& hi), 0fological e(perts
across A)erica pull out their 1ellow pa&s an& consult their &ata $ases,
*he fisher)an has $een h1pnoti2e& $1 an engineer who learne& the
techni3ue in his spare ti)e an& who assures us that the e(perience
was real, A 0F# 4e(pert,4 having interviewe& the witness in a roo)
full of screa)ing reporters, has seen the truthfulness of his reactions
$1 the light of their flash$ul$s, *his is what A)erica is $eing tol&
- an& it happens to $e what A)erica wants to hear,
*his )an, we are as/e& to $elieve, is a&&ing to the /nowle&ge
we have of other worl&s, *he ufologists are cross-in&e(ing his ever1
sentence, adding final touches to the consistent picture they are
painting of etraterrestrial life! In their "ie# there is no roo$ for
dou%t& this fisher$an seated %eside Dr! Sagan, no# $a'ing s$all
tal' #ith the astronaut (#ho, %y the #ay, $ay ha"e seen a )FO in
space*, has o%"iously o%ser"ed the landing of a spacecraft, and has
%een a%ducted %y its ro%ot occupants!
The ti$e has co$e to challenge this state$ent! I do not need a
lie+detector test to 'no# the #itness is descri%ing #hat he sa#! ,ut
I don-t %uy the story that he sa# a spacecraft fro$ another planet!
The Spacecraft Theory
The study of )FOs is "ery $uch li'e .$erican politics in one
respect& there are only t#o parties you can /oin! In politics, you
can %e only a De$ocrat or a Repu%lican! In ufology, either you
don-t %elie"e in )FOs at all, or you %elie"e they are spacecraft fro$
another planet! ,ut are these necessarily the only t#o possi%ilities0
If )FOs are real, is it o%"ious they are spacecraft0
For $any years the %est cases of uneplained sightings #ere of
dis's that appeared to %e $etallic, of large si1e, and capa%le of
fantastic acceleration! They fre2uently disappeared %y going straight
up out of the #itness- "ie#, suggesting that they #ere going 3ho$e3
to another planet! Their occupants #ere #earing di"ing suits and
#al'ed a#'#ardly! The French press of 4567, for instance, #as full
of reports a%out 8the ro%ots3 and 3the Martians!3 The consensus
anl9ng )FO researchers in the -:9s #as that #e #ere pro%a%ly
dealing #ith space "isitors! The idea, at the ti$e, #as re"olutionary!
Scientists li'e Carl Sagan pointed out that space "isitations, if they
occurred at all, #ould %e "ery rare! Other scientists, li'e Donald
Men1el, re/ected the #hole idea, %ecause e"en the nearest stars
are too far a#ay for interstellar tra"el to %e feasi%le, e"en at high
speeds! .ll such argu$ents are "alid only if one assu$es that
3their3 science has not superseded in any funda$ental #ay the
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Figure. 1.1 Pascagoula, Mississippi: Shipyard worer Charlie !icson
descri"es the #cto"er night in 1$7% when, he says, an unidentified flying
o"&ect landed in the old Schaupeter shipyard. !icson clai's three
(things( piced hi' and young Cal)in Parer up, and carried the'
a"oard the craft, where they were closely e*a'ined. +Photo courtesy of
,nited Press -nterriational..
li'itations of our own science, that (they( ha)e found no 'eans
of propagating infor'ation faster than the speed of light, and are
using the sa'e concept of space/ti'e as we are. -n fact, we can
'ae no such assu'ption a"out a space ci)ili0ation. -t could ha)e
had 'any centuries of de)elop'ent "eyond #1lrown science.
The real 2uestion is, .does the (spacecraft( hypothesis e*plain
to our satisfaction the facts of the ,F# pheno'enon as we now
the' today3 T-le answer is a definite and resounding 4#.. The
contactees and their friends will challenge this answer in 'any
5))ays: (6hat a"out the 'essages we are recei)ing through
5channels5 and through auto'atic writing, assuring us that
the )ehicles co'e fro' other worlds3 6hat a"out our own
o"ser)ations in deserts and re'ote areas3(
And what a"out the e)idence of the (star 'ap( seen "y contactee
7etty !ill a"oard the ,F# which a"ducted her3 And, finally, what
about the hundreds of reports of landings that hae been !ade
around the entire "orld# $e need to e%a!ine &losel' the so(&alled
)eiden&e*) to de&ide "hether or not it &ontributes an'thing to the
" f h " spa&e&ra t t eor'+
There Are Too Many Landings
The first argu!ent against the idea of fl'ing sau&ers as spa&e&raft
lies* oddl' enough* in the large nu!ber of erified* une%plained
sightings+ In my o"n files I &urrentl' hae appro%i!atel' 2*,,,
&ases of &lose en&ounters fro! eer' &ountr' on Earth* !an' of
the! inoling o&&upants of arious si-es and shapes+ It !a' see!
that 2*,,, &ases in so!e 2, 'ears is not a er' large nu!ber* but
"e are tal.ing onl' about the &ases that "ere a&tuall' reported. It
is possible to &al&ulate ho" !an' landings this represents if* as the
&onta&tees &lai!* /FOs are spa&e&raft "hose o&&upants happened
to be surprised b' "itnesses "ho "andered onto the s&ene as the
&raft "as being repaired or as the &re" "as &ondu&ting so!e
e%ploration of our planet+ To !a.e this esti!ation "e !ust ta.e
into a&&ount three fa&tors0 the time of the sighting* the probabilit'
that it "ill be reported, and the place of the eent+
Most landings are reported to ta.e pla&e after 10,, p+!+ The
fre2uen&' distributions that !' &o!puter studies hae dis&losed
for eer' &ontinent sho" this a&tiit' pea.ing at about 3,04, p+!+*
de&reasing sharpl' after that ti!e* and in&reasing again 5ust before da"n+
There are fe" reports after 10,, a+!+ $hat &ould this !ean# That the
a&tiit' of the ob5e&ts is no&turnal b' nature and b' &hoi&e+ Then "h'
do the reports de&rease in fre2uen&' around !idnight# Si!pl' be&ause
people go to bed0 after 3,04, p+!+ the nu!ber of potential "itnesses
is seerel' redu&ed+ Then let us as. the 2uestion0 ho" !an' reports
"ould "e hae if people did not go to bed but sta'ed outside to "at&h
these so(&alled )spa&e&raft#) The ans"er is* about 4,*,,,+ $e "ould
hae to !ultipl' the nu!ber of &ases b' a fa&tor of 36+
Now, this last figure does not begin to approximate the actual
number of events, because we know from many independent studies
Ihat only one case in ten ever gets reported. Then we should have
uor 3,, but 3, cases in our files! "ut this still isn#t the
whole story$ most landings occur in unpopulated areas, away from
dwellings.# %f the &arth#s population were distributed evenly instead
of being concentrated in city areas, how many reports would we
have' Again, taking a conservative multiplying factor of ten leads
us to the staggering conclusion that the ()*s, if they are spacecraft
engaged in a general survey of our planet, must have landed here no
f+.#werthan three million times in two decades!
This is one of the little,recogni-ed facts of the ()* problem
Ihat any theory has yet to explain. The theory of random visitation
does not explain it. &ither the ()*s select their witnesses, or they
are something entirely different from space vehicles. %n either case,
t hei r appearances are staged!
The Strange .hysics of the ()*s
#%he following unexplained sightings have been extracted from
do-ens of similar cases in my files.
March /012, Santa Maria, Brazil. Aman observed two occupants
of a football,shaped craft who spoke in a strange language. The
craft vanished silently and instantly.
June /034, Verona, Italy. )ollowing a ()* observation, a
woman was awakened by a feeling of intense cold and saw a being
with a bald head near the house. She called other witnesses, and all
saw the apparition shrink and vanish on the spot 5like a T6 image
when the set is turned off.5
October /033, Whidbey Island, Washington State. A middle7
aged woman saw a strange craft with three figures inside. %t
tilted. partially sank into the ground, grew in si-e, and departed
with a flash.
November 1968, France. A prominent doctor sa to !ar"e dis#$
s%aped o&'ects mer"e into one, and t%e sin"!e o&'ect send a &eam o(
!i"%t in %is direction) It *anis%ed it% a sort o( e+p!osion, !ea*in" a
c!o,d t%at dissipated s!o!-)
Consider %at t%ese si"%tin"s %a*e in common) In eac% case t%e
so.ca!!ed /spacecra(t/ did not disappear &- mo*in" aa-, e*en at
%i"% speed) It simp!- *anis%ed on t%e spot, or it s!o!- (aded aa-
!i#e t%e C%es%ire cat, sometimes !ea*in" &e%ind a %itis% c!o,d,
sometimes a!so prod,cin" t%e so,nd o( an e+p!osion) In ot%er cases,
0FOs %a*e &een reported to enter t%e "ro,nd)
I %ard!- need to point o,t t%at t%is &e%a*ior is contrar- to %at
p%-sica! o&'ects do, and 1,ite impossi&!e to d,p!icate it% o,r
c,rrent spacecra(t tec%no!o"-) It is t%e &e%a*ior o( an ima"e, or
a %o!o"rap%ic pro'ection) 2et at ot%er times t%e o&'ects %a*e !e(t
materia! traces) T%ere ma- &e a mac%ine in*o!*ed, &,t a mac%ine
t%at remains o,t o( *ie o( t%e itnesses, %o see on!- %at it is
pro'ectin") 3%en e "o to t%e mo*ies, e !oo# at t%e o&'ects and
t%e peop!e on t%e screen4 e do not stare at t%e pro'ector) So,nds
and *oices, too, come to ,s (rom t%e screen, not (rom t%e direction
o( t%e tape mac%ine) 5esides, a sin"!e p%-sica! mac%ine 6a camera7
can tri""er mi!!ions o( simi!ar e+periences in t%e peop!e %o atc%
t%e res,!tin" (i!m pro'ection) 0FO e*ents co,!d &e sta"ed t%e same
a-, to suggest to ,s an impendin" inter*ention (rom o,ter space)
Most itnesses are not primari!- reportin" an o&'ect or a
cra(t4 t%e- are reportin" a light, a massi*e, m,!tico!ored, intense,
p,!satin" !i"%t, a p!a-(,!, (ascinatin", impressi*e, %-pnotic !i"%t,
%ic% is accompanied &- stran"e so,nds)
8o m,c% do e #no (rom t%e a*ai!a&!e scienti(ic !iterat,re a&o,t
t%e e((ects o( stron", p,!sed, co!ored !i"%ts and ot%er e!ectroma"netic
radiations9 Piti(,!!- !itt!e) 0nti! t%is area is (,!!- e+p!ored, e i!!
%a*e to t%in# a&o,t t%e /p%-sics/ o( 0FOs main!- in terms o( t%e
itness:s perceptions, not in terms o( spacecra(t prop,!sion)
The UFO Creatures
(:Olll:lctees tell us they have met the denizens of other planets
!n some cases the "eings turned out to "e ro"ots or d#arfs in
d lvi ng suits$ "ut in most incidents they #ere humanoid$ and they
%oule&"reathe our air They #al'ed normally on our planet !n
u variety of sightings they #ere accompanied "y human "eings
((ccasionally$ the occupants #ere completely human and spo'e
!)!!11anlanguages
)o#ever$ visitors from outer space #ould not necessarily "e
human in shape They #ould certainly not "reathe our air (for
[cnr of viruses( They might have serious pro"lems #ith the
Fa rth*s gravity
+ou can push these o",ections aside$ and assume that the
visitors are advanced enough in genetic manipulation to have
-gro#n- humanoid pilots for their spacecraft .erhaps they have
even 'idnapped humans to "reed space children destined to "ecome
saucer/cre# mem"ers 0ut even these outlandish assumptions fail
10 e1plain the facts
Temple, Oklahoma, March 23$ 1344 An instructor in aircraft
electronics at Sheppard Air Force 0ase is driving to #or' at 5:66 am
on 7oute 45 and approaches the intersection #ith )igh#ay 86
-One mile "efore the intersection ! sa# a very "right light
a mile or so to my right$ and ! supposed it #as a truc'
having trou"le on the high#ay$ ! #ent on to turn #est on
)igh#ay 86 ! #ent a 9uarter of a mile or so$ and changed
my mind and thought that it #as a house that #as "eing
moved do#n the high#ay in the early morning hours-
-:id you seem to "e getting closer to it all the time;-
<+es$ sir !t #as par'ed on the high#ay and ! got #ithin a
hundred yards of it and stopped$ got out of the car$ and
started trotting towards the object, ea!ing the car ights
on and "# engine r$nning% I got abo$t &i&teen ste's or so,
and I ha''ened to thin( Ihad a )oda( on the &ront seat,
and Iwo$d i(e to get a 'ict$re% Ihesitated j$st a second,
and whie Idid, wh#, this "an that was dressed in "iitar#
&atig$es, which Itho$ght was a "aster sergeant %%% this
insignia was on his right ar", and he had a (ind o& ca'
with a bi t$rned $', weighed a''ro*i"ate# +,- 'o$nds
d b
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an a o$t %%%
12e oo(ed 'er&ect# ordinar#31
1Oh, #es, he was j$st a 'ain od G%I% "echanic %%% or a crew
chie& or whate!er he "ight ha''en to be on that crew% 2e
had a &ashight in his hand, and he was a"ost (neeing on
his right (nee, with his e&t hand to$ching the botto" o&
the &$seage,/3
The object oo(ed i(e an a$"in$" airiner with no wings or tai,
and with no sea"s aong the &$seage% It i&ted $' !ertica# &or
abo$t &i&t# &eet, and headed so$theast a"ost straight bac(ward,
o&& b# abo$t ten degrees, at a s'eed esti"ated to be abo$t 42-
"'h, j$dging b# the barns it i$"inated aong its 'ath across the
!ae#% It was the si5e o& a cargo 'ane, b$t had no !isibe "eans
o& 'ro'$sion% The witness was gried b# a roo"&$ o& o&&icers at
the 6ir Force base% 6 tr$c( dri!er down the road had obser!ed the
sa"e object%
7hoe!er he was, the "an in the baseba ca' was no inter'anetar#
e*'orer% 7hate!er the# are, the occ$'ants are not gen$ine
e*traterrestrias% This ea!es $s with &ew aternati!es% Either the# are
i"ages created within the brains o& the witnesses, 'ossib# b# re"ote
sti"$ation o& the !is$a corte* 8this wo$d e*'ain wh# contactees
9ett# and 9arne# 2i disagreed on se!era detais o& the occ$'ants/
a''earance:, or the# are characters in a staged occ$rrence, actors in
; 1 deception operation carefully borrowing its concepts from basic
1 1 1 I 1 1 1 an archetypes in order to force a global behavioral change.
Contactee Experiences Can Be Induced
()Ileday in 1 9! I went on a desert e"pedition in an attempt to verify
statements received by automatic writing# a form of trance in which
Ihe sub$ect is not aware ofwhat his hand is writing# and is apparently
IInder the control of an outside entity. Although our search that day
was negative# it is worth telling because it shows an element of the
manipulation that is rarely discussed by the participants% it shows
how easy it is to induce &conracree& e"periences.
'eserts have always e"erted a peculiar fascination on the
" \ Iman mind. As we were driving along the (arloc) fault in the
lour*wheel*drive Toyota# we passed small ranches# ruins# forgotten
mines# twisted trac)s that indicated the power of this dream%
hundreds# thousands of men and women had brought to this
desert the strength of their despair# and in the terrible heat they had
built# dug# planted# and carved an environment for other humans.
+iraculously# some of their endeavors had even survived% down
i1 1 the valley we saw vast fields of alfalfa being irrigated by strong
water sprayers.
(o and find crystal# but no machines# $ust pure crystal.
Ta)e crystal to valley# point toward the sun# hold your
mind still and wait. ,o matter how many of you. The force
is strong ... don-t lose control. .nly with thought can you
return. /ou will see the old way.
0e had decided to follow these instructions to the letter and see
what would happen. The man who had &channeled& them was
with us. 1e had already made several trips into the desert without
linding anything. 1e sent me a copy of the message transcript#
and I had brought four good samples of quartz to our meetng
pla!e n "urban#$
Retre%e pure !r&stal and use ths as nstru!ted$ Not a game
but serous method for mo%ng tme blo!# asde$ Ths s
absolutel& ne!essar& f 'e are to !ommun!ate$
The messages 'ere supposed to !ome from !ons!ous bengs 'ho
tra%eled through tme$ There 'ere !ertan pla!es on Earth( the&
!lamed( 'h!h !ould ser%e as doors to other ph&s!al planes$ The&
used these pla!es n ther o'n tra%els$ The purpose of the !r&stal
'as to see through the tme blo!#) *+e !an maneu%er through the
blo!# to the %arous nodes$*
,s the To&ota left the pa%ed road and headed up the !an&on
past the old mnes( I 'as readng the trans!rpt agan)
-ou must str%e to prepare a small group of people 'ho !an
'or# n the realm of the n!omprehensble(
sad the nstru!tons( and our gude had done .ust that$ ,t a turn
n the road 'e stopped( rasng a !loud of dust from the s!or!hed
ground$ ,s t settled 'e met s/ men 'ho had dr%en earler from
0os ,ngeles 'th sound equpment and !ameras$ The da&s of 1FO
n%estgaton on a b!&!le 'ere gone( I not!ed$ The team assembled
here had three po'erful tru!#s equpped 'th four2'heel dr%e$
+th our ele!tron! equpment and !ommun!aton gear( 'e loo#ed
more l#e an ,rm& str#e team than l#e a group of resear!hers
tr&ng to %erf& some elus%e ps&!h! data$ ,t last 'e neared the
pla!e nd!ated b& the trans!rpt$ +e 'ere 'thn t'o mles of the
pont t !alled *the node$*
+e found nothng that da&( although 'e !lmbed o%er hlls
and ro!#s( peered nto old mne shafts( and obser%ed man& tra!#s
n the desert$ E%er&thng 'as al%e here$ There 'as no pea!e$
Some of the mnes 'e !ame upon 'ere ob%ousl& stll n use$
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not! ndaries were marked with white paint. Twice we saw a car
ilrlving in the distance.
Itook pictures with and without the crystal at several
places that resembled the description of the "node" given in the
r 1 ' 0 1 nscript. Igot only pictures of the blurred landscape with its
r wisred bushes and rock piles but ! came close to e"periencing
t he feeling of anticipation and e"citement that gets hundreds
uf people to drive out into the hills and the desert in search of
.##ien truths.
$ur e"pedition was not without its minor mystery. %riving
higher into the hills overlooking &arlock we found a mine
entrance sheltered from the great desert wind. There we discussed
t he possible meaning of all this and the remote chance that the
!nessage might come from some real alien source. The most likely
e"planation of course was that it simply came from our guide's
1 Inconscious( most automatic writing can be shown to have a
purely psychological e"planation. At that moment there was the
sharp sound of a minor e"plosion behind me like the popping
of a flash bulb being crushed. There were only two of us in the
entrance to the mine at that moment and nothing was found
that could e"plain the noise As a mystery it did represent )uite
an anticlima" after hours of climbing and driving and picking
up rocks and scrutini*ing the sky and the barren hillsides.
+ut Icould understand how the will to believe could turn the
smallest incident into a sign leading to other signs and feeding the
imagination until it constructed vast space,operas.
Ihad a more mundane reason for going into the desert beyond
-o.ave with my camera/ someone had sent me a manuscript
claiming that he often caught 01$s on infrared film in the desert
skies. The photographs Itook to try to duplicate this effect did
show some dark spots but they were )uickly e"plained as being a
result of 2he developing process. 3erhaps there are flying saucers
that hover beyond the hills where old mines are. 3erhaps they are
only visible in the infrared range. 3erhaps there are time,folds and
secret doors on the Earth that allow strange beings to cross over
the diensions! b"t I did not #ind an$%
&hat I did #ind was the 'ower o# h"an iagination% In s"ch
isolated! "n#ailiar 'laces! it doesn(t ta)e "ch to create $ster$!
and the slightest in#l"ence will a'li#$ it% *ringing scienti#ic
e+"i'ent ,s"ch as caeras! ta'e recorders! binoc"lars! and
radios- will onl$ create o''ort"nit$ #or 'ec"liar e##ects% .nd the
ore 'eo'le in the gro"'! the easier it will be to give the strength
o# realit$ to a #aint i'ression o# $ster$ and danger% &e drove
bac) to /os .ngeles in a sober #rae o# ind% I# 0FO 'henoena
contin"e to be observed in that area! there will be no lac) o#
believers% 1ere again there is an o''ort"nit$ #or a new $tholog$
to arise%
I #ind another e2a'le o# it in the rear)able stor$ o# *ett$
1ill! who thin)s she has located the origin o# #l$ing sa"cers! and
has convinced several scientists that the$ cae #ro o"ter s'ace%
. Star Ma' to Nowhere
Man$ 0FO investigators have becoe ver$ e2cited in recent
$ears beca"se a witness o# obvio"s sincerit$! Mrs% *ett$ 1ill!
had described what was believed to be the star a' "sed b$ o"r
$sterio"s visitors% These investigators are convinced that the a'
she saw inside the 3#l$ing sa"cer3 had g"ided the 'ilots to o"r solar
s$ste% This 3'roves4( the$ arg"e! that we are in #act being visited
b$ a race o# s'ace e2'lorers%
I clai that it 'roves nothing o# the )ind% *ett$(s drawing is a
a' to nowhere% I# there is soe intelligence involved! *ett$(s a'
is another deliberate atte't to lead "s astra$%
It is on Se'teber 56! 5665! in the &hite Mo"ntains area o#
New 1a'shire! that *ett$ and *arne$ 1ill eet their #l$ing
sa"cer% .t #irst it loo)s li)e a star% The$ )ee' driving on the lonel$
road! observing the ob7ect% It coes closer and loo)s li)e a dis)%
.'
Figure 1.2. During a field trip in the Mojave Desert, the author
photographed this apparent "UF for!ation" using infrared fiiln. The
"UFs" are si!pl" artifacts of the fil!#develop!ent process.
Barney stops the car, gets his binoculars The ob!ect has a large
cur"e# $in#o$ an# behin# that $in#o$, hu%anoi#s are loo&ing
at hi% Barney rushes bac& to the car, 'rightene#, an# #ri"es a$ay (
'e$ %iles #o$n the roa# the %i##le)age# couple loses all a$areness
o' their actions They ne*t re%e%ber #ri"ing past (shlan# si*ty
%iles to the south+
The story o' their night%ares an# the hypnosis they un#er$ent
has been tol# %any ti%es A psychiatrist too& Betty an# Barney
bac& to the instant o' the inci#ent by using regressi"e hypnosis, an#
they both #escribe# a scene they coul# not re%e%ber consciously,
the car $as stoppe#- eerie #$ar')li&e %en in blac& uni'or%s too&
control o' the%- an# they $ere ta&en insi#e the 'lying saucer 'or a
%e#ical e*a%ination
Barney .ill is #ea# no$ .e su''ere# a cerebral he%orrhage at
/0 Betty has beco%e a 1FO celebrity an# a rallying point 'or the
belie"ers in e*traterrestrial "isitation She is o'ten hear# on tal& sho$s
an# seen on tele"ision She has #one %ore than any other 1FO
$itness in the last ten years to sprea# a%ong the (%erican public a
belie' in space "isitors Se"eral u'ologists ha"e no$ clai%e# that the
ho%e base o' these "isitors has been i#enti'ie#, they co%e 'ro% a
planet circling a star in the southern constellation Reticulus!
This is by no %eans the 'irst ti%e that the suppose# origin o'
2.ying saucers2 has been re"eale#, either by the u'onauts the%sel"es
or by #e#uction 'ro% the $or#s o' the $itnesses In each case the
$itness see%s genuinely sincere an# belie"es in the 2re"elations2
But in each case these 2re"elations2 contra#ict $hat all the other
contactees are saying+
The history o' such i#enti'ication goes bac& to the #ays o' the
3456 airship, $hose occupants in"ite# $itnesses to co%e $ith the%
to 2a place $here it #oesn7t rain2 On one occasion, as&e# $here they
$ere 'ro%, the strange pilots replie#, 28e7re 'ro% (N98.ERE,
but $e shall be in Cuba to%orro$+2
On :uly ;<, 35/6, near Pitanga, Bra=il, a group o' sur"eyors sa$
a #is&)shape# cra't lan# near the% One o' the%, :ose G .iggins,
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. w Ihl't't' beings in shiny clothes and translucent suits emerge from
t h . "IIIU:C.~r. They ere to meters tall! had o"ersi#ed bald heads!
h U M r round eyes! no eyelashes or eyebros! and a metal bo$ on their%
I N l k , 'i . 'Ihey dre the solar system for the benefit of the itness and
poin1fd to Uranus as if to indicate they came from there.
In 1952, a man named Truman &ethurum met space beings
w h o claimed they originated from Clarion, a planet hidden from
Us by the Sun'
In a radio inter"ie and in con"ersations ith me! a contactee
named "(im" has identified the home base of the saucers as Orion:
'Ihe entities of light that appeared in energy form said they
ere from the constellation e call )rion! and they ere
here to prepare us to interconnect ith the ne$t le"el of
uni"ersal intelligence.
()II *o"ember +! ,9--! a salesman named .arenberger sa a
", Irk ob/ect ahead of him on the road as he as dri"ing home to
Pi lr0ersburg! 1est 2irginia. A man of dar0 comple$ion came out
3 I4 t he strange flying machine and approached him. The man as
"rc.4 ssed in a blue shirt and blue trousers! and ga"e the itness a
message saying he came from another orld called Lanulos.
)n September 5! ,9-6! in 7atin America! a police officer named
Andrade sa a darf earing sil"er co"eralls near a ho"ering dis0.
lie pointed his machine gun at the creature! but a "oice came from
Ihe ob/ect and ordered him not to use the eapon. The darf then
urrernpted to con"ince Andrade to come to his orld! hich as
.."ery distant and much larger than the 8arth! ith many ad"antages
It9 c 8arthlings."
7et us not forget the U::) affair! hich Idescribed in an earlier
hoo0! The Invisible College. A comple$ series of messages allegedly
corning from a "Cosmic ;ederation of <lanets" has been recei"ed by
people in Spain and in ;rance. These messages from U::) claim
(0gi"e full details on the origin and ci"ili#ation of our "isitors:
We wish to inform planet Earth of our origin and of the
purpose of our isit to !ou" We come from #MMO$ a
planet that rotates around the star I#MM%$ re&orded on
!our Earth under the designation Wolf '('"
The m!sterious )eings een proided a map of#MMO and details
of its atmospheri& &omposition*
Finall!$ #ri Geller has stated that his powers &ome from a form
of &ons&iousness emanating from "Hooua," and Spanish &onta&tee
+a&,ues -ordas )eliees that the strange )eing he saw was from
Titan. Thus we hae at least nine different .reelations. of the
sau&ers/ point of origin*
%n Ohio s&hooltea&her named Mar0orie Fish has now added
another &hapter to this great ,uest )! &onstru&ting a model of 1nown
sun li1e stars and mat&hing it to a map that -ett! 2ill saw inside
the fl!ing sau&er" It is this model that indi&ates to man! authorities
among the #FO )elieers 3 men li1e Stanton Friedman and Dae
Saunders 3 that the sau&er whi&h a)du&ted the 2ills hailed from
Zeta Reticuli.
Mar0orie Fish isited -ett! in 4565 to get more information a)out
the map" -ett! told her that she drew the map under post3h!pnoti&
suggestion in 456'" She remem)ered it as a flat$ thin displa! giing
an impression of depth" Sin&e she didn/t moe while iewing it$ she
&ouldn/t tell whether or not it was trul! three3dimensional or 0ust
Rat li1e a teleision s&reen" It was a)out three feet )! two feet and
showed man! stars$ of whi&h she remem)ered onl! the prominent
ones$ &onne&ted )! lines. She also re&alled a small triangle to the left"
7See Figure 4"8%"9
Ms" Fish inestigated this pattern )! &ompiling a list of all the
1nown stars within :: light !ears of the Sun that are good &andidates
for supporting life$ a&&ording to &urrentl! a&&epted &osmologi&al
theor!" These are stars that are not too hot or too &old$ that do not ar!
in )rightness$ and that rotate slowl!$ the slow rotation )eing ne&essar!
if the stars are to hae planets around them" There are '6 su&h stars"
Marjorie Fish went on to build models of the positions of
Ihr~r stars by using beads dangling on threads and looed for
IfI!"ph#$iollS alignments#% Finally she e&hibited a configuration of
I t , siars that was 'ery similar to the (ill map when seen from a
) ) ) %* 1ular 'iewing angle# An astronomy professor at +hio State)
, %ltcr Mitchell) has recreated the model by using a computer and
luI#% stated that he was %impressed#% -a'id Saunders) a psychologist
* tll* lIlcrlyon the staff of the Condon Committee) now woring for
M:IIhernarica) Inc#) in .ew /ersey) added$ %1 can find no major
point to 0uibble with in Marjorie Fish* s interpretation of the 1etty
J lill map#% In many lectures around the country) Stanton Friedman
!I() t others ha'e shown slides of the model and the original map)
2 1113 #1 ha'e impressed audiences with the resemblance) implying that
l J F+s were real spacecraft originating on 4eta 5eticuli) 6eople I
ha'e spoen to after such lectures came away with the feeling that
Ihe whole !F+ mystery had at last been sol'ed# I belie'e they are
cornpletely mistaen#
1efore I present my side of the story) I want to state that I
thin 1etty and 1arney (ill really saw a !F+ and that something
unnown stopped their car and too control of their minds# They
were not lying) and they were not %nuts#% I also thin that 1etty* s
recollection of a star map is a fact) and not simply something she
in'ented# I base this opinion on similar sightings in which objects
ha'e been described) often of 'ery high symbolic 'alue# These
objects generally refer to time 7lie a cloc8 or to space 7lie a map
or a compass8# , e are not dealing here with an isolated incident but
with a rather typical e'ent#
The second point I want to stress is the great 'alue of Marjorie
Fish* s wor# The similarity between her model and the computer
map is a tribute to her ingenuity and to the accuracy of her wor#
5ecogni9ing that the witness is sincere and that the analyst
is accurate) we still ha'e two 'ery important problems before
us# It is appalling to find that no one has raised them) and that
!F+ %in'estigators% ha'e been so eager to jump to a sensational
conclusion on the basis of the simple evience p!esente" The t#o
$uestions #e must as% a!e these"
(1) F!om ho# man& positions in space can #e loo% at the 4'(
sta! moel an fin as )oo a match #ith the o!i)inal map*
+2, Once #e fin a )oo match- o! even a .best. match- oes
that necessa!il& tell us an&thin) about the o!i)in of /FOs* 0et
us e1amine the ans#e!s-
2eta Riiculous an the Compute! F!ea%s
3o# )oo a!e &ou at the .)ame of the seven e!!o!s*. Compa!e
Fi)u!es 4"56 an 4"57- an loo% fo! iffe!ences" 8ou can see at
once that the si9es of the ots va!&- an that man& an)les a!e not
the same" The patte!n oes loo% simila!- but lines have been !a#n
on it to !einfo!ce this imp!ession- so that one !eall& oesn:t )et a
sense of ho# e1act o! ine1act the t!ue !esemblance is" Supe!ficiall&
the!e is a)!eement bet#een the t#o patte!ns- but the etaile
e1amination tells a iffe!ent sto!&" ;hat about the uplication of
this patte!n b& a compute!* Doesn:t this inicate that it is )enuine*
No- it efinitel& oes not" It onl& means that Ms" Fish:s moel #as
accu!ate- a fact I have al!ea& emphasi9e"
The $uestion pose to the compute! #as the #!on) one" Given
the sta!s in the moel an the vie#point chosen b& Ma!<o!ie Fish-
the compute! #as boun to ispla& the same patte!n that she ha
al!ea& foun #ith he! little beas an th!eas" It #oul be a lot
mo!e inte!estin) to as% the compute! to place itself in succession at
each of the millions of possible space vie#points- an to calculate
ho# man& #oul )ive a .)oo. fit to the o!i)inal map" To o this
#oul !e$ui!e some efinition of .)ooness. an a lot of patience=
not to mention a lot of compute! time" ;e #oul p!obabl& )ene!ate
a list of man& points in space f!om #hich 4' of the 4' sta!s fo!m a
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8. Fish Interpretation
Fi gure 1.3. A. 111e map as setche! "# $ett# H i l l . $. 111e stars i !enti fi e! "#
%ar&'ri e Fi sh. %ap A sh'(s the )star map) that c'ntactec $err# H i l l recal l e!
un!er h#pn'si s. The m'!el i n $, presente! as )pr''f) that the saucer (hi ch
a"!ucte! $ett# an! $arne# H i l l carne fr'm *eta +eri cul i , rel i es 'n $i ms#
stati sti cal e,i !ence. -.ra(i ngs c'urtes# 'f Space Age +e,i e(./
pattern cl 'sel # resem"l i ng the H i l l map. *eta +eti cul i ma#'r ma#
n't "e si gni fi cant (hen these resul ts are s'rte! 'ut. Clearly this
experiment hasn't been done.
Stu!ents ha,e m',e! the c'mputer m'!el ar'un!, usi ng a
tel e,i si 'n- l i e !i spl a#, t' e0pl 're man# p'ssi "l e p'si ti 'ns, "ut the
human mi n! i s n't'ri 'usl # su"&ecti ,e i n carr#i ng 'ut a &'" l i e thi s.
1nce i t has f'un! a p'ssi "l e s'l uti 'n, i t (i l l al (a#s c'me "ac t'
i t. The num"er 'f p'ssi "l e patterns t' "e e0pl 're! i s i n the "i l l i 'ns,
an! i t ('ul ! tae the l i feti mes 'f hun!re!s 'f stu!ents t' e0pl 're
them al l "# ,i sual i nspecti 'n t' see i f the# resem"l e! $ett#2s map.
How many ways are there of picking ! stars o"t of #!$ There
are #! choices for the first one% #& for the secon' one% an' so on%
"nti( there are on(y ) choices for the si*teenth one+ The n"m,er
of space config"rations we sho"(' e*amine% then% is the n"m,er
we o,tain ,y m"(tip(ying together the n"m,ers from ) to #!- it is
a,o"t . * /.& 0that is% two fo((owe' ,y .& 1eroes2+ Now% for e3ery
choice of ! stars% yo" sho"(' (ook at the pattern for e3ery possi,(e
3iewpoint aro"n' the mo'e( an' compare it with 4etty5s 'rawing+
C(ear(y this has not ,een 'one+
Mar6orie Fish has se(ecte' one partic"(ar ang(e from which one
partic"(ar gro"p of 16 stars seeme' 0to her eyes2 to gi3e a goo'
match+ This is 7"ite ins"fficient for positi3e i'entification+
8hat if a perfect march was fo"n'$ 8hat if it i'entifie' 9eta
Retic"(i as the h", of the star pattern$ This wo"(' sti(( not mean
m"ch in terms of the possi,(e origin of o"r 3isitors+
:n important% e3en a cr"cia(% fact seems to ha3e escape' the
attention of those who ha3e e*amine' 4etty Hi((5s 'rawing;
her map is not drawn to scale!The si1e of the stars < if the Fish
interpretation is correct < 'oes not correspon' to their ,rightness+
The 'istance ,etween the two stars of 9eta Retic"(i% in partic"(ar%
is e*aggerate' to the point where the map wo"(' ,e "se(ess for
na3igation+ 8hat co"(' a sa"cer pi(ot 'o with s"ch a map$ 8hy
'raw it from a 3iewpoint that 'oesn5t correspon' to any known
ce(estia( o,6ect$
If the map is real, it must have been placed therefor Betty Hill
to see, not for the pilot to use! E*posing "ns"specting peop(e to
stage' scenes in or'er to f"rther a certain ,e(ief is an o(' trick+
D"ring 8or(' 8ar II% for e*amp(e% the 4ritish change' a(( the
roa' signs a(ong the ro"te of a German genera( who ha' ,een
capt"re' an' who was 'ri3en to the coast in an e*change of
prisoners+ He co"(' th"s testify to the German High Comman'
that he ha' seen tanks% tr"cks% an' ,arracks in the area where
the :((ies were assem,(ing a =phantom army= rea'y to strike in
northern E"rope+
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We can only guess at the purpose of staging such a scene for
Betty Hill'. Perhaps it served to reinforce her belief that she as
dealing ith space visitors. Perhaps it diverted her attention aay
!ro" so"ething else. Perhaps the purpose as to have her convince
others that a space invasion as i""inent.
# do not believe that any of the contactees $ not even Betty
and Barney Hill $ have been physically on board an actual
%saucer&% #t is "ore li'ely that they have ta'en a nonphysical
(trip&% controlled and guided by a syste" of hich e have no
clear idea as yet& a syste" that acts on hu"an consciousness )the
Soviets use the ter" %psychotronic% to designate such devices*&
rather than one that is purely physical. The sy"bols it uses are
engineered to have certain effects. Those ho e+perience these
effects& li'e Betty Hill& snap out of the objective reality where
ordinary perceptions apply. They develop alternative "ental
realities to cope ith these a"a,ing ne perceptions. So"e
succeed& so"e fail. #n the process they beco"e believers in
strange poers beyond the real" of "an. They beco"e the tools
of the very syste" that has destroyed their for"er self. #n turn&
they begin to change the social reality around the".
The Abduction -eports
.ou have seen the" on the /i'e 0ouglas sho& acco"panied by
reporters& vouched for by 0r. Hyne' and an engineer$hypnotist
fro" California1 they have been inside flying saucers and they
have seen control panels& co"puters& dials& and 'nobs. They have
observed the pilots of the craft. They have felt the cold "etal floor
beneath their feet and the light in their eyes. 2nder hypnosis&
they re"e"ber tal'ing to their captors1 they recall being coldly
e+a"ined. They ta'e lie detector tests and pass the"3 Betty Hill
in Ports"outh& Charlie Hic'son in Pascagoula& Travis Walton in
Ari,ona. We are as'ed to accept this %scientific evidence.%
We enter a hospital room in Anaheim, California. A yon!
"oman is spea#in! slo"ly in a hypnoti$ tran$e. She re$alls an
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ama%in! e&perIen$e'
I(m lyin! on one of those ta)les. *h + that one that "as
$losest to me still seems to )e the one that(s in $har!e of
thin!s. *h + my heart is )eatin! really fast )e$ase I(m
really s$are,, e-en tho!h he has $ommni$ate, to me not
to )e afrai,.
The hypnotist, a me,i$al ,o$tor "ith lon! $lini$al e&perien$e,
!ently r!es her on.
Got ... one of those ma$hines for ta#in! the )loo,. It(s li#e
a nee,le on the lon! en, of one of those t)es. So, it(s .st
+ too# it ot real /i$#. Almost li#e a -a$m. An, ... his
fin!ers are #in, of $ol, an, $lammy.
Another pie$e of ,ata for the e&traterrestrial file0 Gess a!ain.
This yon! "oman is a s).e$t "ho has ne-er seen a *FO. She
,emonstrates that the 1a),$tion1 e&perien$e is a $onstant that
hypnosis $an tri!!er in almost any)o,y. This ,emonstration that
$onta$tee e&perien$es $an )e in,$e, $omes from a professor of
En!lish at California State *ni-ersity in 2on! 3ea$h, Al 2a"son.
Dr. 2a"son an, his $ollea!es sele$te,1 ima!inary a),$tees(
from amon! npai, -olnteers re$rite, )y $amps ne"spaper
a,-ertisin!. Those "ho seeme, informe, a)ot *FOs an, those
"ho ha, ha, si!htin!s were eliminated. The ei!ht s).e$ts finally
sele$te, "ere hypnoti%e, )y a $lini$al hypnotist, Dr. William
C. M$Call.
Se-en of the ei!ht s).e$ts "ent into ,eep tran$e an, "ere then
as#e, to ,es$ri)e "hat they sa" as a *FO appeare, to them in
their or,inary en-ironment, then as they "ent on )oar,, met the
o$$pants, "ere e&amine, )y them, "ere !i-en a messa!e, retrne,
The Case Agai nst the Spacecraft 47
safely to the normal world, and thought about the way in which the
sighting had affected them.
The results of the experiments were shattering. Not only did
these "imaginary abductees" provide what Dr. awson calls "a
coherent, intriguing !"# abduction narrative," but their stories
were surprisingly similar to the most classic !"# abduction cases,
li$e those of %etty &ill or Charlie &ic$son. 'hen the hypnosis
transcripts were closely compared with those from "real" !"#
cases, the parallels became even more stri$ing(
All of the imaginary sub)ects described many details which
are identical to ones found in the literature. These patterns
range from the obvious *"saucer+shaped", to rare and even
obscure though well+established details of high strangeness.-
The study does not demonstrate that !"# abductions are
imaginary, or that hypnotic regression of witnesses is always
worthless. %ut it does show that many aspects of the experience
may originate in the witness-s mind.
These remar$able experiments cast serious doubt on the
validity of the hypnotic regression to which many over+enthusiastic
investigators have sub)ected !"# witnesses.
"%ut the lie+detector tests tell the whole story," answer the
spacecraft believers. After all, what could be more scientific and
reliable than a "psychological stress evaluator" #f a polygraph
operated by trained personnel, certified by an accredited
professional organi.ation/
%efore accepting such statements as "evidence," ufologists
should get better information on the reliability of lie detectors, for
example, by reading the report by the Committee on 0overnment
#perations entitled "The !se of 1olygraphs and Similar Devices
by "ederal Agencies." Testifying before Congress, experts from the
Department of2 ustice explained why !.S. attorneys were instructed
"not to see$ the admission in evidence of polygraphic examinations
and to oppose all attempts by defense counsel to seek the admission
of such eaminations!"
#mon$ the %easons cited by the Depa%tment of &ustice 'itnesses
a$ainst the admissibility of these tests 'e%e nine impo%tant
obse%(ations) (1) the%e is no specific %eaction that indicates
deception* +,- appa%ent physiolo$ical indications of deception
may come f%om psycholo$ical facto%s* +.- the mo%al attitude of the
sub/ect to'a%d lyin$ may affect the outcome* +0- the sub/ect may
be able to fake %esponses by intensifyin$ his %eactions to cont%ol
1uestions* +2- abe%%ation o% instability of the sub/ect3 +4- the takin$
of dep%essant d%u$s3 and +5- the physical ci%cumstances3 all affect
the sub/ect6s %eaction! 7hat is most impo%tant 'ith 8FO 'itnesses
is that +9- the compleity and natu%e of the matte%s discussed may
bias the %eco%din$3 and +:- ecessi(e inte%%o$ation on the sub/ect
p%io% to the test and in(ol(ement in %epeated 8FO si$htin$s affect
the accu%acy of the %esults!
In no abduction case ha(e the in(esti$ato%s taken p%ecautions
a$ainst these p%oblems! The abduction epe%ience and the contact
epe%ience3 'hich seem at fi%st to su$$est an et%ate%%est%ial sou%ce
fo% the 8FOs3 can %esult3 I think3 f%om deepe%3 subtle%3 comple
p%ocesses of the human mind! These p%ocesses can be t%i$$e%ed by
su$$estion3 hypnosis3 d%u$s3 and the physical tools of deception!
Such deception could be the 'o%k of a hi$he% fo%m of intelli$ence
; o% it could be the 'o%k of human bein$s!
The link bet'een the ima$es of the 8FO 'o%ld and those
of human folklo%e %esides in the psyche! The "technolo$y" of
the 8FOs is not desi$ned to ca%%y little men f%om one physical
planet to anothe%! It is desi$ned3 much mo%e simply3 to t%i$$e% the
al%eady;eistin$ ima$e%y 'e a%e all ca%%yin$ in ou% b%ains! It is
the ima$e%y of Magonia, of intelli$ent beams of li$ht3 of dialo$ues
'ith st%an$e c%eatu%es!
Eme%$in$ fully a%med into ou% local uni(e%se ; like #thena
bein$ bo%n f%om <eus6s head ; the 8FOs do nothin$ mo%e than
p%o(ide the physical suppo%t fo% ou% o'n d%eams! 7e do the %est!
Our brains erect a ladder of symbols toward the darkened skies
where the strange machines hover) and we meet them more than
halfway across the bridge of their strangeness - perhaps because
we vaguely perceive that their irresistible) pathetic adventure is
our own.
The Handvagon Irom Outer Space
Do not let your left hand kn()W what your right hand is doing.
Matthev 6:3
V
E DRO\E UP to Mendocino to hear the tapes Timothy
Leary had recorded in jail. Actually, they veren't meant
('0 be released. The prison psychiatrist had undertaken a study oI
Leary, and the vhole thing had gotten out oI hand. Did the tapes
belong to the State, to the psychiatrist, or to Leary? There vas a
complicated legal battle; the tapes got out. Ve vere going to hear
them as soon as everyone vas there.
People kept arriving. They sat on pillovs. You couldn't reach
the kitchen Ior a glass oI vater vithout stepping on the toes oI
long-legged, tanned CaliIornia girls or knocking the pipe out oI a
bearded physicist's mouth. Vhen the tape started playing, there
must have been thirty people in the room. Many had driven Irom
San Francisco, Herkeley, StanIord. Others lived in the voods
nearby. There vas one physicist Irom Herkeley vho had done
research on Uri Geller, another in contact vith FHI people vho
studied psychic phenomena. (He said they vanted to Iind out iI
psychics could somehov pick up the scent oI revolutionaries vho
vere making bombs.) There vas enough scientiIic talent in the
room to send a rocket to Pluto.
Leary's voice, coming out oI the tape recorder, vas calm as he
discussed his belieIs vith the prison psychiatrist. H isargumentation
vas as sure as iI he had been back at Harvard, administering a
Ph.D. qualifying exam in the psychlgy !epa"tment. #e state!
that e$e"y %i$ing entity ha! a genetic pu"pse& an! that the
p"'lem 'ef"e us n( (as that f the futu"e f the human "ace.
#e implie! that Man (as fast app"aching the en! f his "pe&
that e$lutin (as "ea!y t ma)e a ne( *ump t(a"! a highe"
f"m f life& an! that a supe"i" intelligence ha! cncei$e! the
'luep"int f" us n Ea"th. The cent"al ne"$us system (as its gift
t us& a piece f equipment t expl"e an! use in "!e" t esta'lish
cmmunicatin (ith u" ma)e".
The inte"$ie(e" as)e! if this (asn+t exactly (hat the m!e"n
fll(e"s f the ancient a"ts f massage an! physical i!entificatin
(ith the '!y ha! 'een p"eaching.
,ea"y ans(e"e! that he (as '"e! (ith -the .!y Peple.- It+s
fine f" peple t 'ecme i!entifie! (ith thei" '!y& he sai!& 'ut
afte" they+$e !ne that& they still ha$e t i!entify themsel$es (ith
thei" cent"al ne"$us system& (ith the genetic c!e& an!& lastly&
(ith the supe"i" plan.
The psychiat"ist "ema")e! that ,ea"y+s i!eas seeme! t !iffe"
f"m Easte"n philsphies. (hich assume that the '!y& inclu!ing
the cent"al ne"$us system& is not the in!i$i!ual. #( !i! he cme
t !e$elp a !iffe"ent philsphy/
,ea"y sai! he (asn+t su"e it (as s !iffe"ent& 'ut as a scientist
he ha! ne$e" (an!e"e! a(ay f"m cncepts that cul! 'e lcali0e!
an! "ep"!uce!1 2I !n+t 'elie$e in mushy #in!u hea$ens1+ he sai!&
a!!ing that the psychiat"ist (as tal)ing li)e a human 'eing. .ut
he& ,ea"y& (as n lnge" human& he sai!. .esi!es& he (as te""i'ly
!ist"ustful f humanists.
The peple (h ha! "gani0e! the meeting ga$e me a cpy f a
questinnai"e Timthy ,ea"y ha! !e$elpe! t gathe" the pinins
f the" peple cnce"ning higher intelligence. It 'egan (ith these
th"ee questins/
(1) D yu 'elie$e that #ighe" Intelligence is a useful
cncept/
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(2) What is your definition of Higher Intelligence?
(3) What is your definition of Intelligence?
Ithought we were being trapped The !uestions were in the wrong
order Besides" defining intelligence is a game psychologists ga#e up
a long time ago Oddly enough" they stopped playing that game
about the time when they started measuring intelligence with I.Q.
tests To those who re!uested his definition) $rofessor Binet" who
in#ented the I% test with another &renchman named Simon" used
(0answer simply' (Intelligence is whate#er my test measures(
)ater I pondered )eary*s !uestions again If we had an
e+ample of higher intelligence" perhaps then we could come bac,
and ma,e some useful statements about our own le#el (Similarly
the (unreachable stars( can be e+tremely useful in defining and
measuring distances on -arth) $erhaps a genuine obser#ation of
higher consciousness would tell us who we are
But I also began to speculate along a different line $erhaps
)eary and others had found a new bandwagon $erhaps they were
.ust e+pressing the aspirations and frustrations of a generation
that has put /an on the /oon" but has done nothing for the
-arth 0isitors from outer space would be a con#enient interlude
They would offer the space effort 1 and all its attendant industrial
technology 1 a new purpose in life They would rescue Western
ci#ili2ation from its acute spiritual malaise They would help
transcend political emotions and pa#e the way to the unification
of that enormous economic mar,etplace' $lanet -arth Ta,e these
possibilities into consideration" and you will begin to understand
why the idea of life in space is no longer a simple scientific
speculation but a social and political issue as well Sensing this"
the military authorities ha#e tried to stay away from it as long as
possible So has the scientific community
54 MESSENCERS OF DECEPTION
The Manipulation Hypothesis
In 1967 I was visiting the Universiry oI Colorado physics department.
I had lunch with ProIessor Condon and the staII oI his recently
organized committee Ior the study oI UFOs. They had just received
halI a million dollars Irom the U.S. Air Force to Iind out whether
we were being visited by extraterrestrials.
I told Condon that I believed the problem oI UFOs could be
solved scientiIically. He replied that he wasn't so sure: "It could be
something like the existence oI Cod," he said, teaproblem about
which science has nothing to say." I disagree with that view. Science
could have analyzed the observations and reached a conclusion
then. But it may be too late now.
ProIessor Condon and his team, who had been picked because
they were presumably impartial and unprejudiced, went on to write
a report stating that no evidence existed Ior the reality oI UFOs.
The report was reviewed and approved by the National Academy oI
Sciences in 1969, leaving the Iield oI UFO research wide open Ior
charlatans and hoaxers oI all kinds. In Man the Puppet: The Art of
Controlling Minds, published in 1925, Abram Lipsky reminds us oI
a thought oI William James:
II he wanted to pick an outright duIIer Ior a scientiIic
research he would take a student who was impartial and
unprejudiced. An emotional urge, even iI it be only pride
in a preIormed opinion, is necessary to give the push to
intellectual activity.
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It has taken almost ten years Ior serIOUSresearchers to begin
challenging the Condon Report. The controversy is more lively than
ever as increasing numbers oI young scientists oI the "UFO generation"
wonder about the reality oI UFOs and eagerly look Ior an answer.
I have long pondered that same question. The answer I have
Iormed Is a disturbing one. It can be expressed very simply: it doesn't
matter any more whether flying saucers are real or not. It still matters
('0 me, of course, as an individual scientist. I have often stated, and
I still believe today, that UFOs are real and technological. When I
say that it doesnt matter whether they are real or not, Iam spea!ing
of their social impact.
"ou can find scholars who will #prove# to you that the
supernatural powers of $esus %hrist never e&isted. "ou can also find
scholars who will #prove# to you that they did e&ist. 'oes it matter(
Of course not) It only matters to the e&perts, who have sta!ed their
academic reputations on either side of the argument. The e!Jects of
the belief in Jesus, the impact of the doctrine based on the story of his
life and death, are real enough. Socially. historically, the consequences
are beyond question. Iclaim that the same now applies to flying
saucers because enough people believe in them. enough people believe
that contact with them is possible, and enough people even believe that
they have secretly achieved such contact.
In *+,-, %ondon and his team could have done a serious
scientific study of UFOs, but they didnt. .ow it is too late for
science. The social, historical, and political conse/uences of the
spreading belief in the contact with space are here, and they are
real, no matter how ludicrous and bi0arre they may appear. In fact,
the more ludicrous and bi0arre they appear, the more effective they
are as subliminal seduction and as other forms of psychological
control, and subliminal seduction is e&actly what we are dealing
with here.
The belief in UFO contact, and the e&pectation of visitation
by beings from space, is promoted by certain groups of people
who are responsible for advertising UFO contacts, for circulating
fa!ed photographs 1often in connection with genuine sightings2,
for interfering with witnesses and researchers, and for generating
systematic #disinformation# about the phenomenon. We may find
that they belong, or have access, to military, media, and government
circles. In these games it is not clear e&actly which side is infiltrating
the other.
In December 1972. for exampe! a Span"#$ re#earc$er rece"%e&
a e''er po#'mar(e& So)'$ *en#"n+'on! En+an&! an& bear"n+ '$e
"n#"+n"a of ,MMO. a #ef-#'.e& ex'ra'erre#'r"a +o%ernmen'./ T$e
e''er )r+e& '$e re#earc$er no' 'o p)b"c"0e '$e"r +ro)p an& 'o (eep 'o
$"m#ef '$e"r comm)n"ca'"on# 12$"c$ ran+e& 2"&e. from b"oo+.
an& re"+"on 'o a#'rop$.#"c#3. S)c$ e''er# $a& been rece"%e& #"nce
1965b.#e%era Span"#$ an& fore"+n re#earc$er#. T$e. ae+e&. came
from "n$ab"'an'# of '$e pane' ,MMO 2$o 2ere "%"n+ #ecre'.
amon+ '$e Span"#$ pop)a'"on. T$e#e comm)n"ca'"on# "nc)&e&
'$o)#an&# of pa+e# of p$"o#op$"ca an& #c"en'"f"c &"#c)##"on! #ome
of "' 'r"%"a! #ome profo)n& or e%en ")m"na'"n+.
