H
Haines, Richard F.
Hall, Richard H.
Harmonic 33
Harvest
Hesemann, Michael
Higdon experience
Higher self
Hill abduction
Hollow Earth, The
Home of the Gods, The
Hopkins, Budd
Hudson Valley (New York) UFO sightings
Humanoids, The
Hynek, J. Allen
Hynek UFO Report, The
Hypnosis, use of, in UFO Investigations
I
Iatrogenesis
Imaginary Abductee Study
Implants, alien
Incident at Exeter
Insectoids
Intelligent Life in the Universe
Interstellar travel
Interrupted Journey, The
Into the Fringe: A True Story of Alien Abduction
Intruders
Invaders from Mars
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Invisible College, The
Invisible Residents
Is Another World Watching?
Is Anyone Out There?
J
J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS)
Jacobs, David M.
JAL Flight #1628
Jessup, Morris K.
Jesus as an ET
Jesus Christ: Heir to the Astronauts
Jordan-Kauble, Debra
Jung, Carl Gustav
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Kecksberg (Pennsylvania) Incident
Keel, John A.
Kelly Cahill abduction
Kelly-Hopkinsville (Kentucky) goblins
Kentucky abduction
Keyhoe, Donald E.
Kinross (Michigan) jet chase
Klass, Philip J.
Klass’s UFOlogical Principles
Kottmeyer, Martin S.
Kundalini
L
Lakenheath-Bentwaters Radar-visual UFOs
Lawson, Alvin H.
Levelland (Texas) landings
Light Years
Lorenzen, Coral E.
Lorenzen, L. J.
Lost Tribes from Outer Space, The
Lubbock (Texas) lights
Lucid dreams
M
Maccabee, Bruce
Mack, John E.
Mack’s abductees
Maitreya
Majestic 12 (MJ-12) documents
Mandelker, Scott
Manna Machine, The
Manmade UFOs
Mars and Martians
Mars Rock
Matthews, Tim
McDonald, James E.
McMinnville (Oregon) photos
Meier contacts
Menger, Howard
Menzel, Donald H.
Messages from the Stars
Messengers of Deception
Metán (Argentina) UFO Crash-retrieval
Metaphysical aspects of UFOs and ETs
Mexican wave of 1990s
Michel, Aimé
Michilak encounter
Mind control by aliens
Missing Time
Missing time?
Monuments of Mars, The
Moody abduction
Morel encounter
Morning of the Magicians, The
Moseley, James W.
Mothman
Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)
Mysteries of Time and Space
N
NASA Fact Sheet on UFOs
National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP)
Nazca “spaceport”
Near-death experience (NDE)
Nickell, Joe
No Earthly Explanation
O
Oberg, James E.
Occult connection with UFOs
Omega Project, The
One Hundred Thousand Years of Unknown History
Operation Mainbrace sightings
Out-of-body experience (OBE)
P
Palenque “astronaut”
Palmer, Raymond A.
Paradox: The Case for the Extraterrestrial Origin of Man
Parallel Time Line
Paranoia and UFOs
Parra incident
Pascagoula (Mississippi) abduction
Passport to Magonia
Pflock, Karl T.
Phoenix (Arizona) lights
Photographs of UFOs (gallery)
Piata Beach (Brazil) photos
Pope, Nick
Portage County police (Ohio) police chase
Powerlessness
Principle of Mediocrity
Prison Earth theory
Problem of Noncontact
Program for Extraordinary Experience Research, The (PEER)
Project Blue Book
Project Magnet
Projection/warning theory of UFOs and ETs
Psychiatric aspects of UFOs
Psychosocial aspects of UFOs
Q
Quaroble (France) landing
R
Randle, Kevin
Randles, Jenny
Reconnaissance theory of UFOs
Religion and UFOs
Religious movements and UFOs
Rendlesham Forest incident
Report on Communion
Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, The
Reptoids
Resistance to abductions
Revelations
Roach abduction
Robertson Panel
Rogo hypothesis
Rosedale (Victoria, Australia) Close encounter
Roswell Incident, The
Roswell (New Mexico) incident
Roswell UFO Crash, The
Ruwa (Africa) landing
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Sagan, Carl
St. Clair (Illinois) police sightings
San Carlos Venezuela) incident
Schwarz, Berthold E.
Science fiction and UFOs
Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, The
The Scientist: A Novel Autobiography
Schirmer abduction
Schuessler, John
Scully hoax
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
SETI Institute
Secret Life
Shapes of UFOs
Shaver mystery
Sheaffer, Robert M.
Shostak, Seth
Sirius Mystery, The
Sitchin, Zecharia
Situation Red: The UFO Siege
Sky People, The
Sleep paralysis
Socorro (New Mexico) landing
Sorell (Australia) saucers
Soul exchange
Soul transfer
Space Brothers
Space-Gods Revealed, The
Spaceships of Ezekiel, The
Spaceships of the Pleiades
SpaceTime Transients
Sprinkle, R. Leo
Star People
Star People, The
Steiger, Brad
Steiger, Sherry Hansen
Stillings, Dennis
Story, Ronald D.
