extraordinary%20encounters

104 Fossilized aliens
two. Dressed in a red cap and red clothes, the
fairy was about fifteen inches tall and seemed
friendly, though he kept silent. At night he
slept on the dresser. The Kellers told others of
their unusual guest, and sometimes “when the
boys at the public-house were full of porter,
they used to come to the house to look at
him, and they would laugh to see him, but I
never let them hurt him.” Kelleher fed him
bread and milk with a spoon. As the days
passed, the couple noticed, he seemed to age,
taking on “a sort of wrinkled look.”
The fairy left them one evening after another
of its kind had appeared near the property.
Mr. Kelleher thought it was a fairy
woman, dressed in gray. “And that evening,”
he related, “when I was sitting beside the fire
with the Missus I told her about it, and the
little lad that was sitting on the dresser called
out, ‘That’s Geoffrey-a-wee that’s coming for
me,’ and he jumped down and went out of
the door and I never saw him. I thought it was
a girl I saw, but Geoffrey wouldn’t be the
name of a girl, would it? He had never spoken
before that time.”
See Also: Fairies encountered
Further Reading
Gregory, Lady, 1920. Visions and Beliefs in the West of
Ireland. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
Fossilized aliens
Writing in Flying Saucers magazine in 1970,
Buffard Ratliff, the head of a Kentucky UFO
group, reported the discovery of an extraterrestrial
artifact: a fossilized spacecraft and its
tiny crew.
Ac c o rding to Ratliff, two years earlier
Melvin Gray of Louisville had been mow i n g
his lawn when he came upon an unusual
stone. He kept it and studied it for months,
e ventually concluding that it was living pro o f
of a prehistoric space visit. Gray handed it ove r
to ufologist Ratliff, who also examined it at
length. From this examination he was able to
determine what the stone contained and what
e vents had precipitated its creation. It was, as
he would write, a fossilized craft containing
seven very small creatures. . . . Three . . . are
ape-like in appearance. The other four are humanoid.
. . . All creatures are approximately
three inches in height, are vertebrates, and have
a physical build that indicates they were very
strong for their size. . . .
The [ape] cre a t u res died in motion as if
they we re fro zen in their last physical action
as they met instant death. On e . . . had obv iously
been critically injured and two of his
companions are trying to rescue him. . . . Tw o
of [the humanoids] are in a position for a
crash landing. . . . The third humanoid is sitting
in what looks like a bucket seat with one
of his arms extended slightly forw a rd and upw
a rd as though he was operating a contro l
l e ver or device to try to bring the spaceship
under contro l .
Ratliff contended that the crash had taken
place some four hundred million years ago.
The fossil survived and is a “permanent record
to all mankind . . . that we had tiny alien
space visitors from out there long, long ago.”
Further Reading
Ratliff, Buffard, 1970. “A Fossilized Alien Spaceship
and Its Occupants.” Flying Saucers (March): 6–7.
Fourth dimension
In occult speculation the “fourth dimension”
is a parallel universe that occupies the same
space as ours but at a different “vibrational”
level. Though its existence has never been
demonstrated scientifically, it has been used to
explain a variety of ostensibly mysterious phenomena,
including disappearances in the
Bermuda Triangle, teleportation, clairvoyance,
ghosts, monsters, UFOs, and more.
The concept came into the vocabulary of
occultism through Leipzig astronomer Johann
F. C. Zollner, a student of Theosophy. In the
1870s, Zollner worked with American
medium Henry Slade, who claimed the ability
to materialize or teleport objects during
seances. As Zollner saw it, such talents indicated
that mediums can move things out of
our dimension into the fourth and back again.
Unfortunately for Zellner’s theory, Slade later