On '2o occa#"on# pr"or 'o 1965! "' "# #a"& '$a' off"cer# of '$e
Cen'ra In'e"+ence 4+enc. #'a'"one& "n Ma&r"& rece"%e& e''er#
from '$e#e 5%"#"'or#.5 T$e. #'a'e& '$a' '2o of '$e"r 5bro'$er#5 $a&
"%e& from 1952 'o 1956 a' 57 Ma.or S'ree'! "n 4bacen'e! 2$ere
'$e. 2ere '$e +)e#'# of a #oc"e'. a&.! Senora Mar+ar"'a R)"0 &e
8"$or.. In $er $o)#e '$e. $a& con&)c'e& 5p#.c$op$.#"oo+"ca
exper"men'# 2"'$ an"ma#!5 '$e e''er #a"&. Foo2"n+ )p on '$"#
"nforma'"on! a)'$or"'"e# be+an c$ec("n+ "n'o 2$a' '$e. a##)me&
2a# #ome ("n& of a 9o(e. T$e. fo)n& '$a' "n Febr)ar. 1956! a corpse
had been mutilated "n '$e $o)#e "n :)e#'"on. I' 2a# '$e bo&. of M"##
Mar+o' S$e. R)"0 &e 8"$or.! a &a)+$'er of '$e a&. men'"one& "n
'$e ,MMO e''er. 4 $an& an& o'$er "mb# $a& been #ec'"one&. 4
#en#a'"ona 'r"a $a& re#)'e&.
R)mor $a# "' "n Spa"n '$a' '$e CI4 "# ac'"%e. 'r."n+ 'o oca'e
'$e #o-cae& 5b"oo+"#'#5 of 4bacen'e! an& '$a' a m.#'er"o)# 5Mr.
;. R)m#e.5 $a# offere& <1!=== 'o an.one pro%"&"n+ "nforma'"on
abo)' '$em.
If "' "# a 9o(e! "' $a# been carr"e& a "''e far. >)' "f "' is no' a 9o(e!
2$a' "# "'# p)rpo#e? I# '$ere a #.mbo"c me##a+e b)r"e& "n '$e ac'"on#
* T$e name ,MMO ma. be $"&"n+ an "n#"&e 9o(e. In 197= a compan.
cae& ,MO Pan' @"re! 8'&.! 2a# "ncorpora'e& "n Grea' >r"'a"n. I' ')rne&
o)' 'o be a So%"e' #p. fron'. In Sep'ember 1971! 1=5 So%"e' off"c"a# 2ere
expee& from >r"'a"n for e#p"ona+e! an& ,MO 2a# co#e& &o2n.
olxuch groups? To whom is the message directed? What psychological
illJdsocial attitudes among the public might be promoted? To study
,llcse questions, we must examine more closely the fantastic world of
Illl' UFO contactees
Who !re the "ontactees?
!s you read this boo# you are penetrating with me into a strange
world, into $"anintellectual twilight in which it is hard to
distinguish between the menacing and the merely ludicrous,%?
&'cculiar e(ents, furti(e meetings, and messages suggesti(e of
other worlds will come into the picture before we reach the end
Iwish it were a simpler story, but it will of necessity appear as a
mosaic, a pu))le, a pattern of indi(iduals and trends and traditions
*oing bac# to (ery old records and leading to our own times by
some (ery' strange paths &t in(ol(es many people with a common
characteristic+ they ha(e engaged in communication with what
they regard as another le(el of consciousness, abo(e the human
le(el They belie(e that they ha(e met the %,igher &ntelligence%
They ha(e acquired an almost fanatical faith in its importance for
the future of humanity They ha(e created a subculture in which
psychic phenomena and contact with space are considered e(eryday
occurrences Then why is their world one of fear and insecurity and
suspicion, not a world of lo(e?
The stories of the contactees touch upon one of the most exciting
areas of human existence in this century, because open contact
with other beings would be a turning point in our history But the
contacrees' experiences should ma#e us (ery cautious- just because a
message comes from heaven doesn't mean it's not stupid. .any of the
contactees ha(e fallen (ictim to a peculiar effect on their minds+
they ha(e lost their critical faculties
There are two #inds of contactees & call %direct contactees% the
people who /01 claim to ha(e witnessed an unexplained physical
'I
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Figure 2.1. Betty and Barney Hill had a remara!le e"#erien$e %ith a &FO
in Se#tem!er 1'(1. )*ter they had +u**ered *r,m a +erie+ ,* nighnnare+-
hy#n,ti$ regre++i,n re.ealed that they had un$,n+$i,u+ mem,rie+ ,* an
/a!du$ti,n/ int, %hat may ha.e !een an,ther le.el ,* reality. 0Ph,r,
$,urte+y ,* &nited Pre++ Inrernari,nal.1
#hen,men,n- (2) ha.e !e$,me $,n.in$ed that it+ ,rlgin %a+
intelligent- and 021 ha.e *elt an indi.idual relati,n+hi# %ith it that
gi.e+ them a +#e$ial de+tiny.
&nder thi+ de*initi,n- +u$h hi+t,ri$al *igure+ a+ 3,an ,* )r$ ,r
3,+e#h Smith are direct contactees. S, are Edgar Cay$e and &ri Geller.
Their num!er+ are *airly +mall- !ut their in*luen$e i+ $,n+idera!le.
I $all 4indire$t $,nra$tee+/ #e,#le %h, 011 ha.e $,n.in$ed
them+el.e+ ,* the e"i+ten$e ,* an intelligent $au+e that $an #r,du$e
une"#lained #hen,mena- (2) ha.e not ,!+er.ed +u$h #hen,mena
them+el.e+- !ut 021 *eel that they ha.e +,me #er+,nal lin t, thi+
$au+e n,nethele++- ,ne that again gi.e+ them a +#e$ial de+tiny
am,ng manind.
In thi+ $ateg,ry are all the #e,#le %h, re$ei.e messages from
outer space !y aut,mati$ %riting ,r ,ther mean+- !ut ha.e n,t +een
a &FO- and th,+e %h, +im#ly $,n+ider them+el.e+ a+ ha.ing !een
gi.en a 4$,+mi$ mi++i,n/ !y the +u#eri,r intelligen$e in 5ue+ti,n.
Contactees of both kinds are occasionally capable of extreme
il<:tions to propagate their beliefs They may be !iolent and
" ## predictable $or example% in the sixties% according to con!ersations
Ihad in the So!iet "nion% a leading plasma physicist was pushed
under a &oscow subway train by an indirect contactee' who
had been instructed by a (!oice from space( to kill that particular
)nan *n #9+5% a $rench contactee was arrested by the police as
he was entering the head,uarters of the $rench tele!ision network%
carrying a carbine and fifty shells: a similar !oice from space had
instructed him to kill a newsman who had written se!eral books on
"$Os -lthough many contactees are non!iolent% their beliefs are
nonetheless tainted with fanaticism
To summari.e% then% contactees are people who belie!e they
ha!e a special destiny% linked to an unexplained phenomenon they
n#ay or may not ha!e obser!ed% but in the existence of which they
strongly belie!e
/hat wonders they could re!eal to me% they claimed% if only
* agreed to blindly follow their leadership0 /hat powers * would
share% if * 1oined their ranks and did as their messages said0 *
refused &y refusal may decrease my worth as a witness * ha!e
in!estigated% analy.ed% and compared * ha!e not participated.
* ha!e seen enough% howe!er% to warn others not to accept
lightly any claims that our world is !isited by kindly beings from
space who are bent on helping us Those eager belie!ers who drift
into the reassurance of some blissful new creed should consider the
personalities that are causing the drifting Their world is a case of
science gone wrong% and mysticism gone wrong Consider also the
shadowy personalities% the sect leaders and the high priests% that are
using the contactees for their own ends
Consider their link 2 ne!er seriously in!estigated by the "$O
research groups 2 with political extremist organi.ations Consider
their doctrines on the existence of 3superior races%( of people with
chosen missions% their references to -tlantis and ancient astronauts
2 implying that human beings would ne!er ha!e had the dri!e and
imagination to build civilizations if friendl !s"ace brot#ers$ #ad
not been t#ere to #el" t#em% In researc#ing t#is lin& I found t#at
t#e entire sub'ect (as even more tric&) de"ressing) and com"le*
t#an I #ad imagined+ I #ave become convinced t#at t#e scientific
investigation of sig#tings alone (ill never e*"lain t#e "#enomenon+
I #ave met man "eo"le (#ose effect on t#e beliefs of t#ose around
t#em (as based on irrational claims and c#arismatic influence+
T#ese are difficult ,uestions to researc#) and t#ere is no standard
met#od for conducting suc# a "robe+ -sing t#e tec#ni,ues of oral
#istor) based on "ersonal observations and intervie(s t#at (ere
transcribed and edited) I #ave com"iled and inter"reted "rofiles of
t#e leaders of t#is ne( subculture+
In t#is searc# I #ave met .elen) a oung (oman (#o believes
t#at s#e (as tele"orted aboard a fling saucer and emerged (it# a
formula for cosmic energ+ In Paris I visited t#e leaders of an occult
organization (#o meet regularl (it# e*traterrestrials (#o are
"re"aring social revolution+ In California I #ave attended meetings
of t#e .uman Individual Metamor"#osis as t#e (ere recruiting
"assengers for t#e ne*t saucer tri" to $t#e ot#er level+$ In S"ain I
#ave intervie(ed /ac,ues 0ordas) (#o stated t#at #e #ad su""lied
food to e*traterrestrials in t#e Prenees in 1231 and (as still in
contact (it# t#em+ I came bac& to t#e States and met a (oman
"sc#ic (#o argued about 4tlantis and t#e elimination of our
mone sstem+ I intervie(ed a (ould5be "olitical leader) a member
of t#e /o#n 0irc# Societ) (#o (as tring to "ut a contactee into
t#e 6#ite .ouse+
T#e ideas of all t#ese "eo"le #ad certain im"ortant t#emes in
common+ -nderneat# t#e trivia) t#e verbiage) t#e "latitudes) t#ere
(ere "o(erful smbols and "o(erful social images7 universal "eace)
t#e e*"loration of s"ace) a single (orld econom) and t#e elimination
of mone+ I traced some of t#ese ideas to active occult organizations
t#at are o"erating 'ust belo( t#e t#res#old of "ublic notice+ To clarif
t#e mec#anism of t#eir actions) I loo&ed for ot#er situations in (#ic#
t#e irrational #ad made an im"act on "olitical and social events+
Where does this exploration lead? To a completely new challenge
of the conclusions of Professor Condon and the National cademy
of Sciences a!out the nature of the threat presented !y "#Os$ not
Oil physical grounds$ !ut on social grounds% &y own conclusions
%$'uggestthat we would do well to thin( twice !efore )umping on the
*+ ,uter Space Bandwagon* if we want to retain a !alanced$ o!)ecti-e
-iew of future e-ents% They also suggest that our ci-ili.ation may !e
headed for -ery serious trou!le$ with irrational forces tearing apart
Ihe old structures and replacing them !y the !lind institutions of
inhuman !eliefs%
Today there are many reasons for expecting a complete
turnaround in attitudes toward space intelligence% The official
space effort has temporarily run out of o!)ecti-es that can capture
the pu!lic/s imagination and enthusiasm% The potential disco-ery
of extraterrestrial life would gi-e the space industry infinite new
hori.ons to explore% New political grounds would !e open to
am!itious young leaders% The eager anticipation of imminent
encounters with space !eings would help crystalli.e the efforts
of an entire nation$ perhaps of world pu!lic opinion% 0t would
help in transcending local conflicts and in achie-ing within a
single generation !eha-ioral changes that might otherwise ta(e a
hundred years to complete% 0f this is the contri!ution of the "#O
phenomenon$ then we are in fact dealing with one of history/s
ma)or transitions%
THREE
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The Deception
A lot of people think Im crazy, but sometimes it'LLbe a bright night
and I'll be sitting outside and saying, come on down, come and get
me. I've always wanted to be picked up by a UF.
A young man heard at Stanford University in 1975
M
yFIS! M""!I#$ %ith &e'en too( )'a*e at a *offee sho) after
she *a''ed to te'' me a+out the motor she %anted to +ui'd.
She %as a ta'', )retty gir' in a fashiona+'e dress. !he men in the
restaurant turned around to 'oo( at her. She *ou'd have +een a
mode', or a re*e)tionist +ehind a +ig des( %ith five te'e)hones in
those fan*y +ui'dings do%nto%n. ,itt'e did they (no% she %as a
*onta*ree +ent on so'ving the energy *risis +y +ui'ding a ne% ty)e
of engine.
-uring our intervie%, she *onfessed that the motor idea %as
triggered +y an a+du*tion a+oard a UF.. It seems that she %as %ith
a grou) of musi*ians *oming +a*( from ,om)o* to ,os Ange'es, in
the summer of 19/0.
12e 'eft after the 'ast )erforman*e on that %ee(end,1 she to'd
me after ordering a *ho*o'ate ma't. 32e )ro+a+'y )a*(ed u) the
gear +y 45 15 a. m. 2e must have +een on the road ha'f an hour to
65 minutes, it might even have +een an hour. At that )oint, %e
%ere on a f'at stret*h of 'and. !here %ere hi''s on the righthand
side and %e %ere going south. .ut of these hi''s *ame a %hite
'ight, and it moved u) and +egan to *ome in our dire*tion. An
air)'ane *ou'dn't have turned the %ay it did7 so %e figured it %as
a helicopter. Then it began to do ver erratic thing! and t"i!t!# go
ver $ar o%t and co&e clo!er ver '%ic(l.)
I interr%pted her to !lo" do"n her e*cited recollection o$ that
epi!ode. I "anted to get the !tep+b+!tep acco%nt o$ her perception!.
),o" did o% all react to thi!-) I a!(ed. ).hat did the other! !ee-)
,er repl "a! $orce$%l/ )0ll $o%r o$ %! "ere ver a"are o$ it#) !he
!aid i&&ediatel. ).e tal(ed a lot abo%t it# b%t nobod !aid 12et1!
hide#1 or anthing li(e that. George and 3arbara "ere %p $ront +
George "a! driving + I "a! in the bac( behind hi&# and Dave "a!
to & right. Dave and 3arbara "ere a$raid o$ it. George and I "ere
enco%raging the "hole thing4 "e en5oed thi!.)
0ll right# !o the co%ld have been "atching a helicopter.
).hat did the ob5ect do-)
)It ca&e %p over the car and in $ront o$ %!# &abe 677 to 877
$eet above the gro%nd# and it "a!# I "o%ld !a# abo%t !i* lane! o$ the
$ree"a in "idth. It "a! "hite# and it !ho"ed a ver bea%ti$%l (ind
o$ glo". I !ee& to re&e&ber !o&e (ind o$ "indo"!# b%t I reall
co%ldn1t be !%re. It didn1t &a(e an noi!e. The thing "a! big. Fo%r
"hite light!# $%nnel+!haped# e*tended $ro& the peri&eter o$ the
vehicle and do"n aro%nd each o$ o%r bodie!.) She loo(ed %p and
!h%ddered a! i$ it "a! there# !till hovering right above %!# a! big a!
the "hole re!ta%rant.
).hat (ind o$ $eeling did o% have then-)
"I remember leaving my body on the seat of the car and being abo%t
three or $o%r $eet o%t o$ the car#) !he !aid in a &atter+o$+$act "a.
)0ll $o%r o$ %! did the !a&e thing4 off we went! 0t that point I don1t
re&e&ber anthing el!e# and %ntil $airl recentl I didn1t thin(
there was anthing el!e. Then I began to reali9e that !o&ething
&ight have happened# beca%!e the ne*t thing I re&e&ber "a!
co&ing bac( into the car. I loo(ed aro%nd and !a" the light
!hi&&er aro%nd 3arbara and Dave# and w "ere !lo"l di!!ipated
bac( into o%r bodie!.)
I had tro%ble vi!%ali9ing the !cene. 0!tral travel i! nothing ne".
That1! ho" "itche! "ent to the Sabbath and !aint! to heavenl
The Deception 65
communions. An American businessman, Robert Monroe, has
set up learning centers complete with training tapes to help
people leave their bodies. The psychedelic culture embraced the
concept enthusiastically in the sixties, and it is now part of the
everyday world of millions. ut automobiles are not capable of
astral travel.
!"hat happened to the carr! # as$ed her.
!The vehicle stayed with us at that time, and then began to
move off a little bit in the distance, and the car was %ust going on its
own velocity. That was the initial experience of lc,!
Irecalled a similar case in &rance, near Rouen, where a '&(
allegedly guided a car across a three)lane highway to a head)on
collision with a speeding ambulance. The ambulance driver,
who escaped under remar$able conditions, is now the leader of a
contactee group in *ice.
'nder hypnosis, +elen remembered going on board the ,saucer!
and observing its propulsion mechanism. -he met a man dressed in
white, who showed her an ama.ing motor. *ow she is determined
to build it.
# began chec$ing her story. &irst, # had a lengthy telephone
conversation with /eorge, who hasn0t seen her in several years but
remembers the incident as !a turning point in his life.! Dave had
moved to another city, where # traced him. A friend of mine, a
psychiatrist, got in touch with him and obtained his statement.
1i$e /eorge, he vividly recalls the whole incident and describes it
in similar terms.
2ver since the sighting, +elen has felt the urge to build the
machine whose principle was revealed to her by one of the saucer
pilots. #t has become a central point for her, the goal of her entire life.
3et the motor she wants to build is based on a !perpetual motion!
scheme and could never run, physically, the way she explains it.
There are three witnesses to this '&( event, and everything
seems to point to the reality of their experience. ut this is precisely
the place where many doubts are raised in my mind.
Figure 3.1. It is fairly typical for contactees !clai" t#at space $eings
#a%e s#o&n t#e" so"e secret of p#ysics or engineering. Many #a%e $uilt
"ac#ines li'e t#e (free)energy "otor( #el* #ere $y its $uil*er+ ,o&ar*
Menger. -P#oto $y Sa" .an*i%ert. Originally appeare* in The Age of
Flying Saucers, $y Paris Flarn"on*e./
Consi*er t#e story fro" t#e point of %ie& of t#e (spacecraft(
t#eory. 0e &oul* #a%e to assu"e t#at &#at s#e sa& &as a %e#icle
fro" anot#er planet+ pro$a$ly co"ing #ere for e1ploration. On t#e
surface+ t#is interpretation see"s to fit t#e facts.
2ut &#at a$out t#e paranor"al effects3 Can &e ignore ,elen4s
testi"ony t#at s#e &as (teleporte*( into t#e 5FO3 If t#e episo*e is
*escri$e* accurately+ &e are *ealing &it# a psyc#otronic tec#nology+
one t#at affects consciousness+ not si"ply t#e p#ysical $o*y. 6n* if
it is psyc#otronic+ t#en in t#eory it coul* $e generate*+ pro7ecte*+
an* controlle* fro" any&#ere.
T#e ("eeting( $et&een ,elen an* t#e "an in &#ite a$oar* t#e
craft "a'es no sense if &e assu"e #e &as a %isitor fro" a *istant
star. 0#y &oul* suc# %isitors loo' li'e us3 0#y &oul* t#ey s#o&
#er a "otor t#at *oes not #a%e an o$7ecti%e p#ysical function3
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If we are not dealing with space visitors at all, but with powerful
imagery projected in order to alter individual belief systems, then
t he dream-like. hallucinatory nature of the experience begins to
make more sense. We could even imagine that the object is a form
of natural energy that close exposure to it triggered the vision and
that the most important !uestion to ask is, what effect do such
visions have on the society around the witnesses" #et us not forget
that the society in !uestion is badly in need of $space brothers,% and
has lost much of its faith in the scientific genius of mankind.
&uch is the social matrix within which we must consider an
experience like 'elen%s abduction. (ertain factors combine to
suggest we should believe that she was interviewed by space
creatures, but all the facts taken together suggest a different, more
subtle interpretation) what she thought was a $contact%* may have
been a symbolic manifestation or a trap. 'er $spacemen$ may have
been messengers of deception.
Witnesses to close encounters with +,-s give reports similar
to this one in case after case. The phenomenon involves more than
a simple craft using an advanced form of propulsion it involves a
technology that can distort the observer%s sense of reality.
Psychic Technologies
We already have human technologies that are both physical and
$psychic$ .in the sense of influencing the consciousness of an
observer*. An example of such a technology is given, very simply,
byyour television set. There is no !uestion that it is physical. /ou
can talk about its si0e, volume, weight, and temperature. 1ut if
you turn it on, it will begin to control your awareness in peculiar
ways. /ou will observe scenes that, as far as you can tell, could
be either $real$ or faked. /ou may be a witness to an actual crime
committed right now, or to something that happened years ago.
/ou may also believe a scene to be absolutely real, when in fact it
is actually staged in a studio in Hollywood. ased on w!at you
can o"se#$e% you have no way to know the truth, e$en i& you !a$e
a No"el '#i(e in '!ysics. esides% you# tele$ision set in&luences
you in ot!e# ways. It dete#)ines w!at toot!'aste you use% !ow
you s!a$e% w!o you go to "ed wit!% and !ow you will $ote in t!e
ne*t election.
In so)e #es'ects I t!in+ ,FOs a#e si)ila# to tele$ision sets.
T!ey a#e '!ysical o"-ects% t!e '#oducts o& a tec!nology% "ut t!ey a#e
also so)et!ing else. t!e tools o& a )a-o# cultu#al c!ange. I t!in+
,FOs a#e 'e#'et#ating a dece'tion "y '#esenting t!ei# so/called
0occu'ants0 as "eing )essenge#s &#o) oute# s'ace% and I sus'ect
t!e#e a#e g#ou's o& 'eo'le on Ea#t! e*'loiting t!is dece'tion.
I !a$e w#itten t!is "oo+ "ecause I a) conce#ned wit! t!e
c!anges w!ic! would "e t#igge#ed "y t!e "elie& in an oute#/s'ace
in$asion% #eal o# si)ulated. In t!e wo#ds o& a #oo+ings Institute
#e'o#t on t!e cultu#al i)'act o& e*t#ate##est#ial li&e.
T!e conse1uences o& suc! a disco$e#y a#e '#esently
unpredictable "ecause o& ou# li)ited +nowledge o&
"e!a$io# unde# e$en an a''#o*i)ation o& suc! d#a)atic
ci#cu)stances. T!e &unda)entalist 2and anti/science3 sects
a#e g#owing a'ace... Fo# t!e)% t!e disco$e#y o& ot!e# li&e
would "e elect#i&ying.
Genuine 0con#ac#ees4 li+e Helen a#e al#eady "usy '#e'a#ing t!ese
c!anges. T!ey )ean "usiness. T!ey a#e since#e. T!ey o"ey w!at
t!ey "elie$e to "e o#de#s co)ing &#o) a !ig!e# cos)ic le$el.
Most scientists t!in+ t!is is a delusion o& no i)'o#tance. I di&&e#
&#o) t!e) in "elie$ing t!at t!ese contactees a#e "eing used in a
dange#ous way% and t!at t!e sy)"olis) t!ey '#o'agate will )a+e a
dee' i)'act on ou# li$es.
T!e new "elie& is co)'letely lac+ing in logic. T!at is t!e +ey
to its 'owe#. It se#$es to +ee' scientists away. T!e )o#e a"su#d t!e
state)ent% t!e st#onge# its e&&ect. When the Establishment is rational,
The Deception 69
,,1,Hlrllity is dynamite. Through the contactees, the Manipulators
tll'e ' undermining both religion and science.
Contact with alien intelligence is a social issue, too. Yesterday
any politician would have avoided UFOs like the plague. Today
IIIt'1l like immy Carter proclaim that they have seen unidenti!ied
" " !o,hts in the sky and are #no longer laughing at those who report
flying saucers.# $arious %revelations# by !ormer government
employees have suggested that evidence o! e&traterrestrial visitors
fllay e&ist in 'ashington. (ven a man like )rthur *undahl, !ormer
director o! the +hotographic " nterpretation Center o! the C" ), has
stared publicly that he had e&amined a number o! UFO !ilms !or
Ihe government and had ,udged them to be authentic. Tomorrow
someone might announce that proo! has been !ound !or the
e&istence o! alien li!e !orms. -uch an announcement would make
possible astonishing social, political, and economic changes. To
pavethe way !or such changes is the stated goal o! many contactees .
.,heir purpose is Utopia today. " t could be reality tomorrow.
A Social Time Bomb
The idea o! contact with higher intelligence is a social time bomb.
-everal years ago " warned that unless my scienti!ic colleagues
undertook a serious and unbiased investigation o! the UFO
phenomenon, there would be a proli!eration o! new sects claiming
contact with higher intelligences and special communication with
outer space.
This prediction has now been !ul!illed. in Cali!ornia, Oregon,
and Colorado, !or e&ample, a group called /uman " ndividual
Metamorphosis 0/." .M.1 is telling its !ollowers to abandon all
earthly possessions in hopes o! reaching a higher physical level.
" n (urope, mysterious organi2ations recruit people who seriously
believe that cosmic messages are coming to them !rom the
#Universal )ssociation o! +lanets.# " n France, 3reat 4ritain, all
over the world, claims of contact with suernatural entines are
leadin! to the creation of new sects" The e#ectation of hi!her
intelli!ence is $e!innin! to loo% li%e a form of worshi" This raises
some $asic &uestions a$out science and reli!ion' what is the source;
of the m(stical e#erience) Some $elievers in contact with sace
claim to have discovered it"
*s much as scientists would li%e to re+ect the ideas $ehind these
new sects as $ein! the creation of irrational or even a$normal
minds, the fact is that their mem$ers are sincere and that the UFO
henomena that fascinate them are reall( une#lained $( our
science" It is this fact that romted me fifteen (ears a!o to $e!in a
s(stematic anal(sis of the atterns $ehind the UFO, manifestations"
The roensit( of most scientists to i!nore these henomena , or
even to ridicule indiscriminatel( those who reort them , has created
an unfortunate !a that these new sects are naturall( $e!innin! to
Fi!ure -"." Near /ellaire, Michi!an, 0ohn Sheherd has esta$lished this
1FO,detectin! station in his !randarents2 home" The contrast $etween the
two lifest(les is stri%in! as 0ohn chec%s his ei!ht television monitors from
the console of his center" 3is e&uiment includes radar, sonar, scanners,
and homin! devices which attemt to attract the 4*liens4 he $elieves are
stud(in! the Earth" 5Photo courtes( of 1nited Press Inrernarional"6
The Deception 71
fill. '[he question that remains is to discover how serious a threat
t ht'sc groups represent to established social structures.
Suppose visitors arrived from elsewhere with a completely
,lifcrentreligious system. Suppose they had a political organi!ation
hui"ton principles that challenged both communism and capitalism.
#ouldn't a new form of faith spread among humans$ The longer
litis belief was suppressed, the stronger it would finally burst upon
%ti r rigid structures. &ow, suppose a group of men simulate the
arrival of these alleged visitors as a hoa', a deliberate deception.
Would we ever know?
(reat social changes often come from the least e'pected area.
Ibelieve that the most powerful factor that can change a society's
structures is not a simple terrestrial )enemy) beyond its borders. This
change can come from within, if the gap between the scientific elite
and the frustrated public gets wider and is deliberately e'ploited.
*mong the instruments of this profound change are the contactees,
the believers in celestial interventions of all +inds, the scouts of
. .
cosmic armies.
"s the ,ord an -'traterrestrial$
The handwriting on the walls of the .aris subway ranges from
the slogans of /aoism to the profanity of scatology, and " do not
ordinarily spend much time studying it. 0owever, when " found
the scribbled announcement that )The ,ord is an -'traterrestrial,)
allegedly emanating from a mysterious )1rder of /elchi!ede+,)
" had to stop and ta+e notice. " had urged scientists to do serious
research on the phenomenon of %1s before it was swept away by
fanaticism. "f " had been as+ed to 2ame the part of the world where
fanatical saucer sects might arise, " would have said 3alifornia4
without a second thought. "n ,os *ngeles perhaps. 1r in some
commune near /endocino. "n a small town on the edge of the
/o5ave Desert, near the hills where *dams+i claimed to have met
his Venusians. Certainly not in Paris. Not in the subway in !ull
"iew o! hun#re#s o! thousan#s o! $en an# wo$en who wal%e# by
this yellow &oster e"ery #ay 'arryin( serious rationalisti' 'yni'al
news&a&ers )li%e Le Monde un#er their ar$s*
In Paris it was howe"er an# the note in bla'% !elt+ti&
$ar%er was written not on'e but $any ti$es on the walls o!
se"eral tunnels. The wor% o! so$e insane &erson, Perha&s. -ut
the si(nature su((este# a (rou& an or(ani.ation/ The Order of
Melchizedei: I #e'i#e# to in"esti(ate0 the ne1t #ay I $et Cyna
an# I"an two lea#ers o! that se't in their 'luttere# a&art$ent.
2ater bent on learnin( $ore than su&er!i'ial a'3uaintan'e with
the (rou& 'oul# re"eal I 4oine# their or(ani.ation an# #el"e# into
its history. 5hat I !oun# is won#er!ul an# stran(e an# so$eti$es
!unny as this boo% will show you. I a#$it that the wor% Ithus
un#ertoo% re&resents a #e&arture !ro$ the the$e o! s'ienti!i'
analysis o! 6FO si(htin(s that I ha"e a#"o'ate# in &re"ious
writin(s. I still belie"e su'h an analysis to be ne'essary. S'ienti!i'
analysis will un#oubte#ly &ro"i#e &art o! the truth about 6FOs0
howe"er I no lon(er belie"e it will lea# to the whole truth. lowe
this reali.ation to a $an I shall 'all 7Ma4or Mur&hy8 althou(h
his a'tual ran% is $u'h hi(her than that o! Ma4or. 9e tau(ht $e
a lesson I a$ not li%ely to !or(et.
Ma4or Mur&hy who retire# !ro$ a 6.S. Intelli(en'e ser"i'e
3uite a !ewyears a(o ha# seen a'tion in 5orl# 5ar II in Italy an#
also #es'ribe# "i"i#ly his in"esti(ations in the Caribbean where
he or(ani.e# e!!orts to inter'e&t sub$arines an# Ger$an s&ies on
their way to the 6nite# States. I $et hi$ at a (atherin( o! 6FO
'onta'tees an# su((este# a #rin% when it was o"er. I e1&resse#
$y sur&rise at his interest in the e"ent whi'h I ha# re(ar#e# as a
'o$&lete waste o! ti$e. 9e as%e# $e to 'lari!y this 4u#($ent an#
I sai# that in $y o&inion none o! the &eo&le in atten#an'e %new
anythin( about s'ien'e. Then he &ose# a 3uestion that ob"ious as
it see$s ha# not really o''urre# to $e/ 85hat $a%es you thin%
that 6FOs are a s'ienti!i' &roble$,8
The Deception 73
Ireplied with something to the effect that a problem was only
Nlil_ntihc in the way it was approached, but he would have none of
that, and he began lecturing me. First, he said, science had certain
rules. For eample, it has to assume that the phenomenon it is
observing is natural in origin rather than artificial and possibly
hiased. Now, the !F" phenomenon could be controlled by alien
beings, #$fit is,# added the %a&or, #then the study of it doesn't belong
in science. $t belongs in $ntelligence.# Meaning counterespionage.
(nd that, he pointed out, was his domain.
#Now, in the field of counterespionage, the rules are completely
different.# )e drew a simple diagram in my noteboo*. #+ou are a
scientist. $n science there is no concept of the 'price' of information.
,uppose $ gave you -. per cent of the data concerning a phenomenon.
+ou're happy because you *now -. per cent of the phenomenon.
Not so in $ntelligence. $f $ get -. per cent of the data, $ *now this
is the /cheap' part of the information. $ still need the other . per
cent, but $ will have to pay a much higher price to get it. +ou see,
)itler had -. per cent of the information about the landing in
Normandy. 0ut he had the wrong -.per cent!"
1(reyou saying that the !F" data we use to compile statistics and
to find patterns with computers are useless2# $ as*ed. #%ight we be
spinning our magnetic tapes endlessly discovering spurious laws2#
1$t all depends on how the team on the other side thin*s. $f they
*now what they're doing, there will be so many cutouts between
you and them that you won't have the slightest chance of tracing
your way to the truth. Not by following up sightings and throwing
them into a computer. They will *eep feeding you the information
they want you to process. 3hat is the only source of data about the
!F" phenomenon2 $t is the !F"s themselves4#
,ome things were beginning to ma*e a lot of sense. #$f you're
right, what can $ do2 $t seems that research on the phenomenon is
hopeless, then. $ might as well dump my computer into a river.#
1Not necessarily, but you should try a different approach. First
you should wor* entirely outside of the organi5ed !F" groups6
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they are infiltrated by the same official agencies they are trying
to influence and they !ro!agate any rumor anyone "ants to ha#e
circulated$ In Intelligence circles !eo!le li%e that are historical
necessities$ &hen you'#e "or%ed long enough for (ncle Sam you
%no" he is in#ol#ed in a lot of strange things$ The data these grou!s
get are biased at the source but they !laya useful role$
)Second you should loo% for the irrational the bi*arre the
elements that do not fit+ that's "hat I ha#e come to obser#e at this
meeting tonight$ ,a#e you e#er felt that you "ere getting close to
something that didn't seem to fit any rational !attern yet ga#e you
a strong im!ression that it "as significant-.
I told him about the incident in#ol#ing Melchi*ede%$ ,e loo%ed
at me in a strange "ay and said+ .I "ould follo" that trac% seriously
if I "ere you$.
Prior to my disco#ery in the sub"ay I %ne" the name of
Melchi*ede% only from a fe" /iblical references a mention during
the no"0obsolete Tridentine Mass 1"hen the !riest blesses the
bread and "ine saying .2oo% "ith fa#or on these offerings and
acce!t them as once you acce!ted the gifts of your ser#ant 3bel the
sacrifice of 3braham our father in faith and the bread and "ine
offered you by your !riest Melchi*ede%.4 and an intriguing ritual
celebrated by a French sect of the nineteenth century a sect that
mi5ed the highest ideals "ith magical !ractices$
&ithin a year I had filled a shelf "ith curious boo%s and !am!hlets
about these heretics of the !ast and their beliefs$ They !ro#ide a model
for the modern cults dedicated to s!ace #isitors$ I did research on t"o
fronts+ day after day I learned more from my dusty boo%s about the
antics of the old magicians and I also attended meetings and seances
of the modern conractees I !ondered their significance until they
became sus!icious of me and decided that I must be a 6enusian 0 but
by then I %ne" enough to describe their beliefs clearly$ I had heard
"hat they had to say and a curious tale it "as a s!ace0o!era "o#en
"ith !ro!hetic ins!iration a diatribe against modern life through
"hich the "ind of forgotten traditions blo"s$
FOUR
------"@0"'(:tfj~"'3
Why Do They Keep Staring at the Walls?
Now that we have adopted you, we will never forsake you.
A dwarf, to Jacqes !ordas, "#$%
T
&' &U(!)' (A* who li+es to ,e called -(a.or (rphy- had
rged /e to piece together careflly the a0aila,le e0idence
a,ot the odus operandi of the pheno/enon1 The first opportnity
to try this new approach presented itself with the appearance in the
Western United States of a new contactee /o0e/ent that recrited
UFO passengers1 2t taght /e a serios lesson3 sch a grop can
acqire 0ery significant power o0er apparently 4rational- people1 2
had not sspected their wor+ cold ,e so fast, or so easy1 2t was in
o,ser0ing this grop, too, that 2 reali5ed how co/pletely it cold
control the ,elie0ers6 li0es1
2n Agst "#789 a friend had called /y attention to a one:page
annonce/ent that was posted in the windows of stores in ;alo
Alto9 <alifornia, and on the ca/ps of Stanford Uni0ersity1 UFOs?
was written in ,old red letters across the page1 The state/ent =
entitled si/ply !hat's "p#- ,egan with the o,ser0ation that or
en0iron/ent was changing and that a h/an catastrophe see/ed
i//inent3 not only were people drin+ing /ore than sal and
co//itting sicide ,y the thosands, the flyer said9 ,t the weather
>ias changing, fa/ines were widespread, and e0en 0olcanoes were
acting p?
The strange state/ent contined with the sensational clai/
that, in preparation for a ,etter world, so/e people had for/ed
a new group and left everything behind they had !uit their "ob#
and left their fa$ilie# %to follow what they would previou#ly have
&on#idered a# bi'arre #tudie# or pra&ti&e#(% They were #ee)ing real
truth. The te*t wa# #igned by flying+#au&er believer# who &alled
the$#elve# ,(I(M(- or ,u$an Individual Meta$orpho#i#( The
announ&e$ent &ontinued
So$e- who by $o#t #tandard# would have been &on#idered
#table ((( are atte$pting to &o$pletely ri#e above their
hu$an nature .get thi#/0 * under the dire&tion of individual#
who are $e$ber# of a )ingdo$ above hu$an who have
&o$e in at &lo#e range to the Earth to help( They &o$pare
thi# period of over&o$ing their hu$an nature to the
$eta$orphi& pro&e## of a &aterpillar be&o$ing a butterfly(
They are loo)ing to a na$ele## $an and wo$an who
#ay that they have in&arnated fro$ that ne*t level to
a##i#t Earth1# %graduating &la##(% The#e two #ay they will
publi&ly de$on#trate death over&o$e + the ability to heal a
diagno#ed dead body and wal) away #o$e three day# later
#howing life eternal gained( .Thi# i# one of the &hara&teri#ti&#
of a $e$ber of that ne*t )ingdo$(0 The#e two and their
follower# #ay they will phy#i&ally leave the planet within
$onth#( The new graduate# then e*pe&t to ta)e their pla&e
a# beginner# in a real$ of individual# who#e privilege it i#
to over#ee the Earth1# produ&tion of future graduate#(
There would be a $eeting- the flyer &on&luded- on 2edne#day-
3ugu#t 45- at 677 p($(- in the 8e&htel International Center- on
the Stanford &a$pu#(
The 8e&htel Center i# an old hou#e #et a$ong the tree# near
the Fa&ulty Club( 2hen Iarrived- the roo$ #et for the $eeting
* Material in parenthe#e# i# part of the original- not $y &o$$ent(
Why Do They Keep Scaring at the Walls?
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$igure *.,. Typical o2 contactee literature is this poster, which was widely
distri6uted in the San $rancisco area 6y the A.DM. group in ,FGH.
was already 2illed, and - sat on the 8oor with a tape recorder near
the 2ront o2 the roo+, where eight e+pty chairs were 2acing the
audience. More people were co+ing in and 2illing the open lounge
6ehind the last row o2 seats. So+e had co+e 2ro+ as 2ar away as
Marin /ounty, north o2 San $rancisco. - recogniIed hal2 a doIen
people who were active in #$% investigations in the Jay Crea.
Major Murphy was sitting in the 2ront row.
The organiIers o2 the +eeting arrived and sat on the eight
chairs 6e2ore us. They were serious 6ut not overly digni2ied. They
appeared neither arrogant nor scared. C tall 6earded +an with
searching, elo:uent eyes got up and started the +eeting with so+e
rather a+aIing state+ents& which the audience appeared willing
to accept, perhaps giving hi+ the 6ene2it o2 the dou6t until he had
+ade his position <nown 2ully. Ais view o2 higher intelligence
was so di22erent 2ro+ that o2 the ordinary 'contactees' that -
78 MESSENGER.S OF DECEPTION
was immediately interested. He presented himsel as a !"l#ntary
parti$ipant in an e"rt t" manip#late pe"ple%s &elies'
(ter an intr"d#$ti"n that $"ntained statements li)e *+e are
n"t see)in, $"n!erts- &#t we are see)in, t" ,et the in"rmati"n t"
th"se pe"ple wh" ha!e &een waitin, "r it- &e$a#se there are many
"n this planet-* and *+e are n"t here t" deend it "r t" pr"!e what
we are ,"in, t" say-* the spea)er emphasi.ed that he was *plantin,
seeds* and went "n t" what he $alled *the nitty/,ritty.*
His irst p"int was a $larii$ati"n " the ,r"#p%s p"siti"n- and he
des$ri&ed what they were "erin, t" #s.
+e are preparin, "#rsel!es "r what we eel is a #ni0#e
"pp"rt#nity- and it is als" the "pp"rt#nity " e!ery"ne
in this r""m. +hether y"# a$$ept it as an "pp"rt#nity-
whether y"# $ann"t a$$ept it- we )n"w that ea$h "ne "
y"# wh" hears it will be $han,ed inthe hearin, " it1 and
in the days that are $"min,- &e$a#se " the e!ents that will
ta)e pla$e- y"# will pr"&a&ly ind s"me si,nii$ant $han,es
ta)in, pla$e within y"#.
He then shited t" an a$$"#nt " the hist"ry " the ,r"#p and its
leaders- *the Tw".*
The tw" pe"ple that we met m"nths a," were &"rn in the
2nited States 3#st li)e y"# and I. They ,rew #p and had
amilies and 3"&s and $areers- and e!erythin,- e4a$tly as y"#
and I. As they ,"t int" their late thirties- indi!id#al man
and w"man- with"#t )n"win, why- s#ddenly they &e,an
t" ha!e the eelin, that there was s"methin, that they were
here "r. Cir$#mstan$es e!ent#ally &r"#,ht them t",ether.
And it was a couple of years before they began to realize that
they had comefrom a different level, a level above the human
level, an a$t#al- physi$al le!el "#t in spa$e. 5My itali$s.6
Why Do They Keep Staring at the Walls? 79
Figure 4.2. Public meetings held by "the Two" and their disciples beore
pac!ed auditoriums re"ealed a "ery sincere# dedicated group completely
committed to a antastic interpretacion o human destiny. $Photo courtesy
o %. &s!e"old.'
&re most o us condemned# then# to linger at our present low le"el
o intelligence# while the higher intelligences incarnated in a ew
luc!y indi"iduals go on to some other plane o e(istence? )o*
&ccording to the +.l.,. doctrine# sal"ation is or e"eryone.
The most important cru( o the inormation is that what
you ac-uire on this human le"el is your physical body# and
you can ta!e and con"ert that physical "ehicle into a different
form; it will loo! the same on the outside# but it.s changed
chemically and biologically. This physical body will then
ha"e the ability to lea"e this atmosphere and go out into
what you and / would call space# where the radiation is
e(tremely hot.
The inormation they ha"e brought to us is going to be
demonstrated within a ew months. They are now 0ust
inishing completing their own physical metamorphosis.
Their bodies have almost completely changed over physically,
chemically, biologically. They look just like you and I on the
surface. Within a few months there will be a demonstration.
When we have han!ed o"r bodies over thro"!h this #roess$
we no lon!er have to end"re disease or dea% or death. If %o"
find it e&tremel% far o"t when %o" first hear it$ %o" ma% be
ama'ed at hO()I*"i+l% it seems to ma+e sense and seems
lo!ial. ,nd you are capable of picking up this information
without solving it on a rational, conscious level -M% italis..
The information$ then$ is to be re!arded as an irrational #iee of
data. /ere is an im#ortant fat0 to follow /.1M. or an% other
ontatee !ro"# involves an at of faith$ even if the lan!"a!e is that
of siene. Gone are the standards of the sientifi method and the
meas"res of the laborator%0 o"r minds$ these #eo#le ar!"e$ an now
soar above these #ett%$ meti"lo"s$ worrisome details.
There are those members of that next level who are very close
to the Earth at this time. Inreased ativit% in the heavens
whih %o" and I #robabl% all 2FOs or fallin! stars -sil.
will testif% to inreased si!htin!s. The% are here solel% to
hel# those h"mans who embrae this information and
want to !o thro"!h the #roess.
Now omes the #ro#he%$ the anno"nement that a proof of the
#ower of hi!her intelli!ene will soon be forthomin!0
In a #eriod of months these two #eo#le$ thro"!h some
ir"mstane that the% do not even +now$ will come to be
killed. Three and a half da%s later$ after havin! been offiiall%
delared dead b% those who want to verif% the fat$ their
bodies will then come back to life again to show %o" and I
that when %o" have !one thro"!h this #roess %o" have
at"all% overome death.
Why Do They Keep Staring at (he Walls? 81
ALot of People are Tired of Playing the Human Game
After this resurretion! ("hih! as # "rite this t"o years later! has still
not ta$en plae! although it "as predited "ithin %a fe" months%&!
Ihe t"o indi'iduals in (uestion "ill )e pi$ed up )y a *+, and go
Ila$ to the le'el from "hih they ame! a "orld "here! naturally!
Ihere is no death! disease! or deay- Then e'eryone "ill $no" "hat
Ihe *+,s are! the )elie'ers laim-
The po"erful analogy ()ut a misleading one! as the audiene
"ould later point out& "as that of the )utterfly! an image )orro"ed
from the si.ties- The spea$er for H-#-/- ould not resist using it as
a sym)ol of metamorphosis0
While the aterpillar is a aterpillar! ifhe is $illed he doesn1t
)eome a )utter2y- He must ma$e that metamorphosis
"hile he is a healthy! li'ing aterpillar- He an no longer
ontinue any of his ati'ities3 all the eating he used to
lo'e to do must end- He must ome to a phase "here he
$eeps all identity to himself- As a result he ma$es himself
a'aila)le to the po"er "hih transforms him- Those
*+, 'ehiles are here to ta$e those "ho omplete this
transformation suessfully-
A lot of people are really tired of playing the human game!
and a lot of people ha'e already opped out and left! in their
o"n "ay! for different reasons- There are some people "ho
are 4ust tired! and there are other people "ho! e'en though
they really lo'e the 5arth! and are a)out things here! feel
an urge and a ompulsion! )eause of the unfolding of their
o"n souls! to mo'e to something higher-
What a)out the other )elief systems? What a)out the religions that
the dotrine of H-#-/- appears to supersede? The disiples of the
T"o point out that no other system has integrated the onept of
survival of death and the beliefin UFOs. In this sense, the dotrine
of !.I.M. is a "enuine #rotot$#e for so%e future reli"ion. &t the
sa%e ti%e, it is u#datin" #s$hedeli the%es of the #revious deade,
restatin" the% for the UFO ulture of the '()s and '80s.
The Sientists !ave *e#t It Fro% Us
The the%es that !.I.M. uses to establish its dotrine and %ani#ulate
its believers are the old standards of esa#is%+
Fear of han"in" ti%es and soial onditions, s$%boli,ed
b$ violent hu%an behavior, -eather #atterns, earth.ua/es,
and volanoes0
Desire to transend the fear of death, e%bodied in the
#ro%ise of travel to another #h$sial level0
1oredo% and feelin"s of inade.ua$ in the hu%an
ondition, desire to esa#e ever$da$ res#onsibilities to a
2ob and a fa%il$.
3oinin" the H.I.M. "rou# %eans that none of these res#onsibilities
need be onsidered si"nifiant an$ %ore. It is a ste# that an$one an
ta/e overni"ht, a for% of intelletual and e%otional ban/ru#t$
less #ainful than suiide, and infinitel$ %ore "la%orous.
The H.I.M. "rou# is also out to a#itali,e on the "ro-in"
%isunderstandin" bet-een sientists and the #ubli+
No-, the #h$sial fat that the doors are o#en %eans that
there is atuall$ an inreased a%ount of radiation in this
at%os#here. That inreased radiation is -hat had been
tri""erin" the feelin" of searh in $ou and %e. This is the
reason -e4ve all been loo/in", and $ou an also thin/ of
that band of radiation as an extreme ray of light, a light
that exposeseverything. It exposes everything at every level of
our government; it exposes more things on the level of UFOs;
it exposes things about our universe that the government and
scientists and astronomers have been slightly aware of, but
have kept from the general public because they didnt even
completely understand what it meant. [My italics.]
,Ihere is indeed a language barrier beteen scientists and other
people. Within a gi!en indi!idual, there are also irrational forces
that tear the mind apart. "n this respect, the #uestions and ansers
during the Stanford meeting ere illuminating. The first one had
[$do ith the personal history of the spea%ers&
'an you tell us a little bit about yourself? (i%e ho you
are, hat you do, here you all come from, ho you got
together, ho you met the to people, things li%e that?
)ecause right no e ha!e no idea of anything at all
about you.
The #uestion as expected. * tall young man ith blue eyes,
earing a hite seater, ansered earnestly&
We ere sitting in !ery comfortable +obs ith family
situations in the exact same spot you are sitting in. The
information came directly from the To through the
mail, and said, if you ould li%e to %no more, rite
in. We did. Then it suddenly appeared that there ere
a number of people li%e this, all in one area, that ere
interested, and the To people came to that area. They
extended the opportunity to help us better decide +f e
really understood the material and if e actually really
wanted to leave this human lifo.
''Are there only two on the entire planet?" a!e" a #i""le$a%e"
wo#an in the &a'! o( the roo#)
"Thar i " at IS tr*e)
"+hat i the en" re*lt o( all thi %oin% to &e?" he inite")
She ha" re#aine" tan"in% &ehin" the lat row o( 'hair) She
ee#e" rea"y to ,oin the '*lt) "Are we %oin% to (or#*late a new
'i-ili.ation o*t into pa'e that will 'o#ple#ent h*#an li(e here
on thi Earth?"
No/ we're not %oin% to 'reate a new 'i-ili.ation o*t in pa'e)
Thi pro'e i a-aila&le to thoe who wo*l" li!e to ta!e
a"-anta%e o( it) 0et' 'all it the %ra"*atin% 'la o( h*#an
&ein% (ro# thi planet) Thi i the nor#al 'o*re that ha
&een %oin% on (or #illion an" #illion o( year) A lot o(
people tho*%ht/ what happen when I "ie/ i thi the en"1
all? +ell/ whatever your religious belief might be, it #a!e
a&ol*tely no "i((eren'e) Thi i a-aila&le to e-ery&o"y)
There i another tep whi'h ha &een %oin% on (or #illion
o( year/ o(( o( the Earth' at#ophere)
It Only Cot 2o*r 0i(e
A %irl with lon% hair %ot *p in the a*"ien'e an" a""ree" the
ei%ht "i'iple3
I'# '*rio* to !now how yo* %ot yo*r &elie( 'on'ept %oin%
with thee two in"i-i"*al/ &e'a*e I ha-e lot o( &elie( an"
o#eti#e they're in'orre't) I (ollow the# (or a lon%/ lon%
ti#e *ntil I (in" that I'# &attin% #y hea" a%aint a wal0
+hat 4*etion "o yo* a! yo*rel(? 2o*'-ealrea"y anwere"
one 4*etion &y ayin% that yo* 'an't anwer it/ &e'a*e yo*r
&rain 'annot (or# 'orre't tate#ent ))) I 'an %o alon% with
that (or a while/ an" then all o( a *""en I nee" #ore)
Why Do They Keep Staring at the Walls? 8 5
One of the men decided to answer this, after some hushed
consultation with the others:
"If I understand you correctly, you're asing what made us
do this, right? I ha!e nown, during my whole lifetime,
that something was going to happen at this space and time"
Why, I don't now" 'When the student is ready, the teacher
presents himself"' I new that when my special mission
on this #arth lifetime, at this particular time, came forth,
I had $een preparing for it and I would recogni%e it and
now it and pursue it" I said, oh, you're cra%y, who do these
people thin they are? &ere I am in my own little world
and e!erything is functioning $eautifully, and I ha!e my
life and my income and my family, and all the fine things
of life" 'nd yet, something here says this is it( )ou'!e got to
do it" That is a$out the $est answer I can gi!e""
*Do I understand you correctly in that you are a class of
students in a fashion, and you hope to graduate?"
"We're taing our final e+am, if you want to put it that way""
"'ll right" Is it possi$le that one or some or all of you are
going to flun?"
")es, it's possi$le" ,ut we all push right to the end" Don't
let us mislead you on any le!el" It is e+tremely difficult" It's
free, which is the first thing that may mae a lot of you
say, '&ow could it $e free?' $ecause e!eryone else around is
charging a lot of money for what they want to offer you" It's
free, hut it's !ery difficult""
"It isn't free, $ecause you put in time, and de!otion, and
effort," o$-ected the girl"
"It only costsyour life, you know ... " the man replied.
A man who mut ha!e "orne to ome peronal "on"luion re#ardin#
the de"eption $ro%e in to a%&
'(ow do )ou %now that )ou*re not $ein# de"ei!ed $)
demoni" +or"e,'
The anwer wa le than ade-uate&
The poten") o+ the in+ormation pea% to )ou. .hen )ou
#et the in+ormation and )ou read throu#h it and )ou reali/e
that )ou undertand it0 that )ou*re $ein# pulled toward
it0 and you don't know why and you can't figure it out on a
conscious, rational, human Level that's the clue right there.
Somethin# inide )ou a) )ou %now )ou*re #oin# to do it0
)ou %now )ou*re #oin# to do it.
Someone in the audien"e )elled0 'That* how demoni" +or"e wor%1'
Another di"iple pi"%ed up the $all& 'That* an impoi$le
-uetion to anwer. E2"ept that in thi parti"ular pro"e thoe
indi!idual in that ne2t %in#dom are o "loe that the) tep in
and ta%e o!er and %eep an) +or"e +rom thi le!el +rom in+luen"in#
)ou otherwie.'