Story’s UFO “observations”
Stranger at the Pentagon
Stranges, Frank E.
Strauch photo
Strieber, Whitley
Swiatek, Robert P.
T
Takeda (Japan) photo
Tehran (Iran) jet chase
Temple of the Stars
Theories, UFO
They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers
They Live in the Sky
Those Gods Who Made Heaven and Earth
Threat, The
Threat, UFO-ET
Timmerman, John
Top Secret/Majic
Transformation required to join the Galactic Society
Tremonton (Utah) movie
Truth About Flying Saucers, The
Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell, The
/> Tujunga Canyon (California) Abductions
Tujunga Canyon Contacts, The
12th Planet, The
2001: A Space Odyssey
U
UFO Abductions: A Dangerous Game
UFO and the Bible
UFO defined
UFO Enigma, The
UFO Exist!
UFO Incident, The
UFO Missionairies Extraordinary
UFO Retrievals
UFO Verdict, The
UFOlogy
UFOlogy
UFOnauts, The
UFOs: Explained
UFOs—Identified
UFO’s: Nazi Secret Weapon?
UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse
UFOs Over the Americas
UFOs: What on Earth is Happening?
Ultimate Encounter
UMMO affair
Unidentified, The
Uninvited Visitors
University of Colorado UFO Project
Uri
V
Valensole (France) landing
Vallée, Jacques
Valentich disappearance
Van Tassel, George
Varginha (Brazil) encounters of 1996
Villas Boas abduction
Von Däniken, Erich
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Walk-in
Walton abduction
Wanderer
War of the Worlds
Ware, Donald M.
Washington National jet chase
Waves and flaps, UFO
Watch the Skies!
Watchers, The
We Are Not Alone
We Are Not the First
We Met the Space People
Web sites, UFO/ET-related
Webb, Walter
Wellington-Kaikoura (New Zealand) radar/visual UFO sightings
When Time Began
Whispers from Space
Window areas
Witnessed
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X-Files, The
Y
Yorba Linda (California) UFO photo
Yungay (Peru) photos
Z
Zeidman, Jennie
Zwischenbergen (Switzerland) photo case
Editor’s Preface
If our wisdom fails to match our science, we will have no second chance.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
Voices from the Sky, (1965)
During the compilation of this encyclopedia, I experienced something of a revelation. If recent world events have proved anything, it is that we need a wake-up call – which is how I read the “voices from the sky” that constitute the modern UFO myth.
The first point I would like to clarify is the use of the term “myth”. In my view, myth is a thought pattern or paradigm, very much like a scientific theory. Even scientific theories should not be taken too literally, and myths and not literal at all. That is not to say, however, that myths are false. Quite the contrary: myths contain truths that require symbolic interpretation; and if myths are viewed as analogies, the truths do ring out.
My 25-year study has revealed a constant parallel between UFOlogy and the human condition, somewhat like science fiction, except that the UFO myth develops naturally as a component of human perception. It is not a matter of “special creation” (as in the case of science fiction), but rather it evolves over time, just as we evolve as a joint-product of genetics and our environment.
Curiously, the space-aliens’ concerns have likewise tracked human social evolution. Not only do the aliens usually appear humanoid; their primary concerns (even to the point of fetishes) always match the primary concerns of humanity at various social milieus. In the 1940s and 50s, warnings of atomic radiation and nuclear holocaust were in vogue, later to be replaced by concern for the Earth’s environment. Then the aliens got involved in genetic engineering – at precisely the same moment is history when we earthlings began to crack the genetic code.
Our visitors now seem to have drawn battle lines between two camps: (1) the “evil ones” who seem to be laying plans for our enslavement and/or destruction, and (2) the “wise ones” – a kinder, gentler race of celestial gods or saviour types – who are concerned for our welfare. These “technological angels”, as the eminent psychologist Carl Jung called them, are here apparently to save our souls and lead us into a higher realm of cosmic consciousness. In between lies a “gray area”, as UFO theorist Martin Kottmeyer calls it, populated by a race of emotionless clones who have come to be known collectively as the “Grays”. Theories vary as to what exactly they’re up to – the very fact of which seems to mirror the uncertainty we humans feel about our own future.
Lest the reader misunderstand, please hear me out. Though I have serious doubts about the aliens as literal space visitors (while not denying the possibility), their psychological reality as barometers and analogues to the human condition is, I believe, a matter of extreme importance. That is why I feel it is vital that we hear what they have to tell us.
Especially on issues such as the nuclear threat, ecology, genetic engineering, lack of spirituality and continuing dehumanization, the aliens have wisely spoken. Our global lack of wisdom and lack of foresight may be something only a superior extraterrestrial (or ultraterrestrial) intelligence is qualified to speak about. Could that be why our modern mythology takes that form?