A dream) )oun# man #ot up and teti+ied0 'Alot o+ people thin%
I*m "ra/)0 $ut ometime it*ll $e a $ri#ht ni#ht and I*ll $e ittin#
outide and a)in#0 "ome on down0 "ome and #et me. I've always
wanted to be picked up by a UFO ... "
The ei#ht di"iple miled0 and the one with the $lue e)e aid0
'.e*!e $een loo%in# +or )ou0 too1'
The m)ter) o+ (.l.M. wa $rou#ht down to mundane
proportion in the enuin# month. In No!em$er it wa di"o!ered
that the two people who "laimed to $e the leader o+ that outer3pa"e
or#ani/ation were in +a"t -uite ordinar) human& M. (. Applewhite0
Why Do They Keep Scaring at the Walls? 87
ILL born in Spur, Texas, a musician and opera singer, the son of a
l'rcsbyterian minister; and onnie !ettles, age "8, a nurse #ho met
hi Inin $ouston in the early '7%s #hile he #as reco&ering from a
mental brea'do#n( They had first created meditation centers, then
ahout )*7+ they began recruiting for $(,(-(
.ne #oman #ho /oined their group for t#o months in )*70, but
subse1uently refused to follo# the party line, commented2 3These t#o
people are dangerous( ,t is not hypnosis( ,t is thought transplant(3
The group led by '4the T#o3 has no# become so notorious that
I need not spend more time #ith them; many articles ha&e been
published about them, re&ealing much about their intentions and
methods(' 5et , #as carrying their image in my mind #hen , fle#
10 Spain in December )*70 to in&estigate another aspect of the
l 6 7. mystery( The important thing #as this2 an increasing number
of humans claim contact #ith space beings( They belie&e that the
spacemen are, in fact, here #ith us( This belief is of enormous
importance to indi&iduals and to society( 8lthough , consider the
beliefs of 3the T#o3 to be childish fabrication, the fact remains that
t hey ha&e touched a sensiti&e ner&e( They found many people to
listen to them( 8t the Stanford meeting, they made half a do9en
ne# con&erts( :ater, ho#e&er, they began losing members( The
people #ho left their group #ould /ust go home and, for se&eral
#ee's, simply stare at the #alls(
The ;pic of 6 ac1ues ordas
'Those #ho come into close contact #ith the <7. phenomenon
seem to bear its mar' fore&er( Some become nearly mad; others slide
into silent contemplation( Still others seem to reach a physical and
mental state #hich sets them clearly apart from the human race(
Such is the person , no# #ant to introduce to the reader(
6 ac1ues ordas #as born on 6 uly =%, )*)), gre# up a #ea'ling,
had se&eral encounters #ith extraordinary beings, and #as totally
transformed as a result of his experiences with them This is what
!ntonio Ri"era# a $ifted Spanish writer who has %nown him for
man& &ears# said of him'
(e still has muscles of steel# and ta%es lon$ wal%s throu$h
the mountains of !ndorra# where he li)es in a ma$nificent
)illa amon$ the pine trees (e s%is down the slopes# sleeps
three or four hours a da& * his "od& re+uires no more
(e spends a lar$e part of the ni$ht standin$ na%ed and
motionless# as if rechar$in$ his ,"atteries, in a shower of
in)isi"le ra&s
-ntil the a$e of ./ 0ordas was )er& sic% indeed 0ecause of a
hormonal deficienc&# he was enormousl& fat and could wal% onl&
with difficult& (is mind was closed Neither the pu"lic schools of
0arcelona nor pri)ate professors could $et his interest Then 0ordas
underwent a stran$e transformation# similar to the metamorphosis
so ea$erl& expected "& the followers of (lM
!t twel)e# in !u$ust .1/2# as the "o& was l&in$ down# he felt
the ur$e to clim" to the terrace# and there he saw somethin$ 3as it
realit& or a dream4 (e saw some small metallic# trian$ular de)ices#
similar to miniature planes5 three of them landed near him The&
measured less than nine feet# and one of them opened li%e a fan !
"ein$ came out of it wearin$ a white suit and a "ri$ht white mantle
This man# who was not taller than the "o&# said'
3e ha)e come to see &ou# "ecause we ha)e ta%en &ou under
our protection 3e %now how much &ou suffer# and we
%now &our dream of "ecomin$ a stron$ man# an athlete
6ou will reali7e it# with our help5 &ou will "e stron$# not
onl& ph&sicall& "ut mentall&# too Now that we ha)e
adopted &ou# we will ne)er forsa%e &ou In the future we
will come "ac% to &ou a$ain In the meantime# as a to%en
of friendship# ta%e this
" he strange messenger gave him a dark, square candy and
instructed him to eat it completely, warning him that, as he did
so, he was eginning a new li!e" #e went ack to his triangular
airplane and took o!!, !ollowed y the other two" They !lew toward
Tiidaro $ountain" When the oy woke up, he had a taste o! tar
illhis mouth"
During the ne%t !our years he underwent an e%traordinary
Irans!ormation, and ecame physically very strong" &t the same
time he developed a !ascination !or mountains and !or science" &t
eighteen he ran away !rom home with two !riends and 'oined a
circus" (ordas also ecame an e%pert mountain climer" #e was
the !irst Spaniard to clim )reen *eedle, in +9,-" .n +9,/ he
crossed the )rand 0ura and ascended )rand 1hervo2"
& short time e!ore the Spanish 1ivil War he passed the
e%amination to ecome the meteorologist in charge o! Turo
Weather 3servatory, on top o! $ontseny" #e came out !irst o!
many applicants, and went to work on the mountain" During this
period he recalls only one curious incident" There was a knock at
the door o! his isolated cain one night" #e got up and opened it4
the area was deserted" #e took his gun and searched every corner o!
the rocks 5 still no one" #e went ack inside" & !ew minutes later,
he heard something that scratched the window" #e got up and this
time he sawa human !orm4 it was standing on a narrow ledge aove
a sheer drop o! a thousand !eet" The shape walked away toward the
ayss, ut instead o! !alling it kept going hori2ontally" The second
messenger vanished in the distance"
The 1ivil War !orced him to go ack to Spain as an &ir 6orce
o!!icer" &s the political structure o! the country collapsed, he took
the side o! the *ationalists and ecame the leader o! a group that
sought re!uge in the mountains" #e was tracked down, arrested,
tortured, thrown on a prison ship, and managed to escape" #e
re'oined the ranks o! the *ationalists, ut soon came into con!lict
with his superiors ecause he disapproved o! the summary way in
which " 7ed" prisoners were tried and massacred"
He was kidnapped by three men hired by one of the offiers
he had anta!oni"ed# In $assi !an!ster sty$e% they took him to an
iso$ated abin% ordered him to take off his $othes% and shot him#
&hat happened then' How did he s(r)i)e this e*e(tion' &e an
on$y spe($ate abo(t this point# The fat is that the wo($d+be ki$$ers
beame on)ined that they m(st be fain! some s(pernat(ra$
power% bea(se they ran away in ab,et terror# O(r man piked (p
his $othes and went o(t#
-ntonio Ribera met this e*traordinary man at a time when he
had enemies on both po$itia$ sides. the Reds had thrown /ordas
into ,ai$ bea(se he had resisted the terrorist mo)ement0 and the
Nationa$ists had tried to ki$$ him bea(se he disappro)ed of their
s(mmary tria$s and r(e$ e*e(tions# Ribera1s father% who was
R(manian Cons($ in /are$ona% he$ped /ordas esape to Frane#
He beame the mana!er of a sma$$ hote$ in Caste$$% a )i$$a!e
on 2ernet Mo(ntain% at the foot of the Cani!o(# He was there
in 3453% di)idin! his time between his ati)ities as an offiia$
mo(ntain !(ide and the mana!ement of the hote$% when he ame
for the third time into ontat with the fore that had twie
a$ready inf$(ened his $ife. the irrationa$% ine*p$iab$e pro,etion
of another inte$$i!ene#
The Stran!er From -bo)e
6a7(es /ordas was restin! in the patio when an (nknown man
ame before him and !ra)e$y sa$(ted# This third messen!er was
o)er si* feet ta$$% with an ath$eti body% $ear b$(e eyes% and $on!
b$ond hair# He wore b$ak boots% $ose+fittin! tro(sers% and a !ray
!arment with ropes aro(nd the nek and wrists# His eyes were
s$i!ht$y e$on!ated% and his hands were )ery white#
8I wo($d $ike to be! of yo( a fa)or%8 he said in perfet Frenh#
8Can yo( !et me e)ery day% at the same time% two bott$es of mi$k
and some bread'8
Why Do The}' Keep Staring at the Walls? 91
They agreed on the time and place, and the man came back
every day, never saying anything until ac!ues asked him "here
he came #rom$ %&rom above,% "as his ans"er$ ac!ues thought he
meant %#rom the mountain$% 'e imagined the man "as a runa"ay,
perhaps a (erman$ When they had a more lengthy conversation, it
"as so #ull o# mathematical terms that ac!ues hardly understood
hal# o# it$
%What are you doing in these mountains?% ac!ues asked$
%) am doing a study o# the topography o# *anigou,% replied the
man "ith the strange eyes$
'+*an you sho" me "hat you do?%
%) "ill bring you something tomorro"$%
The ne,t day he brought ac!ues a sheet o# strange, parchment-
like paper on "hich the "hole mountain "as dra"n in the #inest
detail$ )t "as covered "ith unkno"n symbols$
ac!ues .ordas tailed the visitor "hen he "ent hack to the
mountain$ 'e "alked in an even, easy step, going up in the same
grace#ul "ay he had come do"n$ ac!ues managed to see his
%camp%/ he noticed a peculiar gray conical ob0ect he took to be a
lo" shelter$ 1e,t to it ac!ues sa" another being "hom he thought
"as a "oman$
)n the ne,t #e" days the conversations "ith the stranger took
a political turn/ %2an must tear a"ay his egotism$ 2an believes
that he is unable to do this, but he can, although it's very hard,%
he continued$ "Man believes he is the only important being on the
Earth; he ignores the fact that he is nothing more than one element
in natural evolution. In spite of his unbounded pride, his so-called
knowledge, there is another speciesevolving now that will replace him
in due time. Even your children are undergoing a transformation:
they will change everything, the social structure, religion... "
3n the last day the visitor told ac!ues/ %Tomorro" )
must go hack up there, and since ) do not have any o# your
currency, I"ill pay #or your milk and bread "ith something
your people appreciate$%
"Forget it," said Jacques. "You hae a!read" re#aid $e %ith a!!
"ou hae taught $e.&'
(No," said the $a), "ta*e these roc*s+ this is go!d ,ro$ the Cadi
Rier. It %i!! re#a" "ou."
-e gae hi$ a ,e% roc*s that Jacques !ater too* to a .e%e!er i)
Per#ig)a)+ it %as i)deed go!d.
Jacques& !i,e e)tered a #eriod o, great cha)ges. -is ,irst %i,e a)d
so) died i) Castei!. -e $arried agai) a)d had a)other /o". I, %e
are to /e!iee the stor", his #s"chic a%are)ess /ega) to i)crease. -e
/eca$e a/!e to ,i)d !ost o/.ects at a dista)ce. It is a ,act that he $oed
to 0)dorra o) a) i$#u!se a)d decided to $a*e ,ur)iture 1a trade
at %hich he had )o e2#erie)ce %hatsoeer'. -e %as so success,u! at
it that he /eca$e a) e2ce!!e)t ca/i)et$a*er a)d o)e o, the richest
$e) i) 0)dorra+. his ,actor" is )o% e2#orti)g to 34 cou)tries. -e
c!ai$s that he is a hea!er, /ut dec!i)es to use this a/i!it" e2ce#t i)
er" s#ecia! cases. -e see*s )o #u/!icit" a)d )o ,a$e.
Duri)g the su$$er o, 5675 he receied a #ho)e ca!! ,ro$ Paris.
-e thought he recog)i8ed the oice o, his isitor o, the Ca)igou,
t%e)t" "ears ear!ier+
I a$ ca!!i)g ,ro$ a car i) 9ois de :i)ce))es ;o)e o, the
!argest #ar*s i) Paris<. You %i!! u)dergo a)other $utatio).
You %i!! )ot gro% o!der. Your co)scious)ess %i!! o#e) itse!,
to u)iersa! truths.
The !a)guage o, these co$$u)icatio)s is the sa$e as i) the
state$e)ts co$i)g ,ro$ the -.I.M. grou#.
The Meeti)g i) 9arce!o)a
I ,!e% to 9arce!o)a to $eet 0)to)io Ri/era a)d a)other S#a)ish
researcher, 9a!!ester=O!$os. As the aircra,t circ!ed oer the har/or,
I reie%ed i) $" $i)d the $a)" to#ics we had to discuss. No)e
was more intriguing than the fate of Jacques Bordas. As soon as
e ere in !i"era#s car$ dri%ing up the mountain$ & told him that
Ias toying ith the idea of going on to Andorra in order to meet
Bordas in person.
'(ou ill not ha%e to go that far)' as his anser. '*e is spending
se%eral ee+s right in this city. (ou can tal+ to him tomorrow,"
Bordas at ,- is a strong man ho does not loo+ o%er -.$ and gi%es
an impression of intense %itality. *is education is %ery limited$ "ut
his +noledge of "usiness is +een$ and his understanding of nature
around him / especially hen he spea+s of the mountains / appears
e0ceptional. We spent most of our time$ hoe%er$ discussing the
"eing of the 1anigou and his su"sequent 'contacts.'
The story of Bordas is much more su"stanti%e than the tale
of the ordinary contactee. 2eorge Adams+i$ for instance$ has
descri"ed an alleged meeting ith a tall entity ith long "lond
hair$ "ut no one else as a itness to the e%ent$ although 2eorge
*unt Williamson assured me that he had seen the craft in Bight.
&n the case of Bordas$ not only does the 3eeler remem"er the gold
nuggets that Bordas "rought for his assessment$ "ut se%eral people
in 1asteil do recall t<I'etre etrange,". the strange "eing that came
e%ery day to spea+ ith him.
'When as your last communication e0perience?' & as+ed Bordas.
'4nly a fe ee+s ago$ in the house in Andorra. The room
appeared to fill ith red light particles$ and & ent into a trance. &
heard a %oice telling me that soon & ould "e needed.'
'*o do they identify themsel%es? Do they say here they
come from?'
'They say they are from Titan$' he replied quietly. 5or some
strange reason & as "eginning to trust something in this man$
although & couldn#t "uy his theories.
'6erhaps you +no that many people in America$ "oth
7orth and South$ ha%e made c8aims similar to yours. 4nly the
communications are ne%er consistent. Do you trust the source of
h
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t ese messages.
"They could well be saying this because it is something I
can undestand! I ha"e no #oo$ that it%s tue! &esides' thee ae
(uci$eian $oces out thee !!! "
)t this #oint I became seiously concened that I was going
to be teated to a con"entional discouse on ighteousness! I had
had enough o$ that $om the *uman Potential ty#es at home in
Cali$onia! &ette $ind out ight now! "Do you mean thee ae
di$$eent +inds o$ mani$estations' and some ae dedicated to E"il
and o##osed to Good," I as+ed!
"No' I do not mean that'" said &odas' to my consideable
su#ise! "Those ae sim#ly $oces o$ a di$$eent ty#e' which we ae
not able to com#ehend! -hen we ha"e e"ol"ed su$$iciently' we will
eali.e that the contadiction was only an a##aent one!"
This had been a $uit$ul discussion as $a as I was concened!
&odas had demonstated a citical ability that contactees usually
lac+! Thei commitment to a #aticula souce / the souce o$ what
they claim to be thei 0wisdom" / is geneally so high that it bodes
on eligious $anaticism' and indeed o$ten tigges such $anaticism
in thei belie"es! 1et &odas was o#en/minded!
In 2ac3ues &odas' then' I $ound something new4 a man
whose li$e had been bent out o$ sha#e at an ealy age by the
a##aent inte"ention o$ anothe li$e $om! *e said that he had
been ado#ted by the alien $oce' touched by anothe enegy5
Then came the ationali.ations' the attem#ts at e6#lanation4 the
ealy incident could ha"e been a deam! It is not unusual $o
obesity to gi"e way to nomal de"elo#ment at #ubety! Some
homonal de$iciency could ha"e been coected when &odas
eached that age! The case was an intiguing one' nonetheless'
because o$ the late e"ents! Not only was the "being" o$ Canigou
alleged to ha"e im#essed othes in the "illage' including the
Mayo' M! Nou' but he had demonstated be$oe them some
unusual abilities4 when the son o$ &odas attem#ted to ta+e his
#ictue' the e6#osues came out blan+' although $amily scenes
on the est o$ the $ilm wee nomal! -hen the good Mayo
Figure 4.3. Jacques Bordas photographed during a !isit to Barcelona
is one o" the #ost re#ar$a%le &uropean contactees. 'e clai#s to ha!e
recei!ed gold "ro# a strange %eing (ho# he #et repeatedly in the
)yrenees in *95*. +)hoto courtesy o" ,. -i%era..
con"ronted the stranger and de#anded to see his papers the tall
%eing is said to ha!e loo$ed at hi# in such a (ay that he %eca#e
con"used and "orgot the question.
/n recent years three in!estigators (ith the French 0F1
group 2D23 (ent to 4asteil and trac$ed do(n the 5ayor. 'e
con"ir#ed that Bordas settled in the !illage in *946 and #anaged
a hotel o(ned %y 5r. 3ou. 'e (as regarded as an 7original7
ho(e!er and li!ed %y hi#sel" o"ten ta$ing long hi$es in the
#ountains or painting. , sho( he organi8ed in )erpignan #et
(ith little success. 5r. 31ll had no recollection o" the 7strange
%eing7 a "act that supporters o" the story ta$e as an indication
that the 5ayor9s #e#ory (as erased %y the !isitor. ,nother
!illager restaurant:o(ner 5ichael 4ases told the in!estigators
that he had $no(n Bordas "airly (ell and regarded hi# as 7a
nice guy7 %ut one (ho cra!ed attention. /t is un"ortunate that
none o" the people inter!ie(ed (as a%le to a%solutely con"ir#
or deny Bordas' story, although Mr. Nou's statement that he
doesn't rememer the e!ng "asts some douts on the #al!d!ty o$
the "la!ms. The el!e#ers !n "onta"t stor!es %!ll e &u!"' to (o!nt
out that su"h sele"t!#e $orget$ulness !s another trademar' le$t
eh!nd y our #!s!tors)
Those %ho $ollo% the "la!ms o$ *a"&ues Bordas are "on#!n"ed
that there are al!ens on the Earth. I$ *a"&ues Bordas has seen them,
they say, %hy shouldn't %e el!e#e all the other "onta"tees+ ,hy
shouldn't %e go u( !n a By!ng sau"er, l!'e the Two?*a"&ues Bordas
doesn't (lay the -human game.- .!'e the T%o, he $eels that he
!s l!#!ng $or someth!ng else, a le#el o$ real!ty %h!"h trans"ends
th!s (lanet. .!'e the T%o, he "la!ms to ha#e een !olog!"ally
trans$ormed y h!s en"ounter. Th!s !dea has un!#ersal a((eal/ !t !s
tem(t!ng to assume %e "an all e trans$ormed, metamor(hosed.
,hy shouldn't %e sur#!#e eyond death !tsel$ and atta!n that
h!gher "osm!" le#el, as T!mothy .eary and other s"!ent!$!"ally
tra!ned m!nds are !n#!t!ng us to do+ I$ the se"ret "onta"t %!th
s(a"e "ould "hange a s!ngle man, %hy "ouldn't !t ha#e the same
e$$e"t on a %hole grou(, (erha(s e#en on the %hole human ra"e+ 0
tem(t!ng lure !ndeed. It !s easy to see ho% su"h a el!e$ "an s(read,
and %hat ne% organ!1at!ons "an s(r!ng u( to (ro(agate !t. But I
%as go!ng to $!nd out #ery &u!"'ly that the "harm!ng and myst!"al
tales o$ the "onta"tees also had more s!n!ster "onnotat!ons.
PART Two
The Manipulations
Here in the dark I grope, confused, purblind;
I have not seen the glory and the peace;
But in the darken'd mirror of the mind
Strange glimmers fall, and shake me till they cease.
R. W. Buchanan, quoted in D. Davidson,
Remembrances of a Religious Maniac (Shakespeare Press, 1912)
FIVE
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The Political Overtones
Like many people, I have no religion and I am just sitting in a small
boat drifting with the tide ... today we stand naked, defenseless, and
more alone than at any time in history. W it are waitingfor something,
perhaps another miracle, perhaps the Martians. W ho knows?
Federico Fellini
I
N DECEMBER 1975 I was returning fro Barcelona! w"ere I "ad I
s#ent ost of t"e da$ wit" %ac&ues Bordas'
I was dragging $ suitcase t"roug" t"e long w"ite corridors of
r"e (aris su)wa$ w"en I saw t"ese lines! w"ic" "ad )een "urriedl$
scri))led wit" a )lac* #en on a $ellow #oster+
,-E ./RD I0 1N E2,R1,ERRE0,RI1.3-/ -10
RE,4RNED IN 1 F.5lN6 014CER'
/rder of Melc"i7ede*!
rue %ules 8alles (aris 2I
Ico#ied t"is address on t"e )ac* of $ su)wa$ tic*et and #laced it
in $ wallet' ,"e ne9t da$ I was wal*ing u# rue %ules 8alles in t"e
)itter cold' 0uddenl$! t"is orning! t"e #assers)$ "ad ta*en on an
air of iser$ and s"uddering frailt$! rus"ing a)out wit" "ands in
t"eir #oc*ets! co:ered u# wit" coats and scar:es'
,"e ail)o9es downstairs told t"e si#le stor$ of t"e )uilding+
a#artents rented )$ wor*ers of odest circustances! naes t"at
were t"ose of iigrants; t"ere was no car#et at t"e foot of t"e
stairs. A baby carriage was parked in the crner. I c!i"bed t the
secnd #!r and rang a be!!. A shrt w"an with a kind$ sad s"i!e$
dd!y wearing a cat and a w!!en cap$ greeted "e. I ap!gi%ed
#r the &n&s&a! h&r # "y 'isit b&t she stpped "e( )D nt wrry$
y& ha'e c"e at the appinted ti"e.)
She ga'e "e a !ng$ "eaning#&! !k$ and said again$ s!w!y$
*+& ha'e c"e at the appinted ti"e.)
Do Spacemen Drink Champagne?
The apart"ent was chatic. There was n tab!e r chair anywhere.
An pen c!set re'ea!ed a "ass # c!thes pi!ed n the #!r. Tw
windws brrwed s"e !ight #r" the #r%en street. A #ew scattered
c&shins adrned the #irst r"$ a piece # c!th was spread n the
#!r # the secnd ne, there were d&sty pict&res and dirty dishes,
'er this drab "isery h'ered the "assi'e #ig&re # a bearded "an
wearing a tattered shirt and trn -eans$ and drinking cha"pagne
with a y&ng discip!e.
They in'ited "e t ha'e !&nch with the"( sa!a"i and pa.te with
an app!e$ perhaps. And s"e Veuve Cliquott .ard!y what A"erican
cntactees had !ed "e t e/pect #r" &ter0space be!ie'ers. The
#!!wers # ..I.M. drank Fanta Orange r Diet Pepsi. The !der
crwd$ the "e"bers # the 1ni'ersa! Party wh had 'ted #r Gabrie!
Green in 2345 when he ran against 6ennedy n the )Space P!at#r"$)
s&stained their energies with ta!! g!asses # b&rbn. Perhaps I was
a"ng en!ightened brethren wh w&!d a!!w "e t raise "y s&!
tward higher wr!ds with&t de"anding that I !wer "y standards
in this ne7
The cn'ersatin that #!!wed sn shattered the i!!&sin. First
I e/changed s"e wrds with the y&nger #e!!w and #&nd that he
wrked with a "a-r c"p&ter c"pany, he was c!ear!y a nephyte
in the gr&p. The bearded "an intrd&ced hi"se!# as I'an$ and
e/p!ained t "e his p&rpse in !i#e(
The Political Overtones 101
Yousee, we are surrounded by barbarism, but the barbarians
will soon have to submit themselves to the new revelations.
Besides, all the governments on Earth now acknowledge
the truth of what we're saying. Giscard has even gone to see
the Poe, you understand what that means, no!
They gave me several leaflets and other samles of their u""ling
literature. The latest release from the Order of #elchi"edek
announced the imminent flight of seven flying saucers over Paris.
They would land on to of the $adio and Television Building%
&the Peoles are invited to attend this 'irconvolution,& concluded
the leafier.
&(o you ever meet e)traterrestrials!& * asked 'yna, the woman
who had oened the door.
&* meet them everywhere. *n the street. *n the stores. They are
here. They tell me what to do. They sto me when *'m about to
make mistakes.&
&(o you want more 'hamagne!& asked the Priest of'#elchi"edek.
* admire his hilosohy. On 'alifornia hilltos, hungry hiies
await the flying saucers with treidating hearts and fro"en feet. *
have met contactees in the suburbs of 'hicago, leading virtuous
lives to be worthy of their +ace Brothers. They abstain from se)
and wine.
*van stands far above such mediocrity. ,e waits for the visitors
from sace in comfort, ready to greet them with a toast% &Be not
forgetful to entertain strangers, says the old te)t, for thereby some
have entertained angels unawares.&
* have before me the leaflets given to me by the -rench Order of
#elchi"edek. They contain some startling announcements%
#y mission is to announce that the .ord is on the Earth.
,e is the chief of all the E)traterrestrials, of all the /-Os
and all the Planets. ,e comes to save the Earth.
All the money in the world is obsolete. Only the land has
meaning. All religions are abolished. The military seri!e"
detested by the #ord" is $orbidden" than%s to the antimatter
g&ns o$ the 'FOs.
The same lea$let goes on with a de$inition o$ the strange organi(ation
that is s)reading this !&rio&s bit o$ news*
The Order o$ Mel!hi(ede% is an asso!iation o$
E+traterrestrials where eerything is ta&ght and gien
$reely. The $irst belieers will also be the $irst to be
sered" and besides they will be gien )roo$s" li%e St.
Thomas. They will trael in ,lying sa&!ers. This has
already ha))ened to many o$ them.
Fig&re -... A )enta!le gien to the a&thor by the Fren!h Order o$
Mel!hi(ede%" whi!h aims at eliminating money" religion" and war.
Members o$ this Paris/based organi(ation !laim to be in !onstant !onta!t
with e+traterrestrials.
The Coincidence in San Francisco
In the shadowy world of occultism it is often difficult to distinguish
truth from hoax, to disentangle the true purpose from the tinsel
ornaments and the bizarre trappings designed to hide it.
Who is this Melchizede who is becoming a symbol and
a rallying point for saucer contactees! "e is, to put it in today#s
terminology, $braham#s guru% In Genesis it is said that the &ing of
'odom went out to meet $braham after his victory over his enemies,
and Melchizede, &ing of 'alem, brought forth bread and wine(
and he was the priest of the most high )od. To find a reference
to him on a subway wall in Paris was bizarre, but an even stranger
mention of his name was awaiting discovery in the advertisement
section of a 'an *rancisco +allet program,
Order of Melchizede
'unday 'ervices -. p.m. to - p.m.
"yatt "otel, /nion '0uare
'tocton and Post, 'an *rancisco
The announcement gave a phone number and the name of the
minister, 1r. )race "ooper Pettipher, Ph.1., 1.1., International
2ecturer and 3epresentative, Order of Melchizede. There were
meetings on Wednesday evenings. My wife, 4anine, and I went
there and paid our three dollars each.
The meeting was taing place in the carpeted basement of the
modern structure, in the subdued light of a small conference room
at the end of a corridor. On a small table were two basets of fresh
flowers. The sound system played classical melodies, softly. $ few
people, young, intense, clean, with white shirts and long hair,
meditated. Others ept arriving, some saying hello 0uietly to the
bearded fellow at the door, others waling in with self5conscious
smiles, glancing toward us, looing in their pocets for paper and
pencil, ready to tae notes. The man who operated the tape dec
had a heavenly smile on his face, and I suddenly became suspicious
of he eni!e "!oup# I had seen he same smiles befo!e on he faces of
so many believe!s $ho had found Pe!fec %liss&' (en meein"s and
)a!e *!ishna dances and mediaions $ih "u!us, I had obse!ved
he same vacuum in he eyes and on he lips of en!apu!ed youn"
men and youn" $omen, $ih $ha a F!ench humo!is has called +an
idioic ai!, !elieved by occasional flashes of dullness#+ Someimes in
my obse!vaions of hese "!oups I have !un ino the same people,
e,ually blissful unde! he influence of S!i Chinmoy, of Reve!end
Moon, and of -e!ne! E!ha!d# -ould he O!de! of Melchi.ede/
u!n ou o a!ac he same /ind of believe!0'nd $ha, e1acly, did
hey believe0 D!# Peiphe! $ould soon come and, I hoped, ans$e!
hese ,uesions#
's $e $aied, a disciple passed a!ound some noes in p!epa!aion
fo! he evenin" lecu!e, $hich $as eniled +%e 2ou! O$n
Psychia!is#+ I sudied hese noes in vain# Thei! only effec on my
mind $as o p!oduce a dull, $a!m, apaheic da.e3
Posiively applied Psychia!ies of Spi!i e1poses o li"h of
Spi!i, !eleasin" he hidden psychic elemens of he a"e4old
psyche $ih is +da!/ indi"o idal flo$+ h!ou"h he eni!e
subconscious of sou5
I $en on li/e his fo! $o pa"es### sin"le4spaced# My b!ain sofly
$ashed by his epid p!ose, I $aied# The mediain" "!oup a!ound
me $as "oin" in deepe!#
Pe!fecion is Cona"ious
D!# G!ace )oope! Peiphe! came ino he !oom suddenly, movin"
li/e a sailin" ship maneuve!in" ino a channel# She $as u""ed his
$ay and ha by assisin" hands, classical music playin", he! $hie
d!ess sail4li/e# She navi"aed amon" he chai!s o$a!d he f!on of he
room. She faced us with an ecstatic expression on her face. She might
he seventy, but her energy was that of an adolescent girl, and her poise
was perfect as she sized up her audience, nodded to her enraptured
disciples in the front row, and gave us a few more minutes to enjoy
(he music. Suddenly she began her lecture with passing reference to
t he notes that we had received from her assistants, uic!ly set them
aside, and too! off into spontaneous revelations.
This would be, she assured us, our first lesson in mysticism" you
are with your Soul, she added, but not necessarily of your Soul. #re
you living as a Soul, or as a Spirit$ %f you have lived before only as a
Spirit, then perhaps you have no remembrance as a Soul. Perhaps,
on the other hand, you usedpart of the universe as a Soul? %n the
Order of &elchizede!, before #braham, there was no uestion of
psychic powers such as clairvoyance. ('ow does she !now$( There
was cosmo)voyance, the vision and hearing of *od. This was what
(he lecture meant, about +being your own psychiatrist.+ ,ou had to
become a user of *od-s mind, which in fact is the only mind.
She was using absurdity and confusion in the s!illed way of
a brainwashing expert, with what appeared to be a native ability
to pull lightning flashes from the entanglement of her mystical
.
/argon"
,ou must operate as a spiritual being. 0ho are you$ 0ho
caused you to be$ 0ho are your Soul parents$ Perfection
is contagious, and you have been given perfection in your
Spirit and mind unlimited.
She switched framewor!s on her audience again, from the mystical
to a pseudophysical description"
There are seven times seven aerhers that form the garments
of your soul, radiating in etheric wavelengths that rotate
cloc!wise around you.
She stopped and looked at us for a long time, as if she ould
see !eird olors rotating around people in the audiene" No
one stirred" #er $oie had a deep %ualit& that held attention'
her personalit& dominated the room in spite of her aimless
$er(iage" She took ogni)ane of the harged atmosphere*
+,e-re (eginning to transmute" ,e-$e gone prett& high, all of
a sudden".
The flo! of her !ords (eame more olorful and definite"
#er su(stane no! !as historial and m&thial, her assertions
puntuated (& mo$ements in her !hite dress, long, inisi$e,
hungr& glanes from the li$el& e&es in the !rinkled fae*
,e-$e all met (efore, near the Mediterranean" For the
last t!ent& &ears !e-$e had Eg&pt !ith us, people !ho
reinarnated from that period" ,e-re oming out of it
no!" People remem(er meeting in Greee, in /tlantis """
Atlantis on Fifth Avenue
.,e li$ed in harmon& in /tlantis,. she said !ith the matter0of1
fat intonation of a house!ife realling some hildhood memor&"
.2nfortunatel& the hea$iness of mind sank the island" Parts of this
hea$iness are still !ith us".
/tlantis """ she sa! it on Fifth /$enue, ten or t!el$e &ears ago"
Grae !as !alking on the side!alk on a hot summer da&, and
suddenl& it !as there at her feet* a $ision of palaes and parks,
an anient it& ali$e and e3ited" .God, gi$e me a !itness4. she
pra&ed" Then she sa! her friend Emma Fo3 in a door!a&"
.,hat are &ou doing there, Grae5 ,hat are &ou looking at5.
.I-m in$estigating /tlantis, an-t &ou see5.
,e must ne$er make that mistake again' that-s the lesson of
/tlantis" ,e must ne$er manipulate others, ne$er amouflage
our feelings. Live a straight way of life, because the power
from above must go down straight, or lose its effectiveness.
Dr. Pettipher recalled her first visit to San Francisco, at the time
of the hippie movement. She couldn't believe that so many souls
from the ancient world had reincarnated at the same time, but that
only confirmed her theories, she felt. The hippies came from ree!
times, and she finds proof of this in their later disappearance from
"merica# hundreds of them now live in caves in reece$ she has
seen them. They have returned to their normal environment. %They
were darlings,% she said, %but they didn't understand bodies. People
come from all !inds of places. &ven here, in this room ... % she stared
very hard at 'anine and me, then said matter(of(factly, %we even
have some who've come from outside this planet tonight. There are
beings who come in )FOs, and people go away with them.%
Finally she spo!e of se*, and she made it clear that no
emotional involvement was permitted to those who followed
her philosophy$ if a new disciple has a lover, let that person
say, %Loo!, +'ve discovered a new way of life ( let's finish this
relationship.% She was hitting hard. +n e*treme cases, marriage
was O.,. if the attraction was too great, but that was the e*tent
of her willingness to tolerate the passions of the flesh. Subverted
se*, she said, turns to lust for money$ it's li!e ta!ing mud from
one ban! of the river and dumping it on the other ban!. She had
some haunting phrases#
-ost people are ships that pass in the night. Those that pass
in the day you remember. Thin! about it# if you remember
me and + forget you, who is the stronger of the two. /ever
leave a business imperfect or unfinished. Stay with it.
Don't cover up your mista!es$ use the light. 0ou shouldn't
decide what is good or bad, but what you, personally, wish
to !now. Light can only loo! upon itself. +t loo!s at the
dar!ness and says, %1ello, light2%
The Secret Contact With Space
The members of the Order of Melchizede thro!"ho!t the #orld
re"ard Pettipher$s statements as fact% and the& accept the presence
of Space 'ein"s amon" !s( Wh& is it% then% that their p!blications
sa& nothin" abo!t this e)citin" de*elopment+ ,re the& hidin"
somethin"+ Is there an -inner circle- behind the tri*ial metaph&sical
*erbia"e offered to the !ninitiated+ The lect!res b& "Dr. Grace-
contain tidbits of fascinatin" time.space theor& hidden b& la&ers of
pse!dom&stical /ar"on% b!t #hat is it that indi*id!al members of
the "ro!p reall& belie*e+
,bo!t the time this 0!estion be"an to bother me% one of m& (
friends% #hom I #ill call Ste*e% had de*eloped an interest in the
philosoph& of the sa!cer "ro!ps( When I told him of the e)istence
of the Order of Melchizede% he /oined it enth!siasticall& and be"an
to read Dr( Grace$s pamphlets( 1e #as disappointed(
-It$s prett& blea% to sa& the least%- he told me( -It speas of $ne"ati*e
*ibrations$ interferin" #ith the a!ra and of 2!nfoldment of spirit!al
conscio!sness3 Nothin" &o! can *erif&% no scientific content(-
-Is there an&thin" in all this literat!re that "i*es information on
the histor& of the "ro!p% its traditions+- I ased( I lie to !nderstand
#here thin"s come from% an old.fashioned habit I "ot from m&
French ed!cation(
Fi"!re 4(5( The seal ofMelchizede as !sed b& Dr( Grace Pertipher(
"When I asked that at the meeting, I only got some vague
generalities. When Dr. Grace saw me for the first time, though,
she said something curious. She said, !ouvecome a very long way,
havent you" I asked her a#out it later in the evening, and she said
I was already $uite advanced."
"Do they have anything to do with any of the saucer cults""
"%sa matter of fact, I met a girl at the meeting who was going
on later to see some followers of another grou& called Urantia who
assem#le in some#odys house in the 'ission district. She has #een
with Dr. Grace for two or three years, and considers her to #e a
sort of grandmother figure. This girl and a man were the leaders of
this (rantia grou&) *he man thought that Dr. Grace didnt have it
together enough, and the two grou&s s&lit."
Occult grou&s follow the same general rules. They often have a
covert &ur&ose that only a few leaders know. They have a doctrine
and a recruiting techni$ue. I asked my friend how he thought the
Order of 'elchi+edek o&erated.
"They work &retty much like any church does," he said. "They
have a dogma that says mem#ers of their Order are &retty s&ecial,
of course."
"In what sense are they s&ecial" Do they have some kind
of initiation""
"I dont know. They havent initiated me, anyway. Grace did say
something striking a#out an e,&erience she had near Glaston#ury,
in -ngland. She was staying with some friends, and slee&ing near
a window overlooking the marsh) during the night the room was
suddenly filled with #i+arre #eings who motioned her toward the
window. Instead of a marsh there was a #eautiful lake."
This was une,&ected. a vision that came straight out of the
medieval mystical literature, communication with the Syl&hs... or
were they (ndines" "What did the #eings look like""
"She didnt say. There was a full moon in the sky. She went #ack
to #ed, and the ne,t day, when she saw her hostess, Grace said, The
full moon was u& last night, and she said, 'Yes, it was, adding,
flO MESSENGERS OF DECEPTION
'And you saw it reflected in a lake' and s!e said '"es I did#' And
s!e e$%raced !er in a secret kind of way#&
&S!e said t!at 'u%licly( At t!e $eetin)(&
&"es s!e did# I asked !er if s!e !ad e*er seen a +FO# S!e !ad#
S!e descri%ed to $e w!at s!e !ad seen once in t!e eastern 'art of
t!e +nited States wit! !er !us%and# It was a craft only fifty feet
or so away and shefeLt that the beings on board were communicating
directly to her, into her brain."
After t!e $eetin) of t!e Order of Melc!i,edek t!ere was a
'arty cele%ratin) t!e o'enin) ni)!t of Totentan, a ritual dance
orc!estrated %y a )ifted San Francisco c!oreo)ra'!er# I was
sur'rised to learn t!at !e was a $e$%er of t!e Order# T!e $ana)er
of !is )rou' too !ad seen a +FO in -./0# It was a ci)ar1s!a'ed
craft wit! a do$e on to' and on t!e %otto$# It $o*ed sideways
%etween two clouds# &It was as real as a 020#&
I A$ Only T!e Instru$ent
In -./3 t!e 4ock!art Researc! Foundation 'u%lis!ed a %ook
entitled MELCHIZEDEK !"H #!I$CI#LE% from the
&ncient Mystical 'hite (rotherhood. It %ore t!e su%title &Fourt!
Di$ensional Teac!in)s T!rou)! Frater Ac!ad& su))estin) t!at t!e
%ook was not written %ut re)ealed t!rou)! auto$atic writin)# It was
full of t!e sa$e *a)ue $eanin)less sentences as t!e announce$ent
of Grace Petti'!er's lecture# 5itness t!is 'assa)e on &t!e 6ealin)
Power of 4o*e&7
5!en t!e fi*e '!ysical senses!a*e %eco$e 'ur)ed %ecause
of $an's desire to do so $an no lon)er t!inks in error
!ence !e can no lon)er s'eak inerror#
One of t!e c!a'ters in t!e %ook is entitled &Callin) a C!osen One#&
It refers to t!e Order of Melc!i,edek7
Would you experience the inner revelation of the greatness
of life?We impose no task. Love knows no task. It is ecause
of the manner in which you have walked with your fellow
man that we desire that you have a conscious knowledge
of your oneness with the !nseen "massadors of #od.
$ver since man has een ... The Ancient Mystical White
Brotherhood After The Order of Melchizedek Has Been ...
!nto each man of $arth is allotted a position of Life%s
pattern& in each physical incarnation. 'ou have followed
your pattern well.
Is this the way out of the layrinth& the open door leading away
from the ma(e?
"s they who answered )is call in the fulness of heart& they
answered& "Ye, *aoni 'e.+ Would you answer the call at
this moment& dear heart? If so& speak forth.
Student. I choose& I choose the way. I am only the instrument.
,rater "chad& in real life #eorge #raham Price& was receiving these
lessons +in suspended mental animation.+ Today it is in the same
state that do(ens of elievers receive similar communications and
follow the instructions they contain ecause they are& after all&
-only the instrument+ of a much higher wisdom.+ Where does this
alleged wisdom come from? ,rom the distant stars? I am eginning
to wonder. Could the source of the so-called !isdo"" #e ri$ht here on
%arth& .ould there e human manipulations ehind all this?
* *eferences to /elchi(edek are numerous in the occult and masonic
literature. In the 0tella /atutina& the ma1or successor to the )ermetic
Order of the #olden 2awn& there is a special ritual for the invocation of
/elchi(edek. In her ook 0ecret 0ocieties and 0uversive /ovements&
3esta Wester says that +in the /elchi(edek Lodges of ,reemasonry&
the *ose + .roix degree occupies the most important place.+
I deliberately went out of my way to find out, armed with the
knowlede that they under!tood thi! rule" the way to a man#! belief
i! throuh $onfu!ion and ab!urdity%
The ab!urdity of many &FO !torie! and of many reliiou!
'i!ion! i! not a !u(erfi$ial loi$al mi!take% It may be the key to their
fun$tion% )$$ordin to Ma*or Mur(hy, the $onfu!ion in the &FO
my!tery may ha'e been (ut there deliberately to a$hie'e $ertain
re!ult!% One of the!e re!ult! ha! been to kee( !$ienti!t! away% The
other i! to $reate the $ondition! for a new form of !o$ial $ontrol,
a $hane in Man#! (er$e(tion of hi! (la$e in the uni'er!e% )re hi!
theorie! fanta!ti$+ ,efore we de$ide, let u! re'iew a few other fa$t!%
-e need to e.amine more $lo!ely the (oliti$al $onne$tion!%
Pari! Flammonde, in hi! well/do$umented Age of Flying Saucers,
remarked that 0a reat many of the $onta$tee! (ur'ey (hilo!o(hie!
whi$h are tined, if not tainted, with totalitarian o'ertone!%0
) $ataloue of $onta$tee theme!, $om(iled from inter'iew! I
ha'e $ondu$ted, in$lude! the followin%
Intellectual abdication. The wide!(read belief that human bein!
are in$a(able of !ol'in their own (roblem!, and that e.traterre!trial
inter'ention i! im(erati'e to !a'e u! 1in !(ite of our!el'e!%0 The
daner in !u$h a (hilo!o(hy is that it make! it! belie'er! de(endent
on out!ide for$e! and di!$ourae! (er!onal re!(on!ibility" why
!hould we worry about the (roblem! around u!, if the God! from
Outer S(a$e are about to !ol'e them+
Racist philosophy. The (erni$iou! !ue!tion that !ome of u! on
the Earth are of e.traterre!trial de!$ent and therefore $on!titute a
0hiher ra$e%0 The daner! inherent in thi! belief !hould be ob'iou!
to anybody who ha!n#t forotten the eno$ide! of -orld -ar II,
e.e$uted on the (remi!e that !ome ra$e! were !omehow 0(urer0 or
better than other!% 23et u! note in (a!!in that )dam!ki#! 4enu!ian,
the Straner of the Caniou !een by ,orda!, and many other alleed
e.traterre!trial! were all tall )ryan ty(e! with lon blond hair%5
Technical impotence. The !tatement that the birth of $i'ili6ation
on thi! (lanet re!ulted not from the eniu! and ability of mankind,
The Politica I Overtones 113
but from repeated assistance by higher beings. Archaeologists and
anthropologists are constantly aware of the marvelous skill with
which the "Ancient ngineers" !to use ". #prague de $amp%s phrase&
developed the tools of civili'ation on all continents. (o appeal to
superior powers is necessary to e)plain the achievements of early
culture. The belief e)pressed by the contactees reveals a tragic lack
of trust on their part in human ability.
Social utopia. *antastic economic theories+ including the
belief that a "world economy" can be created overnight+ and that
democracy should be abolished in favor of ,topian systems+ usually
dictatorial in their outlook.
#uch ideas are present+ in one form or another& in the statements
of the organi'ed ,*O cults and sects that are described here+ and
they deserve to be e)amined in some detail.
SIX
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The Venusian Candidate
Nothing belongs any longer to the realm of the gods or the supernatural
The individual who lives in the technical milieu knows very well that
there is nothing spiritual anywhere. But man cannot live without the
sacred. He therefore transfers his sense of the sacred to the very thing
that has destroyed its former object: to technique itself.
Jacques Ellul
A
NEW SUBCULTUE !s "#$%!&" a#$u&' ()e !'ea $* "c$&(ac("
%!() $()e# +e!&"s. W)a( !s !(s ,$l!(!cal a&' s$c!al s!"&!*!ca&ce-
T)e %a. ()e +el!e/e#s 0!1 ($"e()e# ,)!l$s$,)!cal +el!e*s, ,$l!(!cal
0$(!/a(!$&s, a&' ,seu'$sc!e&(!*!c '#ea0s #e0!&'s 0e $* class!cal
cases !& ,s.c)$,a()$l$".. 2e( ()ese ,e$,le a#e &$( c#a3.. T)e. a#e
(#.!&" ($ 4ee, ()e!# +ala&ce !& a %$#l' %)e#e "$**!c!al" sc!e&ce &$
l$&"e# ,#$/!'es "$$' a&s%e#s. S(#a&"e ,)e&$0e&a, 'es!"&e' a&'
0a&!,ula(e' +. *$#ces ()e. '$ &$( u&'e#s(a&', )a/e s)a((e#e' ()e
#eal!(. ()e. %e#e (a4!&" *$# "#a&(e'. 5&ce !##a(!$&al +el!e*s a+$u(
s,ace /!s!($#s a#e +$#&, !##a(!$&al +el!e*s a+$u( &e% s$c!al *$#0s $&
Ea#() a#e l!4el. ($ *$ll$%.5&e "#$u, )as +ee& $* s,ec!al !&(e#es( ($ 0e
+ecause !( #e,#ese&(s a& e1(#e0e *$#0 $* ()a( ,#$cess: ()e 0e0+e#s
$* ()!s "#$u, +el!e/e ()a( *l.!&" sauce#s a#e se&( )e#e +. s$0e #ace
$* S,ace B#$()e#s6 a&' ()e. a#e a((e0,(!&" ($ c)a&"e ()e ,$l!(!cal
s.s(e0 acc$#'!&"l. !& a&(!c!,a(!$& $* 0ass!/e sauce# la&'!&"s.
We %e&( ($ see 7#. T. !& )!s 0a&s!$& !& ()e Cal!*$#&!a )!lls. 8(
%as su##$u&'e' %!() ,al0 (#ees, a&' )a' a "#ea( /!e% $* ()e c!(.
+el$%. Bu( ()e#e %as &$&e $* ()e lu1u#. %!() %)!c) Wes(e#& %eal()
tries to impress visitors: the walls at close rane showe! their crac"s#
$alconies were empt%# there were no &lowers or lihts' altho(h this
was the wee" o) Christmas' In the par" was !ampness* an! m%ster%
seeme! imminent'
Silence' Col! win! aro(n! the ho(se* thro(h the porch' +e
ha! stoppe! the station waon at the e!e o) the trees to a$sor$
the straneness' Steve an! I were a$o(t to meet the owner o)
the mansion* Mr' ,* )o(n!er o) an orani-ation whose proram
incl(!e! the reconition o) the Space .eins amon (s' /i"e C%na
an! Ivan* he a!vocate! the elimination of the money systeman! the
esta$lishment o) the 0New 1e'0
2e came politel% to meet (s at the !oor* a 3ovial man o) si4t%*
wearin a white shirt an! s(spen!ers' 2e intro!(ce! (s to a man he
calle! 0his collea(e Marvin*0 the ro(p5s resi!ent scientist' There
was silence insi!e the mani)icent rooms' +e sat (n!er a tapestr%*
at the )oot o) a )ormal staircase' I )irst as"e! him what the oal o)
his ro(p was* an! he sai!* 0+e tr% to present the Sa(cer point o)
view in o(r resol(tions an! o(r plat)orm* as near as we can* which
is not eas% to !o in one eneration' To chane to a no6mone% s%stem
wo(l! $e a little har! on the econom%' So we have $(ilt some wa%s
o) ettin to it in a manner that will not h(rt o(r econom% an!
still will satis)% the people* an! the Space People as well' The Space
People have O'7'5 ! o(r plat)orm* entirel%' 1n! we have ha! o(r
convention# we5ve ha! two ma3or conventions'0
Steve sai!* 0+e5! love to atten! the ne4t one'0
O(r host replie! 3oviall%* 0+e5! love to have %o(' I5ll ta"e %o(r
name an! a!!ress* an! we5ll sen! %o( $roch(res as soon as the% are
availa$le' .(t riht now we5re stri"in )or mone%' Oh* we5ll et it*
!on5t worr%* $(t ''' we haven5t !eci!e! %et on the hotel where we5ll have
it in Chicao* it5s possi$le one o) the ma3or hotels !owntown ''' 0
0The Conra! 2ilton80 Steve propose! as a 3o"e' 1s a center )or'
political rallies* the Conra! 2ilton $ro(ht $ac" memories o) the
196: riots an! the ;ietnam +ar' Mr' T !i!n5t seem to et the 3o"e'
2e went on:
The Venusian Candidate 117
"Yeah, could be, and ... anyway. it will be nicely presented, you
know, and a lot of our friends will be there that have an interest.
Anyone is eligible for noination. !e don"t care how any tallies
it takes to vote off, but we want to be sure the people get a an
h " t ey want.
''A I"
an or a woan.
"#t"s either one$ it doesn"t ake any difference, %ust so they"re
forty years old."
"This person will be your representative&"
"Yes, he"ll be our noinee for the coing election for 'resident."
"(ut how any people are registered&"
)r. T. had to confess that he wasn"t e*actly sure+ "!e"re uch
like the ,epublican or the -eocratic 'arty in that respect+ we
don"t really have ebers. !e do have a (oard of .overnors, and
we do have chapters, all over the /arth. !e have soe chapters
in Australia, in Africa, in 0rance ... 1et e say this, they do have
ebers, these chapters, they do. And they have their officers."
2teve suggested, ")aybe we should start a chapter ...
)arvin and )r. T. ade approving gestures. # could already see
us going into politics ... on the 2pace 'latfor.
)any 'eople Counicate with the 2aucers
# changed the sub%ect and asked if there were any people who
could counicate with the saucers. "Yeah," said )r. T. "There"s
3uite a few people that have this ability."
2teve had heard that soeone in Ari4ona, naed Van
Tassel, was building a device under instructions he had received
fro space beings$ so he asked, 5!hat about )r. Van Tassel"s
,e%uvenator& #s he working with your group& # understand that
there"s a part issing."
Mr. T. turned to )arvin and asked, "You know about that&" (ut
)arvin didn"t appear ready to get involved. )aybe he didn"t like Van
i_ I
Figure 6.1. The contactee movement has ui!t man" strange stations an#
rnuch esoteric e$ui%ment. This &our'stor" strucru re( rising in the Ca!i&ornia
#esert near )ucca *a!!e"( is the +or, o& George *an Tasse!. -ui!t entire!"
+ithout nai!s or meta!!ic &asteners ' to accor# +ith .he s%eci&ications
a!!ege#!" given " the s%ace %eo%!e ' it is ca!!e# the Integratron( an#
is su%%ose# to reverse the aging %rocess. /Photo courtes" o& The Hefley
Report, Psychic/UFO News.)
Tasse!. Contactees( a!though the" o&ten seem to agree.on the sur&ace(
are 0ust as 0ea!ous an# s%ite&u! in %rivate as aca#emic scientists.
Steve #i#n1t give u%2 3Can "ou te!! us something aout
"our research45
Marvin shi&te# uneasi!" on his seat an# re!uctant!" to!# us(
56e!t I have a #egree in %h"sics( ut a&ter 1ha# #one a !itt!e gra#uate
+or,( I egan to see that it +as rea!!" a!! a!ong the conventiona!
!a+s o& science. I +ante# to com%!ete!" ree7amine these !a+s... 1
ma#e im%rovements ... 5 8e sto%%e# again.
1 sai#( rather at ran#om( 5Can "ou te!! us +hat "ou thin,
o& antimatter45
5Oh( that1s 0ust some %i%e #ream(5 ans+ere# Marvin +ith
#isgust. 5I cou!# give reasons +h" antimatter cou!#n1t %ossi!" e7ist.
)es( I1m in a grou% that #oesn1t consi#er antimatter2 these %artic!es
they are continually claiming they are finding in those high-energy
accelerators are artificially produced; they have nothing to do with
this. They are plain old particles, they are meaningless."
"They are artificial? hat do you mean?"
"ell, ! won"t go into the physics of it. The fact that they last for
such an infinitesimal length of time, that shows there is something
fishy a#out it."
This discussion is getting interesting, Ithought. $ne of my
physicist friends used to %o&e a#out photons. 'ccording to relativity,
he said, they shouldn"t have time to e(ist, since they travel at the
speed of light)
"*o you thin& there is any danger with these accelerators?"
"The radiation that emanates from these high-energy
accelerators is dangerous. !t"s doing a lot more harm than people
reali+e. ,ou"ll find that the #ehavior pattern of people in the
vicinity of these high-energy accelerators is a#normal #ehavior,
you might say su#normal. This might #e attri#uted to the
accelerators. -oo& right around the university. notice how many
odd#alls, how many people are committing suicide, and things
li&e that. !n this area, the per-capita suicide rate seems higher
than in places where you don"t find these accelerators. /uclear
energy should never have #een discovered. !t"s an a#omination.
!t"s an unnatural source of energy. There are other types of energy
that ma&e it o#solete."
Iwas tempted to %o&e that the cra+y people ! &new tended to
cluster around 0er&eley and 1tanford, and not far from the #ig
physics facilities. 0ut ! had always assumed their mental condition
was a prere2uisite rather than a result of their occupation.
"This is going to #e important to understand," said 1teve. "hat
do you propose to do to get science on the right trac&?"
3There have #een a num#er of free-energy devices that have
#een developed over the last several decades, #ut they"ve always
#een suppressed, #ecause the vested interests do not want them to
" come out.
I could read the disappointment on Steve's face Man! contactees
"ant to ma#e a free$ener%! machine
&v d ' 1 . ~"
rou on tmean perpetua motion'
&(ell) perpetual$motion machines have *een developed)& said
Marvin patientl!) as if he "as e+plainin% the la" of fallin% *odies
to hi%h$school #ids &It's *een proven The! had ph!sicists e+amine
these devices) and the! couldn't find an! loopholes "ith them The!
passed ever! conceiva*le test&
&,ut the ener%! *e%an Steve) "ho "as still loo#in% for a
rational ar%ument
Marvin cut him off sharpl!' &The conventional vie"point of
ph!sics is so narro" and so limited the! can't conceive that there is so
much untapped ener%! ri%ht around !ou) it's completel! untapped&
-nti%ravit! Machines
Marvin "as no" on his favorite su*.ect) attac#in% the &official&
scientists &The %overnment has suppressed a lot of data a*out these
machines)& he insisted
&The petroleum industr! also)&said Mr T
/0o" does anti%ravit! "or#1'
/I'll tell !ou "hat produces %ravit! It's a fre2uenc! ran%e in the
electroma%netic spectrum) *et"een infrared and the radar *and
In terms of "avelen%ths) 34 to 54 millimeters If !ou %enerate
electroma%netic radiation in that ran%e) !ou'll %et %ravit! effects I
"on't %o into ho" the Earth produces its o"n %ravit! - lot of it "e
%et from the Sun&
I "as confused alread!) *ut Marvin "as .ust %ettin% started'
&E+periments have *een done in the la*orator!) "here !ou %et a
lar%e metal *all) a lead *all) and !ou measure the attraction It's the
thermal a%itation of the molecules in these *alls that radiates from
the surface) and a certain infinitesimal per cent of the ener%! is in
that %ravit! ran%e $ the fre2uenc! ran%e that %ives %ravit! effects&
The Ve nu sian Candidate 121
What Marvin was saying was perfectly absurd, but we didn't
contradict him. Marvin's saucer theory involved something would
often hear in my dealings with contactee groups! crystals, li"e those
we had used in the Mo#ave $esert.
%'ll give you an idea of what saucers use for their propulsion.
&y activating certain types of crystals, with sounds at certain
fre'uencies, you'll generate those fre'uencies at high intensities.
have a theory. nstead of using an electronic device for getting the
fre'uency, you can do it with crystals, by activating crystals.%
%$o you thin" that's something your group will do, sponsoring
this "ind of research(%
%f these facts came out, it would mean all the te)tboo"s
would have to be rewritten, all the universities would have to
change. There would be a big upheaval in the educational system.
*lso, economically they would have to scrap billions of dollars'
worth of e'uipment, and they are not about to do that. And ali
these scientists have got a good thing going; they are drawing nice fat
salaries. * lot of them "now about this and worry about it. n fact
got it from a friend of mine who "new about this in science! they
hope it won't come out in their lifetime.%
% f we got that on record, perhaps we could show it to +*,*, and
get a response,% suggested ,teve, trying to calm Marvin down.
%-h, that +*,* is #ust as rotten, as corrupt as anything else. it
wouldn't do any good.%
Marvin and Mr. T. had #ust illustrated the growing mistrust of
%big science%! an establishment which laymen see as inaccessible,
entrenched behind its %te)tboo"s.% They have e)pressed this
mistrust in e)treme, fantastic terms, but tomorrow it may find
more powerful social forms.
1esus ControIs This End oI the Universe
Steve gave up on Marvin's theories and turned to Mr. T. again: "II
your organization in this country intends to get a strong IoIIowing,
wouId a contact, wouId an arrivaI, an endorsement, Iet's say, Irom
'up there: wouId that happen in the near Iuture to spur it on?"
Mr. T. recIined in his deep armchair and Iaunched into reIigion.
In this area, too, he had some Iantastic theories: "Here is the
probIem we Iace, gentIemen. We Iace the probIem oI prophecy here,
which the most capabIe contactee himseII can't struggIe with, in a
way. It's in a way Iike the Prince oI Heaven when he said, 1can't teII
you the time or the hour that my Father wiII come again: So that's
not a reIigious matter, it's a statement oI Iact. No one knows when
these things wiII transpire. WeII, there is absoIuteIy a statement by
the modern contactees: there wiII be a three-day period in which
we wiII have a bIackout on the Earth. We won't be abIe to see the
Sun or any star, we'II be covered compIeteIy - so we can't see up, on
the horizon, whatever."
That recaIIed Revelations: "When there is siIence in Heaven ... "
But Steve wasn't going aIter any mysticaI stuII: "I was reIerring
speciIicaIIy to the Iact that earIier you said the poIiticaI pIatIorm
had the approvaI oI beings Irom another worId."
"Yeah, they've aII endorsed our pIatIorm."
"Have they made it cIear to you that they intend to do
anything more?"
Mr. T. was too good a poIiticaI animaI to IaII into such an
obvious trap: "We have not made prophecy; we've never made
prophecy in our pIatIorm. We simpIy take this country's probIems
apart, as we see it and as they see it. WeII, as Iar as when we're going
to pIace OUI candidate in oIIice, I can't say, but our contact toId me
at our Iast meeting this summer, (My Iriend, one morning you'II
wake up, and )'OU and your Party will be in the White House.' Now
these things sometimes are mysterious to us who have to have a
reason Ior everything, they're hard to expIain. but ... "
"Being a Taurus ... " began Steve. I almost burst out laughing, and
barelymanaged to restrain myself Mr. T. didnt noti!e my dis!omfort.
""ou see, there are all #inds of sau!ers. $nd there are all #inds of
!ivili%ations, throughout the universe, that have been !oming and
going here for !enturies, thousands of years. But this is the property
ofone group o/saucers that control this end oftbe universe, and they call
themselves the Brothers. They are the ones &ho brought the Christ
on 'arth t&o thousand years ago, as an e(am)le for man#ind to
follo&. $nd of !ourse our )o)ulation &as unable to ta#e him at
that time, and they !ru!ified him and #i!#ed him in the )ants, told
him, *+et out,, they &ouldnt stand for him. The man they sent at
that time absolutely &ill not !ome again. -e has been !onta!ted,
and &eve been very !lose to him on the Mother Shi) that he travels
on, and he is a .rin!e of this end of the universe."
/ur host leaned for&ard and em)hasi%ed every statement0 "This
particular group controls this end of the universe. They have a ray that
is absolutely more )o&erful than anything in the universe, and that
these other negatives dont have. $nd this ray is so )o&erful that
they !an ta#e do&n anything &ithin a tremendous radius of miles
1 even several universes a&ay, if they &ish to, they !an destroy 1 it's
a tremendously powerful ray. So thats &hy they !ontrol, you see. So
&e are absolutely under their !ontrol, right no&."
The S)a!e .eo)le .rote!t $meri!a
The dis!ussion had already 2um)ed from s!ien!e to so!ial issues and
to religion in the dis!on!erting fashion that is often !hara!teristi!
of the "!onra!tee" mentality. 3o& Mr. T &as going to )lunge &ith
the same abandon into yet another area, )oliti!al strategy, and &e
&ere about to hear statements e4ually as unbelievable.
"The S)a!e .eo)le #ee) shy be!ause they dont &ant to !ome
here and say, "ouve got to do this, fello&. Theyre not ma#ing
the la&s for us. But they are #ind of &at!hing around the !orner5
SO if we get a little out of control, and a!"e Ru##ia would #tart ,
to t$row #oe i##ile# at u#, fro Cu"a o%er t$ere, w$ic$ t$e!&
do $a%e, and Ca#tro got a little out of $and, well, t$e! ig$t #te'
in( T$e! told u# t$e! would( So !ou ig$t #a! t$at our fir#t line of)
defen#e i# t$e Saucer Peo'le( T$at)# t$e 'ur'o#e of our organi*ation, +
to 'rotect fir#t of all t$e ,nited State# of -erica, "ecau#e we
are all #u"#tantiall! ,nited State# citi*en#, and Idon)t "elie%e)
in Couni# or an!t$ing of t$i# nature( .ut Iwill #a! t$i#/
t$at w$ate%er t$reaten# t$i# countr! I a again#t, and I)ll fig$t
for it( -nd t$e Saucer Peo'le $a%e indicated a"#olutel! t$at t$e
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and all of thefree instruments for thefreeing of man from slavery and
from oppression which came from the governments were sparked by
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$a# 'otential world3wide a''eal( T$i# Italian grou' #end# it# literature
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Having delivered this statement, which will surely come as a
shock to historians, Mr. T. concluded:
"o anyway ! would say that we have a lot to thank them
"or, things that we do not really understand, #ut i" we went into
details we$d "ind that in the Halls o" Congress occasionally, some
man that$s unknown gets right u% and sways the audience, and
disa%%ears. That$s ha%%ened many times."
&e shook his hand and drove down toward the city. 's we
drove, ! was thinking, what is it that %revents these men "rom
running a really %ower"ul movement( im%ly the "act that too
"ew %eo%le #elieve that the contact with %ace )eo%le is actually
%ossi#le. &hat would ha%%en tomorrow i" continuing o#servations
o" *+,s changed this minority into a ma-ority, or sim%ly gave
them a tem%orary "ocus(
! do not #elieve, as many contactees do, that increasing volcanic
activity is going to destroy the .arth, or that the Midwest is going to
turn into an ocean. ! am ske%tical a#out /im%ending disasters," s%ace
invasions, and "ree0energy motors. 1ational talk will not convince
true #elievers, however. !t is not di""icult to imagine a com#ination
o" economic and social circumstances under which contactee grou%s
could ca%itali2e on the %u#lic$s "ear. &here would %eo%le turn "or
advice( 3ot to the scientists, who would instead #e #lamed "or not
"orecasting the disaster. 3ot to the government, which would be held
in contem%t. !t might #ecome very, very tem%ting to go out into the
desert and wait "or salvation "rom heaven. Contact with space may
become a significant socialfact a long time before it is a scientific reality.
"This 'uthority &as 4ranted to 5ou "rom '#ove ... "
6e"", the young man, descri#ed the *+, sighting:
! remem#er that night very well7 ! was close to my "ather.
't "irst ! thought it was a "alling star, and ! even told my
father to 'make a wish.' Bt the !FO "o#ti#e$ to mo%e
a#$ "ha#&e "o'or. M( father was mm)'i#&* '+ook, -eff,
#ow it's re$... #ow it's &ree#... M( Go$ .. .' I "o#fess that
I was )e&i##i#& to trem)'e, I $o #ot k#ow wh(, )t I .st
"o'$ #ot he'/ it.
1
The father was a'so i#ter%iewe$, a#$ sai$*
I was hea$i#& for m( "ar, whe# s$$e#'( I saw a#
i#"a#$es"e#t mass i# the starr( sk(, as )ri''ia#t a#$ as )i&
as the Moo#. It mo%e$ at a terrifi" s/ee$. Perso#a''(, I $i$
#ot hear a#( #oise, )t m( so# -eff, who was with me, 'ater
to'$ me that he hear$ a meta''i" so#$ "omi#& from the
!FO. 0e stoo$ there with or moths o/e# for a)ot te#
mi#tes. The !FO f'ew a)o%e s for a few mome#ts1 the#
it we#t soth a#$ "ha#&e$ rote re/eate$'( a#$ mo%e$
east. Fi#a''( it $isa//eare$ o# the hori2o#.'
3 t(/i"a' re/ort4 The roti#e stor( of a ho%eri#& !FO4 Perha/s.
Bt the (o#& ma# who saw it, )a"k i# 1567, is #ame$ -eff Carter,
a#$ his father is Presi$e#t of the !#ite$ States. The fa"t has #ot
es"a/e$ the #oti"e of "o#ta"tee &ro/s aro#$ the wor'$. O#e of
them has e%e# /)'ishe$8 a messa&e to Carter "omi#& from oter
s/a"e, a#$ 8"ha##e'e$8 )( te'e/ath(*
Terrestria' Brother -imm( Carter.
Now that (o ha%e attai#e$ the &oa' to $e%e'o/ )etter (or
/ro&ramme$ missio# i# the wor'$, Remember: Do #ot $o
as others ha%e $o#e9 0e remi#$ (o that this athorit( has
)ee# &ra#te$ from a)o%e...
O!f terrestria' o/erator a'rea$( k#ew si#"e a 'o#& time of
the /ro"ess whi"h was to )ri#& (o to the s/reme "har&e
of a continent full of operating strength not always positive,
but your action could render it constructive and effective,
prosperous, salvaging light for all mankind ...
Remember !immy Carter, Remember"
#rom the $eavens to %arth, &'()*%)+*+.
)icolosi, , )ovember 1-7.. Time 12/0
The idea that leaders of a society have received their legitimacy
from higher levels, rather than from the people, is fundamental
to authoritarian forms of government. The 1ings of #rance and
the %gyptian 2haraohs were considered to be established by
divine right. *n recent history, naturally, this concept has become
somewhat obsolete, and new forms of organi3ation have emerged.
4e like to think that our leaders are people like ourselves. 4e
delight in reading of their human foibles in the morning newspaper.
(ccasionally we even force one of these leaders out of office, and we
take pride in the feeling of collective control this generates in us.
The 5#(s suggest another reality. Therefore they seem to hold
another form of power, transcending or restricting our individual
ability to make decisions. 6ost of the contactees, for instance,
agree that 5#(s watch over the %arth. 6r. T. states that 7the
+pace 2eople protect &merica.7 *t is but a small step from this
view to the idea that they guide us in our political development.
6r. T. started a political party to 7put a Contactee into the 4hite
$ouse.7 The channel of &doniensis claims that the 2resident has
been secretly 7programmed.7 (ther contactee groups actually
believe that the saucers have made contact with us in the 890s.
& man named :erald ;ight even claims that he made a <ourney
to 6uroc &ir =ase in &pril 1-9,, allegedly in the company of
#ranklin &llen of the $earst papers, of %dwin )ourse of the
=rookings *nstitute, and of =ishop 6c*ntyre of ;os &ngeles.
$aving been cleared to enter the restricted section and to wander
around for two days, he stated that he saw fie different ty!es of
e"traterrestria# s!a$e$raft %&ein' studied and hand#ed &y our (ir
For$e offi$ia#s, with assistan$e and !er)ission of the Etherians*%
The sa)e Gera#d +i'ht writes that President Eisenhower was
%s!irited away% to Muro$ one ni'ht durin' a isit to Pa#) S!rin's,
a#so in (!ri# 1,-., to )eet with the %a#iens/%
These $#ai)s, natura##y, are )ade &y s)a## 'rou!s who rea$h
on#y a )inis$u#e audien$e/ 0et what they e"!ress and dra)ati1e
has &een thou'ht &y )any !eo!#e who si)!#y hae not er&a#i1ed
the idea/ The i))ense su$$ess of the &oo2s &y on Dani2en
shows that !eo!#e today are ea'er to &e#iee that we are re$eiin'
he#! fro) a&oe/ If divine interention is o&so#ete for our rationa#
)inds, why not hae extraterrestrial interention* Fro) the
rea#ity of 3FO !heno)ena, it is easy to 4u)! to the $on$#usion
that our s!a$e &rothers are $o)in' &a$2 to he#! us, and that they
are a#ready inf#uen$in' our #eaders/ The dan'er in this !ro$ess
$annot &e underesti)ated/ Can the ision for)u#ated &y a few
%$onta$tees% )ean $han'es in the #ies of )any5 Can their
)essa'e )a2e a #astin' i)!a$t in this rationa#, $o)!uteri1ed
wor#d5 The answer is found in the a$tiities and the drea)s of the
3FO su&$u#ture, and it wi## sho$2 you into the rea#i1ation that as
hu)an te$hno#o'y e"!ands, our ran'e of awareness, rationa#ity,
and irrationa#ity grow together to fi## the new oids reea#ed &y
s$ien$e, and hea# the new an'uish it #eaes &ehind/
The +etter
The )ai#)an &rin's a #etter fro) Paris/ It $o)es fro) Ian, who
says he is res!onsi&#e for the Order of Me#$hi1ede2 in Israe#,
(fri$a, and Euro!e, as we## as India and China/ 6e says that
6yin' sau$ers hae &een seen in Paris #ast De$e)&er as !redi$ted
in his #eaf#et7 %the re!orts are on fi#e/% 6e is #aun$hin' seera# new
de)onstrations, one of the) to o&tain freedo) for the in)ates
of the Gulag Archipelago in Russia, another "for the animals."
'This is, he adds dryly, as far as the terrestrial side is concerned.
olitics again.
!n addition to his "elchi#ede$ duties, !%an is the founder of the
Front for Christian Liberation, an organi#ation calledJesus Revolution,
another called Jesus People Europe, the Charismatic Christian, Jew,
and Arab Movement, and the Christian SocialistParty
Ihad as$ed him ho& one &ould go a'out (oining the )rder
of "elchi#ede$. The process is simple, he ans&ered* you 'ecome
a mem'er of the )rder 'y direct di%ine inspiration, or something
close to it.
A month or so later ! recei%ed another communication. This
one came from Val%erde, !taly. !t &as typed on stationery of
the +,tudy Center of Cosmic -raternity," &hose sym'ol is the
Adams$i saucer &ith t&o stars sha$ing hands underneath. They
are the group responsi'le for the e.traterrestrial message to /immy
Carter ! 0uoted earlier.
The letter said in part*
)ur desire is to contact those &ho search for the Truth in
these "essengers or Angels, &ho ha%e 'een %isiting us for
thousands of years. The ,CC- assumes no characteristic
of a human organi#ation. 1or is it a sect. !t is a messianic
mo%ement guided 'y 2eings &ho are %ery e%ol%ed coming
from space. 3e ha%e secretariats all o%er the &orld &hich
di%ulge the same acti%ity on their o&n &hile offering
themsel%es to this cause.
The ,CC- springs from a programmation that lends itself
mainly to traumatise positi%ely and consciously the souls
particularly predisposed to recei%e the teachings of the
,uperior 2eings...
4ere is another organi#ation &hich attempts to "program" us.
FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH
Figure 6.3. Insignia of [he "Stud Center of Cos!i" Fraternit."
The sa!e grou# a##ears to #ro$ide the ins#iration for the SCCF
and for the Fren"h "onta"tees. %re the a&so 'ehind so!e (FO
in"idents) Or are the si!#& another e&e!ent of "onfusion) In their
ne*s&etter+ the SCCF #u'&ishes a !essage fro! ,an e-traterrestria&
in !ission on our #&anet".
/e noti"e the in"a#a"it of our #o&iti"a&+ e"ono!i"+ and
s"ientifi" organi0ations ... /e a&so o'ser$e a&& the other
1no*n and un1no*n a"ti$ities *hi"h engage i!!ense
resour"es for *ar&i1e ends ...
Certain&+ *e do not 2ust &i!it ourse&$es to o'ser$ations
and *e do not 'e&ie$e *e ha$e rea"hed the !o!ent of our
!ost so&id inter$ention.
/e are *or1ing *ith a !ethodo&og of *hi"h ou are not
a*are+ 'ut *hi"h *i&& sure& gi$e its fruits. O(R 3E4P
/I44 5E RE6E%4EDIN T3E MOST %PPROPRI%TE
TIME+ /3EN 7O( /I44 %44 5E C%(G3T "RED8
HANDED."
Ni"o&osi+ 93 :anuar 9;<<. Ti!e 9=.=>
In his own statements Ivan implies that the SCCF, his group, and
their correspondents (like myself are going to playa great role in
the future! "e invites all of us to #ecome connected and share $our
information!$ %hat information&
'eyond the common attitudes, the common #elief in
transcendence, each group has its own particular set of scriptures,
its own method of $channeling,$ and its own technical (argon! The
most comple) I have encountered is the language of the Urantia
sect, which is widely developed in *orth +merica and the rest of
the world!
SEVEN
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Seraphic Transports and Benevolent Programmers
The world's greatest frauds, fakers, and impostors have operated
largely along psychic lines ... In every age the common people have
been deceived not only b y these out-and-out frauds and fakes, but
also b y various other psychic fads.
William Sadler, Physiology of Faith and Fear
A
MONG TODAY'S MOST ardent believers in l!in" sa#$ers and t%eir
&$$#'ants are t%e &ll&(ers & a reli"i&#s '%il&s&'%! e)'ressed
in t%e Book of rantia, a t%i$* v&l#me t%at (as m!steri&#sl!
re$eived in +%i$a"& and 'rinted &r t%e irst time in ,-.. b! a
s#bse/#entl! &rmed !rantia 0&#ndati&n. 1 rantia is t%e $&smi$
name & t%e Eart%. A$$&rdin" t& t%is s!stem, it is 1t%e si) %#ndred
si)t% in%abited (&rld in t%e l&$al s!stem & Satania, sit#ated in t%e
$&nstellati&n & N&rlatiade*, &ne & t%e ,22 $&nstellati&ns & t%e
l&$al #niverse & Neb ad&n. 1
T& an #nbeliever, t%e ama3in" (&rd str#$t#re & t%e Book
of rantia a''ears t& %ave all t%e earmar*s & 'aran&ia: t%e
$&nsisten$! & its statements, t%e ri$%ness & its material, and t%e
&ndness it dis'la!s &r ne&l&"ism ma*e it a m&n#ment t& t%e
#n$%e$*ed ima"inati&n & man. 4t deines, &r e)am'le, t%ree
&rders & 5aradise s&ns%i', in$l#din" &ne (%i$% is & Trinit! &ri"in
and 1d&es n&t re"ister in a l&$al #niverse. 1 4 !&# are l&st in t%is
'e$#liar $&sm&l&"!, ta*e %eart, &r t%e #n*n&(n a#t%&r adds 6in
5a'er 7.8,
I estimate there are in Nebadon between fifteen and twenty
thosand Trinity Tea!her Sons e"!#si$e of %&'4( !reatre)
Triniti*ed assistants of re!ord+ These Paradise Dayna#s are
neither ma,istrates nor administrators+
The athor ,oes on #i-e this for (&.%/ 0a,es+ I hasten to add that
I do not intend to 1ote m!h from it& or e$en to smmari*e
its 0hi#oso0hy+ I am !on!erned on#y with the !osmi! hierar!hy
it des!ribes+
Urantia has m!h to say abot 2FOs and Me#!hi*ede-3 4In
the ni$erse of Nebadon the Father Me#!hi*ede- a!ts as the first
e"e!ti$e asso!iate of the 5ri,ht and Mornin, Star+46 This im0ressi$e
fi,re who r#es o$er an entire ni$erse sends his sons to wor-
!#ose#y with the 7n,e#s& who find in them sym0atheti! friends+ The
Me#!hi*ede-s are said to be a se#f8,o$ernin, order& and they !an be
abso#te#y trsted3 4not on!e thro,hot a## the s0er8ni$erse of
Or$onton ha$e they e$er betrayed their trst+4 There are few hman
bein,s& indeed& abot whom the same thin, !o#d be said+
These Me#!hi*ede-s #i$e on their own wor#d !#ose to ni$erse
head1arters in Sa#$in,ton+ They ha$e a nmber of s0heres formin,
a 2ni$ersity+ 9o and I may meet there some day3
7## e$o#tionary morta#s who ,radate from their
!onste##ation trainin, are destined to #and on Me#!hi*ede- +++
7nd ne$er wi## yo for,et yor rea!tions to the first day of
yor #ife on this ni1e wor#d& not e$en after yo ha$e
rea!hed yor Paradise destination+
This is no wonder& for yo wi## ha$e the !hoi!e of many ed!ationa#
0ro,rams that are #a!-in, from the !rri!#m of :ar$ard or
2C;7& s!h as 42ni$erse 7dministration4 and 4Com0arati$e
Creatre E"isten!e+4 <The 2ni$ersity a#so tea!hes more !#assi!a#
* The Mornin, Star& in a traditiona# sense& is the #i,htbearer& ;!ifer+
Seraphic Transports and Benevolent Pr og r arn rne r s 135
disciplines, such as Energy, Matter, Organization, Communication,
ecords, and Ethics!"
The Book of Urantia devotes a section to the Special #or$ o%
the Melchizede$s, &hich has to do &ith the supervision o% the
'progressive morontia career o% the ascending mortals,( meaning
you and me)
#hile the Melchizede$ orders are chie%ly devoted to
the vast educational system and e*perimental training
regime o% the local universe, they also %unction in uni+ue
assignments and in unusual circumstances !!!
,n a planetary crisis these Melchizede$ Sons serve in many
uni+ue -sic. capacities! ,t is easily possi/le %or such a son
to ma$e himsel% visi/le to mortal /eings, and sometimes
one o% this order has even incarnated in the li$eness o%
mortal %lesh!
0ccording to the un$no&n author o% Urantia, the /i/lical
Melchizede$ had volunteered to incarnate /ecause he &as a%raid
that the light o% consciousness &ould /ecome e*tinguished Ifhe did
not step in to initiate 0/raham!
0ll these intelligences use an advanced technology to travel
through the universe! They have developed seraphic transports &hich
depart at regular intervals %rom a /ase on 1erusem)
2umerous mechanical developments are used in providing
initial energy %or escaping the planetary gravity and
overcoming the air resistance! A seraphic transport departs
every three seconds o% 3rantia time and, sometimes, %ar into
the recession! The transporters ta$e o%% at a/out 45 standard
miles per second o% 3ranria time and do not attain standard
velocity until they are over 4,555 miles a&ay %rom 1erusem!
Transports arrive on the crystal %ield" the so6called sea o% glass!
Are these our UFOs? According to the Urnti s!ste"# the
de$e%o&"ent o' %% the (or%d re%igions is due to Me%chi)ede*
"essengers+ For instnce# the S%e" "issionries &enetrted It%!
during the si,th centur! -+C+# it is c%i"ed# &$ing the (! 'or
the de$e%o&"ent o' the Christin re%igion. The Book of Urantia
contins sur&rising%! c%er nd red/%e section on re%igious
histor!# nd "n! ins&ired &ssges on "or%it! nd ethics+ These
sections re in stri*ing contrst to the chi%dish descri&tions o' the
S&heres o' the -e!ond# (hich the i"gintion o' the uthor hs
&o&u%ted (ith /eings tht (ou%d not sur$i$e in the &ges o' the
"ost grotes0ue &iece o' science 'iction+ Such is the di%e"" o'
hu"n 'ith# nd the ch%%enge &osed to us /! the /e%ie' in the
curious &o(ers o' the Order o' Me%chi)ede*+
A Meeting o' Urntins
In "! serch 'or so%ution to the continuing &u))%e# I ttended
Sund! 'ternoon "eeting o' Urntins in Sn Frncisco+ There
(ere ten o' us in the s"%% c%ssroo"# 'cing t%%# strong (o"n in
her %te 'i'ties# dressed in &ur&%e nd "u$e+ Ne,t to the /%c*/ord
(s co"&%icted chrt sho(ing Ne/don# Urnti# nd the Is%e
o' Prdise+ Se$er% &rtici&nts (ere regu%r students# d$nced
in the *no(%edge o' Ser&hic P%netr! Go$ern"ent nd other
/struse conce&ts+
The su/1ect o' tht 'ternoon2s %ecture (s the 'unction o'
the Thought Ad1usters+ In the e,tre"e%! co"&%e, cos"o%og! o'
Urnti# the! co"e 'ro" other (or%ds to %i$e (ithin OU' /rins+
The! in'%uence our ctions /! su/t%e s/otge o' our &h!sic% nd
che"ic% 'unctions.
A t!&ic% &rt o' the discussion de%t (ith the 34igher Msters35
Student: I (onder ho( the! got on our &%ne+
Instructor. The! (ere recei$ed here# chnne%ed +++
Seraphic Transports and Benevolent Programmers 137
Girl: I thought I heard that the channel was a taxi driver in
Chicago. Is that true?
Instructor. That's one more stor! "e don't get told ver
much a#out the origins$ #ut Ican tell ou what Ithin%.
&r. "illiam Sadler$ who was a ver 'ine surgeon$ #ecame
interested in mediumship$ and he has written a #oo% in
which ou find that most mediums are onl victims o'
suggestion$ #ut that he 'ound two exceptions$ a man and
a woman. In their case he 'eels that the data was definitely
coming from a superhuman source! (e had man hundreds
o' sessions with these people.
Vallee: In what ear was the Boo% received?
Instructor: In 1)3*.+ It wasn't pu#lished until 1),,. The
woman who tped the original manuscript is still living.
She is a ver dnamic woman. She tped it three times! She
was a -ederal #an% examiner.
The Pu..lement o' &octor Sadler
Icame awa 'rom the meeting with a precarious sense o'
accomplishment. A num#er o' real people trul #elieved in
/elchi.ede% and his cosmic role$ and Ihad 'ound a re'erence to a
man$ apparentl a serious scientist$ who had %nown the 'ounder o'
the 0 rantia sect and$ a'ter serious examination$ had pronounced
its revelations genuine.
I loo%ed up Sadler's name in the index o' the Stan'ord
1i#rar and 2uic%l 'ound that he was a writer o' talent and
considera#le scholarship. (is #oo%$ The Physiology of Faith and
Fear, pu#lished in Chicago in 1)34$ lists his titles as Pro'essor
o' Phsiologic Therap at the 0niversit o' Chicago /edical
School and &irector o' the Chicago Institute o' Phsiologic
* "e shall see later that the actual #eginning date must have #een closer
to 1)14 or 1)11.
Therapeutics. In 1929 he was as! Seni!r "tten#in$ Sur$e!n at
C!u%&us '!spita.
In the pre(ace t! T h e Physiology of Faith and Fear, he !((ers a
state%ent !( his !wn interests when he !&ser)es*
+e are n!w passin$ thr!u$h a peri!# !( p!puar reacti!n
a$ainst the scienti(ic %ateriais% !( the ast centur,. The
c!%%!n pe!pe are awa-enin$ t! the (act that the %enta
state has %uch t! #! with &!#i, heath an# #isease. The
&!!-%a-ers. in their e((!rts t! satis(, the uni)ersa #e%an#
(!r teachin$ !n )ari!us phases !( %enta heain$. ha)e
(!!#e# us with iterature. %uch !( which is pre%ature.
unscienti(ic. inc!%pete. an# hi$h, #isastr!us in its
%isea#in$ in(uence up!n the p!puar %in# an# %!ras.
This (ine principe / which we w!u# #! we t! re%e%&er in these
#a,s !( ps,chic rip/!((s /e# Dr. Sa#er t! c!nsi#er the phen!%en!n
!( spirit c!%%unicati!n an# aut!%atic writin$. which he $enera,
(!un# t! &e (ase an# %isea#in$.
Dr. Sa#er $!es !n t! c!n#e%n char%s. reics an# shrines.
)ari!us (!r%s !( 0uac-er,. astr!!$,. pa%istr,. cr,sta/$a1in$.
trances. an# cataeps,. 'e writes*
It is not uncommon for persons In a cataleptic trance to
imagine themselvestaking trips to other worlds 2%, itaics3.
In (act. the w!n#er(u acc!unts !( their e4periences. which
the, write !ut a(ter these cataeptic attac-s are !)er. are s!
uni0ue an# %ar)e!us as t! ser)e as the &asis (!r (!un#in$
new sects. cuts. an# rei$i!ns.
1
'e e4pains these phen!%ena. as we as aut!%atic writin$ an#
spea-in$. &, the pr!5ecti!n !( 6%ar$ina c!nsci!usness with!ut
the awareness !( the centra c!nsci!usness.6 One w!n#ers what Dr.
Sa#er w!u# ha)e t! sa, a&!ut current &est/sein$ &!!-s &ase# !n
automatic writing, such as Jane Roberts' Seth Material, which have
had a major eect on the public!
"n his later boo#, The Mind at Mischief(published in 19$9 and
subtitled %Tric#s and &eceptions o the Subconscious and 'ow to
(ope with Them%), he develops his theor* o dissociation, double
personalit*, and automatic writing! 'e concludes+
,e now have a thoroughl* scientiic h*pothesis which
will account or all phenomena o this #ind that deserve
to be classiied as genuine! -othing as *et has ever come
to us through automatic writing which bears an* evidence
o supernatural origin, or which contains authentic truths,
acts, or principles heretoore un#nown to the human race!
'aving said this, however, Sadler reers the reader to an appendi.
%or a brie notice o a very unusual case of supposedly automatic
writing associated with other psychic phenomena which came under
my observation many years ago"?
"n this appendi., Sadler is evidentl* dealing with the Book
of Urantia, although he never mentions the word! The appendi.
deserves to be /uoted e.tensivel*, or it sheds much light on the
scientiic methods that can be applied to alleged communications
rom cosmic entities!
&r! Sadler begins the appendi. with a reversal o his previousl*
stated theoretical position+
"n the interests o scientiic accurac* on the one hand, and o
strict airness on the other, it becomes necessar* to e.plain that
there are one or two e.ceptions to the general statement that
all cases o ps*chic phenomena which have come under m*
observation have turned out to be those o autops*chism!
Sadler goes on to describe his contacts with the %channel% o the
Urantia Book, who ma* have been a ormer stoc#bro#er+
The exception has to do with a rather peculiar case of
psychic phenoena! one which I find yself una"le to
classify! and which I would li#e $ery uch to narrate ore
fully% I cannot do so here! howe$er! "ecause of a proise
which I feel under o"li&ation to #eep sacredly' In other
words! I ha$e proised not to pu"lish this case durin& the
lifetie of the indi$idual'
I was "rou&ht in contact with it in the suer of ()((! and
I ha$e had it under y o"ser$ation ore or less e$er since!
ha$in& "een present at pro"a"ly *+, of the ni&ht sessions!
any of which ha$e "een attended "y a steno&rapher who
ade $oluinous notes'
- thorou&h study of this case has con$inced e that it
is not one of ordinary trance' .hile the sleep sees to
"e /uite of a natural order! it is $ery profound! and so
far we ha$e ne$er "een a"le to awa#en the su"0ect when
in this state% "ut the "ody is ne$er ri&id! and the heart
action is ne$er odified! thou&h respiration is soeties
ar#edly interfered with' This man is utterly unconscious,
wholly oblivious to what takes place, and, unless told about
it subsequently, never knows that he has been used as a
sort of clearing house for the coming and going of alleged
extraplanetary personalities 1y italics2' In fact! he is ore
or less indifferent to the whole proceedin&! and shows a
surprisin& lac# of interest in these affairs as they occur
fro tie to tie'
Sadler draws a clear distinction "etween this case and the usual
spiritualist3 phenoena4
In no way are these ni&ht $isitations li#e the seances
associated with spiritualis' -t no tie durin& the
Seraphic Transports and Benevolent Pr o gr amme rs 141
period of eighteen years' observation has there been a
communication from any source that claimed to be the
spirit of a deceased human being. The communications
which have been written, or which we have had the
opportunity to hear spoken, are made by a vast order of
alleged beings who claim to comefrom other planets to visit
this world [my italics], to stop here as student visitors for
study and observation hen they are en route from one
universe to another.
The medical e!pert goes on to e!plain hy this case forced him to
revise many ideas in his approach"
#ighteen years of study and careful investigation have
failed to reveal the psychic origin of these messages...
Psychoanalysis, hypnotism, intensive comparison, foil to show
that the written or spoken messages of this individual have
origin in his own mind [my italics]. $uch of the material
secured through this sub%ect is &uite contrary to his habits
of thought, to the ay in hich he has been taught, and to
his entire philosophy.
'aving ac(noledged that he is at a loss to e!plain these facts ith
classical ansers, he presents a summary of this uni&ue material"
) can only say that Ihave found in these years of
observation that all the information imparted through
this source has proved to be consistent ithin itself
*hile there is considerable difference in the &uality of the
communications, this seems to be reasonably e!plained
by a difference in state of development and order of the
personalities ma(ing the communications. )ts philosophy
is consistent.
William Sadler, who thus studied the !ha""el o# Urantia, had
the u"usual !oura$e to !o"#ess that, a#ter 1% &ears o# stud&, I
#i"d m&sel# at the 'rese"t time (ust where Iwas whe" Istarted)
We mi$ht as* oursel+es the same ,uestio" a-out .FOs a"d their
alle$ed a$e"ts amo"$ us/ a 'he"ome"o" that lea+es 'h&si!al
tra!es must -e ta*e" seriousl&, -ut what !a" we sa& o# the 'eo'le
who !laim to -e i" !o"ta!t with su'erior i"telli$e"!es ema"ati"$
#rom these o-(e!ts0 What should we do a-out their !laim that
the 'he"ome"o" o# .FOs is dire!ti"$ the e+olutio" o# ma"*i"d0
This idea, whi!h o"!e attra!ted o"l& a ha"d#ul o# de+otees, "ow
has the 'ote"tial to draw the atte"tio" o# the media a"d to ma*e
a ma(or im'a!t)
The !laim is e+e" made that i# we #ail to liste" to the +oi!e o# the
hi$her le+els, there will -e a ma(or !atastro'he o" Earth)
From the $e"tle -elie# i" hi$her #orms o# li#e -e"t o" hel'i"$
ma"*i"d, we ha+e $o"e to e1'lore i"!reasi"$l& distur-i"$ s&stems
o# 'hiloso'h& a"d some "ew #aiths that dema"d total o-edie"!e
#rom their #ollowers) The #or!es the& released were "ot #or!es o#
lo+e, -ut o# disorder a"d +iole"!e) 2et the& were #or!es o# !ha"$e,
-e"di"$ those who allowed themsel+es to be used)
Mel!hi3ede*, .FOs, a"d the Se1 Fu"!tio"
The 's&!ho'atholo$& o# the !o"ra!tees was the "e1t area to e1'lore)
I-e$a" readi"$ e+er&thi"$ I!ould lo!ate a-out Mel!hi3ede*, a"d
#ou"d re#ere"!es to him i" the -oo*s o# 4ead-eater, -ut it was
i" the wor* o# a"other !o"tem'orar& o# Madame 5la+ats*& that I
'i!*ed u' the trail a$ai")6
* Madame 5la+ars*&, the !olor#ul author o# Isis Unveiled, was a" e1traordi"ar&
leader o# o!!ult or$a"i3atio"s i" the "i"etee"th !e"tur&, ma"& o# whi!h still
e1ist) 7!!ordi"$ to 8a!,ues 5er$ier, o"e o# these or$a"i3atio"s is the 9ele"a
Perro+"a 5la+ats*& Fou"datio", o# whi!h Ri!hard Ni1o" is a mem-er o#
the 5oard) I ha+e "ot -ee" a-le to +eri#& this stateme"t)
Hiram Erastus Butler, a Pennsylvanian by birth, who died in
1916, was a simple, selfeducated man who wor!ed in a sawmill"
#ollowing an accident in which he lost several fingers, he became
a recluse, and for 1$ years he lived as a hermit" %uring these years
Butler was favored with many revelations from &od, and developed
the peculiar philosophy of the sect which is still !nown today as the
'merican branch of the (rder of )elchi*ede!"
+n the late 1880s, Butler came out of seclusion and described
his revelations in a series of lectures in Boston, in 1--9 he moved
to .alifornia with a do*en disciples, homesteaded a /60acre area
overloo!ing the 'merican 1iver near 'pplegate, in Placer .ounty,
and built a mystical center" 2hen a 3ournalist visited his Esoteric
#raternity in 1941, he found an old fourstory house at the end of a
dirt road, and only two surviving members, 2illiam .orecco, -9,
the fourth president of the organi*ation, and his brother, Steven,
who had recently buried the last female member of the sect" They
met in the library5
's he tal!ed, .orecco swayed bac! and forth in a crea!y
old roc!er beside a potbellied stove that warmed the
musty library5 6The Bible says that when 1$$,000 persons
establish the (rder of )elchi*ede!, the 7ingdom of &od
will be established on Earth" That was our hope """ 2e8ve
all lived on Earth hundreds of times before" The population
of the world remains constant" Souls that leave at death
reappear in the newborn"69
.orecco retraced the history of the group that came to .alifornia
with Butler" They had built the +Sroom house from timber on the
property, and they made their own furniture, too" They planted
and harvested their own crops, and had a small herd" The rest of
their time was ta!en up with meditation and writing" They operated
their own publishing house, and they still sell about /0 boo!s
and pamphlets" (ne of these, by Enoch Penn,8 first copyrighted
~"tt~eP
(i)fJKe\eh,is4tdelt
ENOCH PENN
Figure7.l. Cover of a boo b! E"o#$ Pe""% a" earl! lea&er of t$eOr&er
of Mel#$i'e&e i" t$e("ite& State). *lt$oug$ +ubli)$e& i" 1,-.% t$i)
boo #o"tai") )everal of t$et$e/e) t$at $ave)i"#ebe#o/e+o+ular i"
#o"ta#teeliterature. 0Courte)! of t$e1alleeColle#tio".%
i" 1,-.2 )tate) t$e +$ilo)o+$! of t$e Or&er a"& &e)#ribe) it) four
&egree) of i"itiatio".
T$e+rere3ui)itefor 4oi"i"g t$eFrater"it! i) to ab)tai" ab)olutel!
fro/ a"! )e5ual a#tivit!.
*##or&i"g to Pe""2 t$ere aret6o great trut$)2 or "atural fa#t)2
i" t$i) 6orl&. Fir)t2 there is a more subtle life, "6$i#$ i) i"terior to
t$elifet$at /ae) t$e+$!)i#al /a" live. * /a" #a" be#o/e/ore
#o")#iou) of a"& livefro/ t$at /ore i"terior life2 which includes
meeting and associating with the inhabitants of the Spirit-world."
Se#o"&2 t$ee! to t$i) #o"ta#t i) t$e)u++re))io" of t$eorga)/.
T$ere re)i&e) i" t$e )ub)ta"#e of +ro#reatio"2 i" t$e)ee&2
a +o6er2 6$i#$2 if t$e )ee& i) retai"e& i" t$e bo&!2 6ill
i" ti/e2 #au)e t$e )oul to a6ae" to a #o")#iou)"e)) of
a"& i" t$e real/ of S+irit2 t$e real/ 6$ere &6ell t$o)e
I"tellige"#e) 6$o aret$e#reator) of /a".
Seraphic Transports and Benevolent Pr o g ram mer s 145
This is a complicated way to state what the followers of Tantra
Yoga and other Eastern sex practices have always said, namely,
that control or suppression of orgasm was the ey to spiritual !liss"
The Esoteric #raternity of $iram Butler is more extreme, however"
%enouncing normal orgasm is only the pledge of the #irst &egree"
'n the Second &egree the initiate must avoid all sexual impulse,
even in thought:
'n the Second &egree there is not only the effort to overcome
the generative impulse and its results in the !ody, !ut to
learn of and avoid all those sensations, impulses, emotions,
thoughts, and relationships that lead up to and cause these
impulses """ The neophyte must so shut his sympathies from
all who !elong to generation as not to share in their life(
currents and desires"
Taing this position, $iram Butler and his followers differ from
the Eastern mystics, who teach their students to use their desires
instead of suppressing them, and to rea!sor! the sexual energy into
the !ody instead of releasing it"
)n *ccult Plan to +ontrol the ,orld
Butler-s version of the *rder of .elchi/ede is an esoteric group
complete with initiations, passwords, and secret handshaes" 'ts
purpose is occult wor with political am!itions0
The power to overthrow nations cannot !e had 'n its
fullness until the neophytes, as sons of 1od, have gathered
together to wor together as a unit"
$ow would such a small group of initiates control the world2
One of these powers operates through what is cae! "Mo#
Ps$choog$% " The &ast 'a(orit$ of the peope are controe!
who$ #$ their feeings) an! he who can pa$ on the feeings
of the 'asses can contro the'%
These ines were first pu#ishe! in 1*+6) at a ti'e when contro
of ,-the Mo#" through ps$choog$ was area!$ #eco'ing a we.
un!erstoo! too%
The Mechi/e!e0ians ha! no !ou#t a#out their uti'ate rise to
power1 !i! not Revelations state that after the 2o!$ of the 144)333
sons of Go! are gathere! an! seae! an! ha&e o&erco'e !eath) the$
"sha ta0e the !o'inion un!er the whoe hea&en an! sha reign
for e&er an! e&er"4
Such was the gran!iose pan of the foowers of 5ira' 2uter%
Their uti'ate goa was e&en 'ore a'#itious1 in the highest stages
of initiation) the a!epts #egin to 'erge with the Supre'e Power of
Go!) an! the$ actua$ (oin the Eohi'1
If a 'an can #eie&e into the 2o!$ of the Eohi') then the$
once were 'en who ha&e attaine! to such 'aster$ that
the$ are a#e to #e that which the$ wilL to #e%%% 5e who
see0s to attain to the funess of the Or!er of Mechi/e!e0
'ust earn to "ta0e" that na'e 6of7ah&eh8 so that he 'a$
ha&e the nee!e! strength to "o&erco'e the wor!)" an! #e
'aster of e&er$thing in nature%
The si'iarities of this o! esoteric fraternit$ to so'e of the
'o!ern 9FO contactee groups are :uite o#&ious% The pu//e is
#eginning to ta0e shape% The 5%I%M% sect) for instance) spea0s of
regeneration) transfor'ation) an! contact with a higher e&e in
the sa'e ter's as 5ira' 2uter) who pro'ises that "there wi
open #efore hi' 6the neoph$te8 a !oor in hea&en" an! 'entions
contact with superior #eings% Such is) in fact) the Creator,s
purpose for Man) a!!s 2uter1 ;he shou! !e&eop into a Go!i0e
Seraphic Transports and Benevolent Pr o gr a m mer s 147
being having of His knowledge, powers, qualities, and attributes,
and be accepted as a fellow among those odlike beings!" The
discipline of the #raternit$ is nothing but a preparation for living
among the angels. The disciples must
form a social order like that in heaven% then the Hol$ &nes
in heaven will not onl$ at times appear to men, but will
come and abide among them as a father with his children!
'ou (ight )nsult an *ngel, +alling Him a ,#&
The esoteric fraternit$ is no longer active in the hills of *pplegate!
The onl$ operation still carried out in the old building is the
printing and distribution of its literature! *s a representative of the
organi-ation told me in 1.7/, 0)f the &rder e1ists now, it2s probabl$
in Heaven! )t2s not here% we 3ust have the printed word! 4herever it
e1ists, we2re not aware of it!"
0How can ) learn more about it, then526 ) asked!
"There is someone back in 7ew 'ork who claims to belong to
the &rder! 4e have this on file, but so man$ people are making so
man$ claims8 The onl$ thing to do is to develop $ourself enough,
where $ou don2t have to get it secondhand! That2s where the books
point out $our obligations!"
"4hat about 9r! race Pettipher, in San #rancisco5"
") don2t know her, but women can be redeemed too!"
09o $ou think she is a member of the same group5"
"7o, we have had man$ false prophets who more or less made
these claims !!! There are man$ who are around and ma$ have part
of the truth, but unless $ou develop $ourself enough $ou waste $our
time! This &rder of (elchi-edek we publish, ) hope gets over the
idea that there are no shortcuts !!! res a lot of hard work, especiall$
on $ourself 'ou have to curb the desires that are not in harmon$
with the Higher Spirits!"
"What relationship do o!r tea"hin#s ha$e to the %FO
pheno&enon' "
(The %FO "a&e in a)ter these t*o a!thors+ Penn and ,!tler- *ent
to their rest+ The onl thin# *e "an sa is that an an#el "an so&eti&es
.e a %FO as *ell as a "ra)t .ein# a %FO+ /nd so- !nless o! de$elop
o!rsel) eno!#h- o! &i#ht be ins!ltin# so&e an#el- "allin# hi&
a %FO+ So it al&ost #ets to be a no &an0s land !ntil o! do o!r
o*n de$elopin# +++ It doesn0t &ean there isn0t anthin# in the se"ret
preparations- .!t openl there is nothin# #oin# on at this ti&e+"
/)ter this "on$ersation- I *as read to "on"l!de that the Order
o) Mel"hi1ede2 in Cali)ornia *as in .ad shape- "a!#ht .et*een
its aspiration to #ather 144-333 &e&.ers and its predile"tion )or
a$oidin# or#as&i" release+ So&eone+ a)ter all- *o!ld ha$e to &a2e
all those .a.ies+
I had rea"hed this stare o) p!11le&ent *hen a ps"holo#ist
)riend sent &e a "op o) the ne*sletter o) the Cali)ornia Instit!te
o) Trans personal Ps"holo#- .ased in Menlo Par2+ The ne*sletter
"ontained the )ollo*in# anno!n"e&ent4
On the last weekend before the holidays, d!rin# o!r ti&e *ith
5al&an S"ha"hter and *ith his inspiration and s!pport-
ele$en se"ond6ear st!dents *ere initiated into the Order
o) Mel"hi1ede2+ This is a priestl order o) &ore than t*o
tho!sand ears o) tradition+ Mel"hi1ede2 is &entioned in
Genesis- Chapter 14- as the "priest o) God Most 7i#h"
*ho .ro!#ht .read and *ine and initiated /.raha&+ Sin"e
then priests in the 8e*ish tradition- inthe Ro&an Catholi"-
and in the /n#li"an Co&&!nion ha$e all .een initiated as
priests o) Mel"hi1ede2+)
/pparentl the a!thor o) the ne*sletter did not 2no* a.o!t the
Mor&on tradition- *hi"h also #i$es a pro&inent pla"e to the
priests o) Mel"hi1ede2+ 7e did o))er his personal )eelin#s a.o!t
.ein# initiated into the Order4
Those of us who were initiated on Sunday, March 12, were
first baptied by !alman in the hot tub at "ichana#s and
received new names$ The e%perience was profound, and
a fitting culmination of the wor& with !alman during
the wee& on the Ten Sephiroth and the 'abbalistic Tree
of (ife$ )an *aston was our congregation, representing
the community$ +hat will happen ne%t is to be seen and
pondered deeply$ ,t the very least we will be meeting
together to tal& of what the meaning of the priesthood is
for each one of us$7
This is ta&ing place in the middle of Silicon -alley, .alifornia,
the world#s ma/or electronics manufacturing center, within a few
miles of the head0uarters of such high1technology companies
as Memore%, (oc&heed, ,mdahl, 2ewlett1Pac&ard$ , group
of young people 1 perhaps the sons and daughters of scientists
and managers at these corporations 1 ta&e off their clothes
and /ump into sornebody#s hot tub to renew the tradition of
the Melchiede& priesthood$ The eccentric, harmless writing of
poor 2iram Butler and the innocuous teachings of 3noch Penn
have found a powerful resonance in the most unli&ely place of
all4 the first post1industrial generation in the most advanced
country on 3arth$
5 ,m 5nvited to Become a .onsciousness "eprogrammer
The 6rder of Melchiede& was flourishing again, even though the
old organiation in ,pplegate was reduced to preservation of the
printed word$ , new community named ST3((3 has been started
in 5llinois by a group which derives its entire philosophy from
Melchiede&, whom they believe to preside over 7the ,rchangelic
2ost of our Solar System,7 helped by billions of Masters from the
planet 'larian$
Then a man named Jim Hurtak called me and triggered a new
stream ! in!rmatin" He was a !riend ! #ndri$a Puharich% was
dee&l' in(l(ed in the )ri Geller a!!air% and claimed t *e &s'chic
himsel!" Nt nl' was he &s'chic% *ut he had had a num*er ! )FO
encunters% and was sure that he had cme int direct cntact with
a higher rder ! cnsciusness"
On #&ril +% +,-.% Hurtak and Puharich were n a talk/shw
*radcast in San Francisc" Jim e0&lained his in(l(ement with
the Center !r Demcratic Studies% a think tank lcated in Santa
1ar*ara% Cali!rnia" He said he was there as a (isiting sinlgist
2Chinese s&ecialist3" The inter(iewer &inted ut that 4man' &e&le
think that it5s a cmmie rgani6atin *ecause ! the &r&sed new
cnstitutin" It5s a (er' cntr(ersial &lace *ecause ! that"4
Jim re&lied% 4It has *een a rall'ing"&int t mti(ate &e&le t d
dee&er &r*lem/sl(ing" I! an'thing% it5s *een a sht in the arm t
get *etter g(ernment and &ut ut *etter &hils&h' ! humanism
tward &lanetar' unit'"4
Puharich ga(e details ! a cntact scene near Tel #(i(% when he
was in the desert with Geller7 8He saw this *lue light !lashing% and
)ri walked int this )FO" It was night% and I culdn5t actuall' see
the !inal entrance int the )FO9 and he came ut carr'ing a glass
*$ect that had disa&&eared three da's earlier"4
Jim Hurtak descri*ed his wn cntact7 22:ell% *elie(e it r nt%
I was gi(ing a series ! seminars three 'ears ag% and cming *ack
with tw ! m' students we nticed a light !llwing ur car dwn
Highwa' +;<% and we &ulled !! the rad and rughl' +== t <==
'ards !rm the rad this (ehicle came dwn" I !elt a strng magnetic
attractin in the directin ! the (ehicle" I e0&erienced at that time
what mst &e&le wuld call the higher intelligence" A beam a/light
went through my body, and 1 received scientific codes which 1 was told
to call the Keys a/Enoch." >M' italics"?
He didn5t sa' hw% r wh'% he had recei(ed these m'sterius
4cdes"4 Jim in(ited me t $in a new &s'chic gru& designed t
change the destinies ! the wrld *' ccult methds7 he was in
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direct contact with this group, he said, and had important news to
share with me at the first opportunity.
And he explained that there were, on one side, what he called
benevolent programmers, who allow planetary societies a free will,
and then there are the poachers, who interfere with the programs
already under way. The Brotherhood of Melcbizedek deals with the
consciousness reprogramming. Its a very special order with very
special people, he claimed. !ne of his "eys deals with where the
Brotherhood has #een in the previous centuries.