In a nutshell, the aliens whom I call the “wise ones” seem to be telling us (at least those of us in the industrialized world) that we have succumbed to a soulless materialism that will ultimately do us all in. This may explain why the aliens do not pass on to us any of their technological secrets. Why should they, if we cannot manage properly the technology we already have? On this point, I am haunted by Albert Schweitzer’s statement that “Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth” (Quoted by Rachel Carson in Silent Spring, 1962).
I have tried to explain my own views in two entries: ‘Projection/Warning Theory of UFOs and ETs’ and ‘Story’s UFO “Observations”.’ Like never before, we seem to have come to a crossroads in our evolution that will determine whether we enter heaven or hell for real. We must learn to read the sense within the nonsense and begin to implement the wisdom of the ages (whether it comes from angels or aliens): the wisdom we all know, but do not practice. According to my interpretation, the bottom line is that we are always engaged in a war of good and evil forces – at all times and in all places.
While it is easy to poke fun at the “contactees” and “abductees”, I believe it is wiser to examine the meaning behind it all. I think that most things happen for a reason, and that includes the UFO phenomenon and the experiences that are part of it. Of course it is easy to debunk so many of the stories as complete nonsense. But I think it behooves us to interpret the phenomenon – as one would interpret a dream – and seek to understand its underlying message.
—RONALD D.STORY
(2002)
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Abducted: Confrontations with Beings from Outer Space (Berkley, 1977). Coral and Jim Lorenzen examine eight alien abduction cases and find a pattern of aliens seeking cultural knowledge about humans. They seem particularly interested in learning more about human emotions. The Lorenzen’s warn that every human on the planet is a potential kidnap victim.
—RANDALL FITZGERALD
abduction The phenomenon of forcible, involuntary capture of a human being by an apparently self-serving alien, generally of the “Gray” morphology, but also including “Nordic” and reptilian types. Those who have experienced this may be termed “abductees” or “experiencers,” and often report strong feelings of violation, trauma, and terror. Abduction scenarios commonly include missing time, transfer to a new locale, physical examination and implantation, and human-alien hybridization. It is a global phenomenon, but appears more commonly in American ET contact cases.
—SCOTT MANDELKER
Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1994). With this book Harvard Unive
rsity professor of psychiatry John E. Mack became the most reputable figure in science or medicine to profess a belief in the reality of the alien abduction phenomenon. He put seventy-six abductees through hypnosis, including thirteen persons whose cases are used in this book, and found consistent patterns in their accounts down to tiny details. The purpose of these abductions and the collection of eggs and sperm from abductees seems to be “genetic engineering for the purpose of creating human/alien hybrid offspring.” Another goal of this alien program is the alteration of human consciousness to change our perceptions of ourselves as a species.
—RANDALL FITZGERALD
Abduction Transcription Project In 1992, Dan Wright (Deputy Director for the Mutual UFO Network) devised the Abduction Transcription Project on MUFON’s behalf. Project participants over the next six years included twenty psychiatrists, psychologists, and others who recorded regressive hypnosis sessions to elicit memories of alien abduction. A corps of MUFON volunteers ultimately transcribed 930 audio cassettes, involving 265 separate cases, to promote advanced research.
Wright created a 300-page index of key words and phrases from those sessions—some 2000-plus separate elements. The entries described entity appearances, actions and communications; details of the interior and exterior of alien ships viewed during abduction experiences; medical equipment, instruments and procedures employed; resulting physical effects on the subjects’ anatomies; and particular psychic abilities and other paranormal events seemingly related to the abduction episodes.
At the 1997 MUFON International UFO Symposium, Wright offered an overview of his findings to that point regarding 254 abduction cases. His conclusions addressed five themes present in human-alien interactions:
SEX AND REPRODUCTION
1) Various entity types have a keen interest in human sexuality and reproduction. This is evidenced by a preponderance of instances involving the harvesting of human male sperm; removal of ova and/or uterine tissue from human females as well as the implantation of embryos and later removal of partially gestated fetuses; forced intercourse between the subjects and entities or other human captives; maintenance of “nurseries” onboard with gestation receptacles and/or newborns; and forced breast feeding of “hybrid” and other newborns.
DUAL IDENTITY
2) A substantial share of abductees sense an “alien connection” from a realm ostensibly outside this conscious life. Attendant to this conviction is a certainty of protection against untimely death, an entity’s conveyance that the subject is “special” or “chosen,” or an episode in which the individual seemingly realizes she or he is in a nonhuman form in the company of entities with similar appearance.
SENSE OF MISSION
3) Many abductees relate being told by aliens of a “mission” to perform at some unspecified future time and/or having received technical instruction. They relate episodes of memorizing ambiguous computer graphics, learning specifics of an alien ship’s technical operations, and/or being told that they will intuitively know where to be at a point in time to begin an unexplained assignment.
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