$im stressed the need for me to %oin his group. &e agreed to meet
the next day for lunch. The '(eys' he had mentioned were part of a
manuscript entitled) 'The Biocomputer "eys to our *onsciousness
Time +one, ,evealed to -e #y -aster *ontrol -essengers
-etatron and !pthanim.' The #oo( .which was signed '/noch'0
was written in flaming letters and "a##alistic style. It was, for the
most part, %ust as impossi#le for me to understand as the 'magnetic
aura' of 1r. 2race Pettipher. &as some hidden truth contained in
the %argon3 &as there a needle in the haystac(3 I decided to (eep
my appointment with $im, and find out.
4o 2rounds for 5ear
&e met in a restaurant, and $im came to the point immediately.
&hen he had the series of contact experiences with /noch three
years earlier, he was apparently told to set up a thin( tan( which
would #e (nown on some levels as the Sons of Light of the Order of
Melchizedek. It would wor( directly with the Brotherhoods who
were 'fields of intelligence going #etween star systems and the
reprogramming of lower evolutionary systems.'
I as(ed him if he was aware that the Book of Urantia also
said that the -elcht6ede(s were an order of #eings who roamed
among planets. 4ot only was he aware of that, #ut he (new that
there are two -ormon priesthoods, the lower priesthood and the
higher one. The higher one is the priesthood of Melchiede!. This
ide" of the interrel"tionships #et$een "ll religions le"ds hi% to
so%e f"nt"stic &ist"s'
(1 h"&e #een told th"t there "re Co)ncils of *ight $hich "re
org"ni"tion"l #o"rds $here the "rch"ngels+ or ,scended M"sters+
org"nie "ll of the codes pertinent #oth to the &isi#le spectr)% "s
$ell "s to other spectr)%s -sic. th"t $e/re not "$"re of. 1$"s told
th"t+ #eginning in 1012+ #et$een ,pril 13th "nd M"4 13th+ the
5rotherhoods $o)ld #egin to define the #l)eprint for the 6sp"ceti%e
o&erl"p+/ $hich $"s going to liter"ll4 re7ed)c"te "nd reorg"nie
the h)%"n co%%)nit4 to find its destin4 in sp"ce+ #ec")se it+ in
essence+ h"d f"iled the progr"%.(
668h"t does th"t h"&e to do $ith the 9FOs seen #4 people
"ro)nd the co)ntr4:( I "s!ed hi%+ "t " loss to )nderst"nd $h4 the
,scended M"sters needed " sp"ceti%e o&erl"p.
(The 9FOs "re %erel4 one "spect of higher e&ol)tion"r4
technolog4. ,nd the4 "re )sed to i%press )pon ci&ili"tions p)rel4
in the %"teri"l r"nge of technolog4 th"t there is " higher energ4
%odel controlling the technolog4. ;o) see+ the 9FOs do not tr"&el<
"ccording to the te"chings of Enoch+ the4 h"&e their o$n energ4
field. 54 co%#ining $h"t $e c"ll %"gnetoh4drod4n"%ic energ4+
p"r"llel7ph"se electro%"gnetic energ4+ the4 "re "#le to liter"ll4 go
se&er"l ti%es the speed of light "s $e c"lc)l"te it.(
(It/s " %ode of prop)lsion:( I "s!ed+ hoping to get " %ore pros"ic
theor4 fro% hi%.
There $"s no $"4 to %"!e hi% e=pl"in it cle"rl4. >e c"%e
right #"c! to Melchiede!+ repl4ing+ (It/s their %ode of prop)lsion+
4es. The Order of Melchiede! is one of the higher orders of the
&"rio)s Sp"ce 5rotherhoods. There "re 1? s)ch 5rotherhoods th"t
co%prise the Sons of *ight+ or the 8hite 5rotherhood+ "s it is
!no$n in so%e pop)l"r liter"t)re in o)r p"rtic)l"r loc"l )ni&erse.
,nd the4+ "t this present ti%e+ h"&e+ sh"ll $e s"4+ #een thro)gh
" tre%endo)s ho)secle"ning. ,%ong the neg"ti&es+ the 6po"chers/
"s I c"ll the%+ $ho co%e in "nd e=peri%ent $ith so%eone else/s
experiments, have been a Brotherhood known as the Asteriants, as
well as the Marinites, who are of a grotes!e appearance, as well as
"etic!lants, who are also of a grotes!e appearance#$
$%ow can &o! tell one gro!p from the other'$
$The g!idelines are ver& clear if we look at the historical
doc!ments which acknowledge that, along with the appearance of
()*s, there is the bringing of a cosmic law, which is distinct from
those which do not bring a spirit!al teaching# The more advanced
extraterrestrials do not look differentl& from h!mans, with the
facial feat!res of biological societies that somehow are part of the
same galactic tree of knowledge#$
$So the& wo!ld look like !s'$
$So the& wo!ld look like !s# + feel this is the basis of wh& it
,said- in the book of Genesis, that man was created into the
d
..
ver& sacre text#
/h& was 0im telling me all this' /h& was he writing a book'
Again he gave me political reasons1 2+ was told that + was to come
o!t at this time with this information beca!se mankind was going
to go thro!gh the collective 3hrist experience of worshipping
()*s and receiving information# +t wo!ld help mankind balance
its political foc!s# 4o! see the interesting thing, 0ac!es, is that we
m!st emphasi5e the fact that we are receiving a new program6 We
do not have to go through the old programming of Armageddon."
3ontact /ithin 7ighteen Months6
At the end of o!r meeting, 0im said he wanted to share with me
something that +8 co!ld keep in mind1 a statement that he had
prepared with P!harich, a $sensitive9. who was working for the
American :av&, and other friends of his in vario!s positions who
had access to $confidential and secret information$1
I believe that the Earth will be contacted within the next
18 onth! b" hi#hl" evolved intelli#ent bein#! $ro other
world!% Thi! belie$ ha! coe abo&t a! a re!&lt o$ a !t&d"
o$ 'ro'hetic literat&re( claied )FO contact!( recent
$oreca!t!( and co&ntle!! other aterial!%
*i wa! $ollowin# the &!&al 'attern+ ill&ination( belie$in contact(
ental chan#e!( and( $inall"( 'ro'hec"% Ei#hteen onth! have
'a!!ed( and nothin# ha! ha''ened% That( too( i! t"'ical%
Fro an ex'loration o$ the theo!o'hi!t! and ,ira -&tler%
I had $ollowed the odern Melchi.ede/ian! into their color$&l
$anta!ie!% I had identi$ied a co'lete 'anoraa o$ or#ani.ation!(
c&lt!( and #ro&'! that had in coon the idea that a !&'erior #ro&'
o$ Mani'&lator! wa! controllin# the Earth% On that hi#her 'lane(
the Order o$ Melchi.ede/ wa! !aid to be !&'ree( and to r&le the
a$$air! o$ an% The" alle#edl" intervened on Earth thro&#h their
a#ent! in reli#ion( the art!( and !cience% It had even been !&##e!ted
that I becoe involved "!el$( and that b" !o doin# Iwo&ld hel' in
avertin# 0orld 0ar III and a #lobal holoca&!t%
,ow !erio&!l" !ho&ld one ta/e the!e clai!1 0o&ld the!e $ear!
and the!e $anta!tic clai! die in !oe $or#otten corner( li/e the wor/!
o$ -&tler and Penn1 M" $eelin#( a! I contin&ed ex'lorin# the world o$
the!e #ro&'!( wa! that o$ #ro'in# thro&#h a da'( #loo" cave%
M" rea!on! $or declinin# the invitation( $or re$&!in# to becoe
involved with the Son! o$ Melchi.ede/( were not ba!ed on !oe
!cienti$ic idea o$ the i'o!!ibilit" o$ the contact the" 'roi!ed%
S&ch &n'rovable contact( $or all I /now( a" be occ&rrin# ever"
da"% -&t contact with what? 0ith #en&ine bein#! $ro !'ace1
0ith !oe dar/ 'art o$ the h&an ind( alive with del&!ion! and
!tran#e $ear!1 2 whole !'ectr& o$ h&an $oll" and o$ h&an
#reatne!! had 'a!!ed be$ore e !ince I had be#&n thi! inve!ti#ation%
The !earch had led e thro&#h !everal co&ntrie!( !howin# e that
the idea o$ contact with the Me!!en#er! o$ Dece'tion wa! nothin#
new3 and that it wa! ca'able o$ tri##erin# $anta!tic 'a!!ion!% I had
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become aware of some pretty shady business behind the apparently
harmless antics of the contactee groups. Now I wanted to focus my
attention on the problem at hand: the uestion of who was doing
all this and what their designs on us might be.
EIGHT
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The question of how men first came to be religious is shrouded in
the unknowable past. .. What accounts for the rise and evolution of
new religious groups in society? This question remains unanswered
although it has received more attention than any otherproblem in
the sociology of religion.
Glock and Stark, Religion and ociety in Tension
A
REPORTER NAMED O'Hara, who works for th an !rancisco
"hronicle, !os thro"!h th strts of th#s $a!n#f#cnt c#t%
and &oss a d#ffrnt '"st#on (r% da% to th &o&l h $ts.
)hn h askd, "Ar *+O ,#n!s a$on! "s now-" a tr"ckdr#(r
fro$ ."&rt#no w#th lon! ,lack ha#r and a $"stach sa#d/
No, ,"t 0 don't do",t thr ar &o&l who do 1#st so$&lac
ls, ,ca"s th *+Os ar co$#n! fro$ so$whr, ,"t 0
don't th#nk th% nd to snd an%on down hr to o,sr(
"s. 0 don't do",t th 1#stnc of *+Os. 2"t a$on! "s,
no. A lot of w#rd &o&l ar walk#n! aro"nd, ,"t %o" can't
,la$ th$ on O"tr S&ac.
Anothr $an, a T3 &rod"ct#on workr war#n! th#n !lasss and a
th#n s$#l, s$d to a!r/
No 4h sa#d5, ,"t 0 a$ con(#ncd of th 1#stnc of 6l%#n!
sa"crs, ,ca"s .arol and 0 saw on #n 7a 8olla. 0t was sort
of diamond-shaped, with a nm!e" of points of f#ashin$
#i$hts% &t fi"st we tho$ht it was an espe'ia##( !"i$ht sta",
nti# it sta"ted mo)in$ awa(% *e we"e 'omp#ete#( so!e"%
*e hadn+t !een d"in,in$ o" d"oppin$ an(thin$% I don+t
thin, !ein$s a"e amon$ s, !t I am 'e"tain f#(in$ sa'e"s
a"e 'apa!#e of o!se")in$ s%
& '#assi' des'"iption- .Fi"st we tho$ht it was a sta",. sa(s the
witness% Now he has to add, .*e we"e 'omp#ete#( so!e"%. /is
$i"#f"iend Ca"o#, who is an ins"an'e 'ompan( emp#o(ee, st"essed
she had not seen Star Wars o" Close Encounters; she !e#ie)ed that
'"eat"es f"om ote" spa'e did not need to 'ome amon$ s- .the(
'an find ot what the( need to ,now !( ho)e"in$ a"ond%. Not one
of the se)en peop#e "espondin$ e0p"essed the s#i$htest do!t that
f#(in$ sa'e"s e0isted, and the( atomati'a##( assmed that the(
'ame f"om ote" spa'e% Three 0/ the answers stated that the UFO
people are among us now 1see Fi$"e 8%12%
.The( 'an ta,e a!ot an( fo"m the( want,. said Pa#ine, a
stdent with p"ett(, '#ea" e(es% .The"e 'o#d easi#( !e spa'e !ein$s
amon$ s, !e'ase sa'e"s ,eep #andin$ and peop#e a"e p"o!a!#(
$ettin$ off them%.
& fo",#ift ope"ato" f"om San 3eand"o a$"eed 'omp#ete#(- .The(
p"o!a!#( #oo, pon s as p"imiti)e !ein$s,. he said% .The(+"e
wat'hin$ s a## the time, pi',in$ ot the $ood ones, the ones the(
want%. &nd Ga"(, a 'onst"'tion wo",e", had the #ast wo"d-
Yes, I ,now the"e a"e spa'e !ein$s amon$ s %%% Me and m(
Mom saw a f#(in$ sa'e" 4st ot of Ro'he##e, I##inois% The"e
we"e two of them da"tin$ in and ot of the '#ods% 3ots of
peop#e see spa'eships !t don+t "epo"t them, !e'ase the(+"e
af"aid of !ein$ #a$hed at%
In E"ope, and espe'ia##( in F"an'e, whe"e the s'ientifi'
'ommnit( is phi#osophi'a##( dete"mined to defend a 'e"tain idea
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I
Question Man UJj!l!l!lalUI!!UlIllmlllllll!llltl 1
'UFO B ' f A '
. . elngs _. re
They Among Us Now?
iUiItlHHllilUltltilll111IlIIIU!IIHlIUHlItIUll By 0EHara
'i"aullll~ WltUdns, 's! Ild1!t1l.
an !.t~Jldt"#
$es. %e&ause tJ'( )an Ia*&
alX!ut any form tll!!$ ~\' ant.T1 t~rtl
could ~l{SilYhe+,la~el:m!"am"n-
us %e&ause ~u.#.'~ *~ep lludin.1
anti P//J!~{ire p.0.1%a%l~2!ettin! off
them. 3emem%e) th"se men d"'n
in4 issls.'5 ippi that 'e)~#$%%&lS~~'I
na(e i5 4 .!l ta*.5 n a%"a)d " spa&e
ship 06) a )id.e7 ".8ell 1helwve t!l.5 .!l1
%e&ause they put them th)"u-h.
sh"&* t)eatments and 0"und "ut
th&y 'e0t' t.5 llin11t%e tn!t#h, $"u
&ant la*e sh"&* ~nd 'hy 99':u*l
they lie a%"ut that. IIn$W0$7
;<,a.l )tla#)e"u=, 0n)* li0t "pe)a>
t"), an ?eand)"@
9'.5 s, Ithin* ",.,'0e IJt5 in- (isiled.
1 thin* 'hat t%.5 y')~ d"in- i" )
I0lspe&tlu- )i)Ahl n"'. iU~lB'%"&*in-
thin!" "ui. They pnlhahly loo*
$+,'-l $S as p)hnil i(p. %ein-s,
Th.1y',.' p)"%a%ly a I6t m")e ad2
(an&ed lhan ~.a)e and a)e &u)i"us
ah"ut us lil' .:/ a)e a%"ut the I'<!.e
man/ Therr\, 00tdll1l~u" all thr
ttme, .pie*in,-"ut the -""d "nes. !!-~
one.s lile}) \~a:nl.. Tncy1r( j11S1.!.. tu.. ~c*
in- 2Ill 'll.t (0' "h.m HlJ1( 'ant II.. ' .
Ca)y ;(.h"n. tI.lllst,.Ul'!I:n
or*er. an 3eandro:
r
YI~/ I*no lll.e42:.are "%a\~e
t'll,.It+ il)H"!l- us. 1 5' n' Id~0jni0lj2
ty "6Tlle!Il!nr!(ut tne)e. Tedl!lit' ally
Ih'/{t.coutd 7e a nlnh{8r dd!il<!tml,
%e&ause we't:'e n"t tht#5un~." 'PlaTH'1
and t%ey &"uld ha ..A~ a diifcr~lIi 1
l5 Ayst&)nllnd n"t e(en )e0lui)e ai). 5e
and my 4 "msa...... II0l$lll- sau&e)
J9tst "ut of 3"&helle, I!Iin"is. 1ne)e
'e)e t'" 9f them da)tin- in ami
I "u) "0 the &l"uds. ?"ts "0 pe"plesee
! spa&e' snip!' t1ut d"n't )ep")t them
' II !Jl=#au..@@eth&'i')~ a0)aid "0 ""i"e 8i.
Jau-%ed a9. . A
~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ,
!i-u)e D.1. E )ep")te) inte)(ie'in- pe"ple "n the st)eets "0 an !)an&is&"
)e&")ded these (ie's "n the su%je&t "0 &"nta&t 'ith "U!: %ein-s."
'TI1e )esp"nses &"n0i)m that the pu%li& is -ene)ally a'a)e "0 the main
0eatu)es "0 the phen"men"n, and that s"me pe"ple a)e p)epa)ed t" a&&ept
un&)iti&ally the idea that spa&e pe"ple a)e al)eady am"n- us. ./"py)i-ht
/h)"ni&le Pu%lishin- /". 19FF.1
of "rationalism," such reactions from the public are receie! "ith
lau#hter$ "%hat !o &ou e'pect," a French space scientist once
as(e! me, "from such people "ho are untraine! in science) The
*merican public is naie an! #ullible, bombar!e! b& +oll&"oo!
"ith sensational publicit& for science,fiction moies- Such cra.&
moements an! cults "oul! neer hae a chance in France-"
The French researchers place in the same ba# the /FO cultists
an! the scientists "ho research paraps&cholo#&- Interie"in#
French space e'pert Clau!e Poher in 0123, for e'ample, the popular
ma#a.ine Paris-Match ma!e this incre!ible statement$
4ou are refutin# the paraps&cholo#& h&pothesis 5su##estion,
proo(e! hallucination, erc-6, Therefore, the phenomena
seem to hae an ob7ectie realit&-
It neer occurre! to Paris-Match that a phenomenon coul! be real
both in a ph&sical sense an! in a ps&chic sense- Similarl&, French
intellectuals re#ar! /FO cultists an! contactees as an *merican
aberration- I "as amuse!, therefore, "hen I !iscoere! that one
of the lar#est /rantia or#ani.ations "as base! in France, as is a
branch of the Or!er of Melchi.e!e(- *n! I "as een more amuse!
"hen I met Monsieur 8orilhon-
Rael Tells the Truth
Clau!e 8orilhon is a &oun# reporter liin# in Clermont,Ferran!
5France6, a racin# enthusiast an! the bearer of surprisin# ne"s- %e
are liin#, he sa&s, in the last !a&s of the "orl!9 This "as reeale!
to him on December 0:, 012:, as he "as hi(in# in the ol! olcano
countr& near his home- The "eather "as fo##&, oercast- +e
su!!enl& sa" a blin(in# re! li#ht, an! somethin# li(e a helicopter
came !o"n an! hoere! t"o &ar!s aboe #roun!- It "as the si.e
of a small bus, conical on top- There "as a flashin# "hite li#ht at
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Figure 8.2. The sign seen by Vorilhon. Compare with Figures 5.1
and 7.1. Conracree sym bois oten combine well!"nown designs into
new patterns.
the ape# o the cone. The red light was underneath. $ stairway
appeared% and a child!li"e occupant came out% smiling% with a glow
around his body. &n the crat and on the pilot's green suit was a
symbol combining the swasti"a and the (tar o )a*idl The pentacle
gi*en to me by the French &rder o +elchi,ede" also showed a (tar
o )a*id with a spinning pattern inside.
The Vorilhon symbol is supposed to mean -$s abo*e% so below%
and e*erything runs in cycles.- .emember /aite's commentary
on +elchi,ede"0 -1e raised the world below to the height o that
which is abo*e.-
Vorilhon loo"ed at the creature and the creature smiled.
-/here do you come rom2-
"'l.T C "
*ery rar away...
-3ou spea" French2-
-4 spea" e*ery language on 5arth.-
-3ou come rom another planet2'6
"Y I)
es.
-4 s this your irst *isit to 5arth2-
"Oh I"
% no.
-1a*e you come here many times2-
"Very often ... that's the least yo !ol" say."
"#hy "$" yo !o%e&''
"To"ay I !o%e to s(ea) to yo."
Vor$lhon (ro!ee"s to tell s the story of h$s en!onter *$th the
+lo*$n+ !h$l", follo*e" -y se.eral sess$ons of note/ta)$n+ n"er h$s
s(er.$s$on. The story $s na$.e, a-sr"0 $t rea"s l$)e a s(a!e o(era
*r$tten -y a t*el.e/year/ol".
"#hy "$" yo ($!) %e&"
"For %any reasons. F$rst *e nee"e" so%eone *ho l$.e" $n a
!ontry *here ne* $"eas are *ell/re!e$.e". Fran!e $s the !ontry
*here "e%o!ra!y *as -orn, an" her $%a+e on the ent$re Earth $s
that of the lan" of free"o%."
The ($lot a""e" that Vor$lhon ha" also -een sele!te" -e!ase he
*as a free th$n)er *$thot -e$n+ ant$rel$+$os. 1e *as not a s!$ent$st,
an" therefore "*ol" e2(la$n the th$n+ s$%(ly *$thot !o%(l$!at$n+
$t." 1e *asn't a (rofess$onal *r$ter, e$ther, an" ths "*ol"n't %a)e
( !on.olte" senten!es that %ost (eo(le *ol"n't -e a-le to rea"."
F$nally, they ($!)e" h$% -e!ase he *as -orn $n 1346, after the f$rst
ato% -o%-.
The .$s$tor tol" Vor$lhon to !o%e -a!) the ne2t "ay an" to -r$n+
alon+ h$s 5$-le. They ha" haIfa "o6en %eet$n+s on s!!ess$.e %orn$n+s,
an" the l$ttle %an +a.e Vor$lhon h$s ne* na%e, "Rael." Dr$n+ these
%eet$n+s, Vor$lhon/Rael !la$%s that he re!e$.e" !o%%entar$es on
the %ost s$+n$f$!ant (arts of the 5$-le. 1e +athere" h$s notes $n a
-oo), (r$.ately (-l$she" -y "Messa+e E"$t$ons" $n 1374, ent$tle"
The Message Given by the Extraterrestrials. It tells a stran+e tale of
Man's !reat$on -y s!$ent$sts of an a".an!e" s(a!e !$.$l$6at$on *ho
later "$sa+ree" on or "e.elo(%ent, ths s(l$tt$n+ the +o"s $nto a
!a%( le" -y 8ah*eh an" one le" -y Satan. #e are no* l$.$n+ the 9ast
Days of an :+e. In or"er to %a)e frther (ro+ress, *e nee" to %a)e
"rast$! (ol$t$!al !han+es. F$rst, *e %st *$(e ot "e%o!ra!y;
<o %st el$%$nate ele!t$ons an" .otes that are !o%(letely
$ll/a"a(te" to the !rrent e.olt$on of %an)$n". Men are
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the useful cells of a Largebody called Humanity. A cell in
the foot doesn't have to saywhether or not the hand should
pic up an ob!ect. The brain decides" and if the ob!ect
is good" the cell in the foot will profit by it ... A world
government and a new monetary system must be created.
A single language will serve to unify the planet.
#$t is curious to find such themes under the pen of a contactee in
%lermont&'errand" since the same theories are advocated by (r.
T. in his %alifornia mansion.) 'inally" the military service must
be discontinued in all countries. Then the *lohim will come bac
to the *arth" and they will give us the benefit of their superior
science. $f" on the other hand" (an remains aggressive" then they
will wipe out our scientific centers" as they did once with +odom
and ,omorrah.
Having returned home after the last meeting" -orilhon surveyed
his notes and .reali/ed the immensity of the mission that he had
been given.. He decided to go ahead anyway" and even to ignore
those who would mae fun of him as an .illuminated one.. He
reflected that .$t is better to be an illuminated one who nows than
an enlightened man who doesn't..
To those who disbelieve his message" he would simply answer0
.Loo at the sy" and you will see more and more apparitions that
neither your scientists nor your military will be able to e1plain..
The ey to -orilhon's appeal is that he brings a simple" or rather
a simplistic" solution to our worries. He confesses this himself in
the conclusion to his boo0
All these revelations have brought me such well&being
and such an inner peace" in this world where one doesn't
now what to believe any more" a world where professional
scientists cannot provide a precise enough e1planation of
our origin and our goals. $n the light of these revelations"
everything is cleared up and appears simple.
What Vorilhon expresses here ver !ell is the "rave #an"er o$
%onta%tee &elie$s' an (n)(estione# $aith in external intervention
that !ill &rin" si*ple ans!ers to *an+in#, -itler.s /$inal sol(tion/
$or h(*anit !as e)(all si*ple, The the*es are $a*iliar'
(1) People #on.t +no! !hat to &elieve an *ore0 &e%a(se s%ien%e
an# e#(%ation have *a#e it i*possi&le to %ontin(e !orshippin" a
/Goo# Go# !ith a lon" !hite &ear#,/
(2) On the other han#0 s%ien%e an# e#(%ation have &ro("ht no
real ans!ers to the #eeper )(estions in o(r *in#s' !here #o !e
%o*e $ro*1 Where are !e "oin"1
Vorilhon.s ill(*ination has &ro("ht r(* an ans!er !hi%h is all
the *ore %onvin%in" &e%a(se it rests on $aith alone, The little *an has
instr(%te# hi* to start &(il#in" a *ansion $or the ret(rnin" Elohi*,
Vorilhon has appeale# to p(&li% s(pport on Fren%h ra#io an# television0
an# has attra%te# so*e $ollo!ers, No! he !aits $or the 2n"els,
Vorilhon "ave a p(&li% le%t(re in San Fran%is%o in De%e*&er
1346, A "ro(p o$ a&o(t 156 people pai# 78 ea%h to atten#, 9 the
ti*e Vorilhon ha# #es%ri&e# the #etails o$ his trip to the planet o$
the Elohi*0 a reporter o&serve# that /$ive persons ha# sto*pe# o(t0
an# three el#erl la#ies ha# lapse# into soothin" snoo:es,/ The
*isse# the &atht(& episo#e,
In his ne! &oo+0 Beings From Outer Space Took Me to their
Planet, Vorilhon !rites'
I p(t on * &elt an# $o(n# *sel$ %arrie# in $ront o$
the apparat(s (se# to *a+e ro&ots, When I !as seate#0 a
splen#i#;loo+in" #ar+;haire# "irl appeare# in the three<
#i*ensional l(*ino(s %(&e, M ro&ot as+e# *e i$ I li+e#
her an# !ishe# to have #i$$erent shapes or a *o#i$ie# $a%e,
I tol# hi* I $o(n# her per$e%t,
The *a%hine pro#(%e# $ive *ore "irls0 an# the a%%o*panie#
Vorilhon to his pla%e0 !here he ha# an (n$or"etta&le &ath !ith
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165
Figure 8.3. When French contactee Claude Vorilhon lectured in California,
he argued for the creation of a world governent and a refored onetar!
s!ste, claiing that he was instructed to do so "! the #$lohirn# fro
another planet. %Cop!right Chronicle Pu"lishing Co., 1&'8.(
his delightful ro"ots who, he sa!s, )su"itted to all ! desires.#
Vorilhon doesn*t e+plain an! of the contradictions in the stor!. Wh!
would the $lohi want us to destro! deocrac! after selecting
as a prophet a an "orn in France, #the countr! of deocrac!
and freedo#, Wh! would the! use for an insignia such a huan,
terrestrial s!"ol as a swasti-a inside a .tar of /avid,
We should loo- for an answer inthe direction the phenoenon
itself indicates0 it has huan eleents1 !et is alien to us. 2t is ph!sical in
appearance1 !et it also "ehaves li-e a pro3ection fro the unconscious.
2 suggest that it represents a technolog!, li-e the television set, that
anipulates the perceptions of the huan rnind. 4ne is tepted
to sa! that Vorilhon ight have had an initial e+perience, and that
he later hallucinated the dialogue with the pilot and the su"se5uent
encounters. 6allucination is a "ig word, however, and iplies
that nothing in the e+perience was real. This is not ! intention.
Whatever the technolog!, it is the effect that is interesting. The new
an Vorilhon, li-e other contactees, is out to change the world.
The Manipulators ... I have given this name to the hpotheti!al
agents "ho might !ause the #FO !onta!ts an$ engineer their
e%%e!ts. Everthing no" !enters on their role& their i$entit& their
$esigns. 'ho !oul$ the (e) *lien (eings !oming %rom the en$
o% the gala+) Ps!hi! entities %rom the ,other si$e,) *utomata
!ontrolle$ ( some nonhuman !ons!iousness) -olographi!
nightmares) .ut perhaps "e are loo/ing %ar a"a %or something
"hi!h is right un$er our nose0 could they simply be human?
Coul$ the (e masters o% $e!eption so s/ill%ul that the plan to
!ounter%eit an invasion %rom spa!e)
It is not $i%%i!ult to see that the same themes are running through
the "hole pu11le. Man !onra!tees& %or e+ample& mention *tlantis.
I% our sel%2stle$ ,spa!e (rothers, nee$ su!h a prehistori! pe$igree&
is it reasona(le to e+pe!t them to !ome %rom some %ar2a"a star)
The real ans"er is (oth more mun$ane an$ more %rightening0
Beyond the attention of academic science, below the dignity of
official history, there are groups, cults, and sects that serve as
"leading indicators" of mass movements.
The mth o% !onta!t is su!h a lea$ing in$i!ator.
I too/ all m papers one $a an$ $rove to the house o% Ma3or
Murph& "ho ha$ a$vise$ me to pursue m resear!h o% the !onta!tee
groups. 'e 4ui!/l agree$ that the popular i$ea o% %ling sau!ers
%rom outer spa!e le%t mu!h to (e e+plaine$. The Ma3or& "ho "as still
!losel %ollo"ing government2%un$e$ resear!h on paraps!holog
in the #.S. an$ seeme$ "ell a"are o% similar a$van!es in the Soviet
#nion& suggeste$ that the #FOs might not (e spa!e!ra%t& (ut "hat
he !alle$ ,ps!hotroni! $evi!es.,
,In 1567&, he sai$& as "e sat in his stu$& ,"e alrea$ ha$
evi$en!e that several !ountries "ere "or/ing on !ir!ular air!ra%t
that the hope$ to $evelop into se!ret "eapons. The Germans "ere
also $oing a$van!e$ resear!h on !ontrolle$ ele!tri!al $is!harges an$
8!ontrolle$ lightning&8 an$ trie$ to !om(ine these things together.
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When we invaded Germany, a lot of hardware fell into our hands,
but the Russians had gotten most of the good stuff. Then people
started seeing the modern U!s in "weden in 1#$6.%
&e leaned ba'( and lit a 'igarette, leaving me with a thousand
)uestions. Why did he bring in the Germans and their se'ret weapons*
+t would be absurd to suggest su'h devi'es 'ould e,plain U!s.
%-obody seems to have do'umented that period, .a/or,% + told
him to stimulate his re'olle'tions. %General 0ames 1oolittle was
sent to "weden by the United "tates in 1#$6, apparently under 'over
of the "hell 2orporation. +n fa't, he was to investigate the 3ghost
ro'(ets3 with the "wedish authorities. Whatever 'ame of that*%
42&is'on'lusions have never been revealed,% answered .a/or
.urphy with a sigh that seemed to say, +f only the Pentagon 'ould
tal(5 %6ut it doesn3t ta(e mu'h imagination to reali7e that his
involvement meant 'onsiderable interest among the top brass. This
was a year before 8enneth 9rnold, mind you, several years before
the 'reation of Pro/e't 6lue 6oo(. 1ammit, the 9ir or'e didn3t
even e,ist in 1#$65% .urphy was obviously relishing an opportunity
to thin( ba'( to what had been a very e,'iting time for him, a time
when military intelligen'e 'ould do almost anything. %!ne area
where you must reali7e a lot of resear'h had already been done
in great se're'y by 1#$6 'on'erned mind 'ontrol and the effe'ts
of ele'tromagneti' radiation :what we now 'all ;<, or ;,tremely
<ow re)uen'y= on the human body.%
349ndwhat does that have to do with U!s or with ro'(ets. or
se'ret weapons*% + as(ed rather brus)uely.
&e too( my outburst with patien'e. %!n the surfa'e, if you /ust
loo( at a few isolated 'ases, li(e s'ientists arguing about U!s,
well, + agree it doesn3t mean anything. 6ut suppose somebody had
obtained a devi'e by the end of the war, whi'h perhaps wasn3t a very
effe'tive >veapon. Perhaps it 'ouldn3t fly very effe'tively, 'ouldn3t
'arry guns and bombs, but had other properties. or instan'e, it
'ould emit radiation that 'aused paralysis and hallu'inations as it
flew over an area, so that witnesses e,posed to it would thin( they
saw the phantasms of their own imagination. Di some!o" test
that #in of a e$i%e in Sween in 1&'6( an in the States in 1&')(
an fin it to !e ineffe%ti$e as a *"ing ma%hine( !+t $er" +sef+, as a
means of propagana- *as s+%h a gro+p a,rea" +nerstoo what
.FOs were( an are the" %onf+sing the iss+e !" sim+,ating .FO
wa$es- Or is the entire phenomenon +ner their %ontro,-/
/0o+%annot mean that( Ma1or./ I got +p an too# from a she,f of
his we,,2organi3e ,i!rar" the Book of the Damned !" Char,es Fort.
/Man" of the t"pi%a, tri%#s of what we now %a,, .FOs ha$e !een
es%ri!e inthe 1o+rna,s of !"gone a"s( %o,,e%te !" this man .. 45
/6ait(/ sai M+rph". /Things are rare," so simp,e( m" frien.
I am on," tr"ing to %a+tion "o+( so "o+ wi,, not spen "o+r time
%hasing reams. There is a .FO phenomenon( an there ha$e
!een %onta%rees %,aiming intimate #now,ege of it sin%e time
immemoria,. 7+t there is a,so a %apa!i,it" to %reate artifi%ia,,"
!oth the .FO sightings an the effe%ts reporte !" %onta%tees.
F+rthermore( there is a possi!i,it" that some gro+p has a,rea"
+nerstoo the who,e p+33,e ... /
/So,$e the .FO pro!,em-/
/0es. 0o+ nee to fa%e a,, the possi!i,ities. 0o+ ha$e to raw
the %onse8+en%es. Someone ma" ha$e so,$e the pro!,em. Perhaps
there is an e,egant so,+tion to m+,tiimensiona, tra$e,( an it is
!eing app,ie. I am not a ph"si%ist. 0o+ sho+, as# "o+r theoreti%ian
friens what the" thin#. I %an on," te,, "o+ that si,ent( is#2shape
f,"ing ma%hines %an !e !+i,t. If the" are e8+ippe with the right
e$i%es( the" %an %reate astonishing effe%ts an !e reporte as f,"ing
sa+%ers. I wish I sti,, ha m" fi,es on the German e9periments./
S+ppositions( I tho+ght. :ss+mptions. 6e5re going to nee more
than that to e9p,ain the .FO pro!,em. /Ma1or( I %an5t !e,ie$e that
some Na3i gro+p ha manage to s+r$i$e se%ret," with this #in of
te%hno,og" in its power./
/6ho sa"s an"thing a!o+t the Na3is- I am s+ggesting that other
gro+ps ha$e !e%ome in$o,$e. German" was simp," a ,itt,e ahea of
other peop,e. 0o+ ha$e ;<s in 1&''( an "o+ ha$e the :t,as ro%#et
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in the '60s. You have foo-fighters in '43, and the green fireballs of
Ne !e"i#o nine $ears later.
%& lot of people got involved. 'ndustrial #on#erns. (aboratories
engaged in ps$#hotroni# resear#h. The Na)i resear#h on *i#roaves
as #hild's pla$ #o*pared to the sophisti#ation of *odern
e"peri*ents. 'f so*eone is using this te#hnolog$, e #an assu*e
the$ have also *astered phar*a#olog$, the use of drugs to distort
the *e*ories of itnesses, the use of *ind #ontrol to suggest
stories, to plant fa+e observations. ,on't $ou thin+ people should
tr$ to get so*e infor*ation about that before believing in friendl$
spa#e visitors-%
%'t's hard to believe that these te#hni.ues ould alread$ be
applied on this +ind of s#ale,% ' said.
%,on't $ou read the nespapers- ,on't $ou follo publi#ations
on *ind #ontrol- The *ilitar$ has been using this +ind of te#hni.ue
l: "
ror $ears.
/e pulled out of a file a series of New York Times #lippings
beginning in 1900. 't des#ribed part of a u.s. pro1e#t hi#h spanned
32 $ears and involved h$pnosis, nar#oanal$sis, ele#troni# brain
sti*ulation, and the behavioral effe#ts of ever$ ph$si#al vibration
+non to s#ien#e, fro* ultrasound to *i#roaves. /e shoed *e
a boo+ entitled Operation Mind Control, in hi#h 3./. 4oart
des#ribes his *eeting ith a $oung *an ho had 1ust returned
fro* a tour of dut$ ith the &ir 5or#e. /e suffered fro* a*nesia.
(i+e *an$ 657 #onta#rees, he re*e*bered vaguel$ that he had
had a good ti*e, but #ouldn't des#ribe in derail here he had been.
&fter *an$ therap$ sessions, he began to re#all part of his a#tivities.
/e had served, it see*ed, on a *ilitar$ #o**ittee in 8ietna*. /e
had drea*s in hi#h he as standing at a long table on a bea#h,
ith 9o**unist offi#ers on one side and &*eri#ans on the other.
&lthough the dis#ussion as heated, nothing as ritten don.
/is assign*ent as to re*e*ber ever$thing that as said. /e
had been trained for total re#all. .. then his entire *e*or$ of these
assign*ents as erased li+e a *agneti# #assette.
Giving me time to absorb this information, Major Murph
gesture! to"ar! the notes I ha! #ompi$e! on the %FO #onta#tees
an! their se#ts&
'(ou have assemb$e! #ase histories on rather interesting
groups& Don)t misun!erstan! me,' he sai!& 'I am not suggesting
that se#ret agents are going aroun! the "or$! giving these
thousan!s of peop$e in!ivi!ua$ suggestions to see %FOs&
*s "e foun! out "hen "e began !eve$oping the s#ien#e of
propagan!a !uring the $ast "ar, ou !on)t nee! to !o a$$ that&
* fe" "e$$+p$a#e! stories, a "e$$+p$anne! program pub$i#i,ing
sensationa$ in#i!ents, "i$$ !o marve$s& The #onta#rees are being
manipu$ate!& *n! I thin- "e shou$! not $oo- in outer spa#e for
the Manipu$ators&'
'.here "ou$! ou $oo-/'
'Right here, on Earth,' sai! the Major, "ith the satisfie! air
of a mathemati#s professor "ho has su##ee!e! in proving an
espe#ia$$ ve0ing theorem& 'The best p$a#e to start $oo-ing for
them is among some of the o##u$t groups& Su#h organi,ations
are an i!ea$ p$a#e for a #$ever in!ivi!ua$ to e0er#ise his inf$uen#e,
be#ause the are ignore! b the inte$$e#tua$s, b those "ho #a$$
themse$ves )s#ientifi# investigators&) The are afrai! of $oo-ing
si$$ if the join the Or!er of Me$#hi,e!e-1 "hat "i$$ the Dean
sa "hen he fin!s out2'
.e both $aughe!& I -ne" that Murph "as right on at $east
that point& The professiona$ s#ientists "ere so inse#ure that the
"ou$! thun!er against anone of their number "ho !are! to rea!
o##u$t boo-s an! a!mit it, or "ho got initiate! into the Or!er of
Me$#hi,e!e- &&& "ithout #$othes, in somebo!)s hot tub&
34oo- at "hat ou have a$rea! foun!& (ou have here man
#onta#tee stories that appear meaning$ess or foo$ish at first,'
#ontinue! Murph& '(et the #ontain e0p$osive i!eas1 po$iti#a$
#ontro$ from a so+#a$$e! )higher $eve$)5 so#ia$ unifi#ation5
resistan#e to nu#$ear energ5 trans#en!ing tra!itiona$ re$igions5
e$imination of the #urrent finan#ia$ sstem& 6eep $oo-ing& (ou
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might find that most of the UFO groups, including the major
civilian organizations, are influenced by some strange people.
nd the pattern of conditioning you have discovered in your
computer studies of UFO sightings may turn out to be aimed at
long!term social changes."
"#o$ could you prove that%"
"&oo' for cases $here direct contact seems to have ta'en
place bet$een such a group and someone $ho fits the profile
of the manipulators," ans$ered the (ajor) getting up from his
armchair as * gathered my notes and $al'ed to$ard the door.
"nd loo' for other une+plained effects $hich follo$ a similar
modus operandi: things that have a strong symbolic content, but
don,t seem to ma'e sense. Things that academic science refuses
to study, but $hich ma'e a subliminal impact on the public.
That,s the level $here the manipulators $ill do their $or'. *f
*,m not mista'en, the UFOs are only one aspect of their activity,
one tool in their arsena& *f these beings are human, they have
to reveal themselves occasionally, even if they are very good at
misdirecting our attention. -o do not go chasing every UFO
that people report to you. .ou may find that the really important
observation has ta'en place in your o$n bac'yard $hile you
" $ere a$ay.
/e $al'ed together to the 0uiet street, lined $ith trees.
"lso remember," he said as * $as getting into my car, for
1od,s sa'e, don,t $aste your time $ith the UFO groups. There,s
better things to do."
* tried to catch him off guard, just once2 "/hat $ill you say,
(ajor, if * come bac' $ith evidence that some nonhuman beings
are involved% /ill you say that you $ere $rong, and that the occult
groups $ere right%"
"* never said they $ere $rong," retorted the (ajor. "* said they
$ere infiltrated."
Adventures oI a Crand Master
A Iew weeks aIter this discussion with the Major, I ran into
the Iirst indication that there might be some merit to his idea
that occult groups are controlled by skilled manipulators, and
that it might even shed some light on the UFO phenomenon. I
Iound this indication in a book written by a Frenchman named
Raymond Bernard.
Bernard lives near Paris, in Villeneuve-Sr.-Ceorges. He heads
up the European branch oI the "Ancient and Mystical Order oI
the Rosy Cross," one oI the major organizations in the world
that claim to preserve and teach a genuine esoteric tradition.
True adepts oI the Rosy Cross, it is said, are not oI this Earth.
They have transcended the bonds oI time and space. They need
no human structure, no Order, and no Raymond Bernard! They
reach this exalted state, however, by a series oI initiations that
organizations such as AMORC claim to preserve as a body oI
'sacred knowledge." AMORC teaches it throughout the world,
mailing its educational material Irom its lavish headquarters in San
Jose, CaliIornia.
I have my own conclusions about the nature oI this process;
I am not blind to the Iact that many such organizations serve as
cover Ior international espionage. From John Dee and Casanova
to Aleister Crowley, occultists have oIten doubled as spies. But that
may not be the whole story. The Iact is that, as soon as we enter this
domain, we Iind another hall oI mirrors where opportunities Ior
errors and deception are many.
The conIusion is blatant and deliberate. Its avowed purpose
is to discourage superIicial minds, curiosity seekers, and most
scientists. It also gives rationalists a good reason Ior rejecting the
whole thing out oI hand. The second purpose is to mislead most
oI those who still remain into blind alleys by various Iorms oI
temptation. Making gold, Ior instance, is a Iavorite sidetrack oI the
Adepts. Only those who are not interested in the literal gold will
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be able to find their way deeper into the labyrinth. But what of the
knowledge of the initiates which AMORe claims to hold? Well
this knowledge is most ancient. AMOR! says it comes from " you
guessed it " Atlantis. #t was preser$ed all this time by %gyptian
priests and their descendants.
Whether or not there e$er was a continent or island of Atlantis
one thing is certain& some techni'ues used by occult groups ha$e
indeed been preser$ed from the most ancient times. They include
e(cellent operating knowledge of hypnosis suggestion the laws of
forms and their use for ritual and beha$ior control. The ancient art
of hypnotic control has been transferred to the halls of academe
where it is used with caution and reluctance in the psychiatry
department) but for all practical purposes the awesome powers of
the shaman ha$e gone the way of *urd+ieff and Aleister !rowley.
There are notable e(ceptions. ,ypnotic techni'ues taught
to would"be Adepts occasionally playa role in publicly $isible
e$ents. #n -./0 a man named 1irhan killed Robert 2ennedy in
3os Angeles. 1irhan was a member of AMORe. ,e had used the
Order4s techni'ue for self"hypnosis while preparing his role in this
tragedy. Raymond Bernard too has used the techni'ue often but
for a different purpose& to obtain $isions that would lead him to a
higher le$el of being and would help him assume his role at the
head of a thri$ing acti$e wealthy international organi5ation with
members in all 6rench"speaking countries including large parts
of Africa. Bernard in turn reports to the man who heads up the
Order worldwide the 7#mperaror.4
The Manipulators struck in -./8. Raymond Bernard was
contacted by a 7superior being7 who called himself Maha and
who apparently had e(traordinary eyes which Bernard wrote
reflected an entire uni$erse. Bernard was con$inced that Maha
could communicate through his eyes alone.
-
Their first meeting took place at the !arlton ,otel in Amsterdam.
The effects of a powerful suggestion were immediately noticeable
for Bernard found himself standing before Maha without being
aware oI having made any eIIort to get up. He could no longer
perceive anything around him except Malia's eyes, extremely pale,
which demanded that he abandon all control.
What we have here is the statement oI a man who has met in
person one oI the Manipulators," an important statement, even iI
the witness is a believer in the occult and a highly trained practitioner
oI a tradition that is obviously aIIecting his perceptions.
Maha was quick to point out that the hotel lobby was not asuitable
place Ior their meeting. He walked to the street: an automobile
picked them up, and began driving along the Leldersplein, crossing
the bridge, turning leIt, and moving away toward a suburb oI
Amsterdam. They stopped inIront oI a splendid residence built oI
light-colored bricks, situated in a park Iull oI Ilowers.
Maha then made his purpose clear. He said he was a member
oI "the High Council" (also called the "X'). His statements
about his role were couched in the same bizarre style used by
Dr. Pettipher and the other "mystics" we have heard. The reader
already knows what I think oI this style oI discourse: it is used,
purposely or not, because oI its suggestive value. It lulls the mind
oI the hearer into a semihypnotic state until it is ready to receive
the real message, the "plant" designed to grow and prosper in the
audience's unconscious. Maha, just like Crace Pettipher and a Iew
others oI the strange characters I met in this quest, shows himselI
to be a master oI the subliminal.
He then began to discuss his political role, and to paint an
incredible picture oI what I have called the "Control System." He
pointed out that it is diIIicult to contain the errors oI mankind.
Why should the truth oI one particular continent have precedence
over the truth oI another? he asked. The vigilance oI the "High
Council" is necessary to prevent human tragedy in a way that does
not interIere with the Ireedom oI mankind.
AIter this general statement, indicating that the so-called
"High Council" works on a planetary scale, unconcerned by minor
philosophical diIIerences between capitalism and communism
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(the "truth" of one continent and that of another), Maha went
on to deliver his main message, which Raymond ernard would
disseminate through his organi!ation and through his "oo#s$ %e
stated that man#ind is now at the "right level," and that the &new
cycle" will see competition on a glo"al scale$ %owever, this new
cycle is off to a "ad start, said Maha' man#ind is approaching it
with a mista#en concept of the value of money$ (n) the coming
cycle, the scale of values will "e reversed, he added, leading to a new
understanding of social good, the a"olition of "orders, and the death
of nationalism$ *t this point in Maha+s monologue, ernard was
still wondering why this meeting was ta#ing place$ (n fact, he had
heard much of this in earlier "riefings a"out the role of the "%igh
,ouncil$" Maha seemed to have read his thoughts of pu!!lement'
the meeting, he said, concerned the specific role of propaganda and
pu"lic indoctrination that groups such as AMORe can play$
Raymond ernard went to -ienna in .une 1/07$ %e met another
man, with a fine profile, dar# eyes, and white eye"rows, The car,
this time, was "earing the special plates of the diplomatic corps$
They drove to an isolated house near a forest$ (t was surrounded
with high walls, a"ove which only the roof and the top floor could
"e seen from the road$ There was no outward sign of activity, "ut
as they #noc#ed on the door, it opened onto a circular room with
a floor of "lac# and white mar"le triangles, where twelve men were
standing, dressed in white ro"es$
There, ernard witnessed a ritual with several stri#ing
peculiarities$ 1irst, he suddenly failed to hear the words of the
cele"rants, although he saw their lips moving$ Then he heard
a mounting vi"ration 2 not 3uite the om sound used "y 4astern
meditators$ %e lost consciousness and was later pu!!led "y
the whole e5perience$ Reflecting upon it, ernard came to the
conclusion that he had "een su"6ected to an e5amination$ (n fact,
he has no proof that he had not "een given posthypnotic suggestions
or reinforcements of earlier suggestions, whose e5istence may "e
indicated "y the fre3uent perceptual phenomena he e5perienced
throughout the episodes covered in his book !et he "sks #o
questions. The e$p%"#"tio# is si&p%e' he trusts these peop%e "s
co&p%ete%( "s the co#t"ctees trust their )sp"ce brothers) I#deed* he
s"(s* I +ou%d give &(se%, co&p%ete%( "#d +ithout seco#d thought to
such bei#gs' their +ork is the supre&e good* the summum bonum.
I# " %"ter i#tervie+ +ith the &"ster o, the house i# -ie##"*
.er#"rd +"s give# the ke( to the s(&bo%ic co%ors used i# the ritu"%
/e +"s to%d th"t red is the co%or o, the cosmic masters, the regulators
of human evolution. O#ce "g"i#* the +ords suggest " co#tro% s(ste&
th"t co&bi#es ph(sic"% k#o+%edge +ith uncanny mastery of that
emerging set of techniques the Soviets call psychotronics.
0,ter .er#"rd toured the e#tire house "#d +"s to%d its ro%e
i# the ,u#ctio# o, the Order* the )&"ster) spoke " si#g%e +ord
o, t+o s(%%"b%es' upo# he"ri#g this ke(+ord* .er#"rd again lost
consciousness. /e "ssu&ed o#ce &ore th"t he +"s re"chi#g " %eve%
o, cos&ic ecst"s( i#duced b( the high &edit"tive st"te o, his
hosts To &e* ever(thi#g he describes "g"i# i#dic"tes h(p#otic
co#tro% The )&"ster) e$p%"i#ed it hi&se%,* b( s"(i#g th"t ever(
&"# c"# be %i#ked to others b( his )ke(+ord*) ,or&i#g i#,i#ite
series o, ch"i#s
Is there re"%%( such "# org"#i1"tio# "s the )/igh Cou#ci%)2
Prob"b%( #ot The #"&e &"( h"ve bee# picked ,or .er#"rd3s
purpose Cou%d the o+#ers o, the houses he describes be ,ou#d2
Th"t* i#deed* +ou%d be &ost i#teresti#g* but u#der +h"t prete#se
cou%d " serious i#vestig"tio# be &ou#ted2 There "re %"+s "g"i#st
po%itic"% "git"tio# +ithi# " give# cou#tr(* but there is #o %"+ "g"i#st
peop%e +ho thi#k the( c"# ru# the +or%d b( ps(chic &e"#s
4h"t "re the( +"iti#g ,or2 The "#s+er is str"ight,or+"rd' the(
+"it ,or the )co&i#g o, the 5i#gdo& o, Gr""%) 4he# +i%% this t"ke
p%"ce2 4he# the 6FOs %"#d o# E"rth* or* "s the &e# to%d .er#"rd*
)4he# the k#ights o, the E"rth &eet the ce%esti"% k#ights o, the
&"crocos&) I# other +ords* +he# co#t"ct is ope#%( est"b%ished
+ith the cos&ic &esse#gers ever( re%igio# h"s bee# pro&isi#g us
si#ce 0br"h"& 7 +ho got the ide" ,ro& Me%chi1edek%
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I find it fascinating that there should be a secret group of men
spending their time and money keeping these ideas alive: within
the symbol of Melchizedek, all paths of belief become one, even
those apparently most opposed, like atanism and !hristianity" in
the last analysis, man is bearing every stream of knowledge within
himself, and the #igh !ouncil rides higher still, beyond $ood and
%vil& 'aymond (ernard was told that he must transmit what he
had seen, and make it public& He was instructed to write books about
his encounters. This was a deliberate action on the part of his guides
to get their symbols and their message out into the world& Their
carefully staged rituals would be described in derail& )ther books,
movies, conversations would then pick up this mass of ideas and
carry them farther&
*mong the notions they want us to believe is the assumption
that they are the guardians of a most ancient tradition coming
from the *tlanteans& +here did the *tlanteans get it, Maha stated
the answer une-uivocally, by insisting that this knowledge came
from another gala.y, and was brought to %arth by the founders of
*tlantis& The claim is made that the /pure race0 of these *tlanteans
has continued throughout the millennia& Maha will not reveal where
they now live, not even to his dear disciple (ernard& #e hinted
chat they are linked to reports of unidentified beings, coming from
elsewhere, who pay for the goods they buy with pure gold&,
Spiritual Blackmail
The being of the !anigou, the man with long blond hair and
hypnotic eyes, who could not be photographed by 1ac-ues (ordas
and paid with pure gold" the scientist who showed #elen the motor"
the dwarfs who e.hibited the trick map to (etty #ill and gave
2orilhon a fake $ospel: were they of the same origin as Maha,
The 3&& *ir 4orce has made many naive and misguided
attempts to understand 34)s& It has tried, patiently at first,
desperately sometimes, to get rid of flyi!g sa"#ers$ To t%at e!d it
%as "sed po&er from t%e s#issors of its #e!sors a!d from t%e 'arrels
of its g"!s$ It &as loo(i!g for e)ide!#e t%at t%e o'*e#ts &ere a dire#t
military t%reat to t%e +!ited States$ It !e)er o##"rred to t%e +S,F
t%at t%e t%reat mig%t 'e at a differe!t le)el$
The group of people who will first manage to harness the fear of
cosmicforces and the emotions surrounding UFO contact to a political
purpose will be able to exert incredible spiritual blackmail.
S"#% &eapo!s are less fle-i'le, '"t also less dete#ri'le, t%a!
ta!(s a!d air#raft. t%ey represe!t a more lasti!g form of #o!trol
o)er t%e li)es of me!$ It ta(es a lo!g time to 'ri!g t%eir effe#ts to
#omplete fr"itio!, 'e#a"se se#re#y is esse!tial for t%em to &or($ T%e
#o!ta#tees a!d t%e o##"lt 'elie)ers %a)e 'ee! "sed as p"ppets$ T%e
p"'li# i! e)ery #o"!try !o& re#og!i/es t%e e-iste!#e of +FOs, a!d
asso#iates it &it% t%e idea of &ise )isitors from spa#e$ , ma*ority of$
t%e ,meri#a! p"'li# %as 'e#ome #o!)i!#ed of t%e e-iste!#e of s"#%
)isitors$ T%ey %a)e %a r!essed 0olly&ood$ ,!d t%ey %a)e made s"re
t%e &%ole s"'*e#t remai!s a matter of ridi#"le a!d disrep"te amo!g
s#ie!tists$ T%ere is i! t%e 1%ite 0o"se a ma! &%o %as see! a +FO
a!d is impressed 'y &%at %e sa&$ T%ere are small gro"ps a!d se#ts
of #o!ta#tees all o)er t%e &orld, "si!g a )ag"e a!d #o!f"si!g *argo!
t%at prote#ts t%e "!spea(a'le reality, a!d #laimi!g t%at sal)atio!
from 0ea)e! is *"st aro"!d t%e #or!er$
I do!2t t%i!( &e s%o"ld e-pe#t sal)atio! from t%e s(y$
I 'elie)e t%ere is a )ery real +FO pro'lem$ I %a)e also #ome
to s"spe#t t%at it is 'ei!g ma!ip"lated for politi#al e!ds$ ,!d t%e
data s"ggest t%at t%e ma!ip"lators may 'e %"ma! 'ei!gs &it% a
pla! for so#ial #o!trol$ S"#% pla!s %a)e 'ee! made 'efore, a!d %a)e
s"##eeded$ 0istory s%o&s t%at %a)i!g a #osmi# myt%ology as part
of s"#% a pla! is !ot al&ays !e#essary$ 3"t it #ertai!ly %elps$
PART THREE
The Stratagems
Practically all the ruses and stratagems of war are variations
or developments of afew simple tricks that have been practiced
by man on man since man was first hunted by man... The
elementary principle of aLLdeception is to attract the enemy's
attention to what you wish him to see, and to distract his
attention from what you do not wish him to see.
General Sir Archibald Wavell, memorandum to the
British Chiefs of Staff, 1940
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A Cow for Norad
The steep hillside up to the electrically controlled high entrance gate
to the huge tunnel into this worldwide intelligence nerve center
is covered with rock and brush. Surprisingly, a few cattle are also
grazed here, no doubt to lower any possible fire hazard. So right
there, immediately overlooking thousands of military buildings, the
protective covering of hundreds of planes and helicopters and 20,000
soldiers, and immediately in front of the electronic brain and senses
that survey the entire North American continent so that even a needle
couldnt get in undetected, plus monitoring of all of space from here
to the !oon ... someone thought this would be a neat place to have a
cattle mutilation.
Frederick W Smith, "attle !utilation
I
N THE LAST three years a new problem has been added to the list
o !nresol"ed #!estions s!rro!ndin$ the %F& phenomenon.
'!ch intense disc!ssion has taken place amon$ the belie"ers and the
skeptics alike abo!t this problem. ( am reerrin$ to the many reports
o cattle m!tilations that are reported thro!$ho!t the Western states,
oten at the same time and in the same area as %F& si$htin$s. Are the
m!tilations real, and are they ca!sed by %F& occ!pants) ( m!st admit
that Icannot $i"e a concl!si"e answer. ( can s!mmari*e the acts,
howe"er, and show why they are rele"ant to the possible e+ploitation
o %F& belies. Let me irst remind the reader that the three positions
people ha"e taken abo!t the m!tilations are as ollows,
(1) the cattle have died naturally and were mutilated y !redat"r#$
"r were %illed y a &ew i#"lated #en#ati"n'#ee%er#(
)2* there i# an "r+ani,ati"n #ecretly c"nductin+ lar+e'#cale
mutilati"n "& cattle$ either a# !art "& #"me witchcra&t cult "r a# !art
"& a #ecret +"vernment te#tin+ !r"+ram( and
)-* the mutilati"n# are cau#ed y .FO# and their "ccu!ant#/
0e mu#t a!!r"ach thi# new area with cauti"n/ The accumulati"n
"& data #eem# t" !r"ve that many "& the re!"rted mutilati"n# are real/
Many animal#$ #mall and lar+e$ ran+in+ &r"m rait# t" u&&al"e#$
have een %illed my#teri"u#ly and have had #"me "r+an# rem"ved/ In
#tudyin+ the#e re!"rt#$ I have di#re+arded all ca#e# where !redat"r#
c"uld have een inv"lved$ and I have relied "n the "ri+inal !"lice
re!"rt# and "n the #tatement# +iven y #tate veterinarian# and
c"unty c"r"ner# a"ut the nature "& the w"und# in&licted "n the
animal#/ The#e d"cument# di#cl"#e the &act that the mutilati"n# are
n"t "& the #"rt that #"me y"uth&ul +an+ "r witchcra&t cult w"uld e
li%ely t" cau#e/ They inv"lve #ur+ical techni1ue# that demand "th
+""d anat"mical %n"wled+e and !r"cedural #%ill/ Thi# re#trict#
c"n#ideraly the ran+e "& !"##ile #u#!ect#/ In the w"rd# "& a law
en&"rcement "&&icial in M"ntana2 3Dili+ent and inten#ive re#earch
y "&&icer#$ a##i#ted y !ath"l"+i#t#$ veterinarian#$ t"4ic"l"+i#t#$ and
"ther#$ ha# &ailed t" unravel the my#tery/3
0e are enterin+ a new area where we mu#t tread care&ully/ S"me
"& the evidence may have een !lanted t" mi#lead u# int" &al#e
c"nclu#i"n#/ The c"nnecti"n with .FO# a!!ear# e#!ecially tric%y
and$ if!r"ven$ w"uld #till n"t an#wer all "ur 1ue#ti"n#/ S"me"ne
c"uld e #imulatin+ .FO event# t" turn the inve#ti+at"r#5 attenti"n
away &r"m the real cau#e "& the mutilati"n/ Or it may be that the
mutilati"n# are in &act the 6ne4t #te!3 in the un&"ldin+ "& a !r"ce##
directly related t" the .FO#/
In the ar#enal "& ma## mani!ulati"n$ &ew wea!"n# are a# e&&ective
a# terr"r( and am"n+ the device# "& the terr"ri#t$ &ew are a# #tri%in+
a# mutilati"n "& !e"!le "r animal#/ 7ere a+ain$ the c"nnecti"n
with e#"teric "r+ani,ati"n# i# a &amiliar "ne/ On May 2$ 1818$ in
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183
Munich, for example, right-wing newspapers accused the left of
having murdered and mutilated hostages who were members of
the occult "hule !ociet"#" he hostages$ sexual organs were said
to have been severed before the hostages were shot# he stor" was
a fabrication, but it succeeded in convincing the farmers and the
middle class that the executions had been the wor% of a "&ewish
conspirac"#" More than two hundred leftists were executed b" Ma"
' in reprisal# hroughout the course of histor", actual and fa%ed
mutilations have been a tool of political terror for both the left
and the right# !uch acts conve" man" s"mbols into the minds of
those who read about them, and evo%e feelings of helplessness and
fear#$ he countr"side is especiall" vulnerable, isolated as the ranch
houses are, under the night s%"# (f cattle are found, inexplicabl"
cut b" the %nife of an un%nown criminal, people are li%el" to feel
ancestral terrors)
hreatening and heav" his wings overshadow thee* !atan,
himself, is hovering nearf
!uch mutilation of cattle has been s"stematicall" carried out b"
persons or forces un%nown since about 1+,-, at least# he reaction of
local, state, and federal authorities was usuall" swift but ineffective#
Man" individuals and organi.ations have been suspected of having
engineered the slaughter, but since no one has been arrested and
convicted for it, man" farmers now assume that the perpetrators
were either creatures from outer space or secret agents on the
pa"roll of the government agencies themselves# he problem is well
worth a detailed examination here, not onl" because it involves the
same patterns as /01 landings, but because its social repercussions
follow the same general principles) incidents of high strangeness are
reported b" credible witnesses* apparent "evidence" found at the
site turns out to be spurious, worthless, or misleading* authorities
become involved but fail to provide an ade2uate explanation* the
press amplifies the m"ster"* hoaxers and curiosit" see%ers complicate
it; finally, academic researcers iss!e "e#$lanati%ns" tat &itnesses
and 'n%&led(ea)le in*esti(at%rs tr%& int% te (ar)a(e, )!t
&ic im$ress te scientific c%mm!nity en%!( t% disc%!ra(e it
fr%m $r%)in( any dee$er int% te real nat!re %f te $r%)lem+ Te
!ltimate res!lt is t% s$read a feelin( %f an(!is and !nf%rm!lated
e#$ectati%n tr%!(%!t te area &ere te e*ents a*e ta'en $lace,
e#$ectati%n %f s%metin( dreadf!l tat &ill c%me fr%m te s'y,
s%metin( n% %ne %n Eart !nderstands, s%metin( s&ift and
$itiless tat &ill resa$e !man life+
Te n!m)ers temsel*es are el%-!ent+ In an I8.m%nt $eri%d
)ef%re /an!ary 1011, tere &ere 122 m!tilati%ns in 13 &estern
states+ M%re tan 182 cases %cc!rred in C%l%rad% al%ne in 1013+
M%st cases a*e ta'en $lace !nder te same c%nditi%ns as 4FO
landin(s, at ni(t and in silence+ Oter caracteristics a*e )een,
n% ca!se %f deat c%!ld )e determined; )l%%d &as drained fr%m
te animals; s$ecific %r(ans &ere c!t a&ay; n% traces %r trac's %f
te 'iller c%!ld )e f%!nd; and n% eff%rts ad )een made t% ide
te carcasses+ In fact, as Mend%cin% Seriff5s In*esti(at%r 6ar%n
7an'es said, after st!dyin( se*en m!tilated cattle in C%*el%,
Calif%rnia, )et&een N%*em)er 518 and /an!ary 511, "It &as li'e
s%me%ne &anted !s t% find tem+"
Te Sla!(ter 6e(ins
First, a re*ie& %f s%me %lder cases+
(1) January 90, 103:, Conway. South Carolina. ; farmer
eard a c%mm%ti%n in is )arn and %)ser*ed an %)<ect at
treet%$ le*el+ It &as a)%!t se*en yards l%n( and f%!r yards
&ide, li(t (ray, lit !$ inside, and sa$ed li'e a alf e((+
Te &itness fired is (!n at te %)<ect+ N!mer%!s cattle
&ere f%!nd dead %f !n'n%&n ca!ses after te si(tin(+
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(2) November 14. 1954. Isola, Italy. A farmer named
Amerigo Lorenzini took cover when a bright, cigar-shaed
craft !anded near him. "#t of it came three dwarfs dressed
in meta!!ic diving s#its. $he% soke among themse!ves
in an #nknown !ang#age whi!e !ooking at the rabbits in
a cage. Lorenzini aimed his ri&e at the intr#ders, b#t it
fai!ed to fire, and he fe!t so weak he had to dro the g#n.
Lorenzini saw the dwarfs take awa% the rabbits, and the
craft dearted.
(3) September 18, 19'(, Barcelos, Brazil $hree men working
in a r#bber !antation sawa !arge, disk-shaed ob)ect hover
near the river. *t emitted sarks, and was si!ver% in co!or
and ver% bright. *t event#a!!% rose straight # at high seed.
Catt!e disaeared from the area.
(4) Fall 19'9, near Kansas City. $wo women saw an
#nidentified ob)ect come c!ose to the gro#nd and heard
the %e!!s of an anima! being s!a#ghtered as the ob)ect took
off again.
As far as m% fi!es e+tend, there are indications of ec#!iar effects on
anima!s wherever ,-"s are seen. horses !ifted from the gro#nd/
dogs ara!%zed a!ong with their h#man masters. And we have the
c!aim that some of the anima!s have been taken awa%, or !eft behind
as m#ti!ated carcasses rotting in the s#n.
A man named Anton -itzgera!d reorted two strange e+eriences
that took !ace one %ear aart in the mid-si+ties. $he first one
haened in the Nata! mid!ands, in Africa, as -itzgera!d and a
farm manager named 0ock 1arais were wa!king down a hi!! on his
roert% one fine morning.
$he% saw 2an eerie reddish g!ow2 on the farm r#nwa%, abo#t
(33 %ards from them. $he f!ock of shee in the r#nwa% addock
were a!! standing in two one-third circ!es on oosite-sides of
the glow, looking toward it. Fro! o"r ele#ated $o%ition, wrote
&nton Fit'gerald in the a#iation !aga'ine 'Wings Over A/rica, (the
%hee$ re!inded !e o) iron )iling% on a $ie*e o) $a$er aro"nd a
!agnet. The $inki%h glow %tarted ri%ing #erti*all+ witho"t a %o"nd.
Fit'gerald in%$e*ted the area, and noti*ed that one old %hee$ wa%
!i%%ing. ,e wa% re!inded o) the -"l" legend o) the Red S"n that
ri%e% %traight "$ into the %k+ a)ter de#o"ring %o!e o) the tri.e/%
*attle./0 The Cherokee Indian% ha#e a %i!ilar legend o) the S"n that
ri%e% %traight "$.
The %e*ond in*ident witne%%ed .+ Fit'gerald took $la*e a%
he wa% )l+ing o#er we%tern Te1a%. ,i% *o!$anion, another $ilot
na!ed 2ake R"gel, tho"ght the o.3e*t wa% a weather .alloon
"ntil he %aw it *li!. %traight "$, with a $ink glow whi*h wa%
!ore inten%e in the *enter. In thi% *a%e, too, ani!al% had .een
)a%*inated .+ the $heno!enon. 4hite)a*e ,ere)ord %teer% on the
ran*h o) a !an na!ed Ted 5e%lie had %tood in a %e!i*ir*le in
the $addo*k. One o) the older %teer% wa% !i%%ing. The *a%e wa%
re$orted to Pro3e*t 6l"e 6ook.7
The )ir%t *a%e to .e in#e%tigated o))i*iall+ in the *onte1t o) 8FO
re$ort% wa% that o) (Sni$$+ the ,or%e in Colorado, in Se$te!.er
196:. Nothing *a!e o) it, .e*a"%e the hor%e had .een le)t there
too long .e)ore %*ienti%t% arri#ed at the %$ot. There had .een 8FO
re$ort% in the %$e*i)i* area where the *ar*a%% wa% )o"nd.
In 19:; and 19:< the *a%e% .egan *o!ing in a real wa#e.
In late 2"l+ 19:<, on &%hlot 6en*h, north o) Fort Shaw,
Montana, a !"tilated *ow /#a% )o"nd in the $a%t"re, the teat% *"t
o)) with a %har$ in%tr"!ent, the gra%% tra!$led down )or nine )eet
aro"nd the *ar*a%%. The )ar!er had %een a .linking red light at the
%$ot on the $re#io"% night, and it had !o#ed down the road. &
%hort ti!e later, a +o"ng .o+ %aw a red light going thro"gh a )ield
whi*h wa% ina**e%%i.le to #ehi*le% =and no tra*e% o) a #ehi*le were
)o"nd0. Two *ow% were !i%%ing and ha#e ne#er .een )o"nd.
In the word% o) Ca$tain 4ol#erton, the o))i*er in *harge o)
in#e%tigating %"*h re$ort% in Ca%*ade Co"nt+,
A Cow for N orad 187
The records [of the Sheriffs office] are filled with numerous
reports of UFO sightings !n a num"er of cases# the person
reporting the sighting was a"le to gi$e officers a $i$id
description of the strange craft These $aried from a saucer%
shaped craft or something that loo&ed li&e a giant pear# to
a large o"'ect that loo&ed li&e a two(stor) "uilding with
lights resem"ling windows
There were two UFO landings on a ranch near Simms# *ontana#
on +ecem"er 8 and ,# 1,7- The rancher.s wife and children saw
the o"'ect ( a large white light with a red light on top ( come to
the ground in an area where the carcass of a calf# alread) dead
from natural causes# had "een left on the grass# a"out a half mile
from the house /hen the o"'ect ascended# it seemed to roll on
its side and fl)awa) toward August 0west1 at low le$el The ne2t
e$ening it returned# remained a"out one minute# and left to the
east The calf was found mutilated
Three officers went to the site and e2amined the carcass
The) found that the udder area had "een remo$ed3 4The cut
mar&s around the wound were consistent with those found in
earlier cases that pathologists had $eri fied were made with a $er)
sharp instrument4
+elusionar) Spirals and Other Surgical !nstruments
*an) people still thin& that the cattle mutilations can "e
e2plained ") natural causes !n a state the si5e of *ontana or
Te2as# cattle die ") the hundreds e$er) month# and it is not
surprising to disco$er carcasses that ha$e "een eaten awa) ")
predators 6ames Stewart# an assistant professor of sociolog)
from the Uni$ersit) of South +a&ota at 7ermillion1 suggested
that "elief in cattle mutilations was 4the result of collecti$e
delusion#4 something we ha$e alread) heard man) times as the
Q _ O -d
~REVOLVING
LIGHTNING BOLT
Figure 9.1. Drawing made by a UFO witne in !aug"n# M$ntana# an area
w"ere t"ere "a%e been many &att'e muti'ati$n. T"ere were tw$ $b(e&t
wit" g'$wing d$me# and re%$'%ing b'ue and w"ite 'ig"t. ) 'ig"tning b$'t
wa een underneat" t"em at inter%a'. T"e $b(e&t were $ber%ed at du*
+$r +i%e minute.
,e-.'anati$n, +$r UFO. /$w &an t"e ran&"er be 0de'uded,
w"en t"ey re.$rt muti'ated anima'1 T"e $&i$'$git in 2ueti$n
re.$rt t"at3 (1) t"ey may be &aug"t in a de'ui$nary .ira'4 (2)
t"ey "$.e t$ &$''e&t m$ney under t"e %anda'im &'aue $+ t"eir
inuran&e .$'i&y4 567 t"e anima' may "a%e been *i''ed by .e$.'e4
and 587 t"ey may "a%e been *i''ed by wi'd d$g.
)'' t"ee e-.'anati$n are %a'id +$r a .$rti$n $+ t"e &ae4
but t"ey are em."ati&a''y &$ntradi&ted by mu&" $+ t"e e%iden&e
gat"ered by t"e .$'i&e.
In Nebra*a# Ca.tain !ern 9y'er 5Crimina' Di%ii$n $+ t"e
State Patr$'7 &ited a &ae t"at "i agen&y "ad in%etigated in
w"i&" "e +$und e%iden&e $+ de'iberate muti'ati$n t"at &$u'd
n$t be attributed t$ .redat$r. Simi'ar'y# in Te-a# Ca.tain :.
:i'$n $+ t"e Te-a Ranger tated t"at e%era' &ae "e "ad
tudied were &'ai+ied a une-.'ainab'e. 9ut t"ey were $n'y t"e
ti. $+ t"e i&eberg.
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Threatening and Heavy
I have before me a standard police report form. It comes from
Texas. It is signed by Sheriff ichards! of Cochran Co"nty# and is
dated $arch 1%! 19&'! at 1()*% p.m. The complainant is a resident
of the town of +hiteface. The ,offense, listed in the "pper right-
hand corner of the report reads) Cattle $"tilation. The statement
indicates that! "pon hearing the complaint! Sheriff ichards went
to the scene and fo"nd the following.
Abo"t two miles over in a field was a perfectly ro"nd circle.
The heifer was lying in the middle of this circle with the
head to the North ... the bottom .aw was c"t bac/ and the
tong"e was gone. The sex organs were c"t off and gone.
The navel was c"t o"t in a ro"nd circle and the meat inside
was not to"ched. There was no blood on the gro"nd or on
the cow.
+hile he was chec/ing this o"t! the rancher said! ,If yo" thin/ this
is odd! loo/ at that place a 0"arter of a mile west., Sheriff ichards
fo"nd another circle there! with a dead steer.
This circle was abo"t the same 1si2e3 as the other one! b"t
the wheat was abo"t fo"r inches tall and it had been b"rned
clean. These circles were abo"t *% feet across.
A team from eese Air 4orce 5ase went to the area and fo"nd no
abnormal radioactivity. The only "n"s"al circ"mstances that were
related to the case were fre0"ent recent reports of 647s in the area.
The people that have been reporting this all tell the same
story. ,It, is abo"t as wide as a two8lane highway! ro"nd
and loo/s the color of the s"n when it is going down.
The law enforcement agencies in all areas tried, understandal!, to
"re#ent rumors from s"reading and to issue reassuring re"orts$ In
%tah, a #eterinarian on the staff of the De"artment of &griculture
was told he would e fired if he announced his conclusion that an
animal he had auto"sied had died anormall!$
The mutilation re"orts e'tended o#er (ansas, Neras)a, Iowa,
South Da)ota, Colorado, O)lahoma, and Minnesota during *+,-$
The following !ear man! cases occurred in Puerto Rico at the same
time as %FO "henomena$ &ccording to engineer S$ R$ .amarche,
who in#estigated man! of these re"orts, the first strange deaths
too) "lace in Feruar! *+,/$ 0! &"ril +, the &ssistant Secretar!
of &griculture, Mr$ F$ N$ Rodrigue1, stated that the "rolem was
occu"!ing his de"artment full2time, and the Federal Meat Ins"ector,
Mr$ I$ Fernande1, said the cause of death was un)nown$ Domestic
animals and "oultr! were )illed, as well as cows, shee", and "igs,
a""arentl! ! staing with a #er! shar" instrument$ & io"h!sicist
at the %ni#ersit! of Puerto Rico, Dr$ &ngel de la Sierra, stated he
in#estigated a case where an incision had een made 3similar to
what is done in e'"erimental surger!,3
In one of the incidents in which %FOs were related to the
disco#er! of dead animals, a rooster was )illed near the house of
Mr$ Orlando Franceschi, who wor)s at the hos"ital in Ponce$ This
too) "lace on the night of &"ril *4, *+,/, after he had oser#ed a
dwarfish eing that floated awa! from him$ Feeling it was going to
attac) him, he tried to hit the strange creature with a sho#el, ut
suffered tem"orar! "aral!sis$ 5hen he came home in a distraught
state, the "olice were called and an in#estigation was launched$ &
grou" of inde"endent witnesses had seen the eing 6and had thrown
stones at it7 the same night, and the ne't da! two women oser#ed
3a #i#id orange light hanging stationar! ao#e their garage3 near
Ponce$ &fter aout fi#e minutes it rose silentl! and mo#ed awa!
ehind the mountain, ut around the whole area where the o8ect
had een, a glow remained #isile$ &n interesting se9uel 6in the
light of the contact incidents related in the first "art of this oo)7
A Cow for No ra d 191
involves the series of messages this man heard inside his head"
during the following days. They were warning mankind of disaster
unless people started saying more prayers!
Other countries eperienced the phenomenon. !n 19"# there
were incidents in Ontario$ and in 19"% in &ue'ec$ Canada. !n the
spring of 19"%$ according to information received 'y a Teas research
group.( two horses were found in a snow'ank near )ildwood$
Al'erta. The uterus and left eye had 'een removed from each one.
The only tracks or marks resem'led 'ird prints. The carcasses were
allegedly flown to )innipeg for analysis. The same group reports
cases from *ra+il$ *olivia$ ,weden$ Australia$ and ,cotland.
!n April 19"" similar cases were reported in -rance$ in the .osges
region. The episode 'egan with the slaughter of /0 sheep in a single
night at .errieres and eight sheep at .omecourt. !n one week the
total num'er of dead animals included %1 sheep and one deer.
1unters and soldiers were deployed in the area$ including troops
of the 0/rd 2egiment and forest rangers. !n spite of their etensive
searches around the clock$ the unknown agent soon killed another
five sheep in 2am'ervillers.
The local police attri'uted the deaths to a wolf 3 and a hungry
little 'astard it must have 'een. !n a single night$ early in 4ay
19""$ it killed another eight sheep in 5essarupt. ,ome of the deaths
took place in fields and pastures surrounded with 'ar'ed wire.
!n late ,eptem'er$ two sheep were killed near 6pinal. They were
the only survivors of the earlier slaughter on the same property$
'elonging to 4rs. Claude 2egit.%
!n -rance$ as in the 7nited ,tates$ some of the cases actually
were the work of wolves 8a wolf was killed in 9o+ere$ 'ut that area
is #:: km south of the .osges episodes;. A man carrying a knife
and a rifle was arrested in Octo'er 19"" near 6pinal$ 'ut this
incident could hardly eplain the earlier slaughter. !n spite of the
attempts to keep the stories out of the newspapers$ the <uestions
were inescapa'le= if someone could with impunity fly close to
the ground and land in isolated spots$ if someone could kidnap
192 MESSENGERS OF DECEPTlON
animals, slaughter sheep and c!s, and remain undetected, culd
an"thing #e dne t stp this madness$ %h !as respnsi#le$ &nd
!hat purpse !as ser'ed$ &s !ith man" (FO encunters, the
mutilatins carried a message) *n the (nited States, the" seemed t
tell militar" authrities) !ith their radar and cmputers) +See h!
helpless "u are, see h! #slete "ur technlg" is-+
The Calling Cards
&rnan named Frederic. %) Smith, !h li'es in Clrad, has //ered
the nl" interpretatin / the m"ster" that, amng e'er"thing *
ha'e read n the su#0ect, ma.es sense t me) 1e !rites, 'er" simpl",
+Smene has #een deli'ering a message t the &merican peple,
t the g'ernment, the intelligence cmmunit")+21he in/rmatin
amassed #" Mr) Smith is cherent and 3uite impressi'e) Mst /
it cmes /rm the area !here he li'es, right in Clrad) *t lea'es
/ar #ehind the 4delusinar" spirals+ / the scial scientists, and the
sthing 4predatr ther"+ / the Pu#lic Relatins #"s)
G'ernr Richard D) 5amm /le! t Pue#l n Mnda"
a/ternn, Sept) 6, 1927 8accmpanied #" 9hn Mac*'r,
directr / the Clrad :ureau / *n'estigatin; , t cn/er
!ith the e<ecuti'e #ard / the Cattlemen=s &ssciatin
a#ut the mutilatins, !hich he called +ne / the greatest
utrages in the histr" / the !estern cattle industr")+ The
G'ernr / Clrad added, 4*t is n lnger pssi#le t
#lame predatrs /r the mutilatins+
The same !ee., !hat a lcal ne!spaper called +the largest /rce
/ la! en/rcement manp!er e'er assem#led in the histr" /
Clrad+ !as depl"ed) *t /ailed t identi/" a single suspect) Reprts
!ere cming in dail") Si<t" //icers /rm Ne#ras.a, %"ming, and
Clrad met in Frt Mrgan t tr" t crdinate their e//rts,
A Cow for No r ad 193
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Figure 9.2. A am!le of Fre"#$ "ew!a!er arti#le de#ri%i"g t$e
u"e&!lai"ed deat$ of o'er ()*+*** wort$ of #attle i" a fe', wee-.
." !ite of wat#$e a"d ear#$e #o"du#ted %/ farmer+ !oli#e+ a"d
Fre"#$ troo!+ t$e -illi"g #o"ti"ued e'eral mo"t$ later. Attem!t at
e&!la"atio" ra"ged from ,$u"gr/ wol'e, to ,'e"geful "eig$%or+, a"d
$ad to %ere0e#ted o" t$e %ai of t$e e'ide"#e.
but there was no visible proress! "owever# Colora$o %ureau o&
Spe'ial Investiation spe'ial investiator Carl (hitesi$e sai$ that
the re)oval o& se* orans an$ other bo$+ parts was , C $e&initel+ not
)a$e b+ pre$ators!-
The pheno)ena ha$ 'ertain 'hara'teristi's. the ani)als $ie$
with no evi$en'e o& strule! There were no tra'/s or bloo$ near the
'ar'asses 0althouh 'ir'ular $epressions an$ po$1li/e )ar/s were
so)eti)es reporte$2! So)e 'ar'asses see)e$ to have been airli&te$#
then $roppe$ in areas whi'h )a*i)i3e$ the 'han'es o& $is'over+!
4n$ intense blin$in lihts &ro) the s/+ were o&ten asso'iate$ with
the events!
In a news release $ate$ Sept! 15# 1967# the senior Senator &ro)
Colora$o# Flo+$ 8! "as/ell# $is'lose$ that he ha$ $is'usse$ the
)atter with F%I $ire'tor Claren'e 8elle+ an$ his 'hie& assistant!
"owever# the F%I 'on'lu$e$ it ha$ no 9uris$i'tion to enter the 'ase#
be'ause there was no evi$en'e o& interstate )ove)ent!
The )ost re)ar/able &eature o& the )utilations was their
beauti&ul pre'ision! Man+ ran'hers e'hoe$ the state)ent o& 4$a)s
Count+ 0I$aho2 Sheri&& :i) "ile)an. -I;ve been aroun$ livesto'/
all )+ li&e# an$ I;ve never seen an+thin li/e this!-
4 Gar&iel$ Count+ o&&i'er# na)e$ "art# $is'lose$ that on Sept!
1<# a "ere&or$ 'ow was $is'overe$ 9ust a'ross the 'ount+ line in
Mesa Count+= )issin were the se* orans# the re'tu)# an$ an
ear!> In another 'ase# a steer was &oun$ in open 'ountr+# 'ut open
at the ribs with the heart e*'ise$! In Montana# (olverton;s unit
investiate$ a $ea$ bull 'al& north o& Cas'a$e! Its riht hin$ le
ha$ been re)ove$ in a 'ir'ular 'ut that went 'o)pletel+ throuh
the le bone below the hip so'/et an$ e*ten$e$ towar$ the
)i$se'tion# e*posin the sto)a'h area! 4ll o& the sex orans ha$
been re)ove$! There was no &ootprint or other evi$en'e aroun$
the 'ar'ass! 4lso in Montana# a 'ow was &oun$ in an un$isturbe$
plowe$ &iel$# its loose &urrows inta't# three1?uarters o& a )ile &ro)
the &en'e line! Two teats an$ the re'tal area ha$ been re)ove$
with a sharp instru)ent# an$ an in'ision un$erneath the &ront le
A Cow for Norad 195
went all the way to the heart. The absence of tracks in Montana
was remarkable because the ground at the mutilation sites was
frequently soft, muddy, or coered with snow.
!t is quite true that some "redators, such as coyotes, hae ra#or$
shar" claws and can "roduce circular cuts around the "arts they
eat. A trained inestigator, howeer, can tell the difference between
such natural incidents and deliberate mutilation. %ome of the
carcasses showed eidence that a standard auto"sy "rocedure, the
&okitansky technique, had been used' it consists in the remoal of
the iscera as an integral unit. Coyotes and delusionary s"irals do
not use the &okiransky technique.
!n Colorado, there was a concentration of mutilation incidents
in (lbert County, ery near some of the world)s most so"histicated
military installations' these include (ntAir *orce +ase, *ort Carson
Army +ase, ,eterson Airfield, -owry Air *orce bombing range,
the ..%. Air *orce Academy, the +uckley Air National /uard and
Naal Air %tation, the &ocky Mountain Arsenal 0where nere gas
is manufactured and stored1, and the &ocky *lats, where 23bomb
triggers are assembled.
Noting the im"ressie dis"lay of adanced technology in the
icinity, *rederick %mith writes4
The ca"stone of all this, and ultimately of all ..%. military
muscle, is (nt Air *orce +aseand Cheyenne Mountain, the
headquarters for N5&A6 0North American Air 6efense
Command1 and the Canadian Air 6efense Command ...
Cared into the solid heart of Cheyenne Mountain
is N5&A5)s Combat 5"erations Center. *orty3fie
thousand cubic yards of granite had to be blasted out to
accommodate its solid steel buildings, some of them three
stories high, all free3standing and mounted on the biggest
coil s"rings eer made ... The "ur"ose of this fortress inside
a mountain is to detect and analy#e eerything entering or
crossing .. %. air s"ace.7
The celebrated Cheyenne Mountain Zoo i ituated to the north
o! the "ountain# $ 1%&''()ound !e"ale bu!!alo *a "utilated
there on Tueday% October +1% 19,&# $n udder% an ear% and !our
-uare !eet o! hide had been re"o.ed# The .a/ina had been cut#
Zoo director Dan Da.i tated% 0There i no doubt the ani"al *a
"utilated *ith o"e ort o! har) intru"ent handled by "an#0 I I
$dditional detail *ere /i.en by El Pao County Coroner Dr#
Raoul W 1rich2 0The cuttin/ *a done neatly% cleanly% ob.iouly
*ith a .ery har) cuttin/ intru"ent# The diection *a o! the
ty)e that *ould eli"inate any ty)e o! )redator#0 Notin/ that the
hide had been re"o.ed *ithout )uncturin/ the tiue underneath%
he added% 0It *a better than I could do i! I *ere tryin/# It *a
really an e3)ert 4ob#01+
It *a an e3)ert 4ob% but e.en "ore re"ar5able *a an incident
that had occurred on 6uly 6% 19,&% ne3t to the NOR$D entrance
/ate% near the un"ar5ed NOR$D road 7*hich i not ho*n on
"ot road "a)8# The entire area i a "ilitary reer.ation% and e.ery
!e* !eet there are i/n *arnin/ that 09IO:$TORS ;I:: <E
PROSEC1TED TO T=E F1:: E>TENT OF T=E :$;#0 The
"utilation *a 0tandard#0 It *a a co* due to cal.e in t*o "onth#
S/t# Robert Stone o! the Sheri!!? O!!ice 0ruled out the )oibility
that the e3 or/an *ere re"o.ed by a coyote#01@
There are other indication u))ortin/ Mr# S"ith? thei
that the "utilator? )ur)oe i to end a "ea/e to the "ilitary
and the intelli/ence co""unitie# Many o! the carcae a))ear
to ha.e been dro))ed !ro" the air# In one re)ort% a lar/e bull
*a !ound *ith all !our le/ bro5en# Other ani"al *ere !ound
outide an intact !ence# T*o co* "utilated in Par5 County
*ere !ound in a )ature *ith a )adloc5ed /ate% not in the )ature
*here the o*ner had le!t the"# Sheri!! Nor"an =o*ey aid
they 0couldn?t )oibly ha.e been *here they *ere !ound unle
they had been dro))ed !ro" the air#0A0 The carcae ho*ed
e.idence o! internal )reure !ro" the !all# Further"ore% some
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Figure 9.3. A sample of murilaio! reporrs from "e files of law#
e!for$eme! age!$ies "roug"ou "e %!ied &aes s"ows "owwidespread
"e p"e!ome!o! is.
mutilated animals were discovered in onds! straddlin" ditc#es!
wed"ed $etween lar"e roc%s!& or l'in" $loodlessl' ne(t to lar"e
trees at laces inaccessi$le even to #elicoters)& Sometimes t#e
mutilations are clearl' &si"ned)& S#eri** Geor"e +arnell o* El$ert
Count' is ,uoted $' F) Smit# as sa'in" t#at #is &most memora$le
case& was one in w#ic# an udder was -neatl' cleaned out! leavin"
onl' t#e s%in! w#ic# was t#en ti"#tl' ac%ed wit# several "allons
o* sand)& In ot#er cases! or"ans were cut out and le*t on to o* t#e
carcass) Per*ect s,uares or circles were ta%en *rom t#e #ide) In one
incident a scalel #ad $een le*t $e#ind. it was an ordinar' article)
o* militar' surlus)
T#e sta"e was set *or new attemts to e(lain t#e *acts)
T#e &delusionar' siral& t#eor' clearl' did not #old u! and
somet#in" $etter #ad to $e *ound) /s eac# new #'ot#esis
$ecame more comle( and more incredi$le! a secter $e"an
to rise) It "ave t#e w#ole idea o* &contact& wit# *riendl' sace
$rot#ers anot#er deadl' $low) It *ro0e t#e $lood o* t#e $elievers!
and it "ave t#e s%etics some interestin" new items to t#in%
a$out) 1ut more t#an an't#in" else! it c#allen"ed t#e law
en*orcement communit')
For a lon" time! 2FO $elievers #ave wondered w#' so little
reco"nition #as $een "iven to t#e ro$lem $' #i"# "overnment
levels) T#e' seculated t#at our leaders t#ou"#t t#e u$lic was
not read' to learn &t#e trut#!& w#ic#! in t#eir e'es! consisted in
t#e *act t#at an alien sace invasion was ta%in" lace) I *ind it
di**icult to $elieve in t#at %ind o* a cover3u) It seems to me t#at
t#e intelli"ence communit' #as onl' two "ood reasons to #ide
t#e trut# a$out suc# a #enomenon4 eit#er it is secretl' causin" it
*or its own uroses and doesn5t want t#e #enomenon e(amined
too closel' 6as in t#e case o* its own decetion oerations7. or it
siml' doesn5t %now t#e answers) Since t#e *irst rule o* an' secret
a"ent is to alwa's aear to %now ever't#in"! t#e so3called 2FO
censors#i ma' $e more o* a $lu** t#an a cover3u) T#is su""ests
a articular meanin" *or t#e messa"e) Droin" a mutilated cow
A Cow for Norad 199
at the main entrance to NORAD may be a clear indication that
somebody is now calling that bluff.
Intelligence Reports
After he told the citizens it was only stars and had talked to Mebrabad
tower, he decided to look for himself He noticed an object in the sky
similar to a star, [but] bigger and brighter. He decided to scramble an
F- from !bahrokin Air Force "ase to in#estigate ...
U.S. State Department repOfC of an attempted interception
of a UFO in Iran, September 19, 1976
$uban military installations re%orted a bogey a%%roaching the
$uban land mass f r om the northeast. &wo M'(-)* interce%tors were
scrambled. .. $uban Air +efense head,uarters ordered the wing leader
to arm his wea%ons and destroy the object ... !econds later the wing man
began screaming that the wing l e a d e r s aircraft had e-%loded ... .ithin
hours we recei#ed orders to shi% all ta%es and %ertinent intelligence to
the /ational !ecurity Agen0 and were told to list the incident in the
s,uadron files as aircraft loss due to e,ui%ment malfunction.
Testimony from a member of the 6947rh Secrity S!adron"
#oca Chica $a%a& 'ir Station, char(ed )ith the monitorin( of
Cban mi&itary commnications
I
$ OCTO#*+ 197,, a pre&iminary Inte&&i(ence +eport )as prepared
for the U.S. attorney in -inneapo&is. '&tho(h it )as entit&ed
.Inte&&i(ence information re(ardin( occ&t acti%ities thro(hot the
United States,. it rea&&y centered on catt&e and hman mti&ations
and their relationship to UFOs. The report was based on the
"conessions" o two con!icts who later escaped ro" #ail$ were
recapt%red$ and "conessed" that their earlier state"ents had been
a hoa&' In the process$ do(ens o law enorce"ent a)encies in "an*
states$ as well as s%ch ederal a)encies as the F+I and the +%rea%
o ,lcohol$ Tobacco$ and Firear"s o the Treas%r* Depart"ent$
had been p%lled into the in!esti)ation. The report is o interest$ no
"atter what the tr%e nat%re o the -conessions" "a* be$ beca%se
it shows that the p%blic is startin) to place UFOs$ "%tilations$
and rin)e sects o !ario%s .inds into the sa"e "ental cate)or*.
F%rther"ore$ it re!eals both the de)ree to which inor"ers who
report to law enorce"ent a)encies ha!e iniltrated the !ario%s
)ro%ps in!ol!ed$ and the e&tre"e nai!ete with which in!esti)ations
o this scope and i"portance are handled.
The report be)an with a state"ent s%""ari(in) the e&perience
that the special a)ent in char)e had had with "%tilation cases. It
conir"ed all the patterns we ha!e alread* obser!ed in Chapter
/. ,bo%t the ti"e he concl%ded these in!esti)ations$ he beca"e
aware o letters written to a%thorities b* a prison in"ate na"ed
,lbert K. +an.ston. This "an stated that he .new who the
"%tilators were0 he said that the* were "e"bers o a Satanic
c%lt$ and that he wanted to assist in their arrest. 1owe!er$ he was
araid o reprisals and as.ed to be transerred to a Minnesota #ail.
1e added that so"e "otorc*cle cl%bs were hea!il* in!ol!ed in
these operations$ which incl%ded h%"an sacriice. F%rther"ore$
there was a list o pro"inent liberals who wo%ld be assassinated
b* the )ro%p$ a"on) the" Senator 1%bert 1%"phre* and actress
2i" No!a..
The interro)ation o +an.ston disclosed that he had "et in #ail
a or"er 1ell3s ,n)el who .ept tal.in) abo%t a secret or)anisation
that he reerred to si"pl* as "the Occ%lt" 4sicl5$ Th is so6called
-Occ%lt" was responsible or the "%tilations$ +an.ston said$ and
%sed the ani"al or)ans in its rit%als. ,nother riend o +an.ston$
na"ed Dan D%)an$ was also alle)edl* in!ol!ed. I D%)an was
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transferred to Minnesota, Bankston added, he could reveal more
about the whole thing. The authorities agreed:
This information was brought to the attention of the U.S.
ttorne!s office, which, through "udge #ord, issued a writ
for $ugan. %n March &', &()*, $ugan was transferred to
$akota +ount! "ail in ,astings, Minnesota.
$an $ugan was eagerl! interrogated, and spread before the
government agents his ama-ing tale of Satanic orgies and
nocturnal capers.
The Stor! of $an $ugan
.hen $ugan lived in Te/as, he said, he became a heav! user of
drugs, and it was through such contacts that he was recruited
into 0the %ccult0 and witnessed the mutilation of small animals.
In &('(, he added, he also observed a human sacrifice in +o-ad,
1ebraska. 2our innocent teenagers were shot with tran3uili-er
guns and received massive in4ections of the drug 5+5. bout
two hours later the! were dead, mutilated, and used in what the
report calls 0atrocities too horrible to mention.0 $ugan added that
animals were also killed b! means of tran3uili-er pellets, and that
the cultists took care to misguide investigators:
,e said the! all got a particular 0thrill0 over not leaving an!
tracks, and often talked about how the authorities would
sooner or later begin blaming the whole thing on U2%s,
which is what came to pass.
.hen 0the %ccult0 began to plan an increase in its human
mutilations, $ugan said he decided to get out. The group, he
added, had definite political and racial overtones. ,e went on to
Figure 10.1. Farmer Reuben Olson looks at a cal t!at "as mutilate# on
!is $ro$ert% near &io"a' Colora#o' in (ugust 1)*+. Carl ,!itesi#e' an
agent "it! t!e Colora#o -ureau o In.estigation' state# t!at tr%ing to
catc! t!e cul$rits "as like c!asing a g!ost. /P!oto courtes% o 0nite#
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provide the investigators with a list of names, including a Bell
Helicopter employee who was already suspected of narcotic traffic,
burglary, and fencing. Authorities were interested in this angle
because of frequent reports of "unmarked helicopters" at the sites
of mutilations.
any of these "revelations" dovetailed with information already
in the files of the investigators!
"ne of the #e$as %.&' (attlemen)s Association
investigators ... and #e$as Ranger (aptain ... have
interviewed a young man and woman in their area about
occultists in #e$as, and he has detailed the structure and
activities of the occult *sic+ almost identical with the
information given me by Bankston and ,ugan.
-urthermore, police around the country have been increasingly
worried about ritual murders. -or e$ample, state investigators in
(olorado reported they had discovered four murders with occult
elements in ./01 alone, two near Aspen and two near 'ail. #he use
of helicopters and tranquili2ers in connection with the mutilations
made a lot of sense. All the persons named by ,ugan e$isted, and
had had some dealings with the police for one reason or another.
ost were known to be interested, to various degrees, in witchcraft.
However, this information could easily have become known to
,ugan and Bankston through their contacts in the underworld.
It did not necessarily mean that their mutilation involvement was
true as described. ,ugan)s story was a mi$ture of fiction and reality,
but many people were ready to swallow it.
#he story of Bankston and ,ugan was very timely for the
ufologists who were still e$pecting friendly visitors from outer
space. 3%ome of them were building landing pads for them and
erecting "Welcome!" signs.+
4henever the mutilations are mentioned to ufologists, their
standard answer is, "It)s all been solved as a simple cult activity."
When I was told of this "explanation" in 19!" I as#ed th$ee
%&estions' exa(tl) whi(h (&lt had *een identified +the$e a$e at
least th$ee diffe$ent o$,ani-ations that (all the.sel/es 01Satani(" in
no$the$n Califo$nia alone23 wh) no a$$ests had *een .ade3 and
wh) the .&tilations we$e (ontin&in,45 The$e we$e no answe$s to
these %&estions3 so I p$essed fo$ the *asi( fa(ts" and (onta(ted the
spe(ial a,ent who had w$itten the $epo$t4
6e told .e that he no lon,e$ *elie/ed the fa(ts to *e as si.ple
as he on(e had4 Fo$ instan(e" altho&,h all the people na.ed *)
D&,an did exist" so.e of the. we$e in 7ail d&$in, the pe$iod
when his sto$) pla(ed the. at .&tilation sites4 On the last da) of
Ma) 198" 9an#ston es(aped f$o. the s.all Minnesota (o&nt)
7ail to whi(h he had .ana,ed to ,et t$ansfe$$ed" and the next da)
D&,an es(aped f$o. his 7ail in Texas4 9oth we$e $e(apt&$ed" and
the ,ene$al (onsens&s was that thei$ sto$ies had *een tall tales
desi,ned to ea$n the. the (onfiden(e of 7ail a&tho$ities and a .o$e
lenient t$eat.ent4 When this failed to .ate$iali-e" the) exe(&ted
thei$ es(ape plan4 9) late 198" .&tilation in/esti,ato$s a,$eed
that an) in/ol/e.ent *) (&lt .e.*e$s was .o$e the ex(eption
than the $&le" and that the $eal (&lp$its we$e .&(h .o$e powe$f&l4
The O((&lt Theo$) was inade%&ate4
The $an(he$s had (o.e to the sa.e (on(l&sion4 Sin(e the)
#ept seein, fl)in, o*7e(ts of /a$io&s #inds in the .&tilation
a$eas at ni,ht" and sin(e so.e of these $ese.*led heli(opte$s"
the) (on(l&ded that the .ilita$) was $esponsi*le4 The$e we$e two
s(hools of tho&,ht' so.e fa$.e$s *elie/ed that a se(t o$ se($et
,$o&p within the .ilita$) was pe$fo$.in, $it&als &sin, the stolen
* These points a$e espe(iall) p&--lin, *e(a&se :he poli(e p&t a hi,h p$io$it)
on s&(h (ases" and often sol/e the. in a .atte$ of da)s4 Fo$ exa.ple"
the ;&eens Dist$i(t <tto$ne)0s offi(e in New =o$# (ond&(ted a /i,o$o&s
in/esti,ation of a (ase in whi(h a self>st)led "wa$lo(#" sold h&.an s#&lls
to pa,an se(ts4 In No/e.*e$ 19the)a$$ested fi/es&spe(ts" and *ail was
set at ?@8"AAA *) a 7&d,e who said thei$ ($i.e of (e.ete$) dese($ation
"defied des($iption a.on, (i/ili-ed people4"
cattle organs. A larger number believed that the government
was conducting massive experiments, testing new drugs on the
animals. The ranchers had not forgotten the "nerve gas" deaths of
thousands of sheep in Utah, long denied by military authorities,
and the research on epidemics, mind control, and the effect of
drugs that had been conducted on unsuspecting victims by the
government. The ranchers began firing on helicopters leaving
or returning to Fort arson at low altitude, and several of the
machines came bac! to base with bullets in their sides.
A Fort arson pilot, an officer, was arrested for drug traffic.
"e was also suspected of having flown helicopters at night to
supply animals to local witch covens, but these tantali#ing
allegations were never proven. $either was it explained how a
single group could be responsible for hundreds of incidents in
several states.
At night, the ranchers !ept up vigils, par!ing their pic!ups on
hilltops and staying in contact by citi#en%s band radio. "owever,
the mutilations continued, even on stormy nights when helicopter
flights were prevented by the weather.
The theory of government intervention was not as far&fetched
as it may seem at first glance. Among the ranch families were
men who had returned from 'ietnam and the (hilippines, where
they had participated in counter&insurgency operations that used
mythology to achieve political change. In the fight against the
"u!s in the (hilippines, for instance, the troops were instructed
to fa!e vampirism to impress the enemy)
The enemy dead were strung upside&down from the limbs
of trees, and their *ugulars pierced with small incisions.
Found days later by their comrades, their bodies drained
of blood and with what seemed to be "teeth&mar!s" on
their nec!s, the dead were presumed to have fallen victim
of immortal enemies. t
In Vietnam, some Special Forces troops exploited the myth o the
!e"il eye! #y $o%$in$ o%t the eyes o enemy soldiers and lea"in$
them on the #ac&s o the corpses'
(ccordin$ to a )itness #eore Senator Fran& Ch%rch*s Select
Committee on Intelli$ence' there )as e"en a hare#rained plan to
sim%late the Second Comin$ o Christ, %sin$ lares la%nched rom
a s%#marine o the coast o C%#a, in the hope o contri#%tin$
to the o"erthro) o the Castro $o"ernment' In other )ords,
m%tilation, the sim%lation o paraphysical phenomena, and
exploitation o local #elies are indeed amiliar tools in the arsenal
o some $o"ernment a$encies'
The helicopter theory cannot #e completely dispro"ed, #eca%se
there are no) "ario%s types o silent aircrat that can $o thro%$h
mane%"ers that are "ery similar to +FO #eha"ior' I e,%ipped )ith
appropriate li$hts' as the Vietnam-type helicopters are, they )o%ld
closely d%plicate )hat +FO )itnesses ha"e reported' .hate"er
the acts a#o%t aircrat may #e, the m%tilations are closely allied
)ith the +FO #elie' (nimal disappearances and deaths, as )ell as
m%tilations o "ario%s &inds, #oth animal and h%man' ha"e #een
part o the ol&lore o %olo$y since the report o co) #%tcherin$ in
/012 3later denied #y the descendants o the indi"id%als in"ol"ed4,
the case o Snippy the 5orse, the stealin$ o domestic animals
and po%ltry #y %ona%ts in France in /167, the h%man dissections
lin&ed to the +MMO aair in Spain, and inally the recent series o
$ory incidents in hal o the (merican states and in P%erto Rico'
The sym#ols attached to the +FO phenomenon are the primary
ima$es o lie8 #lood' death, sex, time, space, and s&y'9 Carl :%n$
co%ld expand "astly on his archetypal hypothesis a#o%t +FOs i he
came #ac& today to st%dy the doc%ments that ha"e acc%m%lated on
this s%#;ect' .hat are the or$ans ta&en #y the m%tilators< The eyes,
the ears, the ton$%e, and the $enitals8 that is, the or$ans concerned
* Similar sym#ols are o%nd in rin$e reli$ion and occ%ltism' See, or
instance, Charles =ee#"re, The >lood C%lrs'
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'igure +-!.! /*is $ap o) unusual p*eno$ena in 0uerto Rico, co$piled
b1 in2estigator R! La$arc*e (Fl ying Saucer Review, 3une +,45, p! ,),
s*o6s an apparent correlation bet6een &'" sig*tings and $utilation
cases! (Courtes1 o) t*e Fl ying Saucer Review. )
6it* co$$unication and 6it* reproduction! /*e culprits deser2e
credit not onl1 as good surgeons, but also as good ps1c*ologists!
I *a2e *ad se2eral con2ersations 6it* a la6 en)orce$ent o))icer
6*o in2estigated cases in t*e nort*ern plains! 7e ga2e $e so$e
)irst8*and details!
Is t*ere an1 indication o) t*e le2el o) sop*istication o) t*e
people doing t*e $utilations9 I as:ed!
/*ere is t*is case I e;a$ined! An ani$al, a co6, 6*ose se;
organs *ad been re$o2ed! <ot )ro$ t*e outside, but t*roug* a
surgical operation t*at consists in introducing a scalpel t*roug* t*e
rectu$ and cutting t*e liga$ents! /*at ta:es so$eone 6it* good
:no6ledge o) anato$1!
=ouldn#t predators re$o2e tender organs, li:e t*e e1es o)
f"
a carcass!
Sure! But in so$e o) our cases t*e e1e 6as ta:en out t*roug*
an incision abo2e t*e soc:et! 7o6 6ould predators do t*at9
So much for the predators, I thought. I kept goig do! m" #ist
of $uestios.
%&re there e#ectromagetic effects a#og !ith these cases'%
%I #ooked ito this oe icidet !here the #ights !et out,%
as!ered the ma !ith a ote of frustratio i his (oice. %)e
e(er so#(ed the case. This farmer !as eatig dier !ith his
fami#". *e !as goig to go out after dier ad repair the
e#ectrica# s"stem+ o#" !he he did go out t!et" miutes #ater,
oe of the pigs !as dead ad muti#ated ,-- "ards from the
house, amog the other pigs.%
%*e had.t heard a"thig'%
%Not a thig.%
That !as the hardest thig to /e#ie(e. I!as.t /or o a farm,
/ut I!as /or i the coutr", c#ose eough to the farms to ko!
!hat a horredous racket a pig makes !he it.s s#aughtered+ so I
asked a/out other idicatios of a distur/ace.
%There !as.t a" distur/ace !hatsoe(er,% !as his as!er.
%*o! did the #ight s"stem !ork'%
%It acti(ated automatica##" at dusk. There is a photoce##.%
%Cou#d "ou tur the s"stem o ad off /" shiig a spot#ight
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%0 did e1act#" that !ith the officers !ho !ere !ith me, usig
their patro# car #ight. Sure, !e cou#d aim at the ce## ad tur the
s"stem o ad off. 2ut ca "ou imagie some/od" ho#dig up a
#ight to that ce## for t!et" miutes !hi#e muti#atig a pig ,--
"ards from the house, the !ho#e thig !ithout a" oise'%
I had to admit 0cou#d.t.
%&re "ou sti## doig this kid of i(estigatio'% I asked.
%No, fortuate#". )e !ere take off that kid of thig. I.m sorr"
!e got i(o#(ed i this pro/#em i the first p#ace.%
So the strage dia#ogue goes o. The cotactees cotiue to
recei(e their messages of peace ad prophec" !ith ope arms. Their
groups are ifi#trated /" shado!" figures from (arious factios. Their
leaders are expressing new political and social ideas. Racia# theories
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Figure 10.3. This Holstein calf as foun! "utilate! on #cto$er 2%, 1&'(,
near )i!!leton, I!aho. The se*ual organs, rectu", an! tongue ha+e $een
re"o+e!, accor!ing to local la,enforce"ent authorities. -.hoto courtes/
of 0nite! .ress Inrernational.1
are appearing ith increasing fre2uenc/3 so"e of us "a/ $e of
e*traterrestrial $loo!, the/ sa/, an! therefore "superior" to the rest of
"an4in!. I ha+e shon this process to $e at or4 aroun! the earl/
contactees, 5illia"son an! 6!a"s4i an! their associates. Iha+e
shon it to $e at or4 $ehin! so"e of the Rosicrucian groups a$roa!
an! the #r!er of )elchi7e!e4 in this countr/. The sa"e lin4s can
$e trace! aroun! people li4e 8ac4 .arsons, ho foun!e! 8.9, an!
Ron Hu$$ar!, ho foun!e! :cientolog/. 111e e+i!ence continues
to in!icate that we are not !ealing ith the preli"inar/ stages of
a frien!l/ lan!ing fro" outer space. It has $eco"e clear that we are
dealing with a very dangerous process right here on Earth, hate+er the
ulti"ate source of the 0F# pheno"enon happens to $e.
Ho can e tell if this process is purposel/ use! an!
"anipulate!; I confess I !o not ha+e an/ proof that a single group
of "en is responsi$le. 6re the hu"an "utilations of the 0))#
group in :pain an! the cattle "utilations of the estern 0nite!
States caused by the same group? Th!gs are !ot usua""y so smp"e#
as Ma$or Murphy had sad%
Nether Ca!&e be sure that the same groups that are e!courag!g
the 'a!atc co!tactee orga!(ato!s a!d that operate beh!d the more
b(arre occu"t sects may a"so be act)e ! dscourag!g pro'esso!a"
sce!tsts 'rom e*am!!g +FO e)de!ce%
,hat &e do -!o& at ths po!t seems shatter!g e!ough ! ts
a&'u" smp"cty. the u!predctab"e +FO phe!ome!o! a!d ts more
dsgust!g e*te!so!s at grou!d "e)e" are se!d!g some de'!te
messages# a!d a "ot o' peop"e ha)e bee! "ste!!g%
/s I &rte ths ! 1012# the c)"a! +FO groups# the co!tactee
orga!(ato!s# ma!y occu"t sects# a!d )arous go)er!me!t
bra!ches are e!gaged ! a stra!ge sort o' game% ,hat I ha)e ca""ed
3ma!pu"ato!3 may be smp"e e*p"otato!%
The truth about the ma!pu"ato! o' the be"e' ! +FOs may
tur! out to be that t has bee! a grotes4ue hoa*# perpetrated o!
thousa!ds o' u!suspect!g &t!esses# ! order to use the m!ds a!d
emoto!s o' the co!tactees as a mea!s 'or !'"ue!c!g soca" be"e's
a!d beha)or% I' so# &ho has decded ! &hat drecto! ths beha)or
shou"d be be!t?
It may be premature to try to a!s&er these 4uesto!s# e)e!
&th the 5data &e ha)e gathered a!d prese!ted here% 6ut t s !ot
premature to ask them%
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The Stratagem Theories
Stratagem: An operation or act of generalship, usually an artifice or
trick designed to outwit or surprise the enemy, a device or scheme for
obtaining an advantage; cunning, used loosely for a deed of blood
or violence.
Oxford Engish !ictionary
I
STILL HAVE a lot to learn from Major Murphy. Among the
lessons he taught me was the art of recognizing some of the
shadowy figures who had infiltrated the !" groups. He told me
what a #$acuum cleaner# was% and a #little aunt#& he told me how
#cut'outs# wor(ed. I started loo(ing all o$er. I went to the li)rary
and read some old !" )oo(s again. I went to used )oo( stores
and )ought contacree pamphlets of the fifties that I had ne$er read%
)ecause their pseudo mystical $er)iage seemed ridiculous to me
at the time. I chec(ed the lists of trustees% directors% and ad$isers
of the major !" groups. Some aspects of the mystery )ecame a
little clearer when their names were chec(ed against the computer
data )ase of the "ew #ork $imes, or in such commonly a$aila)le
references as %hos %ho. "thers )ecame more o)scure and )izarre.
I resigned from the supposedly #scientific# !" organizations with
which I had )een affiliated.
A #$acuum cleaner# is an agent who is trained to pic( your )rains.
Some day% someone will come and see you under perfectly natural
circumstances% and as( you some *uestions. It may )e an attracti$e
coed who has credentials froni the local campus newspaper& it may
be a middle-aged man who is the se!eta!" o# an amate$! ast!onom"
g!o$%& The e'$se #o! the meeting is an inno$o$s inte!(iew&
The %e!son in )$estion is well-in#o!med on the s$b*et and
has an engaging %e!sonalit"& +#te! ten min$tes o# on(e!sation,
"o$ a!e des!ibing to him -o! he!. "o$! most g$a!ded int$itions,
"o$! inne!most #eelings, "o$! #$t$!e %lans& The /(a$$m leane!/
will ta0e no notes, b$t nothing "o$ sa" will be #o!gotten& 1ithin
a #ew ho$!s, the!e will be a om%lete and a$!ate !e%o!t on "o$!
on(e!sation in the #iles o# his -o! he!. em%lo"e!&
+ /little a$nt/ se!(es a di##e!ent #$ntion& It ma" be a olleag$e
o# "o$!s, a b$siness assoiate, someone who has a good !eason
#o! sta"ing in to$h with "o$ #o! a long time& The %hone will
!ing, and the %e!son will sa", /2ow a!e "o$ doing3 1e ha(en4t
s%o0en #o! a while&/ 5o$ ma" !es%ond that "o$4(e *$st ome
ba0 #!om (aation, that "o$! at has been si0, and that "o$4!e
e'ited b" the !eent news #!om 6atin +me!ia& /1hat news #!om
6atin +me!ia3/ Soon "o$! little a$nt will 0now e(e!"thing "o$
a!e $!!entl" doing, will note if "o$4!e ha%%" o! de%!essed, and
gene!all" will %!obe an" a!ea that ma" be $se#$l #o! $%dating
"o$! #ile7 to he0 i# "o$! !esea!h is mo(ing into a!eas o# inte!est,
eithe! to "o$ - o! to them.
Most 8FO o!gani9ations a!e led b"%eo%le who a!e inde%endent
and sine!e& In the "nial and bl$nt te!minolog" o# Intelligene,
I ha(e hea!d them !e#e!!ed to as /$se#$l idiots&/ The" belie(e in
what the" do in a blind and a$tomati #ashion& Can the" hel% it
i# the" need an esa%e #!om the !o$tine o# thei! dail" e'istene3
S$h sine!e indi(id$als a!e s$!!o$nded with %eo%le who ha(e
lin0s to the wo!ld o# es%ionage o! to milita!" intelligene& I #o$nd
that some o# the lin0s we!e o%en and ob(io$s7 #o! instane, the
:oa!d o# Di!eto!s o#NIC+P lists among its membe!s the #o!me!
head o# the CI+& Sometimes the lin0 is less ob(io$s, b$t is 0nown
to membe!s o# the o!gani9ation, who admit it when on#!onted
with the #at& 1hen "o$ !ead a !e%o!t on a 8FO ase w!itten b"
someone who was t!ained as a #ield olleto! b" the go(e!nment,
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the contrast (in both form and content) to a report written in
the erratic spelling and incoherent syntax used by the average
ufologist is fairly obvious. In yet other groups, the lin to such
an organi!ation can only be suspected. "ut the conclusion is
inescapable# all the $%& groups are closely watched by several
agencies. 'hy( )nd why is the relationship between $%& groups
and occult organi!ations so evident(
The *a+or has a simple answer. ,e suggests that the -spoos-
use the $%& groups to get information that is marginally useful
to them, information that the group leaders themselves may not
recogni!e as being important or relevant. )nd they use occult
organi!ations as they always have, since the days of .r. /ohn .ee
and /ac0ues 1asanova# as a cover for their own designs. Some of
the activities of the $%&s, which mae no sense to the civilian
groups, may be highly significant to an intelligence analyst who
can correlate them with other data, such as infrared satellite scans
of specific areas of the planet, or radioactivity measurements. )
lin with a national $%& organi!ation will save the analyst2s
employer the trouble of training and deploying field agents, or it
will provide information to supplement their reports. 3n %rance,
some $%& cases have been investigated by five government
agencies. The witness of the 4alensole case even had to answer
0uestions from customs agents. who thought the ob+ect he had
seen might have been a helicopter engaged in gold contraband.
There is another, well5documented, reason for all the attention
that civilian movements receive from various agencies# the social
influence of such groups can be manipulated for political reasons.
&ne of the recommendations of a recently declassified 13)6$S)%
panel on $%&s, which met in 1758, was precisely to monitor the
activities of civilian groups#
The 9anel too cogni!ance of the existence of such groups
as the -1ivilian %lying Saucer 3nvestigators- of :os )ngeles
and the -)erial 9henomena ;esearch &rgani!ation-
(Wisconsin). It was beliee! t"at s#c" o$%ani&ations
s"o#l! be watc"e! beca#se o' t"ei$ %$eat in'l#ence on (ass
t"in)in% i'wi!es*$ea! si%"tin%s s"o#l! occ#$. T"e a**a$ent
i$$es*onsibilit+ an! t"e *ossible #se o' s#c" %$o#*s 'o$
s#be$sie *#$*oses s"o#l! be )e*t in (in!. I
Si(ila$ 'eelin%s "ae o'ten been e,*$esse! in socialist co#nt$ies. In
1-.6/ an a$ticle in t"e +o#t" news*a*e$ Komsomolskaya Pravda, b+
w$ite$ 0e$e(ei Pa$no/ i(*lie! t"at t"ose w"o s*$ea! 1FO sto$ies
a$e 2'li$tin% wit" s#*e$stitions an! $eli%io#s i(*#lses in!i$ectl+
(ani*#late! b+ t"e Penta%on.2 T"e %oal o' t"e (ani*#lation/
acco$!in% to Pa$no/ is to '$i%"ten 3(e$ican citi&ens into a**$oin%
t"e %$owt" o' !e'ense s*en!in% an! to #se 2t"e s*ecte$ o' 'l+in%
sa#ce$s to 'an t"e Col! Wa$.2
In a *$ess $elease !ate! Ma$c" 2-/ 1-.6/ two '#t#$olo%ists
*$e!icte! t"at t"e *$esent wo$l! *olitical o$!e$ wo#l! be
t$ans'o$(e! into an econo(icall+ inte%$ate!/ la$%el+ ca*italist
societ+. S#c" *"eno(ena as 1FOs we$e (essa%es '$o( "i%"e$
intelli%ent bein%s si%nalin% t"e *eace'#l *olitical t$ans'o$(ation
o' Man/ t"e+ sai!.2
T"is "isto$+ o' t"e inte$action between 'l+in%4sa#ce$ contact
an! *olitics %oes wa+ bac)/ to t"e ea$l+ Cali'o$nia contactees.
In t"ose !a+s (an+ occ#lt %$o#*s lin)e! to *owe$4"#n%$+
o$%ani&ations we$e e,t$e(el+ actie. Ri%"t a'te$ Wo$l! Wa$ II/
w"en a b$anc" o' 3leiste$ C$owle+5s O.T.O.6 'lo#$is"e! in 7os
3n%eles/ two o' t"e (ost a$!ent (e(be$s we$e 8ac) W. Pa$sons/ a
*$o*#lsion en%inee$/ an! 7. Ron 9#bba$!/ a science4'iction b#''.
8ac) Pa$sons (et a :en#sian in t"e !ese$t in 1-;6/ an! went on
to be one o' t"e 'o#n!e$s o' t"e 8et P$o*#lsion 7abo$ato$+ an! o'
t"e 3e$o<et Co$*o$ation.
* Ordo Templi Orientis. 3leiste$ C$owle+/ b+ t"e wa+/ was "i(sel' a (ino$
es*iona%e 'i%#$e ("is 'ile at t"e Intelli%ence Se$ice is sai! to "ae $ea!/
21se onl+ wit" t"e (ost e,t$e(e ca#tion2)/ w"ose in'l#ence on 9i!e$
was (o$e i(a%ina$+ t"an $eal.
Another contactee, Daniel Fry, was an Aerojet employee when
he saw his first saucer in 1950. Ron u!!ar", on the other han",
foun"e" Dianetics an", later, the #hurch of Scientology.$$
Accor"ing to some of my own informants, contactee %eorge
A"ams&i ha" prewar connections with American fascist lea"er
'illiam Du"ley (elley, who was interne" "uring the war. Another
seminal contactee, %eorge unt 'illiamson )whose real name is
*ichel "+,!reno-ic., was associate" with (elley+s organi/ation,
0Soulcraft,+ in the early fifties. 1n fact, (elley may ha-e put
'illiamson in touch with A"ams&i. ,ther associates of 'illiams on
"uring the great era of the flying saucers were such contactees as
2ohn *c#oy an" the two Stanfor" !rothers, Ray an" Re3.
The connections !etween all these men, who ha-e !een influential
in shaping the 4F, myth in the 4nite" States, are 5uite intricate.
'illiam Du"ley (elley, who "ie" in 1965, was the lea"er of the
Silver Shirts, an American 7a/i group which !egan its acti-ities
a!out 1989. 1ts mem!ership o-erlappe" strongly with %uy :allar"+s
"IAm0 mo-ement. (elley "ecline" to join the other fascist groups
in their support for #ongressman ;em&e in 1986, stan"ing on his
own in 1n"iana as a 0#hristian (arry0 can"i"ate. is opposition
to Roose-elt increase" until his eight<year internment for se"ition
in 19=9. After the war, he starte" an occult group, Soulcraft, an"
pu!lishe" a racist maga/ine calle" Valor. e also wrote the !oo&
Star Guests in 1950, a compilation of automatic writing reminiscent
of the Seth Material.
1t was a!out 1950 that 'illiamson is sai" to ha-e !egun wor&ing
for (elley at the offices of Soulcraft (u!lications, in 7o!les-ille,
1n"iana, !efore mo-ing to #alifornia, where he witnesse" A"ams&i+s
"esert contact on 7o-em!er 90, 1959, with a >enusian with long
!lon" hair. (erhaps A"ams&i an" (elley &new one another as a
result of their common interest in the 1 Am cult? Dr. ;aughea",
who inspire" the contacts of *rs. @eech in the *i"westA an"
** See 2ohn @eel, Our Haunted Planet )7.B.C Fawcett, 19D1., p. 19D.
later launched Dr. Andrija Puharich on the trac! o" the #$thic
%S&ectra'% i! al!o thou(ht to ha)e a!!ociated *ith thi! (rou&.
+ohn McCo$' *ho coauthored *ith ,illia#!on the -oo UFOs
Confidential, o&erated the E!!ene Pre!!. .e introduced into the
&icture the idea that the +e*i!h /aner con!&irac$ *a! in)ol)ed in the
0FO &ro-le#. The Stan"ord -rother! *ere li)in( in the !a#e Te1a!
to*n a! McCo$ 2Cor&u! Chri!ti3' and in the #id4"i"rie! &roduced a
!erie! o" contact -oo!' one o" *hich had McCo$ a! coauthor.
The Stan"ord!5 -oo' Look Upl, acno*led(e! %all tho!e *ho
hel&ed in &re&aration o" thi! -oo' and the &eo&le o" other &lanet!
*ho #ade the contact! de!cri-ed.% Ra$ Stan"ord !tate! that in
Dece#-er 1678 he recei)ed %a )er$ di!tinct tele&athic #e!!a(e "ro#
the !&ace &eo&le'% and he add!'
Durin( 1677 I al!o had a &er!onal contact *ith t*o !&ace
#en ... the contact! *ere not )er$ "re9 uen t durin( 1677
and the "ir!t !i1 #onth! o" 167:' -ut -e(innin( in +une
167:' thin(! reall$ !tarted &o&&in(.%
Their -oo include! #an$ allu!ion! to i#&endin( !ocial chan(e'
and it encoura(e! the reader! to &re&are the#!el)e!;
I" *e de!ire to &re&are "or "uture chan(e! to occur on Earth'
not #erel$ "or the !ae o" &h$!ical !ur)i)al' -ut rather to
-e a-le to "urther !er)e in #ore ade9uate *a$! than e)er
-e"ore' there are de"inite thin(! *e #u!t under!tand.
A#on( the!e le!!on! i! the reali<ation that !cience i! inade9uate'
accordin( to the Stan"ord!;
Man ince!!antl$ on Earth ha! tried -$ !cience and other
#ethod! o" in)e!ti(ation to (o "ro# e""ect to cau!e in
!ol)in( &ro-le#!. The /rother! and Ma!ter! o" our o*n
&lanet tell u! that *e #u!t loo *ithin.%
Today Rex Stanford has become a "scientific" parapsychologist,
and Ray, in a remarkable reversal of his earlier position about
the inadequacy of science, operates a !" detection station
using donated electronic equipment# $nstalled in %ustin, Texas,
the organi&ation uses an apparently "scientific" approach to the
identification of !"s#
$ find some curious analogies bet'een the statements of these
contactee organi&ations and those of (ob (arry, the director
of the "T'entieth )entury !" (ureau," headquartered in
)ollings'ood, *#+# The (ureau is one of the groups that compose
the fundamentalist religious organi&ation headed by the Reverend
)arl ,clntire,
(arry stated in +une 19-. that he had three excellent sources,
one in government, the others retired from highly sensitive
positions, 'ho asserted that the government 'as quite concerned
'ith the !" problem and had recovered a total of 1. bodies after
!" crashes# %n interesting belief of ,r# (arry is that the movie
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 'as part of a government plan
to condition the public# "The plan in this country is on schedule,"
(arry said in an intervie' 'ith /dgar 0illiams of the 1night *e's
Service# "Three years ago it 'as decided to do T2 documentaries
and observe public reaction#"
)ould the movie by %lan Sandler 3roductions, UFOs: Past,
Present, and Future, have been such a test4 (arry observes that
reaction 'as good5
So the next step 'as the film Close Encounters. *o', in
a little 'hile, there doubtless 'ill be the beginning of
government advisories that !"s are indeed 'ith us#
/veryone is no' so anxious to see the government "reveal" this
long6a'aited information that no one questions the reality of
the basic facts and the political motivations that could inspire a
manipulation of those facts# Trying to outsmart the )$% and the
220 MESSENGERS OF DECEPT10N
Pentagon has become such a national pastime that lawsuits against
fee!al agencies une! the F!eeom of "nfo!mation #ct ha$e begun
to accumulate% #ll that has been shown so fa! is that these agencies
we!e in$ol$e & often co$e!tl' & in aspects of the (FO p!oblem% "
suspect that the' a!e still in$ol$e% )ut the (FO enthusiasts who a!e
so an*ious to +e*pose+ the go$e!nment ha$e not !eflecte that the'
ma', once again, be pla'ing into the hans of the manipulato!s%
#n the (FOs ma' not be spacec!aft at all%
-hat Else Coul The' )e.
"f the' a!e not spacec!aft, what else coul (FOs be. -hat
e*planation can account fo! the ph'sical effects/fo! the impact on
societ', an fo! the su!p!isingl' +human+ element of much of thei!
beha$io!. 0ow can we e*plain that the phenomenon ma1es itself
ob$ious to !u!al populations but a$ois o$e!t contact, choosing
instea to eli$e! its message in a se!ies of high&st!angeness
incients, such as the Cuban an "!anian ae!ial chases 2uote at
the beginning of Chapte! "O.
The theo!' p!opose b' some !esea!che!s of the fo!ces behin
the (FO incients, goes be'on the notion that these a!e simpl'
technological $ehicles p!ouce b' a$ance !aces on anothe!
planet% Rathe! than a fo!m of t!anspo!tation in$ente b' the
eni3ens of some fa!&awa' wo!l, the (FOs coul be a stratagem
e$ise b' a human g!oup to p!omote its own goals%
"n this chapte! we will fi!st e*amine two h'potheses along
this line% )oth a!e istu!bing, min&boggling, an own!ight
iscou!aging & 'et " feel the' o not go fa! enough% The' still cannot
e*plain all the !epo!ts% 0owe$e!, stating these two h'potheses
e$en in thei! p!elimina!' fo!m can open up ou! mins, which a!e
conitione too na!!owl' b' common image!', to some alte!nati$e
e*planations% Someone in$estigati ng the (FO phenomenon shoul
be able to go be'on both Star Wars an Close Encounters in sea!ch
of metaphors, because there is no simple incremental path from
today's experience to tomorrow's explanation.
Only free speculation can open the door to an adequate
understanding of what is happening around us. Accordingly,
will present two hypotheses! the "#artian $onspiracy"% and the
"&soteric nter'ention." (oth assume that a group of men has
understood the )*O phenomenon +and especially its social effects,
well enough to use it for their own purposes. The hypotheses will
show where the roots of such a manipulation could be found,
and how it could mislead the public, the ci'ilian organi-ations,
and e'en the go'ernment. n the last part of the chapter, will
present another hypothesis as my own interpretation of what the
phenomenon may mean.
*irst .ypothesis! The #artian $onspiracy
The code name "#artians" was first used by (ritish ntelligence
during /orld /ar , and it had nothing to do with the 0ed
1lanet. t referred to the spy industry that had been created to 2eep
the Allied $ommand informed on the mo'es and intentions of
the Wehrmacht. The #artians were part of a giant apparatus of
espionage and deception that was documented for the first time in
Anthony (rown's boo2, A Bodyguard of Lies. The title of the boo2
comes from a remar2 made by $hurchill at the Teheran $onference
to 0oose'elt and Stalin! "n wartime, truth is so precious that she
should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."
At the center of this apparatus was the 3$S, the 3ondon
$ontrolling Section, set up by $hurchill within his personal
headquarters, and s2illed in the weaponry of "Special #eans"
which #.0.O. *oot would describe as "true to the tradition of
&nglish eccentricity% the sort of thing that $aptain .ornblower
or #ycroft .olmes in fiction, or Admiral $ochrane or $hinese
4ordon in fact, would ha'e gone in for had they been faced with a
similar challenge; the sort of thing that looks odd at the time and
eminentl! sensi"le later#$
The Chief of the %CS &as Colonel 'ohn (e)an &ho "ore
the remarka"le title of $Controller of Dece*tion#$ +is s*ecial
assistant &as %ad! 'ane Ple!dell,(o-)erie# Other mem"ers &ere
Ma.or Derrick Morle! Ma.or Noel Gordon Clark Ma.or +arold
Pete)al /ing Commander Dennis /heatle! 0R1P2 Colonel Sir
Ronald /ingate Colonel 'ames 1r"-thnot and Commander
1lan Finter# It &as an e3traordinar! gro-*# (e)an &as a grandson
of the fo-nder of (arcla!4s (ank and a son,in,la& of the Earl of
%-can# /ingate &as the son of /ingate Pasha of the S-dan and
a co-sin of %a&rence of 1ra"ia# /heatle! &as a st-dent of crime
an e3*ert on "lack magic and Satanism and the a-thor of more
than fift! "ooks 0among them the classic The Devil and ALLHis
Works). Pete)al &as a millionaire ind-strialist Morle! a financier
and shi**ing magnate 1r"-thnot a leading "-sinessman#
Professor Ne)ille da Costa 1ndrade another %CS mem"er &as
an ill-strio-s scientist &hose *assion &as collecting $old scientific
"ooks and -seless kno&ledge#$ +is s*ecialt! according to (ro&n
&as $-sing the tricks of science to decei)e the enem!#$
Other com*onents of the dece*tion a**arat-s &ere the 55
Committee 0&here 55 means $do-"le,cross$ not the n-meral
262 &ho s*eciali7ed in man-fact-ring and deli)ering false
intelligence thro-gh the enem!4s o&n es*ionage net&ork and the
gro-* of com*-ter geni-ses aro-nd one of the fo-nders of modern
information,*rocessing theor! 1lan T-ring# The latter gro-* had
"-ilt a machine called Ultra &hich co-ld and did em-late the
cr!*togra*hic engines of an! nation; the intelligence it deli)ered
&as onl! declassified in 89:;#
The &ork of the $Martians$ and their colleag-es d-ring the
&ar incl-ded the mani*-lation of friend and foe alike to f-rther
the goals of glo"al strateg!# The! &ere not concerned &ith the
da!,to,da! o*eration of the &ar# Their only purpose was strategic
deception. Their tasks e3tended to a secret alliance in &hich the
The Straragem The or le s 223
Soviets and the Americans agreed with the British on worldwide
maneuvers that were merely feints to deceive Hitler and that kept
many Wehrmacht divisions expecting attacks that would never
materialize, while the Normandy landing proceeded toward its
achievement of total surprise. nvasions were faked. !hantom
armies were deployed. nflata"le ru""er tanks, tracks left in
the desert sand, simulations of the sounds of an entire armada
maneuvering in dense fog, electronic countermeasures that
ena"led a single cargo plane to appear to "e an attacking "om"er
fleet, fake radio communications, newspaper ads for useless
services to nonexistent forces, false letters to lovers of phantom
soldiers attached to imaginary regiments, sociological effects of
entire armies assem"ling at false staging areas# all these were
common tricks for the $artians and their friends.
The remarka"le "ook written a"out all this "y Anthony Brown
must "e read "y anyone who doesn%t "elieve that governments
can keep a secret, and "y those who are convinced that &military
intelligence is a contradiction in terms,' as some ufologists like to
say. The ()S and the $artians made some mistakes, to "e sure, "ut
there can "e little dou"t a"out their collective .*.
The very existence of groups like the ()S, whose techni+ues
later inspired the disinformation practices of the Soviet ,-B
and similar work elsewhere, should make us extremely cautious
a"out any kind of apparent 'evidence' a"out 'flying saucers.' The
close association of many ./0 sightings with advanced military
hardware 1test sites like the New $exico proving grounds, missile
silos of the northern plains, naval construction sites like the ma2or
nuclear facility at !ascagoula3 and the "izarre love affairs revealed
in this "ook "etween contactee groups, occult sects, and extremist
political factions, are utterly clear signals that we must exercise
extreme caution. 4hat if the deception operations of 4orld 4ar
Two extended "eyond the end of hostilities with -ermany5 4hat if
the &-host 6ockets' of 789:, which "ehaved so much like ./0s,
were a continuation of the activities that used 'Special $eans'5
Anthony Brown tells a revealing story ao!t an in"i#ent that
too$ %la"e on &!ly '() '*44+
A Ger,an long-range ro"$et ha# .allen in Swe#en
a""i#entally) an# the Ger,ans were atte,%ting to re"over
its re,ains/ one %arty ha# entere# the area) whi"h was seale#
o..) ehin# a .!neral "art) %osing as ,o!rners0 Men1ies
wante# %er,ission to 2!y2 the ro"$et re,ains .ro, the
Swe#es in e3"hange .or two s4!a#rons o. tan$s0
The .rag,ents in 4!estion %rovi#e# the .irst %roo. o. the e3isten"e
o. a new Ger,an se"ret wea%on) the 5-20 6hat other wea%ons
were at the %rototy%e stage in the Ger,an arsenal7 Co!l#
so,e o. these have een !se# later) in Swe#en an# elsewhere)
to s!%%ort an even ,ore a,itio!s stratage,+ the simulation
of an outer-space invasion, the goal of which might have been to
prevent a third World War by turning the thoughts of mankind
toward an extraterrestrial goaL, lending credibility to the notion of
an impending invasion from space?
The very i#ea ,ight see, to e o!tlan#ish) to e 4!ite o!tsi#e
the real, o. %ossiility in a nor,al worl# r!le# y nor,al rains0
B!t the worl# o. '*48 "o!l# har#ly e "alle# 2nor,al02 An# the
rains o. the 9CS - rains li$e those o. Satanist e3%ert Dennis
6heatley) an# "o,%!ter geni!s Alan T!ring - were as .ar aove
nor,al as S$yla is aove a Pi%er C!0 They were the rains that
ha# le.t :itler #e"eive#) eaten) an# ro$en0 Many o. their #evi"es
;notaly their s!%er-"o,%!ters< "ontin!e# to o%erate when the war
en#e# as i. nothing ha# ha%%ene#0 S!"h an organi1ation was 4!ite
"a%ale o. #esigning a .ollow-!% that wo!l# ins!re a "ontin!ation
o. the .ragile %ea"e they ha# =!st won0 An# there were others aro!n#
with si,ilar ailities0
A writer na,e# Bernar# New,an a"t!ally #es"rie# s!"h a
s"enario in his '*4> novel the Flying Saucer. :is oo$ egins
with a ,eeting o. three re,ar$ale ,en+ a Fren"h ,aster-s%y)
an American physicist of Nobel Prize caliber, and a well-known
writer. The meeting takes place at the end of orld ar !!, as they
contemplate the r"bble and the despair aro"nd them# and they
decide that another global conflict m"st be pre$ented at all cost.
They are inspired by a newspaper acco"nt which reads, %!n his
speech &r. 'den said that it seemed to be an "nfort"nate fact that
the nations of the world were only really "nited when they were
facing a common menace# what we really needed was an attack
by &ars.% Andre &a"rois, the (rench a"thor, had once written
a satirical essay called %The Ne)t *hapter+ The ar Against the
&oon,% in which he de$eloped the same theme. !n Newman,s
no$el, the three men enlist their friends in $ario"s fields to "nite
the world against an imaginary threat from o"ter space.
The same idea comes "p in -eonard -ewin,s Report from
Iron Mountain, an ingenio"s hoa) p"rporting to be a secret
report on the possibility and desirability of peace, in which %an
established and recognized e)traterrestrial menace% is listed
among the possible %s"bstit"te instit"tions for consideration as
replacements for the nonmilitary f"nctions of war.% !t is also
present in Arth"r .oestler,s "ns"ccessf"l b"t ingenio"s play The
Twilight Bar, in which two space beings, Alpha and /mega,
anno"nce that they ha$e come from the stars to e)ting"ish
h"man life and prepare the 'arth for new inhabitants, "nless
mankind can find happiness and peace within a reasonable
time+ three days.
*o"ld someone be faking an e)traterrestrial threat0 The idea
seems prepostero"s indeed. !s it less belie$able than the idea of
1eneral 1eorge Patton commanding an imaginary Army *orps
armed with inflatable tanks and cardboard barracks0 2et Patton,
m"ch to his displeas"re, once commanded s"ch a phantom army,
to fool the 1ermans into reinforcing their defenses in the north of
(rance while the real in$asion in Normandy was being prepared.
!f 3ritain, the 4nited States, and the So$iet 4nion co"ld 5ointly
plan and carry o"t s"ch worldwide deception in the early forties,
could not the same mechanisms be at work now? Onl a !raction
o! the dece"tion techni#ues has been re$ealed%& The institutions
created to carr them out are still in e'istence( with their
"ri$ile)ed communications channels( their hidden sources o!
"rocurement and ca"ital( their recruitin) "rocedures% The answer
to the #uestion( *Could such an international )rou" fake, use, or
manipulate +FO acti$it?, has to be YES. The ar)ument that
such a secret could not be ke"t $er lon) is not tenable% -lthou)h
m "ro!essional !ield is com"uter science( I ne$er knew the !ull
e'tent o! -lan Turin).s monumental contributions to it until I
read about them in -nthon /rown.s book% I was onl !amiliar
with Turin).s theoretical "a"ers( and( like most "eo"le in m
"ro!ession( !ell !or the stor that the ,Turin) en)ine, was onl a
mental construction% I knew it was seminal to the de$elo"ment
o! )eneral0"ur"ose com"uters( but I did not know that se$eral o!
the ,en)ines, had actuall been built and o"erated durin) most o!
the war% Could !lin) saucers be similar ,mental constructions(,
de$ices ou assume are 1ust im"ossible dreams %%% until one o! them
lands in our backard and steals our do)?
The could% -nd the Martian Cons"irac would e'"lain
man thin)s%
The MIG in the Lobby
This !irst h"othesis would e'"lain the militar silence on +FOs(
and the stran)e dialo)ue in the French restaurant that I #uoted
in the Prolo)ue% Dece"tion o"erations ha$e to be "rotected !rom
e$erone( includin) the normal intelli)ence0)atherin) channels o!
* 2hen -nthon /rown com"iled his book( the "roducr o! 34 ears o!
research( he !ound that mosr o! the material on 2orld 2ar II dece"tion
was srill secret% -t the O!!ice o! the Chie! o! Militar 5istor in
2ashin)ton( rhe card inde' had no re!erence to the co$er o"erations !or
the Normand landin)6
friendly groups.** During the war, the activities of the LCS were
known only to Churchill, oosevelt! "isenhower, and a handful of
high officials. They #ypassed everything else, including Congress
and $arliament. "ven leaders of friendly forces, like %eneral de
%aulle, and the esistance groups, were routinely manipulated as
part of the deception and were not informed. rf&'(s are part of an
international deception stratagem, it is likely that most intelligence
units of the &nited States government and those of allied countries
have #een kept in the dark or firmly told to )stay away.*
+t would also e,plain the pu#lic-relations operations to create
fronts and covers like $ro.ect /lue /ook and the &niversity of
Colorado panel, whose ineptitude cannot #e ade0uately e,plained
even #y the standards of military #ureaucracy. Iremem#er visiting
the 'oreign Technology Division at 1right-$atterson 2ir 'orce
/ase. In the #uilding lo##y a 3+% interceptor was hanging from the
ceiling, hammer and sickle on its tail. The general impression was
not one of sloppy work and casual distraction. 4et the procedures
of /lue /ook, where files were lost and cases misla#eled, were so
grossly #ungled that disciplinary action would have #een warranted
in any other conte,t. "ven classified files got *lost.*
eports of UFOlandings #y relia#le o#servers, sometimes 2ir
'orce personnel, went uninvestigated for weeks at a time. 4et when
a shower of #right o#.ects was reported in the 3idwest, the same
man who headed up /lue /ook! 3a.or 5uintanilla! .umped our
of #ed at 6788 a.rn., ordered the area sealed #y 2ir 'orce police,
and supervised a s0uare-inch #y s0uare-inch search of an entire
forest for possi#le de#ris. The o#.ect sighted was a Soviet spacecraft
which had #een e,pected to reenter the atmosphere over the &.S.
$icking up foreign satellites was 5uintanilla9s primary assignment
at the 'oreign Technology Division. :e only attended to $ro.ect
** +n the early days of $ro.ect /lue /ook, the &.S. 2ir 'orce e,plained
away as *flights of wild geese* o#servations of strange craft reported #y
military personnel and civilians. The 2ir 'orce knew very well that the
o#.ects were not #irds, #ut &-2 spy planes en route toward ussia.
Blue Book, it seems, when there were no Sputniks to worr !"out#
I !lw!s won$ere$ i% the o%%i&er who &on$u&te$ the hi'hl e%%i&ient,
top(se&urit $r!'net %or s!tellite $e"ris !n$ the )o*i!l m!n who kept
)okin' &!su!ll !"out +FOs were the s!me person# If Blue Book
was a coverfor some deception scheme, this apparent contradiction
would be explainable. It is interestin' to me th!t in ,-./ M!)or
0uint!nill! wrote ! thou'ht%ul !rti&le on +FOs %or the CI12s
intern!l m!'!3ine#
This hpothesis woul$ !lso e4pl!in the in%iltr!tion o% &i*ili!n
+FO 'roups " persons linke$ to the Intelli'en&e worl$,
Or'!ni3!tions like NIC1P woul$ "e !s ne&ess!r to ! su&&ess%ul
$e&eption !s Pro)e&t Blue Book or the Con$on Committee, "e&!use
the woul$ $e%use the issue, pro*i$e !n es&!pe *!l*e %or the ste!m
o% the enthusi!sts, !n$ en!"le the m!nipul!tors to &he&k on the
e4tent o% their own pro'ress# 1$mir!l 5illenkoeter, the %ormer CI1
&hie% who st!te$, 6It is imper!ti*e th!t we le!rn wh!t +FOs !re
!n$ where the &ome %rom,6 !n$ )oine$ the Bo!r$ o% Dire&tors
o% NIC1P, &oul$ h!*e "een len$in' &re$i"ilit to the str!t!'em
" $eli"er!tel promotin' the 6e4tr!terrestri!l6 theor# 1lso !mon'
the le!$ers o% NIC1P were !t le!st three well(known Intelli'en&e
oper!ti*es7 Bern!r$ Cor*!lho, Ni&hol!s $e Ro&he%ort, !n$ Colonel
8oseph R!n#
9h!t !"out the hi'h %re:uen& o% +FO l!n$in's; I% we !ssume
th!t the &lose en&ounters !re en'ineere$ onl when witnesses !re
present to o"ser*e !n$ report them, we $o not h!*e su&h ! l!r'e
num"er o% o&&urren&es to e4pl!in# Pro$u&in' !n !*er!'e &!se is !
pro"lem in the 'ener!tion o% spe&i!l e%%e&ts, !n$ well within the
&!p!"ilities o% 5ollwoo$#
The 6M!rti!n Conspir!&6 $oes e4pl!in m!n other "i3!rre
!spe&ts o% the +FO pro"lem, in&lu$in' the "eh!*ior o% the
contactees, who &oul$ h!*e "een set up in their roles in or$er to
prop!'!te !lle'e$ e4tr!terrestri!l mess!'es in m!n &ountries#
Geor'e 1$!mski '!*e &re$it to %our +#S# 'o*ernment s&ientists
%or l!un&hin' his &!reer !s !n !m"!ss!$or %or the Sp!&e Brothers#
They were from the Point Lorna Naval Electronics Laboratory near
San Diego, and from a "similar setu" in Pasadena! They allegedly
as"ed him if he would "cooerate in the collective attemt to get
hotograhs of the strange craft moving through sace!" #dams"i$s
ma%or suorter abroad was a former &ntelligence officer with the
'ritish #rmy, and a (ambridge engineering graduate, who now
lives in )e*ico! #nd according to a man who hosted #dams"i
during his tour of #ustralia, he was traveling with a assort
bearing secial rivileges!
The activity of the more vocal s"etics would be e*lained
by such an hyothesis! The greatest danger a decetion scheme
would run would be e*osure by +ualified scientists who were
seriously and critically e*amining ,-. evidence! /hat if they
discovered that some of the henomena were simulated by
human tric"ery0 To revent such a scientific study from being
organi1ed, all that is needed is to maintain a certain threshold
of ridicule around the henomenon! This can be done easily
enough by a few influential science writers, under the guise of
"humanism" or "rationalism!" ,-. research would be e+uated
with "false science," thus creating an atmoshere of guilt by
association which would be deadly to any indeendent scientist!
&f the believers$ grous are maniulated, the s"etics can also be
maniulated in the same way! & roose that the more dedicated
investigators ta"e time away from their endless ,-. chases and
loo" into the bac"grounds, connections, and motivations of the
more vocal "s"etics" for clues to such influence!
There are various maga1ines in the ,nited States which fulfill
a debun"ing role! They are systematically e+uating unidentified
flying ob%ects and cattle mutilations to media hoa*es li"e the
'ermuda Triangle! The editorial committees of these maga1ines
and of the grous that ublish them include eole who may have
lin"s to intelligence agencies and to various occult and olitical
organi1ations! These lin"s can be discovered, however, only by
someone who has sent time loo"ing behind the scene! )ost casual
readers will only see a prestigious group of men defending science
against te irrational !elief in "FOs #and oter ridiculous topics$#
In academic circles% !eing associated wit an apparently
ridiculous su!&ect is a'ardous to one(s career) no am!itious young
scientist will ris* a+ing is name cited in &est in te pages of
Scientific American or New Scientist, to mention only two respected
pu!lications wose editors a+e departed from accepted scientific
procedure to ridicule te su!&ect$ Suc ridicule may !e essential to
*eep scientific attention away from te scene until te autors of
te manipulation a+e acie+ed teir political goals$ Te claim tat
te #Turing engine# was only a mental e,ercise was a similar ploy$
I will let you ponder te merits and te limits of te #Martian
Conspiracy%# according to wic a ig-le+el international military
group may a+e decided to use pu!lic interest in "FOs and te will
to !elie+e in space +isitors to furter a political goal$ .et us go on
to te second ypotesis$
Second /ypotesis) Te Esoteric Inter+ention
0 few in+estigators - nota!ly Ray Palmer% 1on 2eel% and Sal+atore
Frei,edo r: a+e suggested !ot in pu!lic statements and in
pri+ate con+ersations wit me tat tere may !e a lin* !etween
"FO e+ents and #occult# penomena$ 0t first +iew% te +ery
suggestion of suc a lin* is distur!ing to a scientist$ /owe+er% te
incidents descri!ed in tis !oo* a+e already re+ealed o+erlapping
interconnections !etween occult groups and sects% on te one
and% and organi'ations in+ol+ed in "FO researc$ Many of te
penomena reported !y witnesses in+ol+e te poltergeist effect%
le+itation% psycic control% ealing% and out-of-!ody e,periences)
tings 3uite familiar to tose wo *now te occult literature$ Tey
are descri!ed in detail in te nineteent-century wor*s of Dr$
Encausse% 4aron Reicen!ac% Elipas .e+i% Camille Flammarion%
and many European writers$ More recently tey could !e found
in the teachings of the Rosicrucian Order, of Aleister Crowley's
O.T.O, and of the various offshoots of the Hermetic Order of the
Golden Dawn, which have insired not only the witchcraft revival,
!ut also the current generation of "sychic" writers and many of
today's "scientific arasychologists," although they would !e #uic$
to deny any association with such sources. %urthermore, there is
a connection !etween &%Os and occult themes in terms of their
social effects, even if there is no hysical connection. Could the lin$
!e real, and what would it mean'
The !asis of all "esoteric" teachings is that ordinary reality is an
illusion. A good source for the analysis of this hilosohy is (ynn
Thorndi$e's masterful wor$, History of Magic and Experimental
Science. Claiming that reality is an illusion was a revolutionary
statement in terms of nineteenth)century science, !ur one which
nuclear hysics and #uantum mechanics have now demonstrated and
even suerseded. However, the esoteric schools add that reality can
!e maniulated consciously !y those who understand its "higher"
nature, a ossi!ility that modern science has not as yet addressed.
*t is also often said, unfortunately, that the actual techni#ues for
maniulation have to !e $et secret and constitute the core of the
so)called "occult tradition." The wea$ness of the esoteric hilosohy
lies in the fact that it will not ) or cannot )su!mit its tenets to critical
in#uiry. *t will only "reveal" them to selected initiates, who are thus
comletely at the mercy of those whom they regard as &n$nown
Sueriors +in Chater ,we have followed the ersonal adventures of
such an initiate, Raymond -ernard..
One fact remains/ occult !eliefs have from time to time e0ercised
an influence on history, from the Crusades to the %rench Revolution,
from the war for American indeendence to the esta!lishment
of a 1a2i Reich. 3hether such influences were incidental or
fundamental is a thorny issue for historians, and it is li$ely to
remain so for some time. Recent American history, with its wave
of assassinations, olitical !lac$mail attemts, and 3atergate)tye
consiracies, has done nothing to simlify the issue. The ro!lem
is further obscured by the fact that, here again, espionage agencies
are using occut groups as co!ers"
6
#et us assu$e, for the sa%e of argu$ent, that one or se!era
groups of $en had in fact earned to contro so$e physica
processes by $eans that ordinary e&perience 'oud ca ($agica"(
Suppose, for instance, that in the course of its research so$e
occut group had stu$bed upon a $ethod for the pro)ection of
i$ages controed $entay* perhaps it $ight e!en ha!e earned
to e&tend hu$an consciousness out of the body, or to create
oca distortions of the spaceti$e continuu$" Suppose it had
de!eoped a 'ay to pro)ect scenes at a distance, to contro and
a$pify psycho%inetic abiities of hu$an sub)ects, or to create
entities si$iar to the (tupas( of Tibetan fo%ore, 'hich Mrs"
+e&andra Da!id,Nee describes as $ateriai-ed beings 'ith
'ho$ she conducted e&peri$ents docu$ented in her boo%s" Far.
fetched/ Maybe" 0et Na-i Ger$any had se!era scientific research
institutes 'or%ing aong these ines for about a decade, and t'o
$odern nations at east , the So!iet 1nion and the 1nited States
, are %no'n to be pursuing aggressi!e progra$s of research on
si$iar sub)ects" The funding that is re2uired in this area is so
s$a that $any pri!ate organi-ations, and e!en independenty
'eathy persons, coud sponsor !ery significant research 'hose
resuts $ay yied unpredictabe brea%throughs" 3a!e such
brea%throughs in fact aready ta%en pace/ +nd are 1FOs the
resut of their appication/
Such a group coud operate internationay, independenty
of oca go!ern$ents" It coud enist the resources of eading
corporations" It coud try to $anipuate pubic opinion for its o'n
ends" It coud not contro science, but it coud certainy infuence
it" +nd it coud produce $any of the effects 1FOs see$ capabe
of $anifesting" The persons controing such a (psychotronic(
technoogy $ight e!en ha!e aready achie!ed contact 'ith other
for$s of consciousness, and $ight %no' the rea nature of 1FOs,
or they $ight try to con!ince others that they do"
This hypothesis of "Esoteric Intervention" suffers from several
flaws, the major one being that it assumes the human manipulators
to be much more clever than is typical of the human race. What
we often see in esoteric groups is either a picture of infighting and
impotent arrogance, or one of authoritarian practices maintained
at a high cost to individual freedom. Bitter competition between
these sects is just as common as it is between groups of professional
scientists fighting for contracts, grants, and obel !ri"es. #any
wealthy individuals who could well afford to give away a million
or two each year for such research do e$ist, and have an interest
in such frontier subjects. %owever, they are usually motivated by
impractical visions or unconscious psychological needs. Elderly
industrialists searching for immortality, and wealthy old ladies
trying to &eep ghosts away, are more common among sponsors of
psychic research than are pragmatic entrepreneurs ready to fund and
manage realistic research plans. The same applies to governments,
since the bul& of the psychic research conducted in the '.S.S.(.
and in the '.S. is geared toward short)term military or espionage
applications, and is managed by bureaucrats.
*urthermore, the "Esoteric Intervention" hypothesis is a
conspiracy theory, and suffers from all the wea&nesses of such
theories. It is only superficially attractive. %istorical conspiracies
do e$ist +generally in a multitude of forms rather than in a single
one at a given time,, but they either fail -uic&ly or reach their
objective and therefore change in both style and purpose. When de
.aulle came bac& to power in *rance in /012, there were a do"en
different conspiracies fighting among themselves for control of the
government, but they were evolving very rapidly from one day to
the ne$t until the historic clima$.
#ost '*3 contactees propose a conspiratorial theory to
e$plain their own views. 4ccording to .eorge %unt Williamson
and 5ohn #c6oy, for instance, all the evil in the world is due to
the International Ban&ers, a well)&nown belief of the e$treme right7
"The force behind the 8International Ban&ers8 who constitute the
'Hidden Empire' stems from Communist Russia!" Ot#er $roups
%i&& '&ame %or&d pro'&ems on t#e CI() t#e *e%s) t#e Mafia) t#e
+G, Su-# paranoia is often nouris#ed '. a fe%e&ements of rea&it.!
T#e s-ope and -#ara-ter of t#e -att&e muti&ations do indi-ate t#at
some sort of se-ret or$ani/ation is responsi'&e T#ere is no 0uestion
t#at t#e pu'&i- mind is &in1in$ t#e a-ti2it. of t#is or$ani/ation
%it# t#at of t#e 3FOs Its effe-ts are p#.si-a& enou$# Simi&ar&.)
most of t#ose %#o #a2e studied t#e 3MMO affair #a2e -on-&uded
t#at it %as t#e %or1 of a se-ret $roup on Eart#
(&t#ou$# t#e #.pot#esis) as presented a'o2e) #as serious
s#ort-omin$s) t#ere is an interestin$ 2ariant %#i-# deser2es
furt#er e4p&oration Some inf&uentia& $roup -ou&d %e&& 'e usin$
2arious -u&ts as a front for its o%n purposes) as Ma5or Murp#.
su$$ested to me Some o--u&t spe-ia&ists $o 'e.ond t#is 2ie%)
and su$$est t#at t#e 3FO p#enomenon -ou&d e2en 'e t#e de2i-e
t#at su-# a $roup is usin$ to ma1e its e4isten-e fe&t) to pro5e-t an
ima$e of t#e future destin. of Man t#at trans-ends %ar) po2ert.)
disease) and nationa& $o2ernment
Se2era& #uman $roups -ou&d 'e manipu&atin$ t#e pu'&i-'s
interest in 3FOs to furt#er t#eir o%n po&iti-a& $oa&s T#e. -ou&d
tr. to a-#ie2e t#is '. de&i'erate use of -onfusion te-#ni0ues) '.
p&antin$ fa1e UFOe2iden-e) '. amp&if.in$ -onta-tee m.t#o&o$.)
and '. s.stemati-a&&. dis-oura$in$ s-ientifi- in0uir. into t#e
nature of 3FOs T#e o'session %it# se-re-. %#i-# is t#e trademar1
of our mi&itar. institutions %ou&d $reat&. fa-i&itate t#e tas1 of an.
pri2ate $roup t#at is tr.in$ to -onfuse t#e pu'&i-) 'e-ause an.
effort '. independent ana&.sts to sort out t#e meanin$fu& fa-ts
from t#e #oa4es and tri2ia %ou&d 'e entan$&ed in &a.er after &a.er
of -&assified materia&
* Simi&ar e&ements in modern #istor. %ere found in t#e m.t# of t#e
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a de-eption t#at %as &ar$e&. responsi'&e for
moti2atin$ t#e massi2e deportation and 1i&&in$ of t#e *e%s durin$ 6or&d
6ar II See Norman Co#n) Histoire d'un my the 7En$&is# tide) War'rant
for Genocide).
The only way to fight the confusion that surrounds the UFO
problem is to realize that much of this confusion is deliberate, and
to make renewed individual efforts to document the phenomenon
in the field and outside the framework of any UFO group. At the
same time, a systematic attempt should be made to expose the
contradictions of the contactee claims and to educate the public
about them. Arthur oestler has remarked, in a letter to me, that
contactee stories left him with the same feeling as listening to a bad
dirty !oke. "t is an apt remark. #any contactees are sincere, but they
are trapped by their own narrow belief in distorted interpretations
of a much larger reality.
"s there a group which understands and practices deception, and
which is trying to mold our collecti$e future% " ha$e tried to show
that se$eral historical precedents exist for such an hypothesis, and
that the data do not exclude this interpretation. " hope that my
remarks can ser$e as a warning to any future research effort. Sources
of information should be severely scrutinized. not only for human
error, instrumental inaccuracy. and observational bias, but also for
deliberate deception.
The standards of e$idence acceptable in the scientific laboratory
are not sufficient to deal with UFO data. They must be upgraded
before any research can proceed, and the public should not accept
as $alid the results published by any &scientific committee& that has
not faced this fact.
Control-System Hypothesis
'e ha$e now introduced two new elements into the study of the
UFO phenomenon. The first element concerns political exploitation(
we suspect strongly that one or se$eral groups, of unknown political
belief, are now influencing the &contactees& and the ci$ilian research
organizations for their own ends. The second element deals with
manipulation of the phenomenon itself by fabrication of UFO
reports and of related stories, includin suc! terrorist ele"ents as
li#estoc$ "utilations%
S!ould &e 'e surprised to find t!ese results( I don)t t!in$ so%
*u"an 'eins and t!eir orani+ations use &!ate#er t!e, nnd in
t!eir en#iron"ent to furt!er t!eir o&n desins, and &e can see
fro" !istorical analoies t!at suc! deli'erate efforts !a#e often
'een !idden 'e!ind irrational trappins% Discontinuit, is t!e rule
in ti"es of stressful c!ane% T!e -FO p!eno"enon is a precursor
of a "a.or discontinuit,%
Discussin t!e t&o !,pot!eses I presented a'o#e, I!a#e s!o&n
t!at neit!er of t!e" full, accounted for all t!e facts% I still feel
t!at t!e -FO p!eno"enon represents a "anifestation of a realit,
t!at transcends our current understandin of p!,sics% It is not the
phenomenon itself, but the belief it has created, which is manipulated
b y human groups with their own objectives. I continue to 'e i"pressed
', one fact I "entioned in ", earlier 'oo$ Passport to Magonia:
suc! si!tins !a#e 'een "ade in earlier ti"es/ si"ilar effects !a#e
'een descri'ed/ e#en t!e -FO 0occupants0 appear identical to t!e
deni+ens of "edie#al Maonia% T!is suests a realit, of mind,
'e,ond &!ate#er tec!nolo, is acti#atin -FO ener,% I continue
to reard t!is p!eno"enon as a "anifestation of a realit, t!at
is larer and "ore co"ple1 t!an a si"ple #isit ', interplanetar,
tra#elers2 t!e realit, of Maonia%
I 'elie#e t!ere is a s,ste" around us t!at transcends ti"e as
it transcends space% I re"ain confident t!at !u"an $no&lede is
capa'le of understandin t!is larer realit,% I suspect t!at so"e
!u"ans !a#e alread, understood it, and are s!o&in t!eir !and in
se#eral aspects of t!e -FO encounters%
T!e s,ste" I a" spea$in of "a, &ell 'e a'le to locate itself
in outer space, as so"e of ", readers &ill 'e 3uic$ in pointin
out% Indeed it "a,, 'ur its "anifestations are not spacecraft in
t!e ordinar, 0nuts and 'olts0 sense% T!e -FOs are p!,sical
"anifestations t!at cannot 'e understood apart fro" t!eir
ps,c!ic and s,"'olic realit,% 4!at &e see in effect !ere is not
an alien invasion. It is a control system which acts on humans
and uses humans. However, we still need to discover the source
of this manifestation. An episode that occurred while I was
writing this book opened my eyes to some new possibilities
about this source.
The Coincidence in Los Angeles
hen I write this story, it seems incredible! yet it happened to
me, the fellow who could least afford it" There Iwas on Sunset
#oulevard in Los Angeles, on Saturday, $ebruary %&, &'(), about
*+,- p.m., and I had to get to .A#C on La Cienega #oulevard for
a radio interview. I looked at the traffic coming toward me, and saw
several ta/icabs a block away. I raised my hand. A car swerved out
of the mainstream and came to the curb. e drove to the station,
without once discussing my current research, and I got a receipt
from the driver. The shock came two days later when I took the
receipt from my wallet. It was signed Melcbizedek!
I cannot afford to write this story, because I cannot e/pect
anyone to believe it. At the same time I cannot sweep it under the
rug. There is only one 0elchi1edek listed in the L. A. phone book,
and I have the receipt signed by the driver right in front of me 2see
$igure &&.&3. It was this incident that convinced me to put more
energy into understanding the nature of such coincidences. 4erhaps
I am becoming superstitious. This incident happened the week
when I started writing this book, collecting all my notes about the
0elchi1edek groups. 0ost coincidences you can rationali1e away. I
tried to rationali1e this one away. I couldn5t.
In attempting to find an e/planation for it, I began to speculate
about a variant of current physics, a variant in which apparent
6miracles7 could occur without violating physical laws, and in which
psychic phenomena should be the rule rather than the e/ception. In
such a physics, 8$9s could come from :arth without necessarily
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being secret weapons," or they could come from another galaxy
without necessarily being "spacecraft."
What consequences could a model of such processes have for
our understanding of physics? The frequent occurrence of !"
cases points to undiscovered relationships between physical reality
and human consciousness# it can be used to clarify some exciting
theoretical and practical opportunities to understand both energy
and information better.
$ccording to modern physics, and in particular to %rillouin,
&abor, and 'othstein, information and entropy are closely related.
The relationship has been expressed clearly by %rillouin(
)ntropy is generally regarded as expressing the state of
disorder of a physical system. *ore precisely, one can say
that entropy measures the lac+ of information about the
true structure of the system."
,o information can be obtained in the course of a physical
measurement, then, without changing the amount of entropy in
the universe, the state of disorder of the cosmos.
,ow the physicist is faced with a new challenge( how to
define disorder. $nd the tas+, as '. Schafroth has pointed out,
is not easy(
Some scientists pile up papers and boo+s on their shelves in
apparent disorder, yet they +now perfectly how to find the
document they want. -f someone restores the appearance of
order, the unfortunate owner of these documents may be
unable to locate anything. -n this case it is obvious that the
apparent disorder was in fact order, and vice versa."
Speculating on the relationship between these physical quantities,
.osta de %eauregard wrote, "-t must be in the nature of probability
to serve as the operational lin+ between ob/ective and sub/ective,
between matter and psychism."lOe p!ints !"t that# in precybernetic
physics# !bser$ati!n was re%arded as "a pr!cess with!"t mystery#
re&"irin% no e'planati!n#" whereas free action, !n the c!ntrary# was
"re%arded as a physical imp!ssibility and a psych!l!%ical ill"si!n."
In m!dern physics these ideas ha$e been re$!l"ti!ni(ed.
The )ey t! these n!ti!ns mi%ht be s!"%ht in cybernetics# b"t
n! seri!"s attempt has been made t! *it it t! the l!c). In*!rmati!n
the!ry deals e'cl"si$ely with the transmissi!n !* "messa%es"
re%arded as physical &"antities +imp"lses sent al!n% a wire !r bits
st!red in a ma%netic de$ice,. -hat ab!"t the .meanin%" !* that
in*!rmati!n t! the sender and the recei$er/ I* y!" play a tape !*
0eeth!$en1s Ninth *!rward and then bac)ward# I 2 y!" are releasin%
precisely the same &"antity !* semantic in*!rmati!n# b"t is the
esthetic in*!rmati!n identical/
Researchers int! psychic phen!mena ha$e the !pp!rt"nity
t! e'tend the !bser$ati!ns and the the!ry !* in*!rmati!n.
3n*!rt"nately# m!st !* their spec"lati!n remains impris!ned
in !bs!lete m!dels !* c!mm"nicati!n. The S!$iet literat"re !*
psychic phen!mena has stressed the c!ncept !* the s"b4ect as
"recei$er#" and the e'perimenter as .transmitter" !r $ice $ersa#
ass"min% that classical in*!rmati!n the!ry sh!"ld be applicable t!
psychic *"ncti!nin%. Recent research is m!re s!phisticated# and is
be%innin% t! "se the speciali(ati!n !* b!th sides !* the brain t!
e'plain aspects !* the e'periments where "esthetic in*!rmati!n5 +t!
"se M!les1 termin!l!%y, seems t! be recei$ed# b"t where "semantic
in*!rmati!n" translatable int! precise w!rds is missin%. This ri%ht6
brain m!del !* psychic *"ncti!nin%# h!we$er# r"ns int! seri!"s
tr!"ble alm!st immediately# and s! d!es the c!ncept !* psychic
c!mm"nicati!n in a classical in*!rmati!n *ramew!r)# whether !ne
ass"mes that the physical s"pp!rt !* the in*!rmati!n is *!"nd in
ph!t!ns !r that it is *!"nd in m!re e'!tic deni(ens !* the physicist1s
(!!7 ne"trin!s# tachy!ns# and the li)e."
The data *r!m psychic e'periments s"%%est a di**erent appr!ach.
The s"b4ects in "rem!te $iewin%" w!r) may ha$e been able t!
describe targets in drawings better than in words (suggesting a
right-brain function), but they performed equally well when they
knew someone at the site or when they were simply gien a set
of coordinates, e!hibiting what would seem to be left-hemisphere
actiity in the latter case" Similarly, in remote-iewing e!periments
# organi$ed, using a computer network as the support for the
communication, there was no difference between the results of tests
with open targets (telepathy) and those of tests with double-blind
targets (remote iewing)"%&
' problem may lie in the basic concepts of communication" 's
sophisticated as its modern applications are, the theory is still pegged
to the days when railroad signalmen had to send impulses down
a wire to trigger a switch ahead of some train" #t begins with the
notions of time and space as its basic building blocks( how fast does
the signal fromA hae to trael along the wire to preent derailment
at B if the train left an hour ago and traels at )* miles an hour+
This is reflected in the ery terms in which the theory is e!pressed,
nineteenth-century terms like ,transmission,, ,receier,, ,sender,,
,channel,, and so on" #n psychic e!periments, which come closer
to displaying the nature of information than any other physical
situation, # defy anybody to label the ,sender, and the ,receier",
-hen 'bbe .ermet was directing the digging of a well to find water
at a particular spot, or describing the location of the body of a person
who had been murdered, was he ,sending, or ,receiing,+
# hae always been skeptical of parapsychologists, because their
e!periments and their theories borrow the standard concepts of space
and time dimensions from physics" These concepts seem obsolete to
me" They are not appropriate for understanding telepathy, or the
moing of ob/ects at a distance, or ghosts, or .elchi$edek" # hae
always been struck also by the fact that energy and information are
one and the same thing under two different aspects" 0ur physics
professors teach us this1 yet they neer draw the consequences"
#n the physics we learn in school, time and space dimensions
are all-important, and equations are cluttered with letters like x,
y, z, and t. Yet I believe this preoccpation !ith "di#ensions"
co#es $ro# a ver% si#ple cltral arti$act& graph paper. So#e
'enis arond the ti#e o$ Descartes (perhaps it !as Descartes
hi#sel$) poplari*ed the idea o$ representin' and #easrin'
#otions in ter#s o$ distance $ro# t!o a+es intersectin' at
ri'ht an'les& "Cartesian" coordinates !ere born, and the% have
re#ained i#printed in or #inds ever since- .hen !e can dra!
so#ethin' on 'raph paper, !e thin/ !e nderstand it-
T sb#it that it is proper to sha/e $ro# or theoretical an/les
the chains o$ spaceti#e- Space and ti#e coordinates derive their
convenience $ro# 'raphic considerations- The theory of space and time
is a cultural artifact made possible by the invention of graph paper. I$ !e
had invented the di'ital co#pter be$ore inventin' 'raph paper, !e
#i'ht have a ver% di$$erent theor% o$ in$or#ation toda%-
Ti#e and space #a% be convenient notions $or plottin' the
pro'ress o$ a loco#otive, bt the% are co#pletel% seless $or locatin'
in$or#ation- The apparent e+ception is the librar%, bt an%one !ho
has tried to $ind so#ethin' in a #odern librar% !ith its $lat shelves
alon' vertical !alls !ill reco'ni*e Scha$roth0s predica#ent in
tellin' order $ro# disorder-
.hat #odern co#pter scientists have no! reco'ni*ed is that
orderin' b% ti#e and space is the !orst possible !a% to store data-
In a lar'e co#pter1based in$or#ation s%ste#, no atte#pt is #ade
to place related records inse2ential ph%sical locations- It is #ch
#ore convenient to sprin/le the records thro'hot stora'e as the%
arrive, and to constrct an al'orith# $or retrieval based on so#e
t%pe o$ /e%!ord or on "hashin'," a procedre !here the record
inde+ is rando#i*ed- (3ere a'ain, probabilit% serves as the lin/
bet!een so#ethin' ob4ective, the record location, and so#ethin'
sb4ective, the re2est $or retrieval-)
The Melchi*ede/ incident that I e+perienced on Febrar% 25,
5678, s''ested to #e that the !orld #i'ht be or'ani*ed #ore li/e
a rando#i*ed data base than li/e a se2ential librar%- Since there is
onl% one person na#ed Melchi*ede/ in the 9-:- phone boo/, I have
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to conclude that mere coincidence cannot explain this incident.
Alternative explanations are equally inadequate, unfortunately. I
did not discuss my research with the driver so a hoax is out of
the question. There could !e a well"organi#ed conspiracy against
me, of course, to put lady taxi drivers on my path with names
related to my current reading interests, !ut the motivations of such
conspirators would !e rather o!scure$ %ortunately, another avenue
of explanation exists.
If there is no time dimension as we usually assume there is,
we may !e traversing events !y association. &odern computers
retrieve information associatively. 'ou (evo)e( the desired records
!y using )eywords, words of power: you request the intersection
of (microwave( and (headache,( and you find twenty articles
you never suspected existed. *erhaps I had unconsciously
posted such a request on some psychic !ulletin !oard with the
)eyword (&elchi#ede).( If we live in the associative universe
of the software scientist rather than the sequential universe of
the spacetime physicist, then miracles are no longer irrational
events. The philosophy we could derive would !e closer to Islamic
(+ccasionalism( than to the ,artesian or -ewtonian universe.
And a new theory of information would have to !e !uilt. Such a
theory might have interesting things to say a!out communication
with the deni#ens of other physical realities.
If energy and information are related, why do we only have one
physics, the physics of energy. /here is the physics of information.
Is the old theory of &agic relevant here. Are the writings of
*aracelsus, with his concept of (signatures,( an important source
of inspiration. These are highly speculative questions. 0ut at a time
when we are !eginning to suspect that computer"!ased networ)
communication may create altered states conducive to enhanced
psychic functioning, a new type of physical experiment is !ecoming
possi!le and creative speculation is necessary. These experiments
would aim at pro!ing the reality of information"handling !y the
!rain from the point of view of associative constructs. They would
ignore space and time referents, and use instead an epanded !ie"
of t#e process in terms of retrie!a$ s%stems& T#e SRI eperiments
"it# S"ann and Price, for eamp$e, suggest t#at remote !ie"ing is
'ased on an addressing sc#eme& Is indirect and !irtua$ addressing
possi'$e, and if so, to "#at $e!e$( )ou$d t#is 'e a pat# to"ards
rea$ities t#at are not situated on far*a"a%p$anets, 'ut are rig#t around
us, outside our norma$ consciousness( Is it possi'$e to promote
coincidences and pecu$iar effects +of apparent$% ,paranorma$,
nature- '% s%stematica$$% creating p#%sica$ structures ser!ing as
information singu$arities( .nti$ t#ese /uestions are ep$ored, it ma%
'e impossi'$e to address "#at Costa de 0eauregard ca$$s ,t#e tru$%
fundamenta$ pro'$em,, t#at of t#e re$ations#ip 'et"een ps%c#e and
matter& For e!en if "e consider on$% t#e operationa$ aspects of an
information, if someone $earns somet#ing from it, p#%sica$ t#eor%
dictates t#at t#e entrop% of t#e uni!erse must #a!e c#anged&
If t#e "or$d around us is a "or$d of informationa$ e!ents,
t#e s%m'o$ic manifestations t#at surround .FO reports s#ou$d
'e !ie"ed as a fact of t#e greatest magnitude& If "e consider t#e
p#%sica$ "or$d to 'e an associati!e uni!erse of suc# informationa$
e!ents, consciousness is no $onger simp$% a function "#ic# is $oca$
to t#e #uman 'rain& Instead, consciousness s#ou$d 'e defined
as t#e process '% "#ic# informationa$ associations are retrie!ed
and tra!ersed& T#e i$$usion of time and space "ou$d 'e mere$% a
side effect of consciousness as it tra!erses associations& In suc# a
t#eor%, apparent$% ,paranorma$, p#enomena $i1e remote !ie"ing
and precognition "ou$d 'e epected, e!en common, and .FOs
"ou$d $ose muc# of t#eir a$ien /ua$it%& T#ese p#enomena "ou$d 'e
natura$ aspects of t#e rea$it% of #uman consciousness, and "ou$d
'e su'2ect to manipu$ation '% t#e #uman "i$$, 'ot# conscious$%
and unconscious$%&
In an% case, t#ese p#enomena ser!e as a support for #uman
am'ition, a frame"or1 for #uman traged%, a fa'ric of #uman
dreams& )e react to t#em in our mo!ies, our poetr%, our music, our
science fiction& 3nd t#e% react to us& T#e% are part of t#e contro$
system for human evolution, like the nuclear process inside the Sun
and the long-term changes in the Earth's weather. But their effects,
instead of being just physical, are also felt in our belief systems.
They influence what we call our spiritual life. They affect our
political institutions, our history, our culture.
The Si Social !onse"uences
#t remains for us to summari$e the social effects that the belief in
%&'s is likely to create - whether such physical objects eist or
not. (e have seen si major effects throughout this investigation.
They were reflected in personal interviews and in "uotations from
the books and pamphlets of contactee organi$ations.
1. The belief in UFOs widens the gap between the public and
scientific institutions. Some day our society will pay the price for the
lack of scientific attention given the %&' phenomenon. )s more
and more sincere witnesses come forward with their stories, only
to be summarily rejected by the academic or military institutions
they thought they could trust, an increasing gap is created. *ot
only may the public turn away from science in any form +and
become skeptical of the value of its investment in energy research
and space technology,, but it may seek a substitute in new high-
demand philosophies and pseudosciences. This movement toward
superstition in turn antagoni$es the scientists, who cite it as evidence
that the %&' phenomenon should not be studied seriously, and the
vicious circle continues.
2. The contactee propaganda undermines the image of human
beings as masters of their own destiny. Beginning with the idea
of )tlantis and of .!hariots of the /ods,. and continuing
with Biblical interpretations of 0ahweh as an etraterrestrial,
contactee literature is replete with suggestions that all the great
achievements of mankind would have been impossible without
celestial intervention. Should we thank etraterrestrial visitors for
teaching us agriculture, the mastery ! !ire, the "heel, an# mst
! ur religius tra#itins$ T anyne "h has stu#ie# the histry
! science, such i#eas %rmantically attracti&e as they are' a((ear
ill)!un#e#* The +est an# the "rst in human +eings ha&e +een
#is(laye# in all the cultures "e ,n"* Early cultures "ere as gi!te#
!r !ashining (yrami#s an# +uil#ing canals as they "ere s,ille#
at e-terminating their enemies, at ra(ing, an# at (illaging* Three
thusan# years later, "e are engaging in the same +eha&ir, althugh
"e +uil# canals an# e-terminate enemies .scienti!ically,.
3. Increasedattention given to UFO activity promotes the concept
of political unification of this planet. This is (erha(s the mst
cmmnly recurring theme in my entire stu#y ! these gru(s*
Thrugh the +elie! in /FOs, a tremen#us yearning !r gl+al
(eace is e-(ressing itsel! In a "ay that "as ca(ture# &ery early +y
n&elists li,e 0estler an# Ne"man, the /FO is !cusing human
attentin a"ay !rm the Earth* 1hether this +ecmes a !actr !r
(siti&e r negati&e scial change #e(en#s n the "ay in "hich this
!cuse# attentin is channele#*
4. Contactee organizations may become the basis of a new "high
demand" religion. The current cnser&ati&e +ac,lash against
#eca#ent. mrality an# scial li+eralism has le# many t recnsi#er
their s(iritual rientatin* The Cathlic Church is at a critical (int
in its histry, an# many ther religins are in tru+le* The ne"
churches em(hasi2e high stan#ar#s an# strict #isci(line* The cree#s
! /FO rgani2atins !ten em(hasi2e themes ! se-ual re(ressin,
racial segregatin, an# cnser&ati&e &alues that (lace them in a
(sitin t ca(itali2e n the gr"th ! this m&ement* Es(ecially
nticea+le in this res(ect is the attentin recei&e# +y .the T". an#
the "i#es(rea# success ! the Melchi2e#e, gru(s* Inherent in such
sectarian acti&ity is the see# ! re&lutinary religius m&ements
"ith almst unlimite# (tential*
!. Irrational motivations based on faith are spreading hand in
hand with the belief in e"traterrestrial intervention. 3s the /FO
(henmenn #e&el(s unchec,e#, "ith n e-(ectatin that
research on its nature will be honestly attempted, a continually
growing fraction of the public is becoming convinced that many
phenomena are beyond the scope of science and are "unknowable"
by rational process. If this fraction becomes the maority, they may
end society!s un"uestioned support for rational science. Instead we
may soon find an intermediate system of beliefs, in which an almost
mystical faith in higher "contact" blends together with advanced
technology in strange hybrid ways. #mong the contactees, the idea
that all attempts at scientific control must be given up and replaced
by blind faith is already prevalent.
6. Contactee philosophies often include belief in higher races and
in totalitarian systems that would eliminate democracy. $rom the
statement that %$&s have visited us in the past, it is only a small
step to saying that their occupants have "known" the 'aughters of
(an, "and found them fair)" Then some of us may have celestial
blood in our veins, which would make them "superior*! to others.
The idea of a "chosen people" is an old one+ it had lost its appeal in
recent decades. Strong belief in e,traterrestrial intervention could
revive this primitive concept, with particular groups claiming
privileges peculiar to those who descend from the stellar e,plorers.
-e have also seen that the alleged communication with
%$& occupants, when it touched on political subects, tended
to emphasi.e totalitarian images. /orilhon, for instance, reports
he was told that democracy was obsolete. 0aymond 1ernard was
instructed to e,pect a "reversal of the old values."
These si, effects of the belief in e,traterrestrial intervention
indicate that an increase in the social conditioning correlated
with the %$& phenomenon may lead to comple, changes. If the
(anipulators do e,ist, I certainly salute their tenacity, but I am
curious about their goals. #nybody clever enough to e,ploit the
public!s e,pectation of %$& landings, or even to simulate an invasion
from outer space, would presumably reali.e that human institutions
are highly vulnerable to changes in our images of ourselves. It is not
only the individual contactee who is manipulated, but the global
image in humanity's collectie !syche" One #oul$ li%e to %no#
mo&e' then' a(out the image o) humanity such Mani!ulato&s ha&(o&
in thei& o#n min$s * an$ in thei& hea&ts" +ssuming' o) cou&se' that
they $o hae hea&ts"
CONCLUSION
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T
HE WRITING OF this book has not been an easy task. In fact)
it was outriht !ifficu"t an! #ainfu". Few of the facts I ha$e
ha! to state in these #aes were to %y "ikin. They shocke! ear"ier
theories of %ine& !estroye! %y acce#te! an! fa%i"iar thouhts.
They were not !esine! to win any new frien!s. 'on!erin the
re#orts an! the theories& I ke#t thinkin& ()hou"! science ha$e
so%ethin to say about a"" this* If it !oesn't& then what is science
oo! for*(
)cience with a ca#ita" '+' is a co%#"e, syste%& when you "ook
at it fro% the insi!e. -inear acce"erators that stretch for %i"es&
co%#utin c"usters as bi as a su#er%arket& research centers the si.e
of a city/ the %in! is easi"y i%#resse! by the !i%ensions of %o!ern
techno"oy. 0s a #rofessiona" scientist& I ha$e !ri$en te"esco#es
insi!e their "are !o%es on %ountainto#s& an! I ha$e o#erate!
co%#uters in a ra!ar factory. I ha$e wa"ke! throuh i%%ense win!
tunne"s& an! I ha$e foun! %y way in the streets of ato%ic cities& in
Oak Ri!e an! 1rookha$en. None of this he"#s %e when I try to
un!erstan! the %oti$ations of the contactees/ science !oesn't co%e
to %y ai! any %ore. I a% outsi!e the !o%ain where e2uations ru"e
a "oica" set of #rocesses. I can't "ook at a"" this fro% the insi!e.
3onsi!er science fro% the outsi!e/ it is a %achine for turnin
out know"e!e. It has worke! e,tre%e"y we"" for a whi"e. It has
i$en us aircraft& te"e$ision& an! tri#s to the 4oon. On the other
han!& there are situations in which it is use"ess& because it assu%es
that the #heno%ena that are fe! into it are natura" an! s#ontaneous.
If so%ethin bier or s%arter than the or!inary hu%an %in! is
aroun!& if so%e c"e$er !ecei$ers use it to fee! us #heno%ena that
ha$e been !esine! to foo" us by 4achia$e""ian s#ies or bene$o"ent
masters, then a "scientific" investigation will e !seless" #ow can
we fin$ o!t whether or not anomalo!s %henomena can e $ealt
with in scientific terms&
't the en$ of anti(!it), %eo%le were fe$ !% with science" The
Gree*s *new the Earth was a gloe" The) *new how ig it was,
an$ how far it was from the S!n, an$ the) *new the $iameter of
the Moon" The) co!l$ com%!te the $ates of f!t!re ecli%ses" The)
even !n$erstoo$ the atomic str!ct!re of matter" +!t the) co!l$n,t
tell %eo%le what the h!man race was $oing here, an$ where it
wo!l$ go ne-t" So their science was swe%t awa) an$ forgotten"
.ill the same thing ha%%en to o!r science& Is this what /FOs
mean& Scientists may be in the sameposition with UFOs as they are
with crime: everypolice department has a criminology lab, but it is
the detective who finds the criminal, not the technician. !"#"
$#" %!" UFO &"%"'%()"S*
The %!lic has two !s!al %ositions on /FOs, either "It,s all
nonsense," or ".e are visite$ ) creat!res from another %lanet""
/ntil to$a), the first %osition has een the stronger one" ' ma0orit)
of the %!lic an$ %racticall) ever) scientist has long tho!ght
that /FOs were nonsense 1 an$ that is wh) there are no /FO
$etectives" Now things are changing" So man) %eo%le have seen
strange %henomena that a new elief has een orn" Scientific
o%inion cannot sto% this shifting of %ower" /nfort!natel), once
$ist!re$ from its comfortale %osition of rest, the %!lic will
shift to the other e-treme an$ start elieving in s%ace visitations"
This is !navoi$ale" It is so reass!ring to have other forms of life
come here2 The) ma) e horrile to ehol$, !t at least "the)"
*now ao!t !s, "the)" care ao!t !s, an$ "the)" have gone to
the tro!le of coming here to see what we loo* li*e2 In the naive
wor$s of a +ew ,or- %imes science e$itor, 3.e are not 'lone2"
There is another s)stem" It is sen$ing !s messengers of $ece%tion"
The) are not necessaril) coming from near) stars" (n terms of the
effect on us, it doesn.t matter where they comefrom. I even s!s%ect
that "where4, an$ "when" have no meaning here" #ow co!l$ we e
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alone? The black box of science has stopped ticking. People look up
toward the stars in eager expectation.
Receiving a visit from outer space sounds almost as comfortable
as having a od. !et we shouldn"t re#oice too soon. Perhaps we will
get the visitors we deserve.
EPILOGUE
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A Sociologist's Reaction
David Swift
T
HIS BOOK PRESENTS a disturbing alternative to the two
main theories about UFOs. The se!ti"al view denies that
UFOs e#ist$ the% are merel% hoa#es& delusions& or mis!er"e!tions
o' ordinar% ob(e"ts or natural !henomena. The other a!!roa"h
maintains that UFOs are real& and are s!a"e"ra't 'rom another
!lanet. )lthough *a"+ues ,allee "on"ludes that UFOs are real& he
does not thin the% are s!a"eshi!s- instead& he suggests that the%
are !h%si"al devi"es 'or mani!ulating human belie's& and that the
mani!ulators ma% be !eo!le here on Earth.
.hat are we to thin o' su"h an e#!lanation/ Inade+uate/
Far0'et"hed/
1es& but so are the other theories. There is no satis'a"tor%
e#!lanation 'or UFOs. It is di''i"ult to den% that the% e#ist$ too
man% astronomers& !ilots& air0tra''i" "ontrollers& and other trained
observers have seen them& !hotogra!hed them& or tra"ed them
through o!ti"al instruments- and simultaneous radar and visual
sightings are !arti"ularl% hard to dismiss.
But i' UFOs are real& what are the%/ The e#traterrestrial
h%!othesis has serious 'laws. It is e#tremel% unliel% that beings
"a!able o' building s!a"eshi!s live elsewhere in the universe. But
visits 'rom be%ond the solar s%stem would re+uire time or s!eeds
that seem im!ossible a""ording to our "urrent ideas about the
universe. Moreover, as Vallee observes, there are too many reports of
lanin!s in "hi#h $FO o##upants have supposel% been surprise
b% Earthlin!s blunerin! onto the&. Therefore "e shoul #onsier
the possibilit% that su#h si!htin!s "ere eliberatel% sta!e.
'lthou!h Vallee(s h%pothesis also has short#o&in!s ) it
oes not tell us "ho is #ausin! the $FO si!htin!s or ho" the%
are oin! it ) it is *ust as satisfa#tor% as the other approa#hes,
an has some avanta!es+ it oes not #hallen!e the reports
of thousans of reliable "itnesses, nor oes it #ontrai#t our
present la"s of ph%si#s. Moreover, it su!!ests a plan behin
the pheno&ena, an ini#ates that $FO si!htin!s #oul
have serious so#ial #onse,uen#es. -efore "e e.a&ine these
#onse,uen#es, ho"ever, it &a% be helpful to !lan#e at Vallee(s
o"n s#ientifi# ,ualifi#ations.
Vallee is an unusual s#ientist. /e fir&l% believes in the s#ientifi#
&etho, but he applies it to nontraitional fiels. /e has a Master(s
e!ree in astroph%si#s an a Ph.D. in #o&puter s#ien#e. /e has
serve as Mana!er of Infor&ation S%ste&s at Stanfor $niversit%,
an has "ritten fiveother boo0s on $FOs. /is earl% "or0 propose
#ate!ories for #lassif%in! $FO reports, an pla#e the& in a broa
!eo!raphi#al an histori#al #onte.t. More re#entl% his anal%sis has
shifte a"a% fro& the $FO itself to the effe#ts of si!htin!s on the
"itness an on so#iet%. /is finin!s are is,uietin!+ fl%in!)sau#er
#ultists &a% be#o&e an i&portant fa#tor in our #ulture. -elief in
#onta#t "ith e.traterrestrials e.poses the believer to &anipulation,
an #oul lea to revolutionar% &ove&ents #apable of uner&inin!
or estro%in! establishe institutions.
Vallee is not tal0in! about the &an% people "ho thin0 that life
&i!ht e.ist else"here in the universe. Nor is he ire#tl% #on#erne
"ith the &an% persons "ho have seen stran!e aerial pheno&ena
the% #oul not ientif%. Instea, Vallee fo#uses on a s&aller !roup,
the contactees, "ho believe the% have re#eive i&portant &essa!es
fro& -%in! sau#ers. These revelations t%pi#all% offer si&plisti#
solutions to our #o&ple. proble&s. The an!er, "arns Vallee,
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lies in the contactees' unquestioning and contagious faith that
extraterrestrial intervention will bring peace, joy, and salvation:
the saucers have been sent by our Space rothers! all we have to
do is trust the", and our proble"s will be solved#
$his is an alluring "essage, but would anyone be naive enough
to believe it% $he answer is yes&
As sociologists 'now, so"ething does not have to be true in
order to influence us& A great deal of hu"an behavior is based
on questionable infor"ation& (e plant crops, choose spouses,
worship gods, and wage wars because of our perceptions of a
situation rather than because of the reality of it& $here "ay be a
vast difference between the two&
$his difference is crucial for understanding )*+ cultists&
$hey are influenced not by the objective facts of a situation but
by their interpretation of those facts& $hey act according to what
they believe, not according to what "ight actually be true& $he
fact that their interpretations "ay be grossly inaccurate does not
prevent the" fro" behaving as if they were correct& $his is what
,allee "eans when he says that -contact with space "ay beco"e
a social fact a long ti"e before it is a scientific reality&-
. e"phasi/e this point because )*+ cultists believe so"e
strange things! things so bi/arre that we are te"pted to dis"iss
the" as absurd but har"less& $his "ay be a "ista'e on our part&
0esus, 1arx, and 2itler see"ed ridiculous to respectable citi/ens
of their ti"es, but they changed the course of history&
)*+ cults are li'e a religion, offering co"fort and hope to
people who are struggling with basic proble"s of "odern life& +n
the one hand, science and education have under"ined our faith in
a benevolent 3od who cares about us& +n the other hand, science
and education have not provided satisfactory answers to questions
about our origins and goals&
.nto this void have stepped the saucer sects, offering us the
reassuring belief 4hat benevolent beings fro" outer space will ta'e
care of us, solve our proble"s, and offer us uni"aginable joys&
The situation was aptly desci!ed !y a "FO cultist we #et in
this !oo$%
&ll these e'elations ha'e !ou(ht #e such well)!ein( and
such an inne peace* in this wold whee one doesn+t $now
what to !elie'e any #oe* whee it+s i#possi!le to !elie'e
in a ,Good God, with a lon( white !ead o a de'il with
clo'en hoo-s* a wold whee po-essional scientists cannot
po'ide a pecise enou(h e.planation o- ou oi(in and ou
(oals/ In the li(ht o- these e'elations* e'eythin( is cleaed
up and appeas si#ple/
This state#ent not only su##ai0es the esponses o- "FO cultists*
!ut also indicates that so#e o- the# ae educated* thou(ht-ul
people* 1uite di--eent -o# the steeotypes o- illiteate -a#es and
dea#in( old ladies/ This leads us to the ne.t point% the -utue o-
these cults ) and ou own -utue/
&t pesent* contactee (oups ae s#all* and ha'e no o!'ious
e--ect on society* e.cept -o disceditin( seious eseach into the
"FO pheno#enon/ 2ut will this situation e#ain the sa#e3 4hat
ae the cicu#stances unde which these cults could !eco#e !oad
social #o'e#ents* posin( a eal challen(e to society3
Such #o'e#ents aise when #any people -eel -ustated !y
e.istin( conditions* and when the #o'e#ent (i'es hope to
i#po'e#ent/ These hopes #ay see# -a)-etched to an outside*
!ut thee is pactically no li#it to the iationalities which #ay !e
associated with a success-ul #o'e#ent/ The -actos that a--ect social
#o'e#ents in (eneal ha'e !een su##ai0ed in The Handbook of
Social Psychology:
The ulti#ate success o- social #o'e#ents does not depend
on thei si0e o o(ani0ation* o the 1uality o- thei
leadeship* o the sophistication o- thei 'iews/ It depends*
athe* on the e.tent to which they success-ully e.pess the
feelings, resentments, worries, fears, concerns, and hopes
of large numbers of people, and the degree to which these
movements can be viewed as vehicles for the solution of
widespread problems.
1
!" cults appeal to a vast audience. #he problems the$ address are
an undeniable fact of our times. %rofound changes have affected
ever$one, particularl$ in the &estern world. Science, technolog$,
and education have undermined traditional beliefs, but have not
provided satisfactor$ substitutes. '(od is dead') $et nothing has
ta*en his place to guide us, reassure us, and protect us. !amilies
have shrun* nearl$ to +he vanishing point. ,t is the rare person who
still lives in the same house or communit$ as his grandparents did.
!ew of the hundreds of people we pass on the streets *now who we
are, or care. "ld occupations, practiced b$ generations, suddenl$
become e-tinct) s*ills developed b$ a lifetime of practice become
worthless. And over all these social and ps$chological concerns
loom the threats of environmental pollution and energ$ crises, and
the ver$ real possibilit$ that nuclear war will bring an apocal$ptic
end to life on this planet.
#here is widespread uneasiness about these problems, and
various remedies are being offered, including meditation, political
action, drugs, and religion. !" cults are competing with all of
these for the support of dissatisfied, disillusioned people. &hat are
the chances that !"s will outdraw the others. &hat can saucer
sects offer that the rest cannot. A light in the s*$, and the message
that someone up there can help $ou.
At first glance this ma$ not seem impressive, but if we thin*
about it we will reali/e that the !" has some features which ma*e
it a formidable contender.
!irst, the !", more than an$ of its competitors, highlights the
inade0uacies of science, the armed forces, and government. #hese
are among the most powerful institutions in our societ$) $et the$
are unable to deal with !"s.
For thirty years the Hying saucer has made our leaders look
ludicrous They can!t e"#lain it$ they can!t ignore it$ they can!t
catch it$ and they can!t make it go a%ay It ho&ers on the edge o'
#u(lic a%areness$ occasionally darting into the s#otlight$ creating a
moment o' consternation$ and then %ithdra%ing into the shado%s$
usually lea&ing its o(ser&ers unharmed (ut shaken (y the e"#erience
Physical scientists say that it is a #ro(lem 'or social scientists and
social scientists )ust as *uickly thro% it (ack to the #hysicists and
astronomers The +ir Force$ a'ter gra##ling %ith the #ro(lem
'or t%enty years$ tried to %ash its hands o' the matter in the late
,-./s +lthough the go&ernment denies that 0FOs e"ist$ a ,-12
Gallu# #oll 'ound that almost all +mericans 3-2 #er cent4 %ere
a%are o' 0FOs$ and IS million adults thought they had actually
seen one 5hen the *uestion 6+re 0FOs real or imaginary76 %as
asked o' the grou# that %as a%are o' the #ro(lem$ the #ercentage
o' those res#onding 6real8 increased 'rom 9. #er cent in ,-.. to
:9 #er cent in ,-12$ and to :1 #er cent in ,-1;$ %hen only <1 #er
cent res#onded 6Imaginary$6 No other sym(ol has so silently (ut
e''ecti&ely undermined the credi(ility o' our leading institutions
Secondly$ the 0FO is a uni&ersal sym(ol$ a##ealing to men and
%omen o' many lands ages$ and races It is not e&en restricted to
a s#eci'ic #eriod in history To sim#le o(ser&ers$ it is a %ondrous
(au(le glittering in the sky To the more so#histicated$ it seems to
(e a #roduct o' a su#erior technology In either case$ the underlying
message is so clear that it hardly needs to (e &er(ali=ed> the creators
o' this a%esome o()ect ha&e 'antastic kno%ledge and #o%er$ and
this kno%ledge and #o%er might hel# you.
This is an alluring message$ and it %ill (ecome more attracti&e
%ith each 'ailure o' con&entional attem#ts to sol&e our com#le"
#ro(lems The thought o' sal&ation 'rom the sky is likely to gro%
in a##eal
This (elie' is$ a'ter all$ not so di''erent 'rom traditional religious
doctrine The idea that (ene&olent (eings li&e in the sky goes (ack to
our childhood$ and ?/ the early stages o' human society The 0FO
simply adds the trappings of modern science to those ancient beliefs.
Because of twentieth-century technology e!en we humans can fly
into the hea!ens and the ad!ocates of radio astronomy encourage us
to belie!e that there are ci!ili"ations far out in space.
#hus belief in $%&s is not such a big step and may well attract
large numbers of people who are dissatisfied with more mundane
answers to our inescapable problems.
'ould such mo!ements be a threat( )uite possibly. #hey could
undermine the rational foundations of society. #hey would not ha!e
to o!erthrow the present system all by themsel!es* they could simply
reinforce irrational currents that already e+ist.
Re!elation rather than reason is the source of contactee beliefs. #his
is not a new occurrence. #here ha!e been pre!ious periods during which
people followed !oices rather than logic superstitious belief rather than
obser!ation and e+periment and the conse,uences were disastrous.
#his is one of -allee's most telling points. .e thin/s that $%&
sects will be influential because of today's spreading belief in the
irrational. 0t is to this belief that our institutions are !ulnerable.
#hus as he obser!es the genuine counter-culture of today is not that
of hippies or drugs but rather the counter-culture of $%& contact. 0t
is more durable. subtle and dangerous because it has a broader social
base* it is not tied to any specific group or age brac/et.
#he irony is that scientists themsel!es ha!e contributed to this
situation by refusing to consider problems beyond the borders of safe
established science. -allee remar/s that the attitude he first obser!ed
among his colleagues at 1aris &bser!atory - science's reluctance to
in!estigate paranormal phenomena - is slowly dri!ing many people
to react by accepting any claim of superior or mystical contact.
'e now corne to -allee's con2ecture that contactees are being
deliberately manipulated perhaps by some group here on Earth.
3ould he be right( 4our guess is as good as mine. 0 suggest that
we /eep our minds open weighing the e!idence he presents. .e
does offer some intriguing ideas. %or instance he notes that we
already ha!e technologies capable of distorting the obser!er's
sense of reality. Television can control our awareness so that we
sometimes cannot tell whether a scene is real or fae!" whether it is
actually ha##enin$ or is %ein$ sta$e!. Furthermore" a!vertisers use
su%liminal con!itionin$ to mae us want their #ro!ucts" without
our %ein$ aware that we have %een e&#ose! to their messa$es.
Ifwe have such !evices now" what mi$ht %e !one %y a more a!vance!
technolo$y' (e can $et some i!ea %y looin$ at our own #ro$ress. )
century a$o it woul! have seeme! im#ossi%le that #eo#le coul! wal
on the Moon while we sat at home watchin$ an! listenin$ to them.
To!ay*s im#ossi%ilities may soon %ecome accom#lishe! facts.
+allee*s hy#othesis attem#ts to account for an as#ect of the ,FO
that has %een ne$lecte! %y ,FO researchers- the social influence
of the contactees. They act .as if*/ they were %ein$ mani#ulate!
accor!in$ to certain #rinci#les liste! in this %oo. This metho! of
sayin$ somethin$ wors .as if. is use! in #hysics an! in sociolo$y0
althou$h #otentially hel#ful" it must be use! with caution. (e must
not confuse result with #ur#ose. The first coul! %e acci!ental0 the
secon! is intentional. This !istinction is #articularly ur$ent in to#ics
lie ,FOs" an! +allee is aware of it. 1e e&#lores the conse2uences
of contactee %eliefs" an! then #ur#osely ste#s across the %or!er into
the realm of intent. This ena%les him to !iscern #ossi%le reasons
%ehin! the contactee #henomenon.
+allee has ma!e a commen!a%le effort to e&#lain a #henomenon
that coul! have $rim conse2uences. (e !on*t now whether he is ri$ht
or wron$" an! we may never now. )t the very least" however" he has
a!vance! our un!erstan!in$ %y amassin$ a lar$e amount of firsthan!
o%servations a%out contactee cults on two continents. It is ironic that
this com#etent stu!y of a #otentially si$nificant social movement was
!one %y a #hysical scientist rather than %y a sociolo$ist. Now that he
has shown the way" I ho#e other researchers will follow.
ProfessorDavid Swift
Department of Sociology
University of Hawaii
APPENDIX
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S
TATEMENTONTHE UFO Phenomenon, Prepared for Delivery
before the Special Political Committee of the United ation!
Or"ani#ation, e$ %or& City, ovember '(, )*(+, by Jac,-e! F.
/allee, Ph.D., 0nformation Scienti!t, Palo 1lto, California2
3r. Chairman,
0n the proce!! of !cience it i! common for old h-man idea! to be
challen"ed by ne$ fact!. e$ &no$led"e i! born of thi! challen"e.
0n the proce!! of !ocial development it i! common for ne$
&no$led"e to tri""er emotional reaction! $ith far4reachin" c-lt-ral
and political effect!. e$ belief! are born of thi! confrontation.
5he fre,-ent reportin" of -ne6plained phenomena in the !&y of
many co-ntrie! d-rin" the la!t thirty year! pre!ent! an opport-nity
to ob!erve both of the!e proce!!e!.
0n the doc-ment! circ-lated prior to thi! meetin", and in o-r
preliminary di!c-!!ion! $ith 7i! 86cellency 3r. 9-rt :aldheim
and repre!entative! of the O-ter Space 1ffair! ;ro-p, the e!!ential
fact! of the phenomenon have been !tated by Dr. J. 1llen 7yne&,
by Dr. Cla-de Poher, and by my!elf 1ccordin"ly, 0 $ill limit my
remar&! to one a!pect of the phenomenon $hich to-che! directly
on the role of yo-r Committee.
5o be !pecific, 0 $o-ld li&e to call yo-r attention to a ne$
!ocial movement ba!ed on the e6pectation of contact $ith bein"!
from o-ter !pace. 5hi! belief, in many $ay!, i! an emotional
one. Although the UFO phenomenon is rel! n" ppers to #e
$use" #% n un&no'n ph%si$l stimulus! I h(e so )r )ile" to
"is$o(er n% e(i"en$e tht it represente" the rri(l o) (isitors
)rom outer sp$e.
Inste" it is m% $on$lusion! Mr. Chirmn! tht this phenomenon
hs three spe$ts.
The first aspect is ph%si$l mni)esttion tht $n n" shoul"
#e in(estigte" #% mens o) lre"% (il#le s$ienti)i$ e*uipment.
Dr. Clu"e Poher! in his re$entl% $on$lu"e" stu"% sponsore" #% n
gen$% o) the Fren$h Go(ernment! hs no' sho'n the '% in this
"ire$tion. This %er the Spnish rme" )or$es h(e lso relese" their
)iles on $ses tht h" resiste" nl%sis #% their e+perts. There is no
l$& o) ph%si$l "t! n" there is no l$& o) $ompetent s$ientists
'ho re 'illing to e+mine them 'ith n open min".
The second aspect o) the UFO phenomenon is ps%$ho,
ph%siologi$l. -itnesses t the s$ene e+hi#it "isorienttion
s%mptoms! loss o) the sense o) time! prtil prl%sis or loss o)
(oluntr% mus$le $ontrol! u"itor% n" (isul hllu$intions! e%e
$omplints rnging )rom $on.un$ti(itis to temporr% #lin"ness!
mssi(e ps%$hi$ re$tions! n" longer/term e))e$ts! su$h s
"istur#n$e o) sleep n" "rem ptterns n" r"i$l #eh(ior
$hnges ..I "o not #elie(e it is 'ithin the pro(in$e or the #u"get o)
the Unite" Ntions to ""ress su$h e))e$ts "ire$tl%! e+$ept 'here
the Unite" Ntions Orgni0tion $n ser(e its tr"itionl role in
"isseminting s$ienti)i$ in)ormtion n" )$ilitting e+$hnges
mong s$holrs.
It is the third aspect o) the UFO phenomenon 'hi$h "eser(es
%our )ull ttention here! Mr. Chirmn. This thir" spe$t is the
so$il #elie) s%stem 'hi$h hs #een generte" in ll the ntions
represente" on this $ommittee #% the e+pe$ttion o) sp$e (isitors.
This #elie) hs #een nurture" #% the l$& o) serious ttention
gi(en to genuine reports o) UFOs! n" it is $reting ne' religious!
$ulturl! n" politi$l $on$epts o) 'hi$h so$il s$ien$e hs t&en
little noti$e.
Appendix - Statement on the UFO Ph e n o meno u 263
Jacques Vallee attends a closed U.N. confeence !ith "ut #aldheim and
intenational UFO expets.
$ ha%e spent moe than fifteen &eas conductin' studies of the
epots made thou'h official and unofficial channels in Fance
and in the United States. (hese anal&ses ha%e )een suppoted )&
extensi%e compute statistics. $n addition* $ ha%e )een ill fequent
conmunication !ith scientists in othe pats of the !old. (he
conclusions $ ha%e eached a)out the social effects of the UFO
phenomenon in the cultues $ ha%e studied ae the follo!in'.
+. (he )elief in space %isitos is independent of the ph&sical
ealit& of the UFO phenomenon. $n tems of social science, !e
mi'ht sa& that somethin' is -eal. if enou'h people )elie%e in it.
(he UFO phenomenon has no! eached this point. (he question
of /no!in' !hethe o not UFOs ae ph&sicall& -eal. is )ecomin'
seconda& in the mind of the pu)lic.
2. (he )elief in the imminence of UFO -contact. is an indication
of a !idenin' 'ap )et!een the pu)lic and science. #e ae )e'innin'
to pa& the pice fo the ne'ati%e and pe0udiced attitude !ith !hich
our scientific institutions have treated sincere witnesses of UFO
phenomena !ac" of serious# open$minded research in this fie%d
has encoura&ed these witnesses to thin" that science is incapa'%e
of dea%in& with the phenomena This attitude has %ed man( peop%e
to see" answers outside the rationa% pursuit of "now%ed&e to which
science is dedicated On%( an open e)chan&e of information on the
su'*ect cou%d now correct this dan&erous trend
+ In the a'sence of serious# un'iased research on the su'*ect#
the 'e%ief in the imminence of UFO ,contact, undermines the
ima&e of Man as a master of his own destin( In recent (ears we
have seen man( 'oo"s ar&uin& that the Earth had 'een visited '(
space trave%ers in prehistoric times -%thou&h this theor( deserves
serious stud(# it is %eadin& man( peop%e to su&&est that the &reat
achievements of man"ind wou%d have 'een impossi'%e without
ce%estia% intervention. the deve%opment of a&ricu%ture# the master(
of fire# and the 'ases of civi%i/ation are credited to so$ca%%ed ,hi&her
'ein&s, Not on%( does this idea contradict man( archeo%o&ica%
facts# it encoura&es passive e)pectation of another visit '( friend%(
space creatures to so%ve current human pro'%ems
0 The e)pectation of contact with space visitors promotes
the concept of po%itica% unification of our p%anet Throu&h the
'e%ief in space entities# a stron& and 'eautifu% (earnin& for &%o'a%
peace is e)pressin& itse%f The UFO phenomenon is providin& an
outside focus for human emotions 1hether this 'ecomes a factor
for positive or ne&ative socia% chan&e wi%% depend on the wa( in
which these emotions are treated and on the seriousness with which
the under%(in& ph(sica% phenomenon is investi&ated Such is the
cha%%en&e 'efore this Committee
Mr Chairman# it is not m( ro%e to su&&est a specific approach
to this comp%e) pro'%em The scientists with whom I am in contact
wou%d we%come an opportunit( to share their data and their ideas
within an( structure that cou%d 'e made avai%a'%e for this purpose
-%% the &reat nations of the wor%d are represented on this
committee !et us "eep in mind that the UFO phenomenon ma(
Appendix - Statement on the UFO Phenomenon 265
represent an even greater reality. It is our choice to treat it as a
threat or as an opportunity or human !no"ledge.
NOTES
< 1 < 3 .
Notes to Prologue.
1. Clock and Stark, "Taxonomy of Relgous Ex!erence," n Religion
and Society in Tension, p, 42,
". #lly $ra%am, Angels, !. "&.
3 . $lock and Stark, op, cit.
', Nlsson, Greek Piety, !. 1 ((.
5. Ibid.
Notes to C%a!ter 1 .
1 . T%e deta led statstcs u!on )%c% t%ese conclusons are *ased are
*eyond t%e sco!e of t%s *ook. T%ey )ll *e found n Po%er and +allee,
"#asc Patterns of t%e ,-O P%enomenon,"
", -rom an nter.e) / conducted n 1 01&.
3 . 2a)son3 "4%at Can 4e 2earn from 5y!noss of /magnary
6*ductees78"
Notes to C%a!ter ".
1 . 2!sky, Man the Puppet, !. 9&.
". #ro)n, Bodyguard of ies, !. 3 1 .
Notes to C%a!ter '.
1. !illage !oice, :ec. 1 , 1 0&9.
". See #alc% and Taylor3 ;T%e Role of t%e Cultc <leu n =onng a
UFOCult. "
Note to C%a!ter 9.
1 . -lammonde, Age of "lying Saucers.
Notes to C%a!ter 1.
1. Tele!%one nter.e) )t% t%e /talan !a!er #$a #%press, =uly 1 ,1 0&1.
2. Ibid.
3. In the Adoniensis message whose o!e" is shown in Fig#"e 6.3.
Notes to Chapter $.
%. Sad&e"' Physiology of Fear and Faith, P"e(ae.
2. A&& the (o&&owing )#otes ("om Sad&e" a"e ("om the A**endi+ to
Mind and Mischief
3. ,ead-eate"' Science of the Sacraments, *. 26..
4. San Francisco Chronicle, A*"i& 2.'%/$%.
.. Enoh Penn' The Order of Melcbizedeh. A&& the (o&&owing )#otes
("om Penn a"e ("om this -oo0.
6. 1The Pee0 E+*e"iene'1 in California Institute of Transpersonal
Psychology e!sletter, !o&. 6' no. % 2A*"i& %3'%/$84' *. %.
". #ac. cit.
Notes to Chapter 8.
%. 5e"na"d des"i-es his meeting with Maha in #es Maisons secretes de
u $ose%Croi&, **. %862$.
2. Ibid., **. 2$3 et ca.
Notes to Chapter 9.
%. See 7ing' Satan and S!asti'a.
2. F"om M#sso"gs089s (oris )oduno*.
3. Fit:ge"a&d' 1Re*eat Pe"(o"mane'1 *. 8.
3. ;#oted in Stende' 2a S*anish <FO maga:ine4' no. 22 2De. %/$.4
and no. 23 2Ma8 %/$64.
.. P"o=et Stigma' 5o+ %>/3' Pa"is' T? /.36>.
6. AFP wi"e se"!ie' Ot. %'%/$$.
$. Smith' Cattle Mutilation, *. %3.
8. The Mee'er +erald, Mee0e"' Co&.' Se*t. 6, %/$..
9. )len!ood Post, G&enwood S*"ings' Co&.' Se*t. 22'%/$..
%>. Smith' op. cit., *. %>.
11. )azette Telegraph, Co&o"ado S*"ings' Ot. 23'%/$..
12. The Sun, Co&o"ado S*"ings' Ot. 23' %/$..
,-. )azette Telegraph, @#&8 6'%/$..
,4. +as'ell e!s $elease, Aas0e&&' Co&.' Se*t. %%'%/$..
Notes 269
15. Telluride Times, Telluride) Col, Sept. 21,1975.
16. Denver Post, Denver, Col., July 11,1975.
Note to Chapter 10.
1. Jim Hougan, T!irty"#our Spies $rom %ars, p. &9.
Notes to Chapter 11.
I.'ro(eedings o$ t!e )o*ertson panel, 195& +partially de(lassi$ied
in 195,).
2. New York Times data base, re$eren(e 1143695/DN.
&. See #estinger et al., !"en Pro#"e$% &ails, and -allee, nvisible
'olle(e, pp. ./".5.
0. )e1 and )ay Stan$ord, )ook *#.+, p. 10.
5. bid., p. 43.
.. 2n t!is topi(, see3 4ergier, )+,s#ionna(e #oliti-ue. 4rissaud, /itler
et +0rdre Noir1 and t!e spe(ial issue o$ /istoire devoted to 5spionnage
1905"1971.
7. 6illiamson and %(Coy, *&0s 'on2idential.
,. 4rillouin, 3$ien$e et t"eorie de l+in2ormation, p. 155.
9. S(!a$rot!, 3ele$ted )e$tures in 4odern P"%si$s, p. 2.,.
1/. Costa de 4eauregard, )e 3e$ond Prin$i#e de L a s$ien$e du tem#s, p. .9.
11. 7s suggested *y 7*ra!am %oles in Tbeorie de l+in2ormation et
#er$e#tion estbeti-ue.
12. 'ut!o$$ andTarg , 4indrea$b.
1&. 8n Pro$eedin(s o2 t"e ,,,, 2(t. 197., p. 1551.
Note to Epilogue.
1. 9ind:ey, /andbook o2 3o$ial Ps%$"olo(%.
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D
R. JACQUES VALLEE(www.jacquesvallee.com) holds a Master's
deree !" astro#h$s!cs %rom a &re"ch u"!vers!t$ a"d a 'h.(.
!" com#uter sc!e"ce %rom )orthwester" U"!vers!t$. *e%ore start!"
h!s ow" com#uter com#a"$+ he served as Ma"aer o% ,"%ormat!o"
S$stems at Sta"%ord U"!vers!t$. A Jules Ver"e 'r!-e w!""er %or h!s
%!rst sc!e"ce %!ct!o" "ovel+ (r. Vallee has #u.l!shed over %!%t$ art!cles
!" sc!e"t!%!c a"d #o#ular jour"als+ a"d s!/ %actual .oo0s o" U&1s.
(r. Vallee has #!o"eered research !" the #s$cholo!cal+ soc!al a"d
#s$ch!c as#ects o% the U&1 #he"ome"o". Jacques Vallee was also
the model %or the character 'LaCom.e' !" the %!lm CloseEncounters
of the Third Kind.
2he author ca" .e co"tacted at '.1. *o/ 345367+ Sa" &ra"c!sco+
CA. 84534.
Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults
Copyright 1979 by Jacques Vallee
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